See pages 11-14 Land Grant Day, October 10, 1998 See pages 8-9 Registration Enclosed COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE & HOME ECONOMICS ALUMNI & FRIENDS MAGAZINE F ROM THE ALUMNI BOARD PRESIDENT Keep the Alumni Voice Alive through Alumni and Friends ello again fellow alumni! It’s that we will start right in with our benefit Htime again. Land Grant Day is auction. Remember last year’s? We just around the corner. This year’s event auctioned off everything from a week- will be held October 10—the same day end stay at the dean’s condo at Michael E. Dalziel as WSU’s homecoming football game. Schweitzer to a trip on the Washington We have a lot of fun and interesting Dinner Train. The day will end with events, including the football game, music and dancing. It’ll be a lot of fun, DATES TO REMEMBER planned for the entire day. The festivities so don’t miss it! September get started at 10 a.m. and continue We would also like to thank all of our 9 Future Cougar Day/FFA Day/ through the evening. alumni and friends who attended our FHA Day at WSU/UI Football The day commences with our Ex- annual June event at the Prosser Re- Game. travaganza Fair in the morning. We’ll search and Extension Station. It was one CAHE will host a Leadership have lots of prizes to give away, games of the best events we have had in the Day for FFA/FHA and Family to play, music to hear, and a Cougar past years. So how can we top such a and Consumer Science Brand Smoky lunch for all to enjoy. And stellar event at this year’s Land Grant Students. it’s always fun to see the antique tractor Day? Simply by telling yourself that this exhibit, which will start in the morning is the year that we all can help the 19 Cougar football vs. University of as well. College celebrate its long history, and Idaho We would like to encourage as many more importantly, to celebrate friend- October alumni to attend, especially since the ships from the good ole’ days and to 1-2 CAHE Ambassador Sweep football game could prove to be a good also have a chance to meet new friends 9 CAHE Dean’s Merit Scholarship match against the Ducks of Oregon. If for the next century. Banquet this year’s event proves to be as much I encourage all of you to bring your fun as last year, we are all in store for a family and meet other alumni families. CAHE Advisory Council Meeting whooping good time! WHOA! Did I de- I’d like you to meet mine. I promise that 10 Cougar football vs. University of tect a bit of country back there? But it will be a great time to be had by all. Oregon, Land Grant Day and seriously, we have many events planned SEE YA THERE!!!! Homecoming 2 around the family so please bring the 12 Cougar Monday young ones. It’s truly an event for all Michael E. Dalziel 17 Cougar football vs. USC ages. President, CAHE Alumni Board After the game, we’ll have a social 22-23 Agriscience Leadership hour and a dinner barbecue. Afterwards Experience 26 Cougar Monday 31 Cougar football vs. Arizona State University, Dad’s Day November 21 Cougar football vs. University of Washington, Apple Cup On the Cover: From top to bottom—Campus visitors line up outside Ferdinand’s former location in Fulmer Hall, circa the mid-1960s. Professor Lloyd Luedecke’s dairy products class makes ice cream, circa the mid-1980s. The creamery acquired this truck in the mid-1970s. Students sample the creamery’s products shortly after Ferdinand’s moved to its present quarters in the Food Science Human Nutrition Building in the summer of 1992. C ONNECTIONS — FALL 1998 C ONTENTS Michael Tate New CAHE Administrator Around the College 2-4 1998 CAHE College Awards 5 process for professional development. Michael J. Tate has been appointed to Private Giving 6-7 replace retired Harry Burcalow as asso- We need to invest in our human re- ciate dean of CAHE and associate direc- sources. People come to extension with Land Grant Day 8-9 tor of WSU’s Coop- education, skills, and erative Extension. credentials, but they A Time of Challenge for Pacific Tate came from need to have training Northwest Wheat Growers 10 Michigan State Uni- to help them grow, to Cover Story 11-13 versity where he was reach their potential, Ferdinand’s Celebrates 50 Years assistant director of and to keep them up- to-date. That will be extension. He as- WSU’s Safe Food Initiative 14 sumed his duties at one of my first priori- WSU in July. ties here.” Welcome New Alumni 15-16 Tate has 25 years In addition to experience in exten- professional develop- Alumni Notes 16 sion, including 15 ment, Tate also aims Dean’s Message 17 years as an adminis- to work closely with trator. His career in counties and commu- extension began in nities to more specifi- C ONNECTIONS MSU’s 4-H program, cally identify their starting as a field needs. He also wants Issue Number Three agent in the 1970s to to build stronger Connections is published two times a year by eventually becoming partnerships with Michael J. Tate the College of Agriculture and Home Economics its director in 1983. organizations and Alumni and Development Office. Readers are He holds three de- other colleges in the encouraged to share their ideas for articles and grees, all from MSU: a state. Another high to contribute items by writing to: bachelor’s degree in food science and priority, he said, will be to capitalize on College of Agriculture and Home Economics Alumni and Development Coordinator human nutrition (‘72), a master’s in the wealth of communication technolo- Washington State University adult and continuing education (‘82), gies in the state, such as computers, PO Box 646228 and a doctorate in extension education satellites, and desktop conferencing, and Pullman, WA 99164-6228 and administration (‘96). use them in extension educational pro- Connections Staff At WSU, Tate has already laid out an grams. Publisher: James J. Zuiches, Dean, CAHE ambitious agenda. His ultimate goal is to Tate said, “Washington state is prob- Alumni and Development Assistant Director: Patrick Kramer better serve the adult, nonformal educa- ably one of the few places in the world Writer/Editor: Joanne Buteau, Jill Welchel, Anna tional needs of Washingtonians. He where you have such a high concentra- Sherwood brings skills that helped him make the tion of software development. Coopera- Graphic Designer: Doug Garcia many successes he realized in Michigan, tive Extension can really take advantage Clerical Assistant: Tiffany Ross 3 including integrating computer technol- of that technological know-how and use Program Coordinator: Britta Nitcy ogy into the educational system, build- it to provide information and learning. It CAHE Alumni Board of Directors ing government and community partner- will give us a competitive edge and help President: Michael Dalziel, ‘92 Vice President: Alison (Strotz) Lane ‘93 ships, and creating a professional us better serve the state.” Secretary: Kristi (Rightmire) Harting ‘95 development program for extension The state’s mecca of communication Board Members: Nancy Boettcher ‘75, Chuck personnel. technologies was a major draw for Tate Chambers ‘59, Lil Freese ‘48, Gayle Jacklin “There is great opportunity at WSU when he was considering leaving Michi- ‘86, Andy Moberg ‘86, Ginger Scobie ‘71, to put together a system for professional gan for WSU. “Washington state is on Clay Sprague ‘80, Mary Palmer Sullivan ‘88, Tedd Wildman ‘84 development training in Cooperative the move in so many ways,” he said. Mission: The College of Agriculture and Home Extension,” said Tate. “There currently “That, and the research and excellent Economics Alumni Board of Directors is the isn’t such a system here and that is how faculty at WSU, were all factors that led catalyst for uniting prospective students, cur- you increase the effectiveness of your to my decision to come here. There is rent students, the college administration, staff. No one is going to succeed now or such great potential for this university.” faculty and staff, industry, and alumni while in the future if they don’t have a solid upholding WSU’s land grant mission. Web Site: cahe.wsu.edu/~alumni/ C ONNECTIONS — FALL 1998 AROUND THE COLLEGE AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS department this fall. Jinsook Cho-Che is reflect 15 years of professional experi- Jill McCluskey is a new assistant profes- an assistant professor who received her ence in architecture and commercial sor in the department. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin- interior design. Ph.D. in August 1998 from the Univer- Madison in retailing and consumer sity of California, Berkeley. Hong (Holly) science. In addition to teaching courses Wong is another new assistant profes- in apparel merchandising, she will pur- BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS sor in the department. Wong received a sue research interests related to com- ENGINEERING Ph.D. from Michigan State University in puter applications in the apparel indus- Shulin Chen, a faculty member in the 1996. try and global sourcing in retailing. Department of Biological Systems Engi- Other faculty in the department this Robert Krikac is an associate professor neering, is the supervisor of the WSU year will be temporary instructor Bruce who completed a bachelor’s and a Water Quality and Waste Analysis Lab, Walton, who will teach Agricultural master’s degree in design at Arizona which is now certified by the state De- Economics 210, and visiting professor State University.