Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture
Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

A newsletter for faculty, staff and students

January-February 2005 • Vol. 31, No. 1

Gifts fund program support, fellowship, and classrooms

Recent gifts to the Division of Agriculture and Bumpers College in the Campaign for the Twenty-First Century are designated for support of the Animal Science Department, a doctoral fellowship and lab and classroom renovations.

Campaign contributions for the Division and College totaled $71,400,000 as of December 31.

Animal Science Support. A.L. and Lorena Nuemann of Urbana, Ill., pledged a future bequest of $150,000 for the Department of Animal Science.  Dr. Nuemann is a former member of the animal science faculty at the UA and at the University of Illinois.  An Animal Science scholarship in his name was established in 1985.  Dr. Nuemann and UA Animal Science Department Head Keith Lusby are co-authors of the textbook, Beef Cattle. 8th Edition. 336 p. 1986. John Wiley & Sons. Hoboken, N.J.

Hospitality Lab. Donald “Buddy” Wray and his wife, Linda, have pledged $125,000 for renovation of the Hospitality Lab, Room 112, in Human Environmental Sciences. Mr. Wray. a 1959 graduate of the College, retired in 2000 as Tyson Foods president and COO. The new Donald “Buddy” Wray Endowed Chair in Food Safety was named for him in recognition of a major gift from Tyson Foods for the chair endowment.

Doctoral Fellowship. Barrett and Peggy Duff of Pasadena, Calif., are providing a $100,000 charitable remainder trust to endow a doctoral fellowship for the Bumpers College graduate program. Since the full amount of the required corpus for an endowed doctoral fellowship is irrevocably committed, the gift will be matched with $100,000 from the Matching Gift Program. Mr. Duff, a 1949 graduate of the UA in Chemical Engineering, owns a farm in Arkansas. He is president of the Granada Energy Corporation in San Marino, Calif.