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WHO, WHAT,
WHEN,
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HEADLINES
UA professor named to Altheimer Soybean Chair
SWREC assesses windstorm damage
Division of Agriculture to operate state poultry testing lab
Wow! Students will do DNA fingerprinting in teaching lab
Don Hubbell named Livestock and Forestry Branch Station director
Gifts provide new scholarships, graduate student award
Bob and Hazel Spitze receive philanthropy award
Paul Beck appointed assistant professor
Delta Classic raises CSES scholarship funds
Farm Bureau conference to focus on the future
GSD celebrates 50th anniversary
27 attend Poultry Science Youth Conference
Local Master Gardeners lend a hand with fruit research
Bumpers College hosts Gifted and Talented group
Bumpers College sponsors Livestock Judging Camp
Farm Bureau awards scholarships
Summer orientation greets students
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Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences
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
July-August 2004 • Vol. 30, No. 4
Bob and Hazel Spitze receive philanthropy award
Drs. Robert G.F. (Bob) and Hazel Taylor Spitze, who endowed the annual Spitze Land-Grant University Faculty Award for Excellence, were awarded the Ruby C. McSwain National Agricultural Alumni and Development Association (NAADA) Outstanding Philanthropist Award at the NAADA annual conference in June in Mobile, Ala.
The Outstanding Philanthropist Award recognizes an individuals with a record of sustained giving to support agriculture, agricultural higher education, cooperative extension and/or land grant universities. Additional criteria include serving as an advocate for agriculture and philanthropy in community organizations, religious institutions, art, environment and social services.
Bob and Hazel Spitze have endowed five student scholarships and the Public Policy Legislative Internship Award in Bumpers College in addition to the Land-Grant University Faculty Award for Excellence.