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(1) Melinda Wolboldt, Triway High School, studied

soil nutrient pools in urban community gardens and

vacant lots; (2) Theodore Derksen, Dalton High School,

researched a whitey parasitoid; (3) Shanae Davis

o Tri-County International Academys International

Baccalaureate program at Wooster High School

investigated insect natural enemies in urban

community gardens and vacant lots; (4) Sharanbir

Grewal, Wooster High School, explored soil oodwebs in urban community gardens and vacant lots.

Soia Masih o Wooster wated

to dig deeper ito sciece

eve more tha she was doig

i high school ad, she hoped,

as a step toward studyig huma

pathology i college.

She took that step through OARDCs

Research Itership Program (ORIP),

which oers summer research iter-

ships to studets college udergrad-

uates ad high-school juiors ad se-

iors iterested i careers i sciece.

ORIP taught her, she said, resposibil-ity ad idepedece, workig o my

ow or the irst time.

Her metor, plat pathologist Bria

McSpadde Gardeer o OARDC ad

OSU Etesio, said ORIPs beeits

go both ways. Its good or my lab to

have smart studets who are motivated

to accomplish somethig, he said,

ad its a great opportuity to show

what OARDC is doig or the larger

commuity.

ORIP director Parwider Grew

said the program helps stregthe t

teachig o the STEM disciplies

sciece, techology, egieerig, a

math i Ohios schools. Participa

work directly with OARDC scietis

ORIP gives studets eperie

that will set them apart rom othe

or college applicatios ad utu

career opportuities, Grewal said.

Participatio has early doubl

rom the programs irst year to

secod: rom 38 i 2008 to 75 this yea

OARDCs P12 Outreach eort t

gets STEM teachig, too. Stude

o all ages more tha 2,000 ro

71 schools i 17 couties last ye

aloe visit or tours ad worksho

OARDC public relatios director Ja

Houi, who leads the program, sa

it opes all kids o ew possibiliti

or us to reach ad iteract with s

dets. We wat them to kow scie

is u.

Ohio leaders call ramped-up STEteachig key to the states ecoom

uture.

Lear more at http://www.oar

ohio-state.edu/orip/ ad http://ww

oardc.ohio-state.edu/visitor/ (click o

P-12 Outreach). KURT KnEBUS

AnD MAURICIO ESPInOzA

ExpEriEncE that

will sEt thEm apart

ExpEriEncE that

will sEt thEm apartOARDCS ORIP AnD P12 OutReACh PROgRAmS

StRengthen OhIO SCIenCe teAChIng

ORIP taught me responsibility

and independence, working on

my own or the irst time.

Soia Masih, pictured right

Witer 200910 | volume2issue1

A Iide: Etei p. 4 Aadei Pap. 7 ATI p. 10 Deepet p. 12 Ai p. 14


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oardc

When fnished, Pounden Hall will provide ofce

and lab space or businesses interested in

partnering with Ohio State researchers. The

renovated building is the frst step toward

establishing a unique agbioscience technology

park in Wooster.

2| nEws rom ThE collEgE o ooD, AgrIculTurAl , AnD EnvIronmEnTAl scIEncEs

IllumInATIng rEsEArchIvs i iai sys yilds ras,w discovris

OARDCs decision to invest i a i-vivo

imagig system a state-o-the-art digital

device that shows i real time how pathoges

iect ad move through live plats ad

aimals has certaily paid o or the

istitutio ad the scietists usig it or

their research programs.

I oly two years, the $130,000 euipmet

has attracted more tha $700,000 i grats

rom agecies such as the natioal Istitutes

o Health, the U.S. Departmet o Agriculture,

ad idustry sources.

Food-aimal health specialist Gireesh

Rajashekara is usig the imager to study

Campylobacter jejuni, a leadig cause o

oodbore illess i humas that is prevalet

i chickes. Aided by a glowig gee, the

imagig system maps out the progressio o

bacterial iectio, allowig researchers to

determie which gees are resposible or

the spread o disease.

Rajashekara ad plat pathologist Sally Miller are also developig a

biolumiescet strai o Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michigaesis

the bacterium resposible or bacterial caker, the most importat disease o

greehouse tomatoes.

We are usig this research tool to better uderstad how the pathoge iectsad survives i seeds, moves rom seeds to seedligs, ad behaves durig the

tomato gratig process, eplaied Miller, otig that greehouse tomatoes ow

accout or 35 percet o all resh tomatoes sold i supermarkets.

A patet or the C. michiganensis subsp. michigaesis lu gee

is pedig. MAURICIO ESPInOzA

W ar si is

rsarc ool o

br drsad

ow pao

ics ad srvivs

i sds.

Thanks to a

$744,000 grant

rom the U.S.

Departmet o

Co m m er c e s

Ecoomic De-

v e l o p m e t

Admiistratio, Poude Hall o

OARDCs Wooster campus is u

dergoig a major acelit. Whe

costructio is doe, the buildig

will oer oce, lab, ad prototype

developmet space or private com

paies iterested i parterig with

Ohio State researchersultimately

leadig to techology developmet

ad commercialiatio, ew bus

ess, ad jobs. OARDC also part

ered with the city o Wooster to

improve Secrest Road (orther

edge o campus) ad provide utilities

to the 95-acre uture site o BioHio

Research Park a agricultural bio

scieces busiess ad techology

ceter. This project was made pos

sible by a $3.4 millio grat rom the

Ohio Departmet o Developmets

Job Ready Sites program ad match

ig uds rom the city o Wooster.

I you build it,industries willcome


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Convinced that modern inrastructure is key to addressig ast-evolvig research ad

idustry eeds, OARDC has ivested more tha $8 millio i our acilities throughou

the state i the past two years that support a variety o research operatios.

I August, OARDC dedicated its $5.5 millio Feedstock Processig Research Facility

o the Wooster campus a state-o-the-art acility that replaced the outdated 1965

eedmill ad will icrease the uality, utritioal value, ad miig precisio o eeds

or OARDCs iteratioally recogied livestock ad poultry research programs. Thisacility also has capabilities or processig oils ad proteis rom crops or bioproduc

applicatios. Fudig came rom state o Ohio capital dollars, the Third Frotier-uded

Ohio BioProducts Iovatio Ceter (OARDC), ad gits rom Sweet Mauacturig.

Three o OARDCs outlyig agricultural research statios Muck Crops (Huro Couty

July 30, 2009), Wester (Clark Couty, July 8, 2008), ad Easter (noble Couty, Jue

21, 2008) also dedicated ew buildigs (a ivestmet o $850,000 i each locatio

eaturig oces, labs, workshops, greehouses, ad storage/pesticide-hadlig

areas. Fudig or these projects came rom the state o Ohio through capital uds

MAURICIO ESPInOzA

The new Feedstock Processing Research Facility

in Wooster (top let) will support research in both

animal nutrition and bioproducts. New buildings

will also boost Ohios diverse agricultural economy

at research stations in Huron, Clark, and Noble

counties (clockwise rom top right).

Witer 200910

oardc has received a $250,000grant rom northeast Ohios Fund orOur Economic Future to accelerate the

development o an agricultural biosci-ences industry cluster as part o a regional

economic action plan.

he project aims to ramp up northeast

Ohios already strong sustainable ood

production to replace costly imports with

local production; to transorm it rom

producing lower-value commodities to

higher-value specialty crops and bio-

products, including biouels; and to grow

locally owned and horizontally integrat-

ed businesses that propel the local ood

systems movement.We share a vision or building local

economies in northeast Ohio starting with

local ood systems, leading to renewable

energy and distributed manuacturing

rom the regions agricultural lands, said

the project co-leader Casey Hoy, who leads

OARDCs Agroecosystems Management

Program (AMP) and holds Ohio States

W.K. Kellogg Foundation-endowed chair

in agricultural ecosystems management.

he project will develop a comprehen-

sive inventory o northeast Ohios agricul-

tural resources; create an investment port-

olio o at least 10 business cases to serve

as models (the projects second phase wil

add cases and move them toward busi

nesses); establish an online inrastructure

or networking and collaborating abouopportunities in agriculture and biosci

ences across the region; convene a region

wide leadership council to guide urther

development; and outline a strategic plan

ning process to build the cluster in the

years ahead.

It will dovetail into the economic

action plan called Advance Northeast

Ohio, created and backed by some

90-plus regional partners, including

OARDC, that launched in 2007.

he new grant leverages an existing $2.26million U.S. Department o Agriculture

Regional Partnerships or Innovation grant

to OARDC, also led by Hoy and AMP.

For more information:

Local Food Systems etworkig site,http://localoodsystems.org/advance-northeast-ohio-partners

Advace northeast Ohio,http://www.advancenortheastohio.org/

Agroecosystems MaagemetProgram, http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/amp/

KURT KnEBUSCH

Increasingtheamountoffood

sourcedlocallyto10percent

acurrentregionalgoalwould keepatleast$1.3billionmore

eachyearinnortheastOhio(based

onregionalfoodexpenditures

of$14.4billionayearandjust

1percentofnow

locallysourced).

NortheastOhio

farmershavea

hugelocalmarket

totap:4million

peopleplus5,500

restaurantsand

100foodprocessors.

TheAdvanceNortheastOhioplan

enfolds16counties:Ashland,

Ashtabula,Carroll,Columbiana,

Cuyahoga,Geauga,Lake,Lorain,

Mahoning,Medina,Portage,

Richland,Stark,Summit,Trumbull,

andWayne.

L ppyProject will build local ood systems ad with them, ortheast Ohios ecoomy

New acilities across state boost OARDCs research operations


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The number o producers and armers who have registered or Ohio MarketMaker

has icreased early 35 percet sice the ree web-based service came olie

last year. Its success rests, i part, with the applicatio o ew iovatios ad

techologies that make the resource easy to use to buy ad sell ood products

ad etwork with ellow ood idustry proessioals.

Due to demad or local oods, Ohio has the opportuity to gai more rom the

ood ecoomy by improvig eiciecies i coectios betwee ood producers,

buyers, ad others i the ood chai, said Julie Fo, a Ohio State Uiversity

Etesio direct marketig specialist at OSU South Ceters at Piketo. Ohio

MarketMaker makes that happe. The electroic irastructure combies easy-

to-use iormatio that ood busiesses eed, icludig demographic, ood

cosumptio, ad busiess proile data that ca be mapped to show cocetratedmarkets ad strategic busiess parters.

Ohio MarketMaker (http://www.ohiomarketmaker.com) is or all busiesses

i the ood supply chai ad customers lookig to buy locally grow oods. The

program is part o a atioal etwork o state web sites that coect armers

with ood retailers, grocery stores, processors, caterers, ches, ad other ood

supply chai cotacts.

MarketMaker works because o the good collaboratio with istate orgaiatios

ad the eort rom the atioal etwork to ocus o techologies so that producers

ad buyers ca coect more eicietly, said Fo.

new iitiatives recetly lauched iclude improved ood cosumptio cotet,

cesus data, a buyer/seller orum, a blog, ad a atioal ewsletter. But the real

success lies i ood buyer/seller coectios.

Ohio MarketMaker is or the buyers ad sellers ad its your site. Tell us whats

most beeicial or you. Get ivolved, get registered, ad search the site,

said Fo. Thats the best way this service will be the most successul.

Ohio MarketMaker is supported through the collaboratio o Ohio State

Uiversity Etesio, the Ohio Agricultural Research ad Developmet

Ceter, the Ohio Departmet o Agriculture, the Ohio Farm Bureau, ad

the Ceter or Iovative Food Techology.CAnDACE POLLOCK

Making connections that work in ohios food chain

oi maketmake

extension


Getinole,

getregistere,

ansearch

thesite!


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Ad is wir, Ais Projc is aki a ssa o or Oio ar wo a

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Named for the mother of an Illinois Extension educator who founded the program in

2000, Annies Project is focused on helping women to be an involved business partner in

family farm operations. The six-week course helps participants increase their ability to

manage and organize critical information, network with other women in their community,and improve communication skills within their family and business. Annies Project

was first offered in Ohio in 2007, in only Delaware and Wood counties. In 2010, it will

be offered in 13 counties in all corners of the Buckeye State.

For women who are involved in farm operations, theres a real desire to obtain information

either to be better partners or to run the operation themselves, said Doris Herringshaw, OSU

Extension educator in family and consumer sciences. Our hope is that for everyone who

would like to attend, well have a session offered in their county or a contiguous county.

Each program will be set up a bit differently, covering topics relevant to local farming operations.

In northwest Ohio, we will focus on grain markets, but in another part of the state, they might

focus on livestock or produce operations, Herringshaw said. All programs will start with the

Real Colors personality inventory, which is focused on communications skills.

Julia Woodruff, co-organizer of the program and OSU Extension educator in agriculture and

natural resources, said Annies Project is first and foremost a risk management program.

Anyone who has ever taken this program has glowing things to say about it, whether theyre

aged 18 or 89, Woodruff said. Weve had young women who have married into a farm family,

and other women who, because of an illness, death, or other situation, all of a sudden find

themselves in charge of the land. Im a farm wife myself, and its very helpful to know others who

are going through the same types of things that you are.

For more information on Ohios 2010 Annies Project sites, contact Herringshaw at

[email protected] or 419-354-9050 or Woodruff at [email protected] or

419-627-7631. For more information on Annies Project, see http://www.extension.iastate.edu/

Annie/. MARTHA FILIPIC

A Pj xp O 1

Consumers with ood saety questions

ote dot kow where to tur or

reliable aswers. now, thaks to The

Kroger Co. ad the Ceter or Iovative

Food Techology (CIFT), cosumers

are beig ecouraged to cotact Ohio

State Uiversity Etesios Food Saety

Hotlie by e-mail at [email protected]

or 1-800-752-2751 (toll-ree i Ohio),available betwee 9 a.m. ad 5 p.m.

Moday through Friday.

The phoe hotlie has bee operated

sice 1985 by the colleges Food Idus-

tries Ceter. now, a grat rom CIFT, with

support rom Kroger, has allowed the

uiversity to hire a team o studets to

respod to cosumer uestios. The ud-

ig ad hotlie publicity rom Kroger

is part o the compays Food Saety

Awareess Campaig.

The studets, all o whom have

received ood saety traiig, are backed

up by persoel rom Ohio States Food

Idustries Ceter ad aculty eperts

rom the Departmet o Food Sciece

ad Techology, the Departmet o

Huma nutritio, ad OSU Etesio.

Ater hours, cosumers who call ca

leave a message ad phoe umber to

get a respose.

The e-mail address, oodsaety@osu

edu, was recetly added to the hotlie

as a service to people who preer to

use e-mail istead o the phoe, said

Stephaie Smith, ood scietist with

CIFT who is coordiatig the eort. The

hotlie operatio is housed i the FoodIdustries Ceter i Howlett Hall.

Lydia Medeiros, ood saety specialis

or OSU Etesio, said the eort is

helpig ood saety researchers rom

across the uiversity work eve more

closely together tha they have i the

past. We have people workig the

etire spectrum, rom pre-harvest to

retail to cosumer ood saety issues,

she said. Were all puttig somethig

o the table.MARTHA FILIPIC

ContactOhioState

UniersitEtensions

FooSafetHotline

at1-800-752-2751(toll-freein

Ohio)between9a.m.an5p.m.

MonathroughFria,orb

[email protected].

Food Saety Hotline gets a boost

Witer 200910

Forwomenwho

areinoleinfarm

operations,theres

realesiretoobtai

informationeithert

bebetterpartners

toruntheoperation

themseles.


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urba aris i, i ss, as fally co.As amilies i the Uited States try to stretch their ood

budgets durig the curret ecoomic dowtur, may

have tured to their backyards or commuity gardes as

alteratives to pricey or sometimes uavailable resh

produce at the store.

Seed compaies reported a 25 percet to 30 percet

icrease i vegetable seed ad plat sales last sprig. A

study by the natioal Gardeig Associatio coducted

i early 2009 epected 43 millio America households

to grow their ow ruits, vegetables, herbs, ad berries

this year up 19 percet rom 2008, with oe-th

o gardeers reportig to be ew to this activity. The

same study oud that 5 millio households were very

iterested i joiig a commuity garde a ve-old

icrease i 2009.

I Ohio ad other heartlad states seriously aected

by the recessio ad ogoig job losses, the rise o urba

gardeig also has a lot to do with lad availability.

Midwester cities have udergoe a populatio ad

ecoomic declie that has resulted i a sigicat amout

o vacat lad withi city ceters, said Mary Gardier, a

OSU Etesio etomology specialist based o OARDCs

Wooster campus. Withi may cities, local citie groups

are redesigig these lots to costruct urba arms. But

we uderstad very little about the ecology o vacat

lot sites ad the may ecological, ecoomic, ad social

eects that covertig these sites to productio will have.

Gardier is workig with etomologist Parwider

Grewal, head o Ohio States Urba Ladscape Ecology

Program, to lear more about these eects. The

researchers have partered with the Akro Grows

ad Clevelad City Fresh programs which promotecommuity gardeig ad local ood etworks to study

both the ecological properties o urba arms ad their

socioecoomic impacts.

The iitiative will also help city gardeers implemet

sustaiable practices, such as reduced tillage or icludig

plats that attract beecial isects. Such practices are

epected to ehace productio ad provide importat

evirometal services to garde sites ad surroudig

areas. MAURICIO ESPInOzA

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academic program

whether fresh from gradua-tion, entrenched in a career, or head-ing toward retirement, alumni with the

College o Food, Agricultural, and En-

vironmental Sciences have access to an

invaluable resource to help them stay on

the cutting edge o the workorce.

he Hireabuckeye program is a web-

based career services tool that provides

job postings, company profiles, interview

requests, resume inormation, and careerexpos and workshops only or CFAES

alumni and current students or ree,

or lie, accessible anywhere in the world,

at any time.

Hireabuckeye is a great place to start

a job search, or simply to upload a re-

sume. It helps to narrow your job search

and gives you more options, especially

or careers related specifically to our col-

lege, said Adam Cahill, Ohio State Uni-

versity career services coordinator or the

College o Food, Agricultural, and Envi-

ronmental Sciences. And the best part is

its ree. Other job search sites may charge

you a ee to get access to job openings.

he Hireabuckeye program was

launched in 2001, and since then more

than 3,000 employers have registered

on the site, with over 6,500 jobs listed.

Users can search or inormation by

major, location, company name, in-ternship, seasonal, ull-time status,

or other criteria.

While nearly 85 percent o the over

4,500 registered users are students and

graduating seniors, alumni only represent

a raction o registered users.

A lot o alumni dont know that we

oer this service, although we have

seen an uptick in registration rom

alumni in recent months, said

In a downturned economy, ree career

services tool helps alumni stay on top

To learn more or

to register or an

account, log on

to h://f.

./

Cahill. Once they know that its

here, I think more people will use the

site as a resource, especially during

the current economic downturn.

CAnDACE POLLOCK

In addition,

Experience OSU

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are offered anyday on which we

have classes.

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Witer 200910


8/16

ceep tdet

fe-teeadeipkiLadrsip aribs ca b sl or ayo,

wr oldi a aa posiio, parici-

pai o a crladi sqad, or volri

a a local crc. B lari ow o bcoa or civ ladr ca b a call.

A course oered through the Departmet o

Huma ad Commuity Resource Developmet

is desiged to help studets assess their leader-

ship stregths ad to hoe their leadership skills

that ca be applied to ay lie situatio. Ad it

has attracted studets rom across campus.

Whether i our jobs, churches, schools, or other

situatios, we ote d ourselves i positios

where we eed to eert a leadership ifuece.

However, may people do ot ecessarily see

themselves as a eective leader, said Robert

Birkehol, a proessor i agricultural ad

etesio educatio. The purpose o this course

is ot to certiy studets as leaders, but rather

the educatio ad traiig is provided to help

studets better uderstad the elemets that

ca cotribute to improved leadership.

Although coutless leadership courses are

oered across Ohio State Uiversitys campus,

what makes Fudametals o Persoal ad Pro-

essioal Leadership (Agricultural ad Ete-

sio Educatio 342) uiue is that its oe o the

ew courses o campus that teaches leadershippriciples ad theories that ca be applied across

various persoal ad proessioal spectrums.

I used to give the geeric aswers o, Im

a good speaker, or Ive bee presidet o

my FFA chapter, util I took 342, said Dusti

Homa, a agricultural leadership major rom

Kettlersville, Ohio. This class elt almost like a

idepedet study course where the proessor

ad curriculum were solely dedicated to the

persoal leadership o Dusti, ad oly Dusti,

ad ot dictated by some tetbook. This class

helped me discover my iate ad uiue

stregths, develop my persoal leadership

philosophy, ad set short-term ad log

term goals.

Ohio State Uiversity studets beyod

the College o Food, Agricultural, ad

Evirometal Scieces are also recogiig

the value o the course ad workig it ito

their curriculum. The class has attracted

studets rom pharmacy, egieerig, adsocial ad behavioral scieces.

Studets ote ask, Do I eed to kow

this? Ad they take the course ad a light bulb comes o ad they realie

that they ca use what they are learig i their persoal ad proessioa

lives, said Marlee Eick, a OSU studet services coordiator who taught the

course o the Agricultural Techical Istitute campus i Wooster last year.

The AEE 342 course is oe o the oudatioal leadership courses that

will be icluded as part o a proposal or a iterdiscipliary udergraduate

mior i Leadership Studies. The mior will be ope to all studets across

the Ohio State campus.CAnDACE POLLOCK


Whetherinourjobs,

churches,schools,

orothersituations,

weoftenfin

ourselesinpositions

whereweneeto

eertaleaership

influence.


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NO.1INTHECOUNTRy

Ohio State Universitys chapter o Agri-

cultural Commuicators o Tomorrow

(ACT) is proud o its recet successes

ad the awards that go with it.

At the 2009 natioal ACT Coerece

i Fort Worth, Teas, last August, the 20-

studet orgaiatio wo the Outstad-

ig Chapter o the Year award (or the

secod straight year) ad awards o

ecellece i educatioal activities,udraisig, social activities, leadership,

ad membership.

We are the irst school ever to sweep

all the categories ad also wi the

atioal chapter o the year award, said

advisor Emily Rhoades, a assistat

proessor o agricultural commuica-

tios i the Departmet o Huma

ad Commuity Resource Develop-

met. ACTs achievemets over the last

two years have made me very proud.

Im ecited that people across the

coutry are gettig to see what great

ag commuicatio studets we have

here at Ohio State.

Oe o the chapters most successul

ad recogied programs is the Ag

Comm Bootcamp or high schoolers,

which helps coect the college with

prospective studets.

cAEs Ag comm

chAPTEr swEEPs

nATIonAl AwArDs

The CFAES Student Council was

named as one o the universitys

Outstanding Student Organization

in 2009 by the Ohio Union and the

Ofce o Student Lie.

did you know?

The atioal recogitios also impact

recruitmet.

Whe we are at recruitig evets, these

awards assist us i showig parets

that the skills our studets are learig

are helpig them to be the best i the

coutry, Rhoades cocluded.

Lear more at http://act.org.ohio-state

edu. MAURICIO ESPInOzA

Members o the Agricultural Communicators o Tomorrow have much to be proud o. From top let are

Amy Wensink, Just in Stiers, Hannah Thompson, Brad Kaple, Morgan Hoover, Heather Stoodt, Sarah Davis,

Cassandra Hupp, and Laura Pearce.

Witer 200910

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pl. FRAnCES WHITED

Stephen Nameth, ATI director,

and Jim Chatfeld, OSU Extension

specialist, point out an example

o powdery mildew on zinnias

to ATI student Nathan Donley.

Nameth and Chatfeld collaborated

on a plant pathology course at

ATI this summer.



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A proessor steps into a classroom, clicks a remote,

ad a large image o a graphig calculator appears o

a scree. Touchig the projected image, he programs

i a ormula or a parabola. With a marker, he writesew coordiates o the scree, ad the parabola

chages shape to relect the ew coordiates.

It may soud like a scee out o some uturistic

movie, but its happeig right ow o Ohio State ATIs

campus, thaks to techology purchased through a

Title III grat.

ATI was awarded a grat rom the U.S. Departmet

o Educatio uder the Stregtheig Istitutios

Program o Title III i 2005. Over the ive-year grat,

ATI will receive more tha $1.82 millio to ehace

istructio through techology.

Techology curretly beig used i ATI classroomsicludes computers ad ceilig-mouted projectors

that allow aculty members to use PowerPoit

or lectures or access resources o the Web ad

documet cameras that ca project real-time images

o ay static or movig object, such as isects or

specimes o plat diseases.

Some o the techology beig icorporated ito

classes is speciic to a particular idustry, such as

radio-reuecy idetiicatio (RFID) techology

to track livestock ad sotware that moitors eed

mitures or dairy cattle.

Laura Deeter has developed our horticulture

classes that are delivered completely olie, right

through to the ial eam. My goal was to make our

classes available to people who couldt take them

i the traditioal ormat, Deeter said.

She makes the olie resources available to her

ace-to-ace classes, too. Studets ca take

practice uies olie. I have put videos o plats

o YouTube. It allows me to coect to studets

dieret learig styles, she eplaied. I theyre

visual learers, they ca read it or watch the videos.

I theyre auditory learers, they ca hear the

arratio I record. Ad because the materials are

olie, studets ca access them wheever adwherever they like.

ATI Associate Director Steve neal is pricipal

ivestigator o the Title III grat. He oted, Our

mai objective with this grat was to create a

cotemporary learig eviromet or our studets.

neal cotiued, ATI aculty have made this happe

by implemetig web-ehaced istructio ad

by icorporatig the latest techology ito their

courses. The improvemets we have bee able to

make over the last ew years have revolutioied

the way we deliver istructio ad greatly ehaced

the studet eperiece.FRAnCES WHITED

ATI daiy jdi tea,

htei ed ea kd

High-tech at ATIThe uture is ow thaks to$1.82 millio techology grat

What makes an outstanding dairy program? Outstadig studets

ad ecellet aimals are surely two importat actors, ad ATI ca

boast o both this year.

ATIs dairy judgig team, cosistig o Sabria Eick (Carrollto)

Bret Hostettler (Wooster), Rob Watercutter (Aa), ad Shaw

Wier (Yorkshire), competed i a umber o judgig evets i

September. The team is coached by Royce Thorto, assistat

proessor ad coordiator o ATIs dairy programs.

At the Easter States Epositio i West Sprigield, Massachusetts

the team took irst place overall, with Eick scorig as irst idividua

ad Wier as third idividual. Team members also took home a istu

o awards i the idividual breed categories ad oral reasos. At

the Ivitatioal Youth Dairy Cattle Judgig Cotest at the

Pesylvaia All-America Dairy Show i Harrisburg, Pesylvaia

the team swept the Ayrshire breed category, with the team takig irst

overall, ad Eick, Hostettler, ad Wier placig irst, secod, ad

third i idividual scorig.

But those were just warm-ups or the big oe the 2009 World

Dairy Epo i Madiso, Wiscosi. ATI placed irst overall out o 17

teams, chalkig up aother atioal champioship or a Ohio State

team. Eick, Hostettler, ad Wier ualiied as All-Americas by

iishig i the top 10 i idividual overall scorig.

Like all ATI dairy studets, the judgig team members take classes

i geetics ad get irst-had eperiece i evaluatig aimals obreedig. We select mate all our cows ad are cotiually workig

to improve our herd, said ATI dairy herd maager Gary Crocker. This

year marked the 11th straight year that ATIs Holstei herd was

recogied by the Holstei Associatio USA as oe o the top 500 geetic

herds i the Uited States by receivig the Progressive Geetics Award

Studets see how we pick bulls to try to get as soud a aimal as

possible, Crocker eplaied. We teach them what were strivig

to achieve ad how we get there. Every dairy armer wats to breed

cows that will make him the most moey. Dow the road, thats a

skill studets ca put to use i their careers i the dairy idustry. Ad

its part o the recipe or success or a champioship dairy judgig

team.FRAnCES WHITED

Ohio State ATIs dairy judging team at the 2009 World Dairy Expo. From let: Royce Thornton

(coach), Shawn Winner, Brent Hostettler, Sabrina Eick, and Rob Watercutter.

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Karl Daeberger, PhD, at Ohio State Uiversitys

Departmet o Horticulture ad Crop Sciece ad

reuet cotributor to Golf Course Managements

research sectio, has wo the uiversitys 2009 Global

Turgrass Award, give to idividuals who have made

a sigicat cotributio to the global turgrass

idustry. Daeberger, a alum o three well-kow

tur schools Purdue (bachelors degree), Uiversity oIlliois (masters) ad Michiga State Uiversity (PhD)

joied the aculty at OSU i 1983 ad has ocused his

research i turgrass pathology ad stress physiology.

He also received the Fred V. Grau Award rom the America Society o Agroomy

i 2004 ad was amed a Fulbright Scholar i 2008. At Ohio State, Daeberger

has pioeered the turgrass programs web site, podcast series, ad olie gol

maagemet certicate. Most recetly he has take the program to a iteratioal

level with the itroductio o podcasts ad web sites i Spaish, Portuguese,

Cech, ad Polish, ad the lauch o the Global Tur network. He regularly travels

abroad to speak to studets ad idustry proessioals. His travels have icluded

Eglad, Irelad, Portugal, Spai, Dubai, Australia, South Arica, Japa, Chia,

Chile, ad Caada.

Reprinted with permission from Gol Course Maagemet, August 2009.

From the editor: Karl Danneberger has recently established the Karl Danneberger Turfgrass ScienceEndowment, used to enhance students experience in turfgrass science by providing for co-curricularactivities such as travel to competitions and conferences. Says Karl of his gift, I see the benefits ofgiving every day with my students, and I feel it s important for faculty to set a philanthropic example.Anyone interested in contributing to the fund can designate a gift for fund number #661580, withchecks made payable to The Ohio State University Foundation. Donations can be sent to the attentionof Karen Race, 216 Howlett Hall, 2001 Fyffe Court, Columbus, OH 43210.

deveLopment

Brothers oerscholarship at ATI

three brothers who gradu-ated rom Ohio State Universitys Agricultural echnical Institute have created

an annual scholarship or AI turgrass

management students. Eric (92), Nick

(99), and Kurt (02) von Hoen, who al

work in the gol course management field

started the von Hoen urgrass Scholar-

ship or a student at the school majoring

in turgrass management.

We really wanted to give back, we al

went to school there, and we always wanted

to work with some o the tur students,

said Eric von Hoen, the oldest o the broth-

ers and director o agronomy at Riviera

Country Club in Coral Gables, Florida.

Nick von Hoen is superintenden

at Colliers Reserve Country Club in

Naples, Florida, and Kurt von Hoen is

superintendent at the Hills Course o

Jupiter Hills in equesta, Florida.

When I attended Ohio State I did not

receive any scholarships, so summer jobs

were my source o college unding and

resume building. Aer graduating rom

Ohio State AI and becoming one o the

alumni amily, you realize how many

people in the business are at your fingertips

to help you. Hopeully the students wil

realize to take the initiative and go or it

and the scholarship is there to start tha

process, said Kurt von Hoen.

Scholarship recipients must be a U.S

resident, a first- or second-year student

and have a grade point average o 3.0 or

better. Te scholarships advantages arent

limited only to giving students in their field

financial support. Te involvement o the

von Hoens also opens up the opportunities

o advancing their careers or students

during and aer graduation.

Tis scholarship is rewarding on so

many diferent levels. We are ocused on

helping students pursue their career goals

and strive or academic excellence. We look

orward to giving our scholarship each

year, said Nick von Hoen.

Tis is really going to give us a lot o

access to students and try and help them

out, whether its an internship with one o

us or a job aer they graduate, Eric von

Hoen adds. SHAWn CLEVELAnD

Gol has been a large part o Michael Hurdas lie sice

childhood. He leared the sport rom his ather, a teachig

pro, ad his aity or gol has tured ito a tremedouslysuccessul career. I 1966, Hurda graduated rom The

Ohio State Uiversity with a BSc i Turgrass Maagemet

ad i 1974 he eared his PhD i Evirometal Plat

Physiology Studies at the Uiversity o Vermot. He retured

to the Buckeye State ad became presidet o a gol

course architecture rm, today kow as Hurda/Fry Evirometal Gol Desig.

Hurda/Fry has created evirometally riedly gol courses all over the world.

Hurda has recetly become closely ivolved with Ohio States Proessioal Gol

Maagemet (PGM) Program. PGM, desiged to prepare studets or careers i

the gol idustry, is a our ad a hal year iterdiscipliary program with classes i

turgrass sciece, busiess, ad hospitality maagemet.

I May 2009, Hurda visited the proposed PGM drivig rage site at the

Waterma Agricultural ad natural Resources Laboratory. He oered to cotributethe drawigs or a ew practice rage, practice holes, ad traiig acility or the

PGM program a git valued at more tha $50,000.

The PGM program, alog with the ew practice acility, is a way or the uiversity

to distiguish itsel, Hurda said. Ohio is a great locatio or this type o program

to grow whe you look at total resources, icludig Ohio States gol courses, the

history o Ohio States gol team, ad the locatio o Hurda/Fry headuarters

i cetral Ohio.

To Hurda, it was importat to give back to his alma mater ad to PGM. I couldt

thik o aother alumus that wouldt do the same thig. It was a atural t or me

to doate the drawigs. I am happy to brig ay positive attetio to a program

that has such potetial.SARAH GRAFnER

Ohio State professor honored; begins endowment

Professional Golf Management Program

A unique opportunityPhoto

cou

rtesy

ofHurdzan/Fry



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For a wk i As, Kllys Islad o Lak eri was o

or 227 caprs paricipai i Opraio: miliary Kids

(OmK) prora, wic ld is 5 aal cap is yar. tcap, a joi or o Oio 4-h ad Oio naioal gards

Faily Radiss prora, is or yos wo av pars i ay

brac o iliary wo av b dployd, ar crrly

dployd, or ar prpari o dploy ovrsas.

new this year, OMK held two camps simultaeously, oe or

9- to 11-year-olds at the Erie Couty 4-H Camp, ad aother or

tees at Camp Patmos, a mile dow the road. This epasio,

made possible by additioal udig rom the Oce o the

Secretary o Deese as well as cash ad i-kid doatios,

eabled slots or early 100 additioal campers. This years tee

camp icluded a commuity service project i which campers

paited tables at the local VFW post ad laid a paver sidewalk

to improve access to the local veteras memorial.

A uiue aspect o the camp is the participatio o military

service members. Each day, Military Momets is devoted to

military values such as hoor, loyalty, courage, commitmet,

itegrity, ad selfess service. A highlight o the week was whe

Major Geeral Matthew Kambic, Assistat Adjutat Geeral,

Army, led a team o military leaders rom all ve braches o

the service i ladig i a Chiook helicopter o the camp eld.

Closig ceremoies icluded a delegatio o seve state

legislators, the mayors o Kelleys Islad ad Marblehead, adseveral doors, icludig Bob Joseph, a graduate o the College

o Food, Agricultural, ad Evirometal Scieces. I additio,

checks totalig $11,500 were preseted rom ew doors Wal-

Mart Stores, Ic., Cash America Iteratioal, Check Smart

Fiacial, Meijer, Proggemeyer Desig Group, nucor Steel

Mario, Ic., ad Tom Pappas & Associates.

State Represetative Peter Ujvagi described the bill that he

ad Represetative Ross McGregor sposored to make August

Ohio Military Family Moth. O behal o the legislators, Rep.

Ujvagi preseted camp directors Theresa Ferrari, the Proj-

ect Director o Operatio: Military Kids ad youth developmet

specialist with Ohio 4-H, ad Sue A Carroll, State Youth

Coordiator with the Ohio natioal Guard with a certicate

cogratulatig Operatio: Military Kids Camp o its th aiver-

sary ad or its remarkable record o service to the commuity.

The OMK program is a partership with Army Child, Youth,

ad School Services; natioal 4-H Headuarters; ad Ohio 4-H

Youth Developmet. For iormatio o Ohios program, see

http://operationmilitarykids.ohio4h.org.CHRISTY GEORGE

OPERATION:MILITARyKIdSPROGRAMHOSTS5th annual camp

USO of Central Ohio

Ohio 4-H Foundation

AT&T Pioneers, Ohio

Life Member Council

Ohio Child

Conservation League

OSU Army ROTCAlumni Society

Leland Foundation, Inc.

American Legion

Post 188

American Legion Post 73

Ladies Auxiliary Americ

Legion Post 733, Americ

Legion Riders

Covenant Presbyterian

Church, Columbus

St. Andrew Presbyteria

Church, Columbus

Ceramics Anonymous, In

Columbus

Accenture (Fairborn)

For inormation on how to donate to Operation: Military K

contact the 4-H Foundation ofce at 614-292-6943.

Many thanks to all o the individual donors

who support OMK as well as these donors:

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aLumni

SIxTEENAWARdSTOBEGIvENATALUMNIAWARdSLUNCHEON

Meritorious Service

to the College

Harry L. Barr (BS, Dairy Science, 1954; MS,

Dairy Science, 1955; PhD, Dairy Science,

1960), Plai City, Ohio, is recogied or

his meritorious service as a teacher, ete-

sio specialist, ad metor to hudreds ostudets i the college over his career.

J. Robert Warmbrod (Non-Alumni, Univer-

sity of Tennessee and University of Illinois),

Dubli, Ohio, is beig hoored or his sig-

icat cotributios to the admiistratio

o the Departmet o Huma ad Commu-

ity Resource Developmet, The College o

Food, Agricultural, ad Evirometal Sci-

eces, ad as a OSU Distiguished Proes-

sor, Teacher, ad Service award recipiet.

Distinguished Alumni Award

Todd L. Beckwith (BS, Agricultural Econom-

ics, 1983), Louisville, Ky., is beig recogied

or his oteworthy accomplishmets or 26

years i agricultural ace with AgriCapital

Corporatio, KeyBak nA, CoBak ABC, ad

TelMark, Ic/Agway, Ic.

Brent W. Eichar (BS, Food Technology Meat

Science, 1987), Wooster, Ohio, is beig ho-

ored or his eective career with the Certi-

ed Agus Bee LLC., risig to the positio

o Seior Vice Presidet, maagig their

multimillio dollar budget i all areas o

the corporatio.

D. Todd Kranz (BS, Dairy Science, 1983),Dubli, Ohio, is beig recogied or his out-

stadig proessioal ivolvemet with the

AI idustry as Director o Sales, Easter US

or ABS Global, his etrepreeurial role i

the dairy idustry, ad his active support o

The Ohio State Uiversity ad commuity.

Jack D. and Ruth L. Strader (Ruth BS, Home

Economics, 1951; Jack BS, Horticulture, 1949;

MS, Horticulture, 1950), Columbus, Ohio, are

beig recogied or their 55 years as owers/

operators o Strader Garde Ceters i the

Columbus area, growig rom oe small

ceter o Kig Aveue to si ull-service gar-

de ad ladscape ceters, two wholesale

divisios, ad 10 acres o greehouse space

to grow their products.

David C. Thorbahn (BS, Dairy Science, 1984),

Plai City, Ohio, is hoored or his eective

leadership as geeral Maager ad Eecutive

VP with Select Sires, Ic. durig the period

o massive cosolidatio i the AI idustry,

ad or his iovatio o ew techologies

i the idustry, makig Select Sires more

viable or uture growth.

Terry M. Wehrkamp (BS, Poultry Science,

1982), Oakwood, Ohio, will be recogied

or his outstadig iovative ad strategic

leadership to Cooper Farms as Director o

Live Productio or the leadig turkey pro-

ducer i Ohio ad oe o the leadig pork

producers as well.

International Alumni Award

Luis Noel Alaro (MS, Agricultural Econom-

ics, 1993; PhD, Agricultural Economics and

Rural Sociology, 1996), Maagua, nicaragua,

is beig recogied or his career achieve-

mets as a scholar, cosultat, ad etrepre-

eur i Cetral ad South America, ad or

his cotiued relatioships with Ohio State

i his research eorts.

Shih-Torng Ding (PhD, Animal Science,

1996), Taipei, Taiwa, is beig recogied

as a iteratioal proessor, teacher, ad

scholar i aimal biotechology, ad or his

active ecouragemet o udergraduate adgraduate studets to develop as scietists

ad studets.

Adipala Ekwamu (PhD, Plant Pathology,

1992), Kampala, Ugada, will be hoored or

his etesive role i agricultural develop-

met i East Arica ad the trasormatio

o Sub-Sahara Arica agricultural research

through plat disease cotrol, plat health

maagemet programs, ad collaborative

relatioships amog uiversities.

Young ProessionalAchievement Award(less than 36 years of age)

Aaron Arnett (BS, Animal Science, 2000),

Marysville, Ohio, is beig hoored or co-

tributios as Bee Geetics Specialist or

Select Sires, Ic, through his research adthe establishmet o olie marketig, ad

trait selectio sorts, to allow producers bet-

ter iormatio or herd improvemet.

Kris Corbin (BS, Animal Science, 1999), new

Cumberlad, Pa., curretly Co-Mauac-

turig Maager or new World Pasta, ad

ormerly Operatios Maager with Co-

Agra Foods, is beig recogied or his high

level o corporate resposibility i a short

amout o time. He has built acilities, ma-

aged strategic iitiatives, ad developed

protable busiess plas.

Rebecca Lowry (BS, Crop Science, 2002;

BS, Food, Agricultural, and Biological En-gineering, 2003), Va Wert, Ohio, is beig

hoored or her work i the USDA natural

Resources Coservatio Service as a Field

Egieer, leadig several iitiatives, ad

maitaiig active ivolvemet i proes-

sioal societies.

Puntarika Ratanatriwong (MS, Food Science,

2001; PhD, Food Science, 2004), Pitsaulok,

Thailad, Assistat Proessor, naresua Ui-

versity i Thailad, is beig recogied or

eceptioal developmet as a ood scietist

ad ood researcher i her coutry ad i

Southeast Asia.

Amy Studebaker (BS, Agribusiness and

Applied Economics, 1997), Arcaum, Ohio,

will be hoored or her early achievemet

as Regioal Vice Presidet, Farm Credit

Services o Mid America where she ma-

ages ve oces, thirty sta, ad $670 millio

loa ad lease portolio.

Congratulations to all o our alumni

award recipients or 2010. Join us on

March 6 to salute your riends, amily,

mentors, or teachers.

The CFAES Alumni Society proudly announces the 16 recipients

o the 2010 Alumni Awards or Meritorious Service, Distinguished,

International Alumni, and the Young Proessional Achievement

Awards to be presented on March 6, 2010, at their annual AlumniAwards Luncheon Program. The ceremonies will begin at 11 a.m.

with a reception, luncheon at noon, and the program to ollow at

approximately 1:15 p.m. at the Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy

River Road on the campus o The Ohio State University. Alumni

are welcome to attend and to assist in recognizing your riends,

amily, mentors, and teachers.

Please register using the reservation orm on the next page. Cost

is $26 per person. They would be pleased to have you in atten-

dance on this occasion.



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fm ry Mll,cfaes alum sy

c

It is a great pleasure to represet you

at various uctios o campus. With

over 36,000 livig alumi o agriculture

atural resources, ad the Agricultura

Techical Istitute, we have a voice that

is heard ar ad wide.

Your membership i the CFAES Alum

Society has bee eared ad paid o

by your attedace ad completio o

your degree: Our college eteds ree

membership to all o our graduates. I

retur, we ecourage you to support

the college with your time, talets, ad

cotributios at a level you ca aord.

Perhaps you ca serve o a college o

departmet alumi or advisory commit

tee, or i a leadership positio i a locaalumi society. Payig orward through

acial assistace ca also be reward

ig. The CFAES Alumi Society Uder

graduate Scholarship Edowmet is

growig daily through the cotributios

o alumi across the state. I kow I was

thakul or the scholarship support

received as a studet ad I have made a

practice o providig support or uture

studets. It oly takes a ew dollars rom

all alumi to make a big impact.

Please joi with me to cotiue to makeCFAES a great college ow ad ito

the uture. Cotact me (miller.64@osu

edu) about alumi service opportuities

ad supportig curret ad uture stu

dets. I hope to hear rom you soo

GO BUCKS!

ABNLindseyHill

and Andy Vance

AmandaHillsPure

Spring Water

AmericanDairy

Association Mideast

BobEvansFarms,Inc.

GerberPoultry,Inc.

H.MeyerDairy

Instantwhip

KOVAofOhio

MichaelFarms,Inc.

OhioApple

Marketing Program

OhioPoultry

Association

SandridgeFood

Corporation

MinervaCheese

WyandotSnacks

Andthemany

contributors to the

Silent Auction for

Alumni Scholarships

FALLFEST2009More than 550 people joined us in the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center or Fallest 2009.

The CFAES Alumni Society thanks 2009 donors:

Fallfest 2010 will be September 4, 2010, wh

we will return to the renovated French Fie

House. Watch the CFAES web site and Continu

for information. As a reminder, football tic

packages will be available only to paid memb

of the OSU Alumni Association. Log on to http

www.ohiostatealumni.org/membershipservice

to join the OSU Alumni Association.

REGISTRATIONFORMAlumnI AwArDs lunchEon AnD uPcomIng EvEnTs

See the alumni web site, http://caes.osu.edu/alumni, or details on all events.

AlumniAwarsLuncheonSatura,March6,2010Registratios must be received by Monday, February 22, 2010

See story on page 14 for details .................................................. # Luches @ $26.00 =

WomensBasketballs.MichiganStateSuna,Februar21,2010Registratio must be received by Monday, February 15, 2010

Game time is 3 p.m. in the Schottenstein Center...................... # Tickets $11.00 =

Light lunch in 105 Ag Admin at 1:30 p.m. ......................................... # Meals $9.00 =

MensHockes.MiamiSaturaeening,Februar27,2010Registratios must be received by Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Game time is 8 p.m. in the Schottenstein Center ........................ # Tickets $5.00 =

6 p.m. Tailgate with other alumni at Longaberger Alumni House .. # Meals $11.00 =

(Maximum 20 spaces available for CFAES)

SpringGameTailgateSatura,April24,2010(tentatieate)Registratios must be received by Monday, April 12, 2010

Kickoff about 1 p.m. (after lacrosse game) ..................................... # Tickets $5.00 =

Meals served at 11 a.m. in Ag Admin Auditorium ......................... # Meals $11.00 =

Total amout eclosed: $

name

Address

City State zip code

Phoe

E-mail

names as you would like them to appear o the ame tags (or Alumi Awards Lucheo):

Make checks payable to The Ohio State University and send to Ray Miller, CFAES Alumni

Society, 100 Ag Admin Building, 2120 Fyffe Road, Columbus, OH 43210. Questions? Contact

Ray Miller ([email protected]) or Amber Pasternak ([email protected]) at 614-247-2745.

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Volume 2 Issue 1

he Ohio State Uiversity Alumi Associatio, Ic.

ollege o Food, Agricultural, ad Evirometal SciecesAlumi Society

00 Agricultural Admiistratio Buildig120 Fye Road

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Continuum is produced by the College o Food,

Agricultural, ad Evirometal Scieces at The Oh

State Uiversity.

Section o Communications and Technology

Managing Editor: Martha FilipicContent Editor: Suae SteelEditor: Kim Witrigham

Contributing Writers: Shaw Clevelad, MauricioEspioa, Martha Filipic, Christy George, SarahGraer, Kurt Kebusch, Ray Miller, Cadace PolloFraces Whited

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The College o Food, Agricultural, ad Evirome

Scieces ad its academic ad research departme

icludig Ohio Agricultural Research ad Develop

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diversity ad are committed to esurig that all

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NTINUUM S O

W av aor raso o io Wir Olypics is

Fbrary. Our own Shirley Brooks-Jones, a long-time employee, riend,and supporter o the college, was able to create something remarkable

rom a terrible tragedy and will be eatured in an NBC television spot

during the Olympics. Shirley was returning rom a conerence in

Denmark on Sept. 11, 2001, when her airplane was redirected to

Newoundland. Te Newfies o the small fishing village o Lewisporte

opened their homes and hearts to the stranded passengers o Delta

Flight 15, and treated the heartbroken Americans with warmth and

kindness. o honor and thank the people o the Lewisporte area, the

passengers launched a scholarship program or young people o the

area. With Shirley leading the efort, the und is closing in on $1 million

and has sent 111 students on to college or vocational/technical training.In addition to its work in Newoundland where Shirley was interviewed

by om Brokaw, NBC has also visited the Columbus campus. Te

Olympic spot may be turned into a longer documentary. Shirley, once

again, you make us proud.

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