City Boy Majors in Agriculture
Donald J. Stucky
B.S. Agronomy, 1957
Donald J. Stucky found himself an oddity in the 1950s as a city boy majoring in agriculture. “It is my understanding that now the majority of students in colleges of agriculture are from urban areas” said Stucky who grew up in Seattle, Wash.
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Donald Stucky with his wife, Mary. |
During high school Stucky had the opportunity to work summers on his uncle’s dryland wheat farm near Ruff, Wash., between Moses Lake and Ritzville. During his senior year, he met with Washington State College (now WSU) Dean of Agriculture, Dean Swenson. After explaining he was interested in agriculture and may end up farming, Swenson encouraged him to pursue a degree in agronomy. Read more.
Green Acres to Desert Tan
Donald Kaufman
B.S. Agronomy, 1991
Donald Kaufman drives a much straighter line today than he did as a kid given the opportunity to cultivate a few rows of beans with his Uncle Albert’s tractor.
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Donald Kaufman at Sather AIr Baise in Baghdad, Iraq |
“I’m not sure how many beans suffered from ‘cultivator blight’ that afternoon,” said Kaufman.
Kaufman grew up in Quincy, a small farming town in central Washington. Influenced by his many visits to his aunts and uncles’ farms, he knew he wanted to work in agriculture. Kaufman first enrolled at Columbia Basin Community College in Pasco, Wash., before transferring to WSU where he earned a bachelor’s degree in agronomy in 1991 with minors in soils, agricultural economics, and military science. During this time he was also commissioned as a second lieutenant through WSU’s Army ROTC program. Read more.
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