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ANR Statewide Conference co-chairs invite you to participate
Registration for the 2013 ANR Statewide Conference is open, and more than 200 people have already signed up. As co-chairs for the conference, we hope you have taken time to review the program and are making plans to attend. The agenda is engaging and stimulating, and the speakers were chosen to inspire and be thought provoking.
On the registration page there is a link to a list of registrants so you can see who will be attending. The Global Food Systems Forum is on the first day of the conference, Tuesday, April 9. The forum will be webcast so please help us spread the word to friends and colleagues.
The poster reception will highlight some ANR projects that exemplify the ANR Strategic Initiatives. If you would like to submit a poster, please send your request soon because space is filling quickly.
A key goal of the conference is to demonstrate ANR’s role in addressing and finding solutions to challenges in agriculture and in natural and human resources. These challenges, coupled with budget constraints, compel us to work more strategically, efficiently, and with better program planning and integration. All of our programs and each one of us plays a vital role in these efforts and your participation in discussions at the conference is important.
The conference program and session topics are designed to bring light to these challenges as well as to the role of ANR, the role of the UC system and our place in the Land Grant system, and they are certain to spark lively discussion on how ANR can best fulfill our mission.
We encourage conference attendees to participate in open discussions on science issues, program planning, personnel and policy. Program teams and workgroups will be meeting during the conference as well. If your workgroup needs meeting space, request it soon. We are counting on you to attend and contribute. March 8 is the last day for special lodging rates. We hope to see you in Ontario!
Sincerely,
Morgan Doran and Edie Allen
Conference Co-Chairs
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Many UC academics heeded Kennedy's call to 'serve the cause of peace'
When President John F. Kennedy created the Peace Corps in 1961, he not only sent thousands of Americans to serve the cause of peace in the developing world, he set them on a course of service that continued when they returned to the U.S. A significant number came to work for UC Cooperative Extension.
One of them is Jim Grieshop, a now-retired UCCE community education development specialist, who was profiled in an article in the February issue of Alaska Airlines Magazine marking the Peace Corps' 50th anniversary.
Acceptance into the Peace Corps helped Grieshop achieve his personal goal of living and working in Latin America, the article said. In May 1964, he arrived in Cayambe, Ecuador, to spend two years as a science teacher. He quickly learned to be flexible.
"The science teacher in the village didn't really want me to teach science," Grieshop was quoted in the story. "So I taught English in primary schools and the high school . . . . We put on a rodeo, we did some summer programs - I was kind of making it up as I went along."
Here are some of the other UCCE academics, past and present, who served in the Peace Corps:
Monica Cooper, viticulture farm advisor in Napa County, volunteered in an agrarian community in Panama.
Jeff Dahlberg, director of the UC Kearney Agriculture Research and Extension Center, served for three years in the Republic of Niger.
Chris Dewees, retired specialist in Cooperative Extension marine fisheries, volunteered in Chile.
Morgan Doran, livestock and natural resources farm advisor in Solano County, volunteered in Ecuador.
Ben Faber, Ventura County farm advisor, served in Togo, Africa.
Mark Gaskell, small farm advisor in San Luis Obispo County, served in Venezuela.
Juan Guerrero, retired farm advisor emeritus for Riverside and Imperial counties, worked with subsistence farmers and large-scale commercial farmers in Paraguay and Peru.
Glenda Humiston, vice president, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, served in Tunisia, North Africa.
Susan Laughlin, retired regional director, spent three years in Colombia.
David Lewis, watershed management advisor in Marin County, volunteered in Niger.
Mike Marzolla, retired 4-H advisor in Ventura County, coordinated a school and community garden program in Guatemala.
Richard Molinar, retired small-scale farm advisor for Fresno County, served in Honduras.
Jeff Mitchell, cropping systems specialist, UC Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center, served in Botswana, Africa.
Rachel Surls, UCCE sustainable food systems advisor in Los Angeles County, served in Honduras.
Jack Williams, the retired Sutter/Yuba county director, worked alongside farmers in Kenya, Africa.
Ken Wilmarth, former 4-H advisor in Stanislaus County, and his wife, Jenny, spent two years in Chavin, Peru.
Have I missed any UCCE Peace Corps volunteers? Please post a comment letting me know.
President Kennedy greets Peace Corps volunteers in 1961. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons.)
