Celebraiting the Various Generations of Ag

Reading through this issue of the Ambassador should make you feel proud of how successful the various generations of our alumni have been! It also shows how many of you have taken the time to share your talents with the next generation of graduates of the College of Agriculture.

The Gus Koch family proves that hard work and determination can get 10 children through college. John Ward and Seth Hancock’s words express to us that it takes long, hard, and patient work — as well as learning from your successes and your failures — to make not only horses successful but also man successful.
I hope you have taken time to look at the day in the life of a student in today’s generation (page 16) and one from the generations of a few years back (page 14). The names and the price of tuition may be different, but all of these students juggled many things to make it through college.
It just proves to me again that the College of Agriculture is a hard-working, devoted family that does what it takes to help each other succeed.

Mark Twain once said, “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

I hope your college experience gave you some of the tools you needed to sail away from your safe harbor and find some of your dreams, as the alumni and students we highlighted in this issue have.
I’m looking forward to seeing many of you at Roundup ’02 on September 14 and at one of the 15 events we will have around the state this summer!

Grace Gorrell
Associate Director for Alumni & Development

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