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Monday, May 8, 1967
The Daily Nebraskan
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MAN BEHIND THE DESK ... Dr. Lonnquist has long
served as an adviser for many foreign and graduate
students.
19 Midshipmen Will
Receive ROTC Awards
The Naval ROTC Unit
at the University of Nebras
ka will present 19 awards
to its Midshipmen at 2:30
p.m., on May 16, in the
Union Ballroom.
The awards to be present
ed are given by military
centered groups such as the
American Legion and by
Captain A. C. Mullen, Cap
tain of Naval Science at
the University.
Awards Program
The awards program will
feature a former comman
der of an aircraft carrier,
Vice Admiral Robert J.
Stroh. as a speaker. Dur
ing World War IL Stroh
commanded a photo recon
naisance squadron that help
ed implement the island
hopping strategy in the Gil
berts, Marshalls and Mari
anas. Strobes speech will hon
or the recipients of
the awards which are given
for the demonstration of
qualities contributing to mil
itary leadership.
Five Examples
Following are five exam
ples of the awards to be
given.
The General Dynamics
NROTC Plaque will be pre
sented to Midn. 2-c Ellroy
B. Pearlman who will be
midshipman commander
next semester.
The American Legion Gen
eral Military Excellence
Medals will go to Midn 2-c
Ernest J. Gerloff and sen
ior Midn. 1 F. C. Green
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The American Legion
medals are given by the
Lincoln American Legion
Post No. 3 for high aca
demic acheivement as well
as military excellence.
The Professor of Naval
Science Award will also be
presented to Green. The
award is presented to the
senior with outstanding in
itiative and motivation.
The Marine Corps Re
serve Officers Association
Sword will be given to Midn.
1-c James A. Gettman, se
lected as the top NROTC
candidate for a commission
in the Marine Corps. Gett
man is the present Midship
man commander.
Retired Officers
The Retired Officers As
sociation Medal will go to
a sophomore, Midn. 3-c
Thomas P. Briggs. The med
al is given by the local
chapter of the Retired Of
ficers Association and
emphasizes aptitude for the
life of the Naval Officer.
Other groups giving
awards include the Nation
al Rifle Association, the So
ciety of American Military
Engineers, the Military Ord
er of World Wars, Julius
Horowitt Naval Tailors, Inc.
the Lincoln Naval Reserve
Units, North American Avi
ation Unit, and the Nation
al Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution.
A reception will be held
in the South Party Room
after the awards ceremony.
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Follows Son;
By Julie Morris
Senior Writer r
Like son like father, this
semester's faculty Out
standing Nebraskan, Dr.
John Lonnquist, Sr., fol
lows his son John. Jr. as
Outstanding Nebraskan.
John, Jr., a 1965 Univer
sity graduate, received the
award two years ago this
month. Also like son, father
Lonnquist Saturday was
named an honorary mem
ber of Innocents, a group
that tackled John, Jr. and
another son, Ladd, into
membership two successive
years.
Pace Set
The senior Lonnquist has
hardly let his sons set the
pace in the family, how
ever. The letter a colleague
wrote nominating Lonn
quist as Outstanding Ne
braskan noted, "As a sci
entist he is rated as one
of the world's most respect
ed geneticists, and as an
accomplisher he ranks sec
ond to none."
The University's C Pet
rus Peterson professor of
agronomy, Lonnquist is an
internationally recognized
expert in corn improvement
and breeding. A University
graduate and a faculty
member for 24 years, Lonn
quist is leaving the school
in June to join the Rock
feller and Ford Founda
tions' International Center
for Wheat and Corn Im
provement near Mexico
City.
Latin America
Lonnquist is also a minor
expert on the agricultural
problems of Latin America
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and has spent close to 15
years working with the La
tin American countries in
the area of crop produc
tion. He was named the re
cipient of the American
Society of Agronomy crop
science award in 1961, is
a fellow of the American
Society of Agronomy and
his reputation as a teacher
and research man has been
instrumental in attracting
top flight graduate students
to the University.
Estimating that he has
turned out over 50 gradu
ate degree candidates in
his years at the University,
Lonnquist commented that
he has frequently ended up
handling 10 to 15 students
when he feels that four to
five is a full load for any
professor.
"I hate to get to the
point where I dont do an
adequate job with these
boys because of the num
ber of them," Lonnquist
said.
Regents' Professor
"'I like working with stu
dents because you get to
know a person better
through working with them
than any other way," he
said. In 1961 Lonnquist was
named a Regents' profes
sor, an honor reserved for
outstanding teachers.
In his new position with
the Ford Foundation, Lonn
quist will still be working
with students. "I don't think
I would have accepted the
position otherwise," he
said.
Leaning back in a swivel
chair in his third floor of
fice in Keim Hall, Lonn-
Dr. Lonnquist joins Lis daughter Chris and his wife Betty
guitar. Chris is one of eight Lonnquist children.
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lection of corn specimens
from Columbia and Peru,
a huge display of dozens of
ears of corn that covers
one wall, and meditatively
pulled on a well-worn
straight pipe as he discuss
ed corn, the University, the
future and Latin America.
"Corn is pretty high in
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LEADING GENETICISTS ... Dr. Lonquist discusses the pollination of corn and points out
a recent experiment in his laboratory.
my thoughts always," he
commented. "It's so easy
for a person to get wound
up in his work and the job
takes him over. My wife
always kids me about Mai
zey, my first love." (Maize
is the Indian word for
corn.)
One of Lonnquist's form
er grad students recalled
the "90 hour weeks" his
teacher puts in and Lonn
quist, cracking a grin a
mile wide, told of the time
when John Jr., the oldest
of his eight children, as a
small child pointed out to
a visitor "the Ag College
where my daddy lives."
A scientist must spent
time in his laboratory,
Lonnquist said, so he
spends a great deal of time
in the field.
Field Work
"These aren't the clothes
of my trade," he said, in
dicating his college-profes-sorish
sport coat, white
shirt and a tie complete
with a minature gold ear
of corn as a tie tac. "More
ofter I'm in khakis."
Lonquist has been trav
eling to Latin America to
lecture, visit aand do re
search since "the early
1950's."
The greatest problem fac
ing Latin America "and
most of these so-called de
veloping countries is popu
lation control and food pro
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Lonnquist com-
mented.
Food Supply
"I don't think we are go
ing to keep pace in food
supply unless we can make
some changes in food pro
duction," he said.
"I wouldn't say that fa
mine or world starvation
is right around the corner.
I'm not one of these guys
who is a prophet of doom.
But I would say that it is
a possibility unless relevant
research is done and done
soon."
Lonnquist said that chil
dren nnder 15 make up 50
to 60 per cent of the popu
lation of Costa Rica and
that this is the case in
many of the Latin Amer
ican countries.
Malnutrition
"You see an awful lot of
malnutrition in these coun
tries and it makes me feel
pretty bad when you see
kids who haven't had the
right kind of food and
enough food so that they're
bodies are crippled for life.
Maybe I'm just an old soft
ie," Lonnquist said.
He explained that the
work the Ford and Rock
feller people will be doing
in Mexico is aimed directly
at solving these food short
age problems. "Some of
the things (in this field)
that Fve wanted to do I'm
going to be able to do,"
Lonnquist commented.
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Turning to a discussion
of the University, Lonnquist
said it hardly seems like
it has been 24 years since
he joined the staff as a pro
fessor. He took his doctor
ate here in 1949.
"Time has a way of slip
ping by you," he mused.
Lonnquist called the Uni
versity Agricultural college
"fairly strong, one of th
strong ones in the country."
The Lonnquist family will
undoubtably return to the
state and the University,
as visitors, Lonnquist said.
"We have to have a home
base," he said.
The Lonnquist sons will
stay at the University.
Ladd will enter the Uni
versity Law School follow
ing his graduation in Au
gust; another son, Tom, en
ters the University as a
freshman in September and
George, a junior at the UmV
versity of Tennessee, where
he is colonizing a chapter
of Beta Theta Pi plans to
return to the University in
the fall, Lonnquist said.
When Lonnquist was no
tified that he had been
named the Outstanding Ne
braskan he said, "It seems
like the sky is falling."
Last week he was named
an honorary member of the
University Agronomy Club,
an undergraduate c 1 n b,
shortly before he was
named an honorary Inno
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