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Search narrows to two
for Omtvedt replacement
By Raymond Rinkol
Staff Writer
After nearly 12 years of
service to the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, Irv Omtvedt
will retire on June 30 as vice
chancellor of the Institute of
Agriculture and Natural
Resources.
His departure will mean the
loss of an adept administrator
and listener, a hard worker and a
magnanimous person, said
Herbert Howe, a UNL professor
of psychology. Howe is an asso
ciate to the chancellor who has
worked on the same cabinet as
Omtvedt.
“He has done a lot of won
derful things for the institute and
the university,” Howe said.
What will be missed most,
however, was Omtvedt’s ability
to build a consensus among his
colleagues, Howe said.
Attempting to fill Omtvedt’s
shoes and undertake the vice
chancellor responsibilities are
two candidates: Thomas Fretz
and Edna McBreen.
Fretz is currently responsi
ble for directing the University
of Maryland’s agricultural pro
grams, which have an annual
JL
This is a place where you can
make teaching, research and
outreach truly work.”
Edna McBreen
candidate, vice chancellor of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural
Resources
budget of $60 million and 730
employees. He received both
bachelor’s and master’s degrees
in horticulture and earned his
doctorate in plant science at the
University of Delaware.
Fretz has been a member of
the horticulture faculty at both
the University of Georgia and
Ohio State.
Fretz later served as a pro
fessor and department head of
horticulture at Kansas State from
1979 to 1981 and at Virginia
Polytechnic Institute from 1981
to 1989.
McBreen works at UNL,
where she has been the IANR’s
associate vice chancellor since
1998.
Highlights of her resume
include serving a year as an agri
cultural education specialist in
the African Bureau of the U.S.
Agency for International
Development.
She has also been an associ
ate director for international pro
grams for the State University of
New York Central
Administration in Albany.
Her experiences abroad,
coupled with those at universi
ties in the United States, is what
McBreen considers to be one of
her more advantageous qualities.
Since the University is a
land- grant university, said
Howe, it is obligated to convey
its researched expertise on agri
culture and natural resources to
the people of Nebraska.
This feature of the Nebraska
program attracts McBreen.
“This is a place where you
can make teaching, research and
outreach truly work,” said
McBreen.
Mid-Week Farmer’s Market
adds to UNL’s summer events
By Tim Karstens
Senior editor
The Corvette had the
Stingray, “Happy Days” had
“Joanie Loves Chachi” and
Microsoft Windows has a new
- one seemingly every two years.
It seems everything success
ful or popular demands a new
version with the presumed intent
of improving on the original. The
City of Lincoln and the Farmer’s
Market hope to do the same with
the Mid-Week Haymarket
Farmer’s Market held at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The market, which will be
held on Tuesdays this summer for
seven weeks, was conceived with
the hope that the recipe that made
the Haymarket Farmer^ Market
successful will work its magic at
UNL. According to Billene
Nemec, manager of both
Farmer’s Markets, the new mar
ket will not just sell fresh pro
duce. "
“The market is more than
food,” Nemec said, referring to
some of the goods that will be
peddled during the market. “It is
about having people stay down
town a little longer and enjoy
what we have to offer.”
The original Fanner’s Market
capitalized on the rustic appeal
of the Haymarket. Doing the
same at UNL had always made
sense to Nemec, given the cam
pus’ green spaces, historic build
ings and summer events such as
the Jazz in June series.
Nemec pitched the idea to the
City of Lincoln and UNL in
December 1999. All sides
approved the concept and the
Mid-week Haymarket Farmer’s
Market began to take shape.
From the outset, holding the mar
ket during the Jazz in June series
was a priority. To Nemec, it was a
perfect marriage: city and cam
pus, food and music.
“The setting is ideal for a
market,” Nemec said. “Jazz is
food for the soul.”
UNLIs Michelle Waite, assis
tant to the chancellor for commu
nity relations, helped Nemec cre
ate the new market. With the
addition of Jazz in June and other
summer events like Tuesday
Tales—a storytelling event on
the steps of Architectural Hall—
the Mid-Week Haymarket
Fanner's Market will distinguish
itself from the original market.
“We thought it was a great
opportunity to piggy-back on the
Jazz in June series,” Waite said.
“It will have more of an artsy feel
than die Haymarket.”
Waite said the new market
will bring together vegetable
growers, artisans and food ven
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