Wallace's Farmer, IA
03-29-07
Hoover-Wallace Event to Raise Money for Youth
The 2007 Hoover-Wallace Dinner will be held in West Des Moines on April 16 at
the Hy-Vee Conference Center on Westown Parkway. Anyone who wants to buy
a ticket is invited to attend. All proceeds from the event go to support the World
Food Prize Youth internship program - one of the most unique programs in
America to inspire the study of agricultural science.
The Borlaug-Ruan International Internship Program, conducted by the World
Food Prize Foundation headquartered in Des Moines, each summer sends a
dozen or more Iowa high school students on eight-week, all expenses paid
assignments to renowned international agricultural research centers in Asia,
Africa and Latin America.
To honor George Washington Carver
Each year the dinner honors a famous Iowan. The 2007 event will offer a unique
moment for Iowans to come together, across political party lines, to honor
George Washington Carver. Carver was a man whose life work changed the
scope of agriculture forever. When turned away from schools in other states
based on the color of his skin, Carver was welcomed to Iowa and eventually
became the first African-American to graduate from Iowa State University.
Gov. Chet Culver will be featured as a keynote speaker at this year's dinner, with
former governors Robert Ray, Terry Branstad and Tom Vilsack also participating.
In addition, Sen. Tom Harkin and several members of the Iowa Congressional
will attend. The Hoover-Wallace Dinner is a collaboration of the World Food Prize
Foundation, Rotary Clubs of Iowa, the Chamber of Commerce of the host city
and Iowa's Regent Universities.
This year's Hoover-Wallace Dinner will be held in West Des Moines at 6:30 p.m.
on Monday April 16 at the Hy-Vee Conference Center on Westown Parkway.
Tickets are $125 per person. If an organization or company wishes to sponsor a
table for 10 people, the cost for reserved tables is $1,250. To order tickets visit
the Web site www.hoover-wallace.com or call 800-682-8976.