2007
PERSPECTIVES
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DEVELOPMENT
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ALUMNI RELATIONS
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ALUMNI & FRIENDS EVENTS
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DEPARTMENTAL UPDATES
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI
OUTSTANDING AGRICULTURISTS
THEN & NOW
MILESTONES
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LANDMARKS VOL. 21-2007
Landmarks magazine is a publication of the College of
Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at Texas
Tech University. It is published yearly and sent to alumni
and friends of the college.
Publication Directors:
Scott Cooksey and Memory Bennett
Writer: Laura Gutschke
Designer: Michael Bain, Hartsfield Design
Printer: Craftsman Printers Inc.
Send comments and news to:
Landmarks Editor
CASNR
Box 42123
Lubbock, Texas 79409-2123
(806) 742-2802
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www.casnr.ttu.edu
MR. LANEY GOES TO
MAN WITH THE FARM
BUILDING RACE RELATIONS
AUSTIN…AND ALL OF TEXAS
MACHINES
ON THE BASEBALL DIAMOND
GETS A STATESMAN
Joe Hurst (’79 B.S. in agri-
Jerry Craft (’60 B.S., animal
James E. “Pete” Laney (’65, B.S.
cultural education) knows
husbandry) learned about race,
in agricultural economics) has
the family business from the
loyalty and hope, and those life
worked with some of the icons
ground up.
experiences interwove into his
of Texas politics, sat with titans
later ventures as a rancher, cable
of business and addressed a
television pioneer, Democratic
national television audience to
Party leader, school board mem-
introduce the 43rd President of
ber, mayor and philanthropist.
the United States.
NEW URBAN VISION
DAN DAVIDSON: A TRIBUTE
MAKING CONSERVATION
Gary Bellomy (’74, B.S. in
TO TEAMWORK
A BEST PRACTICE IN
Landscape Architecture) is
Dan Davidson (’59, B.S. Hor-
AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION
principal, founder and manag-
ticulture and Parks Manage-
Manuel DeLeon (’93, B.S. wild-
ing partner of Land Design Stu-
ment) lives under the philoso-
life management, ’96, master
dio; which for the last 10 years
phy of “there’s no limit to what
of wildlife science) is building
has built a reputation for in-
you can accomplish if you’re
bridges with Panhandle farm-
corporating the new urbanism
not concerned with who gets
ers and ranchers as a soil con-
concept in many of its public
the credit”.
servationist for the Natural Re-
and private projects.
sources conservation Service of
the united States Department
of Agriculture.