More than 30 faculty and staff in College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’s departments, centers and units will be honored March 4, at the 84th annual Iowa State University 25 Year Club Banquet. The 25 Year Club will honor 120 new members — including Carl Bern, agricultural and biosystems engineering, for 50 years of service.
To be eligible, an employee must have completed at least 25 continuous years of service to Iowa State by Dec. 31, 2018. Honorees are those who marked 25, 35, 45 and 50 years of continuous service during 2018.
Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
25 years of service
Jay Harmon
Glen Rippke
Hongwei Xin
50 years of service
Carl Bern
Department of Agricultural Education and Studies
35 years of service
Robert Martin
Department of Agronomy
25 years of service
Raymond Arritt (died Nov. 14, 2018)
Damian Franzenburg
Kenneth Moore
Department of Animal Science
25 years of service
James Dickson
Jackie Jens
35 years of service
Susan Lamont
Ann Shuey
Jeffrey Thorson
45 years of service
Mary Lents
Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
35 years of service
Richard Honzatko (Liberal Arts & Sciences)
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
45 years of service
Arnold van der Valk (Liberal Arts & Sciences)
Department of Economics
25 years of service
Catherine Kling (left ISU in 2018)
Sergio Lence
45 years of service
Becky Johnson
Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition
25 years of service
Ruth Litchfield (Human Sciences)
Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
25 years of service
Thomas Peterson
Department of Horticulture
25 years of service
Jeffery Iles
Lisa Orgler
Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology
25 years of service
Xiao-Bing (X.B.) Yang
Department of Sociology
35 years of service
Debra McKay
Department of Statistics
35 years of service
Denise Riker (Liberal Arts & Sciences)
Agriculture and Natural Resources Extension
25 years of service
Beth Doran (retired in 2018)
35 years of service
Denise Schwab
Research and Demonstration Farms
45 years of service
Steven Goben (retired in 2018)
35 years of service
Sally Medford
Center for Agricultural and Rural Development
25 years of service
Karen Kovarik
Seed Science Center /Biosafety Institute for Genetically Modified Agricultural Products
35 years of service
Regina Hendrickson (retired in 2018)