CBS TV Crew Visits Horticulture

A CBS television crew from New York and Chicago, with moderator Roger Welsh, recently filmed the squash breeding program conducted by Dermot Coyne, Jim Reiser and Lisa Sutton at UNL.

Interest was shown in the development of the winter squash cultivar "Lakota," derived from squash indigenous to Nebraska because of its long history of use by the Native American people along the Missouri Valley prior to the arrival of settlers. It was also used by the troops stationed at Fort Atkinson in the 1820s and Fort Robinson in the 1870s and by the early Kincaid settlers after 1890 in Western Nebraska.

Alice Graham of Ashland, maintained and supplied seed of this highly variable squash for use in the breeding program. The Lakota squash was highlighted on the front cover of the 1995 Burpee Seed Catalog.

Journalism Hall Inducts Bryant

Don Bryant, associate director of athletics, was inducted into the Nebraska Journalism Hall of Fame Oct. 14.

Bryant, who is also vice president of Bryant News Inc. of Hickman and associate professor of advertising in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications, was UNL's sports information director from 1963-93. He began his journalism career as a sportswriter for the Lincoln Star in 1948 and served as that paperŐs sports editor from 1954 until he became the Huskers' SID.

The Nebraska Journalism Hall of Fame, sponsored by the Nebraska Press Association, is housed in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications on the second floor of Avery Hall.

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