Lincoln (Neb.) - Oct. 13, 1999 - The alumni association of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will honor two distinguished alumni during the institute's annual fall reunion next month.
Gordon Quick will be honored as the Alumnus of the Year and Richard Goodding (cq) will receive an Award of Merit at a Nov. 6 ceremony in the Wick Alumni Center, 16th and R streets.
Quick, a York native who lives in Tacoma, Wash., earned his bachelor's degree in vocational agriculture and natural science from NU (1953) and earned his master's and doctoral degrees in education from NU (1959, 1966). From 1966 until his retirement in 1998, he held many positions at the Clover Park Vocational- Technical Institute in Tacoma, where he worked with thousands of young people. He began as administrator of vocational and technical programming and worked his way up to become director of vocational and continuing education from 1984 to 1988. He has taught vocational education programs as a visiting lecturer at the University of Washington and is active in Rotary International and the Lakewood (Wash.) Chamber of Commerce.
A Lincoln resident, Goodding graduated from NU in 1942 and played a key behind-the-scenes role that led to the creation of IANR 25 years ago. As vice president for public affairs for the Nebraska Farm Bureau in the early 1970s, Goodding drafted LB149, a bill to create a free-standing College of Agriculture (later called IANR) separate from the university. The bill recognized and supported the significant role of agriculture to the university and the state. In 1982, he established the Goodding Learning Center in the Plant Sciences Building to honor his late father, who had been a popular agronomy professor at the university from 1917 to 1957.