06/24/08 WSU alumnus creates Lind Station Endowment

Washington Ag June 24, 2008 Washington State University's Lind Dryland Research Station now has an endowment to take care of "common expenditure objects." Ninety-two year old WSU alumnus Ed Heineman has made the endowment to help fund maintenance around the research farm. Heineman was recognized at the recent Lind Field Day where he explained the proceeds from the sale of his home on Puget Sound will be split with half going to the endowment and half for animal science scholarships at WSU. Heineman:" I'll tell you what my home is valued at. It is valued at between three-quarters to a million dollars." Heineman told the field day audience the first time he was at the Lind Station was when he was a young man and tried to date the supervisor's daughter, but the girl's mother took one look at him and said over my dead body and Ed never visited the station again until two years ago. This Thursday June 26th Bioenergy Cropping Systems Research will be the theme at the USDA-Agricultural Research Service Palouse Conservation Field Station field day near Pullman. Tours run from 8:00 a.m. to noon when a hosted lunch will honor retired NRCS conservationist and agronomist Dennis Roe. He retired last year after 41 years of service in the inland northwest. I'm Bob Hoff.