Club Activities- Spring 2005
Spring BBQ -May 5, 2005
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Members gathered at the South Farms
on Reading Day for an evening BBQ and some fun. While the food was grilling,
daring members played softball. |
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Randy Lindgren and Daniel Lundeen wait to pick
Regan Joehl off second base |
Scott Wessel heads towards first base |
Dr Wayne Pedersen proves that he still has
all his athletic skill at bat (fielding is another matter) |
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Eddie Bohlen and Tj Ruyle run the grill while Kate
Legge and Blake Petersen make sure they do it right |
Everyone is ready to eat after the game |
Members conduct a quick last meeting before
heading home to study for finals (!) Good luck everyone |
Ag-In-The-Classroom, Carrie Busey Elementary School -April 22, 2005
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Club members helped at an Ag In The Classroom
event at Carrie Busey Elementary. Fifth graders learned about ag biotechnology.
First, they matched up the crop with the improvement amde possible through
genetic engineering |
Heather Clodfelter helps a student reading
about his crop |
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Krista Ubbenga talks about how corn and soybeans have
been improved with biotechnology |
Krista Ubbenga, Nathan Karplus, Heather Clodfelter,
and Mike Meyer prepare to answer questions |
Club Awards Banquet, Hawthorne Suites -April 21, 2005
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Dr Robert Hoeft, Crop Sciences Department Head,
addresses the club |
Kate Legge gives an award to Andrew Bowman,
who won the speech contest and got second place in the IPM contest |
Kate Legge recognizes Mike Meyer for winning
the IPM contest. Mike also placed second in the speech contest and won
an award as an Outstanding New Club Member |
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Regan Joehl presents the Outstanding Junior
award to TJ Ruyle |
Dr Wayne Pedersen announces the winner of the
ASA Outstanding Senior award, Kyle McClelland |
Steve Calhoun of Illinois Foundation Seed gives
the Outstanding Senior award to Nathan Schnettgoecke |
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Regan Joehl recognizes Sharon Conatser for all her
work on behalf of the club |
Crop Sciences Graduate Student Organization
President Nicolas Martin has helped with several club events, the speech
contest and the IPM contest. The club presented Nico with a certificate
for his hard work |
Nathan Schnettgoecke recognizes John Holthaus
of Growmark, who has been an important club supporter |
Feedstuffs Kits Assembly-April 20, 2005
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Feedstuffs kits assembled last fall were a big hit
and the club made more to sell. Nathan Karplus, Nathan Schnettgoecke,
Jared Walter and Regan Joehl put feedstuffs into individual jars |
ITCS contact Nick Wherley sets up feedstuffs
and jars for club members Andrew Bowman, Brad Meese, and Sean Breen |
Regan Joehl and Nathan Schnettgoecke put jars
into containers ready to ship |
SASES Southern Regional Meetings, College Station, Texas-April 15-17, 2005
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Club members wait at O'Hare for their plane
to Houston. Everyone looks perky for being sleepless |
The first event was the Friday
night BBQ at the Beef Center |
Everyone participated in an Texas trivia quiz.
Do you know the Texas state rock? |
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On Saturday, members participated in a tour
of Texas A & M and Texas agriculture. The first stop was the revered
Kyle Field, where everyone got to step on the turf! |
The Texas A & M campus is very
beautiful |
The tour stopped at the previous site of the
college's annual bonfire, where 12 people were killed in 1999 during
construction. The site is now a memorial |
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After lunch and a few speakers, members headed
out to see some soil pits |
At the Ag Experiment Station, Blake
Peterson heard about cotton production |
Dan Lamoreux, Krista Ubbenga, Kate Legge, and
Nathan Schnettgoecke wait to eat ribeye at the Saturday night banquet |
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Before heading to the airport on Sunday, members
took a quick detour to the Star of the Republic Museum, the site where
Texas declared its independence. Krista Ubbenga and Kate Legge rest in
front of a 28-star flag |
Josh Heeren, Yale Epler, Dan Lamoreux,
and Ben Kuhns enjoy seeing Sam Houston immortalized in bronze |
What trip to Texas would be complete without
seeing some longhorn steers? |
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NACTA Crops Contest, Norfolk, Nebraska -April 14-15, 2005
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NACTA Crops Contest team members Ryan Shelby, Tyler
Sturm, Phil Parrish, Andrew Bowman, and Regan Joehl stop at the Machine
Shed on the way to the contest in Nebraska |
The team finished in fourth place overall.
Coach Bob Dunker stands with the team |
Business Meeting-April 12, 2005
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Members play an "Ag Trivia" game with great
prizes supplied by Mr Dunker |
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FFA Lunch -April 2, 2005
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Jared Walter, Randy Lindgren, and Scott Wessel get
the Turner Hall lobby prepared for selling food |
Nathan Schnettgoecke, Krista Ubbenga, and Kate
Legge are ready to sell at NSRL |
Yale Epler gets the fire going |
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Members assemble sandwiches, cookies bags, and lunch
bags for sale to FFA record book contestants |
"The guys" hang out at the grill |
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ExplorACES-March 11-12, 2005
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Members set up the display board and plants for
the Field and Furrow exhibit in the Turner Hall lounge |
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The club board was updated with new captions and
pictures |
Live specimens of various Illininois
field crop diseases, plants, and weeds were shown along with interesting facts about each |
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The plant display looks great next to the club trophy
cabinet |
Alex Luckew is ready to tell everyone
how much he loves Field and Furrow |
Nathan Karplus and Nathan Schnettgoecke are eager
to help |
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Regan Joehl and Dean Wayne Banwart discuss "Mutants
of Maize" |
Nathan Schnettgoecke and Mike Meyer
tell prospective students and parents about the Department and the club |
The club display is fascinating |
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Brian Fisher takes groups over to ERML for
the biotech section tour |
Dan Lamoreux uses "I-clickers" to
quiz a group of visitors about Crop Science facts |
Stephanie Rousonelos is ready to run the next quiz |
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Kent Leesman is helping out at the Crop Sciences
undergrad display |
Joel McCormick talks to a prospective
student |
Craig Sondgeroth shows the insect displays |
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Krista and Kent persuade a visitor to try chocolate
covered soybeans |
Josh Heeren has the harder part
of trying to talk people into trying tofu burgers |
Kyle McClelland has a lot of fun showing the
numerous products made from corn and beans |
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Sometimes the helpers outnumbered the visitors |
Nathan Schnettgoecke organized
the Field and Furrow display and was there with a smile for every minute
of setup and take down, and for both days of the event (what a trooper!) |
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Business Meeting-March 8, 2005
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Members wait for pizza and drinks as the business
part of the meeting is conducted |
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Seed Set Assembly-March 8, 2005
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Members put one of four base seeds (corn, oats, wheat,
soybean) into bags |
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TJ scoops the right amount of soybean into each
bag, while Jared and Kate add contaminants |
Each base grain has various levels of
contaminants added to some of the bags |
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Kate and Andrew compare notes on how much fun they
are having |
Nathan Schnettgoecke gets the important
task of "mothball crushing" |
Boxes are constructed to hold all the
seed bags |
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Members form an assembly line to put
each set of four base grains (control and 3 bags with contaminants) into
boxes. Seed sets are sold to high school FFA clubs for use in grain judging
practice |
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Lounge Cleanup-February 26, 2005
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Advisor Bob Dunker gets the dusty job
of removing the trophies from the top of the lounge partition |
Over the years, the club has won numerous
awards, including "Best Agronomy Club in the Nation" |
Regan Joehl picked several new plants
to put in the lounge. He has a special fondness for the banana plant |
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Regan Joehl, Bob Dunker, and Jared Walter
hang a new, large bulletin board on the lounge wall. Centering the board
properly is important |
A few weeks later, Nathan Karplus does
his part by shining up the many club trophies before they go into their
new home |
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Speech Contest -February 21, 2005
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Contestants Andrew Bowman, Mike Meyer, and TJ Ruyle chose a topic and prepared a 5-7 minute speech to give to the audience and judges |
Nicolas Martin, President of the Crop Sciences Graduate
Student Organization, and Nathan Karplus, eagerly wait to hear the speeches |
Official judges for the evening were Bob Dunker,
Patricia Stoller, Wayne Pedersen, and Nicolas Martin |
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Nancy and Bob Hoeft graciously opened their home
to host the contest |
Kate Legge and Andrew Bowman enjoyed the food provided
by the Hoefts for after the contest |
Mike Meyer is happy that his speech is over and
he can eat a little ice cream. Nathan Karplus is just happy to eat. |
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Dr. Hoeft and the contestants pose just before the
winner is announced |
Dr. Hoeft congratulates Andrew Bowman on his winning
speech. Andrew will represent the club at the national speech contest
at the SASES meetings in Salt Lake City this fall |
Business Meeting-February 8, 2005
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Members enjoy pizza and drinks as the business part
of the meeting is conducted |
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Everyone pays close attention to the
discussion on the best way to prepare a resume and to handle an interview-tips
from an industry pro |
John Holthaus of Growmark gives good interview advice
to help everyone get a great job |
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