Iowa State University

10-3-96

Contact:
Skip Derra, News Service, (515) 294-4917

ISU ROAD SCHOLARS TOUR TO VISIT NORTHEAST IOWA OCT. 4-5

AMES, Iowa -- Iowa State University President Martin Jischke will lead 36 new ISU faculty and staff and three ISU students on a two-day Road Scholars tour of northeast Iowa, Oct. 4 and 5.

The purpose of the Road Scholars tour is to introduce new faculty and staff to the state of Iowa. The tour group travels the state by bus, visiting schools, businesses and farms. Tour stops will include Tama, Grundy Center, Waterloo, Waverly and Marshalltown.

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EDITORS:

Attached is the itinerary for the northeast Iowa Road Scholars tour. You are welcome to join the group at any point during the tour. The schedule is tight. If you would like to interview members of the tour group, you may want to do so while riding the tour bus for a short distance. John Anderson, interim director of ISU's University Relations, will accompany President Jischke on the tour. He can assist you in meeting tour members or making other arrangements. If you want to join the tour, please contact Skip Derra at (515) 294-4917

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Northeast Iowa Road Scholars Tour

Friday, Oct. 4

7:45 a.m.      Leave Ames for Tama.


9:00 a.m.      Arrive in Tama. Visit South Tama County High

               School.  Meet with Principal Steven Burr.


10:00 a.m.     Depart Tama for Grundy Center.


11:00 a.m.     Arrive at the Grundy County Courthouse

               in Grundy Center. Marilyn Hawn, president

               of the Grundy Center Chamber of Commerce,

               will talk about the "Silos and Smokestacks"

               project.


11:30 p.m.     Depart Grundy Center for Waterloo.


12:00 p.m.     Arrive in Waterloo. Lunch at John Deere

               Product Engineering Center.


1:00 p.m.      Tour the John Deere Product Engineering

               Center.


2:45 p.m.      Depart John Deere.


3:00 p.m.      Visit the Waterloo Recreation and Arts

               Center. Tour the center's art gallery.

4:30 p.m.      Arrive at the Holiday Inn, Fourth and

               Commercial, Waterloo.


Saturday, Oct. 5


7:30 a.m.      Depart Waterloo for Waverly.


8:00 a.m.      Breakfast at the Castle Room, Wartburg

               College, Waverly. Meet with Wartburg 

               President Robert Vogel.


10:00 a.m.     Visit the Big Marsh Wildlife Management 

               Area, located south of Allison, in

               Butler County.


10:30 a.m.     Travel to Ottilie Farms, Inc. and Ottilie RO

               Seed, located north of Marshalltown

               on Highway 14.


11:30 a.m.     Visit and tour the seed farm operation.


12:45 p.m.     Depart for Marshalltown.


1:00 p.m.      Lunch at the Marshall County Extension 

               Office, Marshalltown.


2:00 p.m.      Travel to the Lee and Cheryl Searle farm,

               on the east edge of Marshalltown.


2:30 p.m.      Visit the farm.


3:45 p.m.      Depart for Ames.


4:30 p.m.      Arrive in Ames.