Pioneer honors two legends with donation to Tuskegee. (FYI News & Notes).Pioneer Hi-Bred Pioneer Hi-Bred is one of the largest U.S. companies which produces hybrid seeds for agriculture. History In 1926, farm journal editor and future U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace, along with a group of Des Moines, Iowa businessmen, started the "Hi-Bred Corn Company". International, Johnston, Iowa Johnston is a city in Polk County, Iowa, United States. The population was 8,649 at the 2000 census; a special census taken in 2005 counted 13,596 residents.[1] It is part of the Des Moines metropolitan area. , has donated $250,000 to Tuskegee University Tuskegee University, at Tuskegee, Ala.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1881 by Booker T. Washington as Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. It became Tuskegee Institute in 1937 and adopted its present name in 1985. , Tuskegee, Ala., to create the Carver carver /car·ver/ (kahr´ver) a tool for producing anatomic form in artificial teeth and dental restorations. carver (carving instrument), n Wallace professorship in plant science. The professorship is created in honor of George Washington Carver, who taught at Tuskegee for 47 years and acted as a mentor to Henry A. Wallace, founder of Pioneer Hi-Bred International. "This is a fitting tribute, not only to Mr. Wallace, but also to Dr. Carver, one of America's greatest scientists and a Tuskegee legend," says Dr. Benjamin F. Payton, president of Tuskegee University. "These men shared the great vision of finding new and more efficient ways to feed the world." |
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