A.F. Vass was a member of the UW agriculture faculty from 1917 until his retirement in 1957. He served as head of the Department of Agricultural Economics for nearly 40 years. His contributions to Wyoming agriculture are numerous and include research, teaching, and...

Raised in Idaho, Verna J. Hitchcock received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Idaho and a master’s degree from the University of Wyoming. She is well known by several generations of Wyoming families for her home economics extension work. Verna served as...

Vernon Gale was a native of Cheyenne, a star high school athlete, and a good looking dude to boot. He came to the University of Wyoming and starred on the Gator Bowl team as a wingback, and then went on to marry one of the prettiest gals on campus, Lindy Lou Storey,...

Army Reserve Ambassador Barry D. Gasdek is a retired Infantry (Airborne, Ranger, Pathfinder) Soldier, US Army, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel, having served in a variety of senior leadership and staff positions. Mr. Gasdek earned the Distinguished Service Cross,...

William “Bill” Riedl was one of Wyoming’s leading agronomists for many years. He specialized in alfalfa and potatoes and developed several varieties of each. Bill received his bachelor’s degree in 1929 and his master’s degree in 1936, both from the University of...

Lauer, a longtime Laramie attorney, received his law degree from UW in 1980, after earning a bachelor’s degree in animal science in 1976. He served as president of the Wyoming State Bar in 2005-06. A life member of the UW Alumni Association, Lauer also served on the...

Long-time UW supporters Joe and Arlene Watt established this scholarship for deserving College of Agriculture and Natural Resources students. Joe Watt and Arlene Bundy were both born to Wyoming homesteading families in the Moorcroft and Gillette areas. Following...

The Watt Brothers Scholarship was established in 1962 with one of the most unusual gifts ever presented to the university: 238 head of yearling Hereford cattle given by Joe and Robert Watt. The resulting profit from the sale of these cattle established this...

The Donor, Wayne Montgomery, graduated from North Dakota State University (NDSU) in 1981 with a Master’s degree in counseling. In 1984 he started work at the mental health center in Riverton, Wyoming. He worked there for 18 years before being hired at Central Wyoming...

The Western AgCredit Scholarship is awarded to students focusing on Production Agriculture or Agricultural Business. Western AgCredit is part of the nationwide Farm Credit System and is the leader within the agricultural finance industry throughout the entire state...

Weston Lane Johnson was born January 15, 1987 in Lakin, KS and lost a valiant battle with cancer on January 17, 2014 in Wray, CO, at the age of 27. Weston was a 2005 Graduate of Wray High School. He participated in football, basketball, baseball and track. Not only...

W. Gordon Kearl retired with the title of professor emeritus in 1990, after serving the University of Wyoming for 30 years. As a professor of agricultural economics, Kearl specialized in the areas of range economics and ranch management. His studies of range...

The Wheel of Brands Scholarship Fund was established to provide undergraduate scholarships for the University of Wyoming animal science students. Contributors to the fund have been recognized by having their brands placed on leather hides between the spokes of a...

Both Bill and Charlotte Laycock are descendents of early homesteaders and pioneers in Wyoming. Bill spent his childhood on ranches near Cheyenne and in the Sybille area. Charlotte’s family ranched east of Laramie until moving to Ft. Collins, Colorado, in the 1940’s....

Longtime Cooperative Extension Service agent William “Bill” Duncan worked his way through college and graduated with a degree in animal husbandry in 1930. While at the University of Wyoming, Bill took part in the livestock judging team and after graduation served as...

William T. Schwartz was born and raised in Wyoming but went to school at the University of Nebraska, where he studied petroleum geology and received his bachelor’s degree in 1943. Right out of college, he served in World War II with the Fifteenth Air Force. By the...

Chuck Winninger is a proud 1973 graduate of the University of Wyoming (UW) and a Sigma Chi alum. As a ranch kid from Meeteetse, Wyoming, population 300, UW and Sigma Chi afforded Chuck the opportunity to build diverse friendships and enjoy experiences that are his...

Winston S. Howard attended the University of Wyoming and graduated from its law school with a Juris Doctor, cum laude, in 1930. Howard was a senior partner in Denver’s oldest law firm, Sherman and Howard, where he practiced law until his retirement in 1973. Between...

Renee M. Schoenborn was born in La Mirada, California, but she graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1985 with her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. During her time here, Ms. Schoenborn was the president of the Tau Beta Pi Wyoming Alpha Chapter....

Woodrow and Glyda May were married in 1942 and started a farming operation by feeding sheep. From this nucleus, started the expansion and integration of the May ranch, farm, and feedlot. They also raised corn for silage, alfalfa and native ha. In addition they helped...

Established by a gift from the Wyoming Pork Producers, this scholarship supports students who have a background in the pork production or the pork industry or those with career goals involving the pork industry.

The 50,000 acre Y Cross Ranch is located in Horse Creek, Wyoming. This working ranch was donated in 1997 to the University of Wyoming and Colorado State University by the Courtenay C. Davis Foundation. It was the foundation’s wish that the ranch gift be dedicated to...

Zbigniew Rozbicki was fortunate enough to attend the University of Wyoming thanks to the diligence of his beloved mother who survived the Nazi Work Camps after losing her husband fighting with the Polish Resistance. Immigrating in 1951 on one of the “Liberty Ships”,...