THE RICHARD AND JOYCE THORVALDSON CLARK SCHOLARSHIP

Richard (Dick) was reared on a ranch in Laramie County and graduated from Albin High School in 1958. Joyce lived in Rawlins and Cheyenne and graduated from Cheyenne Central in 1957. Both obtained undergraduate degrees from UW in 1962, she in Education and he in Agricultural Business. Dick obtained an MS in Agricultural Economics from UW and a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from Oregon State University. He was a faculty member at UW in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics from 1965 to1975. He was employed by the Economic Research Service (USDA) from 1975 to 1985 when he was hired as an Agricultural Economist, at the University of Nebraska’s (UNL) West Central Research and Extension Center in North Platte, NE. There he embarked on an interdisciplinary career of research and outreach education centered on crop irrigation and range beef cattle. They returned to Lincoln in 2003 when Dick became interim Department Head in Agricultural Economics at UNL. He retired in 2005 as Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics. They continue to reside in Lincoln.