LEE PAINTER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

Lee Painter, a Colorado native, earned his bachelor’s degree in soil science at Colorado State University. After graduation, he and his wife Betty moved to New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he earned his doctorate. Lee joined the University of Wyoming in 1955 to teach and conduct research in the area of soil science. Over the next 34 years, he was promoted to head of the plant sciences department and helped establish the range management department when it separated from the plant sciences department. Lee retired from the University of Wyoming in 1989, and he and Betty moved to Fort Collins, Colorado, where he passed away later that year.