WILLIAM AND CHARLOTTE LAYCOCK SCHOLARSHIP

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. After graduating from the University of Wyoming in 1952 with his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Range Management, Bill joined the army. While home on leave he met Charlotte, an elementary school teacher, while she was attending UW summer school. Upon receiving his doctorate from Rutgers University, the Laycock’s returned to the west where Bill conducted range management research for the USDA before returning to Laramie to become Head of the Department of Range Management. He retired in 1996. Dr. Alan Beetle, Bill’s former academic advisor, started the William and Charlotte Laycock scholarship in their honor.