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JEWEL OF THE ACES CAMPUS **> DONORS HEAD LIBRARIAN OFFICE, SECOND LEVEL X

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Sue Wright Freytag and James E. Freytag and Harold W. and Ruth Beale Wright This room was made possible through a generous gift from Sue Wright Freytag and James E. Freytag and from Harold W. Wright (1932) and Ruth Beale Wright (1953). Harold, a native of Marshall, Illinois, taught vocational agriculture for six years after graduation and then spent 40 years with DeKalb Agricultural Research. He was nationally and internationally recognized for his ideas and methodology relating to hybrid seed corn production. Harold received the Ag Alumni Award of Merit in 1983. His wife Ruth, originally from El Paso, Illinois, majored in home economics education. Sue Wright Freytag, of Bloomington, Illinois, one of Harold and Ruth's three daughters, graduated in 1965 from the University of Illinois in home economics. She is a retired elementary school teacher. Her husband James is a retired executive from State Farm Insurance Companies.

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AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS ALCOVE, SECOND LEVEL

TedH. Funk Ted H. Funk has made a gift for the agriculture statistics alcove in memory of his father, Theodore Funk. Theodore Funk graduated from the College of Agriculture in 1927. He was a director of Funk Bros. Seed Co., managing trustee of Funk Farms from 1927 to 1975, president of Funk's Grove Grain Co., vice president of the National Livestock Producers, and president of the Chicago Producers Commission Association. In 1977, Theodore Funk was named Agriculturist of the Year by the McLean County Livestock Association. During-the Eisenhower administration, he served on the advisory board of the Commodity Credit Corporation.