Daily Staff Writer

• Bernice Kunerth Watt served the city and Iowa State like few others have in the field of nutrition.

Watt worked for the USDA from 1941 to 1974. During her stay with the USDA, she increased nutrient information from two tables containing data on 13 nutrients in 275 foods to 20 tables containing 50 nutrients and 3,000 foods.

Watt received the Distinguished Achievement Citation award from ISU in 1969.

• Earl Orel Heady served as a professor of economics, specifically agricultural economics, from 1940 to 1983. Heady was a pioneer in the development of large-scale agricultural planning models.

As a faculty member at ISU, Heady was the first director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development. Heady was named the first Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Agriculture.

• Lauren Soth received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from ISU. As an agricultural economist, he was in charge of economic information at ISU from 1934-1947 and served as an editor at The Des Moines Register and The Tribune.

Soth received a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1956 for encouraging agricultural exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. He was a very active author in the field of agricultural economics

—Information compiled from the Parks Library archives by Dan A. Farmer.