If You Build It, They Will Come

  AFL Draft Iowa Connections I'll be filling these in as I post in the blog.  I'll link to the players as they each get a post.   1966 Stas Maliszewski, 13th, Davenport Lyle Loebach, 17th, Simpson Frank Fuller, 19th, Drake Randy Schultz, 20th, UNI Tim Van Galder, RS 2nd, ISU Joe Beauchamp, RS 6th, ISU Karl Noonan, UDFA, Iowa Mike Eischeid, UDFA, Upper Iowa 1965 Tom Vaughn, 11th, ISU John Berrington, 12th, ISU Mike Cox, 12th, ISU Rossevelt Ellerbe, RS 8th, ISU 1964 Mike Reilly, 5th, Iowa Pat Batten, 7th, Drake Wally Hilgenberg, 8th, Iowa Cloyd Webb, 11th, Iowa Paul Krause, 12th, Iowa Dick Herzing, 21st, Drake 1963 Keith Kinderman, 3rd, Iowa Chuck Walton, 13th, ISU 1962 Jerry Hillebrand, 2nd, Davenport Sherwyn Thorson, 3rd, Iowa Al Hinton, 6th, Iowa Wilburn Hollis, 13th, Iowa Larry Ferguson, 17th, Iowa Bill Van Buren, 23rd, Iowa Bernie Wyatt, 32nd, Iowa 1961 Tom Watkins, 8th, ISU Charles Lee, 10th, Iowa Jim Morgan, 21st, ISU Wayne Fontes, 22nd, Iowa Don Webb, 24th, ISU...

        Profile George Washington Carver was a man born into slavery who rose to become one of the greatest minds of his time.  George was born in Missouri and was only a week old before he was stolen away and sold in Kentucky.  He lived many different place, some of choice, but often left out of necessity.  He did however have enough support that he was able to attend college, starting at Simpson College* (after being denied in Kansas because of his color).  At Simpson his artist skills stood out, but also an emerging interest in botany.  His professors encouraged him to learn botany at Iowa State University**, where he earned his masters.   He worked at the Tuskegee Institute and here is where he made his advancements in the science of soil depletion, something good Iowa farmers know all about.  Soil was depleted from years of cotton planting, and he encouraged planting of peanuts, soybeans, and sweet potatoes as replacements...