Thomas A. Fretz, Associate Dean of the College of Agriculture and Associate Director of the Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, is shown in this portrait taken in 1989.
Earl O. Heady, founding director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, is shown in this portrait taken in 1963. He was an alumnus of Iowa State University, receiving his Ph.D in 1945.
Earl O. Heady is wearing the academic robes and holding a medal in a box that were part of his honorary doctoral degree from Warsaw Agricultural University in Poland, 1979