2012 APLU Convocation: 150 Years of the Morrill Act: Advancing the Legacy

• Sen. Justin Smith Morrill, (R-VT) (Portrayed by David McWilliams, Sesquicentennial Events Coordinator, Friends of the Justin Smith Morrill Homestead)
• Peter McPherson, APLU President
• Sterling Speirn, President/Chief Executive Officer, W.K.Kellogg Foundation

• Diana Natalicio, President, University of Texas El Paso

• 1890 Institution: Felena Renee’ King-Cooley
• 1862 Institution: William Justin Morrill (Great-Great-Grandnephew of Sen. Justin Smith Morrill)

• J.B. Milliken, President, University of Nebraska System

• Bill Gates, Co-Chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Former Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft

• Carolyn Mahoney, President, Lincoln University

• Charles Vest, President of the National Academy of Engineering and President Emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Sylvester James Gates, John S. Toll Professor & Director of Center for String & Particle Theory, University of Maryland and member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)

• David Yarlott, President, Little Big Horn College

• Darwin Cajero  

• Meghann Morrill  (Great-Great-Grandniece of Sen. Justin Smith Morrill)

1. commemorate the fact that Dr. Norman Borlaug, Father of the Green Revolution, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and founder of the World Food Prize, was a graduate of a land-grant university; and 
2. recognize the essential role that the land-grant institutions have played over the past 150 years in: fostering the most prolific agricultural production ever recorded in all human history; inspiring multiple generations in attaining the highest levels of scientific research; and providing a model for emulation around the world as we endeavor to fulfill Dr. Borlaug’s goal of eliminating the scourge of hunger from the face of the earth.

Presenting

• Ambassador Kenneth M. Quinn, President, The World Food Prize Foundation

Accepting on Behalf of APLU

• Scott Angle, Dean and Director of the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences of the University of Georgia and Chair of the Policy Board of Directors of the Board on Agriculture Assembly of APLU

• Bernard Machen, President, University of Florida, and Chair of the APLU Presidential Steering Committee on the Morrill Act Sesquicentennial Anniversary

• Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education
• John "Jack" Horner, Regents Professor of Paleontology, Montana State University, Curator of Paleontology, Museum of the Rockies
• Nancy Zimpher, Chancellor, State University of New York System

• Phyllis Wise, Chancellor, University of Illinois

• Tom Vilsack, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
• M.R.C. Greenwood, President, University of Hawaii
• Gebisa Ejeta, Professor of Agronomy, Purdue University, and 2009 World Food Prize Winner

• Wallace Loh, President, University of Maryland, College Park

• Daniel Fogel, Professor of English and former President, University of Vermont
• Claudia Mitchell Kernan, UCLA Professor of Anthropology

• Gene Block, Chancellor, University of California Los Angeles, and Chair, APLU Board of Directors