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students ordering ice cream at the creamery

Purdue Creamery

From the mid-1910s until 1969, Purdue faculty, staff, students, and visitors had the chance to stop by the Purdue University Creamery on campus, where they could purchase fresh ice cream. The creamery was housed in Smith Hall after a gift of $50,000 from William C. Smith, a farmer from Williamsport, Indiana, to fund a building […]

Jill Zeller

Jill (Steiner) Zeller (A’09) knows that running a profitable farming operation is a lot of hard work. Both she and her husband, Casey (A’10), come from farming families and still occasionally lend a helping hand during planting and harvest seasons. Agriculture is a part of her DNA, and she empathizes with the plight of the […]

Luke & Matt Manuel

Wrestling and winemaking might make for strange bedfellows in the same story, especially grappling for position in a single sentence. But the young lives of the Manuel brothers, Luke (LA’11) and Matt (A’12), have been distinguished by matted maneuvers and growing grapes. The former Purdue wrestlers, now part of a family-owned winemaking business in California, […]

Behind the Bug Bowl

How having fun with insects, the most abundant macro-animals on the planet, became synonymous with Purdue. Rain or shine, Spring Fest is as certain as taxes in mid-April at Purdue. But lots of people still call the whole thing Bug Bowl. Tom Turpin, the mad hatter-clad professor who emcees the cricket spitting contest, refers to […]

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