Writer: Kathleen Davis Phillips, (979) 845-2872, ka-phillips@tamu.edu
Contact: Dr. Ed Runge, (979) 845-3041
VERNON — A $20,000 scholarship has been established at Texas A&M University to honor a world-renowned soil physicist and his wife.
The Dr. Cleveland and Frances Gerard Scholarship Fund will be awarded annually to one or more deserving students in the Texas A&M University soil and crop sciences department.
Gerard, who died in October 1996, began his career with the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in 1957 at Weslaco. He remained at that station until 1975 when he transferred to the Texas A&M Research and Extension Center at Vernon. He retired in 1990.
He received numerous awards during his career and was bestowed the title of Professor Emeritus in 1990 by the Texas A&M board of regents.
Gerard was a native of Louisiana. He earned a bachelor’s degree in agronomy in 1948 from the University of Southwestern Louisiana, a master’s in soil chemistry from Kansas State University in 1950 and a doctorate degree in soil physics from Texas A&M University in 1955.
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