Dorothy Parker:
CLASS OF 1951
Hugo High SchoolClass of 1951
Hugo, CO
Dorothy's Story
For a country girl my horizon has been pretty broad. I have spent many hours, days and years working for and promoting agriculture. My late husband, Ike and I started farming on our own in 1954. We moved to the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project in Washington State in 1965. We took our land out of sagebrush and cheat grass and developed it in to an irrigated farm. I joined a agriculture womens organization , Women Involved in Farm Economics in 1977 and became their national president in 1988-89. . Following that experience I went to work as the Execuitive Secretary for the Columbia Basin Development League. The League is a non-profit organization that suppo...Expand for more
rts and works on issues that are important to the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project. We are now helping the Bureau of Reclmation with planning a 75th Anniversary Celebration of Grand Coulee Dam. Although Ike died in 2002 I am still on the farm and involved in the farm operation to a limited degree. I never imagined a country girl from Karval would have the oppourtunity to do the things I have had the priveledge to do. It has been exciting and rewarding to be a part of the agriculture industry all these years. It is a vital industry to everyone as it is the food supply and a vital part of our National Security. Remember that the next time you set down to eat.
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