ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON LOWELL E. GIAUQUE
Lowell E. Giauque, who succeeds Leonard H. Henderson as manager of the Bayard factory, has an excellent background on the Nebraska. beet sugar industry.
As fieldman he spent seven years of development work in the Holdrege area during which beet acreage more than doubled, and also did outstanding work for two years as assistant manager of the Scottsbluff-Gering districts. This led to his promotion to the general office in Denver.
Mr. Giauque was born at Brush, Colorado, in 1921 and was reared on the So.acre fann of his father, the late Charles E. Giauque, His mother now lives in Brush, It was a family of six boys and two girls all of whom helped with the farm operation.
He entered Colorado A
&
M (Colorado State University) in 1939 where he spent three years prior to military service and was graduated in1946,
B.S. degree in general agriculture,He went into the anny as a private in
1942
and came out as a captain in1946
after service with the field artillery in North Africa, Italy, France and Germany, With the exception of the African period, his overseas service was in combat action.Mr. Giauque entered Great Western service in
1946
as fieldman at Sterling, Colo. He was fieldman at Fort Morgan,1947-49,
and went to Holdrege in1950.
His territory covered about
100
miles between Minden and McCook,He became assistant manager of the Scottsbluff-Gering factories in
l.957
and was promoted to assistant to the southern district manager, Denver, in 1959. Mr, Giauque was married to Miss Ada Mae Sorensen of Brush in
1942.
They have two children, Linda Mae, 12, and Dennis, lO.He is a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, Alpha Tau Omega, honorary agricultural fraternity, and the Presbyterian church.
