MANHATTAN — A Paola couple have created a fund for a food-protection professorship at Kansas State University. Eunice and Don Wilbur have created the Professor Donald A. Wilbur Endowed Professorship in Stored-Food Protection in honor of his father. While he was a professor at K-State, the elder Wilbur was disturbed by the number of farmers and grain handlers who were killed every year by the improper use of grain-storage pesticides. During the 1950s, he worked out a program of safe grain handling that was safer and used less chemicals while still controlling insects in stored grain. Wilbur’s program is now the national standard for storing grain. He also created classes for insect control for flour millers. So many foreign milling students came to K-State Wilbur and his wife Gertrude started English-as-second-language classes for the millers and their wives.
Tuesday, Oct. 5, 8 a.m.
