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  • Back to Troublesome Creek
    Duane Acker
    A former university president tells about his later encounters in the federal bureaucracy, including an agency with more people than work to be done and how 'special projects' get included in appropriation bills.He also relates global encounters, including a four-acre Philippine farm that financed two children through college, Guatemalans being paid with food aid for digging th...
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  • From Troublesome Creek
    Duane Acker
    Near the banks of Troublesome Creek in Cass County, Iowa, a boy happily grows up on his family’s farm in the 1930s and 1940s. He helps his father milk cows and harvest hay, reads newspapers, and listens to radio serials. But it is when he is seventeen and hears his mother excitedly shout, 'You won!' that everything suddenly changes for Duane Acker.In his engaging memoir, Acker ...
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  • Two at a Time
    Duane C. Acker / Duane CAcker
    When Duane Acker assumed the presidency of Kansas State University on July 1, 1975, he inherited both the management team of his 25-year predecessor and their operating traditions. Though universities were past the student unrest days of the Viet Nam era, the average tenure of university presidents was only three and a half years. Acker told his friends his goal was to 'survive...
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    17,12 €