Duane Acker: 2 books
From Troublesome Creek
A Farm Boy’S Encounters on the Way to a University Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Near the banks of Troublesome Creek in Cass County, Iowa, a boy happily grows up on his familys 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!...
Back to Troublesome Creek
Encounters in Developing Countries, Washington’S Bureaucracy, and on the Farm
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
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...