Around Des Moines

Long before I knew it was made in Iowa, I had a steel snow shovel made by Yeoman & Co. in Monticello, Iowa. I am holding the 04017 Steel Shovel. You’d better be looking for some of those bright yellow (and other colors), made-in-Iowa products in your local hardware store.

Besides being sturdy and durable, one of the best things about my Yo-Ho snow shovel is that I know John Yeoman, the great grandson of the founder; he is one of my chemistry students at Grinnell College, and John’s dad is CEO of Yeoman & Co. Isn’t it fun to live in Iowa? John and I (You’d better give John the credit here.) have done some research together, and he presented it at the Spring 2007 National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Chicago. You will find John in three pictures from that meeting including the one at Vong’s Thai Kitchen where John is on the left. He also presented a different project at the 7th Annual Howard Hughes Medical Institute Symposium on Saturday February 23rd at Grinnell College.

One of the nice qualities we have in Iowa and the Midwest in general is that we value knowing each other and being connected.

Guest Writer: James G. Lindberg (Jim) is the Purple Wren’s sweetie and is a visiting chemistry professor at Grinnell College and retired from Drake University.

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