Mrs. Dorothy S. Beasley

This scholarship endowment was established by Mrs. Dorothy Beasley in loving memory of Extension Professor Eustace O. Beasley. The endowment is used to provide support for undergraduate students in Biological and Agricultural Engineering. Professor Beasley was a native of Johnston County, NC. He became a research instructor in the Agricultural Engineering Department at NC State while pursuing his master’s degree. After a brief teaching position at Wake Technical Institute, he returned to NC State where he served for 21 years as Extension Professor, retiring in 1988. He provided leadership in educational programs related to farm machinery, crop mechanization, and 4-H. He led the training of extension agents in engineering principles and consideration for their use in reducing labor demands and improving crop production and quality. He also invented and patented a minimum-till planter. A member of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, he was listed in the 1967 edition of American Men in Science, the 1970 edition of Personalities of the South and Volume 13 of Who’s Who in the South and Southwest