Ms. Barbara Fike

Dr. William T. Fike, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Crop Science, created this award to honor two remarkable women who blessed Dr. Fike’s family’s and students’ lives. These women were Rosemary Fike, his wife and a caring and loving mother, and Heath Chapin, an anthropologist by training, a mother, a Connecticut conservationist, a Bladen County, North Carolina, farmer and a friend whose goal in life was to help all who she came to know and love.