21 April 2016 Scholarship legacy for dedicated dairy farmer

A generous act to keep alive the memory of her late husband and support his passions will help a Lincoln student work on his.

Alma Aspin, is pictured, along with her son Dean, presenting Russell Croy the Brian Aspin Memorial Scholarship, a $5000 grant for post graduate students studying agriculture, agricultural science, or science in an agricultural related area.

It is the second year Russell has received the scholarship, but the first time he has able to meet Mrs Aspin.

She says she is happy to be able to present it. Her husband was a dairy farmer with a 38 year association with the Livestock Improvement Company (LIC). She approached LIC when her husband died in 2011 to do something to create a legacy for him, and the company also gives $5000 as part of the scholarship to  a student at Lincoln or Massey University, to support agricultural skills and disciplines.

Russell is in the second year of his Master’s in Agricultural Science degree and is researching dryland grazing at Lincoln’s Ashley Dene farm.

Mrs Aspin says Brian would have been happy she started the scholarship to make a contribution to the area he was involved in for so long and she enjoyed hearing about what the scholarship students were achieving in their studies and ongoing careers.

“He would have been chuffed.”