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Show 88 I would l i k e to think that by the time you graduate in one of the natural resource f i e l d s , employment and promotion will be geared primarily to a person's a b i l i t y rather than to one's sex. I assure you that as far as I am concerned, if you make application for admission to Utah State University, you w i l l get the same consideration as a male student. Jan learned that the f i e l d of Natural Resources is divided into Forestry, Wildlife Management, and Range Management. "I thought Range Management sounded the most i n t e r e s t i n g , " she says. "It incorporated a l i t t l e bit of everything - botany, ecology, livestock management." During the winter of her high school senior year, Jan vias invited to take a scholarship examination at Utah State University. She flew to Logan, Utah, vihere the u n i v e r s i t y campus s i t s high on a h i ll overlooking the tovm below. Hundreds of other scholarship aspirants had come from a l l over the country that weekend, one of them a g i rl from Washington State viho would viin the $5,000 aviard and become J a n 's roommate the next year. On Saturday afternoon the high school students were invited to v i s i t the departments vihich i n t e r e s t e d them. "Quite a few of us walked to the Natural Resources b u i l d i n g , " Jan remembers, "but vihen i t came time to s p l i t off into the individual departments, I was the only person viho went to Range Science. All the others went to Forestry or Wildlife. I found myself a l l alone with the head of the Range department, Don Dwyer." Shy and soft-spoken, Jan couldn't think of a single question to ask. "There I vias, t h i s dumb l i t t l e high school g i r l thinking about going into |