Local man honored by WSU alumni program

A former Adams County resident is one of the latest inductees into the Washington State University College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences Hall of Honored Alumni. The late Otto Amen graduated from then Washington State College in 1937 with his degree in pharmacy. After graduation, he worked as a pharmacist until assuming management of his parents’ farm halfway between Ritzville and Odessa where he and his wife, Doris, farmed for most of their lives.

Amen became active in a variety of farm-related organizations, including the Washington Association of Wheat Growers and the...