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Deming Headlight - In today's world, it is unusual for a person to spend 40 years in a single career, much less in a single position. New Mexico State University reports that only three employees have worked continuously for the Las Cruces campus for 40 years or more. This month, a fourth individual, Calvin Bailey, will join their ranks. When the ranch manager position came open at NMSU's College Ranch in late 1971, Bailey, who had recently graduated from the university, knew the job was right for him. So did Bobby Rankin, an animal science faculty member and the recently appointed supervisor of the facility. "The position was offered and I took it," Bailey said recently. "My wife and I moved out here in 1971, the day after Christmas." "Calvin was raised on a ranch and got a degree in animal science," said Rankin, who retired in 2000 after a 39-year career that included 14 as department head of Animal and Range Sciences. "You know a lot of things that need to be done on a place, having grown up ranching, that you don't have to learn or ask somebody else about, so it worked out wonderfully in Calvin's case." Rankin was quick to give credit to a second member of the Bailey team. "There was an extra bonus to hiring Calvin Bailey in that job, because his new wife, Debbie, came with him," he said. Part of that had to do with the delicious meals she would fix for the ranch crew. "It was easy to recruit college students and graduate students to come out and help with the branding and the calving and some with fencing simply because of Debbie. So I give her a lot of credit for Calvin's success in managing the ranch wonderfully for this length of time. We couldn't have done better on that selection." The facility, now called the Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland Research Center, has been owned and operated by NMSU since 1927. The university assumed ownership of the 60,000-acre property through an act of Congress mandating that it be maintained it in a way that benefits the people of New Mexico. The property is located north of Las Cruces. According to Bailey, it includes about half of the Dona Ana Mountains, and stretches east-west from the Jornada Experimental Range to the Rio Grande.
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Ranch manager completing 40 years at NMSU's Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland Research Center
From the Deming Headlight - In today's world, it is unusual for a person to spend 40 years in a single career, much less in a single position. New Mexico State University reports that only three employees have worked continuously for the Las Cruces campus for 40 years or more. This month, a fourth individual, Calvin Bailey, will join their ranks. When the ranch manager position came open at NMSU's College Ranch in late 1971, Bailey, who had recently graduated from the university, knew the job was right for him. So did Bobby Rankin, an animal science faculty member and the recently appointed supervisor of the facility. "The position was offered and I took it," Bailey said recently. "My wife and I moved out here in 1971, the day after Christmas." "Calvin was raised on a ranch and got a degree in animal science," said Rankin, who retired in 2000 after a 39-year career that included 14 as department head of Animal and Range Sciences. "You know a lot of things that need to be done on a place, having grown up ranching, that you don't have to learn or ask somebody else about, so it worked out wonderfully in Calvin's case." Rankin was quick to give credit to a second member of the Bailey team. "There was an extra bonus to hiring Calvin Bailey in that job, because his new wife, Debbie, came with him," he said. Part of that had to do with the delicious meals she would fix for the ranch crew. "It was easy to recruit college students and graduate students to come out and help with the branding and the calving and some with fencing simply because of Debbie. So I give her a lot of credit for Calvin's success in managing the ranch wonderfully for this length of time. We couldn't have done better on that selection." The facility, now called the Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland Research Center, has been owned and operated by NMSU since 1927. The university assumed ownership of the 60,000-acre property through an act of Congress mandating that it be maintained it in a way that benefits the people of New Mexico. The property is located north of Las Cruces. According to Bailey, it includes about half of the Dona Ana Mountains, and stretches east-west from the Jornada Experimental Range to the Rio Grande. Read more
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