- George Trimberger, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Trimberger, a junior in the college of agriculture of the university of Wisconsin, was one of the five students chosen to represent Wisconsin at the Interna- tional Inter-Collegiate live stock judging contest held at Chicago last week. Mr. Trimberger graduated from the local high school three years ago from the agricultural course.
Appleton Post-Crescent | Appleton, Wisconsin | Tuesday, December 08, 1931 | Page 14
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- 2 CHILTON BOYS STUDY AGRICULTURE AT U.W. Chilton - Denton A. Aebischer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Aebischer, will graduate from the short course in agriculture at the University of Wisconsin March 12.
George Trimberger, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Trimberger, is another local boy who is attending the College of Agriculture at the university's wrestling team this year. Both young men are graduates of Chilton high school.
Appleton Post-Crescent | Appleton, Wisconsin | Saturday, March 12, 1932 | Page 14
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- GEORGE W. TRIMBERGER
CHARLOTTE, NC - George W. Trimberger, Professor Emeritus of Animal Science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, passed away on October 9th at age 94 in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he had lived for the past seven years. He was at Cornell from 1944 until his retirement in 1975. Dr. Trimberger was an expert in dairy cattle, a pioneer in artificial insemination, and the creator of a type classification of Holstein cattle, a system that was adopted by other breeds and in 35 countries worldwide. He had 188 publications including four editions of Dairy Cattle Judging Techniques. Professor Trimberger coached 24 Cornell Dairy Cattle Judging teams who competed in nation-wide contests against other universities. Under his direction, the Cornell teams accumulated one of the best records in the U.S. Recognized as a talented dairy cattle judge, Trimberger officiated at many shows including 10 national or international competitions in the US, and six in foreign countries. Dr. Trimberger's expertise led to many international assignments in Eastern Europe, Cuba and Israel. His most important foreign work was in the Philippines and Nigeria. From 1955-57, he served as director of the Cornell Project to rehabilitate the College of Agriculture in the Philippines, an assignment he repeated in 1966-67 when he was in charge of developing a graduate education program. In 1975 (after retirement from Cornell) Dr. Trimberger served two and one half years as chief of party for the Veterinary Medicine Project and chair of the Animal Science Department at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria on a Kansas State University Project. In 2001, 26 years after retirement, Professor Trimberger received an Outstanding Faculty Award from the Alumni Association of the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. In addition, he received awards from the National Dairy Hall of Fame, the National Dairy Shrine, the National Brown Swiss Association, the New York State Purebred Dairy Cattle Association and New York State Holstein Association. George Trimberger graduated magna cum laude from the University of Wisconsin in 1933, and then entered the University of Nebraska where he received an M.S. in Dairy Science in 1942 and a Ph.D. in Zoology in 1948.His wife of sixty years, Eleanor Brown Trimberger, passed away in 1998. He is survived by three children, Dr. Ellen Kay Trimberger of Berkeley, California, George M. (Mickey) Trimberger and his wife, Diane of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Pamela Trimberger Castro and her husband, Andrew of Westtown, New York; and by six grandchildren. In addition, George is survived by four of his six siblings, Mike Trimberger of Appleton, Wisconsin, Sister Christine and Sister Ann Marie Trimberger of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Mary Kopeck of Las Vegas, Nevada. The funeral for George Trimberger will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, October 18, at St. Catherine of Sienna Catholic Church. A viewing will be held at Bangs Funeral Home on Sunday, October 17 from 4-6 p.m. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions be made to the George W. Trimberger Scholarship Fund, Cornell University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Office of Alumni Affairs and Development, 272 Roberts Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853.
Published in Ithaca Journal on October 13, 2004
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