"I don't remember the year. But I remember very, very well the day, the moment that we switched the light on. And it went on. Just a bare bulb in the ceiling, but that was a moment that I still remember.
Question: "Why? Explain what you were feeling."
"It was, it just changed the atmosphere of the house. We had light that we could turn on. And, of course then a lot of other things happened after that. We got an electric refrigerator. Up to that time we didn't have such a thing."
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Stanley Jensen grew up on an isolated farmstead in South Dakota. He says the farm was on a dirt road two miles from a gravel road and 15 miles from the nearest paved road. He graduated from high school and immediately signed up to serve in World War II. After the war, Stan took advantage of the GI Bill and earned a PhD degree from Iowa State in plant breeding. He completed a 40-year career with Pioneer Hi-Bred Seeds in York, Nebraska, and has several patents for new varieties of hybrid corn. He and his wife Margaret have three children.
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