OHS Class of '89

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Dunn and her husband farm near St. John in central Kansas.</div> <bR> <div> Dunn said she intends to use her time to talk about the importance of rural America and ensuring it survives and thrives.</div> <bR> <div> Dunn, who received a degree in agricultural economics from Kansas State University and who has worked in the Washington offices of both Pat Roberts and Sam Brownback, figures she got picked based on a recommendation from Brownback’s office.</div> <bR> <div> “I think what they were looking for was someone who could speak on agriculture but not in the context of the Farm Bill or crop subsidies,” Dunn said.</div> <bR> <div> And the fact she’s young — 37 — and a woman didn’t hurt.</div> <bR> <div> “That’s how the stars aligned,” Dunn said.</div> <bR> <div> Although she has written the first draft of her speech, she’s not sure what she’ll end up saying.</div> <bR> <div> Her speech is being reviewed by Republican officials and McCain campaign staffers.</div> <bR> <div> “I don’t know how much of it will get changed,” she said. “They say sometimes they don’t change it at all and sometimes they want to change the focus.”</div> <bR> <div> Although she helps her husband farm and is mother to Preston, 5, and Ian, 2 — a third child is due in November — Dunn has been actively involved in rural development. </div> <bR> <div> Dunn is a board member of the Golden Belt Community Foundation, Great Bend, which seeks to boost rural development in four central Kansas counties, including Stafford County, where St. John is located.</div> <bR> <div> Saving rural Kansas depends on four building blocks. Dunn said she’s been involved in one of them — developing rural leadership programs — through Golden Belt.</div> <bR> <div> The foundation has been reviewing some programs in Nebraska for developing the buildings blocks, which also include keeping rural youth, promoting rural entrepreneurs and preventing wealth from being sucked from the region, she said.</div> <bR> <div> Preserving rural America will help ensure the U.S. doesn’t lose food and agricultural production to overseas producers and protects part of the cultural and moral bedrock of America, she said.</div> <bR> <div> Dunn knew her husband, who came from a long-time Stafford County farm family, from Kansas State where he also studied agricultural economics.</div> <bR> <div> “We didn’t go out, I just knew him,” she said. “When we graduated, I had an internship in Washington for Bob Dole and he had an internship in Australia.</div> <bR> <div> “It was one of those things in which we said ‘Have a nice life.’”</div> <bR> <div> After working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s foreign service, Dunn became a staffer helping to draft the 1996 Farm Bill for Pat Roberts in the House Agriculture Committee.</div> <bR> <div> When Sam Brownback became U.S. Senator, she became his director of agriculture affairs.</div> <bR> <div> While she was attending a farm show in Kansas City on behalf of Brownback, she accidentally met Brian Dunn again.</div> <bR> <div> “I took out my business card and gave it to him,” she said.</div> <bR> <div> Later he visited Washington as part of the Kansas Agricultural Rural Leadership program and he called.</div> <bR> <div> “We went to dinner.” she said. “That led to me being in St. John.” </div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Ottawa Herald article contributed by Jim Corcoran</B></I></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>