Daryl Heasley Named New Curator of the Pasto Agricultural Museum

Daryl Heasley of State College, professor emeritus of rural sociology who recently retired after almost 37 years of service to the university's College of Agricultural Sciences, is the new curator for the Pasto Agricultural Museum. He replaces Darwin Braund, a retired professor of dairy science, who has served as the volunteer coordinator for the past decade.

Heasley is the third volunteer curator of the facility, located nine miles southwest of State College on Pa. Route 45 at the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center at Rock Springs. The first curator was Jerome Pasto, associate dean emeritus in the College of Agricultural Sciences, who stepped down as curator after 20 years in 1998.

The Pasto Agricultural Museum's present and past curators
left to right: Darwin Braund, Daryl Heasley, and Jerome Pasto.