Fiftieth anniversary for Fornstroms

Jim and Betty Fornstrom are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary.

Jim Fornstrom and Betty Mueller met on a blind date while in college at the University of Wyoming. They married Aug. 4, 1963, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cheyenne.

He earned his Bachelor of Science degree at UW and his PhD at The Ohio State University both in Agricultural Engineering. She earned her Bachelor of Science and MS in Accounting at UW and was a Certified Public Accountant in Wyoming.

He was a professor in Civil Engineering at UW where he taught and did research on sugar beets, minimum tillage and erosion contr...