Previous Grand Marshals
2006:	Gerald "Shag" Grossnickle (’42) & Sarah Grossnickle
2005:	Judge James & Shari (Powell) ('58) Reinhard
2004:	Richard "Dick" Erzen ('49) Edith "Edie" (Ford) Erzen ('49)
2003:	Delbert Maddox ('37)
2002:	Harry Gallatin ('49) Bev (Hull) Gallatin ('49)
2001:	Bob Holden Lori Holden
2000:	Dwain Horn ('50)
1999:	Charles McClain
1998:	Dick Franklin ('56)
1997:	Larry Lunsford ('81, '83)
1996:	Steve Gaw ('78) Fannie (Bowdish) Gaw ('84)
1995:	B.D. "Bud" Hunter
1994:	Mary Alice Bunney ('38)
1993:	Frederick "Fritz" Lauer ('50)
1992:	Ruth Warner Towne ('39)
1991:	Larry Moore ('67)
1990:	Marshal E. L. McNeely ('40)
1989:	Martha Decker Blair (’40)

2007 Homecoming Parade Grand Marshals

Dean ('41) & Amy (Ayres) ('43) Rosebery

Dean Rosebery ('41) and Amy (Ayres) ('43) Rosebery are serving as Grand Marshals for Truman State University’s Homecoming 2007 parade.

Dean received his B.S.E. in biology from Northeast Missouri State Teachers College (now Truman State University) in 1941 and then attended graduate school at Virginia Tech for one year. From 1942 to 1945 during World War II, Dean was a Naval lieutenant on a Destroyer Escort and spent most of the time in the North Atlantic. After returning to Virginia Tech, he received his Ph.D. in aquatic zoology. During 1950-53 he was the assistant chief of the Division of Fish for the Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries. His position with Truman State University began in 1953, and in 1985, he retired as professor emeritus of biology and head emeritus of the Division of Science. Aside from teaching the general education course “Man and the Scientific World” and serving as head of the Division of Science, he taught additional courses in biology. During many summers, he was the director of Institutes for the Teachers of Science with funding of about $900,000 from the National Science Foundation. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and served as president of the National Association of Academies of Science.

Amy graduated from Truman as valedictorian of her class in 1943 with a B.A. and B.S.E. in English, and she received her M.A. degree from Columbia University in New York in 1949. She taught speech at the Kirksville Junior High School in 1945, and from 1946-48, she taught English at the Blacksburg Virginia High School. During her undergraduate days at Truman, she was active in Alpha Sigma Alpha, Cardinal Key, Alpha Phi Sigma, Pi Kappa Delta and a member of the Debate Team.

Dean and Amy are both active in University events, such as alumni activities, Lyceum programs, and the John R. Kirk Society. Dean also served as committee chairman to raise funds for the Kohlenberg Lyceum program and Magruder Hall, the University’s science facility.

Their immediate family consists of son J. Frank Rosebery (’74) and his wife Wanda (Evans) (’74), and their children, Kristin (’02) and James Jr. (’05) with wife, Virginia; and their daughter Margaret McKinney (’76) and husband Robert (’75) and two children, Trey and Veronica. Dean and Amy celebrated their 64^th wedding anniversary this year.