Robert Nelson

Robert Nelson (L)(’71 political science) and his siblings have published their father’s autobiography, Tracks: From Buggies to Furrows to Wings. The late Merle Nelson, a 1929 electrical engineering grad, spent most of his life farming the same farm on which he grew up near Rockford, Iowa. Rob says, “As a boy, [my father] would run to the window to see a car go by on the road that was two tracks through the prairie. The day before his 62nd birthday he saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. While there may be generations that experience more technological change, I think my dad’s generation saw the most dramatic visual changes.” Tracks is available as a Kindle e-book.