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June 2018 WINES&VINES 67 WINE EAST WINE INDUSTRY NEWS D obson, N.C.—As the num- ber of wineries and the acreage of grapes across the country have increased, so too has the demand for trained profes- sionals to teach vineyard and win- ery workers at all skill levels. Surry Community College, Dobson, N.C. The Shelton-Badgett North Caro- lina Center for Viticulture and Enology at SCC houses a state-of- the-art commercially bonded winery and also has a five-acre vineyard. SCC hired Sarah Bow- man as its new viticulture instruc- tor this winter. Bowman first became inter- ested in viticulture when she took a university wine appreciation course at Southern Illinois Univer- sity. She earned a bachelor's in journalism in 2010, a master's in horticulture in 2013, and will be completing her doctorate there while working full time at SCC. Her thesis will be an analysis of different cover crop systems in vineyards. At SCC she will be teaching and also managing the five-acre Surry vineyard. The University of Minnesota Extension, Minneapolis, Minn. Annie Klodd became the new as- sistant extension professor for fruit and vegetable production at the University of Minnesota Exten- sion in January. Klodd grew up in Indianola, Iowa, where her family owns Annelise Winery that has 10 acres of vineyards and produces 2,000 cases of wine, according to Wines Vines Analytics. Klodd received her master's in plant biology from The Pennsylva- nia State University in 2015. After graduation, she continued to work for Penn State Extension as a weed management specialist and also led a national outreach program on integrated weed management. Highland Community College, Wamego, Kan. Candice Fitch-Dietz recently joined the enology-viticulture pro- gram at the Highland Community College (HCC) in Wamego. As viticulture instructor and vineyard manager, Fitch-Dietz will be re- sponsible for teaching three to nine credits per semester, will de- velop and lead workshops and maintain the four HCC vineyards, including the research vineyard that was planted in 2013 with 44 different varieties. Her goals are to get the new vineyards up and going, and to grow the viticulture program at Highland. Fitch-Dietz most recently was a horticulture extension in the three-county Golden Prairie extension district in western Kansas. —Linda Jones McKee Bolstering Wine and Vineyard Education Annie Klodd Sarah Bowman Candice Fitch-Dietz