DOSTER, D. Howard, age 86, of Waynesville, OH, formerly of W. Lafayette, IN, died February 13, 2020 at his home. Howard lived life to the fullest – What fun!
Howard was passionate about helping Land Grant Universities pursue their original mission to provide public domain research for all and encouraged farmers to contribute financially to help. He was actively working to start a new 4-H Farm Management project to teach 4-H kids and their parents better farm practices. Howard passionately opposed multi-national companies picking site-specific recipes for farmers because of the severe consequences for farmers’ independence and for our environment. Helping family farmers was his passion, specifically helping family-owned farmers to maximize yield and profit.
He earned three degrees from The Ohio State University in Agriculture Economics. While at OSU, he played baritone in the marching band and became a proud member of the TBDBITL alumni band. He attended every OSU band alumni game for over 50 years. After 35 years teaching and Extension farm management work, he retired as Professor Emeritus from Purdue University in 2001. Professionally, he helped start and led the Purdue Top Farmer Workshop where he taught thousands of farmers best practices and that “past costs don’t count.” He developed the Surprise Moment Management farming accounting system to help farmers make timely, effective farm management decisions.
Howard glorified God with his life. He started and ended his life as a member of Jonah’s Run Baptist Church, Harveysburg, Ohio, and was a member of The Federated Church in West Lafayette, Indiana. He was a member of the Waynesville (Harveysburg) Masonic Lodge #163. He was active in genealogical research and in many historical societies including the Harveysburg Community Black School Historical Society, and the Wilmington, Clinton County, and Waynesville Historical Societies. Howard loved family and the annual gathering of cousins at the Collett-McKay Picnic. Each year he contributed an article to the Wilmington News-Journal to share stories about who came the farthest for Picnic, the oldest, and the youngest. We will gather for the 155th year in August 2020.
Family-oriented, passionate, impactful, and unpretentious, Howard made friends wherever he went. For 19-years, Doster’s Dan-D Acres pick-your-own strawberry patch was the foundation for entrepreneurial training for his four kids and the inspiration for the entrepreneurship textbook he wrote. Howard was a Navy veteran. Back in his Navy and OSU days, he played baseball, including being recruited by the Kansas City Royals. As he grew older, softball became his sport of choice where he played on a National Senior League Championship team. He played competitively nearly 150 games a year until age 83. In West Lafayette, Howard passionately coached several softball teams, including the Purdue women’s team. He’s remembered for his energetic cheering at his kids' and grandkids' sporting events.
A friend wrote that Howard could take a complex problem and make it simple. Then he would teach how to analyze it and make it better. If he had written this column it would be shorter!
He is survived by his wife of nearly 64 years, Barbara; two sons; two daughters; eight grandchildren; three great grandchildren; two brothers; one sister; and many nieces, nephews, and cousins.
For memorial contribution information and to share stories about Howard, go to: www.theFunisintheRun.com
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Q&A: January 1st Bank Balance
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Q. My Check Register bank balance for 1/1/20 doesn't match my ending balance from 12/31/19. What could be going on?
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Sarah Dixon, FBS Support Coordinator
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A. It could be one of many things. To help track down the issue I would first run a Trial Balance report for 1/1/2020 checking the box to include Prior Year column. This will tell us if the beginning balance truly matches last year's ending balance.
If the amount in the Prior Year column matches Beginning Balance column then you can rule out an issue with beginning balances; they are coming over correctly. If the amounts don’t match in the year 2020 go to Utilities> Create Beginning Balances, make sure the Accounting box is checked and run the calculations.
Re-run the Trial Balance and see if the amounts now match. If they do, good; if they don’t, then run a User Defined report for 1/1/20 checking for Undefined entries.
Make sure there isn’t a deleted Ledger, Center or Division causing issues with rollover.
If the Trial Balance beginning and ending amounts match but the Check Register still doesn't, then we are most likely dealing with a clearing issue. Look back through all entries in 2019 and make sure you didn’t put an incorrect cleared date on anything. If you can't find an issue in 2019 then check the 2020 cleared entries. If you've cleared checks ahead of the Check Register report date range it will not report the correct beginning balance if you select by Date Cleared because this includes entries that are cleared in the future. The report should correct itself when balancing for the current month as long as nothing is cleared in advance.
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