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The Bill Doty Memorial Fund supports a scholarship or fellowship of $2,000, supported first by the annual golf tournament and currently the Party for a Purpose.

James W. (Bill) Doty was president of Doty Laboratories and a vice president of Caleb Brett U.S.A., Inc.

Bill Doty joined the AACCI in 1963, just prior to graduating magna cum laude from Kansas State University with a B.S. degree in feed technology. His father, Jim Doty, founded Doty Laboratories in 1943 and Bill joined the firm upon graduation, first serving as manager of the branch laboratory in Minneapolis. He married Patsy Huddleston in Minneapolis in 1966 and joined the parent firm in Kansas City in 1967 and vice-president. He was named president of Doty Laboratories in 1969 when his father became chairman of the board.

An active AACCI member, Bill served a term on the Board of Directors, held all elected offices in the Kansas City Section, was a member of the Pioneer Section and the Milling and Baking Division, served on several technical committees, and was local arrangements chairman of the 1975 AACCI Annual Meeting in Kansas City and was co-chairman again in 1984. For these and many more contributions, he was given AACCI's highest service award, the William F. Geddes Memorial Award, at the 1987 AACCI Annual Meeting in Nashville.