Dr. Keith Leonard (’70)
After graduating from Iowa State, Keith Leonard applied for a job that sounded promising, and when that didn’t pan out, he decided to open his own practice. “My best friend Dick and I decided to look for a certain sized town, not too big and not too small,” Leonard said. “We narrowed it down to five towns, and went to each of them to interview the residents – not the Chamber of Commerce or the Mayor, but the locals, people in the coffee shops, barber shops, that kind of thing.” In Atlantic, Iowa, they found a populace that bragged about their town. The decision was made and a life-long career in veterinary medicine began.