Year inducted - 1994

Herb Plambeck was initiated into Eta Chapter in 1936 as #310.   He grew up on a farm near Eldridge and studied Agriculture and Journalism at Iowa State.   Upon graduation he was employed as WHO radio's farm broadcaster and soon became known as the Iowa "voice of agriculture" and was on the air almost every day up until 1970.   He was a member of the 1955 US Agricultural delegation that traveled to the Soviet Union and was member of the Board of Directors of the National Agricultural Hall of Fame.   In 1970 he became an assistant to US Secretary of Agriculture Cliff Hardin and later his successor Earl Butz.   During World War II, Korea and Vietnam, Brother Plambeck risked his life to provide war coverage to the rural people of Iowa.   

Herb was the recipient of numerous honors and awards.   He was a prolific writer and loved to write for the Sickle and Sheaf.  He was responsible for the "75 Memorable Years of Eta Chapter".   Herb was inducted into the Alpha Gamma Rho Hall of Fame in 1994.