Background
Burmeister, Paul Frederick was born on June 11, 1938 in Great Bend, Kansas, United States. Son of Ferdinand Frederick Adam and Gertrude Nellie (Hanson) Burmeister.
Burmeister, Paul Frederick was born on June 11, 1938 in Great Bend, Kansas, United States. Son of Ferdinand Frederick Adam and Gertrude Nellie (Hanson) Burmeister.
Bachelor in Chemistry and Agriculture, Fort Hays State University, 1960. Postgraduate, University Kansas, 1961.
Farmer, Claflin, Kansas, 1952-1961, 64—. Farmer cooperative Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Fort Hays Branch Station, Hays, Kansas, 1970, Kansas Rural Center, Whiting, 1991-1992. Panel member Kansas Sustainable Agriculture Conference, Great Bend and Salina, 1991-1992.
Member Kansas Natural Resource Council, Topeka, since 1975, National Resources Defense Council, New York City, since 1975. Participant University Akron National Energy Forum, 1976, National Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Strategy Review Workshop, Washington, 1981, Office Radiation Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, Denver, 1978. Guest speaker, Rapid City, South Dakota, 1993.
Member farmer advisory committee Sunshine Farm Project, The Land Institute, Salina, 1995-2001. With United States National Guard, 1963-1969.
Volunteer American Peace Corps, Ludhiana, India, 1961-1963. Local organizer campaign Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lobbyist on environmental protection and conservation issues, Topeka, 1976-1980.
Member Renew American, Washington, since 1980. Member The Menninger Foundation, Topeka, since 1989, Environmental Action, since 1982. Lay member ad hoc task force on ecology Christian lifestyle United Church of Christ, 1977-1978, commission on outreach Kansas-Oklahoma conference, 1988-1996, 98-99, network environmental and economic responsibility.
Delegate to 23rd General Synod meeting of United Church of Christ, Kansas City, Missouri, 2001. Member Kansas-Oklahoma Conference Council, United Church Christ, 1999-2003, member board directors, Kansas-Oklahoma Conference Foundation, since 2008. Participant Kansas Citizens Forum Committee for Humanities, Topeka, 1987.
Board trustees Clara Barton Hospital Foundation, Hoisington, Kansas, since 2005. Member National Wildlife Federation (life), National Council Returned Peace Corps Volumes, National Arbor Day Foundation, World Wildlife Fund (charter), American Wind Energy Association, American Solar Energy Society (life), Heartland Renewable Energy Society, Midwest Renewable Energy Association, since 1998, Kansas Association Wheat Growers, Kansas Farmers Union (life), Friends of the Earth, Cousteau Society (founding year member), Kansas State History Society (life), Kansas Wildlife Federation, Sierra Club (life), Native Forest Council, Ducks Unlimited Inc., Environmental Defense, Wilderness Society, Friends of India, Rainforest Alliance, National Parks Conservation Association, Nature Conservancy, Tau Kappa Epsilon (secretary 1958-1959, scholar 1959), Phi Eta Sigma (historian 1958-1959), Phi Kappa Phi, Delta Epsilon.