46 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine ARTS, MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT DONN GERRY ZIEBELL, PHD INDEPENDENT ARTIST, AUTHOR Lake Barrington, IL Having accumulated 60 years of practiced expertise, Dr. Donn Gerry Ziebell has cultivated a career of excellence as an engineer, author and artist. Prior to fully engaging in his creative endeavors, he worked as a metallurgical engineer from 1957 to 1982. During this time in the field, Dr. Ziebell specialized in aluminum, nuclear fuels and fiber metal industries. At the onset of his career, he received a U.S. patent for his employer by inventing new supports for fluidized beds. Dr. Ziebell’s consulting firm, Ziebell Associates, Inc., was established in 1983. Engineers within Keebler Company and engineers in the food equipment industry believed automating the packaging of irregular shaped “home-baked cookies” was impossible. Keebler gave Ziebell Associates a three-year contract. Then, a pilot line was installed in a Keebler bakery, and it was a great success. Unfortunately, at that same time, Keebler decided to be the first company to bring “soft batch cookies” into the marketplace. That ended Ziebell Associates’ pilot line invention. Dr. Ziebell began his artistic pursuits in 1952 during his undergraduate studies. He has since spent 65 years during his personal time creating a portfolio of 51 oil paintings of a wide range of subjects, having been inspired by his father’s own artistic talent. He has also participated in several national juried art exhibitions over the course of his career. His work has been honored on several occasions. Dr. Ziebell’s painting “A Blue Ball in Kabul” has faded images of New York’s Twin Towers in the background. This painting won the Purchase Award in a Galesburg, Illinois, National Art Exhibition. The director of the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery named another painting, “Pencil L. Hunter with his Missing Hat,” the third-place winner in a Winston-Salem National Exhibition. Furthermore, in 2021, his “400 Split Rails for One Yard of Cloth” painting was dedicated into the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Illinois. Today, much of Dr. Ziebell’s art can be seen on his YurArt website. Before embarking on his vocational journey, Dr. Ziebell pursued a formal education, beginning with the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy (now the Missouri University
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