1999-2000 NAAE Award Recipients

New NAAE Organizational Members

Outstanding Service Citations – Sponsored by Delmar Thompson Learning.

(left to right) Todd Rightmire, accepting for Dick Rightmire, WA; Eddie Smith, OK; John Murray, MN; Zina Lawrence, Delmar Thompson Learning; Richard Karelse, MI; Cliff Ricketts, accepting for William H. Coley, TN; and Gerald Reichard, accepting for Doyle Paul, PA.

NAAE welcomes five new organizational members. Check them out on the NAAE website at www.naae.org. ACRO Publishing, Vancouver, WA; Successful Farming Magazine, Des Moines, IA; National Gardening Association, Burlington, VT; Animal Health Publications, Riverdale, UT; and Instructional Materials Laboratory, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.

Outstanding Cooperation Awards – Sponsored by Forrest T. Jones & Company and Ruritan National.

(left to right) LeRoy Dreibelbia, accepting for Sam Hayes, Sec. of Ag, PA; Roger Lampitt, Land O Lakes Feed, WA; John Liipfert, Forrest T. Jones & Co.; Larry Long, accepting for Jimmy Harrel, Bank of West. Okla., OK; Noel Ledermann, Pfizer Animal Health, PA. Not pictured: Ed Johnson, ABN Corporation, OH; and James A. Graham, Commissioner of Agriculture, NC.

Andy Seibel, VA Association, presented gifts to his fellow Virginian, Retiring NAAE President Mike Cox, including a $1,000 donation to the NAAE scholarship fund.

Mike Cox (VA), outgoing NAAE president, passed the gavel to newly elected NAAE president, Paul Jaure (TX).

Paul Jaure (center) presented Ten Plus Association membership awards to (l to r) Oregon, Utah, Colorado, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Delaware. Alaska and Connecticut were also recognized with this honor.

100 Percent State Membership Awards were presented to Nevada (left) and Oklahoma at the San Diego convention. Roger Teeple (left), Region V, received the Regional Membership Awards -- numerical and percentage. Mike Cox presented.

The Colorado Association was recognized for highest numerical membership increase, highest percentage membership increase, and as a Ten Plus association.

NAAE Membership Awards are sponsored by Diversified Marketing Associates.

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February/March 2001
NAAE News & Views
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