Nov. 13, 2012
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SHOW COVERAGE: 2012 North
American International Livestock Exposition.
Angus Elects New
Board Members and Officers
Five new Angus breeders to serve on the American
Angus AssociationŐs Board of Directors.
The
American Angus Association¨ announced new members and officers for its
Board of Directors during the 129th Annual Meeting of Delegates in Louisville,
Ky. Those serving the Association for three-year terms are: Charlie Boyd, Mays Lick, Ky.; Scott
Foster, Niles, Mich.; Philip Howell, Winchester, Ind.; Vaughn Meyer, Reva, S.D.; and Don Schiefelbein, Kimball,
Minn.
Phil
Trowbridge, Ghent, N.Y., was elected the American Angus Association president
and chairman of the board. He succeeds Jarold Callahan, Edmond, Okla. Gordon
Stucky, Kingman, Kan., was chosen by delegates to serve as vice president and
vice chairman. Cathy Watkins, Middletown, Ind., will serve as the 2013
treasurer.
More
than 311 elected delegates from 41 states, Canada and the District of Columbia
represented Association members during the Annual Meeting of Delegates, held at
the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center (KFEC) in conjunction with the North
American International Livestock Exposition (NAILE) Super-Point Roll of Victory
(ROV) Angus Show.
Phil Trowbridge, the AssociationŐs
newly elected president and chairman, most recently served as vice president
and vice chairman of the board. Trowbridge received his animal science degree
from Alfred Sate College prior to becoming herdsman at GallagherŐs Angus Farm,
where he continues to enhance genetics with Trowbridge Angus. Trowbridge has
served on numerous boards on the local and state level and organized the
Columbia County Feeders 4-H club.
Gordon Stucky, who was formerly board
treasurer, was chosen by delegates to serve as vice president and vice chairman.
Stucky and his family own Stucky Ranch, west of
Wichita, Kan. He is past director and president of the Kansas Angus
Association, and is chairman of its commercial female sale. He has also been
active in Beef Improvement Federation, his local Extension council, the Kansas
Farm Bureau and the Kansas Livestock Association.
Cathy Watkins,
elected as the new board treasurer, and husband, Bob, raise Angus cattle at
Beaver Ridge Farm in east central Indiana. She graduated with high honors from
Michigan State University with a degree in animal science. While there, she was
a member of the meat judging team and the livestock judging team. Off the farm,
Watkins worked for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for 33 years, retiring in
2007. She served as secretary for the Indiana Angus Association for 10 years.
Brief
biographical sketches of newly elected Board directors are listed below,
courtesy the Angus Journal.
Charlie Boyd II is a fourth-generation
cattleman from a family that began its involvement in the cattle industry in
1893. Today, Boyd Beef Cattle of Mayslick, Ky., encompasses both an Angus and a
Hereford program, and is home to many national champions. Boyd earned his ag economics degree from the University of Kentucky, where
he was a member of Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity, an agriculture senator, the agriculture
student body president, and a member of the livestock judging team. He has been
involved in many cattlemenŐs organizations, and has served as president of the
Kentucky Angus Association as well as a co-chair for the National Junior Angus
Show.
Scott Foster grew up on a family farm in
Niles, Mich., where he was active in FFA, serving as state president. He earned
a bachelorŐs degree in animal husbandry from Michigan State University, where
he participated in the Block and Bridle club and was the Ag Senate
representative. He was also a member of the National Champion Livestock Judging
team at the NAILE, where he was named high individual overall. Upon graduation,
Foster worked for Premier Beef in Howell, Mich. Today, he farms with his son
Andrew, brother Bruce and his parents at Seldom Rest Farms in southwestern
Michigan.
Philip
Howell attended Purdue University and graduated
with a doctor of veterinary medicine degree in 1973. After graduation, Phil
worked in mixed animal practices in Cedar Grove, Wis., and Silver Lake, Ind. He
purchased a practice in Winchester, Ind., in June 1979. Phil and his son Andy
and their wives currently manage 50 cows, the majority being registered Angus
with a few Maine-Anjou females. He has served as president of the Indiana
Junior Angus Association, Indiana Angus Association, and the Southeastern
Indiana Angus Association.
Vaughn
Meyer and his family manage Sodak Angus Ranch
in northwest South
Dakota. In his youth
Meyer participated in 4-H and FFA. He received a bachelorŐs of science degree
in animal science production from South Dakota State University, where he was
active in Block and Bridle and Army ROTC. After serving in the Army, Meyer
returned to Sodak. He has been active in the Black Hills Angus Association, the
Perkins County Livestock Improvement Association, the Perkins County Farmers
Union, the South Dakota Beef Industry Council and the South Dakota Stock
Growers Association.
Don
Schiefelbein has been involved in the cattle
business in a number of ways throughout his career. He attended college at
Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, where he graduated with
academic honors with a degree in animal science. In 1990, the North American
Limousin Foundation (NALF) hired Schiefelbein to oversee its junior program.
Later he would serve as executive director for the American Gelbvieh
Association. Schiefelbein was able to fulfill his lifelong dream in 2002,
returning to his family Angus farm in Kimball, Minn.
The American Angus
Association is the nationŐs largest beef breed organization, serving nearly
30,000 members across the United States and Canada. It provides programs and
services to farmers, ranchers and others who rely on the power of Angus to
produce quality genetics for the beef industry and quality beef for consumers.
For more information
about Angus cattle and the American Angus AssociationŐs programs and services,
visit www.angus.org.
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