Pioneer Award

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Past Winners

Frank Jeter Award

1957
Margaret McKeegan, Michigan
Rod Reynolds, Maine
Hal R. Taylor, Wyoming
Charles Voyles, Oklahoma

1958
William L. Carpenter, North Carolina
Mason E. Miller, Washington
Foster Mullenax, West Virginia
Philip Tichenor, Minnesota

Pioneer Award

1959
Floyd E. Harness, North Carolina
Robert G. Manson, Oregon
Jerome H. Perlmutter, USDA
Victor Stephen, Pennsylvania
Horace S. Tyler, Indiana

1960
J.B. Copeland, South Carolina
William H. Folwell, III, Pennsylvania
Ralph Hamilton, Michigan
Bryan M. Phifer, USDA

1961
Nicholas Kominus, USDA
James E. Lawrence, New York
Ardis McMechan, Iowa
John Wallize, Jr., Colorado
Joe B. Williams, Kentucky

1962
Melvin Eckard, Colorado
Cordell Hatch, Pennsylvania
James Madison, USDA
Donald McMillan, Arkansas
John Ross, Wisconsin

1963
Dennis T. Avery, USDA
M. Blance Bushong, Kentucky
James K. Estes, New York
Richard D. Powers, Wisconsin

1964
Thomas M. Byrd, North Carolina
Jon F. Greeneisen, USDA
Jean Gutierres, Hawaii
Dean Nosker, Illinois
Douglas O. Wardwell, Connecticut

1965
LeRoy M. Carl, New York
Daniel N. Hilleman, Colorado
Abner B. Lemert, Tennessee
Ellsworth R. Swift, USDA
Paul D. Trenkle, Nebraska

1966
Lloyd R. Bostian, Wisconsin
Larry D. Mark, USDA
Joseph T. Sample, Wyoming
J. Woodrow Upchurch, Jr., North Carolina
John W. Wagner, Jr., Maryland

1967
Francis L. Blake, West Virginia
Sherril Carlson, Washington
Joseph J. Marks, Michigan
Robert W. Norton, USDA
Roy E. Tanner, Georgia

1968
Randall Cofer, Georgia
F. Duane Dailey, Missouri
Norman E. Engle, Pennsylvania
Russell T. Forte, USDA
Marshall Gall, USDA
James A. Mason, New York
Donald L. Nelson, Iowa
Jack D. Smith, Alabama

1969
Donald K. Childers, USDA
Don J. Dallas, Jr., Colorado
Alexander R. Gavitt, Jr., Connecticut
Janet Huss, Nebraska
Marsha Pyle Martin, Texas

1970
Cliff Bice, Alabama
Kent D. Miller, USDA
Milton E. Morris, Minnesota
Lee B. Shields, USDA
Jerry L. Webb, Delaware

1971
Harry A. Carey, Jr., Pennsylvania
Delbert T. Dahl, Illinois
Donald J. Johnson, Georgia
James K. Randall, Utah
Mary Ann Wamsley, USDA

1972
Kenneth Copeland, Alabama
Frances “Sue” Kleen, USDA
Patricia Malone, Vermont
Jacque Suzanne Pruett, Colorado
Donald J. Wishart, Iowa
Randy Anderson, Wyoming

1973
Dennis Godfrey, West Virginia
Donald Poucher, Florida
Michael Sampson, Washington
Clifford Sherer, Illinois
David Warren, USDA

1974
Neil E. Dowlin, Pennsylvania
Gwil O. Evans, Oregon
Gary Kent Nugent, Indiana
Larry A. Quinn, Texas
Geraldine Schumacher, USDA

1975
Joyce Bower, West Virginia
Arnold Hartigan, USDA
Richard McQuiston, Georgia
Terry Jay Schnitter, California
John M. Sperbeck, Minnesota

1976
Thomas B. Bare, Nebraska
Kevin G. Hayes, Pennsylvania
Bonnie J. Kreitler, USDA
David R. Vyverberg, Mississippi

1977
I. Kathleen Alison, Arizona
Diane Decker, USDA
Paul Gough, Connecticut
Eugene Kroupa, Wisconsin
Charles T. Woods, Florida

1978
Gary A. Beall, California
Thomas P. Netting, USDA
LaRae Wales, Vermont
Gay L. White, Indiana
Judy Winn, Texas

1979
B. Jeanne Gleason, New Mexico
Gail D. McClure, Minnesota
Christine D. Quinn, Farm Credit Admin.
Gorden C. Webb, New York
Lloyd B. Yerby, Alabama

1980
Marguerite Gemson Ashman, Vermont
Scott Fedale, Idaho
Debrah Jefferson, Missouri
Christopher Lozos, USDA
James F. Whitman, Texas

1981
David King, Oregon
Karen Lilly, Minnesota
Curtis MacKail, New Hampshire
Garvin Quinn, Kentucky
Terry Walsh, USDA

1982
Jan Colbert, Missouri
Monroe Givens, Delaware
Gary Hermance, Florida
Paula Klevan, USDA

1983
Neil Anderson, Minnesota
Deborah Lee Payne, Nevada
Jean Rawson, USDA
Paul Ruskin, Pennsylvania
Ralph Ward, Texas

1984
Robert R. Furbee, Ohio
Bonnie P. Riechert, Tennessee
Guy W. Webster, Arizona

1985
Romaine Stein Crockett, Alabama
Kathleen A. DeMarco, Maryland
Marlene A. Fritz, Idaho
Eugene P. Hettel, Iowa

1986
Albert E. Powell, Jr., Texas
Steve Stark, North Dakota
Ruth M. Thompson, Mississippi

1987
Ned Browning, Alabama
Dennis Hinkamp, Utah
Terry Meisenbach, Nebraska

1988
Frances Gould, Louisiana
Lisa Halvorsen, Vermont
Scott Kelly, Ohio
Evelyn A. Liss, Oregon

1989
John Brooks, Louisiana
Charlotte Murphy, Nebraska

1990
Mary Frank, Virginia
Emery Tschetter, South Dakota

1991
Cathy Bridwell, USDA
Susan Brown, Georgia
Stanley Ernst, Ohio
Pamela Townsend, Maryland

1992
Melanie Eirich, Nebraska
Tana Kappel, Montana
Deborah Shaffer, New York
Catherine Smith, Alabama

1993
Carolyn Dedolph, Philippines
Artis T. Ford, Mississippi
Renee Lanik, Nebraska
C. Claire McCabe, Delaware
E. Robert Singleton, California

1994
Pam Alspaugh, Texas
Erik Anderson, Idaho
Randy Nemitz, Ohio
Ellen Taricani, Pennsylvania

1995
Saundra K. Campbell, Tennessee
Joanna H. Horigan, USDA
Diane Noel, Idaho
Sharon Wood-Turley, Missouri

1996
Randy Anderson, Wyoming
Carl Mesecher, Nebraska
Elizabeth Neely, Louisiana

1997
Elizabeth Gregory, Texas
Drexel Rhoades, Washington
Gail Snowden, Illinois
Holly Young, New Hampshire

1998
Becky Koch, North Dakota
Barbara Chamberlin, New Mexico
Bethany Raney, Pennsylvania
Ricky Telg, Florida

1999
Marion Douglas, Florida
Jim Hollyer, Hawaii
Tom Jirik, North Dakota
Laura Miller, Iowa

2000
Pamela Kan-Rice, California
Ami Neiberger, Washington DC
Faith Peppers, Georgia
Susan Thompson, Iowa

2001
D’Lyn Ford, New Mexico
Katrina Vitkus, Florida

2002
Coleena Burt, Texas
John Dickison, Pennsylvania
Joanne Littlefield, Arizona
Barbara McManus, Iowa

2003
Beth Forbes, Indiana
Kim Parker, Vermont
Diane Bowen, Texas
Natalie Johnson, New Mexico

2004
Suzanne Steel, Ohio
Meg Baughman, West Virginia
Marquinta Daniely, Georgia
Linda Ffolliott, Arizona

2005
Bruce Sundeen, North Dakota
Tracy Zwillinger, Florida
Kevin Robinson-Avila, New Mexico

2006
Ann Bugler, Iowa
William Watson, Texas
Pamela N. Martinez, New Mexico

2007
Linda Sleichter, Kansas
Glenda Freeman, Alabama
Tana Stith, Wyoming

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