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I Past Honorees of National Land Judging

The following individuals have made outstanding contributions to the National Land Pasture Range Judging Contest:

1962
Earl Lowe
1963
Ralph Dreessen
1964
Clarence Bunch
1965
Byrle Killian
1966
Louis E. Deerr

1967
Sandy Saunders
1968
R. E. "Dick" Chiles
1969
Fred Dries
1970
Neal Stidam
1971
Bill Lott

1972
W Elmo Baumann
1973
John Nelson
1974
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Kouplen
1975
Harold Dedrick
1976
Louis E. Aull
Rolland Essman
Ray Etheridge
Harry Galloway
Harold Harper
John Hebert, Jr.
Russell Hill
Copeland Kell
Lavern Linnell
Charles Metcalf
Marion Porter
George Sharpe, Jr.
Elvin Smith
Edward J. Williamson

1977
Russell Pierson
Norm Bagwell
1978
Elza Bullen
1979
Allan Williams
1980
Glen Archer (posthumously)

1981
Wanda Rice
1982
Ray Parker
1983
Jim Stiegler
Loren Rommann
1984
Don Bartolina
1985
Roy Stewart

1986
Verlin Hart
1987
Monte Reese
1988
Steve Collier
1989
Frank Cotten
1990
Jack Kelsey

1991
Bobby G. Bourlier
and Soil Scientists
1992
Joe Raunikar
1993
Lee Roy
Sylvia Hudson
1994
P. J. Workman
1995
Lori Evans Wilson

1996
Eddie Smith
1997
Mason Mungle
1998
Terry Bidwell
1999
Duane Crider
2000
Charles Cox

2001
Bobbie Steenbergen

2002
Mark Harrison

2003
Alvin Woodruff
2004
Raymond Cockrum
2005
Mark Moseley

Our 2008 Honorees....

Congratulations to Carolyn Tucker and Fredia Rice, the 2008 National Land & Range Judging Contest Honorees!

These two ladies have been assisting with the contest for almost 20 years. They started out in the tabulating room and have been the first people to greet you at the registration table, wave you on as you leave for the contest, and join in dancing with you at the Teen Social

Carolyn Tucker served as secretary for the North Caddo Conservation District for 35 years until her retirement in 2006. Her many contributions to the conservation of Oklahoma's natural resources include serving as president of the Oklahoma Association of Conservation District Employees from 2002 to 2005. Under her leadership, the association made visits to the state Capitol, working to improve benefits for district employees. She has also served on several committees for the National Association of Conservation District Employees. Carolyn and husband Dearl live in Hinton, Oklahoma. They have three children and eight grandchildren who occupy a lot of Carolyn's time and she loves it! She is involved with the local quilting club and still volunteers to help with registration at the National Land and Range Judging Contest.

Fredia Rice has served as secretary for the Cotton County Conservation District for 18 years. Fredia is a very busy lady ---- in addition to her duties at the Conservation district she is involved with many of the civic projects of Walters, Oklahoma and is also active in her church. Fredia has served as secretary for the Walters Round-Up Club for several years and was president of the Oklahoma Association of Conservation Employees from 1997 to 2002. The employee's association really became organized and active under Fredia's leadership. She was able to get the district employees involved with activities. She spearheaded several fundraising projects for youth activities and is known for her salesmanship abilities. Fredia and husband Stan live in Duncan and have four children and nine grandchildren.

Both Carolyn and Fredia are a delight to those around them. Congratulations to these two outstanding women and thank you for all your hard work and contributions to Oklahoma.

Rose Bonjour
2007

Congratulations to Rose Bonjour, the 2007 National Land & Range Judging Contest Honoree. Rose's first introduction to land judging was back in the late 197's when she judged land for the Waterloo, Illinois FFA chapter in high school. She never made it to the national contest until moving to Oklahoma in 1985. Over 20 years ago she was asked to computerize the FFA land judging tabulation for the first time. That first year, there was a frog strangler of a rain storm and tabulation was flooded out of the basement of the church into the sanctuary. There was only one electrical outlet and it was ungrounded.

Lots of prayers were said in that sanctuary that day. Rose has helped facilitate many changes in the tabulation since that first year including times Scraton forms were used and she bought an iron to press the sheets before sending them through the card reader.

Every year the tabulation comes down to the wire; grading cards, entering data, checking winners and printing the results judged in time for the banquet. With a BS and MS in Agricultural Education from Southern Illinois University, Rose is certified to teach Ag Ed in Oklahoma and Illinois.

Since moving to Oklahoma she has worked at the Oklahoma Career and Tech Ed, starting as the micro computer specialist and now serving as the central district Ag Ed Program Specialist. She enjoys challenges always evaluating situations and making progress more efficient.

Over the years, Rose has been awarded the Honorary State and American FFA degrees, the Oklahoma State University Collegiate Excellence in Education Award, Quality Career Tech Team Award, Quality Oklahoma Team Award and Career Tech Employee of the Quarter. She loves working with Ag teachers and FFA students in Oklahoma. One of her favorite work-related activities is serving as the swine superintendent at the Oklahoma Youth Expo.

Rose is married to Edmond Bonjour who is a senior researcher in entomology at OSU. They have two wonderful children, Sophia, 14 and Ean, 11. Rose is active in her church and recently served as chair of the building committee for a $4.3 million family life facility.

She enjoys spending quality family time, completing home improvements projects, working their family craft business and bicycling. Having crossed the US on a bicycle once before she has started making her retirement plans to do it again even though retirement is many years away. Congratulations to Rose Bonjour!

The National Land and Range Judging Contest is proud to recognize Frank E. Evans as the 2006 Honoree. For several years in the 1960s Frank served as a group leader for the National Land & Range Judging Contest. Then in 1970 he was asked to take over recruiting and coordinating all group leaders for the contest and has served in that role for the past 36 years.

Frank was raised on a farm near Holdenville. He is a graduate of Oklahoma A&M (now OSU) and a veteran of World War II and former POW.

He started his career with the USDA Farmers Home Administration (now Farm Service Agency) in 1950 in the Hughes County FHA office at Holdenville. He has worked in Seminole, Pittsburg, Lincoln, Choctaw and Pushmataha Counties. He moved to the Oklahoma State Office of the Farmers Home Administration in Stillwater in 1967 and became Farmer Loan Program Chief in 1970. He retired in 1985 from that agency with 35 years of service.

2006
Frank E. Evans

After retirement from the Farmers Home Administration, he was elected to the board of directors Oklahoma Rural Rehabilitation Corporation (ORRC), head-quartered in Stillwater, in 1985. Later he was elected president of ORRC, a position he still holds. The ORRC has grown substantially under his leadership and is recognized as a program that is very active in furnishing rural credit, helping students with scholarships, and carrying on a rural community grant program in participation with FFA chapters, 4H groups and local community groups.

Frank and his wife Jewell have been married for 56 years and have two grown sons, Rick and Ron.

Congratulations to Frank Evans, the 2006 National Land & Range Judging Contest Honoree.

copied from the banquet booklet provided by the Oklahoma Association of Conservation Districts