1930s
James Harvey Moore ,'31 is now retired.

1940s
Sarah Jean Potter Lanham,'40 worked for Farm Security Administration in Williamsburg and in Whitley City. She received her master's degree from Western Kentucky University, taught school, and was director of pupil personnel in the Warren County Schools.

William O. Newell, Jr.,'42 works at the Cumberland Security Bank and is chairman of the board of directors. He is also the owner of Farmers Tobacco Warehouse and Eastern Welding, both in Somerset.

Marvin T. Wells,'42, in the Army Air Force until 1946, was in Virginia and Kentucky education for a total of 16 years. He taught science/biology in Jefferson County for 13 years. He was also an insurance representative as a field underwriter and is currently farming.

R. K. Kelly,'43 is married to Betty May Fervell, and they have three children. He is president of Wicklifle Rental Properties, Inc., operates WGKY radio station, and also operates two farms.

Mildred Forston,'44 is retired.

Anne R. Frye Caudill,'45 served as home demonstration agent in Montgomery County. She and her husband lived in Letcher County for 43 years, where their three children were born. Anne served as Harry's secretary in his law practice for most of those years. Since Harry's passing, she lives in New Albany, Ind.

Ted Wilson Cathey,'46 spent 26 years in the Animal Sciences Department and taught agriculture in the Veterans Farm Program. He also produced a grand champion barrow overall breeds at the International Livestock Expedition in Chicago in 1959.

William M. Johnson, Jr.,'46 retired in 1988
after 43 years with Kentucky Utilities Company. He is now a farmer, guitarist, and
watercolor artist.

Seldon V. Hail,'48 is the farm manager of Greer Farms in London, Ky.

Nancy J. Houchen,'48 is married to Carol F. Houchen, who was a business major at UK. They have two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Granville Kitchen,'49 is retired after 35 years service with the USDA and is currently living in Shelby County. He and his wife, Ann, have one son, Jon. Since retirement he keeps busy on the Kitchens' small farm near Bagdad and with church activities and veterans organizations.

Noble Howard,'49 spent 30 years working for the USDA and 20 years as a full-time farmer. He has been farming part time since 1999.

1950s
Russell Wells,'50 retired in 1987 as CEO of the Lawrence County ASCS office.

Kenneth B. Holland,'51 retired as district conservationist (SCS) in 1986.

Dr. Robert Teater,'51 is now retired. He was director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, director of the School of Natural Resources at Ohio State University, and associate dean of the College of Agriculture and Home Economics at The Ohio State University. Dr. Teater was also a major general in the Ohio Army National Guard. He has been married for 50 years to Dorothy Seath Teater, and they have four sons and 12 grandchildren.

Dr. Arthur Asbury,'51 is currently a Van Meter Professor Emeritus of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (UPSOM) and also working full time in neurology. He was interim dean at UPSOM from 1988 to 1989 and 2000 to 2001.

Bobby Hall Jr.,'53 is president and co-owner with his wife Bonnie of Farmers Feed Mill Inc. He and his wife live on their family farm outside Georgetown where they raise cattle, sheep, tobacco, and hay crops. They have two children, Lee C. Hall and Julia Hall Mahan. Lee is the vice-president of Farmers Feed Mill Inc., and Julia is vice-president of Incredipet, a division of Farmers Feed Mill.

John D. Baldwin, Jr.,'53 played for Bear Bryant in 1950, 1951, and 1952 and lettered all three years. He has been in business as a major oil gasoline distributor for 20 years. John and his wife, Barbara, have four children and also have grandchildren.

Robert Hahn,'54 is a U.S. Air Force veteran.

Glen McCormack,'54 was a U.S. Army colonel, a county Extension agent, a bank director, president of the Chamber of Commerce, president of the hospital board, and a state director for the Farm Bureau Federation.

William Brinkley,'54 is married to the former Betty Preston, and they have one daughter, Joyce. William retired in 1990 from the Cooperative Extension Service.

Harold Vaught,'57 is very active in church, the Mid-Kentucky Antique Car Club, and the Logan County Antique Engine and Tractor Club.

James S. Mobberly Jr.,'58 is retired as a safety engineer for Ashland Chemical Company.

Dr. Gene A. Bramlett,'58 was the assistant vice-president for Extension and Public Service at the University of Georgia from 1960 to 1975, the vice-president for Extension and Public Service at Auburn University from 1975 to 1981, and the dean of General Extension and director of the Center on Aging from 1982 to 1995.

Edgar Kash Jr.,'58 retired from the USDA Soil Conservation Service in 1991 and from the Lee County judge/executive position in 1998. He and his wife have two children.

Ermel D. Wilson,'59 retired as a Hart County vocational agriculture teacher in February 1986. He and his wife, Phyllis have four children, three of whom graduated from UK.

Kenneth Arnold,'59 is the owner of Ken Arnold and Associates but is retired.

1960s
Mancil J. Vinson,'60 was a vocational agriculture teacher, a marketing director, an agricultural communications assistant, and a legal consultant for individual bankers, digital equity, and the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). He also farmed.

Carol F. Berryman,'60 has been a legal assistant in Georgia and Kentucky for over 25 years and is currently a senior legal assistant.

Wiley Faw,'60 is retired from the International Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention. He spent 33 years in Nigeria, West Africa, doing church planting and agricultural missions. He is married to Geneva Willis Faw, who graduated in 1961 from the UK College of Education.

John W. Deme,'63 retired from teaching in 1994. He now has a rare plant nursery in Kingston, N.C.

Dr. Bonnie O. Tanner,'63 has been the assistant director for Family and Consumer Sciences at the UK Cooperative Extension Service since November 1998 after working for other agencies in the USDA in Washington, D.C. Her experience included serving as a USDA Extension specialist in consumer science and as a Maryland Extension agent for home economics. She was recently named to the Governor's Commission on Family Farms.

Dr. Michael Covitt, D.V.M.,'66 is an equine veterinarian and owner of Robin Ridge Farm in Crestwood.

Robert O'Bryan,'68 of Leander (Johnson County) received Rank I in educational administration. He taught 15 years as a vocational agriculture teacher at Johnson Central High School and has been in administration for 19 years.

Glenda Simpson,'68 has been retired from teaching family and consumer sciences for four years. She still does some substitute teaching.

William Ellington,'69 is an agency manager for the Bath County Farm Bureau Insurance Services. He is married to Jane Cook Ellington, who received her master's degree in vocational education in 1972. They have a son, Derek Thomas Ellington, who graduated in May 2002 from UK with a major in plant and soil science.

1970s
Larry R. Smith,'70 is currently employed by the Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation. He works with 12 Eastern Kentucky county Farm Bureaus.

Linda Miller,'70 is a sales representative for Kraft.

Jane Ann Osman,'70 is currently a substitute teacher in Clark County. She is married with a son in college.

Michael A. Carney,'70 is a medical account manager with Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals. He has one son, Christopher.

Catherine J. Parke,'72 is the owner and manager of Valkyre Stud in Georgetown and the business recently foaled, raised, and sold a million dollar earner, Milwaukee Brew.

James A. Vail,'72 is currently a professor at Elizabethtown Community College and has worked for the community college system since 1979. He and his wife, Barbara, have two children, Rita and Katherine.

Nathan L. Moore,'74 graduated from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 1978 and is currently employed by the Bluegrass Medical Clinic.

Mary Ann S. Core,'76 is a district conservationist for the United States Department of Agriculture and the Natural Resources and Conservation Service. She is currently working to restore the wetlands and increase the greenways along streams in the Central Ohio region.

Bobby Gaffney,'75 was awarded the Jane Longley Cook Volunteer Service Award at a 2002 national meeting of the National Agricultural Alumni and Development Association.

Keith Lyons,'76 is the owner of H. L. Lyons Company. He is married to Ann Abbott Lyons, and they have two children, Sara (19), and Clayton (13).

Peggy S. Helton,'78 has two daughters, Lindsay and Jessica. She enjoys being a Family and Consumer Sciences Extension agent in Whitley County.

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1980s
Dr. Mary Ann Schwartz-Gowdy,'80 is an instructor in the horticulture department at the University of Missouri-Columbia. In 2001 she received the College of Agriculture Food & Natural Resources outstanding teacher of the year award.

Virginia L. Russell,'81 was the first graduate of the UK Landscape Architecture Program to become a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, into which she was inducted in 1997. She is now an associate professor of architecture at the University of Cincinnati School of Architecture and Interior Design.

Pamela M. Bowling,'81 has been married for 20 years to Joe Fred Bowling, and they have three children, Matt (18), Katie (15), and Emma (3). She works as a logistics coordinator at Dow Corning Corporation.

Kent Georgel,'82 started Georgel Insurance Agency in April of 1988. He is married to Kim Georgel, and they have three children, Adam, Kelley, and Alex, who are 13, 10, and 5, respectively.

Joseph ('85) and Toni Myers have two children, Colby, 10, and Ruth Ann, 7. On their farm in Montgomery County they raise pure bred Angus cattle and horses.

Gregory Stephens,'86 owns an environmental contracting company that manages municipal, industrial, and agricultural water and wastewater materials. He has two daughters.

Myron Moore,'86 and his wife have one daughter, Emery Moore, who was born July 20, 2000. Myron is the branch manager and assistant vice-president of Citizens National Bank of Jessamine County.

Barry Hines,'87 is a partner in the Louisville legal office of Stites & Harbison.

Kim Ragland,'87 (M.S., '90) and her husband Brent Woodrum are the proud parents of a son, Landry Owen Ragland Woodrum, born July 18, 2002.

1990s
Brent Ware,'90 has been teaching agriculture at Casey County High School for 10 years. He also farms a 210-acre farm in Casey County, has a beef cow and calf operation, and operates a Kent Feed dealership. He and his wife, Lisa, have twin 6-year-old daughters, Allison and Ashley.

Kevin Sage-El,'92 is currently working as an officer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agriculture Service. He completed a three-year tour in the Philippines last September and began another three-year tour to Japan.

Donovan Craig Corum,'93 has been employed with the Fredrick County (Md.) government for the last two years as a land planner.

Robert Joseph Schmitt,'93 received his master's degree in agriculture at Murray State University in 1998 and is now an ag teacher at Livingston Central High. He and his wife Karen have a daughter, Lauren.

Corinne Heath,'93 is married to Jacob Kephart. Her daughter, Joyce Heath, is now 4. She has been coaching the 4-H Livestock Judging Team for the past eight years and is the leader of 4-H/FFA Livestock Club in Shelby County. Corinne is also a sales manager at Bagdad Roller Mills in Bagdad.

Kimberly Staggs,'94 married Travis Wenzel in 2001. They live on the Two Iron Ranch near Arthur, Nebraska, and were expecting their first child in October of 2002.

Julie Givens Howell,'94 has been a Marion County Extension agent for seven years. She and her husband Bill live in Pennyrile with their twin daughters, Allie and Shelby, who were born in 1999.

Jesse M. Brothers, D.V.M.,'94 is currently working as a mixed animal practitioner in North Central Ohio.

Celia Oldfield Barker,'95 is a senior health environmentalist for Gateway Distribution Health Department. She is married to Joe Barker, and they have three children, Jacob, Samuel, and Erin.

Deana K. Reed,'95 is working as a Campbell County Extension agent for 4-H/Youth Development and is currently pursuing her master's degree in vocational education at UK.

Emily Branstetter-Robison,'95 has been working in sales with the Monsanto's animal agriculture division since her graduation. She has a 3-year-old daughter, Lauren.

Stephanie Kay Casey,'95 has been married to Greg Casey since 1997, and they have twin sons, Brandon and Zachary, who were born in March of 2001. Stephanie has been working since 1995 at Burkmann Feeds in Danville.

Bethany G. Wilson,'95 has been with the Pulaski County Cooperative Extension Service since December of 1997. She married Joel Wilson in 2001. They operate a farm in Somerset raising peppers, cantaloupes, and pumpkins.

D. Cole Mitcham,'95 recently passed the Professional Engineers Exam and is project engineer at CDP Engineers, Inc.

Dr. L.W. Beckley, D.V.M.,'96, Auburn '00, has a new position at Burk Veterinarian Services in Hardinsburg.

Mary Louise Clark,'96 has been married to Tim Clark since 1995. They owned a dairy herd in Iowa for four years but then sold the cows and moved to Wisconsin. The have a 4-year-old daughter.

Heather Vidourek,'96 married Ronald Hornback in 2001. She is the director of training and development at Farm Credit Services of Mid-America.

Courtney Lynn Roberts,'97 has been a sales agent with Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance Company since graduation. She auctioneers with H. Barry Smith Company of Shelbyville.

Robert Lewis Doyle,'97 married a fellow UK graduate, Aleta Botts, '97, '00 on October 6, 2001, and they are living in Washington, D.C.

Douglas Smith,'97 is currently managing his family farm as well as co-owning two feed businesses.

Alicia Beth Eden-Myers,'97 graduated from Auburn University with a D.V.M. degree in May 2001. She now has a private practice for ruminants in Central Kentucky and at Small Animal Emergency Medicine in Northern Kentucky. She has also gone back to school at the UK College of Agriculture in animal sciences to earn her master's degree in reproduction and nutrition.

James Perry Murdock, Jr.,'98 is currently living in Montgomery, Ala., where he is a civilian flight instructor for the U.S. Air Force. He recently made Gold Seal, the highest honor awarded to instructor pilots.

Anne Marie Jewell,'98 is currently working at the Fort Campbell military installation in the forestry program.

Justin Thomas King,'98 is living in his hometown of Henderson. Since graduation he has worked for Monsanto in Haubstadt.

Anna Sidebottom Lucio,'98 is currently working with farmers markets across Kentucky to help farmers better directly market to consumers. Also, she is soon to be managing the Farmers Market Nutrition Program. She was married April 20, 2002 to Tony Lucio.

Brian Burkhead,'99 married Paige Andrews in 2000. He is a student at Southern Seminary working on a master's of divinity degree and took a pastorship at Rocky Ford, a church in Casey County, in 2001.

Patsy G. Duncan,'99 has worked for UK for 13 years as an Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) agent in Harlan County. She received the Harlan County Outstanding Leadership Award and the 2000 EFNEP Award.

Jennifer Kay McCleese,'99 is in her sophomore year at Oklahoma State University Veterinary College.

Amy Nipper,'99 married Mark Abney in July 2000 and they have a 14-month old baby boy, Tracy Cole Abney. Amy is the probation and parole officer in Powell County. Amy shows Tennessee Walking Horses as well as Spotted Saddle Horses, and she won the Reserve World Grand Champion in October 2001.

2000s
Matthew Koch,'00 is currently in Camp LeJeune, N.C., where he is an infantry officer and a grounds intelligence officer in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Alison Sexten,'00 graduated from Oklahoma State University in December 2001 with a master's degree in agricultural education. In May she married Daniel Smith,'98 (animal sciences), and they live on a farm in Stamping Ground.

Jeremy Teal,'00 has completed his first year as a 4-H Extension agent in Hopkins County.

Shana Shannon,'00 is a sales assistant at Walmac International Stud.

Brian Scott Drury,'01 is now an agent for the Kentucky Farm Bureau in Fayette County.

Richard Tanner,'01 graduated with a minor in biology and a major in animal sciences. He is now attending Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine and hopes to return to Western Kentucky to practice.

Alumni Association

Members by Choice

Carlisle Besuden III is a retired farm editor for the Lexington Herald-Leader and currently a semi-active farmer. He was married 44 years to his wife before she passed away in 2001. They have a son and a daughter.

Edna M. Akers retired this past December after serving as secretary/staff assistant for the Hardin County Cooperative Extension Service for 30 years.

Nick Carter has a bachelor's degree in farm management from Eastern Kentucky University and is currently the Agriculture and Natural Resources agent for the Fayette County Cooperative Extension Service. He is married to Lois Carter, a Bourbon County 4-H Extension agent, and they live with their two children in Bourbon County.

Belinda Graves is a secretary for the Bourbon County Cooperative Extension Service, where she has worked since November of 1989.

Diane M. Perkins is a Hancock County Extension agent for Agriculture and Natural Resources. She is the 1999 recipient of the Achievement Award from the National Association of County Agricultural Agents.

Covetta H. Ramey began working at the Research and Education Center in Princeton in January 1991. Covetta now has an older son enrolled in the College of Agriculture's biotechnology program.

Carolyn Z. Royalty is a Mercer County Extension agent for Family and Consumer Sciences.

Margaret G. Thrasher is the owner of Margaret's Pet Groom and Board, and her basic education came through the Extension programs. She is now a member of Twilight Extension Homemakers, president of Russell County Extension Homemakers, a UK Fellow, and a member of the Lake Cumberland Area Agriculture Alumni Association.

Opal Ernestine VanHoose is a 1960 graduate of Mayo State Vocational School. She has been a secretary/staff assistant for the Johnson County Cooperative Extension Service for more than 41 years.

Robert Welch is retired as manager of Southeast Grain Operation Countrymark Cooperative. He is now an agribusiness consultant.

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