AWARDS

Outstanding Achievers (by area)

~Honored during Roundup 2007

Bluegrass—
Phil Maloney ’77, Lexington       

Fort Harrod—
Kenneth Parsons ’81, ’85, Lancaster

Green River—
Jerry Dunville ’72, Slaughters

Lake Cumberland—
Steve Peddicord ’81, Browns Crossroads

Lincoln Trail—
William Cochran ’75, Rineyville

Louisville—
Bobby Foree ’75, ’77, Eminence

Northeast—
Rep. Tanya Pullen ’80, South Shore

Pennyrile—
Lewis Bradley ’80, Hopkinsville

Purchase—
Scott Mitchell ’87, Clinton

Wilderness Trail—
Mitchell Philpot ’93, Manchester

Lifetime Achievement Award

~Honored during Homecoming 2007

Bluegrass—
George Robert Herbst ’55, Richmond

Fort Harrod—
Lorendz Smith Jr. ’53 and
....... Leonora “Marie” (Goggin) Smith ’54, Harrodsburg   

Green River—
James Crouse ’69, Dixon

Lake Cumberland Area Friend—
Eddie Lovelace ’56 (Arts & Sciences), Albany

Licking River Area Friend—
Gerald Atkinson, Mount Sterling

Lincoln Trail—
Robert Wade Sr. ’58, Elizabethtown

Louisville—
Bruce Pearce ’54, Simpsonville

Northeast—
Dan Bailey ’68, Ashland

Northern Kentucky—
Mary Lawton Poe ’46, Dry Ridge

Purchase—
Agnes Sublette ’42, Hickman

Wilderness Trail—
Paul Claiborne, London

(by region)

North Central—
Dr. Herbert Ockerman ’54, Columbus, Ohio

Northeast—
Mildred (Neal) Schneider ’33, Murraysville, Pa.

Southern—
Dr. Clarence Ammerman ’51, Gainesville, Fla.

International—
Dr. Marjorie Smock Stewart ’63, Ontario, Canada

New Achievers (by area)

~Honored during Winter Event 2007

Bluegrass—
Andrew Fritsch ’00, Paris           

Fort Harrod—
Christi Lee Wilson ’99, Versailles

Green River—
Brian Knott ’00, Owensboro   

Lake Cumberland—
Ryan Williams ’02, Campbellsville

Licking River—
Michael Staton ’00, Owingsville        

Lincoln Trail—
Aaron Reding ’96, New Haven

Louisville—
Brent Frazier ’98, Shelbyville                  

Mammoth Cave—
Daniel Gaston ’99, Russellville

Northeast—
Brad Brammell ’02, Grayson     

Northern Kentucky—
Dan DeZarn ’97, Dry Ridge

Purchase—
Sam Hancock ’97, Fulton           

Quicksand—
Todd Holbrook ’01, Pine Ridge

Wilderness Trail—
Matt Hayes ’05, Brodhead           

(by region)

North Central—
Marianne Lorensen ’00, Champaign, Ill.

Northeast—
Mary (Mcgehee) Busha ’90, Sutton, Mass. 

Western—
Dr. Louann (Marksberry) Waldner ’88, Dinuba, Calif.

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Animal & Food Sciences Hall of Fame

Bill Moody, longtime professor in Animal Sciences, teacher par excellence, and an unstinting supporter of the College and its students, has been inducted into the Animal and Food Sciences Hall of Fame.

Moody earned both his undergraduate and master‘s degrees at UK and a doctorate in meat science/physiology from the University of Missouri. He spent the major portion of his distinguished career at UK and is now retired.

Over the years, he taught more than 3,000 students and served as advisor to many of them. He directed the programs of more than 53 graduate students. Moody also conducted a rigorous program of meat research designed to have practical application for the state and region.

Moody gave generously of his time outside the classroom as well. He coached the meats judging team and served as advisor to the Block and Bridle Club, Alpha Zeta, Mortar Board, the Food Science Club, and FarmHouse Fraternity.

His ability as a teacher and a mentor was recognized with awards at the University, national, and international levels. His work as a leader, both on campus and off, also was exemplary: for many years Moody coordinated the food science section in Animal Sciences, and he served as interim department chair from 1990 through 1991.

Moody also served as president of the American Meat Science Association and was named a teaching fellow in the American Society of Animal Science.

His legacy continues. An endowed scholarship in Moody‘s name, awarded to students majoring in meat/food science, was established in 1999 with start-up money he received as the recipient of the Chancellor‘s Award for Outstanding Teaching in the tenured faculty category.

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HES Hall of Fame

Three new members have been inducted into the School of Human Environmental Sciences
Hall of Fame. They include an early leader in nutrition education, a trailblazer in the food industry, and a woman who has made her mark both in home economics and as a philanthropist.

Lucy Taylor Hammond, a Boyle County native, earned her home economics degree from Kentucky State University in 1950. She continued her education at Indiana University and became the first African-American student there to be certified by the American Dietetic Association.

She began her career as a staff dietician at a 1,635-bed Veterans Hospital in New York State, then moved into leadership at that hospital followed by administrative positions at hospitals in Cincinnati and in Florida. She completed her master’s degree in home economics education at Florida A&M University.

She became the home economics agent for the Blue Grass area of the Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service in 1967.

In 1970, she became the first state coordinator of extension’s Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program, which helps low-income families with children improve their diets using extension resources.

She established the Robert E. Hammond II Scholarship Fund for agricultural students in memory of her son, who died in 1987.

Lucy Taylor Hammond died in 2006.

Eleanor Ann Botts ’57, a Clark County native, went to work for Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati as a newly-minted UK graduate. In a 31-year career there, she worked in market research and then the foods division. She helped bring many Procter & Gamble products to the marketplace.

Botts is a UK Fellow, a member of the Scovell & Erikson Society, and recipient of the UK Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2007, the School of Human Environmental Sciences named her a Centennial Laureate—a distinguished leader in the field of human environmental sciences—during its 100th anniversary celebration. (See more about Botts in the 2007 Advancement Report, this issue.)

Helen Culton Price, a Boyle County native, earned her degree in home economics at UK in 1942. During her career, she taught at both the University of Colorado and in Wisconsin at the Madison Area Vocational and Technical College. She also worked as a recipe developer and in preparing food for photography, including live TV commercials. She is author of the books The Unfaced Suit Made Easy and Knits Made Easy.

In 1975, Price earned her master’s degree in home economics journalism from the University of Wisconsin.

In 1997, she created the Helen Culton Price Scholarship Fund in Human Environmental Sciences to honor her parents. She and the late Mr. Price also established scholarships in both agricultural economics and agriculture/human environmental sciences and supported the renovation of the E.S. Good Barn’s south wing, which created the Culton Suite.

She is a member of the UK Fellows Society, the UK Central Florida Alumni Club, and a recipient of the UK HES Centennial Laureate Award.

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2008 Board of Directors

AG & HES Alumni Association

Area Presidents

Bluegrass—
Rob Cole ’97, Lexington

Fort Harrod—
Christi (Stafford) Hack ’01,’05, Lawrenceburg

Green River—
John Mark Brown ’87, Morganfield

Lake Cumberland—
Danny Wilkinson ’82, Columbia

Licking River—
Gerald Atkinson, Mount Sterling

Lincoln Trail—
Misty (Miller) Bivens ’00,’02, Hodgenville

Louisville—
Brent Frazier ’98, Shelbyville

Mammoth Cave—
Joe Duncan ’73, Rockfield

Northeast—
Bill Cropper Jr. ’71, South Portsmouth

Northern Kentucky—
Dr. Carl “Jay” Hellmann Jr. ’85, Independence

Pennyrile—
Tim Henderson ’88, Hopkinsville

Purchase—
Sam Hancock ’97,’00, Fulton

Quicksand—
Merrill Caudill ’80, Blackey

Wilderness Trail—
Dr. Mark Smith ’86, Barbourville

Faculty Directors

Teaching—
Dr. Martha Nall ’70, Lexington

Extension—
Amber (Branstetter) Huffman ’98, ’03, Center

Research—
Dr. Steve Higgins ’88, ’96,’05, Lexington

Student Directors

Ag Student Council—
Sarah Marshall ’08, Ewing 

HES Student-at-Large Representative—
Laura Barry ’10, Collierville, Tenn.

Ag Student-at-Large Representative—
Devan Parrett ’08, Cecilia 

Executive Board

President—
Tony Holloway ’91, Gracey

Vice President—
Michelle (Knapke) McDonald ’84,’92, Carlisle

Secretary—
Diana (Wells) Doggett ’75,’77, Lexington

Treasurer—
Bill McCloskey ’84,’87, Bardstown

Immediate Past President—
Doug Thomas ’81, Paris

HES Representative—
Myrna (McGahan) Wesley ’69,’75, Lexington

At-Large Representative—
Audrey (Thornton) Carr ’64,’72,’94, Georgetown

National Agriculture Alumni and Development Association
     (NAADA) Representative—
Whitney Stith ’90, Union

Alumni Program Coordinator—
Jaime (DeMent) Sparrow ’00,’03, Stamping Ground

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The World Is
His Classroom

Spend a few minutes with Herbert W. Ockerman ’54, ’58 and you may consider squeezing more into your schedule. Certainly, this animal sciences professor does more in one day than most people do in three.

But then, you would have to if the world were your classroom, as it is for Ockerman, who is both a UK Distinguished Alumnus and a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the AG and HES Alumni Association.

His story began in tiny Chaplin in Nelson County, but it continues far beyond. Ockerman attributes his scope to his late wife Frances, whom he met while a UK undergraduate. She tutored him in French and German and introduced this self-described “provincial Kentucky country boy” to a fascinating world, convincing him he was missing a lot. It’s doubtful anyone can say that about him now.

Ockerman confesses to working seven-day weeks, 18-hour days, and never taking a single sick day in the nearly 50 years he has been a faculty member at The Ohio State University. He fills his days with teaching microbiology, statistics, biochemistry, and international agriculture. Ockerman, who earned his doctorate from North Carolina State, has more than 2,000 publications to his credit and consults in such far-flung places as India, Poland, China, and Argentina.

His alumni, scattered across every continent except Antarctica, include secretaries of agriculture, university presidents, deans, department chairs, and directors of research institutes. Years after graduation, many of them still ask him to polish their English in papers targeted for publication. They remember him with fondness. It’s obvious from listening to his stories that the feeling is mutual.

He says he’s proudest of the many friends he’s made around the world. “That’s why I travel so much, because they invite me,” he says.

It was on a trip to Brazil that he was struck by a life-changing idea. He was touring a school when he suddenly realized the students—“all sharp as tacks”—had no books.

 “By golly, I can do something about this,” he recalled thinking. “I can’t solve all the world’s problems, but I can help with this one.”

So he created the Frances J. Ockerman International Book Endowment. Each year since 1984, Ockerman has sent two or three vast consignments of books to libraries and schools in the United States and other countries. A recent shipment sent to a university library in the Philippines filled a 40-foot shipping container that held 56,000 volumes. Is it any wonder he has had a library named after him?

Though he accepts contributions of books from libraries and individuals, Ockerman funds most of the purchases from his own pocket. Every day he scours three used bookstores in the Columbus area for anything that would be appropriate for a university library. To date, the value of the books he has donated has exceeded $100 million.

Also in memory of his wife, Ockerman created the Frances J. Ockerman International Award at four universities, UK included. The award is presented to the faculty or staff member, spouse, or community member who has befriended international students.

Many have won the award, but no one fits the bill better than Herbert W. Ockerman himself.

—by Carol L. Spence

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Upcoming Events

Attend your area
summer meeting!
Watch your mailbox and our web site
at www.ca.uky.edu/advancement for details.

Roundup 2008—Saturday, September 13
FOOTBALL—UK vs. Middle Tennessee State
Look for event information and registration in the summer issue of PawPrints and online at our web site.

Scovell &
Erikson Society—Saturday, October 10

HES Hall of Fame—Friday, October 17

Homecoming/
50-Year Class Reunion &
Lifetime Achievement Awards—......................................Saturday, October 18

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