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Extension News
Vol. 2 — No. 11
May 31, 2002
Current Events
Recognition Dinner: A recognition
dinner for Gerrit Cuperus, Regents Professor/Extension IMP
Specialist, is scheduled June 21 from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the
Exhibition Hall of the Wes Watkins Center. He will be leaving OSU
at the end of June after a significant career of service. Tickets
for the event are $12 per person and reservations should be made
by June 14. Everyone is invited to write a note or letter for the
memory book that Gerrit’s colleagues and friends are
assembling. Feel free to send photos or other items of
memorabilia. If you send a written letter, please format it with
a 1.5 inch left margin. Reservations and letters can be mailed to
Tom Phillips, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, 127
Noble Research Center, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
74078.
Hereford Conference: Oklahoma State
University’s Department of Animal Science and the Hereford
Association are hosting the “Hereford Directions
Summit” conference slated June 20-22 at Stillwater. For more
information, contact John Evans at jle@okstate.edu or
405-744-6060. Interested parties also may contact the American
Hereford Association at www.herreford.org
, or 816-842-3757.
Announcements
Powell
Receives Recognition: Claire Powell, Extension
Educator, Family and Consumer Sciences, Oklahoma County, has been
awarded the “Continued Excellence Award” by the
National and Oklahoma Extension Association of Family and
Consumer Sciences. The award is based on proven leadership and
outstanding service in the Cooperative Extension Service. Powell
has been with OCES for 29 years and is recognized state wide as
an expert in food and nutrition safety issues.
Web Site is “Among the Best”: The web
site for Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Services’ Community
Nutrition Education Program (CNEP) is “Among the Best.”
Tufts University Nutritional Navigator’s online rating guide
for nutritional web sites recently awarded the title. The CNEP
web site can be viewed at http://www.fcs.okstate.edu/cnep
. This online rating guide was launched in October 1997 and is
the first that evaluates nutrition web sites based on accuracy,
depth, and usefulness of information.
New Address: The Choctaw County Extension Office
has a new mailing address. All items should now be mailed to 415
E. Rena, Hugo, OK 74343. The correct fax number is 580-326-3456.
OK Steer Feedout Update: Following each OK Steer
Feedout, meetings are scheduled to discuss the Feedout data and
review the cattle. This is a great opportunity for cattlemen
interested in the program to see the data that has been
collected. In addition to cattlemen, Extension Educators are
encouraged to attend and update themselves on the program. The
program had 270 spring born and 55 fall born steers last year.
Upcoming meetings will take place Monday, June 17 at 6:30 p.m. at
the Creek County Fairgrounds, 17806 W. Highway 66 at Kellyville;
and Tuesday, June 18 at 6:30 p.m., at the Garfield County
Fairgrounds, 316 E. Oxford, at Enid. Please RSVP by June 14 to
Kent Barnes at 918-687-2482, or Greg Highfill at 580-237-7677.
Condolences to: Karen Coggeshall, Office Assistant
in the Altus Area Office, on the death of her father, George F.
Fox. He passed away May 19. Funeral services were held on May 22
at the Geschwendt Funeral Home in Schuylkill Haven, PA.
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Coming Events
June 3-8: Oklahoma Youth Forestry and Wildlife Camp
(Beaver’s Bend State Park)
June 4: Peach and Grape Field Day (Perkins)
June 6: Northwest District P-Card Training (Woodward)
June 7-9: Southwest District 4-H Horse Show (Lawton)
June 8: Northwest District 4-H Horse Show (Freedom)
June 11-12: Extension Administrative Group Meeting (Campus, 139
Ag Hall)
June 13-15: CNEP Statewide In-Service (Stillwater)
June 13: 4-H Day at Big Splash (Tulsa)
June 18: Southwest District CED Meeting (TBA)
June 20: In-Service—Sugars and other Sweeteners (Stillwater)
June 20-22: State 4-H Horse Show (Enid)
June 22: Lane Field Day (Lane)
June 23-25: Oklahoma Pecan Growers’ Annual Meeting (Shangri
La Resort)
June 25-26: Oklahoma Greenhouse Growers’ Conference
(OSU-OKC)
June 27: Healthy Cooking—Quick and Easy (Duncan and Lawton)
June 28: In-Service—PowerPay (Watonga)
