Department of Animal Sciences

Departmental Award Winners 2008

Outstanding Alumnus | Distinguished Service | Distinguished Graduate | Previous Winners

 

Outstanding Alumnus

Dr. Richard S. Meyer

Richard obtained his BS degree in animal science in 1968, his M.S. degree in food science (WSU) and subsequently his Ph.D. degree in food science from Cornell University. Richard has worked for numerous food companies (Nestle, Armour, Sara Lee, Nalley's and McCain Foods), where he has saved the companies millions of dollars (due to inefficiencies) or has increased sales of (old and newly developed products) by multi-millions of dollars. Sixty-five patents were obtained by Richard for this work. Richard also has worked with numerous researchers in grants activities totaling over four million dollars, including a present project funded by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association/NIH/ISS for prion research. Richard served/serves WSU by being a member of the WSU Foundation (Board of Trustees), President of the CAHE Alumni Association (1986-1994) and CAHE Dean's Advisory Committee (1988-1997). Richard was the President of the Advisory Council for the Washington State Department of Agriculture (1988-1994), is a member of the Governor's Council on Agriculture and the Environment (1994-present), is on the Pierce County Farm Board (2005-present) and winner of the Puget Sound Regional Council 2007 "Vision 20/20" award. Richard was one of the founding board members of the Friends of Animal Sciences alumni association (2006-).

Distinguished Service

Dr. Gordon W. Davis

Dr. Gordon W. Davis

Dr. Davis’ interest in animal science, agriculture and education began as a member of the 1964 “Washington State Dairy Family of the Year” and as an active 4-H and FFA member. At 15, he decided to become a teacher. Gordon obtained his BS degree in agricultural science in 1969. Since Dr. Gary Smith was one of his instructors (meats) at WSU, but was leaving for Texas A&M, Gordon followed Gary and obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees (meats) at Texas A&M University. While at WSU, however, Gordon was involved in the judging teams-being named High Individual (Cow Palace, 1968) and member of championship team of the Meat Animal Evaluation contest (western region, 1969). Gordon coached two National Championship teams in 1973 and 1989 during his career.  As an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee (his first academic post) Gordon coached winning judging teams and was an award winning instructor. Gordon was an Assistant then Associate Professor at Texas Tech for nine years, when he discovered the need for educational materials for agriculture and other CTE instruction. He formed CEV Multimedia in 1984, which has subsequently become the largest CTE multimedia company in the world. With his success as Founder/Chairman of CEV Multimedia, Gordon began to "give back". In 1985, 1996 and 2005, he founded or co-founded three endowments (current corpus - $3.1M) for meat science excellence administered by Texas Tech University.  Since inception, more than 200 Animal Science students have received scholarships from these endowments.  The Gordon W. Davis Regent’s Endowed Chair in Meat Science & Muscle Biology has been established, and the meat lab bears his name.  Gordon has published 37 refereed journal articles and numerous abstracts, book chapters, and (of course) multimedia (1,450 copyrights) for instruction.  The company has produced sufficient multimedia (DVDs, CDs) to yield content to meet all state standards for 75 CTE courses across six subject areas (agriculture and five others) for grades 6-12.  Gordon has been widely recognized throughout his 40 year career for education of youth/adults and for business success: university level (Texas A&M University, University of Tennessee, Texas Tech University), government level (USDA, SBA), and FFA level (local, state, national).  As he would say, “it’s all about the kids.”

Distinguished Graduate
Science, Education & Technology

Dr. Ronald D. "Ron" Randel

Ron received his BS degree from Washington State University in 1965 and his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1971. Presently, he is a professor and project leader in reproductive physiology of beef cattle; Senior Faculty Fellow and Regents Fellow, Texas A&M University. Ron received the TAMU Department of Animal Science Outstanding Service Award (1994), the American Society of Animal Science Physiology and Endocrinology Award (1996), the Build East Texas Award of Excellence in Research and Extension (1998), and was named a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Faculty Fellow in 1999. In 2007, Ron was selected as an ASAS Fellow. In his 77 page CV, Ron cites examples of excellence in research, teaching and service. He has conducted research on reproductive efficiency, endocrine control of reproduction and the nutrition-reproduction interaction in cattle [59 graduate student degrees, 199 refereed publications, 290 technical reports, 471 abstracts and an estimated 1.7 million dollars in direct research funding]. Ron was a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar to Australia in 1984, and received the Vice Chancellor for Agriculture's Distinguished Performance Awards for Research Off-Campus (1987), for Team Research (1990) and for International Involvement (2002) at TAMU. 


 

Previous Winners

 

Outstanding Alumnus

Dr. Wilton Heinemann

1986

Mr. Robert Fulfs

1998

Mr. Ron R. Baker

1987

Mr. Doug Warnock

1999

Mr. Willard R. Winters

1988

Eileen Broomell

2000

Dr. Leo K. Bustad

1989

Hal & Robyn Meenach

2001

Mr. Simon J. Martinez

1990

Chester A. Steen

2002

Mr. Jack Tippett

1991

T. Peter Rademacher

2003

Mr. Henry P. Dykstra

1992

 Esther Johnson McDonald

2004

Louis C. Chestnut

1993

 Sheryl Cox

2005

Dan P. Smith

1994

 Joe Blake

2006

Ms. Gladys M. Christian

1995

 Dan Coonrad 2006

Mr. Bill Bennett

1996

Scott Hodgson

 2007

Mr. Otto Hill

1997

    

 


Distinguished Service

Mr. Max Hinrichs

1986

Ms. Joan Harder

1997

Dr. William E. McReynolds

1987

Gerald Pittenger

1998

Mr. Ray Meenach

1988

George Hatley

1999

Dr. Timothy H. Blosser

1989

Herbert “Monty” Richards

2000

Dr. Arthur Heisdorf

1990

Anthony Viega

2001

Dr. G. Gary Duskin

1991

Richard D. Appel

2002

Mr. Dick Coon

1992

Edward A. Heinemann

2003

Dr. Robert W. Mead-

1993

Senator  Mark Schoesler

2004

Mr. Wayne Gustafson

1994

Fred Blauwert

2005

Mr. Al J. Sherman

1995

Max Fernandez

2006

Max and Thelma Baxter

1996

 Randolph E. Gross 2007

 

Distinguished Graduate
Science, Education, & Technology

Dr. Jack Gorski

1994

Dr. Lee R. McDowell

2001

Dr. Pete Van Soest

1995

Dr. John W. Algeo

2002

Dr. Jack L. Albright

1996

Dr. Rupert Grant Seals

2003

Dr. Edward Veenhuizen

1997

Dr. Fred Stormshak

2004

Dr. Terry Nett

1998

Dr. W.R. “Reg” Gomes

2006

Dr. Gary Smith

1999

Dr. Steven D. Aust

 2007

Dr. Duane Garner

2000

    

 

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