UMEA Past Award Winners
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Outstanding Program/Innovator
2019
1st Place Outstanding Program Award – Individual: Labor Studies Program – Doug Swanson
Runner Up Outstanding Program Award – Team: The Jackson County Asthma Prevention Team – Lydia Kaume, Denise Sullivan, Mannie Hall, Paul Foreman & Rebecca Brown
Runner Up Outstanding Program Award – Individual: Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Camp – Stephanie Milner2018
1st Place Outstanding Program – EXCEL community development program - David Burton
2nd Place Outstanding Program – Finances on a Fixed Income - Ashley Bales
3rd Place Outstanding Program – Dig into Ag-Venture - Karla Deaver2017
1st Place Outstanding Program – Pablo Arroyo and Jacquelin Rasmussen
2nd Place Outstanding Program – Cynthia Crawford
3rd Place Outstanding Program – Patrick Byers and Robert Balek2016
1st Place Outstanding Program – Great Game of Business - David Burton
2nd Place Outstanding Program – Your Farm, Your Business, Your Future - Darla Campbell
3rd Place Outstanding Program – Eden Coad - Beverly Maltsberger2015
1st Place Outstanding Program - Learn By Doing - Stephanie Milner and Phyllis Flanigan
2nd Place Outstanding Program – Financial Literacy Among Youth - Meridith Berry
3rd Place Outstanding Program - Practical Horticulture Training for Urban Youth - Lala Kumar2014
1st Place Outstanding Program - Build Your Own Board - Connie Mefford, Georgia Stuart-Simmons, Larry Dickerson
2nd Place Outstanding Program – Livingston County Entrepreneurship Team - Shaun Murphy
3rd Place Outstanding Program - none2013
1st Place Outstanding Program — Friends of Greene County Extension — David Burton
2nd Place Outstanding Program — Pilot Grove Grocery Store — Connie Mefford
3rd Place Outstanding Program — Taking Control of Your Finances — Vivian Mason
2012
1st Place Outstanding Program — Old North St. Louis — Kara Lubischer
2nd Place Outstanding Program — Head Start Garden — Patrick Byers
3rd Place Outstanding Program — Joplin Tornado — Kathy Macomber and Janet LaFon2011
1st Place Outstanding Program — Active and Healthy School Program — Lynda Johnson
2nd Place Outstanding Program — Christian County Family Crisis Task Force — Renette Wardlow
3rd Place Outstanding Program — State 4-H Public Speaking Academy — Kathy Bondy and Patty Fisher2010
1st Place Outstanding Program — Farm and Small Business Estate Planning — Joe Koenen, Karisha Devlin and Darla Campbell
2nd Place Outstanding Program — Eating from the Garden — Karen Elliott, Lala Kumar and Cindy Zluticky2009
1st Place Innovator Award — Focus on Forages — Heather Benedict, Randa Doty and Amie Schleicher
2nd Place Innovator Award — South Central Region Wellness Competition — Melissa Bess
2008
1st Place Innovator Award — Food Fest — Darla Campbell and Jennifer Schutter
2nd Place Innovator Award — Weed ID — Eldon Cole, John Hobbs, Tim Schnakenberg and Bob Schultheis
3rd Place Innovator Award — Rural Professional Landowner Issues — Bob Broz, Darla Campbell, Karisha Devlin and Joe Koenen2007
1st Place Innovator Award — Meat Goat Pocket Record — Randall Saner and James Humphrey
2nd Place Innovator Award — Project on Wheels — Sarah Staude
3rd Place Innovator Award — Missouri Better Beef Seminar — Wendy Flatt and David Hoffman2006
1st Place Innovator Award — Healthy Kids Kamp — Sarah Staude and Susan Mills-Gray
2nd Place Innovator Award — Christian County Family Crisis Center — Renette Wardlow
3rd Place Innovator Award — Grandparents Raising Grandchildren — Phyllis Flanigan and Mary Gosche
2005
1st Place Innovator Award — Annie's Project — Mary Sobba and Karisha Devlin
2nd Place Innovator Award — Stay Strong, Stay Healthy — Melissa Bess, Karen From, Lynda Johnson, Glenda Kinder, Beverly Pfeiffer, Linda Rellergert, Susan Mills-Gray and Vera Nichols
3rd Place Innovator Award — Producing Cattle Profitably for the year2004
1st Place Innovator Award — Elizabeth Reinsch
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Meritorious Service
2019: Pamela Duitsman
2018: No Award - No Applications
2017: Lynda Zimmerman, Linda Morgan
2016: Karisha Devlin, Zachary Erwin
2015: Pat Snodgrass, Kathy Bondy
2014: Michelle Klem: Joe Koenen
2013: Jennifer Schutter, Kent Shannon
2012: Melissa Bess, Todd Lorenz
2011: Ted Probert, Cynthia Zluticky
2010: Jim Humphrey, Wayne Prewitt
2009: Amie Schleicher
2008: Jim Humphrey, Wayne Prewitt
2007: David Hoffman, Mark Stewart
2006: Randall Saner, Wendy Brumbaugh
2005: Donna Taake, Rebecca J. Travnichek
2004: Jackie Rasmussen, Mary Sobba
2003: Jackie Rasmussen, Mary Sobba
2002: Nina Chen, James E. Meyer
2001: Janet LaFon, Beverly Maltsberger
2000:Tom Hansen, Renette Wardlow
1999:Don Mobley
1998: Ben Gallup
1996: Bob Schultheis, Susan Pickle
1995: Lisa Wallace
1994: Glen Easter, Janet Kline, Don Nicholson, Rick Sparks, Chris Bouchard
1993: Mary Beth Carr, Susan Mills Gray, Harold Storck, Don Utlaut, Cassey Venters, Linda Wulff
1992: Laurie Haflich, Ron Higginbotham, Barry Link, Wayne Shannon
1991: Marsha Alexander, Beverly Pfeiffer
1990: Tamara Kasser, Ken Bolte, Gaylord Moore, Lynda Johnson, Betty Ann Broman,Max Miller
1989: Pauline E. Lindsey, Beverly Coberly, Jim Kennel, Ronald Young, Byron Morrison, Randy Humphrey, Gene Munson, Wayne Bailey
1988: Dale Cox, Kathy Dothage, Nancy L. Flood, Alan Boesch, John Hoehne, Jean Ward, Dan Cotton
1987: Patty Morris Fisher, Sherron Hancock, Kris Jenkins, Don Day, David Lindell, Harlan C. Lynn
1986: Glenda Kinder, Johanna Reed Adams, Dale Hagerman, Cathy Oesterling, Kermit Hindahl, Palma K. Crass, Thomas Henderson
1985: John Lower, Robert Chapple, Gene Haenni, Dorothy Heieie, Bill Chronister, Kate King NE, Charles Fulhage
1984: Robert Heitmeyer, Lenard Johnson, Robert Ruehlow, Norman Risner, Joan Cain, Sharon Tubbs, Wanda Eubanks
1983: Robert H. VanHoozer, Ross Swofford, Marjorie Frankenbach, Sharon Lundeen, James Dennison, Ronald Stoller, Wilfred Craig
1982: Roberta DeCocq, Jill Lekrone, Ralph Angel, Henry DiCarlo, George W. McCollum, Gerald J. Zumbrunnen, Mildred Bradsher
1981: Charlotte George, Ruth Pirch, Gaylon Fanning, Marion Gentry, Paul Mayginnes, James L. Whitfield, Randy Halsey
1980: Charles Rosenkrans, Roger Bennett, Dorothy Borchelt, Fred Oehring, John Ballard, Glenda Hawkins, Betty Feather, Joe Scott
1979: Raymond Kimmel, Jerry Thompson, Mary J. Hilliard, Diane Olson, William Purnell, Donald M. Boesch, Glenn A. Grimes, Velda Rankin
1978: Ed Meek, Don Rains, DeLois Buswell, Wilma Jean Lower, Jim Freeman, June Lamee, Nelson Trickey
1977: Calvin Jones, George Graham, Rebecca Nistendirk, Viola Smith, Jack West, Bill Knight, Tom Perrin
1976: Eldon Cole, Ed Schwitzky, Henrietta Clark, Ilene Workman, Paul Schoene, Robert Miller, William J. Murphy
1975: John Moorehead, Janet Snyder, Richard Prewitt, Jack McCall, Stan Ponce, Roy Carter, Homer Sewell
1974: Karl Hartung, Ina Johnston, Elbert Turner, Hubert Headrich, Tom Brown
1973: Ambrose Winn, Phillip M. Weeden, Kenneth Morris, Raymond G. Gabriel, Walter Buchanan, Juanita Barr, John Massey
1972: Victor L. Corothers, Oval L. Claxton, Shirley Drinkard, Ruth Flett, John D. Hubbard, Patricia Jarboe, James R. Teegarden, Alice Alexander
1971: Frances Meyer, Ben Daugherty, Owen Fox, Grace Wright, Hubert J. Krautman, Raymond Steffens, Ralph Ricketts
1970: Don Bailey, Ruth K. Bernstein, Mary Alice Carlson, Bob Mason, Hartford Patrick, Henry Young
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Connection and Engagement Award (new for 2019)
2019: David Burton, Rachel Hopkins
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Rookie of the Year
2019: Tamra Reall, Raysha Tate
2018: Sarah Morefield, Douglas Swanson
2017: Rusty Lee, Megan Samson
2016: Lindsey Stevenson, Janice Emery
2015: Emily Crowe, Dana Joerling
2014: Mark Porth, Jill Scheidt
2013: Stephanie Schindler, Gentrie Shafer
2012: Connie Neal, Kelli Wilmes
2011: Chrystal Irons
2010: Clint Dougherty, Whitney Wiegel, Mary Wissmann
2009: Heather Benedict, Patrick L. Byers, Kathy Macomber, Andy Read
2008: Jenny Flatt Norell, Joni Ross, Chris Shoemaker, Sarah Traub
2007: Richard Proffer, Lynette Watson, Randa Brunkhorst-Doty, Gary Cross
2006: Rich Hoorman, Grace Njeru, Tricia Freund-Wagner
2005: Amanda Cook, Robert McNary
2004: Sam Angima, David Burton, Karisha Devlin, Sarah Staude, Ron Walker
1998: Sam Funk
1997: Rebecca Travnichek
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Staff Programing Award
2019: Justin Castning
2018: Jill Lane, Linda Shelton
2017: Shana Sorg, Elaine Davis