USDANEWS VOLUME 55 NO. 6 - JULY 1996

We Honor 106 Award-Winning USDA Achievers

by Tracie Gibson, Departmental Administration

USDA honored a number of its employees, for their outstanding achievements, at its "50th Annual Honor Awards Ceremony," which took place on June 5 in Jefferson Auditorium in the South Building at USDA headquarters in Washington, DC.

Sandra Anglade, USDA's Employee Recognition Program Manager with Departmental Administration and coordinator of the Ceremony, noted that 152 nominations were submitted, which included 82 individuals, 8 teams, and 62 groups. USDA's Honor Awards Evaluation Committee reviewed those nominations and made its recommendations to Secretary Dan Glickman. USDA honor awards ultimately were awarded to 106 nominees, including 59 individuals, 5 teams, and 42 groups.

Glickman delivered the keynote address and then presented the major USDA awards to the employees.

The 59 individuals receiving USDA honor awards included:

For Emergency Response: Penny Fleming (Farm Service Agency), Hickman, Ky.; Gary Peterson (Agricultural Research Service), Frederick, Md.; and Pedro Ramos (Rural Housing Service), St. Thomas, Virgin Islands; For Environmental Protection: Bernard Bormann (Forest Service), Corvallis, Ore.; Carl Frick (FS), Jonesboro, Ill. (no picture available); James Gilliam (State Agricultural Experiment Station), Raleigh, N.C.; Ellen Jacquart (FS), Bedford, Ind.; Leonard Lane (ARS), Tucson, Ariz.; Laura Falk McCarthy (FS), Laconia, N.H.; Judith Rice (FS), Juneau, Alaska; and David Shertz (Natural Resources Conservation Service), Washington, DC; For Equal Opportunity: Jerry Bean (FS), Santa Maria, Calif.; Decunda Bozeman (NRCS), Fayette, Ms.; Alice Day (Food Safety and Inspection Service), Alameda, Calif.; Billie Kirkham (RHS), Riverton, Wyo.; Richard McCurdy (FSIS), Tulsa, Okla.; Carol Ann Moffett (FSA), Dover, Del.; Hiram Palmertree (Cooperative Extension Service), Mississippi State, Ms.; and Mark Rubic (Agricultural Marketing Service), Lisle, Ill.; For Heroism: Darin Clements (ARS), Reno, Nev.; David Colegrove (Office of Inspector General), Atlanta, Ga.; Timothy Grier (FS), Overgaard, Ariz.; and Daniel Woerner (FSIS), San Antonio, Texas; For Personal and Professional Excellence: David Anderson (NRCS), Fort Collins, Colo.; Jere Dick (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service), Albuquerque, N.M.; Jitender Dubey (ARS), Beltsville, Md.; Thomas Fern (RHS), Lexington, Ky.; Stanley Foster (RHS), Lincoln, Neb.; Anna Grayson (APHIS), Washington, DC; Johnie Jenkins (ARS), Mississippi State, Ms.; Noel Keen (State Agricultural Experiment Station), Riverside, Calif.; Steven Linscombe (State Agricultural Experiment Station), Crowley, La.; Ed McEvoy (FSIS), Washington, DC; James Miller (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service), Washington, DC; Harrell Minzenmayer (AMS), Carrollton, Texas; George Patton (National Agricultural Statistics Service), Washington, DC; James Rhoades (ARS), Riverside, Calif.; Ronald Robbins (AMS), Memphis, Tenn.; Richard Ross (State Agricultural Experiment Station), Ames, Iowa; John Sharpe (Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration), Washington, DC; Nan-Yao Su (State Agricultural Experiment Station), Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; Vernon Tuxbury (CES), Burlington, Vt.; Patrick Vail (ARS), Fresno, Calif.; and John Youngquist (FS), Madison, Wis.; For Public Service: Jim Bridges (National Association of State Departments of Agriculture), Atlanta, Ga.; Diana Chappell (RHS), Casper, Wyo.; Charlotte Daniel (NRCS), Iuka, Ms.; Orlando Phelps (AMS), Baton Rouge, La.; Bobby Phills (State Agricultural Experiment Station), Baton Rouge, La.; John Pippin (AMS), Fremont, N.C.; Kenneth Roehrich (NRCS), Morristown, N.J.; and Ralph Smith (AMS), Carrollton, Texas; For Reinventing Government: Donald Arnette (Food and Consumer Service), Dallas, Texas; and Pearlie Reed (NRCS), Washington, DC; For Support Personnel: Mary Clements (ARS), Greenbelt, Md.; Mary Doran (FS), Madison, Wis.; Patricia Harrill (AMS), Lexington, Ky.; Pamela Kovash (FS), Placerville, Calif.; and Kathlene Walton (APHIS), West Valley City, Utah.

INDIVIDUAL HONOR AWARDS RECIPIENTS

P. Fleming
G. Peterson
P. Ramos
B. Bormann
J. Gilliam
E. Jacquart

L. Lane
L. Falk McCarthy
J. Rice
D. Shertz
J. Bean
D. Bozeman

A. Day
B. Kirkham
R. McCurdy
C. A. Moffett
H. Palmertree
M. Rubic

D. Clements
D. Colegrove
T. Grier
D. Woerner
D. Anderson
J. Dick

J. Dubey
T. Fern
S. Foster
A. Grayson
J. Jenkins
N. Keen

S. Linscombe
E. McEvoy
J. Miller
H. Minzenmayer
G. Patton
J. Rhoades

R. Robbins
R. Ross
J. Sharpe
N. Su
V. Tuxbury
P. Vail

J. Youngquist
J. Bridges
D. Chappell
C. Daniel
O. Phelps
B. Phills

J. Pippin
K. Roehrich
R. Smith
D. Arnette
P. Reed
M. Clements

M. Doran
P. Harrill
P. Kovash
K. Walton

The 5 teams receiving USDA honor awards included:

For Environmental Protection: Larry Allen (FS), Tucson, Ariz., and Ronald Bemis (NRCS), Douglas, Ariz.; For Personal and Professional Excellence: Margaret Braaten and Marvin Tibbetts (CES), Mahnomen, Minn.; and Jesse Gregory and Lynn Bailey (State Agricultural Experiment Station), Gainesville, Fla.; For Public Service: Lisa Burban (FS), St. Paul, Minn., and John Andresen (FS), Urbana, Ill. (no pictures available); For Support Personnel: Marilynn Riley and Phyllis Pitts (Economic Research Service), Washington, DC.

TEAM HONOR AWARDS RECIPIENTS

L. Allen
R. Bemis
M. Braaten
M. Tibbetts

J. Gregory
L. Bailey
M. Riley
P. Pitts

The 42 groups receiving USDA honor awards included:

For Emergency Response: The Boise River Emergency Response Group (FS), Boise, Idaho, David Rittenhouse, Group Leader; the Cooperative Medfly Eradication Team, Camarillo, Calif. (APHIS), Charleston, S.C., John Stewart, Group Leader; the Emergency Response Team (FSIS), Washington, DC, Jill Hollingsworth, Group Leader; the Emergency Watershed Restoration Team (NRCS), Davis, Calif., William Ward, Group Leader; the Hurricane Marilyn Relief Group (APHIS), San Juan, Puerto Rico, Juan Galera, Group Leader; the Louisiana Emergency Response Team (NRCS), Alexandria, La., Bennett Landreneau, Group Leader; the Special Payroll Processing Team (Office of the Chief Financial Officer), New Orleans, La., John Hall, Group Leader; the Regional Cholera Task Force (CES), Edinburg, Texas, Elizabeth Rivera, Group Leader; the Tahoe Hotshots (FS), Tahoe, Calif., Rusty Witwer, Group Leader; the USDA Hurricane Opal Response Team (FSA), Montgomery, Ala., Robert Springer, Group Leader; and the USDA Oklahoma City Emergency Response Team (APHIS), Arlington, Texas, Barbara Gillum, Group Leader; For Environmental Protection: the Cottonwood and Crystal Fire Rehabilitation and Timber Salvage Group (FS), Nevada City, Calif., Stephen Bishop and Joanne Roubique, Group Leaders; the Forest Products Laboratory Enzyme Deinking Team (FS), Madison, Wis., John Klungness, Group Leader; the Interregional Research Project Number 4 Technical Committee (State Agricultural Experiment Station), New Brunswick, N.J., Richard Guest, Group Leader; the Maine USDA AmeriCorps Management Team (NRCS), Orono, Maine, Richard Baird, Group Leader; the Polyoxometalate Bleaching Group (FS), Madison, Wis., Rajai Atalla, Group Leader; the Texas Agricultural Extension Service Integrated Pest Management Team (CES), College Station, Texas, Ray Frisbie, Group Leader; the Urban Integrated Pest Management Team (CES), College Park, Md., Michael Raupp, Group Leader; and the Wetlands Conservation Group (NRCS), Washington, DC, Warren Lee, Group Leader; For Equal Opportunity: the 1890 University Computer Donation Project Group (FCS), Alexandria, Va., Janice Lilja, Group Leader; and the Government Connection Apprenticeship Program Group (Policy Analysis and Coordination Center), Washington, DC, Marilyn Jenkins, Group Leader; For Personal and Professional Excellence: the Anaconda Job Corps (FS), Anaconda, Mont., William Case, Group Leader; the New York Food Stamp Fraud Task Force (OIG), New York, N.Y., Bruce Bethka, Group Leader; the Safe Food for the Hungry Team (CES), West Lafayette, Ind., April Mason, Group Leader; the Strategic Planning, Evaluation, and Compliance, Office of the Administrator (Foreign Agricultural Service), Washington, DC, Terrence Barber, Group Leader; and the Tuskegee University NASA Center for Controlled Ecological Life Support Systems (State Agricultural Experiment Station), Tuskegee, Ala., Walter Hill, Group Leader; For Public Service: the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center, Global Entomology Agricultural Research Server Group (ARS), Tucson, Ariz., Stephen Buchman, Group Leader; the Camp Rabideau Project Group (FS), Blackduck, Minn., Margaret Irish, Group Leader; and the Western Region Hawaii Transition Team (FSIS), Garden Grove, Calif., Robert Baele, Group Leader; For Reinventing Government: the Cotton Division Engineers (AMS), Visalia, Calif., Roger Alldredge, Group Leader; the Electronic Distribution System Project Team (FSA), Washington, DC, Ken Rachfal, Group Leader; the Modernization of Administrative Processes Government Purchase Card and Third Party Draft Business Process Reengineering Team (Office of the Secretary), Washington, DC, Russ Ashworth and Ira Hobbs, Group Leaders; the National Service Program Staff in the Field (Office of Communications), Washington, DC, Joel Berg, Group Leader; the Natural Resources Conservation Service Reorganization (NRCS), Washington, DC, Pearlie Reed, Group Leader; the North Carolina and South Carolina Administrative Staffs (RHS), Raleigh, N.C. and Columbia, S.C., George Batchelor and Cynthia Clark, Group Leaders; the Partners in Quality (AMS), Washington, DC, Larry Lace, Group Leader; the Pesticide Data Program Implementing Work Group (AMS), Washington, DC, Robert Epstein, Group Leader; the Price Index Working Group (NASS), Washington, DC, Robert Milton, Group Leader; the USDA AmeriCorps National Working Group (OC), Washington, DC, Joel Berg, Group Leader; the USDA Awards Implementation Group (OSEC), Washington, DC, Charles Warrick, Group Leader; and the USDA/Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Group (OSEC), Washington, DC, Richard LaPointe, Group Leader; For Support Personnel: the Northeastern Region Support Services Group (FSIS), Philadelphia, Pa., Jackie Morley, Group Leader. ¤

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