USDANEWS VOLUME 58 NO5 - JUNE 1999
by Charlene Baker, Office of Human Resources Management
USDA honored a number of its employees, for their outstanding achievements, at its “53rd Annual Honor Awards Ceremony,” which took place on June 9 in the Jefferson Auditorium of USDA’s South Building in Washington, DC.
Sandra Anglade, USDA’s Employee Recognition Program Manager with the Office of Human Resources Management and coordinator of the Ceremony, said that 146 nominations, which included 77 individuals, 6 teams, and 63 groups, were submitted to the USDA Honor Awards Evaluation Committee. The five-member Committee reviewed those nominations and made its recommendations to Secretary Dan Glickman.
“The Committee forwarded to Secretary Glickman 69 percent of the nominations it had received,” she said.
Anglade noted that USDA honor awards ultimately were awarded to 101 recipients, including 52 individuals, 4 teams, and 45 groups.
Glickman delivered the keynote address and then he and Deputy Secretary Richard Rominger presented the major USDA awards to the employees.
The highest USDA Honor Awards are the Golden and Silver Plow Awards. One team received a Golden Plow this year, while four individuals and one group received Silver Plow Awards. Those recipients have that particular annotation by their respective names in the list that follows.
The 52 individuals receiving USDA honor awards included:
For Emergency Response: Carole Bolin [Silver Plow] (Agricultural Research Service), Ames, Iowa; For Environmental Protection: Joseph DelVecchio (Natural Resources Conservation Service), Syracuse, N.Y.; George Demas (NRCS), Snow Hill, Md.; William Jury (Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service), Riverside, Calif.; Leon Kochian (ARS), Ithaca, N.Y.; and Micheal Olexa (CSREES), Gainesville, Fla.; For Equal Opportunity: Dwight Holman (NRCS), Washington, DC; and Ricky Tafoya (NRCS), St. Michaels, Ariz.; For Heroism: Edward Miller (Forest Service), Baldwin, Mich.; For Personal and Professional Excellence: Dov Borovsky [Silver Plow] (CSREES), Vero Beach, Fla.; Harold Burdsall [Silver Plow] (FS), Madison, Wis.; Frederick Crook (Economic Research Service), Washington, DC; Larry Cundiff (ARS),Clay Center, Neb.; William Flatt (CSREES), Athens, Ga.; William Francis (Agricultural Marketing Service), Albany, N.Y.; David Funk (Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration), Kansas City, Mo.; Wallace Furrow (Rural Housing Service), Champaign, Ill.; Daniel Gorbet (CSREES), Marianna, Fla.; Eric Gustafson (FS), Rhinelander, Wis.; Phil Hogan (NRCS), Woodland, Calif.; Emmett Keith Inskeep (CSREES), Morgantown, W.Va.; Cathy Kornfeld (Office of the General Counsel), Atlanta, Ga.; Autar Mattoo (ARS), Beltsville, Md.; Max Paape (ARS), Beltsville, Md.; Michael Petersen (NRCS), Greeley, Colo.; John Pitchford (GIPSA), Washington, DC; John Reddington (Foreign Agricultural Service), Washington, DC; Diane Sharp (Farm Service Agency), Washington, DC; William Shay (RHS), Columbia, Mo.; John South (CSREES), Fort Worth, Texas; David Topel (CSREES), Ames, Iowa; Alden Townsend (ARS), Washington, DC; Donald West (AMS), Memphis, Tenn.; Guochen Yang (CSREES), Greensboro, N.C.; John Youngquist (FS), Madison, Wis.; and Fedro Zazueta (CSREES), Gainesville, Fla.; For Public Service: Stephen Bowman (FS), Greeneville, Tenn.(posthumously awarded; no photo available); Mary Brown (AMS), Washington, DC; Lane Jolliffe (National Association of State Departments of Agriculture), Boise, Idaho; David King (CSREES), West Lafayette, Ind.; Frank Koenig (FS), Morgantown, W.Va.; Troy Mumphrey (NRCS), Tyler, Texas; Erlinda Pestano-Binghay (Food and Nutrition Service), Chicago, Ill.; and Yevonne Prewitt [Silver Plow] (FSA), West Point, Miss.; For Reinventing Government: Robert Ho (Rural Business-Cooperative Service), Orono, Maine.; For Support Personnel: Herman Buckman (AMS), Washington, DC; Amy Curtis (National Agricultural Statistics Service), Washington, DC; Mary Hoke (RBS), Washington, DC; Kyle Lester (FS), Manchester Center, Vt. (no photo available); Ruth Wayne (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service), Sacramento, Calif.; Roderick Williams (RHS), Washington, DC; and Frances Wlazlak, (FSA), Lebanon, Pa.
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C. Bolin J. DelVecchio G. Demas W. Jury L. Kochian M. Olexa |
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D. Holman R. Tafoya E. Miller D. Borovsky H. Burdsall F. Crook |
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L. Cundiff W. Flatt W. Francis D. Funk W. Furrow D. Gorbet |
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E. Gustafson P. Hogan E.K. Inskeep C. Kornfeld A. Mattoo M. Paape |
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M. Petersen J. Pitchford J. Reddington D. Sharp W. Shay J. South |
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D. Topel A. Townsend D. West G. Yang J. Youngquist F. Zazueta |
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M. Brown L. Jolliffe D. King F. Koenig T. Mumphrey E. Pestano-Binghay |
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Y. Prewitt R. Ho H. Buckman A. Curtis M. Hoke K. Lester |
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R. Wayne R. Williams F. Wlazlak |
The 4 Teams receiving USDA honor awards included:
For Environmental Protection: Ronald Crawford and Donald Crawford [Golden Plow] (CSREES), Moscow, Idaho; For Personal and Professional Excellence: Jane Schuchardt and Elizabeth Schiever (CSREES), Washington, DC/Denver, Colo.; For Public Service: Jose Alvarez and William Messina (CSREES), Belle Glade, Fla./Gainesville, Fla.; and Jane Schmoyer-Weber and John Gorman (FS), Great Falls, Mont.
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R. Crawford D. Crawford J. Schuchardt E. Schiever |
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J. Alvarez W. Messina J. Schmoyer-Weber J. Gorman |
The 45 groups receiving USDA honor awards included:
For Emergency Response: the International Services and Collaborators Group (APHIS), Washington, DC, Angel Cielo, Group Leader; the Japanese Paddy Rice Smuggling Team (APHIS), Concord, Calif., James Schwartz, Group Leader; and the Puerto Rico Hurricane Response Group (RHS), Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, Ileana Echegoyen, Group Leader; For Environmental Protection: the Aqua Fair Team (NRCS), Jackson, Miss., Jeannine May, Group Leader; the Backyard Conservation Campaign Team (NRCS), Washington, DC, David White, Group Leader; the Brown Tree Snake Control and Research (APHIS), Agana, Guam, Mike Pitzler, Group Leader; and the Carson Fisheries Team (FS), Taos, N.M., Donna Storch, Group Leader; For Equal Opportunity: the Agency Support and Special Emphasis Programs Division (Office of Civil Rights), Washington, DC, Linda Varner Mount, Group Leader; the Beltsville Office Facility Design and Management Group (Office of the Secretary), Priscilla Carey, Group Leader; the FSIS/Asian Pacific American Network in Agriculture Harmonization Initiative Team (Food Safety and Inspection Service), Washington, DC, Margaret Glavin and Yann King, Group Leaders; and the Pathways to Educational Partnerships Planning Circles (CSREES), St. Paul, Minn., James Sutherland, Group Leader; For Heroism: the Region IV, Area 3 Subsahara Africa (APHIS), Riverdale, Md., Cheryl French, Group Leader; For Personal and Professional Excellence: the Airtanker Investigation Task Force (Office of Inspector General), Seattle, Wash., Wayne North, Group Leader; the Communities Against Rape Working Group (CSREES), West Lafayette, Ind., Mary Pilat, Group Leader; the Community Programs Servicing and Special Authorities Branch (RHS), Washington, DC, Barth Miller, Group Leader; the Dairy Fraud Investigation Team (AMS), Alexandria, Va., David Walker, Group Leader; the Foreign Country Inspection Equivalence Team (FSIS), Washington, DC, Sally Stratmoen, Group Leader; the Foundation Financial Information System Audit Team (OIG), Kansas City, Mo., Thomas Heideman, Group Leader; the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point Training Facilitation Team (FSIS), Washington, DC, Jerry Skufe, Group Leader; the Japan Varietal Testing World Trade Organization Team (ARS), Beltsville, Md., Kenneth Vick, Group Leader; the Operation Kiddie Care Core Team (OIG), San Francisco, Calif., Robert Gray, Group Leader; the Partnership Group (FS), Cadillac, Mich., Gloria Boersma, Group Leader; the Rail Team (AMS), Washington, DC, Keith Klindworth, Group Leader; the Salmonella Enteritidis Risk Assessment Team (FSIS), Washington, DC, Kaye Wachsmuth, Group Leader; the Tobacco Fraud Task Force (FSA), Raleigh, N.C., Edmund Deyo, Group Leader; the Total Quality Systems Audit Program Team (FSA), Washington, DC, Dean Jensen, Group Leader; and the Urgent Response Group for Emergency Needs in Taxonomy (ARS), Beltsville, Md., Manya Stoetzel, Group Leader; For Public Service: the Abuela Project Group (CSREES), Yakima, Wash., Theo Thomas, Group Leader; the “It’s My Child Too” Fathering Project (CSREES), West Lafayette, Ind., Douglas Powell, Group Leader; the Seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point Alliance (CSREES), Gainesville, Fla., Steven Otwell, Group Leader; the Techline Team (FS), Madison, Wis., Debra Dietzman, Group Leader; and the Y2K Community Outreach (Office of the Chief Information Officer), Washington, DC, Judith Rude, Group Leader; For Reinventing Government: the Anti-Fraud Locator Electronic Retailer Transactions Project Team (FNS), Alexandria, Va., Christopher Beavers, Group Leader; the Central Field Supply System Team (FSIS), Landover, Md., Peter Bridgeman and Angela Crawford, Group Leaders; the Economics and Statistics System Team (World Agricultural Outlook Board), Washington, DC, James Horsfield, Group Leader; the European Union Dairy Certification Team (FAS), Washington, DC, Craig Thorn, Group Leader; the Fee Demonstration Implementation Team [Silver Plow] (FS), Albuquerque, N.M., Joe Meade, Group Leader; the Field Office Workload Reduction Team (NRCS), Washington, DC, Carole Jett, Group Leader; the Geaux Web Team (Office of the Chief Financial Officer), New Orleans, La., Beth Rockwell, Group Leader; the Jefferson Collection and Processing Team (NASS), Louisville, Ky., James Vogelsang, Group Leader; the National Organic Program Electronic Rulemaking Process (AMS), Washington, DC, Eileen Stommes, Group Leader; the Regulatory Reform Group (FSIS), Washington, DC, Daniel Engeljohn, Group Leader; the South Carolina Human Resources Group (NRCS/RHS), Columbia, S.C., Delores Stevenson and Cynthia Clark, Group Leaders; and the Women, Infants, and Children Nutrition Risk Partnership Group (FNS), Alexandria, Va., Barbara Hallman, Group Leader; For Support Personnel: the Manistique Recreation Team (FS), Manistique, Mich., Brenda Madden, Group Leader.
In addition to the 101 USDA honor award presentations, USDA recognized its 12 Presidential Rank Award recipients for fiscal year 1998, the USDA recipients of major awards sponsored by external organizations, and the 336 Departmental employees across the country who have 40 or more years of federal service.
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