Mulberry Honor SocietyThe Mulberry Honor Society was created to honor individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to NAADA and to foster their continued involvement in the organization and with institutions of higher education associated with agricultural sciences and their related programs. NAADA Past Presidents, individual achievement award recipients and other honorees invited by the NAADA Executive Committee are eligible for induction into the society. The Mulberry Honor Society is named from a long-standing NAADA tradition—the president’s gavel. Upon his retirement as president of NAADA in 1986, Dave Mugler, Associate Dean of Agriculture at Kansas State University made a gavel and presented it to the organization. The gavel is made of Mulberry and more specifically of a Mulberry root from a tree that stood on Dave’s family farm in Kansas. It was Dave’s wish that the gavel be passed from president to president and that it becomes a reminder of “NAADA’s roots” (root of the Mulberry tree and root of the organization certainly intended) from which the organization was given life. The charter members of the Mulberry Honor Society are as follows: Bill Alverson
Paul Appel* Kim Arp Chuck Banks Keith Barber Timothy Beard Trina Beebe Evan Beech Paula Beecher Bob Bickford* Clancy Biegler* Jody Bissett Dale Bone* Lois Britt* Patricia Brundige Rich Bundy Mary Buschette Bartley Cardon* Chris Cammarene-Wessel Bruce Christmas Richard Church Patty Clark James Clark Scott Cooksey Rick Daluge Sarah & Lawrence Davenport Scott Emerson Juli Fields Mark Fleming
Bobby Gaffney Helen Goetz* Nick Hamon Marcy Heim Kevin Heusman Waymon Hickman Charles Hinton Sennah Honea Fred Hoppin* Darrin Hubbard E. Allen James Milford Jenkins William Jenkins* James Johnson Renee Keese Janet Johnson Bob LaPrad* William Latham Donya Lester Chuck Lindley* Nelson Loftus Jane Longley-Cook* Jamie Lucero Jim Mahan Lynette Marshall Bill McCloskey Judy Mellor* Raymond Miller* Brice Nelson Keith Oakley
David Pfendler* Melissa Pianalto Kirby Player Mollie Pulver Kathryn Reed Mike Richey Arlette Rodrigue Carly Schoepflin William Sheets Nancy & Jim Smith Wayne Smith John Sterling Jillian Stevenson Ginger & Joe Taylor Tina Veal Donald Villwock Joel Wahlberg Shirley Wahlberg Bonnie Lou Wampler Richard Ward* Lynn Wells Darcy Wells Maurice Williamson Paul Willis Russ Wilson Larry Wooten *indicates honoree inducted into the Mulberry Honor society posthumously |