Alumni Awards

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Early Career Achievement Award

The Ferguson College of Agriculture prepares its graduates to succeed at the highest levels of their chosen career path. The Early Career Achievement Award recognizes two former students who have found early success in their careers.

 

• 2025
  • Dr. Robby Branscum
  • Halston Johnson
• 2024
  • Jered Davidson
  • Kyle Hilbert
• 2023
  • Cody Klein
  • Jerry May
• 2022
  • Dr. J. Connor Ferguson
  • Emily Shuping
• 2021
  • Dr. Stephanie Rogers
  • Sara Scott
• 2020
  • Kelli Payne
  • Myriah Johnson
• 2019
  • Travis Bradshaw
  • Cortney Cowley
• 2018
  • Trent McKnight
  • Bambi Sidwell
• 2017
  • Shannon Angle
  • John Marc Holt
• 2016
  • Robyn (Sites) Rudisill
  • Brady Sidwell
• 2015
  • Mike Albert
  • Kent Gardner
• 2014
  • Bart Fischer
  • Tyler Norvell
• 2013

  No awards (skipped year in transition from BBQ to Gala)

• 2012
  • Jason Harvey
  • Shane Robinson
• 2011
  • Tyson Ochsner
  • Heather Van Hooser
• 2010
  • Shannon Ferrell
  • Chris Stephens

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Distinguished Alumni Award

The OSU Ferguson College of Agriculture Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes and honors graduates who have contributed significantly to society and whose accomplishments, inside or outside the agricultural profession, have brought distinctive credit to the college.

 

• 2024
  • Jami Longacre
  • Ed Moydell
  • Mary and Rob Shuey
  • Carl Thoma
• 2023
  • Lionel Bentley
  • Heather Buckmaster
  • Gary Clark
  • Andy Cole
  • Eddie Fields
  • Terry Tippens
• 2022
  • John Fenderson
  • Jeff Hilst
  • Lenny Hughes
  • Karen Eifert Jones
  • Tammy Lee
  • Patsiann Nix Smith
• 2021
  • Mindy Brashears
  • Raymond Campbell
  • Michael Galyean
  • Brett Ramsey and Greg Ramsey
  • Frank C. Robson
• 2020
  • Greg & Kristen Hart
  • Richard Carter
  • Michael Kenna
  • Ken Pinkston
• 2019
  • Austin Kenyon
  • Clint Roush
  • Tererai Trent
  • Susanne Wasson
• 2018
  • Charlotte Kirk Baer
  • Frederick Drummond
  • Gregory Schultz
• 2017
  • Richard Large
  • Bill Lingren
  • Paul Redman
• 2016
  • Larry Ferguson
  • Ron Justice
  • Matthew Waits
• 2015
  • Minnie Lou Bradley
  • James E. Kennamer
  • Robert L. Westerman
• 2014
  • Larry Shell
  • Ross McKnight
  • Barry Pollard
• 2013
  • Randy Davis
  • Butch Meibergern
  • Bob Sherrer
• 2012
  • Tommy Kramer
  • Ron Sholar
• 2011
  • Scott Dewald
  • Terry Forst
  • Don Schieber
• 2010
  • Keith Kisling
  • Joe Schulte
  • Doug Tippens
• 2009
  • Claud Evans
  • Mark Hodges
  • Ken Starks
• 2008
  • Joe Neal Hampton
  • Mike Kubicek
  • Clem McSpadden
• 2007
  • Byrd Collins Curtis
  • Edward A. Smith
  • Dennis R. White
• 2005
  • Pongsak Angkasith
  • Frank D. Lucas
• 2003
  • Don Peters
  • R. Larry Watkins
• 2002
  • George Hall
  • Quintus Herron
  • Billy Tucker
• 2001
  • Burke Healey
  • Ronnie Morgan
  • Donald Ramsey
• 2000
  • Ralph Dreessen
  • Paul Hitch (d)
  • Lew Meibergen
• 1999
  • Terry Nipp
  • Orville Sweet
  • Emmett Thompson
• 1998
  • Bobby Moser
  • Russell Pierson
• 1997
  • Robert Ealy
  • David Williams
• 1996
  • Willard Sparks
  • Walter Woolley Jr.
• 1995
  • Ray Kimsey
  • Alan Ritchey
• 1994
  • Doyle Keirn
  • Jean Neustadt
• 1993
  • Harold Burkhart
  • William McDonald Jr.
• 1991
  • Richard Crowder
  • Richard Willham
• 1990
  • U. Jerry Grant
  • Ed Long
  • Francis Tuttle
  • Robert Walton
• 1989
  • Duane Acker
  • William Taggart
  • Wes Watkins
• 1988
  • Zerle Carpenter
  • J.D. Fleming
  • Henry Ponder
• 1987
  • Frank Baker
  • Henry Hitch Jr.
• 1986
  • K.C. Emerson
  • Lloyd Long
  • William May
• 1985
  • Whitham Finney
  • Leon McDonald
• 1984
  • Melvin Jones
• 1983
  • Henry Bellmon
  • Fred Merrifield
  • Herbert Swim

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Champions Award

The Champion award recognizes and honors individuals who are not graduates of the Ferguson College of Agriculture, but who have brought distinction to OSU Agriculture and have demonstrated a continuing interest and commitment in agricultural sciences and natural resources.

 

• 2024
  • Ronald Elliott
  • Harvey Schroeder
• 2023
  • Win and Kay Ingersoll
  • Jon Newell
• 2022
  • Elizabeth Logan
  • Carl Whitcomb
  • Joe Williams
• 2021
  • Martha Burger
  • Arlan Richardson
  • Brenda Sidwell
  • Joyce Taylor and Barbara Pass
  • Marta White
• 2020
  • Paul Schatte
• 2019
  • Kathy Noltensmeyer
  • David Waits
• 2018
  • Brad Parker
  • Gene Rainbolt
  • JD Waggoner
• 2017
  • John Groendyke
  • John Patrick Lopez
  • Merlin and Lillian Schantz
• 2016
  • Randy Byford
  • Malinda Berry Fischer
  • Dick Fischer
  • Helen Hodges
• 2015
  • Linda Cline
  • Rita Sparks
  • John Williams
• 2014
  • Bob Funk
  • David Howard
  • Rodd Moesel
• 2013
  • Bob Hamilton
  • Dace McLaughlin
  • Linda Shackelford
• 2012
  • Bill Ford
  • Paul Jackson (posthumous)
  • Virgil Jurgensmeyer
• 2011
  • Terry Detrick
  • Ron Hays
  • Mike Spradling