The Midwest Dairy Association has been busy holding meetings and electing new officers and directors. Check out your divisions new leadership below!
The board of the Midwest Dairy Association – Chicago Division elected its 2007 officers during its annual meeting held in conjunction with the checkoff’s National Dairy Directors Planning Forum. Officers re-elected were Warren Pollard, (Rockford, Ill.) – chairman, Don Berlage, (Elizabeth, Ill.) – vice chair, Ardath DeWall, (Shannon, Ill.) – secretary and Don Ellingson, (Poplar Grove, Ill.) – treasurer.
Pollard and DeWall were re-elected to serve on the Midwest Dairy Association corporate board, which manages the dairy promotion checkoff in nine states. Pollard was also re-elected treasurer of the corporate board. Ellingson will represent the Chicago Division on the board of the American Dairy Association of the Midwest, the funding agency for the Illinois State Fair Dairy Building operations.
The board of the Midwest Dairy Association – St. Louis Division elected its 2007 officers during its annual meeting held in conjunction with the National Dairy Directors Regional Planning Forum in Atlanta. Officers are Mary Jo (Jody) Varel, (Bartelso, Ill.) – chairman, Jim Wesselschmidt, (New Haven, Mo.) – vice chairman, Larry Frederick, (Baring, Mo.) – secretary and Joe Probst, (Teutopolis, Ill.) – treasurer.
Varel, Wesselschmidt and Probst were elected to serve on the Midwest Dairy Association Corporate Board, which manages the dairy promotion checkoff in nine states. Probst will also represent the St. Louis Division on the board of American Dairy Association of the Midwest, the funding agency for the Illinois State Fair Dairy Building operations.
New directors seated on the St. Louis Board are Dave Ruppert, (Nokomis, Ill.), Greg Edwards, (Payson, Ill.), Tim Dresser, (Keokuk, Iowa) and Irving Britton, (Villa Ridge, Ill.).
The board of the Midwest Dairy Association – North Dakota Division elected its 2007 officers during its annual meeting held in conjunction with the National Dairy Directors Regional Planning Forum in Atlanta. Officers are Jerry Messer, (Richardton, N.D.) – chairman, Terry Entzminger, (Jamestown, N.D.) – vice chair, Rita Mosset, (Linton, N.D.) – secretary and Lilah Krebs, (Gladstone, N.D.) – treasurer.
Kenton Holle, Mandan, was elected to serve with Messer on the Midwest Dairy Association corporate board, which manages the dairy promotion checkoff in nine states. Messer was re-elected as first vice-chair of the corporate board.
The board of the Midwest Dairy Association – Iowa Division elected its 2007 officers during its annual meeting held in conjunction with the National Dairy Directors Regional Planning Forum in Atlanta. Officers are G. Joe Lyon, (Toledo, Iowa) – chairman, Norbert Schmidt, (Readlyn, Iowa) – vice chair, Dan Hotvedt, (Mabel, Minn.) – secretary and Larry Shover, (Delhi, Iowa)– treasurer. New members of the Iowa Division board are Leslie Kerndt, Jr., (Waukon, Iowa) and Robert Vander Veen, (Alton, Iowa).
The four officers, along with Pam Bolin (Clarksville, Iowa) and John Grafenberg (West Union, Iowa) were elected to the Corporate board, which manages the dairy promotion checkoff in nine states. Shover and Schmidt will join representatives from other states on the board of the American Dairy Association of the Midwest, which manages non-checkoff assets for the organization.