Congratulations to Katie M. Albaugh of Walkersville, Md. for being named the 2008 recipient of the Fred Stout Experience Award. The award, given by the American Jersey Cattle Association, was created in 2000 in memory of Fred J. Stout Jr., Mt. Carmel, Ill., a lifelong Jersey breeder and member of the Jersey Marketing Service staff from 1978 to 1997.
Stout believed that the best learning experiences happen in the everyday world. This award honors that conviction. It will provide partial support for Albaugh’s internship with Jersey Marketing Service during the summer of 2008. Her responsibilities will include preparation of sale catalogs and advertising, working with consignors to meet health test requirements and arrange trucking, and providing service to buyers. She will also work on the crew for the 51st National Heifer Sale, June 28, 2008 at the Haywood County Fairgrounds in Waynesville, N.C.
Albaugh is a junior majoring in dairy science at Virginia Tech, having completed an associate’s degree at Frederick Community College, Frederick, Md., last May. An ambasssador for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, she was chair of the catalog subcommittee for the 2008 Showcase of Virginia Tech Sale and also involved in production of the Dairy Club’s yearbook, the Milky Way.
Katie was raised on her family’s farm, Daysland Acres, and has been active in all areas of the dairy operation since 1995. Albaugh was a member of the Maryland team that won the 2006 National 4-H Dairy Cattle Judging Contest, then competed in the international competition in Scotland last summer. She was Maryland FFA Star Farmer in 2005 and served as the organization’s State Vice President for 2005-06. She has served on the Maryland State Junior Fair Board since 2005. She was also the National Milking Shorthorn Queen for 2006-07 and the 2007 Maryland Jersey Queen. She received the Maryland Dairy Scholarship and Maryland State Fair Marlin Hoff Scholarship in 2007.
Previous recipients of the Fred Stout Experience Award are Tara Bohnert, Illinois (2003), Allison Waggoner, South Carolina (2004), Dan Bauer, Wisconsin (2005), Aaron Horst, Pennsylvania (2006), and Jacob Pieper, Maryland (2007).