Tennessee Hereford NEWSLETTER Vol. 40 Number 2
Hereford News and Notes from around the South East
Spring 2017
OFFICERS President Julie Chapin, Hartsville
The Hopkins Family from Winchester were recognized as the family of the year at the 2017 THA Annual Meeting. Pictured from Left to Right: Nathan, Roy, Kim, Ethan, Jordan, and Zackery Hopkins.
Vice-President David Parker, Bradyville Secretary Glenda Rickman 553 Enville Bottom Rd. Milledgeville, TN 38359
glendakr@yahoo.com Home: 731-687-3483 Cell: 731-925-0567
Treasurer Kay Coley,
1100 Corum Hill Rd Castalian Springs, TN 37301 tnffamom@gmail.com Cell: 615-804-7843
DIRECTORS Bob Coley, New Market Jim Coley, Castalian Springs Kathryn Ingram, Madisonville Jeremiah Malone Lawrenceburg Gary Preston, Lynchburg Todd Rankin, Henning Mike Rogan, Rogersville Dean Thompson, Nashville Stan Webster, Chestnut Mound Sally Wingler, Christiana
2017
Special Recognition
by Randall Bartley
The Hopkins family—Roy, Kim, Zachary, Jordan, Nathan and Ethan of Winchester received the Tennessee Hereford Association Special Recognition Award for 2017. Roy and Kim have worked as a team for the past seven years serving as the advisors for the Tennessee Junior Hereford Association. During that time, they have worked tirelessly to guide and direct numerous youth activities for the association, to include being directly responsible for hosting two Southeastern Regional Junior Hereford Shows. In his non-cattle life, Roy is currently the business manager for a large engineering
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HA Directors & Officers Elected
Two new directors were named at the THA Annual Meeting in Lebanon this past March. Jeremiah Malone of Lawrenceburg and Sally Wingler of Christiana replaced retiring directors Jonathan Dagley and David Burns. Retiring directors David Parker and Stan Webster were re-elected to three year terms. Julie Chapin was elected President and David Parker Vice-President.
firm, and for the past 13 years, has pastored two different Methodist churches. He is also currently serving as a Director on the Franklin County Farm Bureau. Like Roy, Kim has also stayed very busy. After the birth of their first son, Zackery, Kim gave up her job at Arnold Air Base in Tullahoma, Tennessee, to become a full-time mom. Today she stays busy supervising everyone’s schedules, handling all of the farm’s paperwork to include farm marketing efforts, and mothering four very active young men. Three of the Hopkins are currently college students -- Zachary a veterinary student at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine, Jordan at Middle Tennessee State University and Nathan at Vanderbilt University -- and one, Ethan is Continued on Page 10 “ Special”
The 2017 THA Directors (Left to Right):: Kathryn Ingram, Todd Rankin, Sally Wingler, Jeremiah Malone, Jim Coley, David Parker, Bo Coley, Julie Chapin, Gary Preston, Stan Webster, and Mike Rogan.
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