A l p h a R ho C h a p t e r
Wi n t e r 2 0 1 6
( J anu ar y)
E PSILO N S IGMA P HI
P R E S I D E N T ’ S C O R N E R - N O Z E L L A B R OW N
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
New members initiated
2
Alpha Rho webpage
2
Endowment Grant
Funds
2
Global Relations
Committee
3
Nomination Committee
3
Scholarships Available
3
Jamie Rathbun...
Thank You
4
National Scholarships
4
2015 Recognition
5
National ESP Conference in Idaho
5
The Year was
1985….History
6
Nadine Sigle….Pres.
Elect and Thank You
7
ESP Endowment Grant
Fund—Facts
7
Linda Beech….Thank
You
8
Debra Bolton…..Thank
You
9
2015 Tenure
Recognition
10
Happy New Year!
At the beginning of each new year, I review the last year and I
find myself sighing, laughing, crying and celebrating as I remember all the people and events that left an indelible imprint on my
life. What excites me most about each new year are the unknown opportunities that await me. This year after studying Simon Sinek's "Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action," I plan to be more intentional about living
out my personal and professional "why". I love my work as an Extension professional because its mission matches my "why": to
improve the quality of life of everyone I meet.
With humility and a little trepidation, I find myself serving as
your 2016 president. As we look forward to the challenges and
opportunities of 2016, I invite you to join me in fulfilling the mission of Epsilon Sigma Phi--the Extension professional organization "dedicated to fostering standards of excellence in the Extension System and developing the Extension professional". If we
remember, it was during challenging times that Extension was
birthed; and, it is because of our dedicated work that we continue to be vital to the life and sustainability of our communities.
Thanks for traveling with me on this 2016 journey to lead our
colleagues in professional development that focuses on the
21st-century Extension professional. I'm looking forward to an
awesome year!
Dr. Nozella Brown, EdD
President
K-State Research and Extension
Alpha Rho Chapter,
Epsilon Sigma Phi
P age 2
WELCOME NEW MEMBERS!
The following members were initiated into membership during
our 2015 annual
recognition event in
October during the
KSRE Annual Conference.
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Epsilon Sigma Phi
(ESP) is dedicated to
fostering standards
of excellence in the
Extension system
and developing the
Extension profession
and professional.
Associate Members
 JoEllyn Argabright,
Rawlins County
 Ignacio Ciampitti,
Agronomy
 James Coover,
Dickinson County
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Nancy Daniels,
Community Dev.
Crystal Futrell,
Johnson County
Matthew McKernan,
Sedgwick County
Rebekah McKinley,
Hamilton County
Don Moler,
Douglas County
Sandra Myers,
Farm Mgt. Assn.
Renae Riedy,
Marion County
Jenae Ryan,
Post Rock District
Jenifer Sexson,
Hamilton County
Erin Yelland,
Fam. Stud./Hum. Ser.
Annual Members
 Cindy Evans,
Shawnee County
 Chris Petty,
Southwind District
Life Members
 Jim Adams,
4-H Youth Dev.
 Marie Blythe,
Administration
 Pat Murphy,
Bio./Ag Engineering
 Robert Neier,
Sedgwick County
CHECKOUT OUR ESP WEBSITE…….
If you haven’t been
online to check out
our ESP Alpha Rho
Chapter website, you
will want to go to the
link provided and see
what opportunities are
available for you as a
member!
www.ksre.ksu.edu/
esp-alpharho
Minutes from each of
the Alpha Rho Council
meetings can be
found from the main
webpage by clicking
on “minutes” in the
left hand pane.
Unsure on your committee tasks, simply
go to the “committee”
link in the left hand
pane.
E S P E N D OW M E N T G R A N T F U N D S
The Extension Endowment Fund Board of
Trustees would like
to remind chapter
members that grants
will be awarded to
chapter members in
2016 for either professional development or
program innovation.
Professional development grants can be
used for attendance at
professional meetings,
for other professional
development or for
graduate studies.
Program innovation
grants can be used for
programming that is
timely and relevant to
the mission of K-State
Research and Extension. Watch for further
information via email.
Stacey Warner,
Past President
Bd. Of Trustees Chair
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P age 3
GLOBAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE
The Global Relations
Committee has the goal
to help raise awareness
among ESP chapter
members about professional international travel
opportunities. The committee met by conference
call on Friday, December
18.
Committee members
shared their own professional travel experiences
and outlined some of
their personal benefits
from international travel.
NOMINATION
Those benefits included:
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To share technical
expertise
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To gain technical expertise
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To be less judgmental when meeting
those from another
culture
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To learn about another culture
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To be a better professional
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STACEY WARNER, CHAIR
Secretary
Editor
Northeast and
Southeast Directors
Retiree Director
Endowment
Trustee.
Please consider
nominating your colleagues or serving
as a nominee if
asked.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHOLARSHIPS
AVA I L A B L E F R O M E S P ! !
A benefit of Alpha Rho Chapter membership is the opportunity to apply for professional
development scholarships.
Details for submitting a scholarship application for the Jim
Lindquist Administrative Leadership Scholarship for Professional Development is available on the website at:
www.ksre.ksu.edu/espalpharho/p.aspx?tabid=12
Check out
the
“Internationalizing
Extension
Facebook
Page”.
Stacey Warner,
Chair
Global Relations Committee
COMMITTEE:
The Nominating
Committee will be
working later in the
year to secure nominees for the following
officers:
 President-elect
(from a county or
district)
The committee also brainstormed how they might
help chapter members
learn about international
travel opportunities as well
as some resources for financing these experiences.
Watch for more information
later.
In the meantime, the committee would encourage
members to “like” the Internationalizing Extension
Facebook group.
The Scholarship application is
due June 1.
Epsilon Sigma Phi Extension
Endowment Fund Grant applications are due August 15.
Information about the grant
and the application details
are located on the chapter
website at:
www.ksre.ksu.edu/espalpharho/doc4201.ashx
If you have additional questions
contact Stacey Warner, Endowment Grant Fund Chair, at
(785) 532-5790 or email at
swarner@ksu.edu.
“ESP is the only
professional
organization where
you associate with
all Extension
professionals,
including retirees.”
Kansas ESP Member
P age 4
Jamie Rathbun
2015
ESP Endowment
Grant Fund for
Professional
Development
Recipient
2 01 5 E S P E N D O W M E N T F U N D
RECIPIENT THANK YOU!
I would like to thank the ESP
Endowment Fund for the Professional Development Grant
to attend the Extension Disaster Education Network Annual
Meeting in Florence, Alabama.
As a Kansas EDEN Delegate,
it was fun/fascinating/nice to
attend the Annual Meeting for
the Extension organization
that is tasked with disaster
education, preparedness, and
recovery. One of the main
reasons for my attendance at
the conference was to present the Prepare Kansas program that has been developed by K-State Research
and Extension.
Elizabeth Kiss and I shared
with Extension professionals
from across the country about
how K-State Research and
Extension is educating and
motivating individuals, families, and businesses in Kansas, and across the United
States to prepare themselves
ahead of disaster.
Beyond presenting, I was able
to attend breakout sessions
on Pet Emergency Planning,
Business Disaster Preparedness, Recovery After Disaster:
The Family Financial Toolkit,
and Emergency Management
Training Requirements for
Extension Personnel.
for disaster recovery, including their ability to aid in
search and rescue efforts.
These air craft can also be
used for aerial photography of
disaster stricken areas and
structures to determine the
safety of humans or animals
to enter a building.
Many of these things have
helped as we have planned
the Prepare Kansas 2015
Challenge focusing on the
different weather related
events that might happen in
Kansas and have participants
prepare their emergency supply kit for themselves and
family, including pets.
Thank you again to the ESP
Endowment Fund. I couldn’t
have made this trip without
your support. I hope that others take advantage of these
funds to further develop as
Extension professionals.
Other resources that were
shared will be helpful as we
plan for future years and work
to update and keep fresh the
focus of the Prepare Kansas
2014 Challenge, Financial
Disaster Preparedness.
While I don’t keep up with the
latest and greatest that technology has to offer, the keynote address about Unmanned Aircraft was quite
interesting. Individuals with
ties to Extension are studying
the capacity that drones have
NATIONAL ESP SCHOLARSHIPS
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Mark your
Calendar!!!!
Scholarships are available
from the National ESP organization for the Richard
R. Angus Professional Development Scholarship
and the Redinger Administrator/Leader Scholarship.
Both scholarships are for
$500.
Sincerely,
Jamie Rathbun
Jamie Rathbun
FCS Agent
Midway District
The Richard R. Angus Professional Development
Scholarship is to support
professional development
through participation in
courses, seminars, conferences or workshops. Due
March 1.
FOR
The Redinger Administrator/Leader Scholarship is
to be used to defray the
cost of attending the National ESP Conference.
Due May 1.
The applications for both
scholarships are available
on the ESP National website:
www.espnational.org
E ps i l o n S i g m a P h i
P age 5
F A L L 2 01 5 R E C O G N I T I O N
Horizon:
County/District
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Travis Carmichael
Lyon County
Nora Rhoades
Post Rock District
Diversity/
Multicultural—Team
Meritorious Service
County/District
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State
Cathie Lavis
Hort/For./Rec. Res.
Administrative Leadership
 Gregg Hadley
Ag/Nat’l Rec/
Comm.Dev.
Early Career
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Holly Dickman
Ellis County
Mid-Career
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Mary Meck Higgins
Human Nutrition
Now is the
time
Sheryl Carson
Kearny County
Rebecca McFarland
Frontier District
Distinguished Service
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Trudy Rice
Ag and Nat’l Res.
Distinguished Team
 “Ozsome Camp 4-H20
Team members:
Jodi Besthorn, Sedgwick
County; Beth Drescher, Sedgwick County; Lindsey Friesen,
McPherson County; Sarah
Maass, Central Kansas District; Candis Meerpohl, Shawnee County; Charlene Miller,
Butler County; Renae Riedy,
Marion County; and Rickey
Roberts, Marion County.
Diversity/Multicultural
Individual
Zelia Wiley
College of Agriculture
to think
about
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“Reaching New Audiences with Bilingual/
Bicultural 4-H Youth
Development
Team Members:
who you
might
Andrea Burns, Ford County;
Sharon Erickson-Fryback,
Gray County; Rosa Gonzalez,
Southwest Area; Lexi Kiniston,
Ford County; Ethel Schneweis,
Ford County; Kurt Werth, Gray
County.
nominate
for 2016!
Retiree Service
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Steve Fisher
4-H Youth
Development
2015 Endowment Fund
Grants (Professional Dev.)
 Debra Bolton, FCS,
Southwest Area,
$850, 2015 National
ESP Conference
 Linda Beech, FCS,
Ellis County, $1,050,
2015 National ESP
Conference
 Chuckie Hessong,
FCS, Wildcat District,
$1,500, 2015 National ESP Conference
2015 Endowment Fund
Grants (Program Innovation)
 Sharolyn Flaming Jack-
son and M. Gayle Price,
FCS, NE and SE, $1,500,
“Stay Strong, Stay
Healthy Program:
Strength Training for
Older Adults.”
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Jennifer Wilson, Director, Riley County,
$3,500, “Art of Facilitation: Building Your Palette of Skills.”
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Erin Yelland, Adult
Dev./Aging, $2,660,
“Know the 10 Signs of
Alzheimer’s Disease.”
KANSAS DELEGATES TO NATIONAL ESP CONFERENCE
Our Kansas Alpha
Rho Chapter had a
great group of members attending the
2015 National ESP
Conference in Coeur
d’Alene, Idaho in October.
We especially would like to
congratulate our two national
winners:
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Doug Jardine
Professor/Plant Pathology Specialist and State Leader
Distinguished Service
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Debra Bolton
FCS Specialist, Southwest Area
Diversity/Multicultural
Individual
Kansas Delegation at the 2015 National ESP Conference
in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
P age 6
T H E Y E A R W A S 1 9 8 5… . . .
By Doug
Jardine,
ESP Annalist
and Historian
Did
You
Know……
Thank you to all who provided encouragement to
me to continue these looks
back into Alpha Rho Chapter history. This time I decided to look back to
1985, the year that coincided with my arrival at
Kansas State University,
although I was not yet an
Epsilon Sigma Phi member.
Officers that year included
Ray Mann – President;
David Schafer – Vice president; Katherine Burke –
Secretary; William Eberle –
Treasurer; Mary Tucker –
Annalist; and Kathleen
Ward – Editor.
“1985 was the year
that our Alpha Rho
Chapter joined the
computer age,
thanks to past
president Ralf
Graham.”
There were 20 new initiates including Jodi
Besthorn, Catherine Borst,
Carol Fink, Ruth Fowler,
Kitty Griffin, Richard Hayter, Emily Kling, James
Kunkel, Steven Mayer,
Michele McColm, Marcia
McFarland, Ricky Nelson,
Deborah O’Flynn, David
Pacey, Mark Schwartzentraub, Cynthia Siemens,
Frank Swan, Marsha Weaver, and Dorothy Yeager. If
my research is correct, all
of those initiates except
Jodi Besthorn are either
retired or have left Extension somewhere along the
way.
The Distinguished Service
Award was presented to
Robert Bohannon. Meritorious Service Awards were
presented to Steve Fisher,
Eugene Francis, Helen
Barnes and Delbert Jepson. Horizon Award winners included Warren Pray,
Danny Simms, Catherine
Borst and Steven Mayer.
Of course, 1985 was near
the height of the 1980’s
farm crisis. President
Mann noted in the June
newsletter, “We’ve had a
difficult year for agriculture, but I believe we can
be proud of how Extension's professional corps
has responded. Knowing
we're providing vitally important education--just
when it’s most needed—
reminds us all of why we
became Extension workers
in the first place.” This
statement is still true today, don’t you think?
Fringe benefits were a major concern in 1985. A
committee chaired by Del
Jepson reported that Kansas Extension workers
were not faring as well as
others. Director Fred Sobering addressed some of
the problems in a Q & A in
the newsletter. Of course
in the following year, the
decision was made that
new employees would no
longer be eligible for Federal retirement and benefits.
Nineteen eighty-five was
also the year that the Alpha Rho Chapter joined
the computer age when
past president Ralf Graham created a file containing the mailing list from
which mailing labels could
be printed. Can you imagine that? Historic files and
dues payments were also
stored on computer disks
and the June newsletter
was the first to be assembled on a computer. The
subject of computers continued in the October
newsletter. It was noted,
“What do Extension staff
find is the hardest part of
getting into the computer
age? Often it's removing
their secretary from the
machine long enough to
learn how to use it. In fact,
secretaries have threatened to quit, if their computer time was threatened.” It was noted that
nearly a third of county
offices had at least one
computer and that by
spring, 1986 “nearly onehalf of the counties may
well have a micro
(desktop) computer.”
Remember those 1965
dues that were set to double from $4.00 to $8.00?
By 1985 they had increased to $20.00. Other
items from the business
meeting included the
treasurer’s report that indicated that receipts actually
outpaced expenses for a
change, by a whopping
$149.95. The Chapter Projects Committee reported
that past Extension director Dr. Robert Bohannon
had agreed to have his
portrait made, thus completing the gallery of past
Kansas Extension Directors in the lobby of Umberger Hall. The groundwork was laid with the KSU
Foundation to establish an
Extension Professional
Improvement account,
which we now know as the
Extension Endowment
Fund.
As we end our look back to
1985, the country music
world was looking back as
well as the #1 country hit
of 1985 was Ronnie Milsap’s, Lost in the 50’s Tonight.
E ps i l o n S i g m a P h i
P age 7
NADINE SIGLE….PRESIDENTE L E C T A N D T H A N K YO U
Thank you for the opportunity to serve as president-elect for the Alpha
Rho Chapter of ESP. I
look forward to working
with Nozella and Stacey
to learn the ropes before
taking on the president
role this next year.
I'd also like to extend a
thank you to the Alpha
Rho chapter for the endowment grant to the
Community Development PFT to assist with
the Art of Facilitation
training. The training
was held on December
1 -3 at Rock Springs and
we had 25 in attendance.
If you have an opportunity to talk to some of the
participants please do
so. It was a very intense
interactive training with
participants going home
with many new activities
and tools for their facilitation kits.
The PFT was very
pleased with the pilot
and will be making some
tweaks before offering
again. Please be watching for details on the
offering of this training
again in the future.
OUR ESP ENDOWMENT GRANT
F U N D … . . . FA C T S A N D I N F O R M A T I O N
Our ESP Endowment
Fund was established
in 1992. The contributions and investment returns to the
fund have provided
financial support for
more than 80 grants
to Kansas extension
professionals.
Grants are used to
improve educational
innovative programming and enhance
opportunities for professional development.
As an employee,
friend, or retiree of KState Research and
Extension, you have
seen the results these
grants have made in
programs statewide.
Programming focus
changes over time,
requiring new ideas
and sources of funding.
As you can see on
page 5 of this newsletter, for 2015,
$11,060 was awarded
from the Endowment
Grant Funds for Innovative programming
and for Professional
Development!
Wow….thanks to you,
our members, for
making this happen!
Please take the time
and read through the
reports, in this newsletter, from our members on how the Endowment Grant Funds
have benefitted their
programming along
with their professional
development.
“Endowment
grants are used to
improve
educational
innovative
programming and
professional
development.”
P age 8
T H ANK YOU FO R L IND QUI S T
SCHOLARSHIP AND ENDOWMENT GRANT
By Linda Beech,
Ellis County
FCS Agent
“I shared the High
Speed Hand Washing
method with Kansas
FCS agents and now
we all gain the benefits
of an Oregon program
which was shared at
the 2015 ESP National
Conference in Idaho.”
Attendance at a national Extension conference provides a
level of professional development which cannot be obtained in any other way. I
appreciate the learning which
takes place in the conference
sessions, but I also equally
appreciate being part of a
national system of educators
who share a common mission
to serve individuals, families
and communities with Extension education. The sense of
being part of something much
bigger is a facet of professional development which is not
readily apparent without a
national conference experience.
The National Epsilon Sigma
Phi Conference in Coeur
d’Alene, Idaho in October
2015 was one such outstanding professional development
experience. The agenda was
packed with national experts
and keynote speakers,
breakout sessions on innovative and successful programs
from around the country, networking with other Extension
colleagues, and the opportunity to recognize and learn
from regional and national
award-winners. It was rewarding and fun to join about 200
participants from across the
nation (18 from Kansas) to
learn, share and grow together.
But it was a brief conversation
with an exhibitor at a noonhour poster session which
made the biggest impact on
me at this year’s ESP conference. While finishing my box
lunch, I strolled around the
room to quickly view the poster exhibits before moving on
to the afternoon agenda.
One poster in particular
caught my eye, titled “High
Speed Hand Washing Helps
Build Healthy Habits.” The
title was intriguing, so I
stopped to ask the exhibitor
more about her project.
The Extension educator from
Oregon described the highspeed hand washing method
and how it is used in Snap-ed
classes, 4-H summer activities and adult Extension programs in her state. After the
conference she emailed a
copy of the poster exhibit and
a high-speed hand washing
lesson plan.
I shared the High Speed Hand
Washing method at my PFT
meeting during KSRE Annual
Conference two weeks later.
The enthusiasm and interest
was so high that our Food
Safety sub-team asked to
present a brief session about
High Speed Hand Washing at
the February 2016 FCS Update. Soon, agents across
Kansas will gain the benefits
of an Oregon program which
was shared at the ESP conference in Idaho.
I was able to try High Speed
Hand Washing with 172 junior
high students at a water festival in early December.
Throughout the day, 11
groups of 12-20 students
learned the importance of
washing hands for health and
sanitation and estimated how
long it would take all of them
to wash their hands based on
a demonstration by one student per group. Then, aided
by a stopwatch and a basin to
catch the water for measuring, the students used the
High Speed Hand Washing
method to wash their hands.
The results were amazing!
The average time per group to
wash hands was 1.61
minutes and the average water use was 1.45 gallons.
That saved an average of 11
minutes of time and more
than 9 gallons of water from
what was estimated for the
group to wash their hands in
the “traditional” way.
I am extremely grateful to
Alpha Rho chapter for the Jim
Lindquist Administrative Leadership scholarship and a professional development Endowment Grant. Both were
used to support my attendance at the 2015 ESP National Conference.
As High Speed Hand Washing
training and implementation
begins in our state, many
Kansans will ultimately benefit from my ESP conference
experience. And to think, it all
started with a brief conversation at the poster session
during lunch!
Sincerely,
Linda Beech
Linda Beech,
FCS
Ellis County
E ps i l o n S i g m a P h i
P age 9
THANK YOU AND HIGHLIGHTS
FROM 2015 ESP N AT’L CONFERNCE
After four different airline
carriers to, and only three to
return, I returned home safely
from the 2015 Epsilon Sigma
Phi National Conference in
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The
meeting was top notch, and
the scenery was sublime.
We had fabulous speakers, so
I thought I’d give some highlights from their various topics
around the theme of
“Unlocking the Treasures of
Your Future.” We were welcomed by Dr. Barbara Petty,
Interim Extension Director at
University of Idaho. Besides
giving us a splendid overview
of Idaho’s human and agricultural histories, Dr. Petty noted
that in the “Extension Relationship Model,” we must
focus on soft skills in 1) Social, 2) Communication, 3)
Higher Order Thinking, 4) Selfcontrol, and 5) Positive selfconcept. Petty emphasized
that Extension is an organization of relationships, and it is
those connections that make
us better community builders,
better teachers, and better
researchers.
Our first keynote, Monday,
was Dr. Kay Sagmiller, Director for Teaching and Learning
at Oregon State University.
Her topic focused on effective
teaching, and she was able to
carry out her whole message
by using crop analogies. I will
offer her message here with
an outline with bullet points.
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Analyze your community
or audience (like a producer might look at his/
her land or soil).
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Decide what to teach
(like a producer decides
what to plant).
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Prepare your audience to
learn (like preparing the
field before you plant).
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Teach (Plant).
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Assess
Reinforce learning with
guided practice
Lastly, Sagmiller underscored
the seventh point to what she
called, “Humanitarian Engineering.”
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Reflect, Revise, and Reteach.
As one who loves formulas,
Dr. Sagmiller’s keynote greatly spoke to me.
In keeping with the theme of
relationships, our Tuesday
keynote was Dr. Larry Roper,
Professor, School of Language, Culture and Society at
Oregon State University. He
said, “People don’t join organizations, they join people.” He
noted that people don’t come
back [to your second program] if they don’t feel welcomed the first time. To that
end, Roper outlined some
steps to assure that we
(Extension professionals) are
building solid relationships
and excellent leadership. He
noted that leadership is dynamic and is a journey of selfauthorship for the individual
and the organization. He said:

Examine your inner landscape.
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Navigate organizations
and communities
through the right conversations.
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Lead the development of
an ethical landscape.
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Elevate the sacred in
your job.
For this final point, Dr. Roper
posed a question for selfreflection:
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By :
Debra Bolton
FCS Specialist
Southwest Area
To what foundation is my
leadership anchored?
It was a great honor to represent Kansas Alpha Rho Chapter of Epsilon Sigma Phi both
on my national committee,
Public Issues, and as a recipient of the North Central Diversity/Multicultural Award.
“The conference
was top notch and
provided fabulous
speakers!”
I would like to thank our Alpha
Rho Chapter’s Endowment
and the Connie Hoch Scholarship that made my travel possible.
Sincerely,
Debra Bolton
Debra Bolton,
FCS Specialist,
Southwest Area
“People don’t
join organizations, they join
people!”,
according to
Dr. Larry
Roper, Professor, School of
Language,
Culture and
Society at Oregon State
University.
H ewlet t -P a ck a r d Co m p a n y
Alpha Rho ESP
Officers 2015-16
2015 TENURE RECOGNITION
5 years
20 years
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President
Nozella Brown
Phone: (913) 299-9300
nlbrown2@ksu.edu
President-Elect
Nadine Sigle
Phone: (785) 346-6256
nsigle@ksu.edu
Secretary
Linda Beech
Phone: (785) 628-9430
lbeech@ksu.edu
Treasurer
Jennifer Wilson
Phone: (785) 537-6350
jrwilson@ksu.edu
Annalist/Historian
Doug Jardine
Phone: (785) 532-1386
jardine@ksu.edu
Editor
Sandra Wick
Phone: (785) 282-6823
swick@ksu.edu
Past President and
Endowment Fund Chair
Stacey Warner
Phone: (785) 532-5790
swarner@ksu.edu
Extension Director’s
Representative
Daryl Buchholz
Phone: (785) 532-5820
dbuchhol@ksu.edu
Knowledge
for Life
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Sharon Erickson-Fryback
2010 to present
Gray County.
Bertha Mendoza
2009 to present
Southwest Area
Corinne Patterson
2010 to present
Lyon County
Chelsea Richmond
2010—Morris County;
2010 to present
Flint Hills District
Anna Schremmer
2010 to present
Phillips/Rooks District
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Debra Bolton
2005 to present
Southwest Area
Elizabeth BrunscheenCartagena
2005 to present
Sedgwick County
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Karen Blakeslee
2000 to present
Ani. Sci. and Industry
Andrea Burns
2000 to 2004
Kingman County;
2004 to present
Ford County
Sheryl Carson
1994 to 2004
University of NE;
2010 to present
Kearny County
Aliesa Woods
2000 to present
Post Rock District
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Paula Peters
1990 to 2000
Human Nutrition;
2000 to present
Administration
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Laurie Chandler
1985 to 1993
University of Missouri;
1993 to 2015
Shawnee County;
2015 to present
Administration
Duane Hund
1995 to present
Agricultural Econ.
Jodi Besthorn
1980 to 1998
Smith County;
1998 to present
Sedgwick County
Daryl Buchholz
1980 to 1992
University of Missouri;
1993 to 2004
Ag and Nat’l Resources;
2004 to present
Administration
40 years
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30 years
15 years
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35 years
25 years
10 years
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Marie Blythe
1995 to 2015
Planning and Reporting
Christen Onstad
1995 to 2001
Montana State Univ.;
2001 to 2006
South Dakota St. Univ.;
2006 to present
Northwest Area
Jennifer Wilson
1995 to present
Riley County
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Elizabeth “Libby” Curry
1975 to 1993
Cheyenne County;
1993 to present
Northwest Area
Mary Fran Richmond
1975 to 2010
Osage County;
2010 to present
Frontier County