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Web Manager: Bob Schultheis Webster County Extension Center Email comments to: schultheisr@missouri.edu Last revised: 11/05/09 |
Epsilon
Sigma Phi NewsletterPresident's Message
by Jim Ollar, ESP President
Thanks to Susan Mills – Gray for representing us at the Public Issues Leadership Development session in Washington, D.C. ESP continues to be involved in the national scene in support of legislation and administrative actions important to Extension staff nationwide.
Thanks to Bob Schultheis for developing the MO Alpha web page, http://outreach.missouri.edu/esp/. Such developments are continually under construction so forward any content ideas to Bob.
Thanks to Pat Snodgrass for distributing information about the Loan and Fellowship fund. Over many years this permanent endowment has been used to recognize and to memorialize numerous colleagues. Tens of thousands dollars of professional development has been supported by income from this growing fund.
Thanks to Karla Spencer, President Elect, for taking on the ESP newsletter responsibility. We all know and appreciate the challenge of being the designated news gatherer and publisher.
I am representing ESP in planning for Annual Conference. The challenge this year is to provide a meaningful experience in a noon to noon, one-day format. It does appear that ESP will continue be able to have its annual meeting at a breakfast session. The planning committee remains very supportive of the ESP hosted ice cream social as a networking time.
ESP at the national level continues to consider many changes including dues structures, further developing the annual national meeting as a professional development opportunity and more direct involvement in legislative matters. Regardless of any changes actually implemented, change and regular consideration of change is necessary to maintaining a viable organization.
Awards, awards, awards. One of ESP basic objectives is to provide opportunity to recognize colleagues. As noted in Gail Carlson’s continuing communication, we all need to take the time to nominate deserving colleagues for the full range of ESP (and other organization’s) awards. Yes it does take some time and effort to submit nominations but really very little in comparison to the effort expended by deserving colleagues in pursuit of outstanding programs and service to others. Include time to make nominations in next week’s calendar.
The next ESP Board and committee chair meeting is scheduled for June 2. If you have any matters that you feel this group should address, let any one of know (names are last page of the newsletter).
Let’s all take some time before another spring gets away to consider what we need
in the way of renewal. There are numerous opportunities whether organizationally provided
PIEs or PDEs, professional association meetings and/or service or just planning (and
actually taking) vacation time to renew and recharge ourselves professionally and
personally. Spring is time for renewal, so renew!
Epsilon Sigma Phi Awards |
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| Awards | Awarded To | Criteria |
| State Certificate of
Recognition Regional Faculty (Woman) Regional Faculty (Man) State Specialist |
One award to ESP member in each classification | Significant contributions to
extension or to a program unit (AG, 4-H, HES, B&I, CD, etc.) |
| State Friend of Extension Award | Up to 3 awards per year to Extension Friends | Outstanding general or program specific support and personal involvement over time |
| Distinguished Service Award | One award to an ESP Member | Excellence in programming or administration, on a state or regional basis (20 or more years) |
| Mid-Career Service Award | One award to an ESP Member | Competence in programming or administration, on a regional or state basis (10 to 20 years) |
| State Early Career Service Award | One award to an ESP Member | Noteworthy accomplishments for those with extension careers of less than 10 years |
| State Retiree Service Award | One award to a ESP member who is retired | Continuing contributions and outstanding service to professional field and community |
| State Meritorious Support Service Award | One award to a faculty member, state or regional specialist, support staff, or paraprofessional, ESP membership not required | Significant support provided to extension professionals or programs for a sustained period |
| Team Award | One or more team members must be Epsilon Sigma Phi members | Outstanding effort by a team in response to one or more national initiatives identified by the Cooperative Extension System |
| Visionary Leadership | Recipient does not have to be an Epsilon Sigma Phi member | Accomplishments which have enabled extension to anticipate a significant new opportunity and implement organizational changes necessary to achieve success |
The conference focused on helping Extension staff understand how public policy effects our programming efforts, as well as sharing tips for working with federal, state and local legislators to build support for Extension.
While there, meetings were held with the following federal legislators: John Ashcroft, Kit Bond, Karen McCarthy, James Talent, Ike Skelton, Pat Danner, Roy Blunt, JoAnn Emerson, and Kenny Hulshof. Most legislators and staff were familiar with Extension and were supportive of our funding formula. Our delegation shared recent programming highlights during each meeting, as well as the issue of the trend from base formula funding to competitive block grants and how that may effect local programming.
It’s definitely a conference that all Extension staff should attend at some point
in their career!
Anyone with suggestions on ways to make the site more user-friendly can e-mail me at schultheisr@missouri.edu. Please send any
information you wish to contribute in Word97 format, if possible.
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1998-99 Alpha Tau Board
Officers
| Jim Ollar | President |
| Karla Spencer | President-Elect |
| Bob Schultheis | Secretary |
| Tom Henderson | Treasurer |
| Dale Hagerman | Past President |
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| Gail Carlson | Awards |
| David Lindell | Memorials |
| Eldon Cole | Annalist |
| Susan Mills-Gray | Professional Development |
| Pat Snodgrass | Loan and Fellowship |
| Melvin Zielinski | Membership |
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