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Please join us on Friday, March 4, 4-6 p.m. in the Skou Hall student lounge on the Ohio State ATI campus for a reception honoring our CFAES Alumni Achievement Award recipients: Young Professional Achievement Award Ryan Saxe Ryan Saxe has distinguished himself as an education professional in a relatively short amount of time. Since graduating from Ohio State ATI with an Associate of Science degree in 2003, Ryan has gone on to earn a B.S. in agricultural and environmental education from West Virginia University, an M.A. in leadership studies from Marshall University and an Ed.D. in educational leadership from Liberty University. Along the way, he has garnered numerous teaching awards and his creativity has been exemplified by his being highly successful in both granstmanship and scholarship. Ryan is currently Director of the Office of Professional Learning for Manatee County Schools in Bradenton, Florida. Distinguished Alumni Award John Douglass John Douglass is a dynamic, progressive dairy producer that contributes in many ways to sustaining the Ohio dairy industry. He presently owns about 5700 cows that are managed on three dairy operations -Catalpadale and Bristol Dairies located in Marshallville, Ohio and the Coral Hill Dairy located near Glasgow, Kentucky. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in dairy science in 1984. The Douglas dairy operations thrived during some very challenging and tumultuous fiscal times. John has been very active in state and national dairy activities, the Ohio Farm Bureau as a member of the Dairy Advisory Committee, president of the Wayne County Farm Bureau and is very active in Wayne County Soil and Water Conservation District activities. He is a charter member of the Ohio Dairy Producers Association. He has always been a willing guest lecturer in various dairy management classes and is an advisory board member at Ohio State ATI. International Alumni Award Milton Gorocica Dr. Milton Gorocica has made astounding advances in his career endeavors with the food producing animal pharmaceutical industries since the time he graduated with a Ph.D. degree in 2006. Following graduation, he joined Cargill Meat Solutions as a national technical services leader for dairy. In a very short period of time, Milton had the opportunity to move back to Mexico in an area close to his childhood home with Elanco Animal Health, in a position that focused on the beef cattle finishing feedlot sector. In 2013, Milton joined Phibro Animal Health, where he is presently Global Cattle Marketing Director responsible for planning, generating and implementing marketing plans to support technical sales staff for the Northern Hemisphere – USA, Canada, Mexico, Central America, China, Russia, Israel, Turkey and other sectors of the Middle East. Meritorious Service Award Ken Cochran Ken Cochran joined the faculty of Ohio State ATI in 1978, where he coordinated the nursery management program. He gained a tremendous reputation for training students in technical and business skills that prepared them to be “job ready” in the landscape industry. He used the Secrest Arboretum as a learning laboratory, and relationships he had with industry clientele from his earlier career endeavors helped students in obtaining leading positions in the landscape industry. Ken took on the role as Secrest Arboretum program director in 1999. He retired in December 2014 after 36 years of service on the Wooster campus. |