Spring Newsletter
Volume 4, Issue 1 - March, 1998  

From Your President,
Dr. Ronnie Green:

I hope this spring newsletter finds your chapter having a great semester filled with a lot of fun and educational Block and Bridle activities.

The 78th National Block and Bridle Convention is now history! The Colorado State students and staff did a great job in pulling off the largest convention on record with 960 registered attendees from 61 chapters present in Denver. I have never been prouder of a group of folks than I was of our planning committee of 70 Colorado State students. We have appreciated the many nice cards, notes, e-mails, and phone calls that many of you have sent us since the meeting. Next year's meeting will be jointly hosted by Texas A&M and Tarleton State University (see back page). We also extend our congratulations to the University of Georgia chapter on their successful bid to host the last meeting of this century in 2000 in Atlanta. If your chapter is interested in putting in a bid for the convention in 2001, we are looking for you... just contact one of the national officers.

Your national organization is in excellent shape as we enter our 79th year. We are financially sound, have experienced an increase in new membership the past few years, and have moved to electronic publication of annual reports and events through the national B&B web page. I feel very honored to serve as national president the next two years with an outstanding set of folks. All of us are committed to making the organization grow beyond its current bounds. For me personally, it is a way to pay back the organization for a wonderful experience as a B&B'er at Virginia Tech from 1979-83!

As we send you this newsletter, we are building new programs that you will be hearing about in the future with the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, the American Society of Animal Science, and the American Quarter Horse Association. These new activities are being developed in response to the strategic planning recommendations of a task force presented at the national convention in Orlando last year. We also have entered into discussions with Rocky Mountain Clothing Company, the maker of ARockies@ jeans. This company has approached us with interest in becoming our Aofficial@ organization sponsor and clothier. More on all of these developments will be presented to your advisors at the summer advisor's luncheon at the ASAS/ADSA meeting in Denver in July (Wed, July 29th, 12:00-1:30 pm; location to be announced). We hope to see all of you advisors there.

We are pleased to welcome three new chapter affiliates to the national organization this year. Petitions for national affiliation were approved at the Denver convention for Chico State University (California), Murray State University (Kentucky), and Colby Community College (Kansas). Welcome to all of you at these schools and we look forward to a long association with you.

Best wishes for an awesome spring in your parts of the world. Make sure you get all of your chapter=s awards applications, updates on officers and advisors, and chapter abstracts in before you leave your campus for the summer. The deadlines for all of these items are described on page 2 of this newsletter and on the Block & Bridle web page. If there is anything that any of your national officers can do to assist you, please do not hesitate to ask. See you down the road YY

Summary of What To Do This Spring

1. If you haven't already, then mail a list of all new members to Dr. Harpster with $10.00 lifetime dues. A membership certificate will be returned for each new member.

2. BY JUNE 1: Send three copies of nomination credentials for Outstanding Senior Award (4-year schools) or Sophomore Scholarship Award (2-year schools) to Dr. Brown. See National Award rules (on the web at http://www.asas.org/bandb/ ) for details.

3. BY JUNE 15: Send three copies of nomination credentials for Junior Scholarship Award (4-year schools) to Dr. Brown.

4. BY JUNE 15: Send three copies of Activities Form to Dr. Brown for judging.

5. BY JUNE 15: Send three copies of your Chapter Yearbook to Dr. Moore for judging.

6. BY JUNE 15: E-mail Abstract of yearly club activities to Dr. Moore. Abstracts must be received via e-mail or on IBM-compatible disk (in text or ASCII format).

7. BY JUNE 15: E-mail names of the new advisors and new officers to Dr. Green, Dr. Moore, and Dr. Harpster. List mailing addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail of advisors.

ADVISORS should plan to attend the Summer Advisors' Meeting that is held at the American Society of Animal Science national meeting. This year the meeting will be July 28 - August 1, 1998, in Denver, Colorado. The B&B advisors' luncheon will be Wed, July 29, 12:00-1:30 p.m.

79th National Block and Bridle Convention
January 27 - 30, 1999 in Fort Worth, Texas

Wednesday, January 27: Registration and Local Attractions

Thursday, January 28: Optional Tour or Local Attractions; Opening Reception (8:00 p.m.)

Friday, January 29: Tours of ranches; Rodeo

Saturday, January 30: Workshops, Stock Show, Awards Banquet, and Dance

80th National Convention in the year 2000 will be hosted by the University of Georgia.

For more information, look on the Block & Bridle web pages at: http://www.asas.org/bandb/

American Society of Animal Science (ASAS) - Summer '98 Meeting in Denver:

July 27-31, 1998, Colorado Convention Center - Denver, Colorado (hosted by Colorado State University)..... Look on the web at: http://www.adsa.uiuc.edu/meet/98meet/

Block & Bridle Advisor's Luncheon: Wednesday, July 29, 12:00-1:30 p.m. (location TBA).

Offering free ASAS/ADSA student registration at Denver! For new ASAS/ADSA student (graduate and undergraduate) members, the introductory rate to join either ASAS or ADSA (American Dairy Science Association) and attend the 1998 ASAS/ADSA joint meeting in Denver will be only $20.

	Dr. Ronnie D. Green President 1998 - 2000 Department of Animal Sciences Colorado State University Fort Collins Co 80523-1171 Phone: (970) 491-2722 Fax: (970) 491-5326 E-mail: rdggene@lamar.colostate.edu
	Dr. A. Hayden Brown Vice President 1998 - 2000 Animal Science Department University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR 72701 Phone: (501) 575-4855 Fax: (501) 575-7294 E-mail: hbrown@comp.uark.edu
	Dr. Harold Harpster Secretary-Treasurer 1996 - 2000 Department of Dairy and Animal Science Pennsylvania State University 350 Ag Science and Industry Building University Park PA 16802 Phone: (814) 863-0734 Fax: (814) 863-6042 E-mail: Harold_Harpster@agcs.cas.psu.edu
	Dr. Jeannette A. Moore Editor 1998 - 2002 Department of Animal Science North Carolina State University Box 7621, 102 Polk Hall Raleigh, NC 27695-7621 Phone: (919) 515-4010 Fax: (919) 515-4010 E-mail: Jeannette_Moore@ncsu.edu

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