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<div><b>From:</b> "Richard Klemme" <<a href="mailto:rklemme@aplu.org">rklemme@aplu.org</a>><br>
<b>To:</b> "#CFERR/Cooperative_Extension_Section/Director/Administrator" <<a href="mailto:CFERRCooperative_Extension_SectionDirectorAdministrator@APLU.ORG">CFERRCooperative_Extension_SectionDirectorAdministrator@APLU.ORG</a>>, "#CFERR/Cooperative_Extension_Section/Associate_Director/Administr"
<<a href="mailto:CFERRCooperative_Extension_SectionAssociate_DirectorAdministrat@APLU.ORG">CFERRCooperative_Extension_SectionAssociate_DirectorAdministrat@APLU.ORG</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> <b>FW: Nomination for the 2017 Seaman A. Knapp Lecture</b><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Please consider this opportunity as Seaman Knapp was a very important person in Cooperative Extension.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Rick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 1, 2017 2:33 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Eddie Gouge <<a href="mailto:egouge@aplu.org">egouge@aplu.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Nomination for the 2017 Seaman A. Knapp Lecture<br>
<b>Importance:</b> High<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">MEMORANDUM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Boards on Agriculture Assembly, Human Sciences, and Veterinary Medicine<br>
Council for Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching (CARET)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Section on Forestry Resources<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Other Interested individuals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Eddie G. Gouge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Senior Associate Director, Federal Relations – Food and Agricultural Sciences and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">DATE: </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">May
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</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Nominations for the 2017 Seaman A. Knapp Lecture<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) of the U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has released its call for nominations for the 2017 Seaman A. Knapp Memorial
Lecture that will be presented at the APLU Annual Meeting in Washington, DC later this year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The request for nominations follow, and the deadline for submitting nominations is
<b><span style="color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">JUNE 30, 2017</span></b>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Each year the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) joins with the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) to sponsor a lecture presented
at the APLU Annual Meeting. The lecture honors one of the three most important historical figures of the Land-Grant University System, William Henry Hatch for research, Seaman A. Knapp for extension, and Justin Smith Morrill for whom the Morrill Act, which
created the Land-Grant University System, is named. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">NIFA and APLU are seeking nominations to honor Seaman A. Knapp, the father of the Cooperative Extension concept. In 1906, Knapp initiated the county-agent plan. To
promote the plan, he organized boys’ cotton and corn growing clubs and in 1910, a girls’ corn and poultry club. These organizations were the forerunners of the modern 4-H clubs. In today’s rapidly changing world, Cooperative Extension has evolved to meet the
shifting local, national, and global needs of the people it serves.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">We are seeking an insightful topic and a dynamic speaker, who can provoke discussion among meeting participants and prepare a formal lecture to be presented at the
APLU Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, Nov. 12-14, 2017. While we seek recommendations from those within the Land-Grant University System, we also would encourage you to share this memorandum with colleagues outside of the research, education, and extension
system, including stakeholders, foundations, public interest groups, or international organizations. Nominations are encouraged from all sources.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Recommendations should include the name of the nominee, title, address, telephone number, e-mail address and topic that could be discussed. Please submit your potential
topic and/or presenter on or before <b>June 30, 2017</b>. Recommendations should be forwarded electronically to </span><a href="mailto:kwhittet@nifa.usda.gov?subject=2017%20Seaman%20A.%20Knapp%20Lecture%20Nominaton"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#F06823">Kimberly
Whittet</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">. A committee will review submissions and narrow the scope of the recommendations in order to make a final decision.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Thank you for your assistance in this endeavor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Sonny Ramaswamy<br>
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