More than 350 elected delegates from 43 states and Canada represented American Angus Association members and conducted the business of the Association during the annual meeting and election. The meeting was at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center (KFEC) in conjunction with the North American International Livestock Exposition (NAILE) Super-Point Roll of Victory (ROV) Angus Show.

Delegates Conduct Business

Delegates to the American Angus Association's 127th Annual Convention of Delegates elect board members, vote on proposed amendments.

Delegates from throughout the United States and Canada traveled to Louisville, Ky., mid-November to attend the American Angus Association's 127th Annual Convention of Delegates, the main feature of Angus activities at the North American International Livestock Exposition (NAILE). Delegates met Monday, Nov. 15, at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center (KFEC) to conduct Association business and to elect five directors to the Association Board.

New officers and directors

Joe Hampton, Mount Ulla, N.C., was elected the American Angus Association president and chairman of the board. He succeeds Bill Davis, Sidney, Mont.

Jarold Callahan, Edmond, Okla., was elected vice president and vice chairman of the board. He recently served as treasurer.

Phil Trowbridge, Ghent, N.Y., will serve as treasurer for the year.

It took a total of six ballots for delegates to elect five directors from an unprecedented slate of 10 board candidates. Newly elected to the Board are Leo McDonnell Jr., Columbus, Mont.; John Pfeiffer, Mulhall, Okla.; Kevin Yon, Ridge Spring, S.C; and John Elbert Harrell, Opelika, Ala. Jim Rentz, Coldwater, Ohio, was elected to a second term.

Biographical sketches of each of the candidates were published in the October 2010 Angus Journal and are available via a back issue search at www.angusjournal.com.

Bylaws amendments

Four amendments to the Association's Bylaws were approved, including:

• An amendment to Article II, Section 2.5, that defines and distinguishes between the two types of life memberships now recognized by the Association: the previous life memberships issued prior to Oct. 1, 1980, and those life memberships issued after Jan. 1, 2010.

• An amendment to Article III, Section 3.1, re-affirms that delegates will be selected to represent members at the Annual Meeting (Convention of Delegates) and that such delegates will be selected under the Bylaws by a representative of each active life or active regular member.

• An amendment to Article III, Section 3.6 (a), re-affirms that each active life or active regular membership will have the right to nominate one delegate candidate.

• An amendment to Article III, Section 3.6 (c), provides that only one representative of an active life or active regular membership will be eligible to serve as a delegate candidate. As a result, a single membership cannot have more than one delegate candidate. This amendment also describes the process by which an individual shall be selected as a delegate candidate in those situations in which two or more individuals associated with a single membership are nominated. It also describes how that one person will be selected if more than one person per membership is nominated to be a candidate delegate.

"The amendment revisions were offered to the delegates in an effort to more clearly define the intent they were written in, to provide one membership with one vote, " Don Laughlin, Association director of member services, says.

For additional coverage of Angus activities at the NAILE, see the January 2011 Angus Journal.

[Click here to go to the top of the page.]