Georgia Cooperative Council

The Julian A. Raburn Cooperative Service Award is presented annually to members of the Georgia Association of County Agricultural Agents who have demonstrated outstanding efforts to create an awareness of Cooperatives and the importance of their role to the local economy and our entire state.

Eligibility is limited to current members of GACAA.  Previous winners are ineligible for additional awards in consecutive years.

Recognition and Awards:  Three state winners will be selected annually.  The State winner will receive a plaque and a $450 cash award.  The first runner-up will receive a $350 cash award and the second runner-up will receive a $250 cash award.  The President of the Council or appropriate representative will attend the GACAA Annual Meeting to make the presentations.

Award winners in 2003 were: Reid Torrance, County Extension Agent, Tattnall County (State Winner), Sidney Law, County Extension Agent, Washington County (First Runner-Up), and Jim Collins, County Extension Agent, Bulloch County (Second Runner-Up).

Rules for Selecting Georgia Distinguished Cooperators

1. Nominee must have been outstanding in one or more fields of cooperative endeavor and affecting many people.
2. Nominee should have already performed their services, mostly in Georgia.  However, Georgia natives performing national services of importance to Georgia may be selected.
3. Nominees may have served as a cooperative member, member of the board of directors of their local cooperative(s), cooperative employee or any person who has contributed to the development of cooperatives in Georgia.  Nominees must have performed outstanding service of value to Georgia cooperatives.
4. Nominees must be living and hopefully able to attend the annual meeting.
5. Nominations must be accompanied by a list of accomplishments supporting the nomination.
6. Nominees need not have performed their work for or with the organization making the nomination.
7. If desired, an organization may nominate more than one person.
8. Nominations should come from Council members.  However, nominations may come from other organizations, state and federal agricultural agencies and from the selection committee.
9. The decision of the Selection Committee shall be final.
10. Periodically, the Council will also select additional outstanding cooperators to be honored.

During the annual meeting on March 17, 2003, Georgia Distinguished Cooperator Awards  were presented to Robert B Moss
Earl Merritt, Thomas Bagwell, and Sanford L. Jones Jr.

Mr. Earl Merritt receives his award.  Mr. Merritt was nominated by Southern States.	Mr.  Robert Moss was nominated by the Farm Credit System.
Thomas Bagwell receives his award.  Mr. Bagwell was nominated by the EMC's in Georgia.	The Dairy Farmers of America nominated Mr.  Sanford Jones as their award recipient.

A complete list of past recipients follows:
 

1989 D.W. Brooks J. Clarence Edwards Frank H. McDowell E.L. McLocklin W.H. Newberry, Sr Robert D. Tisinger	1990 Valene Bennett Rudolph Clark Cary M. Davis M.C. Leslie James Edward Robinson	1991 Curtis A. Beall Hubert Hancock Billy D. Mitchell Ralph D. Mobley G.V. Yokely
1992 Schley Moore W.J. Smith Jr.. Herbert Ingram Don W. Sands	1993 Cary F. Hays, Jr. Gray Hinton Emmett O. Cabaniss, Jr. James Meriwether	1994 Ralph Paige Gene Marks Richard Talton Charles C. Williams J. G. McCalmon
1995 Reece Whitehead Ray Haynes Holmes Neel Raymon A. Adams	1996 Ralph Balkcon Julian Raburn	1997 Jean Rice R. Lehman Lanier Henry Owens
1998 Jack Hogan Marvin McAvoy William Canup Carroll Castleberry	1999 Ron Atkinson Bill Boyce Eloy Farr Maxey Love W.P. Smith, Jr.	2000 John S. Dean Sr. William Higginbotham Gus Johnson Jim Loftis James Roy Malone, Sr. Alvin White
2001 Darrell Holder Willis Berry Richard Bird Gaylord Coan John McElmurray J.L. Steed, Jr.	2002 Dennis Waldrep Benson Ham Henry Verner S.J. Saffold Jr. J. Craig Scroggs	2003 Robert B Moss Earl Merritt Thomas Bagwell Sanford L. Jones Jr.

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Last Revised: February 17, 2004

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