40th Annual Alabama BCIA
Meeting and Awards Banquet
March 27, 2004
Wynfrey Hotel, Birmingham, Ala.
*Richard Deese Award*
The Richard Deese Award is presented to an individual
that has promoted performance testing in Alabama. The award has been presented
since 1986 and is given in honor of Dr. Richard Deese, who was the Extension
Animal Scientist in charge of the BCIA program in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Breeders, Extension workers and Beef Industry supporters have received
this award.
Jimmy Holliman received this year's Richard Deese Award. He is pictured
here with his wife, Kathleen. The Hollimans live in Marion Junction.