Over a Thousand Miles, One National Win and Many Wonderful Memories Later!
UT
Block and Bridle Members traveled to Lubbock, Tx for the National Block and
Bridle Convention. Texas Tech Block and Bridle hosted the convention. The group left Knoxville on Wednesday October
22 and returned the 26th. While at the convention the students
participated in agricultural tours, educations session and a service project.
Donnell
Brown gave the opening session speech on Thursday night. Mr. Brown owns and operates R.A.
Brown Ranch in Throckmorton, Tx. R.A. Brown Ranch is a progressive family
ranching business and has been in the ranching business since 1895. The R.A.
Brown Ranch raises and sells top quality cattle and Quarter Horses. Mr. Brown
spoke to the group about the importance of continuing to promote and be proud
of agricultural. He challenged the group to “stop smoking the peace pipe, and
put on war paint to defend the industry.”
The Texas
Tech membership lined up great educational session for Saturday. The sessions included Mike Simpson with Elanco, Kristina Butts with NCBA in Washington D.C., Dr. John Zak with Texas Tech and many interest specific break out sessions.
The Block
and Bridle members participated in a giant service project of preparing and
packaging meals for hungry children in the Amarillo, TX area. The group
packaged 31,868 meals. The meal will be given out through the #Feedthe9
movement. This movement is sponsored by
SensibleTable.com and Elanco and includes many companies.
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| The group packaged 31,000 meals for hungry children in Texas |
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| Melinda Perkins, Sarah Maccaro, Emily Russell, Kristen Somerfeld and Kristen Walker |
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John Edwards, Tyler Trowbridge and Jacob Lay
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The students
had the opportunity to attend several different tours that highlighted
different agricultural industries of west Texas. Tours ranged from touring cotton farms,
the American Quarter Horses Association, several feedlots and a local tour that
highlighted ranching heritage in Lubbock, TX.
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| Amelia Woods and Kristen Walker at the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame |
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| Melinda Perkins, Kristen Somerfeld and Sarah Maccaro at a Texas Winery |
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| Dustie Strasser, Tyler Trowbridge and Jacob Lay touring the Texas Cotton Industry |
One of the highlights for the UT group was
winning the national scrapbook competition.
The scrapbook highlights all the club's activities and events for the
year. This years club reporters, Melinda Perkins and Amelia Woods, were in charge of
assembling the scrapbook for judging at nationals. This was the first time UT had participated
in the competition in several year and we were very excited to win.
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| UT Members at the National Awards Banquet |
We look forward to many more trips representing our outstanding club and university.
For more pictures from our trip to Lubbock please search #B&B14 or #standforthebrand
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