Junior Annual Meeting Minutes 2011
The Illinois Junior Holstein Association held their Fall Annual Meeting on November 19, 2011 at the Hawthorne Suites in Champaign, Illinois.
President Aaron Mitchell called the meeting to order at 10:00 a.m. The first item of business was officer reports. Emily Irwin gave the reporter’s report saying that the paper scrapbook had placed 1st at National Convention, the digital scrapbook was 4th, and also to make sure to take lots of pictures this year for next year’s scrapbooks.
The treasurer’s report was handed out by Morgan Bollech and showed a balance of $7,791.55. It was approved by Adam Olbrich, and seconded by Ryan Sheehan. Colleen Ziller’s secretary report from the March 6, 2011 meeting was handed out and read. Sarah Sheehan motioned to approve it and Ryan Sheehan seconded it.
Vice President Haley Lyons reported that most of the money from state show was in and that the show went very well this year. JAC committee member Aaron Mitchell reported that they had just recently had a meeting and that there would be some changes coming for next year’s national convention.
We then had a short break for pizza.
For old business, Spring Thing 2011 seemed to flow well, the people were good to work with, and the committee members for next year should try to get the same hotel.
Illinois was represented well at National Holstein Convention in Virginia. Highlights included: *Aaron Mitchell being a DJM semifinalist and placing in Senior Jeopardy *Morgan Bollech placed in Intermediate Jeopardy *The Junior and Senior dairy bowl teams did well *The paper scrapbook was 1st, and the digital scrapbook was 4th *Kaylen Miller’s Junior folding display was 2nd.
Next, Hayley Lyon’s gave a report about state show saying that everyone enjoyed the sweatshirts and that we were up in numbers this year. We discussed that if we give sweatshirts again next year for prizes that we should have one made up to use in pictures. We decided to leave it up to the next vice president to decide that. Also at state show, the workers auction was an easy way to earn money for the association, but next year we will hopefully have more people to be auctioned off and more buyers. The railbird judging which was also held at state show was also a good fundraiser as half of the money was donated back.
The Boone-Winnebago club has finished their 4X4 barn quilt and it was decided that it would be auctioned off at the Senior Convention. If there was interest in the barn quilts, then the other clubs will each make one and possibly auction them off at the Sizzler. We then moved on to new business.
The Spring Thing 2012 Committee: Meredith Ziller, Ryan Sheehan, Kaylen Miller, Emily Sheehan, Dan Obert, Brianna Sheehan, Anna Folgate, Morgan Bollech, and Miranda Kollmann need to get the hotel booked, but as a reminder it can’t be the last weekend in February.
Haley Lyons asked for state show judge suggestions so that she can start contacting who we want. Molly Sloan and Chris McCullugh were mentioned. Haley Lyons also asked what ideas we had for prizes. Fleece sweatshirts and throws were suggested.
Election of Officers was then held and they are as follows: President- Aaron Mitchell Vice President- Sarah Sheehan Secretary- Emily Irwin Treasurer- Morgan Bollech Reporter- Brianna Sheehan
Production Awards were then handed out; we discussed using the same form that is turned in for National and move the deadline to Spring Thing. Winners would be forwarded to National. However, if we want to get more participation in the production awards, this would not be the way to go because the National form is more complex to fill out. Nothing was decided.
Junior All-Illinois and Reserve Junior All-Illinois awards were handed out to the members that were present.
There were no DJM books turned in, and Emily Irwin will be Illinois’ YDJM.
There were no club scrapbooks turned in.
Aaron Mitchell thanked everyone for coming and invited everyone to come to Ludwig’s for a tour of their farm. Brianna Sheehan move to adjourn the meeting and Ryan Sheehan seconded it. After the conclusion of the meeting, pictures of production award winners and new officers were taken, and members enjoyed a tour of Ludwig’s Dairy.