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World Dairy Expo Honors Volunteers of 2017 Show
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 12/18/2017

Four individuals have been honored for their years of support and service to World Dairy Expo. This year's 'Friends of Expo' recipients were recognized during a special volunteer appreciation dinner last week in Madison, where hundreds of supporters gathered to acknowledge their contributions and celebrate the dairy show's success.

This year's honorees include Diane Morgenthaler, Dr. David Jeans, Rick Farris and Suzanne Lois.

Working at the Greater Madison Convention and Visitors Bureau, Morgenthaler spends months preparing for World Dairy Expo by creating promotional items like highway billboards and signs at the Dane County Regional Airport. She also provides materials to WDE exhibitors and international visitors helping them discover everything Madison has to offer.

Dr. Jeans has been the she's ethics coordinator for seven years. He can be found overseeing student workers and veterinary staff taking milk samples from champions, working with the ultrasound coordinator and crew, walking the grounds monitoring cattle and exhibitors and assisting staff as ethics information and reports are generated.

Farris has been a key member of the team responsible for the smooth ingress and egress of more than 2,000 head of cattle and their exhibitors and 850 trade show companies for more than a decade. During show hours, the former Dane County detective can be found working at the main entrance gate on Rimrock Road and overseeing the unloading and parking of school busses filled with fourth grade students and FFA members.

Lois' week during Expo begins a week ahead of time, where she assists with animal health check-in, followed by three days of locating and checking-in Milking Shorthorn cattle around the grounds for the show. She then moves to the showring to assist during the International Milking Shorthorn Show before taking over the microphone on Thursday night to make barn calls for the Youth Showmanship Contest.

World Dairy Expo celebrated its 51st anniversary during the 2017 show in October.


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