The R.C. Pollock Award Endowment Fund

The R.C. Pollock Award is the highest honor bestowed on members of the American Meat Science Association. It represents lasting and exceptional contributions to meat science and our organization. The award is named in honor of R.C. Pollock, the first General Manager of the National Livestock and Meat Board. Pollock was a founder of the Reciprocal Meat Conference. The conference spurred the eventual formation of the American Meat Science Association. To date, 27 AMSA members have received the R.C. Pollock Award. Their names appear on the back panel of this brochure.

While most of the AMSA awards program is funded by meat industry sponsors, support for the R.C. Pollock Award comes directly from AMSA’s annual operating budget. In 2006 the AMSA Educational Foundation is starting a fund drive, which will bring in sufficient contributions to endow the sponsorship of this award in the future. The goal of this fund drive is to raise $100,000 by 2010.
The trustees of the Educational Foundation ask you to consider contributing to the R.C. Pollock Award fund drive in honor or memory of one or more of the past recipients of this award. We likewise invite you to share information about this fund drive with individuals or organizations that may want to honor an R.C. Pollock recipient with whom they have had a close working relationship.

To jump-start this effort the first R.C. Pollock award winner Robert Bray and his wife Kathryn have made an initial contribution of $10,000. It is hoped that this generous gift will encourage others to honor colleagues and friends who have received this recognition.
If you have questions or need additional information, please contact AMSA Executive Director Thomas Powell tpowell@meatscience.org (217-356-5370).

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Previous Recipients of the R.C. Pollock Award

1977 R.W. Bray
1978 D.L. Mackintosh
1979 A.M. Pearson
1980 L.E. Kunkle
1982 J.A. Christian
1983 Z.L. Carpenter
1984 R.B. Sleeth
1985 D.M. Kinsman
1986 L.E. Walters
1988 J.D. Kemp
1989 R.A. Merkel
1990 H.B. Hedrick
1991 D.H. Kropf
1992 C.H. Adams
1993 V.R. Cahill
1994 V.K. Johnson
1995 R.G. Cassens
1996 M.D. Judge
1997 R.G. Kauffman
1998 H.K. Johnson
1999 H.R. Cross
2000 R.W. Mandigo
2001 G.C. Smith
2002 L.L. Borchert
2003 A.W. Kotula
2004 W.G. Moody
2005 D.M. Allen