The American Association of Agricultural Editors has revived it’s Lifetime Achievement Awards which are sponsored by the Sonja Hillgren Foundation. All five of these recipients are AAEA past presidents.
Sonja Hillgren Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award 2007 Recipients
Wilson Carnes, National FFA Magazine
Bob Rupp, The Farmer
AAEA Heritage Award 2007 Recipients
Charlie Scruggs, Progressive Farmer
Cordell Tindall, Missouri Ruralist
Jim Thomson, Prairie Farmer
“The Service Awards Committee performed so well and so harmoniously in working to create these new awards, as mandated to us by the AAEA Board of Directors,” said committee chair Larry Dreiling, High Plains Journal and past AAEA president. The very first AAEA Lifetime Achievement Award was presented in 1990 to Wheeler McMillen, Farm Journal editor and AAEA president from 1934 to 1938. The award has not been given since that time. AAEA’s membership committee last year suggested creating more permanent criteria for the awards.