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ClassNotes Eugene T. Maddox (DVM ’59) received the GVMA’s Dobbins-Mahaffey Advocacy Award. Maddox has received numerous honors for his service to GVMA and the community at large, including the 2006 Veterinarian of the Year award, and recognition in 2010 as Legislator of the Year by the Georgia Firefighters Maddox Association. He is active in his community and multiple professional organizations, including GVMA and AVMA. Maddox is retired from practicing veterinary medicine, and served multiple terms in the Georgia House of Representatives; he is the outgoing representative from Georgia’s 172nd district. Jim Jarrett (DVM ’60) was posthumously honored as an inductee to the Cattle Production Veterinarian Hall of Fame at the American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) 45th annual conference in Montreal in September 2012. Jarrett was a widely-known expert in milk quality, dairy nutrition, and reproductive management. The Hall Jarrett of Fame is sponsored by the AABP, the Academy of Veterinary Consultants (AVC), Bovine Veterinarian, Merck Animal Health and Osborn Barr. Dr. Jarrett died in January 2005; he was 69. James E. Strickland (DVM ’61) was awarded the GVMA’s highest recognition, the J.T. Mercer, DVM Lifetime Achievement Award. Strickland served as both a past president (1991) and director of the GVMA. He has also served on numerous AVMA committees, and has held leadership positions in many other professional organizations. He is owner of Glennville Veterinary Clinic, where he still works part-time, and he is a cattle producer. Photo provided by Merck Animal Health James Heavner (DVM ’68) was inducted into the Fort Hill (Md.) High School Hall of Fame. Heavner is professor emeritus and clinical professor at Texas Tech University Health Science Center in Lubbock, Texas. As a branch chief at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Heavner is known worldwide for his work in the field of pain control and the pharmacology of local anesthetics. Timothy L. Montgomery (DVM ’83) received the 2012 Veterinarian of the Year Award from GVMA. Montgomery served as president of GVMA in 1999, and has held multiple leadership roles within the organization. He is owner of Dacula Animal Hospital, and currently serves as a councilman for the City of Montgomery Dacula, and as a member of the AVMA’s House of Delegates. Nina Marano (DVM ’84) relocated to Nairobi, Kenya, in June 2012 to become director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Refugee Health Program in Africa. This program provides the evidence for development and implementation of guidelines for disease screening and treatment, tracks and reports illness in refugee populations, responds to disease outbreaks, and advises partners on health care for refugees that are being resettled to the United States from Africa. Denise Funk (DVM ’92) was confirmed as president of the GVMA during its 2012 Fall Convention. Funk, a partner at Animal Medical Care of Gainesville, has practiced veterinary medicine for more than 20 years in her native Hall County. She is a member of the Funk AVMA, and the American Association of Animal Hospitals. She is also an active volunteer in her local community. Photo provided by the GVMA 41 The University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine
Chris Griffin (DVM ’95) was recently elected president of the Association of Exotic Mammal Veterinarians (AEMV). He served as president of the Association of Reptilian and Amphibian Veterinarians (ARAV) from 2009-2010. Dr. Griffin is the owner of and medical director for Griffin Avian and Exotic Veterinary Hospital in Kannapolis, N.C. Adam Eichelberger (DVM ’03) has been named the interim director of Animal Health Programs as part of a newly-announced leadership team for Clemson University Livestock-Poultry Health, which oversees animal health and the quality of meat and poultry products produced in South Carolina. Karen Bradley (DVM ’96) is the current delegate from Vermont for the AVMA’s House of Delegates (HOD), and serves as chair of the House Advisory Committee. Read a shout-out to Bradley on the blog Veterinary Legacy, by Dr. Donald F. Smith, professor of surgery and dean emeritus at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. View the post at: http://tinyurl.com/bxucxux Michele Pfannenstiel (DVM ’06) has joined MaineStock as a managing partner to oversee food safety and product development. As part of her new duties, Pfannenstiel is establishing a quality-assurance program that will extend from farmers to distributors. MaineStock works with farmers to raise livestock, and create safe meat that can be sold at an affordable price, while maintaining the high standards required for certification by U.S.D.A. Organic and the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association. Obituaries James R. Hundley (DVM ’56) Heathsville, Va., May 18, 2012..V.C. Lovell (DVM ’61) Gainesville, Ga., March 22, 2012..Harry W. Taylor (DVM ’66) Tallahassee, Fla., Nov. 9, 2012..Roderick C. Jordan (DVM ’68) Harkers Island, N.C., Oct. 20, 2012..Charles Hodges “Chuck” Manning (DVM ’73) Washington, N.C., Sept. 22, 2012..Keith W. Chapin (DVM ’74) West Palm Beach, Fla., March 2, 2012..Walter Glynn Griffin (DVM ’78) Waycross, Ga., June 12, 2012..Michael M. Veitch (DVM ’78) Lexington Park, Md., Sept. 18, 2012..Newton P. Eunice (DVM ’80) Pelham, Ga., April 13, 2012.. Jim Stortz (DVM ’05) Avon, Colo., June 26, 2012. Frederick N. Thompson (DVM ’65), retired CVM faculty, died in Athens, Ga., on Dec. 16, 2012. After receiving his DVM, Thompson served in the U.S. Army for two years at Fort Meade, Md., rising to the rank of Captain. He also practiced veterinary medicine briefly before Thompson pursuing doctoral studies at Iowa State University. After receiving his PhD in veterinary medicine from Iowa State in 1973, Thompson returned to the University of Georgia where he taught and conducted research in the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine until his retirement in 2000. We want to know what you’re up to! Your classmates want to know what’s happening in your life. Drop us a line. And please include your current contact information, including your phone number and email, to help us keep our alumni database up to date. Email Marti Brick: vetalums@uga.edu or brickm@uga.edu OR Fax: 706.583.0242
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