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President’s Award: Harrell
Turner
VFA Past President Easton
Loving selected Harrell Turner to receive the 2009
President’s Award, which recognizes outstanding leadership,
dedicated service to VFA, and outstanding support to the
President.
Turner graduated from
Virginia Tech with a bachelor’s degree in forestry in 1971
and began a 33-year career with Union Camp / International
Paper until retiring in 2004. Upon his retirement, Turner
formed CHT Forestry LLC, a forestry consulting business.
Past President Loving began
his presentation by comparing Turner’s values and morals to
that of Sheriff Andy Taylor of the Andy Griffin television
show. A fitting comparison since Turner provided an
excellent impersonation of Sheriff Taylor at our annual
convention held at Mountain Lake in Giles
County near Pembroke, Virginia.
Turner has been extremely
active in his community and as a VFA member. |
He served on the Town
Council of Boykins for five years, and served on the
Southampton County Board of Supervisors for twelve years.
He is a past President of the Airfield 4-H Center. As a VFA
member, Turner served as President in 2005-2006 and has
chaired several committees including Government Relations,
Nominations, Personnel, and the Annual Convention.
In his presentation, Loving
praised Turner’s service as Chairman of the Biomass Task
Force in 2008 that wrote VFA’s position statement on biomass
and biofuels. Loving also cited Turner’s tenure and service
on the Virginia Board of Forestry, currently serving his
second term as Chair.
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