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Oklahoma FFA Executive Director Kent Boggs Honored by OSU Alumni Association
Mon, 10 Oct 2011 06:20:10 CDT
This past Satruday, the Oklahoma State University Alumni Association honored Kent Boggs of Stillwater, Okla., as one of the 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients. Boggs, along with four other recipients, was recognized at a public reception Saturday, Oct. 8, at 12 p.m. at the ConocoPhillips OSU Alumni Center and later in the day at the OSU football game against Kansas. The award is presented to alumni for professional achievement and community service.
Boggs graduated from OSU with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural education in 1978. After graduating from OSU, he joined the faculty as an agricultural education instructor at Marlow High School in Marlow, Okla., for two years.
In 1980, Boggs became an agricultural education instructor at Elgin High School in Elgin, Okla., where he taught for five years before joining the Oklahoma FFA Association as the State FFA Executive Secretary. He is responsible for planning, coordinating and implementing the leadership component of the student organization which includes state officers, membership development, marketing and public relations, conventions, contests and awards.
Boggs currently serves on the State FFA Executive Committee, the board of directors for the Oklahoma FFA Alumni Association and the Oklahoma FFA Foundation. He is a member of the Oklahoma Agricultural Education Teachers Association, the National Association of Agricultural Educators, and the Southwest American Livestock Foundation, Inc.
Boggs became an honorary member of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity in 2007, was awarded the Distinguished Service to Oklahoma Agriculture Award by the Oklahoma Farm Bureau in 2009 and the Arch Alexander Award for Outstanding Contributions to Career Tech Education in 2010. In 2009, OSU Ag-Ed Scholarship, Inc. established the Kent Boggs Endowed Trust in his honor.
Boggs is a life member of the National FFA Alumni and the OSU Alumni Association. (The picture above is when the Oklahloma Farm Bureau honored him with their Distingusihed Service Award at their 2009 State Convention- Boggs is shown with OFB President Mike Spradling)
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