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President’s Message | Archives

We can chart our future clearly and wisely on when we know the path which has led to the present.

– Adlai Stevenson

By Anne Lampe, 2012 American Angus Auxiliary President

2012 marks the 60th anniversary of the American Angus Auxiliary, chartered in 1952 its purpose and mission was for women Angus breeders and wives of Angus breeders to get better acquainted, to aide in promoting the breed and to present awards to deserving youth showing Aberdeen-Angus projects. While the way the words stated in our current mission may differ to reflect current times, the basic mission and goals are the same. The Auxiliary is a group of women dedicated to the present and future of the Angus breed, Angus breeders and juniors involved in the industry.

The members of the Auxiliary gathered in Louisville, Kentucky this past November to hold their annual meeting and to plan for the future. During the annual meeting we welcomed Cortney Holshouser, Castalia, North Carolina to the officer team as secretary treasurer. Cortney and her husband Carl manage an Angus herd and operate a custom embryo collection facility. Cortney serves on the board of directors for the North Carolina Angus Association and as an advisor of the state's junior association. The Auxiliary announced plans for a women's conference for women Angus breeders, Auxiliary members and those involved in the industry, the conference will be held in St. Joseph, Missouri in the spring of 2012 and will be co-sponsored by the Angus Foundation. Look for more information in upcoming articles and at www.angusauxiliary.com.

As I reflect on my path to becoming president of the Auxiliary and our organization celebrates our heritage and plans for future; I am reminded of a quote by Adlai Stevenson, “We can chart our future clearly and wisely on when we know the path which has led to the present.”

I am humbled and excited to serve as the president of the American Angus Auxiliary during this 60th anniversary year. I have long admired the women who have served before me and consider many of them my mentors and well as friends. I am very fortunate to have grown up in the Angus industry and live the “Angus way of life” everyday. My grandfather, dad and his brothers started in the Angus business in 1953. I grew up on a small registered Angus farm in south Louisiana and was active in the state and national junior Angus programs. The highlight of my junior Angus years was attending every National Junior Angus Heifer Show beginning in 1974 through the end of my junior Angus membership and making lifelong friendships in the Angus industry. I served as Louisiana Junior Angus Association president, Louisiana Angus Queen, was a voting delegate during the forming of the National Junior Angus Association Board of Directors and was an American Angus Auxiliary scholarship recipient. I became a life member American Angus Auxiliary in 1983.

After graduating from high school, I chose to attend college in Kansas after receiving a livestock judging scholarship where I met my husband Mark. In the early 1990's Mark and I along with our sons Garrett and Clayton started our own herd of Angus cattle with few of the cows from my family's herd in Louisiana and purchasing others from Kansas breeders. As our sons grew up they became very involved in the operation of the herd and embraced the junior Angus program and all it has to offer. It was also in the early 1990's that I became more involved in the Kansas Angus Auxiliary and American Angus Auxiliary. I have served as president of the Kansas organization and currently chair the Miss Kansas Angus and Ambassador program. On the national level I serve as co-chairman of the beef education committee which coordinates the popular All- American Certified Angus Beef® Cook-off at the National Junior Angus Show in. The NJAA recognized me as the advisor of the year in 2007 and in 2010; I was honored to be a co-chairman of the National Junior Angus Show having the opportunity to give back to the program that played such a huge part in my life and the lives of my children. Along with managing our cow/calf herd, I am the secretary/ manager of the Kansas Angus Association and Mark is the assistant manager of a large commercial feedyard. Our oldest son Garrett is the manger of Top Line Angus Farm in Tremont, Illinois. Clayton and his wife Erin and children Carter and Claire live in Bowling Green, Ohio. Both Erin and Clayton work in the agriculture industry for The Andersons Company.

I look forward to my year as president of the Auxiliary and embracing all of the challenges, opportunities and friendships it will bring. However I am most excited about serving the Angus breed and the people who make the breed and industry what it is.

Anne Lampe
Scott City, Kansas
alampe@wbsnet.org