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SGBI 2020Annual Meeting The 2020 Santa Gertrudis Breeders Interna- tional (SGBI) Annual Meeting was a different version than in past years and was shortened to one day, but it was well-attended and the Santa Gertrudis family was very happy to be together again. The meeting, held in Cullman, Ala., included a board meeting, annual mem- bership lunch, committee meetings and the President’s Dinner and Awards Banquet. High- lights from the meeting are shown below.

Serving on the 2020-2021 SGBI Board are, standing, left to right: SGBI Executive Director Webb Fields, Cody Mattingly, Tony Creech, David Alderson, Craig Lopossa, Ricky Cleveland, Nolan Taylor and Trai Stegall. Sitting, left to right, are Debbie Townsend, Alicia Sanchez, Nancy Wunderlich, Jamie Daniel, Suzanne Fulton and Gene Kubecka. Not pictured are Kathryn Hefte, Erik Wiley, Tylor Braden, Rafael Miranda and Michael Seay.

SGBI President Nancy Wunderlich presents former SGBI Executive Director John Ford with two parting gifts from the association for his service to the association from 2009 to 2020.

Former SGBI President Jerome Urbanosky presents the President’s Award to Judy McDaniel for her service and contributions to the Gerts Ongoing Advanced Leadership Summit (GOALS) and her outstanding work planning and executing the Santa Gertrudis World Congress 2019.

Bill Cameron (center, right) and his wife Rhenda (center, left) are presented with the SGBI Hall of Fame bronze by John Ford (left), former SGBI executive director, and Webb Fields (right), SGBI executive director, at the Annual Meeting Awards Banquet.

Family and friends of the late John Carleston stand with Helen Carleston (center, holding sculpture) as she receives the award on behalf of her late husband for being inducted into the SGBI Hall of Fame. Pictured, left to right, are Debbie (Carleston) Townsend, Becky Mikolajczak, Caydi Blaha, Kody Martin, Helen Carleston, Cindy (Carleston) Blaha, Bud Blaha, Tana Hajovsky, Cory Hajovsky, Miranda Hogsed and Clint Blaha.

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