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Oklahoma Ag Leadership Program Returns to In Person Meetings with Graduation of Class XIX- Restart of Class XX

Mon, 02 Aug 2021 06:03:38 CDT

Oklahoma Ag Leadership Program Returns to In Person Meetings with Graduation of Class XIX- Restart of Class XX The Oklahoma Ag Leadership Program returns to in person meetings after an extended pause due to the COVID-19. This past Saturday, Class XIX of OALP had an informal Graduation celebration in Perkins after their original Graduation Ceremony had to be cancelled in the spring of 2020. The Class successfully completed their International Travel Experience to Chile in February 2020 just ahead of the travel bans that became common by mid March of last year.

Dr. Edmond Bonjour, Director of the Oklahoma Ag Leadership Program, says that Class XIX will hold the dubious honor of having the longest span of actually being an active class from the day they first gathered for their Opening Seminar to the day of their graduation. "It's been 1075 days from their first seminar together and we are thankfully wrapping that up today with their graduation" adding that "they will hold the record for the longest time together as a class."

At least three of the graduates of the Class have advanced to out of state positions since they were last together as they arrived back in Oklahoma from Chile- so not Class members were avaialble to participate in the graduation celebration.

Radio Oklahoma Director of Farm Programming Ron Hays talked with Dr. Bonjour about not just Class XIX, but also the delay that has faced Class XX of the program that was first established in the state back in the early 1980s. You can hear that complete conversation by clicking on the LISTEN BAR below.

Class XX was recruited in the early summer 2020 and was able to hold a couple of in person seminars last fall- but as COVID cases climbed- it became apparent that in person sessions were not feasible so the Program paused those meetings for almost a year. "We finally have our first seminar (in person) scheduled this fall in October- we will pick up where we left off a year ago- we had to terminate after our November Seminar in 2020. We kept active by Zoom seminars and have had some really good discussions and good speakers during this time, but the class is ready to get back together in person and we are anxious to get started int he fall."

Class XX hopes to have a full slate of seminars this fall into the early months of 2023, concluding with an international travel experience in February 2023 and graduation in April of that year.

With the gradutation of Class XIX, 525 participants have gone through the program- and have impacted Oklahoma at the local community level- and has also seen several serve in the State Legislature, as Oklahoma Secretary of Agriculture and as leaders in both state and national farm organizations.

OALP Class I was funded from a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.

Beginning with Class II, private contributions from individuals and organizations, support from the Oklahoma Legislature, Oklahoma State University Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources and participation fees from class participants have been the source of funding.

The picture above is Class XIX during their international travel to Chile in February, 2020.

Learn more about the OALP program by clicking here.



   
   

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