Saturday, October 30, 2010

Lienemann President NCEA

Duane (Dewey) Lienemann, UNL Extension Educator for Webster County was installed as President of the Nebraska Cooperative Extension Association (NCEA) at their fall conference in Kearney on October 13. He will preside over the organization during the coming year. Lienemann had served the past year as President-Elect and took the gavel from Past President Bill Kranz, Associate Professor and Irrigation Specialist at Northeast Research & Extension Center in Concord, NE. He will now preside over all regular and special NCEA meetings, appoint committees with advice of the executive committee and approval of the board, and will serve as the official representative of the Association to other entities including the Nebraska Association of County Extension Boards, Nebraska 4-H Foundation and several others. He will also attend to other duties naturally developing upon the office of President. Previously Lienemann had served as President of the Nebraska Association of County Agriculture Agents (NACAA) and on several key NCEA committees. He had served earlier as Secretary of the NACAA and as a district representative to both the NACAA and the NCEA and as Sergeant of Arms for the NCEA. The NCEA is the umbrella professional organization for UNL Extension personnel. It includes individuals representing: Nebraska Chapter of the National Association of 4-H Agents (NAE4-HA), Specialists Section of NCEA, Nebraska Affiliate of National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (NEAFCS), Alpha Upsilon Chapter of Epsilon Sigma Phi (ESP), Association of Natural Resource Extension Professionals (ANREP), Nebraska Chapter of National Association of Community Development Extension Professionals (NACDEP) and Nebraska Chapter of National Association of County Agriculture Agents (NACAA). Lienemann is the UNL Extension Educator for Webster County and works out of Red Cloud, NE. He is a livestock focused educator under the Beef Systems Spire of Excellence for the University of Nebraska Institute for Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR). He resides in Blue Hill, NE with his wife Connie. He is in his eleventh year with the University of Nebraska after a distinguished career for 29 years as an agriculture education instructor, most of which were at Blue Hill High School. An interesting side note is that the new President Elect of the NCEA is his daughter, Deanna (Lienemann) Karmazin. Ms. Karmazin is an UNL Extension Assistant, responsible for Animal Science and Agriculture with the Lancaster County UNL Extension in Lincoln, NE. Karmazin had served previously as President of the NAE4-HA. She will take the gavel as President after her father completes his term. Deanna is a native of Blue Hill, NE and now resides in Lincoln with her husband, Steve Karmazin and two children, Chris and Lauren.

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