Tuesday Letter

The Tuesday Letter
Agricultural Experiment Station & Cooperative Extension Service

Vol. 14, No. 13 February 12, 2008

IN THIS ISSUE...

...Word from the Associate Director - Extension and Applied Research
...KSU Foundation Ag Land Gift Program
...Interviews for Associate Director, Research and Technology Transfer Announced
...Farewell Reception for Forrest Chumley
...Thank You from Linda Lamb
...2008 TechBytes Technology Series: Adobe Connect Video Conferencing
...Would You Like to Know More About the Kansas Water Plan?
...True Colors Basic and True Colors Advanced Workshops
...Improve Your Work with Your Board and Committees
...CECD Update
...KAE4-HA Spring Meeting - Putting the FUN Back into the 4-H Profession
...Photography Judging Test Resources
...4-H Photo Adventure Camp
...Master Schedule

...Tuesday Letter Archives

WORD FROM THE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR - EXTENSION AND APPLIED RESEARCH
Partnership Meetings around the state are a couple weeks passed now, and I am well pleased with the responses we've gotten to the sessions and discussions. My special thanks goes out to the Board members and agents who actively presented in the various sessions. We really focused on 4 major topics:

1) Performance evaluations/reviews;
2) Professional development planning;
3) Communicating the public value of Extension work; and
4) Effective boards.

While that may sound somewhat mundane, I'd suggest these to be vital topics to the success and continuous improvement of extension professionals and the leaders we have on our extension executive boards.

I came across a reference to Brian Tracy International and some of his training on personal development. One of the points that struck home was that he finds that persons who will take the time to WRITE down their goals are much more likely to achieve those goals than individuals who do not write out goals. Makes me think that there is a positive purpose to performance reviews and evaluations, when that makes each of us set forth a written set of goals for the coming year, and reflect on the goals we had set for ourselves in the year previous.

And last, but by no means least, Dr. Cholick taught us the importance of 4 "Ps" in our public work:

People;
Purpose;
Potential; and
Passion.

And, someone left an anonymous note on Fred's portfolio that said "People are put on this earth for the purpose of developing their potential and passion for life." Well said! --Daryl Buchholz dbuchhol@ksu.edu

KSU FOUNDATION AG LAND GIFT PROGRAM
During his recent Partnership tour, Dean Fred Cholick discussed his 4 Ps: People, Purpose, Potential and Passion. His presentation, "which reflects his leadership philosophy," closely matches the Ag Land gift program being developed at the KSU Foundation.

With help of Extension agents, our Purpose is to identify People with Passion and show them the Potential.

Tremendous wealth is locked up in highly-appreciated Kansas farm and grass land. When land changes hands, there are often significant tax implications. The IRS wins. With appropriate planning, those dollars can be retained to benefit people and programs important to the landowner. Opportunities include providing scholarships for local kids, benefiting area research, and supporting County Extension programs.

Sharing ideas is a long-term educational process and includes a marketing program titled "What's Next?" We have shared this message in tandem at Extension leasing meetings in Geary, Republic and Clay counties. We are planting seeds.

To learn more about sharing the 4 Ps in your community, contact Gordon Dowell at 785-532-7565 or gordond@found.ksu.edu .

Together, we will help People with Passion learn of the Potential to support their Purpose. --Daryl Buchholz dbuchhol@ksu.edu

INTERVIEWS FOR ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR - RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER ANNOUNCED
The Search Committee is pleased to announce two candidates we will be interviewing for the Interim Associate Director for Research and Technology Transfer within the College of Agriculture and K-State Research and Extension. This position has day to day responsibility for the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station.

Our candidates and their seminar times are as follows:

Dr. J. Ernest Minton, Professor of Animal Science and Industry, will present a seminar at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, February 13, in the K-State Alumni Center Ballroom B.

Dr. C. Michael Smith, Professor of Entomology, will present a seminar at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, February 14, in the K-State Alumni Center Ballroom B.

Information including each candidate's CV, full interview schedule, video streaming of seminars, and an online evaluation survey form is available at http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/seminars/InterimAssociateDirector.htm .

We hope you will plan to participate at the appropriate times in the interview schedule. Evaluation input to the search committee will need to be submitted on-line by no later than 8:00 a.m. Friday, February 15. --Daryl Buchholz, Search Committee Chair

FAREWELL RECEPTION FOR FORREST CHUMLEY
The College of Agriculture/K-State Research and Extension would like to recognize Forrest Chumley, Associate Director for Research and Technology Transfer, for his six years of service to the University. Dr. Chumley is taking a position as Vice President of Crop Development with Edenspace in Manhattan/Junction City.

Please join us for a reception in his honor on Friday, February 15, 2008, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Room 137 Waters Hall. There will be a brief ceremony at 12 noon. Light refreshments will be served.

Feel free to come and go as your schedule allows. --Fred Cholick fcholick@ksu.edu

THANK YOU FROM LINDA LAMB
Thank you to all who have expressed their sympathy and sent cards and memorials in memory of my mother. The support from KSRE has been incredible. --Linda Lamb heiens@humec.ksu.edu

2008 TECHBYTES TECHNOLOGY SERIES: ADOBE CONNECT VIDEO CONFERENCING
What is Connect? It's a browser-based communication tool used to give live presentations, meetings, seminars (webinars), and information to any audience with an Internet-connected computer. K-State Research and Extension is utilizing this tool to save time and travel as well as to get it's message across the state of Kansas. Special highlights include using live video, audio, the ability to view PowerPoint presentations, post agendas and documents, and uses interactive features such as on-line polls, whiteboard, and active chat.

An overview of Adobe Connect will be on Thursday, February 14, 1:15 p.m., at the KSU Hale Library, Room 501. A "live" video of this program, the Spring 2008 TechBytes schedule, and resources to previous TechBytes programs are available at the TechBytes Website at www.ksu.edu/techbytes .

For more information, please contact Gerry Snyder, gsnyder@ksu.edu . --Gerry Snyder

WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE KANSAS WATER PLAN?
How do you and your county clientele feel about how Kansas' water is valued, managed, and protected? Would you like to know more about the Kansas Water Plan and perhaps express your opinion to the state agencies and the legislature? You can do that through your Basin Advisory Committee. Kansas has a unique, open water planning process where citizens can have input and influence how our state's water is managed. The Basin Advisory Committees provide insight and advice on water issues to the Kansas Water Authority and serve as a forum for community involvement. Each of the state’s 12 principal river basins in Kansas has a committee.

The BACs provide the working link between the Kansas Water Office (KWO) staff and the public. The committees:

Advise the KWO and the KWA in identification of water-related problems, issues, and concerns within their basin.
Advise the KWO and the KWA in the formulation of revisions to the Basin Plan for their basin.
Advise the KWO and the KWA regarding the Kansas Water Plan implementation priorities and actions.
Serve as a link to the public in the basin through interaction with various groups and individuals and communicate information on concerns and issues to citizens in the basin.
Advise the KWO and KWA on policy issues under consideration for inclusion in the Kansas Water Plan.

During the last two weeks of February and one in the first week of March the Basin Advisory Committees are scheduled to meet as follows:

February
18 - Solomon Basin Advisory Committee Meeting, 7:00 p.m., DWR - Stockton Field Office, Stockton, KS

19 - Upper Republican Basin Advisory Committee Meeting, 1:30 p.m., Gateway Center, Oberlin, KS

19 - Cimarron Basin Advisory Committee Meeting, 9:00 a.m., Grant County Civic Center, Shockey Room, 1000 W. Patterson, Ulysses, KS

20 - Smoky Hill-Saline Basin Advisory Committee, 9:30 a.m., Hays City Hall, Hays, KS

21 - Upper Arkansas Basin Advisory Committee Meeting, 1:30 p.m., King Center, 1312 Main Street, Jetmore, KS

26 - Marais des Cygnes Basin Advisory Committee Meeting, 1:00 p.m., Williamsburg Community Center, 126 West Williams Street, Williamsburg, KS

26 - Walnut Basin Advisory Committee Meeting, Plaza Azul Restaurant, 717 West 7th Avenue, Augusta, KS

27 - Verdigris Basin Advisory Committee Meeting, 1:00 p.m., Independence Country Club, 2824 Country Club Circle, Independence, KS

28 - Kansas-Lower Republican Basin Advisory Committee Meeting, 10:00 a.m., KDWP Regional Office, 300 SW Wanamaker, Topeka, KS

28 - Neosho Basin Advisory Committee Meeting, 1:00 p.m., Coffey County Courthouse, 110 Sixth Street, Burlington, KS

28 - Lower Arkansas Basin Advisory Committee Meeting, 9:00 a.m., City of Newton Public Works Facility, Utility Maintenance Facility Training Room, 1100 S. Kansas Avenue, Newton, KS

March
3 - Missouri Basin Advisory Committee Meeting, 9:00 a.m., Morrill Public Library, 431 Oregon Street, Hiawatha, KS

More information about the Kansas Water Plan, the Kansas Water Office, KWO publications, and each of the 12 water basins is available at the KWO website, www.kwo.org . --Morgan Powell well@ksu.edu

TRUE COLORS BASIC AND TRUE COLORS ADVANCED WORKSHOPS
This is a reminder about the True Colors Basic and True Colors Advanced Workshops available next week, February 21 and 22, 2008.

There will be only two training sites available for these workshops. Both sites will host the Basic Session (scheduled for 8:30 a.m. until 12 p.m.) and the Advanced Session (1 p.m. until 3:45 p.m.). These sites are as follows:

Thursday, February 21, in the Ellis County Extension Office in Hays.
Friday, February 22, in the Douglas County Extension Office in Lawrence.

If you have any questions concerning these True Colors workshops, please contact Ann Domsch at 785-532-5833 or by e-mail at adomsch@ksu.edu ; or Connie Hoch at 785-532-5840 or by e-mail at choch@ksu.edu . See you there! --Connie Hoch

IMPROVE YOUR WORK WITH YOUR BOARD AND COMMITTEES
Ag, FCS, 4-H, and Community Development – if you are in Extension, you will benefit from the February 26-28 workshop put on by UNL Extension professionals. Using Foundations of Practice materials created by North Central Region extension professionals, this skill-building workshop will give all extension professionals a solid foundation for their work with teams, boards, committees, and volunteer groups. This is an outstanding opportunity to build those skills that will enable you to be more effective in your work to mobilize and engage others in your projects and work!

Sign up today for Community Development 101. Registration is due by February 18. Print a registration form from the web found at http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/Employee_Resources/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=206 ,

or e-mail us at the PRIDE office at pride@ksu.edu with questions.

The workshop will be held February 26-28 at the McPherson County Extension facility. --Dan Kahl dkahl@oznet.ksu.edu

CECD UPDATE

The Center for Engagement and Community Development asked their External Advisory Committee last week to identify the driving issues they saw for Kansas Community Development in 2008. Key efforts identified included:

The Kansas economic strategic plan (proposed by Kansas Inc.)

Increasing philanthropy in State

Understanding rural sustainability and developing comprehensive approaches for planning and action for community sustainability

Leadership at the city/organizational level and Leadership development including

How to fundraise

Business management skills

Bringing providers and users together on social/community issues

Building trust and cooperation between state agencies

Job retention (Emporia) and business development Linking aspects of product, $$ planning, marketing, etc.

Communication – both social and technology

Disaster funding

Changing populations

new partnerships to address arts/culture changes

Aging infrastructure

These topics are recognized as important drivers for Kansas in 2008. They coincide well with the focus and priorities of KSRE – and will be given top consideration when reviewing CECD Incentive grant project proposals due this April 1. CECD will also favorably consider applications that address issues beyond a 50-mile radius of Manhattan. For information on grant proposals, visit www.ksu.edu/cecd . --Dan Kahl dkahl@oznet.ksu.edu .

KAE4-HA SPRING MEETING - PUTTING THE FUN BACK INTO THE 4-H PROFESSION
On April 8-9, join Extension Professionals from across the state with the objective of “Putting the FUN Back into the 4-H Profession.” The annual KAE4-HA Spring Meeting will be held in Hutchinson at the Grand Prairie Hotel and ALL Extension Professionals are welcome to join us. The cost will be only $60 for KAE4-HA members and new staff hired since the last conference. Non-members are encouraged to join us as well, with registration at only $70. Registration is due March 20.

Dr. Jeff Goodwin, Colorado State 4-H Program Leader, will be our guest speaker. He will be presenting programs on: How to be a Jedi County Agent, Are You Smarter Than a 4-H Member? and The Two Commandments of 4-H (Extension) Work. In addition, on Wednesday afternoon, he will present a program on “Effective Livestock Quality Programs.”

For more information and the registration form, please visit http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/kae4ha/prof%20dev.htm . --Sarah Maass, semaass@k-state.edu

PHOTOGRAPHY JUDGING TEST RESOURCES
With the introduction of new 4-H Photography curriculum (from National 4-H Council) the sources of the questions for the tests of photography knowledge for 4-H Photography Judging will change also. Test questions can come from all three publications; Focus on Photography (Book 1), Controlling the Image (Book 2), and Mastering Photography (Book 3) as well as the Kodak New Pocket Guide to Digital Photography (digital resource added last year).

If you have any questions, please contact one of the photography action team members or contact me. --Rod Buchele rbuchele@ksu.edu

4-H PHOTO ADVENTURE CAMP
The flyer for the 4-H Photo Adventure Camp is on the Southwest Area website at http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/swao/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=19 . Click on Photo Camp under 4-H Forms on the right side of the page.
More information will be up on www.Kansas4-H.org soon, but I wanted to get this information out to you right away.

Following is more information that could be used in a newsletter or a letter or note to promote camp to individuals.

"Haul Your Freight to Photo Camp 2008," June 20, 2008 - June 23, 2008, Rock Springs 4-H Center. Photo Adventure Camp is a fantastic opportunity to develop photography skills and is unique in the 4-H world, no one else has Photo Adventure Camp. Camp is for youth 13 -16 and is an intense photography experience. Adults may attend, parents are encouraged to attend with their child. Cost for Photo Adventure Camp will be $150. Camp will be all digital, no film will be processed. Campers may shoot film to take home for processing.

Scholarships for first time campers, $50, (limit of 5), parent/child combo discount of $50 off the parent registration (limit of 5), children of deployed servicemen/women can attend camp for scholarship price ($75.00-proof of deployment required-no limit).

Registration is due by April 1, 2008. Camp will be cancelled if less than 25 youth are registered by April 1, 2008.

Thanks for your help promoting this outstanding opportunity for youth. If you have any questions, please contact me. --Rod Buchele rbuchele@oznet.ksu.edu

VIEW THE MASTER SCHEDULE OR ADD NEW ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS

Submit corrections to previously submitted items to cthomas@ksu.edu .
DATES TAKEN FROM THE MASTER SCHEDULE FOR FEBRUARY 21 THROUGH FEBRUARY 27, 2008.
Thursday, February 21, 2008, 1:15-3:45 at Chanute
….True Colors Team Building Training, Connie Hoch choch@oznet.ksu.edu
Thursday, February 21, 2008, 8:30 a.m. at Lakin
….In Depth Weed Management School, Curtis Thompson cthompso@oznet.ksu.edu
Thursday, February 21, 2008, 9-12:00 in Chanute
….Basic Awareness True Colors Training, Gayle Price gprice@oznet.ksu.edu
Thursday, February 21 through Saturday, February 23, 2008 at the Airport Hilton, Wichita
….KS Natural Resources Conference, Charles Barden cbarden@ksu.edu
Thursday, February 21 through Sunday, February 24, 2008 in Baltimore, MD
….Annual Meeting of the Association for Gerontology, Deb Sellers dsellers@ksu.edu
Friday, February 22 at 1:15-3:45 in Manhattan
….True Colors Team Building Training, Connie Hoch choch@oznet.ksu.edu
Friday, February 22 at 8:30 a.m. in Larned
….In Depth Weed Management School, Curtis Thompson cthompso@oznet.ksu.edu
Friday, February 22 at 9-12:00 in Manhattan
….Basic Awareness True Colors Training, Gayle Price gprice@oznet.ksu.edu
Friday, February 22 to Saturday, February 23, 2008 at Rock Springs 4-H Center
….4-H Ambassador Training, Deryl Waldren dwaldren@ksu.edu
Sunday, February 24 to Sunday, March 2, 2008
….KS Saves/America Saves Week, Carol Young cyoung@ksu.edu
Monday, February 25 to Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 12:30 at KSU, Manhattan
….New Extension Agent Orientation, Stacey Warner swarner@oznet.ksu.edu
Monday, February 25 to Friday, February 29, 2008, Rock Springs 4-H Center
….KS Youth Development Institute (AYD), Elaine Johannes ejohanne@ksu.edu
Tuesday, February 26 to Wednesday, February 27, 2008
….Community Development 101, Connie Hoch choch@oznet.ksu.edu
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 in Wichita
….ServSafe Food Protection Mgr Certification, Gayle Price gprice@oznet.ksu.edu
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 in Beaumont
….Prescribed Burning Workshop, Walt Fick whfick@ksu.edu
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. at Whiteside Amish Community Building
….DHIA Annual Meeting / K-State Dairy Days, John F. Smith jfsmith@ksu.edu
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 all day in Marshall County
….Weed Management School, Michael Vogt mvogt@oznet.ksu.edu

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