The Alumni Association of Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) will honor George J. Conneman and Bernard F. Stanton, professors of agricultural economics, with the association's Outstanding Faculty Award at the annual alumni awards banquet on Friday, Sept. 20.

While this will be the first year of presentation of this award, this is the 20th year the CALS Alumni Association has presented the awards to recognize outstanding alumni of the college. This year's Outstanding Alumni Award recipients will be: Philip Coombe Jr., Grahamsville, N.Y.; Richard E. Keene, Gilbertsville, N.Y.; Richard T. Meister, Willoughby, Ohio; J. Patrick Mulcahy, Clayton, Mo.; Charles E. Wille, Montgomery, N.Y.; and Robin L. Baker, New York City.

The event will be held in the Triphammer Lodge & Conference Center (formerly The Sheraton) on Triphammer Road at 6 p.m. Individuals may register for the banquet by contacting the Agriculture and Life Sciences Alumni Association at 265 Roberts Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853. For information, call (607) 255-7651.

George J. Conneman '52, MS '56

George Conneman has been a member of the Department of Agricultural, Resource, and Managerial Economics since 1956. He has taught more than 3,000 undergraduates and graduate students and advised more than 600 undergraduates. He served as associate dean and director of academic programs from 1981 to 1994, carrying out his administrative duties while continuing to teach. Conneman has received numerous recognitions beginning with Ho-Nun-de-Kah's Professor of Merit Award in 1975 and most recently, the Edgerton Career Teaching Award from the college and the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching from the State University of New York.

An active member of the community, Conneman serves as chair of the Southern Cayuga Lake Intermunicipal Water Commission. He was on the board of directors of the First National Bank of Moravia, the Business Advisory Committee for Alfred Ag & Tech, and also has been a columnist for American Agriculturist magazine.

Conneman is a longtime member of the ALS Alumni Association, serving as treasurer from 1973 to 1990. He has been a member of the Outstanding Senior Service Award Committee and has frequently been a presenter on behalf of the dean at Dean--Alumni Get-togethers throughout New York and in Florida and California.

Bernard F. Stanton '49

"Bud" Stanton was a member of the college's Department of Agricultural Economics for 39 years, retiring in 1992 as professor emeritus. He served as chair of the department from 1968 to 1976 and was the college representative to the SUNY Faculty Senate from 1978 to 1984. He is held in the highest regard by his former students and considered a skilled administrator and teacher by his colleagues.

Stanton is well regarded by his fellow agricultural economists. He has been president of the American Agricultural Economics Association and was elected a Fellow. He has been vice president of the International Association of Agricultural Economists and organized the program for their triennial meeting in Tokyo in 1991. He has been president of the Fund for the International Conference of Agricultural Economists since 1980. He is best known for his work on the structure of American agriculture.

Stanton continues to contribute to Cornell and to his profession. He is chair of the university's Health Careers Evaluation Committee, a member of the Census Advisory Committee on Agricultural Statistics and a director of the American Agriculturist Foundation. He formerly served on the board of directors of the Springfield Bank for Cooperatives. He was president of his class in 1949 when he graduated from Cornell and one of four Cornell students who started the International Farm Youth Exchange Program in the late 1940s.