AAAP Foundation Named Poultry Scholarships
The AAAP Foundation has eight named scholarships which are awarded annually to students. The following six named scholarships are fully endowed:
1. AAAP Past Presidents Poultry Scholarship (Since 2016): Fully endowed in 2016, the AAAP Past Presidents were the first group to raise $40,000 to create a named Poultry Scholarship. The Past Presidents are just that—past AAAP Presidents. They formed a group in 2011 to support the work of AAAP and the AAAP Foundation knowing that their position as past leaders of AAAP gives them a unique perspective to the workings of the organizations. They raised the funds in record time thanks to a very generous donation from Bill Chase, AAAP President in 1992-93.
2. University of Georgia Jack Tumlin MAM Alumni Scholarship (Since 2017): The University of Georgia Master of Avian Medicine alumni group established the "Jack Tumlin UGA MAM Alumni Association scholarship" in honor of Jack T. Tumlin who founded the program. This named scholarship was fully funded in 2017.
Dr. Tumlin, a Georgian native, earned his B.S.A. with a major in Poultry Science from the University of Georgian in 1942. After serving the U.S. Navy during World War II, he undertook graduate studies at the University of Tennessee where he served an Instructor and Assistant Professor (1947-1949); he received his M.S. with a poultry -related thesis in 1949. He obtained his D.V.M. degree from the University of Georgia in 1953 and his M.H.H. degree from the University of Minnesota in 1958. Upon graduation from veterinary school, he worked for Merck & Company (1952-1955). He returned to the University of Georgia in 1958 as Assistant Professor and Head of the Poultry Diagnostic Laboratory. He returned to industry to work for Central Soya (1959-1964). Through frequent moves between academia and industry, he gained broad experience with poultry operations, inspiring him to see the need for specialized veterinarians and the M.A.M. program. When he returned to the University of Georgian in 1965, the M.A.M program became his goal and ultimate achievement. The first M.A.M. graduated from the University of Georgia in 1972.
3. Arthur Bickford Poultry Scholarship (Since 2018): Arthur Bickford was born and raised in Vermont and attended the University of Vermont (1954-1956) and the University of Pennsylvania where he received his VMD in 1960. He pursued graduate study in veterinary pathology at the University of Vermont, Colorado State University and Purdue University where he received M.S and PhD. Degrees in 1964 and 1966 respectively. He earned diplomate status in the American College of Veterinary Pathologists in 1965 and is a Founding Diplomate of the American College of poultry Veterinarians.
Art served in faculty positions at Purdue University first as Instructor and Assistant Professor in the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (1962-1966) and as Associate Professor of Veterinary Pathology (1968-1973). He was professor and Chairman of Veterinary Pathology at the University of Missouri, Columbia (1979-1984). At the University of California, Davis he served as Extension Veterinarian (1974-1979) and Director of Veterinary Extension (1978-79) and returned in 1984 as Professor of Clinical Diagnostic Avian Pathology in the California Animal Health and Food Safety (CAHFS) Laboratory System. Prior to retirement in 2001 he served as Chief of the Turlock Laboratory (1984-97), Interim Chief of the Fresno Laboratory (1987-89) and Associate Director of the Laboratory System (1992-2001). Throughout his career he has focused his research efforts on characterization of new and unusual avian diseases (transient paralysis, adenoviral infections, clostridial infections etc.) especially diagnostic and pathogenetic considerations.
He served on the Editorial Boards of AVIAN DISEASES, POULTRY SCIENCE and AMERICAN JOURNAL OF VETERINARY RESEARCH and was active in several professional organizations including the American Veterinary Medical Association (Delegate from AAAP, Scientific Program Committee), the Western Poultry Disease Conference (President 1979), the American Association of Avian Pathologists (President 1983).
4. Riddell-Julian Canadian Poultry Scholarship (Since 2019): The Riddell-Julian Canadian Poultry Scholarship honors Dr. Craig Riddell of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) and Dr. Richard Julian of the Ontario Veterinary College (OCV) and is intended to support the education of future Canadian poultry veterinarians.
Dr. Riddell, a member of the AAAP Hall of Honor, accepted a faculty appointment at WCVM in 1969, a position he held for 30 years. His responsibilities included teaching veterinary and agriculture students, research on poultry metabolic diseases, and diagnostic, and extension work for the poultry industry. He supervised seven postgraduate veterinary students and was involved in writing sixty-nine papers on poultry disease in refereed scientific journals. He received awards for two of these papers. He served on the AAAP’s editorial board and was president from 1985-1986.
Dr. Julian graduated from the University of Toronto, Ontario Veterinary College in 1952 with a DVM, VS. In 1964, he was a pathologist and the head of the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. In 1979 he was appointed Professor, Poultry Pathology, Department of Pathology, Ontario Veterinary, College, University of Guelph. He retired in 1994. He authored more than 100 articles on musculoskeletal disorders, coccidiosis, ascites, and cardiomyopathy. He was honored with the "Ontario Poultry Health Worker of the Year" award in 1984 and the Upjohn, AAAP "Animal Health Achievement Award" for distinguished research contribution in Avian Medicine in 1994.
5. Galestan Yan Ghazikhanian (Yan) Poultry Scholarship (Since 2019): Yan Ghazikhanian, DVM, MS, PhD, Charter Diplomate ACPV, was employed at Nicholas Turkey Breeding Farms for 33 years (1974-2007), where he researched and coordinated the eradication of M. meleagridis, M. synoviae, M. iowae, Sal. arizonae and Sal. reading from NTBF basic primary breeding stocks, which had a great impact on turkey health and performance. Yan authored and co-authored many technical articles published in scientific journals and trade periodicals. He co-authored the Mycoplasma meleagridis chapter in Diseases of Poultry: Editions 9, 10 and 11, and served on the boards of both AAAP and ACPV and is an AAAP Past President.
6. AAAP Women’s Network/Boehringer - Ingelheim Foundation Scholarship (Since 2020): The AAAP Women’s Network (AWN) is an AAAP committee that aims to provide additional guidance and professional support to the increasing number of women who are entering the poultry industry. They believe that great leaders learn from the past, embrace the present and look to the future with resilience and optimism. To support the future leadership needs of AAAP and the poultry industry, this committee is primarily focused on leadership and development opportunities for women in the AAAP but has an overarching goal to supported and work collaboratively with all AAAP members.
One of the first projects adopted by this committee was to fully fund an AAAP Foundation Poultry Scholarship. Generous donations by committee members and a 1.5 matching donation by Boehringer-Ingelheim made this possible in a little more than one year.
7. R. W. Winterfield Poultry Scholarship (Since 2021)
This named scholarship is to honor Roland W. Winterfield, DVM of West Lafayette, IN and Professor Emeritus of Purdue University, School of Veterinary Medicine/Avian Diseases.
Dr. Winterfield was a clinical scientist who was passionate about solving disease problems in poultry. He had an intuitive sense of viral pathogens and was highly successful in isolating and propagating them in embryonating chicken eggs. With a small laboratory, just 12 isolator units, and two isolation rooms, his ability to solve key problems with sparse facilities was a lesson not lost to those who passed through his laboratory. Two important attributes were his view of the necropsy room as the gateway to discovery, and the strategic design of experiments. Although a professor, he had an entrepreneurial perspective on virus isolation, characterization, and modification to become a vaccine candidate. His work was focused and efficient. The most sophisticated pieces of equipment in his laboratory were the egg incubator and the -20⁰ freezer. The rest was rudimentary by today’s standards: fertile eggs, wax pencil, petri dishes, pipettes, nutrient broth with antibiotics, scissors and forceps, a light to candle eggs, and an ash tray for his cigar.
Dr. Winterfield was practical, generous, opinionated, hardworking but fun loving, and a mentor to his many veterinary and graduate students. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Veterinary Medical Association in 1987.
8. H. John Barnes Poultry Scholarship (Since 2021)
Harold John Barnes was born in Sydney, Australia and came to the US with his mother after the war. He grew up near Kansas City, Missouri. He completed a BS in Agriculture in 1969 and DVM in 1970 at Kansas State University. Following graduation, he joined the KSU faculty, taught general pathology, and studied poultry diseases under Dr. Laddie Munger. Subsequently, he joined the KSU team at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in Zaria, Nigeria to help establish a veterinary school in northern Nigeria. He completed his PhD degree at ABU in 1976. His research was on avian spirochetosis, which was second only to Newcastle disease as a cause of mortality in village poultry.
When John returned to the US, he accepted a position at Iowa State University (ISU) where he continued studies in pathology, conducted research on respiratory diseases of turkeys under Dr. Mel Hofstad, and taught poultry diseases. He successfully passed the American College of Veterinary Pathology exams. He accepted an offer in 1982 to continue establishment of the Poultry Medicine program at North Carolina State University. With the help of colleagues, an internationally recognized program was developed. Nearly 100 students and veterinarians have trained in the program and now hold key positions in the poultry industry, government agencies, or academic institutions. Solving health problems in poultry and reproductive pathology of birds have been John’s primary research interests.
John served on several AAAP, AAAP Foundation, ACPV, and AVMA committees. He was elected AAAP President and initiated the change to accept international members. He is a charter member of ACPV. John served on the editorial board of Avian Diseases, and is an author, co-author, editor, or co-editor for numerous publications and books including Diseases of Poultry and Avian Histopathology. He has received several awards including the Phibro Animal Health Excellence in Poultry, Outstanding Extension Service, KSU Alumni Recognition, and North Carolina Poultry Federation Distinguished Service Awards.
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