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2022 Annual Meeting Awards Wrap Up

October 28, 2022 by Mary Pearl Meuth

Our 23rd Texas Master Naturalist Annual Meeting by the Numbers:

  • 458 registrants
    • 83 virtual & 375 in-person
  • 126 speakers
  • 114 concurrent sessions, including 21 field sessions
  • 43 of 48 chapters (~90 %)
Table Of Contents
  1. Lifetime Service Hour Milestone Awards
    • First Year Certification in 2022
    • 250 Service Hours Milestone Award
    • 500 Service Hours Milestone Award
    • 1,000 Service Hours Milestone Award
    • 2,500 Service Hours Milestone Award
    • 4,000 Service Hours Milestone Award
    • 5,000 Service Hours Milestone Award
    • 10,000 Service Hours Milestone Award
  2. Chapter Advisor Award
  3. 9th Annual TMN Video Contest
  4. Exemplary Project Awards
  5. Photo, Art & Media Contest
    • Photography: Plants
    • Photography: Wildlife Birds
    • Photography: Wildlife Insects
    • Photography: Wildlife Other
    • Photography: Chapters @ work/play
    • Photography: Scenic
    • Photography: Digitally Enhanced
    • Art: Drawing or Painting
    • Art: Sculpture, Carving or Stitchery
    • BEST OF SHOW
  6. 2023 Annual Meeting Location
  7. 2023 TMN Annual Re-Certification Pin

Lifetime Service Hour Milestone Awards

First Year Certification in 2022

250 Service Hours Milestone Award

  • Kristina & Robert Adkins, Hays County
  • Karen Aho, Prairie Oaks
  • Roy Appleton, Highland Lakes
  • Dawn Bahr, East Texas
  • Scott Berger, El Camino Real
  • Vicki Blachman, Capital Area
  • Stephanie Bowers, Hays County
  • Bobby Cowley, Guadalupe
  • Barbara Dell, Gulf Coast
  • Mary Anne Dingus, Llano Estacado
  • Gertrude Florence, Hill Country
  • Amanda Fowler, Good Water
  • Andrew & Michelle Goerdel, Good Water
  • Teresa Denise Hall, Heartwood
  • Lisa Hardcastle, Galveston Bay Area
  • Andrew Harrod, Capital Area
  • Carolyn Henderson, El Camino Real
  • Charlise Hill-Larson, Blackland Prairie
  • Jim Isleib, Gulf Coast
  • Marie Kieber-Emmons, South Texas
  • Ashley Landry, Good Water
  • Bobby Langlinais, Heartwood
  • Shari Lewis, Coastal Prairie
  • Aaron Lincoln, Heart of Texas
  • Hoiman Low, Coastal Prairie
  • Lisa Martinez, Cradle of Texas
  • Dan Matkin, North Texas
  • Derrick Mims, Alamo Area
  • Katie Moses, Prairie Oaks
  • Katherine Murphy, Hays County
  • Colleen Murray, Blackland Prairie
  • Marty Newman, Elm Fork
  • Darla Oakman, Heartwood
  • Tasha Patterson, Blackland Prairie
  • Diana Philpot, Heartwood
  • Paulette Platko, Blackland Prairie
  • Suanne Pyle, Hill Country
  • Lucy Randel, Coastal Prairie
  • Kenneth Rust, Llano Estacado
  • Shelby Smith, North Texas
  • Rich Sommer, Gulf Coast
  • Debra Sorenson, El Camino Real
  • Patricia Todd, Lost Pines
  • Betsy Triplett-Hurt, Llano Estacado
  • Amy Watkins, Blackland Prairie

500 Service Hours Milestone Award

  • Lydia Brandt, Bluestem
  • Elaine Cowley, Guadalupe
  • Troy Dale, Elm Fork
  • Kristina del Pino Borgstrom, Rio Brazos
  • Johanna DeYoung, Coastal Prairie
  • Donna Dutton, Hill Country
  • Steven Ellerbe, Lower Trinity Basin
  • Linda Fairlie, Central Texas
  • Karen Gardner, Gideon Lincecum
  • Emily Hansen, Capital Area
  • Nancy Haubert, Rio Brazos
  • Pamela House, Galveston Bay Area
  • Janice James, Blackland Prairie
  • Gene Janulis, Balcones Canyonlands
  • Mary Beth Lampe, Cross Timbers
  • Meade LeBlanc, Galveston Bay Area
  • Robbin Mallett, Coastal Prairie
  • Sue Matkin, North Texas
  • Carra Milikien, Hill Country
  • Derrick Mims, Alamo Area
  • Eric Neubauer, El Camino Real
  • Kathy Pittman, Cradle of Texas
  • Mickey & Valerie Redus, Lower Trinity Basin
  • Ann Reynolds, East Texas
  • Kat Ross, Capital Area
  • Beth Seward, Lost Pines
  • Lucy Spade, Hill Country
  • Terri Stinn, Heartwood
  • Lee Ann Thierry, Lost Pines
  • Paige Wood, Good Water
  • William Worsham, Heartwood
  • Marcia Wutke, Good Water
  • Julian Yates, Balcones Canyonlands

1,000 Service Hours Milestone Award

  • Nancy Angell, Sabine Neches
  • Lisa Audiffred, Capital Area
  • Gail Bradshaw, Prairie Oaks
  • Avon Burton, Cross Timbers
  • Cindy Chrisler, Good Water
  • Michele Connolly, South Texas
  • Regina Dale, Elm Fork
  • Bibi Dalrymple, South Texas
  • Sheila Endres, Balcones Canyonlands
  • Jamie Fairchild, Coastal Prairie
  • Jerrel Geisler, Gulf Coast
  • Karen Hoffman, Gulf Coast
  • Melanie Hollenshead, Cradle of Texas
  • Melinda Kincaid, Gulf Coast
  • Sarah Marshall, Coastal Prairie
  • Linda Nixon, Blackland Prairie
  • Mary O’Hara, Hays County
  • Donna Otto, South Texas Border
  • Larry Peterson, Cradle of Texas
  • Michael Petitt, Galveston Bay Area
  • Paulette Pittman, Gulf Coast
  • Karen Rueb-Hall, East Texas
  • Chantele Singleton, Galveston Bay Area
  • Stalin SM, North Texas
  • Sheri Wilcox, Gideon Lincecum
  • Mary York, Panhandle

2,500 Service Hours Milestone Award

  • Mickey  Dufilho, Cradle of Texas  
  • Roberto Gaitan, Rio Grande Valley  
  • Josie Gonzales, Alamo Area
  • Dale Hughling, Central Texas  
  • Terri Hurley, Coastal Prairie
  • Debra Jones, Red River
  • Carolyn Langlinais, Heartwood
  • Linda Nixon, Blackland Prairie
  • Barbara Peet, Rio Grande Valley  
  • Nancy Rabensburg, Lost Pines
  • Theresa Rooney, Gulf Coast
  • Mary Spolyar, Gulf Coast  
  • Jean Suplick, Blackland Prairie
  • Lisa & Rick Travis, Blackland Prairie
  • Philip Woods, South Texas

4,000 Service Hours Milestone Award

5,000 Service Hours Milestone Award

10,000 Service Hours Milestone Award


Chapter Advisor Award


9th Annual TMN Video Contest

3rd Place

Lost Pines – What is a Master Naturalist?

2nd Place

Hays County – TMNs at work with the HELM Project

1st Place

Hays County – TMNs at work with the Wild About Nature Project


Exemplary Project Awards


Photo, Art & Media Contest

We had 269 entries

An average of 91 votes per category

Thank you to the Gideon Lincecum Chapter for hosting this contest once again! (Second year in a row!)

Photography: Plants

Photography: Wildlife Birds

Photography: Wildlife Insects

Photography: Wildlife Other

Photography: Chapters @ work/play

Photography: Scenic

Photography: Digitally Enhanced

Art: Drawing or Painting

Art: Sculpture, Carving or Stitchery

BEST OF SHOW


2023 Annual Meeting Location


2023 TMN Annual Re-Certification Pin

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