CHAMPAIGN. II Willard
M. Dillon. Extension Dairy Spe
cialist from Purdue University, is
the 1989 recipient of the National
Dairy Herd Improvement Associ
ation (NDHIA) Award.
The award, consisting of $l5OO
and a plaque, was presented to
Dillon for his outstanding work in
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Dillion Receives National DHIA Award
Dairy Herd Improvement pro
grams. He received the award
August 2, 1989, at the awards
ceremony of the 84th Annual
Meeting of the American Dairy
Science Association, held in Lex
ington, Kentucky.
Dillon received his 8.5., M.S.,
and Ph.D. degrees from Universi
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ty of Illinois before becoming
State Leader for the Indiana DHI
Program in 1971. An early deci
sion of his initiated the arrange
ment by which all Indiana DHI
records are processed by the Dairy
Records Processing Center
(DRPC) at Raleigh. North Caroli
na. In 1975, he streamlined centr-
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alized accounting procedures for
Indiana’s county DHI units, creat
ing a model system subsequendy
adopted by all states processing
their records at DRPC. Dillon has
served in numerous leadership
roles for the 12-state DRPC at
Raleigh, including chair of the
Advisory Committee in 1979,
1984, and 198 S.
Dillon has served for 13 years
on the Technical Committee on
Weighting and Sampling Devices,
was a member of the Task Force
for Network of On-Off Farm
Computer Systems, chaired the
North Central Regional Extension
Dairymen Committee for
NCDHIP and was on the Policy
Board form 1985 to 1987.
From Indiana dairy youth prog
rams to continuing involvement
with the Purdue campus Dairy
Days, Dillon’s 26 years in Exten
sion have been dedicated to mak
ing dairying a better business and
way of life in Indiana and the
nation. Special areas of accom
plishments in his Extension prog
ram include milk quality, protein
testing and payment for milk, use
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of computers in decision-making,
and Direct Access to Records by
Telephone (DART). He has
trained 337 DHI supervisors and
seen his efforts almost double the
percentage of cows on DHI lest in
Indiana since 1970.
An ADSA member for 39
years, Dillon has received the
Indiana State Dairy Association’s
Distinguished Service Award and
the Indiana Cooperative Exten
sion Service Career Recognition
Award. He served as Secretary of
the Purdue University Coopera
tive Extension Specialists Associ
ation and is a member of Dairy
Shrine, Gamma Sigma Delta,
Epsilon Sigma Phi, and the Uni
versity of Illinois Ag Alumni
Association.
The National Dairy Herd
Improvement Association has
supported this ADSA award since
1983. National Dairy Herd
Improvement Association is a fed
eration of the state Dairy Herd
Improvement Associations and
represents 58,000 of the dairymen
in Dairy Herd Improvement Asso
ciations in the country.