The Montana CattleWomen's Scholarship is in the amount of $1000.00 and is funded through memorials. Applicants must be from a Montana home and must be enrolled in a Montana institution of post-secondary education, either public or private. Preference is given to a student planning to pursue a career beneficial to the cattle industry.

This scholarship was established in 1963 and has been awarded to worthy students since that time.  Applications for the Scholarship are accepted until March 15. See the Rules, Application, and Instructions.

Past recipients of the MCW Memorial Scholarship: 2006 Lindsey Foard of Billings, 2007 James Brown of Helena, 2008 Kari Gillespie of Kevin, 2009 Tom Brown of Helena, and 2010 Aaron DeVries of Malta.

For more information contact Chairperson Yvonne Hinman   PO Box 220  Malta, MT  59538  (406)654-1809  hinmanangus@hotmail.com

American National CattleWomen met at the Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show at the Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. for the 2011 National Beef Cook-Off Event, on November 5 & 6.

All the 2011 National Beef Cook-Off Finalist recipes were demonstrated by chefs to audiences of 100 or more at one time continuing demos through out the two days, while other consumers enjoyed taste samples of the recipes as over 15,000 samples were prepared by catering services and presented in the 2 days, by the CattleWomen, who gave out 2 to 3 different recipes to taste at one time so that the consumers could vote on which one they liked the best. Martin’s Angus Beef of Virginia donated 500 pounds of beef to the event for the taste sampling. The third CattleWomen Booth gave beef fans an opportunity to play a Twitter/Face Book media game or Know your Beef Game, or participate in a Be a Beef Star –by telling a great beef eating experience all put on video. Each participates name was put in a sweepstakes drawing, held at the end of each day.

Sheryl Little of Sherwood, Arkansas was announced at the event as the grand prizewinner with her Vegetable Mangle Beef Stir Fry, her recipe was entered in the Stir Crazy Solutions category she received $25,000.  There were four categories one being Stir Crazy Solutions, the others the 5:00 PM Dinner Crunch, Retro Recipes Revived and Fuel Up With Beef. Each category had a winner; Montana’s Edwina Gadsby of Great Falls won the Fuel Up with Beef Category. Each category winner won $3,000. These were announced in July.

 Beef was the star and the consumer was the target as everyone enjoyed the wonderful taste of beef at the Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show, with over 25,000 guests at the event.  The CattleWomen booths were paid for in part by the Beef Producers through their $1 Per Head Check off. Taking part and helping with the event from the state of Montana were Paulette Keller of Lloyd, and Wanda Pinnow of Baker; they were among the 38 American National CattleWomen helping at the event.  The recipes are available at beefcook-off.org web site.

To receive more information on the program, contact Beef Education Chair-Suze Bohleen, P.O. Box 387, 101 Easy Street, Wisall, MT 59086 (406-578-2369) crsuz@wispwest.net . This program receives project funding from the Montana Beef Council.

    To receive more information about the Montana Beef Ambassador Program, contact Beef Ambassador Chair Linda Davis at linda@LazyVBar.com .
     To receive more information about the National Beef Ambassador Program, contact National Project Manager Sarah J. Bohnenkamp at sbohnenkamp@beef.org  or 303-850-3440/

The winner of the Montana Food Producers Educational Display: Beef Winner, Wendy White from North Star High School in Rudyard, MT.

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