The Marlowe Nelson Distinguished Service Award was awarded to Corey Geiger, past WHA and Holstein USA President and editor of Hoard’s Dairyman. Geiger served on the WHA Board of Directors with 27 other members while serving for nine years. He served three years as secretary, two years as vice president and two years as president.
While on the board he served on the finance, communications and scholarship committees and continued to serve for several years after going off the board for a total of 36 years served accumulatively on these committees. Geiger had the foresight to establish the nominating committee for board of directors and was the leader in establishing the Midwest Holsteins publication.
On a national level, he was elected to a director at-large role at the National Holstein Convention in Minnesota in 2010 and served six years. While on the national board he was on six committees, several of which as the chairperson for multiple years. Then in 2017, Geiger was again elected to the national board as vice president and then president. All of this service was done as co-chair of the 2019 National Holstein Convention here in Wisconsin, as well as his day-to-day position as Editor of Hoard’s Dairyman.
Additional volunteer duties include coordinating the National Intercollegiate Judging Contest at World Dairy Expo, serving as Holstein representative to the World Dairy Expo Board of Directors and serving on the Council for Dairy Cattle Breeding; along with authoring a book in his spare time.
Corey was recently presented the Distinguished Service Award at the 2023 Wisconsin Holstein Convention in Wisconsin Rapids.