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Nieveenis "bowled9 over
by Golden Bull A ward
Wednesday, November 17, 1982
By Dulcie Shoener
A 21 -year-old UNL
senior has been selected
as one of five nationwide
winners of the Golden Bull
Achievement Award, which
is sponsored by the Ameri
can Hereford Auxiliary and
the American Junior Here
ford Association.
Beverly Nieveen of
Adams received a $100
scholarship and a bronze
statue of a Hereford bull
earlier this month at the
Junior Hereford Associat
ion convention in Kansas
City, Mo. The other four
winners are from Iowa,
New Mexico, South Dakota
and Arizona.
Nieveen has been an
active member of the Ne
braska Junior Hereford
Association for several
years. She has served as
public relations director,
treasurer and state Here
ford queen and is currently
the group's president.
Nieveen said she had to
fill out a lengthy form to
apply for the achievement
award. The form asked
for information about her
grades from high school
and college and about her
activities.
Nieveen said she pro
bably received the award
because of her involvement
in the Nebraska Junior
Hereford Association and
its efforts in starting the
Hereford Bowl, first on the
state level and then
the national level. ,
The Hereford Bowl
a youth-oriented quiz game,
similar to the College Bowl,
she said.
"Hopefully it's a fun and
educating experience for
both the spectators and the
participants," Nieveen said.
Questions are about Here
ford and the beef cattle
industry, she added.
Two teams participate at
each bowl. On the national
level, it's state against state.
The Nebraska team made
it into the semifinal round
last year at the first national
Hereford Bowl.
Nieveen said the idea
started two years ago when
the Nebraska Junior Here
ford Association Board met
and saw a need for an edu
cational program.
"We really felt we were
lacking," she said, "so Ne
braska came up with the
idea of the Hereford Bowl."
The idea came partially
on
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Photo courtesy of Beverly Nieveen
Beverly Nieveen
from the UNL Block and
Bridle Club Quadrathalon,
which combines a written
test, an oral presentation
and a practical experience
with a quiz bowl, Nieveen
said.
Once the board came up
with the idea, it received
a lot pf support from
adult members of the
Hereford Association, she
said.
Doyle Wolverton, an ex
tension youth specialist in
animal science at UNL,
was probably the biggest
help in getting the bowl
going, Nieveen said.
The difficulty in estab
lishing the program was that
they had to start from the
ground level, she said.
"We needed the enthus
iasm of members and the
adults - we needed their
backing in order to start
the program," she said.
The association started
the bowl in March 1981.
After extensive letter writ
ing and a presentation by
Nieveen to the national
board, the Nebraska Junior
Association gave a demon
stration at the national
convention in November
1981. Since then, at least
five other states have
adopted the program.
In July 1982, the first
national Hereford Bowl was
held at the All-American
Hereford Expo in Des
Moines, Iowa. The Nebraska
chapter sponsored the
awards for it, and Nieveen,
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awards.
Nieveen's interest in
Hereford cattle goes back
at least 10 years. Her
father, Lavern Nieveen, who
has been raising Herefords
for about 30 years, gave
her a heifer when Nieveen
was 12. From that heifer,
she started the herd that
is financing her college
education.
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