This Month's Issue February 2012 Issue of the Washington State Grange News

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A LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT OUR GRANGE NEWS

The Washington State Grange News began in 1890 as the Pacific Rural Press of California, becoming Pacific Northwest Farmer in 1892. In 1905, State Lecturer A.A. Kelly issued a four-page monthly bulletin dedicated to the State Grange. The Oregon State Grange proposed a joint effort, resulting in the Pacific Grange Bulletin, an eight page monthly that ran for four years and grew to 16 pages. The Agricultural Grange News was launched in 1912, with Fred W. Lewis as editor. The paper went through various publication schedules, becoming monthly in 1980. In 1927, the title was changed to Grange News. The publication continues to report on the goings-on of Subordinate, Pomona, State and National Granges, as well as reporting on issues important to our membership. Two other publications, the legislative handbook and the program handbook (which went to Web only distribution in 2009) detail the Grange's legislative priorities and policies and the Grange's many programs, contests and the like.

Source: Washington Grangers Celebrate a Century by Gus Norwood, 1988

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GRANGE LEADER PROFILES

  

Duane Hamp, State Master
Terry Hunt, Special Deputy for Grange Properties and Legislative Affairs
Dan Hammock, Editor of the Washington State Grange News


 

Master Duane J Hamp,
A native of Spokane and a third-generation Granger, was elected the 18th Master (President) of the Washington State Grange in June 2011.
Duane is a 40-year member, joining in 1970. He is a past Master of the Washington State Grange Youth Group, Valley Prairie Grange, Spokane County Pomona Grange and Five Mile Prairie Grange. He was named the Washington State Grange Outstanding Young Granger in 1975. Duane served as Washington State Grange Gatekeeper from 1983-87, State Executive Committeeman from 2004-09 and State Overseer (Vice President) from 2009-11.
Duane and his wife Christine are members of Five Mile Prairie Grange and Spokane County Pomona Grange. He is the owner/operator of an automotive repair business in Spokane.
Duane’s vision for the Grange includes building collaborative and sustainable relationships which work to strengthen both our Granges and the communities in which they belong. His focus for the Washington State Grange is to ensure the values of Serve, Grow, Influence and Lead are built into every aspect of its organizational culture. (Back to TOP)

 Duane Hamp

 
Terry Hunt Terry Hunt was chosen by Past State Master Rob Horgen to his position in June 2007. Previously, Hunt was elected State Master of the Washington State Grange at the organization's annual state convention in June 1999 and held that office until 2007. He was vice president of the National Grange from 2003 through 2007. Hunt is a lifelong resident of Central Washington, and currently operates a cattle and wheat operation in Douglas County. The beginnings of the ranch belonged to his parents, Bertha and Russell, and was purchased by Hunt in 1967. The operation has since been expanded, but the family tradition continues: His sons, Rusty, Scott and Derek, continue to work the ranch, along with Hunt's wife, Mary, who is also active in the Grange and serves as a Douglas County Commissioner.

Hunt attended Ephrata High School, where he was named president of the school's Future Farmers of America chapter. Four years after graduation, and while working on the ranch, he was elected Master of Two Springs Grange in Grant County.

Two years after purchasing the ranch, Hunt became president of the East Banks Irrigation Association, a Coulee City area organization responsible for conducting studies on the feasibility of resourcefully irrigating the East Bank area.

In 1988, Governor Booth Gardner appointed Terry to the Environmental 2010 Council. During his time on the council he graduated from the Washington Agriculture Forestry Education Foundation. In 1995, Hunt was appointed by then State Master Bob Joy to act as Director of Legislative Affairs for the Washington State Grange. Around this same time, Hunt was named president of the Washington Chapter of the Foundation for North American Wild Sheep, an organization dedicated to improving and enhancing wild sheep populations, and an organization Hunt was a large part of bringing to reality in the state of Washington. Just before becoming State Master in 1999, Hunt was appointed by Governor Gary Locke to represent agriculture on the Washington State Rural Development Council.

Hunt is active in many conservation-minded enterprises and was presented with the Wildlife Conservation Farm of the Year Award for Douglas County in 1997. He works to preserve the Conservation Reserve Program, and has given his time and energy to such causes as the Adopt-a-Highway Program, the Ronald McDonald House and Feed the Hungry.

The family belongs to St. Andrews Grange, Douglas County. He may be contacted at the State Grange headquarters in Olympia. (Back to TOP)
     
Dan Hammock Dan Hammock took over as editor of the Washington State Grange News in October 2009 following the retirement of longtime editor Dave Howard. He served as State Grange information coordinator from 1999-2001, and rejoined the organization’s staff as communications director in 2005.

Hammock studied communications at Washington State University from 1986 to 1990. It was in 1990 he secured an editorial assistant position at the now-defunct Seattle-based Fishing and Hunting News. He rose steadily in the ranks, working as a copy editor, then edition editor, ultimately landing the flagship Washington state issue of the nation’s largest outdoor news magazine.

In between stints with F&H News and the Grange, Hammock did freelance work for a number of outdoor publications, furnished the text for the national hunter education Web site and worked in the communications department of the Washington State Secretary of Health’s office.