Local rancher honored by Rotarians
The Rotary Club of Stockton recently honored Sheryl Morris, beef promotion chairman for the San JoaquinStanislaus CattleWomen, with the Paul Harrison Fellow Award for her years of reading agricultural and ranch books to Stockton elementary students at their annual Rotary Read-In event.
The award is in appreciation of tangible and significant assistance given by the furtherance of better understanding and friendly relations among peoples of the world.
Morris organized 12 CattleWomen to read in 19 classrooms at King Elementary in Stockton. Each member read a book about agriculture or cattle ranching and donated the book to the school library. Many readers brought items to share relating to their book such as a cowboy hat, branding iron, plants, small animals and/or personal photographs of their ranches. Morris has been coordinating the members to participate in the annual event for 16 years and the CattleWomen have been reading for more than 20 years.
She works at Costa Ranch, which raises black angus cattle in the
Lodi area.
At the 33rd Annual Rotary Read-In event last month, 777 volunteers read to more than 20,000 students at 74 schools with in the Stockton, Manteca, and Lodi school districts, the San Joaquin County Office of Education and area charter schools.
The San JoaquinStanislaus CattleWomen is a local organization that promotes the beef industry thought education and out reach activities. The unit has 48 members ranging in age from 16-90 years old and there are about 1,800 CattleWomen in California.