QDMA Press Release
QDMA Founder Joe Hamilton
Honors
Dr. Charlie DeYoung With
Lifetime Achievement Award
Bogart, Ga. – Longtime wildlife researcher Dr. Charlie DeYoung received the Joe Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award during the 2007 QDMA National Convention and Whitetail Expo, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Named for QDMA founder Joe Hamilton, the award honors individuals who have made significant, lifetime contributions to deer, deer hunting and deer management.
.“Charlie DeYoung has devoted his professional life to research on the white-tailed deer,” Hamilton said. “He also played a major role in the birth of one of the nation’s leading research institutes for wildlife, at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. It certainly is fitting to recognize his significant, long-term contributions to the knowledge base we have on whitetails and other wildlife. His work continues, and all of us are benefiting from it.”
DeYoung has been affiliated with Texas A&M-Kingsville since he arrived in 1969 to begin graduate work in biology. He left only long enough to earn his Ph.D. at Colorado State University, and was back in Kingsville in 1974.
DeYoung served as Dean of the College of Agriculture from 1979 to 1984, and again from 1991 to 2001. During his first term as Dean, DeYoung played an integral role in the birth of the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, serving as its Director during its first three years. When he “retired” as Agriculture Dean in 2001, he became the first-ever Stuart W. Stedman Endowed Chair for White-tailed Deer Research at the Kleberg Institute. Today, he serves the Institute as research scientist and professor emeritus, where he also continues to mentor graduate students.
In 2004, DeYoung became the seventh recipient of the prestigious Deer Management Career Achievement Award from The Wildlife Society. Only 10 wildlife professionals have ever received this honor, and DeYoung also earned Honorary Membership in The Wildlife Society in 2006. Also that year, he received the Caesar Kleberg Conservation Medal.
The Rotary Club of Corpus Christi, Texas, also has honored DeYoung as its 2007 Harvey Weil Professional Conservationist of the Year.
Founded in 1988, QDMA is a national nonprofit wildlife conservation organization with 40,000 members in all 50 states and several foreign countries. Membership in QDMA is open to anyone interested in better deer and better deer hunting, and committed to ethical hunting, sound deer management and the preservation of the deer-hunting heritage. To learn more about QDMA and why it is the future of deer hunting, call (800) 209-DEER [(800) 209-3337] or visit www.QDMA.com.
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