NAAA/Texas AAA member Gaylon Stamps has been appointed Director Emeritus of the TAAA Board of Directors after more than 25 years of service to the organization. TAAA President Mitch Probasco announced the appointment at TAAA’s annual awards banquet earlier this month in Fort Worth. 

 

Stamps has served in virtually every volunteer role at TAAA, including as its president and as TAAA’s longtime representative on NAAA’s Board of Directors. While Stamps has stepped down as Texas’s NAAA representative this year, he is not stepping away from NAAA’s board. Stamps continues to serve as an appointee. NAAA President Brenda Watts named him chairman of NAAA’s Awards Committee and vice chair of the Communications & Public Relations Committee. Stamps will also continue to serve as a PAASS presenter and a member of NAAREF’s PAASS Program Development Committee. Meanwhile, at the business level, succession planning is in full swing. Stamps has handed the reins over to his son-in-law and daughter, Jason and Carissa Davis, who are his partners in the family spraying business. 

 

TAAA has only appointed seven other individuals to the prestigious position of Director Emeritus. Stamps joins Harold Hardcastle, Bill Nunley and George Mitchell (1998); Rick Hardcastle and Bob Putz (2005); and Pat Kornegay and Randy Murphree (2011) as TAAA Directors Emeritus. Along with his new title, Stamps received a King Ranch rocking chair in honor of his years of service to TAAA and a framed board resolution. A copy of the TAAA Board resolution announcing the appointment is available here.

 

Congratulations, Gaylon, on this well-deserved honor!