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Fall 2016

Ohio Valley IFT News

Hello OVIFT Members! Next Events

There are so many wonderful things to love about fall; the beautiful color in nature, the start of cooler weather, football and of course, the start of another year of OVIFT. This year is a particularly special year for me, as I have the pleasure of serving a second term as Chair for our section. Something you may not know is that the Ohio Valley Section has been named for a second year in a row as a Section of Excellence! This award is given in recognition of our section’s commitment to IFT, our members and the food science and technology profession. We continue to be seen as a section leader because of the outstanding volunteers we have in our section, some of whom were named by IFT as outstanding sections volunteers. Congratulations to Natalie McElwee, Paul Bluman, John Black and Jennifer Lessick on your award and thank you for your commitment to our section! The Executive Board has been working hard over the past months to plan some new and exciting events for the coming year! We officially kicked off our year with our annual event at Valley Vineyard in September and will close out our year with our Annual Gold Outing and Supplier’s Expo in April 2017. I would like to invite each and every one of you to come join us at least one event this year! We are always looking for new ideas for event or topics that you would like to be covered in our meetings. If you have any suggestions please reach out to me or any of the Board Members. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve as the OVIFT Chair for the second year in a row! I truly pleasure serving Ohio Valley IFT in this capacity. I look forward to working with you and hopefully seeing you all at one of our events this year! Warm Regards, Kelley Lowe OVIFT Chair 2016-2017

A MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

Visit us online! http://ovift.org/

SAVE THE DATES!

November 5 2016 Philanthropy with OSU Location: Mid OH Food Bank November 17 2016 Listerman’s Brewery tour and Beer Making Class Location: Norwood, OH December 2016 & January 2017 No public event February 15 2017 Butcher Betty (co-event with Bluegrass IFT)

Location: Northern KY

March 2017 OSU poster contest (tbc) April 26,27 2017 Golf Outing Supplier Expo

Kelley Lowe, 2016-2017

Inside this issue:

Message from the Chair 1

September Event 2

October Event 3

November, future events 4

More Events, from IFT 5

New Members 6

OVIFT Board—2016/2017 7-8

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MEETINGS/EVENTS IN REVIEW

On September 21, 2016 our year started with the event at Valley Vine-yards. We had the opportunity to have our own local member, who is now member of IFT Board of Directors, Dr Sarah Kirkmeyer, Ph.D., CFS., Director of Consumer Sensory Insights at Givaudan Flavors.

The subject of Dr Sarah’s presentation was “Getting involved with IFT”, where she talked about IFT’s vision, mission and network; also highlight-ing the importance of volunteering; the role of feeding tomorrow; the great partnership with other organizations and how OVIFT fits in all that.

At the end, our feast started. Participants grilled out their food in the outside grill.

For whom never participated, this is a hands on and exciting event!

September: Valley Vineyards

Thanks to Anna Donovan for organizing this event.

Did you know that Feeding Tomorrow

awards nearly 75 scholarships to undergrad-

uate and graduate students pursuing degrees

in the variety of sciences related to food?

She also shared her history as volun-teer thru her many years as food sci-ence professional.

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On October 27, 2016 OVIFT had the opportunity to have an event at the Kitchens at Wendy’s International Innovation Center, in Dublin OH. An outstanding crowd of 70 participants !

Chris Scott, Culinary Innovation Kitchen Supervisor did a great job or-

ganizing a tour of the Kitchens as well as Marshall Scarborough .

Talking about Innovation, we had Michael Krimmer. He went thru the

“roller-coaster” of the development process and highlighted the trials and errors that such a complex decision flow can experience.

The complimentary side, Stefani Craze explained how Sensory panels are setup and how inter-

nal and external people are chosen as tasters, depending on the outcome they want to get. It all depends on the pre-screening selection of the right audience. During the presentation, the group had the change to taste Frosty & Fries !

After the tour, the group headed to La Scala, an Italian restaurant in the vicinity, where the group were served o’dourves and had the chance to mingle and network .

October: Wendy’s Tour

Thanks to Lisa Davis for organizing this event.

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Coming soon …

On November 17th OVIFT will hold an event at Listermann’s Brewery. The event will consist of 2 hours beer making class with tour of the brewery and after the class and tour the group will be served meal. Located in Norwood, Ohio.and owner operated, owner brewed and owner bottled-craft beer with character. Commercially brewing for 5

years, they offer hand craft ales in bottles as well as growler station with a constantly rotating fresh beer list. well to have some great weather as well.

Reserve your spot!

November 17: Beer making Class !!!

This is a great opportunity to give back to the nation’s largest non -governmental, domestic hunger relief organization and work alongside future Food Scientists from Ohio State. Volunteer efforts are subject to

change, but more than likely the team will be working in the Food Pantry helping guests pick out healthy items.

Contact: Paul Bluman @ [email protected]

November 05: Ohio State Food Science Club & Mid Ohio Food Bank

mailto:[email protected]

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Visit OVIFT online! http://ovift.org/

More Events, from IFT

And much more...visit IFT.org, Meeting & Events to see the complete list of events, including webinars.

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Please join us in welcoming our newest OVIFT members! This list includes

those who have joined our Section in this last quarter. Thanks for being a

part of our great section!

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

Abhay Patawa

Ankita Triverdi

Changbo Tang

Christopher Huang

Cyd Marie Quinones-

Perez

Holly Brewer

Isaac Lynd

Jane Doreen Hulse

Janette D Neuburger

Jennifer Lynn Foudray

John Schnieder

Jordan Marsh

Katherine L. Stickney

Louise De Almeida Souza

Megan Lee Gregg

Michael Chaney

Pamela Petzel Snyder

Robert John Burge

Sherri L Allen

Shreya S. Kamat

Simone K. Fishel

Sriram Satagopan

Stelios Sarantis


Eric Michael Matovich

Jennifer K St. John

Also our older IFT membership holder that just joined our Section.

Welcome to OVIFT !

Interested in being an OVIFT Board Member? Just want to volunteer? Contact Kelley Lowe or [email protected]

We would also like to share the unified Membership distribution. The addition of new members and retention of old ones makes our Section a successful model.




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Like mentioned by Kelly, our Chair, IFT mentioned our section on their Annual Report and it reads: The Ohio Valley Section held eight events in 2015-2016, including a pulse ingredients presentation at Valley Vineyards, “Big Plants, Small Plates” at Kroger Bakery, “Dinner from Around Here” at Whole Foods Market, “Trends in Food Technology” at MadTree Brewing, and a mixology demo at Myrtles’s Punch House. In addition, they attracted 56 attendees to their Annual Golf Outing and 243 attendees to their supplier’s expo. They also held a Volunteer Event at Urban Farms, a student poster competition, a student scholarship competition, and a Volunteer Event in conjuctions with the IFTSA chapter of the Ohio State University at Ronald McDonald House. They also sponsored the 16th Annual 5k Fun Run & Walk at IFT16 and offered student travel grants to IFT16. In the next page you can see a short bio of our Board Members for the current year (2016-2017), who dedicate their time to organize the events , charities and scholarship that we mentioned in this newslet-ters and future ones. We also add a picture of them, so next time you see one of them, just stop and say “hello” ! 2016-2017 Board Members

Even if you are not part of the Executive Board but want to volunteer, no problem ! Just reach out to one of the Board Members for a one time event or all of them.

We hope that the events we put together every month is a the opportunity for you to network and expand the possibility of joint ventures. We also want to give back to the

community with our annual Philanthropy event, Student grants and Scholarships.

We are always looking for new ideas or topics for our monthly events. If you have any suggestion please reach out to any one of the Board members.

Remembering the past and looking forward to the future !

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2016-2017 OVIFT Executive Board

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