Purpose

This award honors members who have made significant and long-lasting contributions to equine veterinary medicine and the community. The “Beyond the Call” award is named in honor of its first recipient, the late General Wayne O. “Sage” Kester, DVM.

 

Nominations

Nominations will be accepted from current AAEP members only. Click the button below to download the nomination form, or to submit your nomination directly online, click here.

Download the Nomination Form

Past Recipients

2025
Tim Mair, BVSc, PhD, DEIM, DESTS, DECEIM, AssocECVDI, FRCVS

2023
Kenton Morgan, DVM

2022
Richard D. Mitchell, DVM MRCVS DACVSMR
Nathaniel A. White, II, DVM, MS, DACVS (Sage Kester Beyond the Call Award recipient)

2021
Larry R. Bramlage, DVM, MS (Sage Kester Beyond the Call Award recipient)
William A. Moyer, DVM

2020
Scott E. Palmer, VMD (Sage Kester Beyond the Call Award recipient)
Susan L. White, DVM MS DACVIM

2018
Thomas R. Lenz, DVM, MS, DACT (Sage Kester Beyond the Call Award recipient)

2017
Nancy Collins, DVM (Sage Kester Beyond the Call Award recipient)
Harry W. Werner, VMD

2016
Glenn P. Blodgett, DVM

2015
Nathaniel A. White, II, DVM MS DACVS

2014
Terry D. Swanson, DVM

2013
Benjamin Franklin, Jr., DVM

2012
Nat T. Messer, IV, DVM

2011
Douglas G. Corey, DVM

2010
Jerry B. Black, DVM
Charles Raker, VMD (Sage Kester Beyond the Call Award recipient)

2009
C. Wayne McIlwraith, BVSc PhD DSc FRCVS

2008
Larry R. Bramlage, DVM, MS

2007
Robert D. Lewis, DVM

2006
Charles D. Vail, DVM
J. Clyde Johnson, VMD

2002
James L. Voss, DVM

2001
Peter F. Haynes, DVM

2000
Robert K. Shideler, DVM
A. Gary Lavin, VMD
James R. Coffman, DVM

1999
G. Marvin Beeman, DVM (Sage Kester Beyond the Call Award recipient)
John T. Vaughan, DVM

1998
Ralph C. Knowles, DVM

1997
William “Rex” Hinshaw, DVM

1996
Manuel A. “Tommy” Thomas, Jr., DVM

1993
DeWitt Owen, Jr., DVM

1992
Delano L. Proctor, Jr., DVM
Robert W. Copelan, DVM

1991
James T. O’Connor, Jr., VMD
G. Marvin Beeman, DVM

1989
Dan Roberts, DVM
Edwin A. Churchill, VMD
Eugene R. Carroll, DVM

1987
Stanley M. Teeter, DVM
William M. Romane, DVM

1986
Gene M. Bierhaus, DVM
Paul E. Hoffman, DVM

1985
Frank J. Milne, DVM, MRCVS

1984
M.B. Teigland, DVM

1983
Wayne O. Kester, DVM

1980
Jack K. Robbins, VMD
Alan H. Edmondson, DVM

1976
Charles E. Hagyard, DVM

1974
Floyd C. Sager, DVM
Paul J. Meginnis, DVM

1972
Donald A. Price, DVM

1967
Angel C. Pou, DVM

1959
Marion L. Scott, DVM
John G. Hardenburg, DVM
Willard F. Guard, DVM