LUBBOCK — Dr. Kathy Volanty, South Plains District director for family and consumer sciences with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, has been elected president of the Texas Association of Family and Consumer Sciences. She was installed at the organization’s state meeting in Dallas this month.
Volanty will serve a one-year term and will represent the state in June at the meeting of the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (ASFCS) in Atlanta. The state association has more than 800 members.
The Dallas conference, attended by more than 250, “focused on the intergenerational issues all families face — parenting young children and teens, nutrition and health, and housing choices for the aging — and the extra challenge when these all come at once,” Volanty said.
A native of Canyon, Volanty holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in home economics from Texas Tech University and a doctorate from Texas A&M University. She began her Extension Service career in 1971 as an assistant county agent in Potter County, became county agent there in 1973 and transferred to Hutchinson County in 1976. In 1977 she was named Central District director at Stephenville, became Coastal Bend District director at Corpus Christi in 1982, and became South Plains District director in 1988.
Certified in Family & Consumer Sciences by the AAFCS, she holds numerous major awards for leadership and service. They include the Extension Superior Service Award for administration, Distinguished Service Awards from the Texas and National Associations of Extension 4-H Agents, the Diversity Award from the Texas Extension Association of Family & Consumer Sciences, Headliner Award from Women In Communications, Inc., and the State Distinguished Service Award from Epsilon Sigma Phi, the Extension Service professional society.
She is active in the Texas Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, the Texas and National Association of Extension 4-H Agents, the Texas Council on Family Relations, and the Altrusa Club of Lubbock. She is one of 100 women participating in the 1998 class of Leadership Texas.
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