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Show t i KEN GILLMAN . . . Outstanding Rider Ken Gillman Vies For Outstanding Riding Club Man Kenneth R. Gillman, Pleasant Grove Riding Club member, personally per-sonally and officially revealed to 18 club members and two visitors at their recent regular meeting in Linden that he -had been selected to vie for honors as the most outstanding out-standing male riding club member mem-ber within the Utah State Western Riding Club Association. The state club's jamboree will be held Jan. 19 at the Magna Copper Cop-per Club commencing at 6 p.m. Ken, who was selected as the most 'outstanding male riding club member within the Riding Club District No. 4, is now serving his fifth term as representative for the district and his second year as state director of riding clubs. . An active member of the Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove Riding Club for 10 years, Ken has previously held the office of-fice of vice president for ene year, and he has served a three-year term of office as drill master. With Ken as its drill master for three years, the Pleasant Grove Riding Club won first place in 1956 in the district drill competition, second place in the state, and fourth place in the interstate matches. For the last three years Mr. Gillman Gill-man has been the official announcer announ-cer at the district riding club show at Provo and also one of the announcers an-nouncers at the horse show at the State Fair in Salt Lake City. A member of the Inter-mountain Quarter Horse Association , Ken announced the Inter-mountain Quarter Horse Shaw contest at Spanish Fork last year. Ken has served as director of the Utah State Fair Horse Show as well as director in the Rocky Mountain Rodeo Association. He has judged horse shows, contests, and rodeos thrughout the state. Civicly, Mr. Gillman has been and is still an outstanding leader in both the communities of Lin-don Lin-don and Pleasant Grove. Born in Lindon where he has resfded all of his life, Ken served his native city as councilman for nine years and is a past chairman of the Lindon Community Fair, an office he held for three years. Next August he will be in charge of the horse show division of Lindon's annual an-nual fair, a position he has filled for six years. Mr. Gillman is currently serving his community as chairman of the Lindon Planning Commission. He has served two years on the Utah County Planning Board. Ken is also an active member of the Lindon Lions Club. For two years Pleasant Grove has claimed Ken for its Strawberry Days Rodeo chaii-man, Western parade chaimian, and for four years, rodeo queen contest chairman. chair-man. Ken is also a director in the Pleasant Grove Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, sponsors of the annual PI. Grove Strawberry Days event. |