Launch of the Centenary
Richard Moore (Chairman of the Northern Ireland Food & Drink Association) and Kenneth Sharkey (President of the Ulster Farmers Union) met recently with Malcolm McKibbin (DARD Permanent Secretary) and John Fay (CAFRE Director) to review and offer support for the year long programme of events planned to mark the Centenary Celebrations at Loughry
Woodland Trust - tree plant at Loughry - 4-8 February 2008
School children planting trees at Loughry during the Woodland Trust event
Dairy Conference - 12 March 2008
Over 100 key people from industry attended the biennial Northern Ireland Dairy Conference held at Loughry Campus on Wednesday 12th March.
The conference was organised by Dairy UK, Dairy Council for Northern Ireland, UFU, SDT and DARD to highlight some of the key challenges for the local industry.
Sharing milk from a late 1950 Loughry milk bottle are conference speakers
Joy Alexander, Head of Milk Technology at Loughry and Clarke Black, Food Promotion Northern Ireland Ltd
Some of those attending the dinner on 11th May prior to the Dairy conference
Agriculture Centenary Dinner - 2 April 2008
As part of a series of events to mark the centenary of Loughry Campus, a special reunion for past agriculture staff and students was held in Riverside Restaurant on Wednesday 2 April. One hundred and thirty delegates dating from those who attended in the 1950s to the 1990s had the chance to see how the campus had changed. Naturally it was the antics that were played out in the halls of residence all those years ago that stole the show. Five star cuisine presented by Eurest, old photographs and many happy memories shared gave everyone a night to remember.
Cormac McKervey Senior Agricultural Manager Ulster Bank, Neville Graham, Aidan McEvoy & John Courtenay prepare to greet past Agriculture staff and students at a reunion
Ian Titterington, Head of Loughry Campus with (from left) Jacqueline Rosborough, Ann Toal, Irene Robinson and Elma Bacon, Certificate in Agriculture students from 1967/68
Loughry Certificate in Agriculture students from 1980/81 (from left) Charles Beattie, James Lowe, Danny McVeigh and David Laird
Loughry National Certificate in Agriculture students from 1989/90 (from left) Ian Pinkerton, Thomas Kelso, William Orr, Mark Russell, Mervyn Rodgers, Stephen Brown and Lorraine Burke
Milk Conference - 12 May 2008
Some of those attending the Milk Conference on 12th May at Loughry Campus
Poultry Association Conference & Loughry Centenary Reunion - 26 June 2008
Mina Earls, Betty McBriar and friend
Sandra Church, Helen Nutt, Fred Faulker, Lesley McLaughlin and Joan Hepburn
Norman and Joan Lyle visiting from Hong Kong
Olive and Donald Ellliott
Margaret Hardy, Parkland Vet
Some of the conference guests in the marquee
FBIC 10th Anniversary Celebrations
Lewy McNeece (Summer Garden) with Minister Michelle Gildernew
Jim Thompson (Ballyrashane Co-op) with Minister Michelle Gildernew
Minister and Ian Titterington signing the FBIC visitors' book
Bernie & Laura Butler (Good 4 U) with Minister Michelle Gildernew
Graham Morrow (Morrow Foods) with Dennis Legge and Minister Michelle Gildernew
Kenneth Sharkey, Thelma Fitzgerald, Jim Eastwood, Leona Hawkes, Dennis Legge, Robert Wilson, Ian Titterington and Minister Michelle Gildernew
Jane Harnett (Traditional Hemp Company) with Minister Michelle Gildernew
Dairy Technology - Centenary Alumni Reunion - 3rd September
Terry Eagleson, Betty Hadden and Liam McDevitt
Hester Beck, June Acheson and Jack Hamill
Derek Alexander (author of the Loughry Centenary book) with a group of former students
David Neil and Francis McWha
Dennis Legge with Dr Janos Kormos (past Lecturer)
Former staff and students who attended the Dairy Centenary Alumni Reunion
