Paul St. Blanc among honorees by Angus Association

The American Angus Association celebrated innovators and visionaries by selecting individuals for induction into the Angus Heritage Foundation each year.
Over the past 130 years, the Angus breed has established itself as industry leader for quality and advancement. This reputation was built by innovators and visionaries who possess drive and wise decision-making skills to better the breed and the industry.
On Nov. 4, four Angus industry leaders were added to this prestigious group during the 2019 Angus Convention in Reno, Nevada. The 2019 inductees are Jarold Callahan, Oklahoma; Cannon Brothers, Charles and Jere Cannon, Kentucky; Jim Bradford, Iowa; and Paul St. Blanc, posthumously, Louisiana.
Paul St. Blanc (1941-1999) became a member of the American Angus Association in his youth and began purchasing Angus cattle for 4-H projects adding Angus to the family’s south Louisiana Brahman based herd. In 1953, St. Blanc along with his grandfather, father and brothers started Bar S Angus in Charenton.
St. Blanc attended Louisiana State University (LSU) and received a Bachelor of Science in animal husbandry and was a member of the LSU football team and Block and Bridle Club. He later received his teaching certificate from the University of Southwestern Louisiana and taught vocational agriculture in Franklin for 25 years while maintaining the Bar S Angus herd with his wife, Vicki, and children Anne, Casey and Melanie. After retiring from teaching, he went on to manage Del River Angus Farm in New Iberia and later Lena Farms in Lena, Mississippi.
Paul was a lifetime member of the American Angus Association and served on the board of directors of the Louisiana and Mississippi Angus Associations, serving as president of both organizations. He served as a delegate to the American Angus Association’s annual meeting for several years and worked with the American Angus Association to promote Angus whenever he was asked.
In 1984, during the World’s Fair in New Orleans, Paul and his family manned the American Angus Association booth for a week. Paul and Vicki served on the executive committee for the 1977 Eastern Regional Junior Angus Show in Shreveport, Louisiana, and chaired the National Junior Angus Louisiana Regional Preview Show in Baton Rouge in 1985.
Paul and Vicki were named National Junior Angus Association (NJAA) Advisors of the Year in 1982 and later received the Angus Foundation’s Honorary Angus Foundation award. Bar S Angus was recognized as a Historic Angus Herd during the American Angus Association’s centennial year in 1983. Paul was honored to serve as a judge for the 1995 National Junior Angus Showmanship Contest in Louisville, Kentucky.
By Rachel Robinson, Angus Communications