Block and Bridle

Each year our club nominates and votes on our Annual Recognition Banquet Honored Guest. Our honored guests are individuals that have made an impact on the Livestock Industries and Michigan State University Agriculture/Animal Science Programs. We are currently accepting nominations for next year’s honored guests.  If you know someone deserving of this recognition, complete the nomination form and return to the club (Block and Bridle Club, Attn: Rec. Banquet Chair, 474 S. Shaw Ln., East Lansing, MI 48824)

Meet our current year Honoree below!

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LC and Jackie Scramlin

Block & Bridle Honoree

LC (’70, Dairy Tech) and Jackie (’72, Animal Science) Scramlin are the 2025 Block & Bridle Club Recognition Banquet Honored Guests.  Block & Bridle holds a special place in LC and Jackie’s hearts because they met during Little I prep in 1969. While at Michigan State, LC was a member of the Dairy Tech Judging Team, and Jackie was a member of the Livestock, Meats, and Horse Judging teams.  Over the past 50+ years, LC and Jackie have shown an unwavering dedication to Michigan agriculture. The Scramlin family has raised local, state, and national champion sheep for over 40 years, and won the American Southdown Breeders’ Association’s Spirit of the Breed Award, becoming the only family ever to win the award together. 

Eventually, showing sheep at fairs across the country gave LC and Jackie the desire to make their local fairs better.  Over the years, LC and Jackie have each served as the Oakland County Fair Manager and members of the Fair Board.  LC and Jackie have helped build the fair from two buildings and a small carnival to one of the top county fairs in Michigan, having led initiatives to build eight buildings, including relocating a historic barn to the fair by securing the largest historical grant in Michigan history.  When the Michigan State Fair closed in 2009, LC and Jackie rallied a group of supporters to raise money and find a new venue, which led to the State Fair reopening in Novi in 2012.  The State Fair now brings in an average of 150,000 people across its 5 days and has awarded over $600,000 in youth scholarships.  LC and Jackie remain active on the State Fair’s executive board, running the livestock and agriculture departments. 

For their work with the Oakland and Michigan State Fairs, LC and Jackie were inducted into the Michigan Association of Fairs and Expositions (MAFE) Hall of Fame.  LC is the past MAFE President and represents Michigan as a Board Member of the International Association of Fairs and Expositions.  LC was also inducted into the National 4-H Hall of Fame in 2019. But, LC and Jackie wouldn’t want you to focus on their accolades.  What LC and Jackie would most want to tell you is that they weren’t just raising sheep and supporting fairs, they were raising a family.  LC and Jackie raised three Spartans:  Matt (’02, Animal Science), Stacy (’03, Animal Science), and Lisa (’05, Agriculture Communications), who were all active Block & Bridle members and Little I participants and who all work in agriculture.  They now have five young grandchildren who are all interested in carrying on the tradition of involvement in agriculture and fairs.  LC and Jackie’s dedication to agriculture and fairs in the state of Michigan is unmatched, and perhaps surpassed only by their love of family.