—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. February 12, 1972
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Ephrata Area
The Ephrata Area Young Adult
Farmers’ Association installed
new officers and presented
awards at its third annual
banquet last Saturday at Mt. Airy
Fire Hall.
Officers for the coming year
are headed by Irvin Graybill Jr,
of the Triple-G dairy farm,
Stevens RDI, who is president.
Other officers are: Paul
Bucher, Lititz RD4, vice
president; Kenneth Hertzog,
Ephrata RDI, secretary; Clifford
Bollinger, Lititz RD4, treasurer,
and Thomas Zartman, Ephrata
RDI, public relations director.
Officers for the past year and
the 1972 banquet committee
were: Jesse Balmer, president;
Graybill, vice president; Clyde
Eby, secretary; Earl Martin,
treasurer, and Glenn Martin,
public relations director. Balmer
was also banquet toastmaster.
Appreciation Awards were
presented to Clarence Stauffer,
Ephrata RDI, for his service on
the Ephrata Area School Board
from 1965 to 1971, and to Dr.
Melvyn G. Wenger, D. V. M., for
helping organize animal health
classes for the YF Association.
Com silage awards were given
to the following: Leonard
Kreider, Lititz RD4, first place
with 10,560 pounds of total
digestible nutrients (TDN) per
acre; Luke Ray Zimmerman,
Ephrata RD2, second, 10,155
TDN; and Clifford Bollinger,
Lititz RD4, third 9,687 TDN.
Corn grain awards were given
Mrs. N. J. Fuhrman, well-known local Pennsylvania Dutch
humorist, gets ready to make her "shopping list” as she
speaks last Saturday night.
Yeans Adult Farmers’ Has Third Annual Banquet
New officers of the Ephrata Area Young Adult Far
mers' Association as they were sworn in by Henry Givler,
area vocational agriculture consultant, are: left to right,
Thomas Zartman, public relations director; Clifford
as follows: Earl G. Martin,
Ephrata RD2, first place with
164.4 bushels per acre; Melvyn
M. Nolt, Ephrata, second, 162.5
bushels per acre, and Warren F.
Bollinger, Lititz RD4, third, 157.4
bushels per acre.
Hay awards were presented as
follows; Earl Stauffer, Ephrata
RDI, first, 8.38 tons per acre;
Jesse G Balmer, Lititz RD4,
second, 7.83 tons per acre, and
Glenn Miller, Stevens RDI, third,
6.14 tons per acre.
Entertainment was provided
by Mrs. N J. Fuhrman, Lititz,
with a humorous Pennsylvania
Dutch dialogue using names of
members of the Young Farmers’.
In brief serious comments,
Mrs. Fuhrman spoke about the
need for humor, and the im
portance of doing the little things,
like praying for those who need it,
visiting and sending cards to
shut-ins, and always wearing a
smile. “Do what you can,” she
urged.
Among those speaking briefly
were: Jay C. Zimmerman,
Pennsylvania Regional FFA vice
president, who described FFA as
Receiving corn grain awards at the *° r '§ht, Warren F. Bollinger, third: Melvyn
Ephrata Young Farmers' banquet are: left Nolt, second, and Earl G. Martin, first.
Receiving awards for top corn silage Bollinger, third; Luke Ray Zimmerman,
production at the Ephrata Young Farmers’ second, and Leonard Kreider, first
banquet are: left to right, Clifford
Bollinger, treasurer; Kenneth Hertzog, secretary; Paul
Bucher, vice president, and Irvin Graybill Jr, president.
The organization's motto is: “A Young Farmer Is Any
Farmer Willing To Learn.”
“youth with a purpose” and said
FFA has the positive purpose of
“getting everybody involved to
help better the environment for
generations to come; Jay
Foreman, Pennsylvania Young
Farmers Association president,
who emphasized the need to meet
membership goals this year,
and Donald Hershey, Penn
sylvania Young Farmers
Regional vice president, who
emphasized the need to continue
education and to establish good
public relations with bankers and
businessmen. All three are
Lancaster County residents.
Charles Ackley, Ephrata Area
Young Farmers’ advisor,
received a special award of
appreciation from the
organization. Henry Givler, area
vocational consultant, installed
the new officers.