—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 24, 1972
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8 Twin Valley Students Participating
Eight vocational agriculture
students from Twin Valley High
School will journey to the Penn
sylvania State University on June
28 for the annual three-day FFA
Activities Week and Summer
Convention of the Pennsylvania
Association of Future Farmers of
America. Over 1,200 vocational
agriculture students and FFA
members from across the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
will participate in this event, as
band or chorus qjembers, officer
candidates, official county
delegates, or contestants in one of
the 18 contests.
Two Twin Valley FFA
members will participate in the
80-member State FFA band. Beth
McDonnell, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Carroll McDonnell,
Elverson RDI, will make her
second appearence in the band.
Thomas Carskadon, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Carskadon,
Morgantown, will make his first
appearance in the band. Beth
plays the bell lyre, Tom plays the
saxophone. The state FFA band
will play at each of the three
convention meetings. The band is
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under the direction of Dr. James
Dunlop, director of the Penn
State Blue Band. Members of the
band are FFA members from
Chapters across the State.
Terry Murray, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Samuels of Honey
Brook RD2, will participate in the
state FFA chorus. Ap
proximately 80 FFA members
from throughout the state
comprise the chorus. It too will
perform at each of the three
convention meetings.
To be eligible for either the
band or chorus an FFA member
must secure the recommendation
of his band or music teacher, his
vocational agriculture teacher,
and his local school ad
minstrator. Final selection is
made by the band and chorus
directors.
Four Twin Valley students will
participate in two of the 18
contests held in conjunction with
the convention. Ronald Smoker,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John L.
Smoker, Honey Brook RD2, will
be a participant in the livestock
judging contest. Ron, who was
the Chapter Star Greenhand, will
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be required to judge eight classes
of livestock, including market
classes of steers, wethers, and
swine, containing four animals
per class; breeding classes of
heifers, ewes, and gilts con
taining four animals each; and a
class of 10 feeder steers which
must be placed according to U. S.
Standard Grades.
Other Twin Valley contest
participants are: Nevin Mast,
Chapter president, Robert
Evans, and Jeffrey Boltz. They
will compete as a dairy judging
team. They will be required to
judge seven classes of dairy
cattle - four classes of four cows
each, from among the five major
breeds, and three classes of
heifers or young cows. In ad
dition, these students will have to
give oral reasons on one class;
they will have to explain why
they placed the animals in class
first, second, third, and fourth, in
terms of the good and bad points
of each of the animals. This is the
first year the dairy judging
contests is on a team basis and
also the first time that con
testants have been required to
give oral reasons.
The eighth Twin Valley par
ticipant will be Frank Stoltzfus,
former Chapter president and
former County president. Frank
will serve as an officer candidate,
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Students will also have several
educational experiences. On the
way to Penn State they will tour
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parliamentary procedure teams
to seeing some of the current
research in cattle, crop, and deer
management being conducted at
Penn State. Students will also be
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various departments of the
College of Agriculture con
cerning their future education
and what Penn State has to offer.
Accompanying the eight Twin
Valley students will be Ronald
Frederick, vocational
agriculture teacher and FFA
advisor.
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