—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 20. 1973
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From Local A
This is the second in a series of
articles to introduce you to the
newest teachers of vocational
agriculture in the county.
As the agriculture department
at Ephrata High School kept
growing, so did the need for an
additional teacher Ernest Orr
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ALUS CHALMERS
Teachers:
Thoughts
in Passing
came to Lancaster County in July
to fill that need.
Mr. Orr is teaching ninth grade
vocational agriculture and
numerous nine-week elective
courses such as horse
management, soil and water
conservation, landscaping, and
small gas engines The course in
small gas engines being taught
by Orr is in addition to four nine
week electives in small gas
engines already being taught by
vo ag instructor Lew Ayers.
A New Englander, Orr was
raised on a 12 acre farm in
Rehoboth, Mass., where the
family enterprise was primarily
poultry. The eggs from the ap
proximately 6,000 layers were
sold through a door-to-door egg
route, often an after-school
chore Vegetables were also
raised on a small scale.
In 1968 Orr received a BS
degree in agriculture science
from the University of Rhode
Island in Kingston. He taught
basic science and earth science in
PFA Names Policy
Development Group
The PFA Policy Development
Committee will meet Wednesday
and Thursday (Oct. 31 - Nov, 1) in
Carlisle at the Embers
Restaurant to assimilate policy
suggestions for the Pennsylvania
Farmers’ Association (PFA)
The 50 member committee will
present the policy suggestions to
the voting delegates at the
organization's 23rd Annual
THEM LET ALLIS CHALMERS
DO IT ALL'
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Ephrata RD2
L. H. Brubaker
Lancaster Pa
Ernest Orr
a Bristol, R.I high school for a
short time prior to completing his
Masters work in animal science
at the University of New Hamp
shire. He served as a graduate
assistant while at the University.
Orr came to Pennsylvania in
Meeting November 18-21 at the
Penn Harris Motor Inn, Camp
Hill.
PPA is a general farm
organization with more than
17,200 family members in the
Keystone State, and it is af
filiated with the American Farm
Bureau Federation PFA has 52
local associations throughout the
state.
Each county farmers’
association has a representative
on the committee, which is ch
aired by Eugene Thompson of
Indiana and vice president of the
state association
Area members on the com
mittee are: Ivan Yost,
Christiana, Clarence Forney,
Jr , Lebanon, Paul McPherson,
New Park, Harold Burgert,
Fleetwood, and S Horace
Mowrer, Spring City
Sahara Sand
Sand covers less than a fifth of
the vast Sahara The rest is a
harsh world of gravel plains,
stark mountains, - and dry salt
lakes
June of 1970 when he began
working with the Penn State
Extension service as an assistant
county agent in Northumberland
County. Fifty percent of his time
was spent working with poultry in
a four county area including
Snyder; Union, Montour and
Northumberland counties. The
remaining 50 percent of his time
was spent working with 4-H clubs
in Northumberland County.
Returning to New England, he
taught vocational agriculture in
anas
GARDEN SPOT STORES
ANNUAL MEETING
MONDAY EVENING, NOV. 5, 1973
7;30 P.M. FARM & HOME CENTER
-Guest Speaker - Enos B. Heisey Field Manager of
AGWAY from Syracuse.
-Election of four member committeeman
-Management Reports
-Music by the John Hershey Family
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Southington, Conn, for two years
prior to accepting the position in
the Agriculture department at
Ephrata.
Mrs. Orr is a native Lancaster
countian, the former Anne Dif- 1
fenderfer from New Danville.
The Orr’s met while students at
the University of New Hamp
shire. She has a teaching degree
but is not teaching at present.
They are residing in Mountville.
Hobbies beyond the teaching
day include camping, swimming,
photography and square dancing.