—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 29,1977 32 Mervin Horst, from the Cloister FFA Chapter of Lancaster County, and Barbara Herr, Grasslands FFA, were the two top quiz winners at the Lancaster County FFA leadership training conference held at the Hinkletown Alternative School on Thursday. Horst took first place and Miss Herr placed second. Lane. Co. FFA leadership training seminar held HINKLETOWN - Four freshman members of the Future Farmers of America were awarded honors for their participation m con tests at the Lancaster County Future Farmers of America leadership training conference held at the Hinkletown Alternative School on Thursday. Mervin Horst, a Cloister FFA member and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Horst, 222 Akron Road, Ephrata, took the first place quiz contest award, and Douglas Hershberger, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Her shberger, Quarryville R 4, was named the top ranking creed contest winner. Hershberger, age 15, is a member of the Solanco FFA Chapter. Coming in behind Horst and Hershberger were two Grassland FFA members - Barbara Herr and Charles Zimmerman, Jr. Miss Herr, who is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Herr, Narvon R 2, and the president of the ninth grade FFA at Garden Spot, took the second place berth in the quiz contest. Zimmerman, die 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Zim merman, East Earl Rl, ranked second in the creed contest. The creed and quiz con tests were part of the leadership training con ference that ran from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. During that time the 160 FFA’ers taking part divided into various workshops to learn the skills of office holding. Although they’d already won the Lancaster County FFA freshman creed contest, Douglas Hershberger (right) and Charles Zimmerman, Jr., check the creed in the book. Hershberger was named the first place creed contestant and Zimmerman, second, on Thursday at the Lancaster County FFA leadership training conference. During the evening, the members traveled to a banquet held at the New Holland Fire Hall, where 12 honorary Red Rose Degree winners - one per school - were named. Harold Ruhl, a flower grower from Smoketown was nominated by Brown stown Vo-Tech; Robert Alexander, Intercourse, the head custodian at Pequea Valley, was nominated by that school; Dr. Elmer J. Berkebile, superintendent of Penn Manor High School, was nominated from that chapter; Victor F. Weaver, owner of Victor F. Weaver, Inc., New Holland, was nominated by the Grassland Chapter; John Kinney, Landisville, a building maintenance instructor at Mt. Joy Vo-Tech, was that chapter’s nominee; Elmer Murry, auctioneer from Manheim, was nominated by the Manheim FFA; Paul Gehman, owner of Geh man’s Feed Mill, Denver, was named from Ephrata; Jeffry Eisenbise, farmer - *v from Elizabethtown, was honored by the Elizabethtown Chapter; Lloyd Lapp, owner and operator of Huber Nurseries, by Willow Street Vo-Tech; Samuel Wylie, beef breeder from Nottingham, by the Solanco chapter; Donald Herr, vice president of the Lampeter Fair, by the Lampeter Chapter; Hess Brothers Fruit Farm, Millersville, from Warwick; and John Brubaker, head of Stonebndge Farm, Mt. Joy, was nominated at large.
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