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Md, FFA’ers honored at nat. convention
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Nine
Maryland residents received
recognition during the fif
tieth National FFA Con
vention, held Nov. 8 to 11 in
Kansas City, Mo. One was
named an Honorary
American Fanner, and the
others were awarded the
American Fanner degree.
All of the honors are based
on individual achievement.
Receiving the honorary
citation was Charles B.
Cramer IV, vocational
agriculture teacher at
Walkersville high school,
Frederick County, for the
past five years. Cramer had
previously taught vo-ag at
South Hagerstown and
Williamsport high schools,
Washington County.
Included among the
American Fanner degree
winners were Dwight Dot
terer of Woodsboro and Paul
Dotterer of Union Bridge.
They are cousins and
graduates of Linganore high
school in Frederick County.
Other Frederick county
residents honored were
Grayson Lambert of
Thurmont, a graduate of
Catoctin high school, and
Betsy Merchant of
Walkersville, who graduated
from Walkersville high
school. Miss Merchant is
now a senior in agricultural
and Extension education at
the University of Maryland
in College Park.
Another College of
Agriculture student at the
University of Maryland who
also received the American
Farmer degree was John A.
Rigdon of Jarrettsville,
Harford County, an
agronomy junior.
Elderly need milk
Dr. Anthony Albanese, a
National Dairy Council
grant-in-aid recipient, has
shown the need for more
calcium in the diets of
elderly persons. Work done
at the Burke Kehibilitation
Center and Osborn
Memorial Home in White
Plains, N.Y., demonstrated
to Dr. Albanese that elderly
women often consume little
milk and’'other dairy foods.
He believes that the low
calcium intake in the diet
can result in degeneration of
bone tissue.
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Honored from the Eastern
Shore was Marion Wilson of
Centreville, a graduate of
Queen Annes County High
School.
Rounding out the
Maryland honor ees were two
western Maryland residents
-Danfel Tice of Grantsville
and Gerald Weimer of
Lanaconing. Both are
graduates of Northern
Garrett Junior-Senior High
School at Accident.
All of the American
Farmer degree winners
from Maryland are
currently farming, except
for the two University of
Maryland students.
Maryland high school
teams earned' two silver
emblem awards and three
bronze emblem plaques in
judging competition during
the fiftieth anniversary
National FFA Convention.
Contests in which
Maryland teams earned
recognition were as follows:
Linganore high school,
Frederick County earned a
silver emblem plaque,
finishing fifteenth in a field
of 31 FFA teams. Two team
members qualified for
medal awards in individual
competition. Judy Blank
received a silver award, and
Pat Kahler received a
bronze rating.
An Eastern Shore
delegation from" Queen
Annes County High School at
Centreville earned a silver
emblem plaque, finishing
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nineteenth in a field of 46
FFA teams. Jeff Moore, a
team member, was one of 45
individuals earning a silver
emblem award medal.
The Damascus high school
team, Montgomery County,
earned a bronze emblem
plaque, finishing twenty
fourth among 36 par
ticipating FFA teams.
Team members Bryon
Miller and Sam Weaver
placed in a group of 38 in
dividuals receiving silver
emblem award medals.
A second Damascus high
school team earned a bronze
emblem award plaque,
placing twenty-eighth in a
field of 35 FFA teams. Team
member Mike Harmon
likewise received a bronze
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emblem award medal in
individual competition.
South Hagerstown high
school, Washington County,
earned a bronze emblem
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