—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, October 7,1978
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Alisa Marie Fava loves animals, especially Guernsey cows. She also treasures
her4-H experiences.
State Guernsey princess
treasures 4-H years
By DIETER KRIEG
HARRISBURG - For
Alisa Marie Fava, the 4-H
experience is one which has
held many tangible and
intangible treasures. She has
met interesting new people,
made many friends, learned
a lot, won a lot of prizes, and
it has helped direct her
thoughts and goals.
At 17, she is possibly one of
the most familiar faces in
Pennsylvania Guernsey
circles. She is the reigning
Slate Guernsey Princess and
will compete for the national
crown at the national con
vention m Arizona in May of
next year. She is also the
owner of Id cows and heifers
and has exhibited the grand
champion at the Penn
sylvania Junior Dairy Show
for four out of the past six
years. She captured the top
title again this year after
having had the runner-up
spot a year ago. Her cows
were also champions in 1973,
1975, and 1976. There is a
chance she may have won
the title in 1974 were it not for
the fact that her previous
year’s champion died a
month before the show. Her
grand champion last week
was a granddaughter of that
cow.
Miss Fava, the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fava,
makes her home on her
parents’ Washington County
dairy farm where her father
and uncle keep a herd of 110
Guernsey cows. She helps
with the chores and main
tarns close to an ‘A’ average
at Mon-Valley Catholic High
School, where she is a senior.
She is striving for a good
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academic record in order to
increase her chances for
admission at Cornell
University. She would like to
major in veterinary
research studies there.
“I’m definitely interested
in animals,” the young lady
emphasized during an in
terview last week. “I’m
going to work with animals
no matter which way I go,
she said, leaving no doubt
that she loves and enjoys her
four-legged friends
A 4-H’er for seven years,
the Washington County girl
is a member of the Pike Run
4-H Club. She is also co
editor of her school yearbook
and captain of the color
guard.
Although she has owned
and exhibited several grand
champions, Miss Fava takes
special pride in this year’s
CONCRETE
banner-winning cow because
she was bred and bom on the
home farm. Co-Hill Farms J
Tracy, sired by Dolly Run
Glens Juzie, was her first
home-bred grand champion.
According to 4-H
regulations, Miss Fava has
Sweigart’s
GRATZ Kaye Sweigard
and Matthew Keiter
exhibited the grand and
reserve grand champion
steer, respectively, at the
recent Grata Fair. Miss
Sweigard’s entry was the
heavyweight champion
the Keiter animal was
first in the medittmweight
division. Tops among the
lightweights was an entry by
Judy Fair.
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two more years of eligibility
for membership. The string
of accomplishments the
young lady will have
credited to her name by then
will be hard to surpass. She
is the kind of girl who strives
for first place consistently
and her records prove it.
steer wins
Placing second m the
respective classes of com
petition were: Marc Web
ster, lightweights; Janice
Kaylor, mediumweights;
and Grayson Fair,
heavyweights.
GRATZ Janice Kaylor
and Kaye Sweigard showed
the top Charolais and Angus
beef breeding animals,
respectively at the recent
GratzFair.
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