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association from a group of she has gotten involved in
eight contestants. agriculture mostly from
Laura hails from Beaver Penn State’s college of ag.
County, near the town of Laura is studying tc
Clinton. She said she is not become a veterinarian,
actually from a farm, but hoping to have a mixture of
Laura Weinberger, Clinton, was crowned the Pa.
Cattlemen’s Queen for 1980 by last year’s queen,
Karen McCullough.
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large and small clients in her
practice. As far as where she
hopes to study veterinary
medicine, she smiled and
said she didn’t want to say at
this point.
Laura has had experience
working with large animals.
She has two Morgan horses
of her own, a mare and a
foal.
At Penn State, Laura is a
member of the Block and
Bridle Club. She has par
ticipated in the annual Little
International since she was a
freshman.
In her first year as an
exhibitor, Laura showed a
Hereford heifer. Last year,
she said she decided to show
a horse.
But she eventually got to
show all of the species m
competition for showman of
the year. Her smile was well
earned when she said she
was the reserve grand
champion showman at last
year’s show.
Laura received her crown
from last year’s queen,
Karen McCullough, Mercer.
The first runner-up was
Joanne Lynn Hicks, Ger
mansville, with Tracy
Higgins, Chadds Ford, as the
second runner-up.
Speaking at the banquet
was Glen Klippenstem, co
owner of Glenkirk Farms,
Maysville, Mo.
Khppenkem was a 1959
animal husbandry major at
Penn State. He said he had
seven people he considered
to have influenced his life,
with Penn State’s Dr.
Thomas King and Professor
Glenn Kean having a spot on
his list.
Khppenstem’s farms are
in the purebred beef
business. He said they raise
Polled Herefords, Angus and
Hereford cattle.
“Actually,” he said,
“we’re in the bull business.
We raise about 900 calves
every year and sell about 350
of them as bulls. We’ve sold
to every s*ate m the nation
but three, and to many other
countries.”
Concerning the current
trend to larger framed beef
cattle, Klippenstein stated, “
I like adequate frame, but if
it goes beyond a certain
point, we give up func
tionality. We lose fertility,
milkability— and those are
too important.”
He concluded that the
cattlemen have the
responsibility to cull out the
trash and produce a bettei
seed stock. As a purebred
breeder, he closed by saying,
“My only reason for being in
business is to support the
commercial cattlemen by
producing the best possible
animal.”
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