Ellenherger to retire from Lehigh post
BY VIVIAN PAUL
Staff Correspondent
ALLENTOWN -S Glenn
Ellenberger, Lehigh County
Agricultural Agent for the
past 29 years, will retire July
15 and conclude a 34-year
association with the
Cooperative Extension
Service.
He joined Extension in 1946
as an assistant agent in
Somerset County. Five years
later he came to Lehigh
County to succeed the late A 1
Hacker who had held the
post of county agent since
1917.
In 1975 Ellenberger was
named to a newly created
rank of Senior Extension
Agent.
“I’ve been thinking about
this for some time,” he said.
“I’m in good health and this
seemed like a good time to
stop. I’ll fmd something else
to do but I won’t be putting in
12 hour days any more.
“I would like to work part-
Xime, possibly in public
Relations or writing,” he
said.
When Ellenberger came to
Lehigh County in 1951 there
were about 1300 farms.
Today there are less than 800
with about 100,000 acres
under cultivation, including
some of the better land in the
state.
“When I first came to the
county I dealt primarily with
farmers but over the years
there was a growing
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S. Glenn Ellenberger
pressure from urban people.
They wanted answers, too.”
Today the farm population
of the county is about 4000
compared with 250,000 non
farm.
An adjunct to his extension
work, Ellenberger writes
popular weekly columns in
the Allentown Morning Call
and Sunday Call-Chronicle
newspapers, giving rural,
suburban, and urban
readers advice on caring for
home gardens, flowers,
trees, and lawns.
He also conducts garden
dimes in the city and
suburbs.
“I made a strong effort to
cement urban and rural
residents,” Ellenberger
said.
He developed farm-city
programs in the county.
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arranging annual farm-city
feasts, open-gate visitations
to farms, service club
programs on agriculture,
and 4-H youth programs in
which club members would
spend time in the city or on
the farm
He was the organizer of
the Farmerama, a popular
attraction at the Allentown
Fair for over 15 years
In 1975 Ellenberger
received the Pennsylvania
Association of Farmer
Cooperatives’ Master
Educator Award for “out
standing teaching and
leadership in the areas of
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STOU CHSBURG - A
special milk meeting, open
to all dairy farmers, will be
held at 8 p.m., Wednesday,
March 26, at Risser’s
Restaurant (formerly Blue
Star Diner), Route 422,
Stouchsburg.
The meeting, under the
sponsorship of Northeast
Goodling to address Cumberland
BOILING SPRINGS -
The Cumberland County
Farmers’ Association has
scheduled its fifth annual
Spring meeting for Monday,
March 24 at 7 p.m.
The affair will be a family
style ham dinner served at
the South Middleton Fire
Hall in Boiling Sprmgs.
Congressman William
Goodlmg is scheduled to
deliver the keynote adress at
the meeting.
Connie Harness, Chief of
Rural Services and
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the program soon
ment of Agriculture, will
provide the entertainment.
Harness is a former Miss
Pennsylvania,
' Reservations for the
meetmg can be made with
any Cumberland County
Farmers’ Association
member. Dinner tickets are
$3 for adults, $1.50 for
children 12 years and under.
In other Cumberland
Association activities,
Vaughn Hunter, Carhsle,
was recognized recently for
his outstanding sales
achievement,
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general agriculture and
cooperative business
programs ”
In 1978 the Allentown
Chamber of Commerce gave
him their distinguished
service award for his work in
improving relations between
city and farm residents
He was bom and reared in
Warriors Mark, Huntingdon
County, where he worked on
his father’s farm. In 1940 he
received a B.S. in Agronomy
fiom Penn State and served
five years m the Air Corps.
He and his wife, the for
mer Leha Steel, are the
parents of three sons.
Dairy Cooperative
Federation, in cooperation
with Cleona Milk Producers
Cooperative, will feature a
discussion of the role of
cooperatives in maintaining
a stable dairy industry and
federal market order
system. Recent threats to
future industry stability by
the Community Nutrition
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Conrad Weiser Young
Farmers to meet
ROBESONIA Conrad tation on com management.
Weiser Adult Young Far- He will also update anyone’s
mers meeting will be held pesticide certification
Monday, March 24 at 7:30 permit for those who haven’t
p.m. at Conrad Weiser high already done so.
school here.
Corn management for
higher yield potentials in
1980 will be the topic. Steve
Fisher from FMC Cor
poration will be present with
a slide and movie present
Institute will also be on the
agenda of topics for
discussion.
Speakers will include
James Beaver, Bellefonte,
Director of NEDCO; and
Ralph D. Smith, Syracuse,
N.J., NEDCO’s Director of
Education.
Chairman of the meeting
will be William Moore,
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injector tester demon
stration in the ag shop. For
additional information
contact Donald R. McNutt,
Conrad Weiser High School
215/693-3121.
Myerstown, Secretary of
Cleona Milk Producers
Cooperative.
The purpose of the
meeting is to provide an
opportunity for all" milk
producers to become better
informed about our changing
dairy industry.
Refreshments will be
served,
farmers
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