C22—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, August 9,1980
Co-op institute slated this
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Bill Turner, director of
public relations, Land
O’Lakes, Inc., Minneapolis,
Minn., will be the keynote
speaker as the American
Institute of Cooperation
kicks off the 52nd National
Institute on Cooperative
Education, August 11-14, at
Penn State.
The American Institute of
Cooperation, Washington,
D.C., sponsor of the con
ference along with the Penn
State College of Agriculture,
expects over 2,000 people to
attend this year’s
educational programs.
The theme for the Institute
is “Cooperatives - Keystone
of Agriculture.” Over 60
speakers will approach this
topic from various
viewpoints during the course
of the four-day conference
People from all over the
United States and Canada
will attend the Institute to
discuss the numerous
challenges and opportunities
cooperatives will face as
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agriculture, points out Hal
F Doran, educational
program director for farmer
cooperatives at Penn State
and general conference
chairman.
In addition to the general
program, there are five
special programs at the
Institute; the Youth Scholar
Program for teenagers;
Employee and Collegiate
Seminar for new cooperative
employees and college
students; Young Farm
Couples Program; the
University Conference on
Cooperatives; and Workshop
on Cooperatives for
Teachers and Agents.
Turner will keynote the
NICE on August 12 by
challenging participants to
strengthen agriculture by
increasing the strength of its
supporting structure
University President John
W. Oswald and Penrose
Hallowell, Pennsylvania
Secretary of Agriculture,
will officially welcome the
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Institute participants to
Pennsylvania and Penn
State at this opemng session
Sectional meetings that
follow the general session
will examine areas which
cooperatives are developing
One sectional meeting will
look at the cooperatives’ role
in meeting America’s
energy needs. M W Brier,
vice president for public
affairs, Energy Cooperative,
Inc , Washington, D.C. will
cover the development of an
energy policy.
Ways of supplying
agriculture’s energy needs
will be the subject of John B
Davenport, director of
governmental relations,
National Rural Electric
Cooperative Association,
Washington, D.C. Alter
native and supplemental
sources of eneigy will be
discussed by Susan
Shepherd, deputy ad
ministrator, Rural Elec
trificiation Administration,
Washington, D C
The general session on the
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and utilitzmg the abilities of
women in cooperatives.
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Georgetown University
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