AlB—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 10,1981
Md. extension council announces appointments
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -
Two southern Maryland
residents have been ap
pointed for three-year terms
on the state advisory council
of the Maryland Extension
Service. Ten other persons
were reappointed to three
year terms m connection
with the council’s recent
serruannual meeting at the
University of Maryland in
College Park
Winning calf
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was the first brown heifer to
ever live on the farm, said
Ohlmger. “We’ve had a
registered herd of Holstems
since 1953,” he chuckled.
Raising a dairy animal as
a 4-H project will be a new
experience for Debbie. She
explained she has been m the
dairy club for seven years,
six years in New York and
one year in Berks County,
but that was a dairy goat
club.
She recalled her first goat
was a grade animal pur
chased at an auction After
that first step into the
milking business, Debbie
said, she and her parents,
Jere and Patncia Price,
decided to go purebred
Debbie, along with her
brother and sister, now
cares for ten goats
Nubians, Alpines, and one
La Mancha
Debbie lives near Yellow
House on her parents’ 29
acre farm She is a member
of the Oley Saddlehtes 4-H
Horse Club, serving as
secretary and county council
representative. Debbie
explained she is carrying a
horseless horse project since
she doesn’t have a horse of
her own, yet.
Other 4-H activities keep
Debbie busy she is
secretary of the Berks
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In addition, an Eastern
Shore resident was ap
pointed to fill an unexpired
term on the council, ac
cording to John M Curtis,
director of the Extension
Service in Maryland.
The council acts in an
advisory capacity to the
state Extension director,
administrators and
statewide program leaders
based on the University of
County 4-H Dairy Goat Club
and is starting her first
veterinary science project
this year Debbie is also the
news reporter for the Berks
County Goat Herders
Association
After turning the calf’s
halter over to Debbie, Mike
Firestme, vice-president and
farm loan officer to LVNB
remarked on the fine work
Debbie and the other con
testants did in writing the
essays
“Unfortunately, there
could only be one winner In
order to show the bank’s
recognition for their ex
cellent efforts, we will be
sending cash awards to the
contestants,” Firestme said.
“Lebanon Valley National
Bank is always glad to help
the youth involved in 4-H,”
he said “Debbie is a
deserving individual
seeing the look on her face
when she laid eyes on the
heifer was worth every
penny ”
Other contestants in the
essay competition included
Sandra Moser, Michele
Christman, Connie Ohhnger,
Clayton Snyder, Becky
Snyder, Sherri Lynn Zellers,
Jon Stutzman, Richard
Hartz, Robert Bashore,
Marianne Yanos, Kevin
Sattazahn, and Kirk Sat
tazahn
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Maryland campuses at
College Park and Princess
Anne
New council members
appointed for three-year
terms are
DISTRICT 111
Princes Georges county-
Enc 0 Lmdbeck of
Buckingham. Lmdbeck is a
freshman at the University
of Maryland in College Park
He is majoring in biology
and chemistry.
Calvert county-Edward J
Alien of Barstow Allen is a
crop farmer and cattle
feeder. He is president of the
Maryland Crop Im
provement Association, and
he has been county Farm
Bureau president since 1976
Reappointed for three
year terms on the advisory
'f'l-noil are
DISTRICT 111
Anne Arundel county-
Mrs Elam Crow of Glen
Burme.
Charles county--Mrs
Mary Louise Webb of
Waldorf
St Marys county-Alfred
Jordan of Drayden
DISTRICT II
Carroll county--Juha
Gouge of Hampstead Mrs
Gouge is vice-president of
the advisory council
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ond F Armacost, Jr, of
Upperco Armacost is the
current council president
Harford county—Mrs
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Baltimore city-Mrs
Lucille Gorham of east
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Cecil county-William B
Kilby of Colora
Kent county-William S
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visory council
Queen Annes county-Mrs
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Brownsville
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has been appointed to fill a
District IV vacancy on the
state Extension advisory
county Mrs Hignutt is the
wife of an Eastern Shore
dairy and gram farmer She
is a former 4-H leader and
past chairman of the countv
Farm Bureau women’s
committee Her term will
expire in 1982
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visory council was
established in February
1978 Its organizational
statement calls for a
membership of 24 appointed
community leaders--one
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