B2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Match 7,1981 Holstein award winners lead busy lives BY JOYCE BUPP Staff Correspondent WHITE HAVEN - The Penn sylvania Holstein Association wrapped up a successful 69th annual convention last week with recognition of the ac complishments of four outstanding members Clark Bowen and Harry Firth were named to the prestigious Pennsylvania Holstein Hall of Fame, while Debra Stump and Alan Hostetter Were honored as 1981 distinguished junior members during an awards breakfast held in the elegant ballroom of the Pocono Hershey Resort Clai k Bowen, Wellsboro R 3, is a Tioga County native, born m 1906 on the farm next door to the Honors as members of the Pennsylvania Mr. and Mrs Harry Firth. The" portraits will Holstein Association's Hall of Fame are con- hang in the Hall of Fame gallery at the ferred on Mr. and Mrs. Clark Bowen, left, and association offices at State College. SCHLESSMAN'S family s noted Wildmoor registered Holstein farm T was almost born in a stable," Bowen quipped as he lemembered a boyhood of helping with the family’s milking herd. Hegisteied Hoisicins sum. 1942,” reads the Wildmoore ad vertisement in the convention’s annual publication Those 1942 purebreds, five of them, were the foundation of the first Bowen milking herd of 11 cows And every one of these five registry cer tificates traced to Clark Bowen’s first calf, given to him by his parents when he was 12 From a 1929 start, the Bowen operation has today grown to encompass some 600 sprawling acres over four farms Bowen is in partneiship with his son Neil, and their 50-plus Holstems maintain a current rolling herd average of over 17,500 lbs of milk and 660 of fat Seven Excellent cows and 23 Very Goods help boost the herd's B A A to over 105 Son, Glenn and his family also operate a registered Holstein herd, Bowen-Vale Holsteins, on an ad joining farm Registered Holstein enthusiasm continues strong as a Bowen family tradition Bowen began showing his black and whites in 1930, and the family still par ticipates in some showring ac tivity He’s served the local and state Holsteins in a variety of (Turn to Page 83) Distinguished junior'member awards are presented by John Cope, president of the State Holstein Association, to Alan Hostetter and Debra Stump. They will compete for national honors, which will be announced at the June con vention in Baltimore. Special award is given to Don and Gerry Seipt by Bill Nichol, executive secretary of the Pennsylvania Holstein Association. One of their Keystone Farms’ bred sires has received prestigious honors in the Netherlands BOYD'S 78 AT
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