Bl6—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, July 3,1982
Shaner is vo-ag’s Outstanding Young Teacher
Warwick High School's Sonia Shaner receives the Out
standing Young Teacher award from Arthur Ives, vice
president of the National Vocational Agriculture Teachers
Association. The awards were given out last week during the
teachers' summer conference at Penn State.
Former PVATA president, Bruce Lemmon (1980-81), ieft,
accepted the past president’s award from Guy Naugie,
PVATA president.
PVATA’s immediate past president Donald Reinert, left,
awarded James Fink, retired state supervisor of agricultural
education with a plaque for Outstanding Service.
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UNIVERSITY PARK - More
than 150 teachers, educators,
guests and spouses attended the
annual awards banquet sponsored
by the Pennsylvania Vocational
Agricultural Teachers Association
to honor their professional peers
for services to and promotion of
vocational agriculture.
The breakfast was the highlight
of last week’s three-day
Agricultural Teachers
Professional/Techmcal Institute
held in conjunction with the
Pennsylvania Vocational
Education Confernece at Penn
State.
Arthur Ives, National Vocational
Agriculture Teachers Association
vice president of Region VI
presented the Outstanding Young
Teacher award to Warwick High
School’s Sonia Shaner. He also
Conrad Weiser’s Donald
McNutt with the Sound Off for
Agriculture award and Lehigh
County Vo-Tech’s Frederic
SUllwagon with the Agribusiness
Career Exploration award.
The American Association of
Teacher Educators in Agriculture
issued Outstanding Publication
awards to Penn State’s Connie
Baggett and Anthony Mallilo in
recognition of their 'meritorious
contributions to the agricultural
education profession.”
James Mortenson was the
recipient of the Outstanding
Service award for the Eastern
Region.
The National Vocational
Agricultural Teachers Association
honored teachers and educators by
presenting certificates in the
following categories: Teacher of
Teachers Award, presented to
teachers having former students
following in the profession - Ed
Yoder, one; Ed Litweiler, William
Erickson, and Ray Crilley, three
each; William Shaffer and Thomas
Hughes, five or more.
The •‘Thirty Minute Club” award
was presented to those who
promoted vocational agriculture
through the communications
media, reaching beyond the state
borders. Recipients of this award
included; Samuel Curtis, James
Diamond, Robert Martin, and
Richard Stinson, all from Penn
State’s agriculture education
department. These teachers
received certificates: Robert Leib,
Cumberland Valley: Fred
Stillwagon, Lehigh County Vo-
Tech; and Stephen Miller, Conrad
Weiser High School.
The NVATA-sponsored “Ideas
Unlimited” contest, designed for
teachers to exchange classroom
and shop ideas, was won by Edgar
Ferry, Sehnsgrove High-School for
the ‘Wyoming Anvil.” The
remaining placmgs included: 1.
Donald McNutt, Conrad Weiser
High School: 3. Stephen Miller;
and 4. Harold Berkheiser, Cedar
Crest High School.
In other recognitions, Bruce
Lemmon received the Past
Presidents plaque for his services
as state president during 1980-81;
James Fink, retired state
supervisor of agricultural
education, received an Out
standing Service award.
Teachers receiving 25-year
awards included: Kenneth
Thompson, Oxford Area High
School; Kenneth Cherry,
Holidaysburg Area High School;
Raymond Cnlley, Northwestern
High School; and Thomas Hughes,
Derry Area High School.
Lehigh County Vo-Tech received
the state plaque for Outstanding
Sales in the citrus promotion.
Receiving watches for their 25 years of service to
vocational agriculture were: from left, Kenneth Cherry,
Holidaysburg Area High School; Thomas Hughes. Derry Area
High School; and Kenneth Thompson, Oxford Area High
School. Not pictured, Raymond Crilley, Northwestern High
School.
Conrad Weiser vo-ag teacher Donald McNutt, left, received
the Sound Off for Agriculture award, given to the person who
demonstrates excellent use of communications media to tell
agriculture's story. It, too, was presented by Ives.
The - Agribusiness Career Exploration award went to
Frederic Stillwagon, left, of Lehigh County Vo-Tech, The
award is sponsored annually by Sperry New Holland and was
presented by Arthur Ives.