Representatives of the Maryland Agricultural Safety and
Health Federation (MASHF) met with Governor Harry R.
Hughes recently to receive the governor’s tenth anniversary
proclamation salute to the federation. Shown, left to right are
Elmer L. Cooper of Adelphi, MASHF chairman; Governor
Hughes, and Lynne C. Hoot of Annapolis, member of the
MASHF board of directors. Cooper is an associate professor
of agricultural and extension education at the University of
Maryland, and Mrs. Hoot is executive secretary of the
Maryland Agricultural Commission, affiliated with the state
Department of Agriculture.
d. safety dinner on March 23
COLLEGE PARK, Md -
Nobody really knows how man>
farmers and other rural residents
owe their lives to educational
activities during the past 30 years
by the Maryland Agricultural
Safety and Health Federation
(MASHF) or its predecessor, the
Maryland Farm and Home Safety
Council.
but if all of those people come to
the March 23 annual dinner
meeting of the federation at
Friendly Farms restaurant near
Upperco (Baltimore county), it’s a
sure bet there won’t be enough
space available to seat everyone.
So says Elmer L. Cooper,
associate professor of agricultural
and extension education at the
University of Maryland. Cooper is
the ninth person to serve as
chairman of MASHF since it was
organized in 1973 by represen
tatives of 28 rural organizations,
agribusinesses, educational
groups, federal agencies and state
government departments.
Since 1975, MASHF has held
annual dinner meetings each year
in early spring. This year’s event
on March 23, will begin 7 p.m. in
north central Maryland, about five
miles west of highway 1-83 at Exit
27.
Reservations should be made not
later than March 15 by calling
Gary L. Smith, the MASHF
secretary, at (301) 454-3901, in
College Park. Smith is an Ex
tension agricultural engineer and
safety specialist at the University
of Maryland.
Larry E. Stewart, agricultural
engineering department chairman
at Maryland, will keynote this
year’s MASHF meeting with a
presentation on “Safety
Challenges for the Future.”
Stewart will give an update on other speakers at this year’s
current MASHF safety education annual MASHF meeting will
programs, including the statewide reminisce on 10 years of progress
emergency-stop decal campaign by the federation. A proclamation
for farm machinery and the second sa i ut e, signed by Governor Harry
Farm Bureau women-FFA farm r. Hughes, will be read. And
accident survey. Both of these award certificates will be
projects are just getting under presented to individuals and
groups for outstanding
Stewart was a principal achievement in farm and home
organizer of MASHF in 1973 and safety. All interested persons are
served as its first invited to attend.
ASPC semi-annual
meeting in Denver
DENVER, Co —Directors from
across the nation will convene
March 6-8 at Denver’s Brown
Palace Hotel for the American
Sheep Producers Council Semi-
Annual Meeting.
ASPC was created in 1955 by
sheepmen as a self-help program
to promote their primary
products: lamb and wool. Sixty-six
directors representing 25 state and
area councils meet twice a year to
review and provide input into
programs. Eleven directors
representing major organizations
that serve the sheep industry also
Dealers attend meeting
HERSHEY Representative of Thomas Backman, of Fallston,
area dealers attended a six-state Md.
meeting of dealers of Modern During the two-day meeting,
Farm Systems held at the Hershey sessions were held on new
Hotel and Country Club. products, drying, material han-
Attending were Milford Mast, dlmg and aeration. Among the
Dennis Mast and Brett Swailes of major product introductions was a
Milford Mast Co., of Elverson: and new line of storage bins.
participate in the governing
process.
Wednesday’s program features
guest speaker Jan Eberly, un
mediate past president of the
Future Farmers of America, and a
panel discussion on “The Next 10
years—Problems and Op
portunities for the Sheep In
dustry.”
In the regular business session
Thursday, directors will review
the ASPC budget and plan of work
for the 1984-85 fiscal year.
All sheep producers and media
are welcome.