Juniors receive honors during Natl. Ayrshire meeting
BY BARBARA RADER
Staff Correspondent
COLUMBUS, Ohio Junior
Ayrshire members from across the
United States achieved many high
honors during the National Ayr
shire Convention held at the
Quality Inn, Columbus, Ohio, April
3-6.
The youth recognition breakfast
of the 109th annual convention
featured the announcement of the
Outstanding National Boy and
Girl. Twelve of America’s Ayr-
Spangler named outstanding
Beef Club member
Tammy Spangler, Gettysburg, was named outstanding first
year member of the Adams County 4-H Beef Club. She
showed a 4-H Steer in 1983 and participated in the club
Petting Zoo at Apple Harvest and Apple Blossom Festivals.
Saturday, April 28
Lancaster Society 5 meets for an
auction.
Lancaster Society 4 meets at the
Ironville United Methodist
Church at 12:30 p.m. for lunch.
Maud Mohler will have a
program on Africa.
Lancaster Society 12 entertains
Society 16 at the Lions Club
Building, Millersville. Covered
dish will be at noon.
Tuesday, May 1
Lancaster Society 23 meets for a
mother and (laughter banquet
at Millersville Lions Club
Building. Program by Mary
Lou Brubaker at 6:15 p.m.
Thursday, May 3
Lancaster Society 17 meets for a
mother daughter banquet at
Hershey Farm Restaurant for a
program by Edna Groff.
Friday, May 4
Lancaster Society 1 meets for a
mother daughter banquet at the
Brunnerville Fireball at 6:15
p.m. for an all musical program
by Julia Kohler.
shire junior members competed
for the 14th National Youth Awards
honors.
Narrowing the competition
down to six semi-finalists who each
presented a slide presentation and
a scrapbook compiled with records
of their Ayrshire evaluations, the
judges selected Elizabeth Altwegg,
18, Junction City, Ks., and Scott D.
Carson,' 18, Newbury, Vt., the
national Ayrshire Girl and Boy,
respectively.
CaQcndafi
Lancaster Society 6 meets at the
Elizabethtown Church of God to
entertain Society 34 and county
officers. Sandy Martin will have
a program on flower arranging.
Lancaster Society 15 meets for a 10
a.m. brunch at Willow Valley
Restaurant.
Perry County
Dairy Judging
The Perry County 4-H dairy
judging team placed third in the
state at the Penn State Dairy
Science Club Invitational Dairy
Judging Contest which was held on
April 7.
The team placed second in oral
reasons. Among over ninety
contestants participating in the
contest were Perry County 4-H
members Irene Benner, Ben Dum,
Jenny Knebel, Judy Kriebel, Kim
Knebel and Rid Kriebel.
Saturday, May S
Team
Dr. Pete Spike, Ohio State
University professor, Janice
Keene, The Guernsey Cattle Club,
and Maurice E. Core of the Jersey
Cattle Club served as judges.
Pennsylvania delegate Heather
Hemley, 17, Lebanon, received
High Honorable Mention National
Ayrshire Girl with Lisa Keehner,
18, Luana, lowa, selected second
runner-up.
Duane E. Byers Jr., 17, Ar
canum, Ohio, and Edward W.
Denton Jr., 18, Moravia, N.Y.,
were the finalists in the boys
contest.
Hemley, submitting her ap
plication for the second time in the
national contest, was the 1982 Pa.
Outstanding Ayrshire Girl. Her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Delmas
Hemley, accompanied her to the
convention. An active Penn
sylvania junior member and
devoted Ayrshire breeder, she now
has her own herd name of Heather
Brooke. An active FFA’er and a
past 4-H member she is now a
senior at Northern Lebanon High
School.
A new feature for the juniors was
the first Junior Dairy Bowl Quiz
initiated and sponsored by the Ohio
Junior Club members. Seven
teams across the United States
competed to win the trophies and
cash awards given to the first
place teams. Second place teams
received trophies.
Pennsylvania’s team in the
junior category, 14 & under,
captured the winning title to beat
the Ohio junior team. Team
members were Steven and
Deborah Shetterly, Millersburg,
and Lona and Harold Rader Jr.,
isylvania Ayrshire Junior Quiz Bowl
Team, from left, Lona Rader, Deborah Shetterly, Harold
Rader Jr. and Steven Shetterly, display their first-place
trophies.
Connoquenessmg.
The Keystone state’s senior
team, 15 to 21 years of age, took
third place honors after the second
round of eliminations. Team
members were Heather Hernley
and Wesley Harding Jr., Lebanon,
and Becky Alsdorf and Katrina
Clevenger both of Cochranton.
Winning the senior contest was a
New York team followed by the
New England/Kansas team. Ohio
teams I and II were fourth and
fifth, respectively.
Steven Shetterly scored the
highest points in the written exam
which placed him fourth high in the
overall individual competition.
Edward and Susan Kulp, Pott
stown, coached and accompanied
the Pennsylvania teams at the
event.
The contest, planned to be a
continuous feature at the National
Convention, followed the Wed
nesday night buffet. All team
members took a written test
earlier in the day. Written test
points were totaled along with the
quiz points to decide the winning
teams.
Pennsylvania junior members
also won a $l5O cash award
presented by the Ohio Junior Club
for the state with the most youths
attending the convention, ex
cluding Ohio juniors.
Junior milk and fat production
awards were also issued to the first
place winners in each division.
Three juniors from California,
Maine and Colorado won both
divisions in their respective
classes.