Elizabethtown FFA
BY LAURA ENGLAND
ELIZABETHTOWN - The
Elizabethtown Future Fanners of
America Chapter held its 25th
Annual Awards Banquet April 26 at
the Collins Haus Family
Restaurant, Elizabethtown, to
honor its outstanding members
and recognize the chapter’s 1983
achievements.
Topping the list of award win
ners were “Stars” Joe Keener and
Ken Ruhl. Keener, a first year
FFA member who serves as
chapter freshman vice president,
was awarded the Star Greenhand
Award. Ruhl, the chapter’s
treasurer, was the recipient of the
Star Chapter Farmer Award.
Ruhl also won the DeKalb
Achievement Award for leader
ship, scholarship and supervised
occupational experience (SOE)
projects. High School principal Dr.
Dustin Peters presented the
award.
Recognized as the State
Keystone Farmer Degree winners
were John Dohner, Kevin Noll,
Dave Kauffman and Tracey Stowe,
Elizabethtown High School principal Dr. Dustin Peters, left,
congratulates FFA’er Ken Ruhl. winner of the DeKalb
Achievement Award for scholarship and leadership.
Ferrari to
:y Agtv ~ny
from left, Tim Albright, Elizabethtown High School, first
place: Mike Pfautz, Warwick High School, second; and Jeff
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the first female chapter member to
receive the honor awarded to only
the top two percent of the state’s
FFA members. The degrees were
awarded at the FFA Mid-Winter
Convention held in Harrisburg
during Farm Show Week in
January.
The Chapter Greenhand Awards
went to first year members Phil
Fullerton, Mark Bradley, Ray
Lookenbill, Gary Andrews, Stacey
Witmer, Stacey Wittle, Scott
Zimmerman, Todd Moore, lisa
Retherford, Andy Winters, Scott
English,-Joe Keener, Troy Martin,
Robert Rodel and Bob Baynard.
Chapter Degrees were earned by
Cassandra Stowe, Christopher
Stroh, Dan Hartzler, Tim Albright,
Steve Heisey, Greg Musser, Nevin
Ruhl, Rich Hollinger and R.
Christopher Horne.
Red Rose Degree winners were
Greg ,Musser, Brian Putt, Dan
Hartzler and Ken Ruhl.
In the Proficiency Awards
category, the winners were; Bob
Baynard, Farm Safety; Joe
Lancaster County land
honors outstanding membe
Keener and Greg Musser, Public
Speaking; Cameron Reigle and
Chris Home, Electricity: Steve
Heisey, Swine; Brian Putt, Dairy
Production; and Greg Musser,
Beef.
Also Scott Koser and Tricia
Musser, Sheep; Rich Bollinger,
Crop Production; Kevin Baker,
Agriculture Mechanics; Brian
Putt, Home Improvement; Nevin
Ruhl, Fish and Wildlife
Management; Tim Albright, Soil
and Water Management; and Tad
Enck, Recreation.
Selected as the 1983 outstanding
officers were Greg Musser,
president; Dan Hartzler, vice
president; Mark Bradley,
reporter; and Brian Billman,
junior vice president. These four
received officer pins presented by
principal Dr. Peters.
In other recognition, the
Elizabethtown FFA Chapter
shared with its guests a slide
presentation of the National
Eastern Regional BOAC award it
received at the National Con
vention last fall.
BOAC, which stands for Building
Our American Communities, is a
chapter program designed to in
clude community betterment
projects. For the Elizabethtown
FFA’ers, that project was the
Elizabethtown Fair.
As a chapter, the FFA members
raised over $15,000 and provided
10,000 man-hours to improve the
town’s fairgrounds. The project
over the years has included the
help of approximately 400 com
munity members.
Elizabethtown FFA was one of
four chapters out of 1,000 entries to
receive the award. Member Jay
Garber was awarded the National
BOAC Achievement in Volun
teerism Award at the National
Conference on Community
Development held recently in
Washington D.C.
Other chapter highlights were:
Steve Kauffman was awarded the
American Farmer Degree at the
National Convention; the chapter
won the Lancaster County Meat
BY LAURA ENGLAND
QUARRYVILLE - Chris
Ferrari, a junior at Ephrata High
School, was named first place
individual winner in the Lancaster
County FFA Land Judging Contest
held at the Robert Holzhauer farm,
QuarryviUe, Tuesday afternoon.
Using the skills she acquired
through land judging practices,
Miss Ferrari scored 334 of a
possible 400 points total. To earn
the honor, she and the other county
FFA’ers were required to judge
soil profiles prepared by Ed
Merkel, a soil scientist with the
Soil Conservation Service (SCS) in
Lebanon.
By examining the top 40 inches of
the profiles, the students were to
identify the soil texture, determine
the total depth and slope of the
landscape and decide if any
Vainage problem existed. John
irt, a soil conservationist with
ie Lancaster County SCS, went
r er Merkel’s score card and
iswered the student’s questions.
The second place individual was
erry Good, of the Eastern Lan
ister County FFA Chapter, with a
;ore of 318 points. Fellow chapter
lember Mark Zimmerman was
\rd individual with 309 points.
In team competition, Eastern
incaster County came out on top.
iam members Kerry Good, Kent
(alsey, Kevin Redcay and Mark
immerman scored a combined
'9O points. They received a
itatmg team trophy.
rt, left, of the Lancaster
'e, presents the first place
incaster County FFA land
ent Halsey, Kevin Redcay,
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 5,19 M-817
Judging Contest and the State
Wildlife Contest; and Greg Musser
won both the Lancaster County
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Elizabethtown FFA "Star” awards to Ken Ruhl, left, Star
Chapter Farmer, and Joe Keener, Star Greenhand.
Outstanding officers of the Elizabethtown FFA Chapter are,
from left, Greg Musser, president; Dan Hartzler, vice
president; Mark Bradley, reporter; and Brian Billman, junior
vice president.
judging contest
Tim Breneisen, left, a resource conservationist for the
Lancaster County Conservation District, discusses soil
texture with Chris Ferrari, Ephrata High School, first place
winner in the Lancaster County FFA Land Judging Contest.
Second place team was Ephrata Elizabethtown High School, was
High School with 1,074 points, the overall winner. Second place
followed by Solanco High School went to junior Mike Pfautz,
with 1,017. Manheim Central High Warwick, and third to senior Jeff
School finished fourth with 973 Williams Elizabethtown,
points. Lancaster County High Schools
In addition to the land judging competing in the two contests were
contest, county FFA’ers also Solanco, Manheim Central,
competed in the agronomy contest. Warwick, Elizabethtown and New
Tim Albright, a senior at Holland.
rs
Land Preservation Public
Speaking Contest and the State
Creed Contest.
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