new BRUNSWICK, NJ - As the 55th State FFA Convention closed at Cook College, Rutgers University, 300 members across New Jersey traveled home with new offices and awards. The highlight of the convention was the election of the 1984-85 State Officers, who will serve a one-year term, visiting over 1,500 members m 37 FFA Chapters across New Jersey. They will also travel to other states to meet with FFA members and officers, all sharing a common interest-agriculture and agribusiness. The 1984-85 Officer Team is as follows; Kenneth S. Ingalls, state president, from Cream Ridge; Deborah Pomroy, state vice president, from Stewartsville; Robert K. Byrne, vice-president - Central Region, from New Egypt; William J. Hudson IV, vice president - Southern Region, from Bellmawr; Melissa A. Hajdu, vice president - Northwest Region, from Phillipsburg; Kathryn Ann Smyhe, State Treasurer, from Wrightstown; Thomas A. Butler, Jr., State Reporter, from Burl ington; and Buddy F. Hahola, State Sentinel, from Pittstown. Nearly 30 students received the Garden State Farmer Degree. This degree is the third of four degrees in FFA. William J. Hudson of the Camden Tech - East Chapter, Sicklerville, received the Star State Agribusinessman Award, and Thomas Hartung of the Belvidere Chapter received the Star State Farmer Award for their outstanding accomplishments in vocational agriculture/FF A. Four highly-motivated agriculturalists were selected as American Farmer Degree Can didates. Steven P. Gruenberg, North Hunterdon Chapter, An- 1 1 I jA Mail today / J |L7|T| Sd 11 [y*J NuPulse America, Inc 9OB Stewart St. * FEEDING EQUIPMENT Madison. WI 53713 Please send more information NAME . ADDRESS CIT V TELEPHONE New Jersey FFA'ers honored at state convention nandale; Janet Johnson Duckworth, Belvidere Chapter; David Pool, Woodstown Chapter; and Deb Wooster, West Essex Chapter, all have continued their agriculture involvement and will continue their occupations in the field of agriculture. Steven P. Gruenberg, past state president, will represent New Jersey as a 1984-85 National Of ficer Candidate at the National FFA Convention in Kansas City, Missouri in November. In the area of Proficiency Awards, the following people received a certificate, a $lOO check, and a chance for their ap plication to be reviewed at the Regional and National levels of competition. They are Tracy Sloan Hitchner, floriculture, Cumberland Chapter; Patricia R. Rupell, sales and service, Warren Hills Chapter; Richard S. Yurkovitch, home and farm stead, Warren Hills Chapter; John H. Burdge, agricultural mechanics, Belvidere Chapter; Susan Seman chik, dairy, Hackettstown Chapter; Lee Curto, poultry, War ren Hills Chapter; Leah Hetzell, div. livestock, Cumberland Chapter; Ross Mills, beef, Hunter don Central Chapter; Kathryn Smylie, sheep, Northern Burl ington Chapter; Robert Hampton, crop, Cumberland Chapter; Susan Albertson, horse, Belvidere Chapter; and Mark Lucas, place ment in agriculture, Belvidere Chapter. Many students competed in public speaking contests at the convention. First-place students in the extemporaneous and six to eight-minute contest will speak at the Tri-State Contest and in the Regional Contest in Massachusetts. Cornputrac is priced to make computerized feeding affordable. Often, ted to your present system to reduce the cost even more. Cornputrac doesn’t have to be more expensive to be better. Call or write to find out how you can cut your feed bills. STATE In the extemporaneous public speaking contest, Carole Schanzlln of the Belvidere Chapter, placed first; Lee Curto, Warren Hills Chapter, placed second; and Beth Bull, Oakcrest Chapter, placed third. In the public speaking six-eight minute contest, Kim Zar of the Camden Tech East Chapter, plac ed first; Ronald Vassallo, Woodstown Chapter, placed se cond; and Lee Curto, Warren Hills Chapter, placed third. In the public speaking five minute contest, April Hickey of the Oakcrest Chapter, placed first; and Richard Stigale, Gloucester Chapter, placed second. In the public speaking three minute contest, Stephen Madara of the Oakcrest Chapter, placed first; Amy Rogers, Northern Burlington, placed second; and Tina Santini, Warren Hills Chapter, placed third. In the creed contest, Ann An drews of the Northern Burlington Chapter, placed first; Robert Masseau, Hackettstown Chapter, placed second; and Vicky Milford, Woodstown Chapter, placed third. In the demonstration contest, Amy Rogers and Beth Weyman, both from the Northern Burlington Chapter, won second place as a team. Nancy Fieumenero from the Middlesex County Chapter placed second in individuals and William Emerson from the Gloucester Chapter placed third in in dividuals. In the parliamentary procedure contest, the Allentown Chapter placed first in the state. The Oakcrest and Northern Burlington Chapters followed their placings. This contest tests the members’ ability to conduct a business meeting using parliamentary pro- Vou can afford to cut feed bills Computrac is easy to learn and easy to use, for stand alone .itemized feeding or as part of an expanding farm management system. You can't afford not to ENDLESS MOUNTAINS HARVESTORE SYSTEMS, INC. Towanda, PA 18848 1-717-265-2200 cedures. Superior chapter awards went to Cumberland, Woodstown, Warren Hills, West Essex, Oakcrest, Belvidere, Allentown, North Hunterdon an<J Hunterdon Hills Chapters. Allentown and North Hunterdon FFA Chapters will be considered for a National emblem in Kansas City, Missouri, at the National FFA Convention. The Gloucester County Vocational School received the award for Most Improved Chapter in New Jersey. In the Chapter Safety Contest, Cumberland County Regional received a gold emblem for their plaque; Gloucester received a silver emblem and Belvidere received a bronze emblem. The top two schools will be recognized at the National FFA Convention. , The Warren Hills Chapter, Washington, received first-place recognition in the FFA week con test with Allentown and Hunterdon Hills following. The Allentown Chapter, Warren Hills Chapter and Belvidere Chapter placed first through third in the public relations contest. The Middlesex County Chapter, East Brunswick, received the first place award in the chapter scrap book contest, and Dawn Duckworth, Belvidere Chapter, placed first in the chapter secretary’s book. Becky Rice, also from the Belvidere Chapter, received the award for the best Chapter Treasurer’s Book in New Jersey. Kathy Smylie of the Northern Burlington Chapter, Columbus, received the Harry Schnieber Scholarship for her academic and agriculture accomplishments. The Gloucester County Chapter received a plaque for the first Feed costs make op more than half the cost ot producing milk. Maybe you can’t do much about teed prices, but you can increase feeding efficiency. With a Computrac feeding system, you automatically adjust each cow’s feed ration to her specific stage of lactation or adjust tor the precise ration you want. You not only save teed, you can actually increase milk production by bringing each cow to maximum production sooner and maintaining the peak longer COMPUTRAC DEALERS WESTERN PENN-JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA PRODUCTS, INC. HARVESTORE SYSTEMS, New Holland, PA 17557 o. J N S* BA 1-717-354-4051 Slippery Rock, PA 16057 1-412-794-4093 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 16,1984—821 place-exhibit at the State Conven tion. The Building Our American Communities (8.0.A.C.) Award was sponsored by R.J. Reynolds, Inc. The first place chapter was the Cumberland Chapter. Belvidere and Middlesex Chapters placed second and third. Wayne Beal, committee chairperson of the Cumberland Chapter, received the Achievement in Volunteerism Award, which includes a trip to Washington, D.C., to attend a Na tional 8.0.A.C. Conference. Beal was also selected as Outstanding Member-of-the-Year in New Jersey. Patty Rupell of the Warren Hills Chapter received a gold award in the record keeping contest and Bonnie Grunow, Oakcrest Chapter, received a silver award. In the new computers in agriculture award contest, William Perez, Oakcrest Chapter, Mays Landing, received a gold rating and will attend a National Computer Conference in August. The 1984-85 State FFA Sweetheart was crowned after a very competitive contest. Carole Schanzlin of the Belvidere Chapter will travel to Kansas City to com pete in the American Eoyale Com petition. Melissa Hajdu, Phillipsburg Chapter, and Jackie Hoyer, Northern Burlington Chapter, were the first and second runners up in the competition.
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