AlB—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 28,1984
42 farm couples
BY SALLY BAIR
Staff Correspondent
DANVILLE Forty-two young
farm couples from throughout
Pennsylvania attended a two-day
conference last week in Danville
sponsored by the Pennsylvania
Association of Farmers
Cooperatives and the College of
Agriculture of The Pennsylvania
State University
Sponsored by local farmer
cooperatives, the couples had the
opportunity to learn more about
the cooperative way of doing
business, and they learned how
they can become more involved
and concerned cooperative
members
Robert Reich, general manager
of the Northeast Farm Credit and
vice president of PAFC.
challenged the group to go home
and "use what you learn or you’ll
lose it ” He urged them to decide
several ways they can get involved
in their cooperative and ways to
get their friends involved within 48
hours of the conference. "We
believe in you,” he concluded as he
explained the reason co-ops wish
them to take a more active role.
Calling co-ops part of "your
personal farming operation.” N.
Alan Bair, director of member
services for Atlantic Breeders
Cooperative, said, “Co-ops help to
create an economic environment
you can survive in.” He, too, en
couraged them to participate
further in their local cooperatives.
One of the highlights of the
conference was the opportunity to
meet with cooperative leaders and
ask questions of about 13 managers
and directors from cooperatives
such as dairy, artificial breeding,
farm credit and supply
cooperatives. They also had the
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chance to raise issues concerning
the future of co-ops
Individual sessions for men and
women allowed them to discuss
some of the stressful situations
shared by all farm couples, in
cluding financial concerns, part
nerships and how they can be
successful, hired help, tune for
vacations and adequate housing
A college bowl” quiz brought
out the basics of cooperative
principles, and a "mini-board”
session with actual problems faced
by boards of directors helped them
gam insight into the role directors
play in keeping cooperatives
operating efficiently
Dr Kenneth Markley, a coun
selor for the Narramore Foun
dation, inspired the group to
become more mature people on a
personal level, helping them un
derstand that mature persons are
realistic in their thinking, are able
to be cooperative with others, and
can withstand frustrations and
disappointments
Markley told the group that
mature people can stand on their
ov n two feet and make decisions,
and can accept both praise and
criticism with poise.
A mature person, Markley said
neither demands nor expects
perfection, and he concluded, “The
greatest test of maturity is ‘Are we
willing to reach out and give of
ourselves 9 ”
The Reverend A 1 Lumpkin,
chaplain for Geisinger Medical
Center, told the couples that people
were created to need each other.
“We can’t live life separated.”
He said that a marriage can be
kept alive when there is “an at
mosphere in which the needs of two
people are met constantly. When
people have a marriage that is
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Ed Reichard, dairyman from
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At the conclusion of the con
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Hal Doran, PAFC education director, congratulates the four farm couples who will
serve as leaders for the 1985 PAFC Co-op Couples Conference. They were selected from
42 farm couples attending this year’s meeting at Danville last week.
Seated are Dixie and Erick Coolidge, left, R 7 Wellsboro; and Janet and Jeff Peters, R 6
Meadville.
Standing are Jere and Jan Skiles, left, R 2 Narvon; and Cynthia and Gary Pepple, R 2
Clearville.
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Erick and Dixie Coohdge, R 7
Wellsboro, representing the
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Gary and Cynthia Pepple, R 2
Clearville, representing the
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Graybill, Hershey, sponsored by
Atlantic Breeders Cooperative.
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