C4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 6,1984 HARRISBURG Pennsylvania lamb producers and allied industry leaders can learn the latest in grading, evaluating and marketing strategies by attending one of the three regional lamb grading workshop this fall. The workshops are set for Greensburg, Westmoreland County, began yesterday, con tinues today; Trout Run, Lycoming County, Oct. 12-13; and Danville, Montour County, Nov. 9- Swasey named Long wood coordinator James E. Swasey has been named coordinator of the Longwood Graduate Program in Ornamental Hor ticulture at the University of Delaware. The program, a cooperative effort of the university’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Longwood Gardens, leads to a master’s degree in ornamental horticulture, with special emphasis on the management and ad ministration of public gardens. Among the graduates of the unique two-year program are directors and coordinators of many of the nation’s leading public gardens, including the education coordinator of the Los Angeles State and County Arboretum, David 0. Lofgren; the director of horticulture of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., James R. Buckler; and the new director of Longwood Gardens, Frederick E. Roberts. According to Dean Donald F. Crossan of the University of Delaware’s College of Agricultural Sciences, Swasey’s education and experience make him singularly well qualified to lead the Longwood Program. Swasey holds a B.S. in horticulture from the University of New Hampshire, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in or namental horticulture from the University of Maryland. In 1971 Swasey joined the plant science faculty at the University of Maine at Orono, serving also as that university’s landscape designer. He went on to chair Maine’s department of plant and soil sciences. Swasey took a sab batical leave from the University of Maine during the 1978-79 academic year. He spent that year filling in for a faculty member at another university, who was also away on a sabbatical. The faculty member was Dr. Richard Lighty, then the coordinator fo the Longwood Graduate Program at the University of Delaware. Thus, when Lighty resigned this year, Swasey was the only candidate who could claim a year’s ex perience as acting coordinator of the Longwood Program. Swasey’s first official act as Longwood coordinator has been to Lamb workshops begin 10. Sponsored by the Penn State University and the Appalachian Regional Commission, the two-day workshops are designed to un prove individual proficiency in live lamb and lamb carcass evaluation. They will also update producers' and allied industry leaders' un derstanding of the regional standardized lamb grading program now being implemented by major lamb producing state in the northeast and introduce undertake an evaluation of the program to assess the need for future changes. To that end, he has contacted current and former students, their employers, and others in the field. The response has been overwhelmingly positi ve all around. Former students were par ticularly enthusiastic in their praise of the program’s flexibility. Each Longwood Fellow can delve into his or her own subspecialty of horticultural manage ment by choosing ap propriate elective subjects and internship experiences at Longwood Gardens. ROHRER'S QUALITY SEEDS Order Your Fall Seed Grains Now! • Toro Timothy -Winter Rye • Cert. Climax Timothy • Cert. Hunter Wheat • Timothy • Cert. Magnum • Pasture Mixture • Cert. Tyler • Waterway Grass Mix • Cert. Barsoy Barley • Reeds Canary Grass • Cert. 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Bill Henning, Red Meat Specialists, Penn State, explains carcass grade standards to producers at a workshop held at Appalachian Lamb Company, Greencastle. Md. egg banquet on Oct. 19 WESTMINSTER, Md. - The Maryland Egg council’s Annual Banquet this year will be held Oct. 19th at Martins West in Woodlawn. This year’s event is being held in the Fall and will be called “Oc tober is Egg Month”. Featured speaker will be Neal Perry, Vice President of Field Marketing for The McDonald’s Corporation. The Council’s “Friend of the Industry” award will be given to Cecil E. Howes, Professor Emeritus, former Extension Specialist and Head of the Poultry Science Department of VPI and State University, Blacksburg, Va. He has also been Director of the Eastern Egg Quality School that was held recently in Williamsburg, Va. Anyone who has not been con tacted by a Maryland Egg Council Board Member and would like to reserve a ticket for the “October Is Egg Month Banquet,” can contact MEC President, Nelson Wisner, 5408 Hoffmanville Road, Millers, Md. 21107 - phone (301) 239-8130
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