Cumberland Valley Future Farmers celebrate with annual banquet
BY MONTIE TAK
Staff Correspondent
MECHANICSBURG - It was
time for celebration and
congratulation.
On April 18, Future Farmers met
with parents, teachers, friends and
well-wishers at Cumberland
Valley High School in
Mechamcsburg for the FFA 31st
Annual Parent and Member
Banquet.
Tun Armstrong won top honors
at 1985 Chapter Star
Agribusinessman. A senior, Tim
stands in the top one-eighth of his
class with an 89.9 percent average.
He has also sereved as co-
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BY MONTIE TAK
Staff Correspondent
CARLISLE Few things I
have won have meant as much.
When I read the letter in
forming me the local FFA
chapter had chosen me to
receive the degree of chapter
farmer, I thought there had
been a mistake. A phone call to
vo-ag teacher Robert Leib told
me there was no mistake.
I thought, for a kid from New
York City, I did pretty well. Not
too many farmers - even
honorary ones - grew up within
a stone’s throw of Times
Square. My father’s work as a
journalist-broadcaster ruled
out a home in the country.
But that didn’t stop me. I
wanted a horse in the worst
way, as only a city child can
want one. And I didn’t realize it
at the time, but I had an ally in
my mother
When I was 12, Mom and I
spent several days on a 300-acre
farm owned by Elwood and
Florence Reynolds, near
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secretary of the chapter, along
with Jenny Shoop.
Chapter Star Farmer awards
went to president Ray Yost and
vice president Sandy Hopple. Ray
also won a foundation award for
dairy production and Sandy won
foundation awards in sheep
production and nursery
operations.
FFA reporter Kim Kopple and
historian Jeff Nolt took the 1985
Star Greenhand Awards. Kim also
received a foundation award for
diversified livestock production
and outdoor recreation, while Jeff
won a foundation award for swine
production.
Fnendsville, Pa. Mom had
learned of the Reynolds through
the Pennsylvania farm
vacation directory. It was an
experience that changed my
life.
Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds
became second parents to me
as I spent the next four sum
mers on their farm. I learned
what it was like to rise before
dawn, go out into the fields and
bring in the dairy herd. I even
learned and how to milk by
hand on a patient Holstein
named Rosie.
After breakfast I would take
the cows to their daytime
pasture by herding them on one
of the farm’s several riding
horses. My favorite was a
beautiful chestnut named Lady
and it was she who taught me to
have compassion and love for
God’s creatures. I.ady heard all
my secrets.
There were always plenty of
chores around the farmhouse
and I learned to run a wringer
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Chapter sentinel Dave Shultz
won foundation recognition for
beef production and feed grain
production. Kurt Hall also scored a
double victory with fruit and/or
vegetable production and forest
management.
Foundation awards for
agriculture mechanics went to
Lynn Nestor; agriculture elec-
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Newly installed honorary members holding Chapter Farmer Degrees from left are
Robert Rudolph: Samuel Coover; Randall Yost, Joyce Simmons, Richard Harbold and
Montie Tak.
award winners at Cumberland Valley FFA banquet from left are Tim Arm
strong, Chapter Star Agribusinessman; Sandy Hopple, Chapter Star Farmer: Kim
Hopple, Star Greenhand; Jeff Nolt, Star Greenhand; and Ray Yost, Chapter Star Far
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trification to Steve Weaver;
placement in agriculture
production to Brian Barger and
horse proficiency to Cindy Frey.
Seven honorary members were
installed and awarded the Chapter
Farmer Degree.
These were Randy Yost and Sam
Coover, former Cumberland
Valley students and both holders of
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the coveted American Farmer
Degree; Richard Harbold, Wolf’s
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Rudolph, industrial arts teacher;
Joyce Simmons, head cook at
middle school west; and Montie
Tak, Lancaster Farming
correspondent. Dr. Robert Weber,
veterinarian, was unable to be
present.
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