MADISON, Wis. - Dr. Marla Stolzman, a highly respected animal geneticist from Warsaw, Poland, was selected as the 1985 recipient of World Dairy Expo’s “International Person of the Year” Award. The International Person of the Year must be from a country other than the United States ' and must have made specific contributions to dairy farming or the dairy industry on an international level. Dr. Stolzman was honored at a special reception and recognition banquet on Oct. Ist in Madison, Wis. Stolzman spent her earliest years on her family’s livestock farm in Poland. Her father and grandfather Szankowski were renowned breeders of purebred cattle; importing bulls from Holland and marketing breeding stock, in addition to managing a dairy herd of 60 milking females. Following World War II the family resettled in Krakow where Stolzman obtained her un dergraduate degree in agricultural engineering. While still a student, she took a job at the experimental farm of the Zootechnical Institute in Krakow, continuing to work for this Institute for 25 years. In conjunction with her work and studies for her masters of science and Ph.D degrees, Stolzman authored over 80 scentific papers, of which 21 were international publications. Her thesis work was an extension of job-related studies and dealt with the use of partial lactations in bull progeny testing using the contemporary com parison method. It was her laboratory in which the results of dairy progeny testing of bulls were calculated for all of Poland. Stolzman became visible on the Nsritißi Unit On Display ISHLAND Wood GQn • Eliminates Creosote Build-up • Lower Fuel Consumption • 84% Wood, 85% Oil Efficiency • Available in sizes from 80,000 to 500,000 BTU/hr with auto, oil backup. By using dense refractory material, com plete combustion occurs at temperatures exceeding 2000*F No smoke... No creo sote build-up! 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A decision had been made to use some kind of Holsteins or Friesians to improve PHILADELPHIA - The nation’s first professorship is humane ethics and animal welfare will be established at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine with a gift from animal welfare activist Marie A. Moore, it was announced. “The endowed chair, dedicated to studies on animal welfare and human/animal interaction, will be named the Marie A. Moore Chair in Humane Ethics and Animal Welfare in honor of Mrs. Moore’s the productivity of the dairy cattle of Poland. Working through the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Dr. Stolzman conceived and carried out a massive international scientific test on the large state herds of Poland, comparing different strains of Holsteins or Friesians. The project was recognized as a classic both as a model for evaluation and for the results of the tests. 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