816-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 19,1986
Virginia Graham Is Featured Speaker At PFA's First Statewide Ladies Day Out
BY BETSY STITT television regularly since 1952 in
Blair County Correspondent shows such as Food for Thought,
ALTOONA - Women from The National Bomb Shell, Girl
across Pennsylvania and Talk, The Virginia Graham Show,
Maryland gathered at the Jaffa Women’s Digest and All My
Mosque in Altoona last week for Children,
the first Pennsylvania Farmer’s, Virginia Graham started her
Association sponsored statewide presentation with a laugh and kept
ladies day out. The program in- the audience laughing throughout
eluded speakers, group singing her hour-long presentation,
and a slide show. Ms. Graham talked about her
The main speaker of the day was love for farmers. “They are the
Virginia Graham, a world- roots of America and it is won
renowned radio and television derful to see how farm people love
personality. She has appeared on the land they work,” she said. Ms.
Graham noted that she has met
Last Call For Recipes
HARRISBURG - The Penn
sylvania Dairy Promotion
Program is issuing the last call for
entries in its “Make It With Milk
and Other Dairy Products” recipe
contest.
Deadline for entering the prize
rich contest is July 31.
The program, financed by
dairymen, seeks the state’s
favorite dairy recipes.
Prizes will be awarded in four
categories appetizer/beverage;
entree; side dish and dessert,
according to Cindy Weimer,
promotion coordinator for the
Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion
Program.
Grand prize winner in each
category will have the choice of a
17 cubic foot White-Westinghouse
refrigerator-freezer or $5OO cash,
Weimer said. Four semi-finalists
in each category will receive
Sunbeam electric ice cream
makers.
“The tight schedule on judging
makes it imperative that we close
on the minute,” Weimer em
phasized.
A panel of professional chefs,
food editors and home economists
will judge all entries in early
August. Final entries will be
prepared according to directions
and taste-tested by the panel. State
winners will be announced in late
summer.
The contest is limited to Penn
sylvania residents. Only real milk,
cheese, ice cream and other dairy
products may be used, Weimer
noted. Brand names cannot be
specified.
“Eligible entries are en
couraged,” according to Weimer.
To enter, print or type the recipe
and directions on a single 8% by 11-
inch sheet of paper and indicate
category. Be sure to include name,
address and telephone number.
Then mail before July 31 to
“Make it with Milk” Recipe
Contest, P.O. Box 688, Pittsburgh,
PA 15230.
All recipes become the property
of the Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture.
many atheists, but none were
farmers.
“How can you plant a seed and
watch it grow and not believe there
is a God above,” she said.
Ms. Graham said many of her
most rewarding moments have
come through working for
charities. She helped form
Cerebral Palsy and Multiple
Sclerosis Chapters. She is the
largest fundraiser for charities in
America today.
She lost her son-in-law to cancer
and had to fight this terrible curse
herself. Her experience with
cancer has inspired her to raise
millions for the American Cancer
Society.
Ms. Graham’s husband has died
and she encouraged women at
tending the event to love their
husbands and children more than
themselves. “Someday you might
lose them and you would have to go
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back to being the person you were
before you had them,” she said.
“Prepare for life we all have a
talent of some kind.”
Ms. Graham has written a book
which tells how she dealt with the
death of her husband. It is due out
in six months.
Marsha Purcell, director of the
American Farm Bureau’s
Women’s Program, spoke about
being a farm organization
catalyst. She listed four ways to be
a catalyst:
1. Be there. Many get upset
about things but weren’t there to
voice their opinion when the
decision was made.
2. Be aware. Know what is for having the largest attendance
happening, not only on the farm and Clearfield County for having
but in things that affect the far- the largest percentage of their
ming community. She encouraged »membership there,
everyone to listen to news stories Ron Reedy rounded out the day’s
and to think how the news may activities with an excellent
affect them. patriotic slide program.
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3. Be prepared. Know your
business. “Know what your role as
a women in PFA is,” she said. Be
prepared for meetings, she en
couraged. They always run
smoother if the person in charge
knows what she is doing.
4. Care. Think about future
generations of farmers. “Even
with our high tech society, people
still need that personal touch
one-to-one conservation,” said Ms.
Purcell.
After a buffet luncheon, women
who wore hats were recognized.
Several wore Statue of Liberty
hats.
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