A22-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 31, 1987
BY JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
GETTYSBURG Benchmark
membership anniversaries and
producers shipping high quality
milk were recognized during the
Awards Luncheon at the annual
Middle Atlantic Division meeting
of Dairymen, Inc.
Honored for fifty years of conti
nuous membership with Dairy
men, and the former Maryland
Cooperative Milk Producers, were
Chester T„ Charles L., and
Richard L. Black, New Windsor,
Maryland..
Twenty-five-year continuous
membership honors went to 17
producers in the Middle Atlantic
division’s area. Recipients were -
John and Charlotte Stiles; Benja
min G. and Jane S. Stanton; Paul
W. and Mary I. Satterfield; Bruce
I. Neiberl; David H. Marlin; Wil
liam E. and Frances M. Forbes;
and K.W. andN.J. Myers, Ken-Jc-
Myr Farm.
Other 25-year membership reci
pients were John F. Stilely; Char
les W. and Wayne E. Rhoderick;
Charles E„ Florence A., and Alan
L. Brauer; B.&B. Dairy; Marvin P.
and Vera V. Abbott; Donald E. and
Thelma L. Beard; Fred and Vivian
Carbaugh, Cedar Lane Farm; Wil
liam Bontrager, Wilbon Farm;
Burnell M. and Janet L. Bocrncr;
and Samuel B. and Robert Jones,
Hawks Hill Farm, Inc.
High quality milk production
earned 28 members award recog
nition at three levels. Members
awarded quality honors must ini
tially meet all requirements of the
Division’s Honor Roll Program.
That includes a monthly Standard
Plate Count of less than 5,000 and
monthly Somatic Cell County
under 500,000. In addition, a
member may have had no antibio
tics, no suspensions, a Sediment
level of Excellent or Good, freez
ing point of .530 or better and have
shipped milk the enure month of
each Honor Roll period.
Norman E. Sellers (left) accepted an Excellence Award
from the Middle Atlantic Division of Dairymen, Inc., for milk
production at Panora Acres. Presenting the division’s high
est quality standards recognition was Ernest Yates, direc
tor of field service.
Atlantic District 32 To Meet
VIRGINVILLE Atlantic Dr. Paul E. Hand, Atlantic s
Dairy Cooperative District 32 will General Manager, will be the guest
hold its annual dinner meeting speaker. Hand will report on the
November 2at 7 p.m. at the Vir- cooperative’s fiscal year and will
ginvillc Grange Hall. review the Atlantic merger.
Dairymen, Inc. Honors Long-Term
Members And Top Quality Producers
Silver level winners must meet
Honor Roll standards 11 of the 12
months, and had an SPC under
50,000 during the exception
month, while maintaining an
inspection score of 92 or above.
At the Gold quality level, Honor
Roll standards must be met all 12
months, with inspection scores at
92 and above. Members on the
Honor Roll all 12 months, and with
inspection scores of 99 or 100, an
Excellence Award is presented.
Three division members earned
the coveted Quality Excellence
award. Recipients were Joseph B.
and Nancy J. Yoder, Salisbury;
Dan G. Dclp and Eva Dclp Cole,
the Dclp Farm, Whitcford, Mary
land; and Norman E. and Paul L.
Sellers, Panora Acres, Inc., Man
chester, Maryland.
Gold level certificates were
earned by eight Dairymen mem
bers. Those awards went to M.F.
and C.W. Chamclin, Aerie Farm;
Dale L. Barshingcr; Melvin W.
and Inez C. Cooper; Marshall and
Walter Harkins; Samuel B. and
Robert Jones, Hawks Hill Farms;
Jonas Z. and Annie A. Kmsingcr;
Daniel A.Rohrcr Jr.; andGlcnvdlc
L. and Kenneth L. Shade.
Seventeen members received
awards at the Silver Quality level.
Recipients arc Mark D, and Donna
I. Garber; David L. and Amanda F.
Bcilcr; Edwin L. and Carolyn L.
Calhoun; Claude M. and Kevin C.
Cooper; Edward H. Ensor; Flint
Hill Farms, Edgar A. and Noah L.
Schaeffer; Ray M. and Roger A.
Garber; and Millard D. and Nancy
N. Kefauver.
Also, Levi H. and A. Kin
singcr; Kevin R. and Robin D.
Martin; Robert L. and Nancy J.
McCullcr; Charles E. Null, Sr.,
Michael’s Home, Inc.; Thomas H.
and Ethel C. Muller, Charles H.
and Mane T. Ncvius; Norman M.
and Mary B. Staulfcr; W. Kenneth
Vansant, Jr.; and William A. and
Donna L. Myers.
Chester and jrles Black received 50-year con uous members. > recog i jn
during Dairymen’s division annual meeting at Gettysburg. Making the presentation
citing the Black’s golden anniversary with the cooperative were division president
Fred Butler (left) and District 4 director Jesse Burall (right).
-mong „ , recipients of Dairymen’s gold quality awards were (from left) Martin
Chamelin, Waiter Harkins, Melvin Cooper and Robert Jones.
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(from the left) Steven Wagner, Guernsey; Helen Arrowsmith, Jersey: Dee Martin,
senior champion Ayrshire; Gerald Boyd, Brown Swiss; and Bob Barley, Holstein (not
pictured).
Lancaster 4-H Dairy Project Winners
The Lancaster County 4-H participation m 4-II a;t;viticc, and 1. Janice Gaiter, 2. Angie
Dairy Project Award is based upon .'tow well they showed their ani- Spicklcr, 3. Beth Kauffman, 4.
4-H dairy record book scores. This mals at the round-up and how well Karen Kauffman, (3 tied for slh) 5.
book takes into account the care they completed their record books. Helen Arrowsmilh, 5. Jeff Balmer,
and attention members give to Presented with this award at the 5, Beth Spicklcr, 8. Sandra Kauff
their animals at home, their inter- 4-H Dairy Awards Banquet last man, 9. Andy Graybill, 10. Headi
est in 4-H and in their project, their week were: er Becker.
•H Dairy Show junior and senior champions honored were
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