The newly elected Executive Committee of the Franklin
County Cooperative Extension Association Board of Direc
tors is shown as follows: seated, left to right- Joe Middour,
Waynesboro, president; Michael A. John, Waynesboro,
vice president; Joyce Stuff, Mercersburg, secretary. Stand
ing left to right- Mark E. Cayman, Waynesboro, and Eli
zabeth Brown, Chambersburg, both directors on the Execu
tive Committee. Treasurer, John Hart, Chambersburg, is
absent from the picture.
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Lancaster Farming Saturday, April 9, 1988-D9
Presiding over monthly business meetings of the Exten
sion Board, Adams County Cooperative Extension Associ
ation, left to right: David Kehr, President, Llttlestown; John
Weaner, Vice President, Aspers; Faith Peterson, Treasurer,
Abbottstown; and David Wenk, Secretary, Gardners. The
Extension Board is the sponsoring organization for Penn
State Cooperative Extension within Adams County.
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DeKalb
Expands
Poultry
Research
Department
DEKALB, 11. Two new posi
tions were created recently in the
Research Department of DeKalb
Poultry Research, Inc., according
to an announcement by the direc
tor, James J. Warren, Jr.
Dr. Harris B. Wright has been
named research geneticist and lan
Smith has been appointed research
associate.
‘The appointment of Dr. Wright
and lan Smith adds to the overall
research and technical support pro
vided by Jim Warren and Dr. Larry
Vint, assistant director of
research,” declared John R. Nel
son, president, in commenting on
the new positions.
Wright is the son of Dr. & Mrs.
F. Malcolm Wright who formerly
operated a general farm in York
County, where they raised Here
ford cattle and about 100,000 turk
eys annually for Round Hill Foods
at New Oxford. He was awarded
his doctorate in animal breeding
from Cornell University last
August. Recently, he and his wife
and two young children moved to
the DcKalb, Illinois area.
At DcKalb Poultry, Dr.
Wright’s basic duties arc in the dis
ciplines of genetic research,
biometrics, computer systems and
programming, and technical
support.
lan Smith has been technical
manager for DcKalb in Europe and
the Middle East for the past 18
years. He and his wife recently
moved to the DcKalb, Illinois area.
He will be working under the
direction of Jim Warren in the
development and dissemination of
research and management infor
mation supporting DeKalb’s layer
products.
A native of Scotland, Smith
joined the F. & G. Sykes poultry
organization following service in
the Royal Air Force. He served 10
years with Sykes in research and