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VOL 34 No. 47
The high 4-H team at the All American judging contest In Harrisburg this week is (I to r):Joe
Delong, coach; Tom Wiker; Matt Wanner; Matt Welk, alternate; and Earl Keefer, show director.
See story Page A-25.
At the 33rd annual dairy princess pageant, Anne Marie Mitchell (center) of Berks
County was crowned PA Dairy Princess. First Alternate Mary Werner (left) represent
ing Beaver-Lawrence counties, and Second Alternate Angela Spickler of Lancaster
County will assist the new princess. Turn to page Bi 8 to read about the pageant. Photo
by Lou Aim Good.
PAFC Awards Banquet
Honors Curtis And Baker
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
The Pennsylvania Association
of Farmer Cooperatives (PAFC)
recognized two of its leaders at its
annual meeting September 25 at
the Harrisburg Sheraton-West.
Dr. Samuel M. Curtis, head of
the Department of Agricultural
and Extension Education and pro
fessor of agricultural education at
The Pennsylvania State Universi
ty, received the PAFC Distin
guished Service Award and Way
ne Baker, employee of Cumber
land Valley Cooperative and a
dedicated supporter of coopera
tive education, received the Mas
ter Educator Award. Both awards
were presented at the awards ban
quet, according to PAFC Execu
tive Director Carol BuckhouL
Curtis has a lifetime record of
dedicated interests in and service
to agricultural cooperatives which
began on the Curds family farm in
northeastern Pennsylvania. The
Curtis’ were member-users of sev
eral cooperatives with leadership
involvement as part of the com
Four Sections
mitment. In his present position.
Dr. Curtis is responsible for sup
porting joint educational prog
rams on cooperative education
before PAFC and Penn State. He
is currently the chair of the Joint
Cooperative Business Education
Policy Committee with PAFC -
the committee that provides over
all guidance and direction to both
organizations.
Dr. Curtis is a graduate of The
Penn State University with bache
lor’s, master’s and doctoral
degrees in agricultural education.
He is a member of numerous pro
fessional societies and organiza
tions including; Phi Kappa Phi,
Gamma Sigma Delta, Alpha Tau
Alpha, Phi Delta Kappa, Ameri
can Association of Teacher Edu
cators in Agriculture, American
Vocational Association, Pennsyl
vania Agriculture Teachers Asso
ciation, National Vocational Agri
culture Teachers Association, and
Vocational Administrators of
Pennsylvania. He is a member of
(Turn to Pago A 27)
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 30,1989 50c Per Copy
Love Rides Auctioneer’s Gavel At Kauffman Sale
BY
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
ELIZABETHTOWN (Lancas
ter Co.) —Love rode on the head of
the auctioneer’s gavel here Tues
day as the first heifer in the ring at
the Penn Springs Holstein disper
sal was knocked-off twice for pro
ceeds to support the S. June Smith
Center in Lancaster and Ephrata.
And little three-year-old Mitchel
Kauffman, the reason for the bene
volent sale opening, won the hearts
of his fellow sale-goers as he
scrambled around in the saw-dust
doing his imitations for the local
TV cameraman, patted the head of
his heifer for this reporter and
acted as cheer-leader in the sale
ring for the bidding.
First, the sale staff of Backus
Associates bought the heifer for
$BOO and returned their purchase
to again be sold to Fred McCar
thney, Dry Run, for $lOOO. Mitch
el, who has Down Syndrom, is the
son and grandson of Penn Springs
farm owners Steve and Judy
Kauffman and Robert and Mim
Kauffman.
Dorothy Booth, a volunteer
(Turn to Pago A 34)
Pennsylvania’s Finest Parades
At Annual Junior Dairy Show
BY PAT PURCELL
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
Junior dairy exhibitors from
4-H clubs and FFA chapters
gathered in Harrisburg on Monday
to compete in the 34th Annual Pen
nsylvania Junior Dairy Show. This
show is the culmination of months
of work for junior exhibitors from
across the Commonwealth. This
show also officially begins a full,
fast and exciting week of national
dairy breed shows and sales known
as the Pennsylvania All-American
show.
More than 800 head of dairy
cattle from the Holstein, Jersey,
Guernsey, Ayrshire,. Milking
Shorthorn, and Brown Swiss
breeds paraded through the three
ring show held in the large arena of
the Farm Show complex.
KILE To Feature
Challenge Of The Breeds
. JgARBISBURfS A unique
Saturday evening program is
being planned- for the 1989 Key
stone International Livestock
Exposition, to beheld October S-8
in the Farm Show Complex in
Harrisburg. This event, the “Chal
lenge Of The Breeds” will pit four
internationally recognized horse
breeds, the Appaloosa, the Ara
bian, the Paint and die Quarter
Horse, against each other in an
evening of fun and mastery. The
animals, two from each breed, will
be chosen by their respective
breed associations. In order to
compete, the horse must be owned
by a Pennsylvania resident.
Mitchel Kauffman with parents Steve and Judy wants you
to see his heifer that was sold In the Penn Springs Holstein
dispersal with proceeds to the S. June Smith Center for spe
cial children.
$12.50 Per Year
HOLSTEIN
Anissa Kensinger of Petersburg
took the grand championship of
the FFA Holstein show and the
reserve grand tide with two ani
mals bred by the Fosters of Peters
burg. The Huntingdon County
exhibitor is a member of the Ray
stown Area FFA member.
The grand champion was a tre
mendous 3-year-old, Globe-Run G
Word Trisha. Trisha was sired by
Globe-Run Glendell Word. The
reserve champion was a stylish
4-year-old, Globe-Run Valiant
Tanya, sired by S-W-D Valiant
Deanna Sparling of Troy in
Bratffiord County took the junior
championship of the FFA Holstein
show with Maple-Flat Melvin
Happy, an intermediate yearling
(Turn to Pago A2B)
* The sklents in which each
hors? will be entered include:
” •'Pteasure Driving- Horses are
aSked to perform both ways at a
walk and trot
■ English Pleasure- In English
tack, horses will perform both
directions at a walk, trot and a
canter.
• Hunter Hack- In addition to
performing on the rail, the horse
will be asked to take two jumps.
• Western Pleasure- In western
gear, the horse will walk, jog and
lope in both directions.
• Western Riding- The horse
performs a prescribed course
(Turn to Pag* A 26)