A26-Lancasler Farming, Saturday, March 16, 1991
Pennsylvania Guernsey Breeders
To Hold 60th Meeting
ENON VALLEY (Lawrence
Co.) The Pennsylvania Guern
sey Breeders’ Association is plan
ning its 60th annual meeting to be
held at the Holiday Inn in Cham
bersburg, on April 12 and 13.
According to James Trotter,
spokesperson for the association,
highlights of this year’s meeting
include the 60th annual business
meeting, a meeting of the Middle
Atlantic Guernsey Sires, hospitali
ty tour, annual banquet with
awards, the crowning of the 1991
Pennsylvania Guernsey Queen,
the juniors craft auction, speaker
Ron Eberhard, a junior awards
breakfast, farm tours, sales lunc
heon and the annual Blue Halter
Calf and Bred Heifer sale.
The event is to be held mostly at
the Holiday Inn, in Franklin Coun
ty, located on Wayne Avenue near
181 and Rt. 316.
Friday, April 12
noon
12:30 p.m
2 p.m
3:30 p.m..
5:30 p.m..
6:30 p.m..
10 p.m
Saturday, April 13
8 a.m.,..
9:30 a.m
noon
1991 Guernsey Breeders Annual Meeting
Meal Reservation Form
(Deadline for reservations Is March 29)
NAME
ADDRESS
Meal reservations arc for a Friday evening awards banquet hot buffet: a Saturday youth
awards breakfast buffet: and a light luncheon for the Blue Halter Calf Sale and Bred Heifer
Sale.
Adult Banquet Tickets
I would like tickets at $12.50 each
Child (under 11) Banquet Tickets
I would like tickets at $6.50 each
Youth Awards Breakfast
I would like tickets at $6.50 each
Adult Sale Luncheon
I would like
tickets at $5 each
Child (under 11) Sale Luncheon
I would like
SEND YOUR FORM WITH CHECKS PAYABLE TO
Pa. Guernsey Breeders’ Association
P.O. Box 94A
Enon Valley, PA, 16120
The two-day event starts at noon
Friday and ends after the sale
Saturday afternoon.
Reservations for meals and
room reservations at the Holiday
Inn must be made by March 29.
To make room reservations, call
the Holiday Inn at (717) 263-3400
and specify that you are with the
Pennsylvania Guernsey Breeders’
Association. Children under 18
who are staying with their parents
will not be charged extra for a
room. Rates are $45 each for single
and double accomodations.
The speaker at the banquet,
Eberhard bills himself as a seminar
leader, motivational speaker and
humorist. He earned a bachelor of
science degree from Ohio State
University in 1958 and was
awarded the Distinguished Alum
ni Award from its College of Agri-
Pa. Guernsey Breeders’
60th Annual Meeting
Schedule of Events
April 12-13
Holiday Inn, Chambersburg
Lunch available on your own at the Holiday Inn
Registration begins
6oth Annual Business Meeting
Middle Atlantic Guernsey Sires Meeting
Hospitality Hour
6oth Annual Awards Banquet
with dinner, adult production awards
and open All Pennsylvania Awards,
speaker Ron Eberhard, crowning of
the state Guernsey Queen.
tickets at $3 each,
culture in 1977,
After graduation, he fanned
with his father for almost five
years on a 210 acre farm, then
served as business manager for the
Ohio Guernsey Breeders’ Associa
tion for more than 8 years.
He then went into business for
himself, forming a company that
focuses on improving communica
tion and business planning within
farm families. His business spans a
30-state region.
Eberhard also made and sold an
audio cassette series called,
“Keeping the Farm in the Family
and die Family on the Farm.”
He has also developed multi
projector slide presentations based
on different and famous sayings he
is fond of collecting.
He and his wife Toni live on the
family farm near Grove City,
Ohio.
Association
Pa. Junior GBA Awards Breakfast
Sales Luncheon at the Cham
bersburg Rod & Gun Club, followed
by the Blue Halter Calf Sale.
Social
Farm Tours
PHONE
Total
State FFA Officers Tour
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involved in agriculture from both 1 P ,an t 0 B° ,nto an agricultural
peers and adults. But I feel that the . d .. is the
pressure stems from a lack of FEEDER. The leadership is the
knowledge on those individuals mam point because you only learn
because if you mention agriculture, 80 much on your own.
the only thing they think of is farm- My goals are to become a
ing. They don’t think about aqua- teacher °[ ora B andals °***
culture, hydroponics, veterinary control of the family farm and con
medicine —all the new wave tmiie to raise show hogs for Fees
agriculture.” er s Ho B Farm -
When asked to discuss the effect f 1 ?J a . v ? P*.
of new technical advances in agri- future ** IS v f% bn&hl A bec!iuscl
culture over the next few years, the a morc conf,denl and res P°
students listed additional use of ble person as well as a person who
is more wise to the world around
need chemical sprats t things h >m in all And the test part
they expected for agriculture, of all, I have made the best friends
Some said there would be fewer " whole th ‘ s P astyear
farmers and the people who will be serving as an ffA state officer,
farming 10 years from now will be } wa " l *** euher baching agn
more efficient cultural education or operating a
ANTOINETTE GOMEZ, state dairy far . m „ somewhere in
secretary: “Technological e !l!l!^?i!‘ a ‘ ) . T . . , .
advances are needed by agriculture 1 av ® developed
because just as any industry, ag self-confidence, leadership, and
must develop to the wants and desirable personality characteris
needs of our society. This can be cs dirough my involvement m
done by marketing the product of u ’ s allow ' ed me to be a posi
our toil, creating equipment which Uve P 6™" and to influence others
is more efficient and makes the far- to goals and strive toward them,
mer’sjob less time consuming, and Fl^ e yea f s from now 1 sec
opening up foreign trade myself entering my first year of
opportunities. graduate school for a masters in
JOHN RISHEL, state sentinel; animal science or entering the Uni
“l feel the small family farms arc versity of Pennsylvania Veterin
doomed unless they start working ary School.”
like large technically advanced RISHEL: “I have experienced
coporations. You can’t do things people and places that I originally
the way they were done when you would not have met or seen,
were young.” “I hope to acquire my own dairy
JENNIFER BROWN, north f a™.”
central region vice president: BROWN: “I have developed
“Agriculture will be morc of a coo- leadership, and received a fantastic
porative industry. I hate to say that overview of agriculture. I have
the number of family farms will be received the inspiration to study
reduced because I live on one, but agriculture in school and never to
they will. Agriculture will be limit myself in what I can do.
targeted morc toward the city. For the future, as I see it, I have
On the question of how impor- two options: 1. in graduate school
tant is the ag curculiumn in the working for a PHD in my major,
school system, the young visitors agriculture education, so I can
were divided. Some said it was teach at the college level or 2. in
important because there would law school studying agricultural
always be agriculture in the socie- law.”
ty. Others took the view that it HAY: T have developed leader
often did not prepare the student ship and the ability to set goals,
for advanced education or even for PFA has taken me to sights and
work in the “real world”. lands where 1 would never have
KEITH HAY, state president; B°|) e without it
“Students have the opportunity to - I hope to be involved in sales or
have hands on training that no service to agriculturalists to make
other program offers. FFA mem- agriculture the most profitable,
bers have many more experience MARSHALL: Through the
opportunities than regular high FFA, I have gained knowledge of
school students. our economy and government. I
ERIC MARSHALL, state trea- have gained self-confidence and
surer: “Agriculture is the most self-esteem,
important part of a school’s curri- *^ en years from now, I see
culumn.lt teaches not only agricul- myself owning my own business
lure, but also, math, science, his- and su^ es , s^ul in lL
tory, English and many skills SMELTZ: I have met many
which are needed after school. new P 6O ? 1 ® and ve d ® ve ‘°P cd
LARRY SMELTZ, south central ' nany "® w .friendships which will
vice president “Agricultural edu- last a hfetune.
cation is very important to me . I" five years I see myself work
because it gave me direction in life in « ‘" an ag economics field and
to where I was headed ” someday will return to the farm.
GREGORY HARNISH, state HARNISH: “I have gained a
vice president; “Programs like sen f of direcUon and *“ v ®
football, wrestling, national honor made more aware of the world
society and band rank well above me. I have learned the qual
the agriculture program. ities of cooperation and
What has ag education and FFA responsibility,
done for you? Where do you want I want to continue to work for
to be in five to ten years from now? an agricultural marketing firm as a
HERSCH: “In FFA 1 have been commodity futures broker.”
helped because I have gained self- The FFA state officer four
confidence, discovered my talents, started in Philadelphia on Wednes
and learned to communicate. I day and came to Lancaster Thurs
have been able to develop a posi- day evening. After the visit to Lan
tive character to be ready for life, caster Farming and a working ses
“ln five years, I plan to be out of sion at a local motel, the state
school actively pursuing either a officers returned home Friday
career in motivational public afternoon. Sheila Reiner, state
speaking or full-time Christian FFA executive secretary, was on
work.” lour with the group. Mary Jo
2ERBY; The FFA has given me
more than any other program or
organization that I’ve ever been
involved with, and it has given me
the ability to live my life to its ful
lest potential.
Cancelmo, executive director of
the Pennsylvania FFA Foundation,
and Jim Kerr, principal of the Wal
ter Biddle Saul High School in Phi
ladelphia, provided leadership Phi
ladelphia visits.