06-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 6. 1993 FFA Members (Continued from Pag* DS) Rick Perkins, 20, of Bloomville is the 1992-1993 national FFA vice president for the eastern region. During his year of service to the FFA, Perkins traveled more than 200,000 miles and provided leader ship to the 417,462 FFA members nationwide. He and the five other national officers met with leaders in agriculture, government, busi ness'and industry from across the United States and Japan to discuss agricultural and educational issues. Perkins took a one-year leave of absence from The Ohio State University where he was studying agri business and applied economics with a minor in political science. His parents are William and Sarah Perkins. He is a member of the Sen tinel FFA Chapter, where his advisors are Roland Zimmerman and Tom Gerschutz. Kelly Newion, Id, of New Lexington has been named a national finalist in the FFA Computers in Agriculture program sponsored by the National FFA Foundation, Inc. Newion used the computer to organize her beef and feeder pig enterprises, including insemination results and progeny records. She is a member of the New Lexington FFA Chapter. National Chapter Award Winchester South Hill South Hill Warren ton Fort Defiance Stephens City Heathsville Winchester Official Delegate Abingdon Bridgewater Chatham Fort Defiance Fort Defiance Harrisonburg South Hill Woodford Floyd Verona Dublin Fredericksburg Waynesboro American FT A Degree Abingdon Abingdon Appomattox Ashland Bridgewater Dayton Dugspur Fishersville Grottoes Hillsville Mount Crawford Mount Sidney Radford Kadfotd Ruckenville Ruther Glen Staunton Tappahumock Verona Weyers Cave Woodstock WytheviUe South Hill Harrisonburg National Officer Candidate Warrenlon Proficiency Award Agricultural Electrification South Hill _ Mark A. Coleman Agricultural Sales and/or Servlt South Hill Oil Crop Production South Hill Soil and Water Management Mt. 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Earlier this month, Oliver assumed additional duties as inter im dean for the College of Agri culture, University of Maryland at College Park. Oliver also is sche duled to become interim director of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station on Jan. 1. As the interim associate direc tor, Booth will serve as a member of the College of Agriculture administrative team at the Univer sity of Maryland, assisting the dean with extension matters. She also will provide leadership for the administration of organiza tional policies that pertain to county and regional faculty mem bers, and she will assume a leader ship role for extension programs throughout Maryland in consulta tion with department chairper sons. county extension directors, and the extension administrative council. Finally, she will communicate information about extension prog rams to federal, state, and local government officials as well as various organizational leaders in consultation with the dean. Booth began her professional extension career in Maryland in 1973 as a home economics agent in Baltimore, where she super vised a citywide expanded food and nutrition education program and chaired a staff of 20 extension professionals and assistants. She moved to the University of Nursery/Landscape Charlotte Parliamentary Procedure Dry Fork Poultry Bridgewater . Prepared Public Speaking Charlotte C.H. . . Northeast Agri Systems. Inc flyway Business Park 139 A West Airport Road Litite. PA 17543 Ph: (717) 569-2702 PENNSYLVANIA AUTHORIZED Maryland at College Park in 1977 for a two-year stint as a graduate assistant in agricultural and exten sion education, earning a docto rate in adult education in 1979. Following a two-month assign ment as an urban community edu cator in Baltimore, she became assistant director of the newly organized energy technical assis tance program, serving as a liaison officer with two other University of Maryland units and the former Maryland energy office. This was followed by an assign ment in 1982 as an energy special ist for Extension’s Community Resource Development and Ener gy programs in Maryland. Since 1988, she has been a regional extension director, supervising extension agents in southern Maryland and urban counties in the Baltimore-Annapolis- Washington, D.C., corridor, as well as Baltimore city. A native of Elizabeth, N.J., Booth was graduated from the Benedictine Academy. She holds a bachelor’s in secondary educa tion from Seton Hall University HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) State Agriculture Secretary BoydE. Wolff is urging sheep and lamb producers to vote in favor of a referendum to continue the Sheep and Lamb Marketing Pro gram for another five years. “Sheep and lamb production is an important part of our industry,” Wolff said. ‘The marketing effort Randolph Henry High School Tunstall High School Turner Ashby High School Randolph-Henry High School We Stock Truckloads Of Chore-Time Bins & Miles Of Chore-Time FLEX-AUGER Bins... 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Booth helped to coordinate “Enhancing Community Vitality,” an annual symposium during the 1980 s for Maryland’s public offi cials, agency workers, and volun teer community leaders. Lamb is needed to help ensure continued growth for our producers.” The referendum period began November 1 and will end Novem ber IS. Any Pennsylvania sheep or lamb producer with at least one animal will be eligible to vote. State sheep and lamb producers received ballots prior to Novem ber 1. For more information, or to request a ballot, contact Ed Ar nold, Bureau of Market Develop ment; Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, 2301 North Cam eron Street, Harrisburg, PA 17110-9408. (717) 787-2376. S» Put ’em Up! fIK * fm FREE ESTIMATES CALL OUR TOLL-FREE CUSTOMER SERVICE NUMBER: 1-000*e73-2WO _
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