Jan Stanton, Dairy Council's executive director is shown with, left to Council's Board of Directors. They are posing with Geraldine, Dairy
right, Robert Dever, general manager, Atlantic Dairy Cooperative, Ivo Council's fiberglass cow who. since the 19605, helped teach school chil-
Otto, Jr., vice president, and Robert McSparran, president, of Dairy dren about farming and dairy products. Photo by Rich Hendrickson
Dairy Council Celebrates Seventy-Fifth Anniversary At April
Annual Meeting
SOUTHAMPTON (Bucks Co.)—
On Thursday, April 13,1995 several hun
dred guests are invited to attend Dairy
Council’s 7Sth Anniversary celebration at
the Buck Hotel in Feasterville, PA. For
three quarters of a century this local
Dairy Council unit, funded by the dairy
fanners in the region, has provided nutri
tion education to the tri-state area of
southeastern and south central Pennsylva
nia, southern New Jersey, and the state of
Delaware. Joining the organization’s
Board of Directors on this occasion will
be dairy, agricultural, educational,'and
health professional leaders who have
woiked closely with Dairy Council over
the years.
According to Jan Stanton, Dairy
Council’s executive director, this
meeting’s program will highlight the
three threads which have woven a pattern
of success for this organization over the
last seven and a half decades —creativity,
scientific integrity, and professional alii-
ances. Grover Silcox, one of the Dela
ware Valley’s most innovative actors and
an Emmy award winning comedy writer,
will be the master of ceremonies for the
anniversary program. There will be a
special appearance by Dairy Council’s
own “Geraldine,” the famous fiberglass
cow, who has helped teach children about
farming and dairy products for over 30
years. Many of the organization’s origi
nal songs that date back to the 1920 s are
being arranged and will be performed
during the program.
Jan Stanton pointed out that it is in one
of Daily Council’s earliest annual reports
—l939—that we first read of this
organization’s commitment to produce
scientifically based nutrition education
materials and services: “Carefully—let
us repeat—the Dairy Council tells its
story. Checking and rechecking its facts *
and figures before presenting them to the
public, it is doubly sure that when it
speaks, it speaks authoritatively. It
makes no over-statements that must per
mit of modification on close examination.
It makes no under-statements that would
cause facts to lose their value. For these
reasons the Dairy Council has acquired
an enviable reputation among educators
everywhere for the absolute accuracy of
its reports and its real and thorough
A Message Of Gratitude To The
Dairy Industry
JAN B. STANTON
Dairy Council Executive Director
SOUTHAMPTON (Bucks Co.)—
The dairy industry has always provided
the financial foundation for Dairy
Council's work of nutrition education.
Our earliest records state "that in Febru
ary 1921 voluntary deductions were made
at the rate of 1 cent-per cwt. from farm
ers, and the dealers who bought the farm
ers' milk also paid 1 cent. This 2 cents
knowledge of the field.”
This supplement will feature many of
the creative projects, materials and pro
grams Dairy Council developed. It will
highlight the partnerships formed with
National Dairy Council, professional as
sociations and institutions in the tri-state
area, and vital contacts with the media.
for each 100 pounds of milk from cooper
ating farmers and dealers gave the Dairy
Council its financial support."
Today, our dairy farmers through man
date give IS cents per cwt. to promotion
and within this framework, nutrition edu
cation. With this support, today as in our
past, we are comnlitted to working cre
atively and productively with the trust
placed in us.
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