vol. 40 NO. 32
Daily Leaders Dedicate Penn State Research, Education Center
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.) Educators, government
officials, and industry leaders
lauded the partnership and dedi
cated efforts of many people that
climaxed with the dedication and
ribbon-cutting ceremony of Penn
State's new SS.S million Dairy
Cattle Research and Education
Center on Thursday morning.
The new center that includes
new tiestall, freestall, and heifer
bams, as well as a new feed center,
horizontal silos, milk room, and a
double-10 herringbone milking
parlor is a major element of a $5O
million building program that has
Lou Ann Good, staff writer lor Lancaster Fanning,
receives an honorary keystone degree from Pennsylvania
State FFA Association.
Weis Markets Celebrates Bottling 200 Million Gallons Of Milk
VERNON ACHENBACH, JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
SUNBURY (Northumberland
Co.) Weis Markets Inc. of
Sunbury celebrated the bottling of
its 200-millionth gallon of drink
ing milk late last week with an
open house at its bottling facility.
The supermarket chain concern
is the largest single buyer of Pen
nsylvania produce in the state and
15 years ago created a subsidary to
bottle branded milk for sale in its
stores.
Natalie Welch, state dairy prin
cess, helped in the celebration,
toasting a glass of milk to the suc
cess of the company along with
Bryan Berry, director of dairy
manufacturing, Robert Weis,
chairman of Weis Markets, and
Norman Rich, company president
‘Today is an important miles
tone in Weis Markets history,”
Weis said. “For 15 years, we have
been operating a state-of-the art
dairy processing plant that meets
the toughtest standards of all
those of our customers.”
Establish in 1912, Weis Markets
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addressed long-standing facility
deficiencies in the College of Agri
cultural Sciences. Built in the same
area as the previous dairy center,
the new facility gives faculty better
research options and students more
exposure to modem dairy methods.
Daniel' interim head of
the dairy and animal science
department, served as master of
ceremonies. Speakers included
Joab Thomas, president, Penn
State; Harry Roth, executive direc
tor, Atlantic Breeders; Lamartine
hood, dean. College of Agricultur
al Sciences; Charles Btosius, Pen
nsylvania secretary of agriculture;
and Obie Snider, Penn State board
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operates 149 stores operating in six
states Pennsylvania, Mary
land, New Jersey, New York, Vir
ginia, and West Virginia. It also
operates a small chain of Super-
Petz stores in Georgia, Ohio and
the Carolinas.
The milk plant is Dutch Valley
Food Company Inc., one of several
divisions of Weis Markets. Weis
also is the parent company to an ice
cream manufacturing division, a
meat processing plant, and a food
service division that serves restar
aunt and institutional customers.
‘This day is made possible by
the hard work of countless
people those who work in our
dairy and our drivers who get the
milk to our stores and the people in
our stores who help stock and sell
our milk," Weis told the small
crowd attending the festivities.
Tt is also a day of note for the
Pennsylvania farmers who supply
our (fairy. They share in our
success.”
The dairy operation is set up
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 17, 1995
Cutting the ribbon, from left, Daniel Hagen, Lamartine Hood, Obie Snider, Charles
Broslus, and Harry Roth.
State FFA Selects Officers, Presents Awards
STATE COLLEGE (Centre
Co.) —More than 1.380 members,
advisers, and guests attended Pen
nsylvania FFA Activities Week
held at Pennsylvania State Univer
sity from Tuesday through Thurs
day this week.
At the convention, new state
officers were selected and numer
ous awards presented to chapter
members, businesses, and indivi
duals who have contributed to the
success of the FFA program.
Lou Ann Good, staff writer for
Lancaster Farming, was one of
six individuals who received hon
orary keystone degrees.
The award was given in appreci
ation for the many hours Good
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From the left, Bryan Berry, director of dairy manufacturing for Weis Markets Inc.,
state Dairy Princess Natalie Welch, Weis Chairman Robert Weis and Weis President
Norman Rich toast a glass of milk to the success of the corporation’s dairy plant sub*
sldary upon the bottling of the plant’s 200,000,000 th gallon of milk.
spends covering FFA events ag|
writing articles about FFA mem?
bers and chapters.
Also receiving the honorary
degree were Clyde Beard, for 30
years of service in the north Centr
al region; Margery McCarthy, of
the north central region for many
years of service helping with FFA
speech contests; Lehman Mentzler
of Lancaster, who is FFA adviser
for Lancaster Mennonite High and
has contributed many hours in
helping with FFA activities
throughout the county; Larry
Ogline, who works as a Farm Cre
dit financial consultant in Some
rset County; and Marianne Creasy,
who, for many years, has judged
Four Sections
-FFA projects for seven chapters at
TnetHbomsburg Fair.
On Thursday, the nominating
committee selected 11 new state
officers from 26 candidates who
participated in seven rounds of
grueling interviews during the
three-day convention.
Elected to serve a one-year-term
beginning immediately are Darla
Herr, Annville-Cleona High
School in Lebanon County, state
president; Heather Benner, Green
wood High School in Perry Coun
ty, state vice president; Kerrie Het
rick, Oley Valley High School in
Berks County, eastern region vice
president; Jeremy Bartels, Some
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