USDA Field Team
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) A five-person team that
provides field veterinary services
in eastern Pennsylvania for the
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Animal and Plant Health Inspec
tion Service (USDA APHIS)
received the nation’s Hammer
Award last Friday.
The Hammer Award is an honor
established by Vice President A 1
Gore to recognize outstanding
efforts by government workers
who help change government from
a wasteful bureaucracy into a
streamlined, efficient customer
service-first organization.
Mote specifically, the award is
called the “Hammer” because it is
to symbolize the smashing of old
government ways of handling the
people’s business in favor of creat
ing fast, efficient and low cost
ways to serve the people’s busi
ness needs.
Team members receiving the
award included leader Dr. Debbie
Hawkins, and members Ms. Beth
Wittenbrader, Tom Schoelzel, Dr.
Amy Nesselrodt, and Tim
Brennan.
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Dunn traveled from Washington to
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Dunn presented the award not
ing the achievements of the team.
The story behind the award is
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about by a desire from Hawkins
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from her superiors to go forward
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basic structure of the field opera
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With the support of Dr. Ulysses
Lane, the area veterinarian in
charge at the time (currently serv
ing in that capacity in Florida), and
Dr. William Buisch, northern reg
ional director, the Eastern Pen
nsylvania Veterinary Service Field
Team was created as a pilot project
in 1992.
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The original team met first in
August 1992, according to Hawk
ins, and consisted of herself and
the two animal health technicians
whom she supervised. Wittenbrad
er was one of the two original
technicians.
Later, in 1993, Schoelzel, an
animal identification coordinator
joined the team followed by Tim
Brennan, an animal health
technician.
Hawkins said the team drew up
a mission statement based on
APHIS mission statement, the
mission statement for the North
east Region, the anticipated needs
of internal and external customers
and “the taxpayers’ right to cost
effective customer service.”
In short, what the group man
aged to do was significantly reduce
the cost of its service to the public,
achieve 100 percent and faster pro
cessing of permits for the importa
tion and exportation of animal pro
ducts under their purview, and
beefed up its ability to catch
disease.
Dunn presented the award, and
said that he was very proud to have
done so.
He was sworn into his appointed
office Dec. 28. having served as
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