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General Manager; Two Pa.DHIA Directors Complete Co-op Institute
“Positioning Your Cooperative
For Change” was the tide of the
1996 Pennsylvania Cooperative
Director Institute attended by Da
vid Slusser, Pa. DHIA general
manager, and directors Marian
Butler and Ralph Gilkinson.
The 12th in a series of coopera
tive director institutes that began
in 1983 was held at the Nittany
Lion Inn on the campus of Penn
State University. Over 45 direc
tors from IS different cooperative
organizations serving members in
10 states participated.
The d|rector school is spon
sored jointly by the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture and
Penn State University’s Coopera
tive Business Education and Re
search Program (CBERP).
More than 20 leaders from edu
cational, cooperative, and govern
ment organizations kept the parti
cipants challenged throughout the
three-day program.
Keynote speakers included Dr.
Graham Spanier, recently ap
pointed president of Penn State
University, Mr. Charles Brosius,
Secretary of Agriculture for the
Pennsylvania Department of Agri
culture. and Dr. Christopher Peter-
Flanked on the left by Shannon Stokes, associate dean of the Penn State College of
Agricultural Sciences, and on the right by Russull Redding, a Pennsylvania deputy
secretary of agriculture, Pa.DHIA General Manager David Slusser and two of the
cooperative’s directors, Marian Butler and Ralph Gllklnson, show their certificates of
completion of the 1996 Pa. Cooperative Director Institute.
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son, associate professor of agri
cultural economics at Michigan
State University.
Herman Brubaker, chairman of
the board of Milk Marketing, In.
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from his many years of guiding
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Topics included roles and re
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ning, and understanding coopera
tive finances. Sharing ideas, ex
periences. and issues with other
directors is an important non
scheduled part of every director
school.
The purpose of the series is to
train and equip directors of the re
gion’s member-owned coopera
tive organizations with the know
ledge and skills necessary to oper
ate successfully in the rapidly
changing business environment.
Success for cooperatives means
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maintaining and increasing the
value of membership in the or
ganization by improving on farm
profit, maintaining access to mar
kets and services, and limiting
some of the risk involved in agri
culture.
The title, “Positioning Your
Cooperative For Change.” verba
lizes on the current high priorities
of many cooperative and business
organizations. Many cooperatives
have already undergone restruc
turing and streamlining and like
their investor-owned counterparts,
many mote will need to make sig
nificant changes to continue to
benefit their members.
The Director Institute is fol
lowed, in alternate years, by the
Pennsylvania Graduate Director
Institute. The graduate program is
designed, as the name suggests,
for advanced training on board
leadership, financial analysis, and
strategic issues.
All programs are planned by a
committee composed of industry
and educational leaders to address
basic training and current priority
needs of the cooperative com
munity.
For more information, contact Dick Poorbaugh at Penn State
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Training Coordinator
On Wednesday, Feb. 14, the
newly formed Pa. DHIA Compu
ter Committee met to organize and
chart the course for the following
year.
The main thrust of the commit
tee is to advise or suggest changes
in the Quick Bam Sheet program
that would make the program
more user-friendly and at the same
time improve the product to his
highest performance.
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