A24-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 29, 1996
Richard Curan To Be Honored For Extension Work
COLLEGE PARK, Md.
Friends, farm families, farm and
community leaders, and col
leagues from Baltimore County,
the Mid-Atlantic area and the na
tion are honoring G. Richard
(Dick) Curran, agricultural agent
in Baltimore County for the Co
operative Extension Service, Uni
versity of Maryland at College
Park. (Curran lives in Westmin
ster.)
Curran will retire officially on
June 30 after 26 years of service in
that position.
He currently is on personal
leave in Poland as a followup to
his previous participation in the
Polish-American Extension Proj
ect, designed to assist Polish farm
ers through the transition period in
adapting to a free market eco
nomy.
Curran achieved distinction
during his Extension career by or
ganizing or promoting rural-urban
events in one of Maryland’s most
populous counties. Among these
activities have been Farm Visita
tion Day, Maryland Agriculture
Week at major shopping malls and
the Baltimore Fanners Market.
On the commercial farm scene,
Curran organized the Baltimore
County weed control advisory
board and supervised the Balti
more County Com Club. He has
saved as an adviser for the Farm
ers Produce Association, Central
Maryland Beekeepers Association
and the county committee of the
USDA’s Farm Service Agency.
ABS President Resigns
DeFOREST, Wis. ABS Glo
bal, Inc., announced the resigna
tion of its president and CEO, Jack
,E. Shelton, effective immediately.
As the search for a new CEO
begins, Dennis McCormick,
chairman of the board for Protein
Genetics Inc., and an Ardshiel
partner, will assume the interim
CEO and president role.
“ABS Global will continue its
business plan, ensuring strong
growth and positioning as the pre
eminent A.I. company in the
world,” states McCormick. “Our
strategy of geographic expansion,
innovation, product excellence,
and people remains intact follow
ing this announcement As a glo
bal company with one of the best
bull programs in the industry, we
will continue to aggressively serve
He was the longtime secretary
of the county soil conservation
district and Extension liaison per
son with the county Farm Bureau
organization.
He was planning committee
chairman for the 1978 Mid-Atlan
tic No-Till Conference in the Hunt
Valley Inn at Cockeysville.
Curran was instrumental in or
ganizing the annual Baltimore
County Field Crops Day, county
field crop demonstration plots,
tailgate farmers markets, nutrient
management and integrated pest
management programs, and a
countywide grain marketing club.
Curran is a past president of
both the Maryland Association of
County Agricultural Agents and
the National Association of Coun
ty Agricultural Agents (NACAA).
He was selected to participate in
the NACAA’s 1980 Dow Study
Tour of California agriculture. He
led a 21-person group of central
Maryland farm leaders on a Good
will “People to People” two-week
tour of China in 1983 and a similar
group on a corresponding tour of
Europe in 1987.
A native of York County, Penn
sylvania, Curran holds a bache
lor’s degree in agronomy from
Penn State and advanced degrees
in Extension education from the
University of Maryland at College
Park.
Before joining the Cooperative
Extension Service in Baltimore
County, he spent 14 years as an
agrichemical sales representative
our customers’ ever-changing
needs.”
Shelton joined American
Breeders Service (now ABS Glo
bal, Inc.) in July 1991 as president
and chief executive officer follow
ing a role as vice president of the
Feed Operations division of W.R.
Grace & Co. Inc.
Ardshiel Merchant Bank Inc., is
a new York-based merchant bank
founded in 1975. that invests on
behalf of its limited partners. The
Alpine Group.
The Alpine Group is a coopera
tive of entrepreneurs dedicated to
helping other entrepreneurial
businesses build and grow.
In August 1994, Ardshiel
formed a new company, registered
as Protein Genetics Inc., to
acquire three businesses from
W.R. Grace & Co., ABS and two
Grace fertilizer companies.
for the Olin Corporation and two
years as a field representative for
the now-defunct Hungerford
Packing Company of New Free
dom, Pa.
Friends of Dick Curran are in
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) The Susquehanna River
Basin Commission (SRBC) is to
meet 3 p.m. July 8 at the Holiday
Inn in Oneonta, New York, to con
sider several business items,
including possible adoption of a
budget for the 1997-98 fiscal year.
The SRBC operates on a July 1
to June 30 fiscal year for budgeting
purposes, mirroring state and fed
eral governments.
The SRBC is a compact consist
ing of the U.S. secretary of the
interior, and the heads of the
respective environmental state
agencies in Pennsylvania, New
York and Maryland. Its purpose is
to oversee the uses and flows of the
Susquehanna River.
Details of the proposed budget
were not released with an
announcement of the meeting.
i^( S HBALTH K,CK
FACTORY CLEARANCE
FACTORY DIRECT
1-800-942-1234
NATIONWIDE
vited to a retirement celebration
on July 19, beginning at 6 p.m. at
Wilhelm Ltd. Caterers along the
southbound lane of Highway 140,
south of Westminster.
During the program, a book of
SRBC To Meet July 8
however, some of the other agenda
items were somewhat detailed.
Among items for action are a
request for “approval of a contract
with USGS for the construction for
the construction of certain stream
gages which would otherwise be
shut down (because of) federal
funding cuts.
A request for a voice mail sys
tem for the SRBC headquarters
building in Harrisburg and a
request for modification of the
SRBC investment policy to allow
“more flexibility and greater
returns” on SRBC investments are
also on the agenda.
Review for approval of two
requests for water usage are also
scheduled.
The Specialty Records Corpora
tion has requested approval to con
sume up to 98,000 gallons of water
letters and/or photos from friends
will be presented to Dick.
For more information, contact
the Baltimore County Cooperative
Extension Service at (410)
666-1022.
per day in connection with an
undetailed project in Olyphant
with compensation made through
payment for SRBC purchase of
stored water.
Bath Petroleum Storage Inc. has
requested approval to pump 1.8 IS
million gallons per day of ground
water from one well, with a total
combined withdrawal from
another well of up to 2 million gal
lons per day, on a 30-day average.
The company is also seeking
approval to consume 1.568 million
gallons per day for industrial uses,
with plans to discontinue con
sumptive use during low flow
periods.
In other action, the SRBC staff
is report highlights of its activities,
and also provide a brief report on
hydrologic conditions within the
basin.
Farm Buildings - Feed Mills
Commercial - Industrial
HENRY K. FISHER & SONS, INC.
687 Hartman Station Road
Lancaatar, PA 17601
(7171 393-6530