A2O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 20, 1996
Fore FFA Event Garners Nearly $20,000 For Foundation
(Continued from Pago A 1)
Kerry Hoffman, who serves as
FFA Foundation secretary and
event coordinator, said, “(The
event) was an unbelievable suc
cess, not just from a standpoint
from fundraising, but we had out
standing participation and support
from local FFA chapters and
Foundation board members and a
lot of really great people.”
According to Hoffman, the
strong turnout and support has pre
sented some logistics problems
that are to be worked out for the
1997 version.
“The event has grown to the
point to where we will need to go
to two courses next year," she said.
“It’s outgrown one course.”
The Fore FFA Golf Tournament
and Dinner/Auction was created
out of a need to secure dependable
funding in light of repeated
attempts by state budget-makers in
previous years to eliminate state
support.
While stale support in this
year’s budget is line-itemed at
$50,000 for the FFA Foundation,
the funds raised through the golf
ing and dinner/auction event
Auctioneer Glen Wenger, of Wenger’s Farm Machinery In
Myerstown, takes offers on this detailed, hand crafted gun
cabinet that was made by the Chestnut Ridge FFA Chapter
and donated to the auction to raise funds for the state FFA
Foundation.
Amanda Bomgardner holds the halter of her registered
Holstein calf, that “sold" to Bill Campbell, CEO of Hoss's
Steak and Sea House.
Leadership
fora growing
planet
allows the Foundation to support
FFA activities better and to pro
vide more educational and person
al development opportunities for
the youth involved in FFA.
“Allhough we are blessed with
continued support from the Legis
lature, everyone recognizes the
restrictions on state spending,”
Hoffman said. “The event has
proven to demonstrate the real sup
port from the agricultural com
munity and those who value the
contributions of the FFA.”
In fact, several local state legi
slators were involved in this year’s
event, either participating in the
event or helping to plan it.
Hoffman said that there actually
was more expressed desire to parti
cipate in the golfing event than
could be accomodated.
She said the FFA Foundation
Golf Tournament Committee, co
chaired by Sam Sherk of Penn- Ag
Industries and Nancy Campbell
(wife of Boss’s CEO William), is
to evaluate the success of the event
and review possibilities for
growth.
‘This is not a bad problem to
have to consider,” Hoffman said.
The officers of the Pennsylvania FFA, less its president Andrew Young who
couldn’t attend, gather for a group photo at the putting green bench at Fox Chase Golf
Course in Denver. From the left, seated, are Heather Lehman, treasurer; Elizabeth Hol
lenbeck, secretary; Aimee Hauck, reporter; and Kristina Watson, southcentral region
al vice president. From the left, standing, are Mike Clark, state vice president; Joy
Young, eastern regional vice president; Dan Geissinger, chaplain; Bobby Jo Robbins,
north central vice president; and John Ewing, sentinel.
A couple of the more than 150 patrons of the 1996 Fore FFA Golf Tournament and
Dinner/Auction peruse a portion of the many items donated for sale to support the
Pennsylvania FFA Foundation and all the youth it supports.
iward presentation, Bill and Nancy Campbell receive a statue of a golfer
by Pa. FFA Secretary Elizabeth Hollenback on behalf of the Pennsylvania FFA in grati
tude for alt the consistent support and help the Campbells and Hoss’s Steak and Sea
House have provided the state agricultural youth over the years.
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