Penn State Dairymen’s Club Held Annual Meeting
JUDY PATTON
Union Co. Correspondent
Dr. Darwin Braund told the
Penn State Dairymen’s Club that
classrooms in the future will be
homes and local computer sites, so
colleges will have to change their
programs accordingly. An animal
science professor at North Caroli
na State University, Braund also
said in this talk at die club’s annu
al meeting on November IS that
ag colleges will have to become
more “consumer oriented” to
teach ag students how to meet
market demands. They will also
need to educate students about
what agriculture and ag colleges
mean to the public.
This year’s club Service Award
went to Duane Norman, who is a
program leader at the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture Animal
Improvement Program Laboratory
in Beltsville. Maryland. Original
ly from a farm in Tioga County,
Pennsylvania, Norman is a world
leader in the development of gene
tic evaluation methods for milk
solids and linear traits. He has
won numerous awards for his
research and publications. He also
takes time to be a 4-H leader and
Dairy Bowl coach in his local
area.
Terri Snook was honored at the
club meeting as the 1996 winner
of the Poage Grant-in-Aid for
excellence in dairy judging activi
ties. A junior in dairy and animal
science at Penn State from Lafay
ette, New Jeresey, she was the
high individual at the 1994 New
Jersey State 4-H Contest and the
1992 Delaware Valley Spring
Contest She also judged at the
1994 National 4-H Contest Terri
has served as corresponding sec
retary of the Penn State Dairy Sci
ence Club, New Jersey’s alternate
state dairy princess, and an assis
tant for the Nittany Lion Fall
Classic Sale.
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the current Dairymen’s Club pres
ident and vice president, were re
elected as club directors, and Jeff
Hostetter was also elected to the
board. Beth Raney will replace
Dale Olver as secretary-treasurer.
Other club officers will be elected
next spring at the annual board
meeting.
Penn State Dairy Judging Team
coach Dale Olver reported to the
club the results from this year’s
collegiate judging contests. At the
Eastern States Expo, the team of
Meranda Dum, David Fava, Char
les Houp and Kraig Sellers placed
second overall and first in two
breeds. Dum and Fava were in the
top 10 overall individuals.
Sellers placed second overall
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Honors and awards woe handed
out to five persons at the Maryland
Egg Council’s 29th annual ban
quet, held Oct. 9 at Martin’s in
Westminster.
John Doerr, professor of poul
try toxicology and nutrient man
agement at the University of
Maryland at College Park, was
honored with the Herb Becherman
‘Triend of the Industry” Award.
Doerr is the past president of the
egg council. Because he was on
his way to a speaking engagement
in Brazil, his daughter, Elizabeth
Doerr, a University of Maryland
strident, accepted the award on his
behalf.
The first Owen P. Thomas De
velopment Award, which included
a plaque and $l,OOO scholarship,
was presented to Nada Tamin. Ta
min is a doctorate student at the
University of Maryland, research
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and in reasons at the Pennsylvania
All-American, while Houp was
first in linear evaluation. The team
placed first in linear, sixth overall,
and in the top five for three
breeds.
Penn State was first in Hois
teins and in the top five in Guern
seys and Aytshires at the National
Intercollegiate Contest at die
World Dairy Expo in Madison,
WI. The team also placed third in
reasons and sixth overall. Dum
earned All-American status, plac
ing as high individual in Guern
sey’s, second in Ayshires, third in
reasons and fourth in Holsteins.
Sellers was ninth in Guernseys
and Houp seventh in Holsteins.
At the final contest at the North
Egg Council Presents Awards
dustry. The scholarship was estab
lished in memory of Dr. Owen
Thomas, chair of the poultry sci
ence department at the University
of Maryland, 1971-1987, for his
long service to the egg industry.
Thomas died suddenly last
December.
Doug Statler of Greencastle, Pa.
(Lehman’s Egg Service) was hon
ored with the Maryland Egg
Council Service Award. Alan
Wenger of Rheems, Pa. (Wen
ger’s Feed Mill) also received the
Herb Becherman “Friend of the
Industry” award along with Doerr.
The banquet also provided
recognition for Rebecca Ensor, a
16-year-old 4-H member from
Woodstock (Baltimore County),
who won championship honors at
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American Livestock Expo in
Louisville, the team of Amy Mar
shall, Crystal Miller and Kraig
Sellers placed sixth overall, with
Sellers and Miller making to the
top 10 overall individuals list
Nittany Lion Fall Classic
(Continued from Pago A 26) Donald Harwood, Chris Connelly,
Marlin Shultz. Danville, for Terri Snook, selections; Matt
$2,000.
The sale was co-managed by mal preparation; Charles Houp,
the Penn State Dairy Science Club Rachel Tanis, Amy Packard,
and the Pennsylvania Holstein marketing/publicity; Mike Hix,
Association. Club sale committee finance; Holly Kane, Michele
members were Josh Harvatine, Piwowar, reception; Dave Fava,
overall chairman; Meranda Dum, bam manager, Heidi Stephens,
assistant chairperson; Crystal Ken Gesford, Barbie Berrang, are-
Miller, Jersey chairperson; na preparation.
lished in the banquet program Nov - 21 durin « National 4-H
bulletin. She will represent Mary- Poulay 311(1 E BB Conference in
land ’ j Louisville, Ky.
This quartet accepted awards at the 1996 Maryland Egg
Council banquet, held Oct. 9 at Martin’s In Westminster.
Shown are, from left, Elizabeth Doerr, with her father’s
Herb Becherman “Friend of the Industry” award; Doug
Statler of Greencastle, Pa. (Lehman’s Egg Service), with
the Maryland Egg Council Service Award; Alan Wenger of
Rheems, Pa. (Wenger’s Feed Mill), who also received the
Herb Becherman Award; and Nada Tamin, a doctorate stu
dent at the University of Maryland at College Parle, who re
ceived the first Owen P. Thomas Memorial Scholarship
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