STATE COLLEGE (Centre
Co.) The PennsylvaniaJCouncil
of Cooperatives held it’s annual
meeting and awards banquet cm
October 23 at the Penn Stater
Hotel and Conference Center in
State College. Along with com
mittee meetings and an annual
board meeting, representatives of
member cooperatives from around
Pennsylvania heard presentations
from John M. Urbanchuk, execu
tive vice president of AUS Con
sultants Inc., and Christopher
Melc, state relations manager of
Pennsylvania Rural Electric
Association.
A highlight of the day was the
Educator Award from Jay Rush.
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Awards Presented At PA Council Of Cooperatives Annual Meeting
presentation of three awards to
outstanding individuals who have
made significant contributions to
cooperatives and their members in
Pennsylvania.
Walter and Lisa Royek of Cor
ty, Erie County, received the 1997
Horizon Award from James Bar
nett, manager of member relations
for Land O’Lakes and a PA Coun
cil of Coooperatives Director. The
Royeks, Barnett said, typify this
award, created in 1996, which is
presented to emerging young
cooperative leaders. Waller and
Lisa first became involved with
the PCC in 1990 while attending
the Council’s Young Cooperative
KIM ESTHER WALTER FAMILY
Leaders Conference. They
returned to the Conference in
1990 as Western region leaders
and again in 1992 as Chari Couple
for the event.
Lisa, a school teacher, serves as
an instructor of ag and cooperative
issues in Penn State’s “Ag in the
Classroom” program, and Waller
and Lisa have opened their Dairy
of Distinction Farm to hundreds of
school children in the past few
years allowing a first-hand
glimpse of milk production. The
Royeks provided the closing moti
vational address at the YCL Con
ference in July of 1996, and hon
ored the Council with a second-
Carol Duncan receives the Hal F. Doran
award from Milton Haliberg.
of Middleburg, PA
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James Barnett, right, presents the 1997 Horizon Award to
Walter and Lisa Royek.
place finish in the 1996-97
National Young Fanner Ambassa
dor contest sponsored by the
National Council of Farmer
Cooperatives.
Jay Rush, president of York
Fann Credit, of York presented
the 1997 Cooperative Educator
Award to Sam Minor of Washing
ton. This award is presented annu
ally to an individual who has made
a signficant contribution to the
PCC in promoting and supporting
cooperative educational activities.
Sam and his wife, Beverly, own
and operate “The Spring House,”
Farmer Boy Ag Systems
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a dairy and vegetable farm and a
retail farm market and restaurant
Sara is active in many agricultural
organizations and is a past presi
dent of the Pennsylvania Holstein
Association, a director of Penn
West Farm Credit Association, A
Pennsylvania delegate and ■ vice
chairman of the Nadonal Council
on Agricultural Research, Exten
sion and Teaching, a member of
the USDA National Research,
Education, Extension and Eco
nomics Advisory Board, and a
director of the Pennsylvania
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