812-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 25, 1998
The board of directors of the Frederick County Farm Bureau women’s committee.
From left, back row: Mary Sue Grossnlckle, Rosa Burrier, Rosalie Glissan, Louise
Edlger, Peggy Long, Evelyn Gaver, and Tammy Eaves. Front row: Terrie Stup, Peggy
Garst, Louise Stup, Jenny Rhoderlck, Shirley Enfield, Evelyn Wllcom, and Shirley
Zimmerman.
Farm Bureau Holds
Women’s Luncheon
KAREN BUTLER
Maryland Correspondent
NEW MIDWAY, Md. The
fellowship was fun, the food deli
cious, and the entertainment de
lightful at the Frederick County
Farm Bureau women’s committee
spring luncheon. About 160 Farm
Bureau women and friends ga
thered here at the fire hall for the
afternoon program that included
speakers from both the American
Farm Bureau and Maryland Farm
Bureau. Following a lunch of roast
turkey catered by the fire hall, the
women were treated to musical se
lections performed by the Catoctin
Canaries, a local group of seniors.
Steve Weber, Maryland Farm
Bureau president, talked about
some of the challenges MFB has
faced during the past year. The or
ganization has made an effort to
re-focus on its membership, and
tried to increase member numbers.
The members are “really the
foundation of Farm Bureau,” he
said.
Weber related some of the ex
periences MFB has had in Anna
polis this year in working to get
legislation passed that will favor
Maryland fanners. “I’m proud to
say we’re very pleased with all the
support we’ve received,” he told
the women, many of whom had
written letters and made phone
calls to their legislators, “You
should be proud of the support the
ag community has given.”
Leona Dell of Carroll County
represents the women of the
northeast in the American Farm
Bureau as the northeast women’s
committee chair. She shared some
information on what farm women
have been doing at the national
level
Sha said in February more than
20 states participated in observing
Food Checkout Day. The day was
designed to bring attention to the
affordability of food in America.
Dell herself went to Chicago for a
celebration of the day that in
cluded closing off a main street
and bringing in a big Case tractor
to deliver food to the needy. She
and several other women were
each given $lOO to shop for food
they then delivered to a Ronald
McDonald house, where sick chil
dren and their families stay when
getting treatment at a hospital The
women stocked the shelves of the
Ronald McDonald House. “Ron
ald McDonald was present CBS,
ABC. and NBC were there for
publicity of the American farmer
produced food,” Dell said.
Dell also attended the Ag
Women’s Leadership Network
conference in Washington, D.C.
The network is comprised of 11
organizations of farm women. She
said, “I represented American
Farm Bureau women on that
group. It provided in-roads into
places American Farm Bureau
women don’t always get into.” In
June she will attend the second In
ternational Conference on Women
in Agriculture in Washington,
D.C.. The first conference was
held last year in Australia.
Louise Ediger, of the Frederick
County Farm Bureau women, ex
plained a mobile Ag In The Class
room unit project that will be
launched this spring in Frederick
City schools. The women are
helping suport the unit financially
and with volunteer time. “The
women’s committee has always
been for ag education,” said Mrs.
Ediger. “You must understand
that however hard we work, it is
the principal of the school that has
the final say” about whether the
unit will visit the school. So far
three schools have signed up for
the program.
The Catoctin Canaries.
16-member musical group, cov
ered all the bases and pulled out
all the stops in their musical re
view. Their presentation ran from
charming to hysterically funny as
they performed old classics and
dressed up in costumes for skits
and charades. The seniors framed
an Easter bonnet parade that wove
through the audience, and finished
with impersonations of popular
characters that had the crowd in
stitches.
Ryan Eaves. Frederick County
young farmer, the son of Richard
and Tammy Eaves of New Mid
way. and Kathleen Doody, Freder
ick County young farmerette, the
daughter of Dave and Carole
Doody of Union Bridge, also en
tertained the group with rhymes
and songs.
For the fourth year in a row the
Frederick County women have
been honored as the outstanding
women’s committee at the state
convention.
Women’s committee officers
are: Louise Stup, chairperson:
Evelyn Wilcom, vice chairperson;
Terrie Stup. recording secretary;
Rosa Rippeon, corresponding se
cretary; and Louise Ediger, trea
surer. The spring luncheon com
mittee consisted of Terrie Stup,
Alice Wilcom. Frances Black,
Peggy Garst, Evelyn Gaver, Jenny
Rhoderick, and Rena Shry.
Ryan Eaves, shown with
his mother, performs rhymes
and songs for Frederick
County Farm Bureau Women.
He is the son on Frederick far*
mere Richard and Tammy
Eaves.
York
Speech
Contest
Trisha Krick of Muddy
Creek Forks received first
place In the York County FFA
public speaking contest and
fourth place in the area com
petition for her speech about
“State Game Lands—Let’s
Enjoy Them Together.” She
is the daughter of Steve and
Dolores Krick of Muddy
Creek Forks and a freshman
at Kennard-Dale High
School.
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