From Dairy Farm To Milk Cooperative
RESIGN, Va. Maryland
and Virginia Milk Producers
Cooperative recently hired two
new employees to work in the
milk marketing and communica
tions departments. Yvonne
Fogal has been named assistant
director of hauling and trans
portation and Harriet Pimm has
joined Maryland and Virginia as
its communication specialist.
Yvonne has worked for
Maryland and Virginia for the
past six months in the quality
assurance department. In her
new position, she will be respon
sible for receiving milk orders
from customers and assigning
delivery schedules to haulers.
She will help estimate annual
production and sales, and under
stand federal milk marketing
orders and pooling require
ments.
Yvonne is a 1998 graduate of
Penn State University, where
she earned a bachelor of science
degree in agricultural business
management. While at college
she was a member of the Sigma
Alpha Professional Agriculture
Sorority, and the Coaly
Agricultural Honor Society. She
was also the vice-president for
both the National Agri-
Marketing Association and the
Academic Agricultural econom
ics quiz bowl team. Yvonne was
raised on Peterman’s Pride, a
dairy farm in Muncy, and is a
former alternate state dairy
princess.
As the communication spe
cialist, Harriet, a 1999 commu
nication graduate of Cornell
University, will be responsible
for writing articles, interviewing
Harriet Pimm is communi
eationa apecialist for Mary
land and Virginia Miik Pro
ducers Cooperative Associ
ation, Inc.
members and taking pho
tographs for all types of coopera
tive publications and member
communications projects. She
will assist with the Young
Cooperator Program and other
cooperative educational pro
grams, will facilitate the mem
ber donation program and repre
sent the cooperative at industry
meetings.
While at Cornell, Harriet was
active in the Dairy Science Club,
Collegiate 4-H and Ag
Yvonne Fogal, is assis
tant director for hauling and
transportation for Maryland
and Virginia Milk Producers
Cooperative Association,
Inc.
Ambassadors. She chaired the
Student Leadership Committee
as the student director for the
College of Agriculture and Life
Sciences Alumni Association.
She was a member of two promi
nent honor societies and was
appointed as the executive vice
president of the 1999 Cornell
Alumni Council. Harriet has
had writing internships with
three agricultural magazines
and was raised on her family’s
Brown Swiss and Holstein farm
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in Rock Tavern, New York. She
is also a former dairy princess.
Maryland and Virginia Milk
Producers, headquartered in
Reston, Va., is a milk marketing
and processing cooperative
which markets milk for over
1,600 dairy farmers in 10 states
Wood carvings by Tim Molt, Denver, and works of art by
more than 150 Juried artisians make up the 29th annual
Belsnickel Craft Show on Nov. 26-27. Held at the Boyertown
Junior High West and Elemenary School located at Second
and Madison Streets, Boyertown. The show will be open
Nov. 26 from noon until 8 p.m. and on Nov. 27, from 10 a.m.
until 5 p.m. Admission is $3, children under 12 years are
admitted free if accompanied by an adult
from Pennsylvania to Alabama.
The cooperative includes Marva
Maid, a milk processing division
in Newport News, Va.; a manu
facturing division in Laurel,
Md.; an equipment division in
Frederick, Md.; and a regional
office in Charlotte, N.C.