Keystone Farm Credit Elects Officers
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
NEW HOLLAND (Lancaster
Co.) Member-stockholders of
Keystone Farm Credit voted for
several new directors at a series
of meetings in New Holland and
Fogelsville this week.
In addition, members of the
banking cooperative also voted
on a proposed merger (see ac
companying story) to create a
consolidated cooperative called
Mid Atlantic Farm Credit.
Results of the elections are:
• Region 1, position 1, for
Bucks, Chester, Delaware,
Montgomery, and Philadelphia
counties: Kenneth L. Schlegel,
Fleetwood. Schlegel is the own
Farm Credit Members
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paid in two ways: 30 percent in
check and 70 percent is held by
the association for operations.
The patronage distribution
allows the association to reduce
cost of borrowing by 20 percent.
Inspirational speaker David
Okerlund from Manchester,
Ohio, noted that humor can be
used to adapt to changing and
challenging times.
Okerlund noted that we live
in a world of taller buildings and
shorter tempers, bigger houses
and smaller families, more
knowledge and poorer judge
ment, higher income and lesser
morals, and these are taking
their toil on our psyche.
“We can cross the globe on
the Internet but can’t talk to our
children across the kitchen
table,’’ he said.
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er/operator of Ker-Min Farms, a
340-acre dairy. He milks 90
cows. Schlegel serves on the
Kutztown Fair board as live
stock director and the Rich
mond Township Planning
Commission. He belongs to the
local, state, and national Hol
stein associations, DHIA,
Agway, St. Paul’s Lutheran
Church and Sunday School, and
the Fleetwood Grange, where he
is Master. Schlegel serves as a
member of the AgFirst Farm
Credit Bank’s District Advisory
Committee and Legislative Ad
visory Committee and is a
member of Keystone’s Audit
and Review Committee. Previ
ously he served as chair and vice
people have overlooked the fun
damentals of dealing with each
other and learning the coping
skills of rapidly changing times.
Okerlund said he is actually
paid money by companies to re
introduce humor to the work
place.
By being too caught up in the
world, we are “losing the gifts
the Great Lord gave you to sur
vive,” he said, and that includes
faith in the business of farming
and in each other.
He told members to “dance
with life and be resilient.” Oker
lund said the five most import
ant minutes of a day are the first
five minutes when you wake up
in the morning. “How many of
you wake up and take charge of
the first five minutes of your
lives every day?” Okerlund said.
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chair of the Baltimore Farm
Credit District Advisory and
Legislative Board, president of
the Fleetwood School Board,
president of Berks County and
southeast extension boards,
president of Berks county
DHIA, and president of St.
Paul’s Church Council.
• Region 1, position 2: Ken
neth L. Stutzman, Kutztown.
Stutzman ran a dairy farm until
1983. He crop farms with his
son, Jon. They grow corn, hay,
soybeans, and wheat. Stutzman
is a dealer for Vigortone Ag
Products and Doebler’s Seed. He
is a member of the Pennsylvania
Farm Bureau and Oley Mennon
ite church and serves as a dele-
Lord every day and to be an in
spiration to others.
“I’m not going to let a day go
by without touching someone’s
life,” he said. We should con
tinue to reward others with
hanks and to learn how to “pat
:ach other on the back.” Having
the right attitude is key and
learning life is not an easy road
gives us perspective.
Okerlund remembers hearing
tales of the Great Depression.
He related the story of a farmer
who died and had a note in his
pocket. On the note, the farmer
wrote how much he actually en
joyed the Depression because he
had more fun than in his entire
life. The farmer learned how to
live and “have real friends and
eat real food, and get more ex
ercise, “ said Okerlund, while
dropping all the nonessential
worries about life.
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Conference of the Mennonite
church. He served on Keystone
Farm Credit’s nominating com
mittee, was secretary for the
Sunday school, was church
council member, chair of the
Mutual Aid Committee, and
trustee and -usher for Oley Men
nonite.
• Region 2, position 1 (Berks,
Carbon, Dauphin, Lancaster,
Lebanon, Lehigh, Monroe,
Northampton, Pike, and Schuyl
kill counties): Paul L. Kreider,
Palmyra. Kreider has been
farming in partnership with his
brother for 31 years. Paul farms
6SO acres of corn, soybeans,
wheat, and hay. Kreider is in
volved part-time in the dairy op
eration and belongs to the
Pennsylvania Farm Bureau,
Agway, and the Fellowship of
Christian Farmers. He serves on
the missions committee and the
elder board of the Lebanon
Valley Bible Church. Kreider
serves as chair of Keystone’s
Audit and Review Committee
and is a member of Keystone’s
marketing and finance commit
tees.
• Region 2, position 2: Ken
neth S. Meek, Willow Street.
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years. His operation consists of
steers, hogs, and pullets. Meek
belongs to the Pennsylvania
Farm Bureau, Refton Brethren
in-Christ Church, National
Corn Growers Association, and
the poultry association. He is
president of the Lampeter-
Strasburg School District and
treasurer of the West Lampeter
Fair, in addition to vice chair of
Keystone’s board of directors.
Meek also serves on the Lancas
ter County Conservation Dis
trict board. Previously he served
as chair of the Lancaster Exten
sion Service board, chair of the
Strasburg Township Planning
Committee, and president of the
Lampeter Fair. He is a former
director of the Lancaster Cham
ber of Commerce board. Meek is
Keystone’s alternate delegate on
the AgFirst Farm Credit District
Advisory Committee and legis
lative advisory committee and is
on Keystone’s audit and review
committee, marketing commit
tee, and finance committee.
Nominating committee mem
bers were also elected. They in
cluded region 1, position 1,
Stephen R. Burkholder and po
sition 2, David L. Mast. For
region 2, stockholders elected
Dean L. Groff.