December 16. 2000
Mitchell Kopp
Farm Women Name
State Scholarship Winners
JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
GLEN ROCK (York Co.)
With funds generated by contin
uing sales of its popular cook
book, the Pennsylvania Society
of Farm Women has awarded a
record $17,000 in scholarships to
students pursuing degrees of ad
vanced education.
Each $l,OOO Flora Black schol
arships was awarded to appli
cants pursuing agriculture or
home economics related degrees.
Another requirement is that ap
plicants’ mothers or grandmoth
ers be members of the Farm
Women organization. More than
SSO,OOO in scholarships have
been awarded since 1994, as
cookbook sales have boosted the
funding available for the pro
gram originally begun in 1960 in
memory of the founder of the
Pennsylvania of Farm Women.
The state group continues to set
aside 40-cents from every $3 an
nual membership to help fund
the scholarship as well.
Publishing a cookbook show
casing the culinary talents of the
state’s rural women was the state
project selected by former state
Farm Women president Naomi
Bupp, Glen Rock.
“Our daughter had been
awarded a scholarship, and it
was a way I could return that
thoughtfulness,” she relates. The
cookbook project, which she
helped to underwrite until it was
financially stabilized, has proven
wildly successful since the first
one rolled off the press and out
to the Farm Women at their
1991 Spring Rally.
The hefty, three-pound, soft
covered volume includes 2,240
recipes in a variety of categories
and features artwork by York
County artist Don Abbott Thom
as, whose wife is a member of the
Society. After successive print
ings of the cookbook, more them
24,000 have been sold, with or
ders from across the country con
tinuing to find their way to
Naomi Bupp’s rural York Coun
ty mailbox.
Emme D. Mellott
Rachel L. Krall
Cookbooks are available at a
cost of $23.50, which covers the
cost of postage and handling,
and may be ordered from Naomi
Bupp at 2541 Woodland Road,
Glen Rock, PA 17327-8410. Pro
ceeds will continue to help fund
scholarships such as those
awarded this year to the 17 ap
plicants selected by the commit
tee.
Curtis Ray Beidel, 21, is the
son of Wayne and Loudenis Bei
del, Newville. He is a senior at
Penn State studying dairy sci
ence, as yet undecided as to re
turning to the family’s dairy
farm or pursuing a career in
dairy nutrition. Curtis is active in
the Dairy Science club. Block
and Bridle, dairy judging, and
also enjoys baseball and basket
ball. He has worked both on the
family’s crops and dairy farm as
well as for a landscaping busi
ness. His mother is a member of
Cumberland County Group #2l.
Mandy L. Binkley, 18, is the
daughter of Mike and Lori Bink
ley, Newmanstown, Lebanon
County. She is pursuing a degree
in science at University of Pitt/
Bradford and with a career goal
of working in the environmental
or wildlife areas. She has been a
member of the Girl Scouts, Boy
Scout Explorers, FFA, Enviro
thon club, active in student gov
ernment and church youth lead
ership activities, while working
for the Myerstown Animal Hos
pital. Mandy’s grandmother is a
member of Lebanon County
Group #B.
Dana L. Groff, 18, is the
daughter of Charles 111 and
Carol Groff, Quarryville, Lancas
ter County. Her experiences
working with consumers as the
Pennsylvania Poultry Ambassa
dor led Dana to majoring in ag
business at Juniata College. She
was a member of the Honor So
ciety at Solanco High School,
student senate officer, field hock
ey team captain, and has taken
mission field trips with her
church. Dana’s work experience
Barbara L. Reichard
Ryan H. Winter
has included helping to milk the
family’s dairy herd as well as
employment at the Mapleholfe
Dairy’s farm store. Dana’s
grandmother is a member of
Lancaster County Group #3l.
Scott C. Jones, 18, is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Steven Jones,
Neelyton, Franklin County.
Scott is a freshman at Penn
State’s Mont Alto campus, ma
joring in animal science, with
plans to return to the family
dairy operation. His goal is to
operate the dairy farm, with a
focus on improvement in milk
production and cattle type. A
music enthusiast, Scott has been
a member of both community
and school choral groups, plays
with several school bands, and
chapter officer of the FFA. His
extensive 4-H activities have fo
cused on dairy programs, with
extensive showring successesi
His mother and grandmother,
Leona Crider, are members of
Franklin County Group #l4.
Adam Kopp, 22, is the son of
Jay and Arm Kopp, Middle
town, Dauphin County. He is
senior at SUNY Cobleskill Col
lege, majoring in ag business,
and plans to return to the fami
ly’s Stoney Lawn dairy farm to
join in the operation’s manage
ment. He is a resident dorm as
sistant at Cobleskill, Phi Theta
Kappa honor society member,
and was active in various 4-H
programs. Adam’s mother is a
member of Dauphin County
Group #l6 and his grandmother,
Mary Kopp, is a member of
Dauphin County’s Group #l.
Mitchell Kopp, 22, is the son
of Galen and Lilli Ann Kopp,
Mount Joy, Lancaster County.
He is a senior at Penn State,
with an agriculture major. A for
mer 4-H member, Mitchell was
also active in his high school stu
dent government and is a mem
ber of the American Motorcy
clists Association. His
grandmothers, Mary Kopp and
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