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Ice Cream Fun, Profit Featured At Penn State Short Course
UNIVERSITY PARK (Centre
Co.) Ice cream usually is con
sidered “fun food," but industry
and medical de\elopments make
it serious business at the 111th
annual Penn State Ice Cream
Short Course, Jan. 6-16 at the
Nittan> Lion Inn on the Univer
sity Park campus.
The course is the nation's old
est. best-known and largest edu
cational program dedicated to
the science and technology of ice
cream. Seminar director Bob
Roberts, associate professor of
food science in Penn State’s Col
lege of Agricultural Sciences,
points out that several factors
make ice cream attractive to peo
ple looking to start their own
business.
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Cedar Crest FFA Members
Recently members of the
Cedar Crest FFA went to Louis
ville. Ky. to attend the National
FFA Convention. Amber Frank,
Sarah Krall, Kyle Seyfert, Tara
Miller, Travils Krall. Samantha
Shepler, Kevin Kreider. Jessica
Rose, Rebecca Eisenhauer. Jan
elle Zimmerman, Heather Bal
sbaugh, and Mark Balmer at
tended and were supervised b>
Harold Berkheiser and Gerald
Strickler.
Kvle Seyfert, Samantha Shep
ler, Mark Balmer, Janelle Zim
merman, Kevin Kreider, and
Heather Balsbaugh
competed in the Par
liamentary Procedure
contest at the National
FFA Convention. The
team placed in the sil
ver bracket and re
ceived individual med
als and a team plaque.
All participants
worked hard and are
to be commended for
their efforts
Students from
Cedar Crest also par
ticipated in other
events and received
other rewards. Sarah
Krall and Amber
Frank won second
place in science fair in
the environmental cat
egory. Jason Bal
sbaugh received the
coveted American De
gree at the convention.
The American Degree
is the highest degree a
member can earn. The
Cedar Crest Chapter
also won a Two-Star
National Rating for its
activities throughout
the year. This award
places Cedar Crest in
the top 10 percent of
all FFA chapters in
the nation.
They made several
stops on the way to
Kentucky and were
able to visit the Day
ton Mr Force Base
Museum, Indianapolis
Motor Speedway, Lou
isville Zoo and they
also had the chance to
tour the Louisville
Slugger Baseball Bat
Factors.
“Everybody loves ice cream,"
Roberts said. “It’s just a fun
product. A former Penn State
professor once told me that, no
matter where he went in the
world, whenever he saw ice
cream, he knew he was in civili
zation. 1 think, based on some of
the events of the last 18 months,
that people are looking for things
that give them comfort and plea
sure and that say, ‘we’re civ
ilized.' 1 think ice cream is one of
them. But first and foremost, ice
cream is fun."
The short course provides in
struction in every phase of com
mercial ice cream manufacture,
including ingredients and flavors,
manufacturing better quality fro-
FFA7S
One Mission: Student Success
Hans Herr FFA Members
Attend Leadership Conference
Five members of the Lancaster
Mennonite High School Hans
Herr FFA Chapter attended the
2002 Fall Conference for Leader
ship and Professional Develop
ment at the Altoona Convention
Center in Blair County.
The Hans Herr freshmen are
Apryl Becker, daughter of Merle
and Janet Becker, Kinzers;
Debra Groff, daughter of Dean
and Darlene Groff, Kinzers; Lin
ford Hershty, son of Les and
Lois Hershe>, Kirkwood; Ra-
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zen desserts, and nutrition and
additives. The 2003 course will
feature more opportunities for
participants to gain hands-on ex
perience.
Roberts sees two factors draw
ing entrepreneurs interested in
entering into the ice cream busi
ness: organic ice cream products
and nutriceuticals foods with
active medicinal properties.
"We mentioned nutriceuticals
last year, and there's still a lot of
interest in that," he said. “It's a
way of producing a food that's
good for you and good to eat. At
Penn State, we’re looking to de
velop various dairy products that
incorporate omega-3 fatty acids,
which are involved in the preven
tion of coronary heart and artery
chad Ranck. daughter of James
and Joan Ranck, Christiana: and
Monica Keeney, daughtei of
John and Gail Keeney, Lincoln
University. Teacher Lem Metzler
served as their adviser.
Amanda Shaffer, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Shaffer of Bea
vertown, was named SUN Area
FFA Star Farmer at the meeting,
Nov. 12 at Middleburg High
School. This award is presented
annually to the member top
member during the year they
earn their SUN Area FFA De
gree. The recipient must exhibit
premier leadership and
conduct an outstanding su
pervised occupational ex
perience program.
Amanda currently
serves as the reporter in
the West Snyder FFA
West Snyder Member Named
SUN Area Star Farmer
disease. Omega-3 fatty acids are
found in fish oils, and we’re look
ing for ways to stabilize the oils
so that the ice cream doesn't taste
fishv.”
Consolidation trends have con
tinued in the ice cream industry.
Roberts says, with large compa
nies getting larger. But there's a
newer trend of small companies
stepping in to fill niche ice cream
markets.
“So other avenues for the en
trepreneur include the potential
to provide small-volume specialty
flavors and organic products that
the big companies aren’t interest
ed in,” he said. “The other thing
that 1 see in the industry is the in
troduction of new ingredients
fruit-and-ice-cream combina-
Chapter. She has earned gold
medals in the area, regional, and
state chapter procedure career
development event; and blue rib
bons in the SUN Area FFA Dairy
Judging event as well as a gold
medal in the State FFA Record
Keeping contest. She also won
the North Central Regional Out
standing Project Book Award.
Her SAE projects include dairy
herd, sheep finishing, and on
farm employment. She also rep
resented West Snyder FFA at the
Washington Leadership Confer
ence this summer.
Amanda is a varsity cheerlead
er at West Snyder and an active
member of the Pennsylvania Jr.
Holstein Association. Her future
plans are to become a dietitian.
tions, for instance.”
Other developments include
good-tasting low-fat products, fat
substitutes and dairy-soy blends
that combine the benefits of each.
New speakers for the 2003 short
course include Douglas Goff of
the University of Guelph, who
will talk about ice cream mi
crostructure. and Carrie Fry, vice
president with the International
Dairy Foods Association, who
will talk about the control of al
lergens in ice cream.
For more information on the
short course, call (814) 865-8301
or visit the Web at http://
conferences.cas.psu.edu or http:/
/www.foodscience.
psu.edu/.
Amanda Shaffer, Beaver
town, SUN Area FFA Star
Farmer.