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County FFA Medalists and Placings Across Contests Report
A scanned page lists numerous FFA honors and scores from Solanco Garden Spot and other Lancaster County schools. Winners include William Hershey and David Ditler with gold in various events, tassels for trips to Kansas City and Atlantic Rural Exposition, and many silvers and bronzes among dairy livestock and floriculture. The entry totals show 90 in one category and 172 in livestock, with participants from Penn Manor Lampeter Strasburg Ephrata Owen J Roberts and more. The report notes Lancaster and Chester counties earned 12 of 58 top placings.
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FFA
William Hershey
Solanco
David Ditler
Ken Groff
Garden Spot High School
New Holland
William Krantz
Joe Lefever
Manheim Central Thigh School
Matlin Smoke
Ephrata High School
Dennis Nolt
Garden Spot
Marlin Becker
Manheim
David Hess
Penn Manor High School
Kansas City
Rick Pfautz
Ephrata
David Ge?lach
Penn Manor
Filth
Atlantic Rural Exposition
Richmond
Kenneth Reinhart
Gary Buchen
Manhem
Clifford Charles
Penn
Melvin Weiler
Atlantic Rural
Rodney Unger
Robert Way
Elizabethtown
John Weaver
Robert Hess
Lampeter-Strasburg High School
Russel Kline
Springfield
Mass
Don Wenger
Carl Yoder
Owen J. Roberts High School
Wayne Kreider
Kenneth Glick
Michael Mowrer
Franklin Mask
Owen J Roberts
Jim White
Pequea
Kenneth Mummau
Ken Mull
Lancaster
Chester
Doris Gingerich
Mount Joy Vo-tech