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PA State Grange President Receives National Grange Award |
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For information contact: Carl Meiss, Public Relations Director Ph: (717)-234-5001 or (800)-552-3865 Email: publicrelations@pagrange.org |
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November 22, 2005 |
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Columbus, Ohio - PA State Grange
President Betsy Huber received recognition from the National Grange
Membership/Leadership Director, Ed Luttrell recently at the National
Grange Annual Convention held last week in Columbus, Ohio.
Saturday night's "Grange Celebration
Banquet" was the culmination of a week-long annual convention held
by the National Grange, Patrons of Husbandry in Columbus. The
banquet was held in the Woody Hayes Grand Ballroom at the host
hotel, The Columbus - A Renaissance Hotel.
After dinner and introductions by
National Grange President William Steel (from Pennsylvania), Dr.
Kathy Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space and a
veteran of three space shuttle missions, gave the keynote address.
Immediately following Dr. Sullivan's address, Ed Luttrell was
introduced by President Steel to present various
Membership/Leadership awards.
Betsy Huber, President of the
Pennsylvania State Grange, received recognition "For Outstanding
Leadership in Organizing One New Grange."
The Pennsylvania State Grange organized
its first new Community Grange since 1995 in Hamburg, Berks County,
in early November, 2005.
The organization of the Hamburg Grange
was coordinated by PA State Grange Membership Director Carl Meiss at
the request of Mike Adams of Hamburg, who was elected as the first
Master (President) of the new Hamburg Grange #2103.
Other State Granges opening new
Community Granges included Indiana, Ohio, Texas, New Jersey and
North Carolina (which opened two new Granges in 2005). Each State
Grange President was presented with a certificate and two Grange
"Corn" mugs in recognition of their Leadership in the Grange (North
Carolina's President received a Grange watch for opening two new
Granges).
The Grange is a family fraternal organization dedicated to the
betterment of the American quality of life through community
service, education,
legislation and fellowship. The
Grange includes members of all ages from their Junior Grangers
(ages 5-14), Youth Members (ages 14-24), Young Adults (ages 21-35)
and Regular Community (Local) members (age 14 and up). The Grange
represents approximately 15,000 Pennsylvanians across the
Commonwealth in over 300 Community Granges. It is the oldest
agricultural and rural organization of its kind in the United
States. The National Grange (Patrons of Husbandry), representing
about 200,000 members, began in 1867 and the PA State Grange was
chartered in 1873.
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