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The Rural Voice, 1998-06, Page 78People OAC honours volunteer Victor Roland The Ontario Agricultural College at the University of Guelph recently honoured a Huron County man among three people receiving volunteer recognition awards. Victor Roland, according to OAC Dean Rob McLaughlin, has many and varied interests. He and his wife Margaret operate a farm between Gorrie and Harriston and organize time so that he can take part in many off -farm activities. For 10 years he has been a director on the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association, representing Huron, Perth and Waterloo counties, and served as president in 1995. That year he led the OSCIA in delivery of the Environmental Farm Plan II and established the unqualified education grant for local associations. Roland also pushed the association to become involved in Canada's Outdoor Farm Show in the belief that the field demonstration aspect would showcase new technology to Ontario farmers. He even assisted in planting the demonstration plots for the association and the companies involved. Roland suggested that OSCIA Briefings be inserted in Farm and Country magazine as a way to improve communications between the association and Ontario farmers. He has been active in the committee working to revitalize the Ontario Farm Museum at Milton. At the local level, Roland was a driving force in the formation of the Huron -Perth Woodlot and Sawmill Operators' Association which promotes proper management of farm woodlots. He is a member of the committee organizing the Ontario Farm Woodlot Expo and the provincial Agro -Forestry Conference. Roland is a member of the Ontario Forage Council and helping to revise the guidelines for the annual Forage Masters competition.0 Robert Downham president of ORFEDA Robert (Bob) Downham of Stratford was recently elected president of the Ontario Retail Farm Equipment Dealers Association (ORFEDA). His wife Jan was in charge of the ladies program at the convention, attended by 95 women. The couple succeed Don and Wanda Richards of Stouffville, as head of the organization. Western Ontario representatives on the ORFEDA board of directors include Lloyd Watson, Mount Forest; Jerry Martens, Granton; Wayne Stoltz, Listowel and Cliff Otterbein, New Dundee. Downham is president of D&S Downham Equipment Ltd. The company is headquartered in a former community school, built in 1843. The school house was purchased in 1976 by Cecil Downham and Henry Skinner, founders of D&S Downham Equipment Ltd. Bob, son of Cecil, bought the Massey -Ferguson dealership in 1986, expanding to three locations in Stratford, Innerkip and Brunner. 0 Klingenberg named to OFAC board Gerry Klingenberg of Gorrie has been named to the board of the Ontario Farm Animal Council (OFAC) representing the Ontario Pork Producers Marketing Board. Mike Cooper of Grober Delft Blue Group was re-elected chairman. Bruce Christie of Shur -Gain is vice chairman and Bruce Coukell of Dairy Farmers of Canada is secretary -treasurer. Jim Magee of Ontario Cattlemen's Association is past chairman. Other directors include: Paul Karges, Chicken Farmers of Ontario; Murray DeLouw of the Ontario Egg Producers' Marketing Board; Terry Otto of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture and Greg Morrison of the Ontario Turkey Producers Marketing Board.0 Musgrave, Renwick to be inducted in Hall of Fame Two western Ontario residents will be inducted June 14 into the Ontario Agricultural Hall of Fame at the Farm Museum at Milton. Guest speaker at the induction ceremony will be Lyle Vanclief, Minister of Agriculture and Agri - food Canada. A. H. K. (Arthur) Musgrave of Clarksburg, was born in Huron County in 1894. He owned and operated a mixed farm and apple orchard in Clarksburg. He was instrumental in establishing the Co- operative Fidelity and Guarantee Association, one of the organizations which combined with co-operative insurers from other areas of Canada to form the present Co-operators Group. Art Musgrave's commitment to the co-operative movement and his skills as a mediator and facilitator left a lasting impression on the agricultural industry. He died in 1997. Walter Bruce Renwick of Belmore, was bom in Huron County in 1929. Renwick, more than anyone else, has had a tremendous impact on Canada's sheep industry. In 1978 he imported 700 registered Polled Dorsets from New Zealand and maintained a flock of approximately 700 ewes from that date. The positive effects of that importation are still very much in evidence in the Canadian sheep scene today. Locally, he was also instrumental in formation of the Western Ontario Lamb Producers Association. He died in 1995. Others inducted include: Peggy Knapp of Guelph, active with the Women's Institute since 1950; Howard W. Malcolm of Victoria County, a former chairman of the Ontario Pork Producers Marketing Board; Douglas Lyal Parks, former instructor at Kemptville College and Deputy Minister of Agriculture for Nova Scotia from 1965-1973; and Bruce Wallace, Simcoe, Norfolk County Horticulturalist.0