OBIE SNIDER AWARD
This award was established in memory of Obie Snider of Bedford County, a founding father of the All-American Dairy Show. It recognizes an individual who places significant value in service to the industry and community and displays high standards of conduct.
2025 Recipient: Steve Shaw
Steve Shaw has been showing cows with either his parents or his children at the All-American Dairy Show for over Fifty years and 3 floods! Steve has spent that time exhibiting with his family under the Linden Loch Holsteins prefix and Double Shawt Jerseys. In addition to exhibiting, Steve has been fortunate enough to have judged several shows here at the All American including the Pa fall championship show and the All American red and white show.
Steve attended Penn State and graduated in 1985 with a degree in Dairy Husbandry. After graduation, he went back to the family farm in the Oley Valley in Berks county. He then moved to Williamsburg in Blair County and farmed with the England family before joining Cargill animal nutrition. For over 36 years, Steve has worked as a dairy nutritionist and national sales director
and continues to do so. Steve was a 4-H leader for over twenty years along with Muffy Bechtel. He also served as a Dairy bowl coach, dairy judging coach, Williamsburg FFA committee member, the Blair County Holstein club board, and several PA Holstein convention committees.
Steve and his wife, MaryLynn, currently live in Williamsburg, Pa. They are proud parents of their blended family including six children: Erin Schupbach, Rebecca Pfeffer, Emily Schaapman, Tyler Shaw, Alexis Nash and Mason Nash. Erin and her husband, Nick, have two children, Alex and Eva, while Emily and her husband Ruben, have a son, Theodore “Teddy” Schaapman. Steve is fortunate to love what he does and feels blessed to be a part of the dairy industry in Pennsylvania!
Past Obie Snider Award Winners
| YEAR | RECIPIENT |
| 2025 | Steve Shaw |
| 2024 | Steve Cornman |
| 2023 | Dr. Alan McCauley |
| 2022 | Ken Raney |
| 2021 | Tom Kelly |
| 2019 | Patty McMurray & Steve Moff |
| 2018 | Elsie Wolff |
| 2017 | Sam Hayes |
| 2016 | Jim & Rita Kennedy |
| 2015 | Doug Evans |
| 2014 | Jane Pepple |
| 2013 | Samuel Yoder |
| 2012 | William C. Nichol |
| 2011 | Janet Harding |
| 2010 | John Cope |
| 2009 | George Cashell |
| 2008 | Dieter Krieg |
| 2007 | Berneta Gable |
| 2006 | David Patrick |
| 2005 | Creedin Cornman |
| 2004 | Donald Seipt |