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Panel of County 4-H Leaders -
Discuss ‘What Is 4-H Club Work?’
A panel of seven County 4-JI
leaders and parents discussed
‘What is 4-H Club Work” at a
leaders training school held at
the Farm Bureau Coopeiative
Friday.
The panelists, moderated by
Isabel Myers and Henry Moon of
the state 4-H office, noted that the
original rural youth movements
Were designed to keep farm boys
and girls on the farm.
However since that time, the
program has changed greatly
Some of,the accomplishments and
attractions to 4-H work now were
given as these.-'
The club is a- good place to
make friends, meet people and
learn to work together, according
to Richard Lefever, Quarryville.
He said that being a 4-H member
widened his circle of acquain-
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tences more than any other or
ganization that he has belonged
to
Mrs. Walter Warfcl, R 2 Cones
toga, said that club work offers
farm childien a wonderful' op-„
portumty to learn new methods.
She said that as a city girl, she
never had the opportunity to be
long to a 4-H Club, but that her
children do and that feels
that they are more fortunate than
she.
Mrs Warfel also said that lat
ent qualities of leadeiship m the
youths *aie bi ought out by the re
sponsibility given them in the
clubs.
According -to James Martin,
New Holland, club woik brings
out creative ability and desires.
He was in agreement with Le
fever m saying that by meeting
people, the world has been
brought closer together.
Practical experience, new meth
ods, and the fun of 4-H work were
cited as attractions by Miss Jose
phene Lausch, a junior leader.
The viewpoint of a parent was
given by Mrs. John Glube, R 2 Lit
itz She said that 4-H work has
given her childien skills and op
portunities that she could not
give them and that "are not usually
available through other educa
tional programs Her daughter,
Mary, has completed seven years
of 4-H work.
The most experienced member
of the panel, Mrs Benjamin
Shaffer, Lititz, who has some 25
years of 4-H work to her credit,
noted some of the changes that
have taken place.
She said that some of the eai li
en, sewing clubs started as hope
chest projects. Her son learned
gardening through the club, a
skill that has stood him in good
stead. He is now a contractor foi;
a large vegetable canning and
processing firm.'
Following 'the panel, a slide
program was given showing some
of the programs underway for the
interest of rural people.
In a discussion following, these
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THERE ARE A LOT of years of 4-H work
represented in these junior and senior
4-H leaders who gave a.-panel discussion
on “What is 4-H Qlub work” at a leader
training meeting Friday at the Farm Bu
reau Cooperative in Lancaster They are
front row, (1 to r)- Mrs. Walter Warfel, R 2
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Conestoga; Miss Josephine Lausch; Mijs.
John Glube, R 1 Lititz; and Mrs Benjamin
Shaffer, Lititz Back row: Robert Lefevqr,
Quarryville; James Martin, New Holland;
and Edgar Porter, who was in charge of
the meeting (LF Photo)
In chaige of the meeting was
Edgar Poiter, loadci of the Man
or 4-H Club Thirty eight junior
and senior leadeis attended the
school
Lititz, R. D. 4, Pa.
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