Two Vo-Tech Chapters
Two new Lancastei County ter of Biownstown Vo-Tech
FFA Chapters received their School and Plants Unlimited
charters at the annual State FFA Chapter of Mount Joy Vo-
FFA Convention in Hai nsburg Tech School
in January,
The new Chapters differ in
They are Tovoca FFA Chap-many respects from the nine
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Give Lancaster Co. IFF k New Look
ether FFA Chapters which have
long been a part of the Lancas
ter County faim scene
For one thing, the. new
Chapteis include no, it’s not
a mistake gals The emoll
ment in the piogiams at both
schools is faaly evenly balanced
between boys and girls
This conti asts with the other
FFA progiams in which gals
weie admitted for the first tape
last year and while a few girls
have enrolled in the Vo-Ag pro
giams at some of the other
schools, the numbei is still veiy
small
The participation by gals at
the Biownstown and Mount Joy
schools includes election of
some of them to the offices in
the Chapter
At Mount Joy, for instance,
Sue Bair, from Elizabethtown
High School, is vice president.
Robeita Troy of Lancaster Cath
olic is secretary, Lee Graybill
of Manheim Central is chaplain
and LuAnn Reismger of Colum
bia High School is reporter.
At Brownstown, where there
are two sets of officers, one for
the a m classes and one for the
pm. classes, girls who hold
offices in the a m group include;
Pat Brossman, president; Pam
Wood, secietary, Pat Arndt,
tieasurer, and Nancy Stober, re
porter In the pm group, Sue
Wargo is vice president, Nina
Smith is secretary and Cheryl
Winger, reporter
Program Different
The move toward integration
of sexes is by no means the only
difference between the new pro
grams and the established ones.
,In fact, this change may merely
I reflect other, more basic
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Lee Graybill, of Manheim Central High School, waters a
hanging basket of ferns growing in spagnum moss at the
Mount Joy School.
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changes, in the educational pro
gram uaeli
For one thing, the Vo-Tech
piogiam is geared almost ex
clusively to training young
people who graduate from the
(program to go immediately into
the job market The program
is geared to give them a skill
which will make it icadily pos
sible for them to get a job upon
graduation.
While many students in the
traditional vo-ag program go
directly from high school into
farming, many of them also go
on to higher education, such as
the college or university
For another thing, FFA pre
viously has been centered
aiound tiaditional crop and live
stock piograms, with heavy
emphasis on such basics as
danying, beef and swine pro
duction, com and hay
Focus On Greenhouse
The new vo-tech program has
the greenhouse as its focal
point Much of the progi am and
the work done by students cen
ters around gieenhouses which
aie an important pait of the vo
tech piogram
Actual instruction at both
Brownstown and Mount Joy in
cludes both floucultuie and hor
ticulture
The girls aie particularly at
tracted to the ilonculture por
tion of the program It is de
signed to teach them the fun
damentals ot flower production,
as well as design and flower ar
rangement
At least 50 varieties of plants
aie grown in the greenhouses at
each of the schools. More are
being added peiiodically as the
program develops at the two
schools, which just opened this
past fall.
The instruction includes how
to start new plants.
Some objectives
Bill Mitchell, horticulture
teacher at Mount Joy, said plans
include growing carnations in
abundance in one section of the
greenhouse next year The ob
ject is to give students insight
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