—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 1, 1972
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Mrs. Garman, Speech Pathologist, Busy Farm Women Member
Mrs. Charles McSparran
Farm Feature Writer
Mrs Scott (Fay) Garman, 18
Woodland Ave., Lititz, is an
active community leader as well
as a speech pathologist for the
Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate
Unit 13, a homemaker and
mother of two sons.
Fay, daughter of the late Mr
and Mrs W Cullen Carpenter,
was born on a 100 acre farm at
Pine Hill, northeast of Lititz. Her
father raised tobacco and did
general farming. She was the
only child The family moved to
Lititz and she graduated at Lititz
High School She graduated from
Carnegie-Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, where she
specialized in History and
English. She and her husband
received their Masters degree
together from Franklin and
Marshall College, Lancaster. She
was m the first class that per
mitted women to attend this all
male college. This was before it
became co,-educational. She also
spent one summer abroad at
Oxford University, England.
Mrs. Carman is a speech
pathologist in the Rothsville,
Brunnerville, Kissel Hill and
Lilitz Elementary Schools and
the Warwick Middle School and
Senior High School. She works
with any children who have a
deviation in-'speech and have
problems such as cleft palate,
cerebral palsy, language
disability or stuttering They
have an interest in the language
development of the child, to see
that the child can speak
adequately She teaches children
from kindergarten through
twelth grade
Mrs Carman was one of the
initial speech teachers in the
county. She started in five
districts • Penn Manor, Cocalico,
Henpfield, Warwick and
Ephrata.
Lancaster-Lebanon In
termediate Unit 13 headquarters
is in the Farm and Home Center
building. They have a pre-school
diagnostic center at the First
United Methodist Church on
North Duke Street, Lancaster. It
is for evaluation and placement
in a school and operates during
the school term They have deaf
and hard of hearing classes at the
Hearing Conservation Center on
Janet Avenue, Manheim
Township. Also another at Martin
Mylm School, Lampeter There
are 25 speech teachers in the
Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate
Unit 13 serving approximately
2,500 to 3,000 children And there
are six hearing pathologists
serving about 300 to 400 children
on an itinerant basis.
Mrs Garman started teaching
in 1947 in a one room school,
White Oak School in Elizabeth
Township Her mother was
teaching there and became ill so
she took her place She taught
there two years From there she
went to Bambndge High School
in Conoy Township and taught
History and English four years.
She left there and taught at
Carlisle High School a year She
got married and taught at
Warwick High School till 1957. It
was then she went into speech
work
Mrs Garman is a member of
Farm Women Society 1 which
was organized in 1917 Her
mother joined not too long after it
was organized and as a little girl
Fay attended the meetings with
her mother. She says she can’t
remember when she didn’t go to
the meetings She, herself, joined
as a teenager She says “I think
it’s the most wonderful
organization ” Her mother
served as president six years and
Fay was president 1969 and 1970.
Prior to that she served as vice
president two years She also
served several times as program
and as social chairman. Mrs.
Graybill Hollinger is president of
the Society and there are 36
members. They meet the first
Saturday afternoon of each
month.
Farm Women Society 1 sup
ports all community projects
such as the red feather drive and
the heart fund. A main com-
munity project through the years
was serving a dinner and
presenting a Christmas program
for the Moravian Home in Lititz.
They also gave the guests gifts
and had favors for the dinner.
The home is closed now so they
are looking for another project.
They have always gone into the
homes of their members at the
time of a death and served a
dinner. They sew at hospitals,
provide programs and treats at
Conestoga View, play games and
take a treat to the patients at
Embreeville State Hospital,
prepare Christmas seals for the
Tuberculosis Association and
help with apple butter making at
Landis Valley Museum the first
Saturday of October. Some of
their money-making projects are
making and selling hoagies at
factories three or four times a
year, selling food at sales, having
a food and plant sale at one of
their meetings in the fall and this
year they have divided their
membership and ask four of them
to bring home-made items such
as food, produce, aprons, candles
and crafts to a meeting and Mary
Clark auctions them off.
Mrs. Garman has been a
member of the Lititz Woman’s
Club at least 20 years and served
two years as president, two years
as first vice-president and two
years as second vice-president
They have about 130 members.
They meet the third Monday
evening of the month. They have
book reviews and meetings when
they learn to do knitting, crewel
embroidery and flower
arranging They have a bridge
club which meets during the day.
They had a tea this year in the
recreation center showing “My
Most Prized Possession.”
Exhibits included china, silver,
antiques, pictures and fancy
work and each one gave the
history of their exhibit This was
not a money-making project.
They intend to make this an
annual affair. For a money
making affair they sponsor a
bridge and pinochle tournament
January through May each year.
Some of their community ac
tivities are putting plantings in
the center of Lititz to beautify the
town, sponsor Lititz Girl Scouts,
back the Lititz Springs Park
Commission and the Lititz
Recreation Center, provide some
of the chaperones and give
financial support to the post
Mrs. Scott Garman, 18 Woodland Ave., Lititz, looks over
the report of the Executive Director of Lancaster-Lebanon
Intermediate Unit 13 where she is a speech pathologist.
prom in the school cafeteria and
have a book sale for the Lititz
Public Library.
Mrs. Garman belongs to the
county unit of Delta Capa
Gamma which is a national
honorary organization for
teachers that promotes better
educational procedures. They do
this primarily four times a year
by offering educational
programs One of their main
projects is entertaining all
retired teachers yearly. They
also sponsor a scholarship. They
have 90 members.
Mrs. Garman is a member of
Eastern Star. She has just
become interested in and
working on an environmental
committee for Warwick School.
Last year Mrs. Garman
became the first woman
president of the church council of
Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church,
Lititz. It is the governing body of
the church with a lot of com
mittees working under it. They
take care of finances, building,
education, music and worship
and social service for individual
members. They meet the last
Thursday of every month. She
belongs to Lutheran Women of
the church. In Sunday School she
teaches occasionally the adult
Bible class, a Bible study group
ind adult courses offered on a
-.emester basis.
Mrs. Garman is a good
housekeeper and cook and has
several hobbies. She loves to
read. She says'Td read all the
time if I could.” She reads
anything. She raises a lot of
annual flowers. She gathers dried
weeds and flowers and makes fall
arrangements and also puts them
in picture frames for their home.
She knits. She has made six
afghans, lots of mittens and
sweaters. She used to sew when
she had more time. She and their
family and other relatives go
cherry picking. She freezes lots of
fruits, vegetables and makes
about 25 quarts of vegetable soup
which she freezes. She also
makes jellies. She has several
nice antiques, particularly
dishes, which have been handed
down in the family. When asked
how she does so much she replied
“I have a wonderful husband who
is most understanding and
always encourages me, and I
have a wonderful family.”
Scott has been teaching public
speaking at Millersville State
College seven years. He also
taught it at Warwick High School.
He thoroughly enjoys teaching.
He enjoys playing tennis and
badminton and has won lots of
trophies. He took part in the
National Badminton Tournament
m Louisiana, Nevada, Nebraska
and was runner up in the 1971
tournament. He plays tennis on
the Manheim and Lancaster
Mrs. Garman holds a piece of Steigel glassware which is a
prized part of her collection of antique dishes. The cupboard
was made in 1812 and has been handed down in the Car
penter family.
clubs. The Manheim team has
been champion in the county for
seven years. He is also a great
reader. He likes to read
professional books.
Garmans have two sons.
Gregory will be in tenth grade at
Warwick High School this fall.
Greg is on the high school tennis
team. His main interest is
collecting rocks and fossils. He is
on a trip to Denver, Colo, now,
visiting cousins, and going on
fossil trips. He belongs to Earth
Science Club at F & M Museum
which meets monthly. He also
goes every Saturday. He entered
his exhibit of rocks and fossils at
the county Science Fair and
received honorable mention. He
wants to study this in college He
is also an avid reader. He takes a
book wherever he goes. He took
some piano lessons and plays the
trumpet in the high school band.
Jesse will be in fifth grade at
Kissel Hill this fall. Jess, like the
rest of the family, is a great
reader. He won the year-long
reading contest at school by
reading 115 books. He is in
terested in playing midget
football and is built for football.
He has taken some piano lessons
and wants to take trombone
lessons to play in the school band.
Garmans went camping six
years ago to the west coast and
Mexico. Since that they have
gone to New England, Florida
and Louisiana. They took a trip to
Europe one summer. They flew
there and returned by ship. Their
main object in going was to see
the Oberammagan Passion Play
in Germany. This was a great
religious experience for the
whole family. The trip was a real
education to the whole family.
They rented an automobile and
toured the European continent
four weeks and the British Isles
four weeks.
Some of the Garman family
favorite dishes are:
Russian Tea
Serves 35
Bring to a boil and simmer for
30 minutes:
1 cup pineapple juice
Juice of 2 oranges
Juice and rind of 1 lemon
IVz cups sugar
2 cups water
10 whole cloves
Pour 1 pint boiling water over
10 tea bags and let steep until
fusion is strong. Combine the two
mixtures. Add 10 cups hot water.
This can be stored. It can be
served hot or cold.
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Congealed Salad
2 boxes lime jello
2 cups hot water
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1 cup creamed cottage cheese
1 cup chopped nuts
l No. 2 can crushed pineapple
1 can condensed milk
Dissolve jello in hot water, add
mayonnaise and blend. Add
remaining ingredients and mold.
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Hot Fruit Compote
1 No. 2% can Elberta peaches or
pear halves or peach and pear
halves
Vz cup white sugar
Vz cup brown sugar
Put Vz teaspoon butter in center
of each half peach or pear and a
maraschino cherry. Add juice
from canned fruit. Sprinkle white
sugar, then brown sugar, then V*
cup flour over fruit. Bake at 350
degrees for about one-half hour.
Serve warm as a decoration
around fowl or as a side dish with
a meal.
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Pork Chops
Vt cup catsup
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 small onion
Vi cup hot water
Use 6 one-inch pork chops.
Season chops with salt and
pepper. Coat with flour. Dip in
two beaten eggs, then in bread
crumbs. Brown in fat on both
sides (with medium heat). Add
combined liquids. Top chops with
onion slices. Combine other
ingredients and pour over chops.
Cook in skillet till tender, about
1 hour.
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Chopped Ham with Fruit
112-oz. can canned chopped ham
1 No. 2-can fruit cocktail, crushed
pineapple or peaches (use Vz
fruit)
% cup brown sugar
Drain fruit cocktail. Put juice
in pan. Slice meat about Vi inch
thick. Put in skillet. Spread Vz
can of fruit cocktail on top.
Sprinkle sugar on top. Simmer
till sauce is thickened. The other
half of fruit can be used in a
molded salad.
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