—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. June 23, 1973
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Clashing Thimbles
Elect New Officers
The second meeting of the Penn
Manor 4-H Clashing Thimbles
Club was held last week at the
Millersville Middle School. The
meeting was called to order by
last years president, Joanne
Metzger
Election for this years officers
was held. New officers are:
Kris Stehman, president;
Linda Sickman, vice-president;
Joanne Metzger, secretary; Lisa
Johnson, treasurer; Kay Shert-
zer news reporter: Nancy
Eckenrod and Darlene Metzger,
game leaders; Lori Leaman and
Carolyn Judge, song leaders.
Dues were decided and the
leaders gave comments. A work
period followed meeting ad
journment.
News Reporter
Kay Shertzer
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Schedule Full For FFA Week
Lancaster, Chester, Lebanon
and Berks Counties will be well
represented as 219 students
enrolled in the vocational
agriculture course at the various
schools compete state-wide
during FFA Activities Week at
Penn State June 27 to 29. Contests
on the State level will determine
those eligible to represent
Pennsylvania in Regional and
-National contests.
County quotas in Contest Areas
are on the basis of one contestant
for every eight members in the
local chapters. There are con
tests in such areas as public
speaking, parliamentary
procedures, dairy cattle judging,
judging of dairy products,
poultry judging, land judging,
agronomy, salesmanship, or
namental landscape, and floral
design. There is a farm
mechanics skills contest, a farm
power and machinery ad
justment contest, small gasoline
engines contest, and a safe
tractor operation contest.
In the various contests,
students (boys and girls) must p
erform a variety of shop a"d
mechanical skills a.id
troubleshooting. They are judged
on the basis of their proficiency
and safety with which they
perform these skills.
New officers to represent
the State FFA will also be
elected.
Eighty-six contestants will be
representing Lancaster County,
including one parliamentary
procedure team, two speakers,
three delegates, two officer
candidates, three State Band
members, and eight in State
Chorus. Schools entering com
petition will include Penn Manor,
Lampeter-Strasburg, Manheim
Central, Ephrata, Solanco,
Pequea Valley, Garden Spot,
Elizabethtown, Brownstown Vo-
Tech and Mount Joy Vo-Tech.
Areas of competition entered
for the Lancaster County
students are dairy judging, dairy
foods, livestock, ' forestry, ag
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our band members, four officer
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procedure team, floriculture,
land judging, forestry, small
engines, interview, ag
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Kutztown, Brandywine, Conrad
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