~Uincatl*r farming, Saturday, Jan. 17.1976
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Country Corner
4-H experiences change
By MELISSA PIPER
Being involved with youth activities throughout
the year, I am often reminded of my own life
growing up on a farm and my ten years spent in 4-H
work.
My older brother and two sisters, had been 4-
Her’s some time before I was old enough to join and
often I accompanied them to the meetings - wat
ching intently and learning about the organization
from an onlooker’s point of view. I could barely wait
until I was old enough to join our community club
and get started on projects of my own.
The other members of my family had taj<en sheep
as livestock projects but my father suggested that I
should raise a feeder pig instead. I wasn’t sure if
that would be the ideal project to begin with but
Dad’s confidence gave me hope.
Early that spring I selected (quite by random) a
small black crossbred pig, from a neighbor’s farm
and began my 4-H career. After a month of carrying
feed and water and filling out the project book with
all kinds of facts and figures, I wasn’t too sure I had
made the correct decision about joining 4-H. For all
the work seemed like too much responsibility for a
nine-year-old, but with the encouragement of my
Youth learns
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__ She added, “They seem to have accepted the division of
Germany. There is now only 40 percent of the population
who lived through the war, so the strong emotional ties
are fading.”
Her visit to West Berlin made a big impression on Fay.
Her host family lived along the outside perimeter of the
city, which meant she lived daily with “the wall,” within
eyesight of the towers and minefields and within earshot
of the ringing gunfire at night. Her host parents had been
refugees from East Berlin, having left everything behind
to live in the West.
“The Wall is strange thing to see,” Fay said. “To see
people walking and to know that they couldn’t come over
to the West was very puzzling and very depressing.”
She traveled to East Berlin and talked with friends of
her host family who still lived there. One big difference
she said is that there are no cars. She said, “Maybe they
didn’t have material things but they seemed to have more
of a ‘community’.” In her opinion, she said, “They do fear
the secret police.”
As for her family in the West, she said, “they take the
Wall for granted now, and they felt secure - that they had
no real danger.”
Is the IFYE program successful? Fay said she feels it
would be presumptive of her to say grandly that she has
made a contribution to world peace, and besides, that did
not enter her thinking as she lived daily with her German
hosts. She did relate the following anecdote:
On the calling cards which she distributed it explained
the IFYE program by saying: “A program for developing
peace and understanding throughout file world.” One host
father read it and told her he really thought that was
happening through her visit.
Perhaps it was a very small way, but Fay Stoner cer
tainly has had an impact on the seven families with whom
she Uved in Germany, and they likewise have had an
influence on Fay.
‘ ‘This is my home, the country where my heart is,
Here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine.
But other hearts in other lands are beating
With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.”
parents, prodding of my sisters and with the help of
my leaders, I stayed with the program to the end of
that first year.
In spite of my grumblings about feeding the
animal, the pig grew from 40 pounds to 250 pounds
over the summer months and by late August it was
ready forjhe market. I remember feeling rather
sad when it left the farm and yet proud that at least
I had accomplished one task in finishing the
project. A blue ribbon tucked inside of my project
book, after the judging, didn’t hurt to raise my
confidence either. And even in September, I was
looking forward to the next year and another
project.
While that first year had seemed quite long, the
following seasons flew by rather quickly and along
with taking projects, I realized that I actually had
the time to bea>me involved in many extra ac
tivities accompanying the 4-H programs.
Being involved in 4-H taught me a great deal of
responsibility along with meeting people and
traveling to places I might never had done outside
the program. To this day, I feel fortunate that I had
the opportunity to join such an organization and to
reap its many benefits. As I watch 4-H being ex
panded to include many of the suburban and city
youth as well as the farming communities, I am
hopeful that the responsibilities it teaches, will
help our society develop more young people with
purpose in life.
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