—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 15. 1976 Ronks farm woman aids Fresh Air Fund for children By SUSAN KAUFFMAN Feature Writer Many organizations are celebrating their centennial year in 1976 mainlv because volunteer people have been working faithfully for years to support and administer the organizations’ programs. One such diligent worker who prefers to be in the background rather than up front is Mrs. John Buckwalter, Ronks. She spends a great deal of her time forwarding the Fresh Air Fund Committee work in Lancaster county. The Fund nationally completes 100 years in existence this year. Lincoln University to any plea Mrs. Buckwalter sees in the newspaper. points and even insert friendly comments about relatives and the confusion of identical names. Even with these several interruptions Mrs. Buckwalter returned with calm enthusiasm to our converstaion about the Fresh Air Fund and its achievements. When asked by this reporter, who marvelled at the large guest book filled with pictures and salutations of these many guests, “Where do you get all of them?”, Anna Buckwalter repiled, “The Lord sends them to me!” While Mr. and Mrs. Buckwalter’s children, Glen and Jean, were still living at home, the family welcomed Fresh Air children as house guests for several weeks each summer. Throughout the years from 1957 to 1962 they hosted from time to time four Chinese girls along with many other short term, one-time, guests who came and went in a fashion which would make may hosts’ heads spin. Besides driving her passengers to and from their errands and visits, Mrs. Buckwalter also conducts tours of the Penna. Dutch Country as she has done for the past 16 years. Add to this work load the many activities she supports in her church. Mrs. Buckwalter combines ac tivity and organization along with personal warmth to make all these interests co-ordinate. Continuing a practice set by her maternal grandmother in Lebanon county in 1898, Mrs. Buckwalter opened her home in 1945 to a Fresh Air child for two weeks. From that happy experience, Anna Buckwalter has gradually become more and more involved in the program at the administrative end as well as continuing to open her home to hundreds of American and foreign visitors from the Fresh Air Fund and numerous other agencies ranging from the American Field Service, Experiment in In ternational Living, to hosting African students attending Her main interest for the purpose of this interview, was the Fresh Air Fund, its history, its present goal of recruiting summer hosts, and its search in its centennial year for past Fresh Air guests. As if this constant flow of strangers, soon to become life long memories, were not enough to tax their strength, the Buckwalters have been operating a van-taxi service primarily for the Amish in their area for many years. As tne phone kept ringing during this interviewer’s visit with Mrs. Buckwalter, she continued to reply calmly to the caller about arrangements for pick-up and destination According to Mrs. Buckwalter’s research, the Fresh Air Fund is a non-profit orgnization supported by local agencies and volunteer contributions which bring New York City children to the suburban and rural areas for a I Continued on Page 65] Viewpoints 6 ways your Crop Care dealer helps you make better crop profits: But there are two nobler virtues, industry and frugality, which tend more to increase the wealth, power and gran deur of the community, than all the others without them To help you farm better and make more money your Crop Care dealer offers the following services that keep him up-to-date on the latest crop care techniques Your Crop Care dealer is a central source of information about successful farming ideas used in your area And he dan draw on the experiences and techniques of other Crop Care dealers in the network Mrs. Buckwalter fooks at memoirs of guests she has hosted. 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