—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Oct. 23, 1976 56 Wendy Shaw’s first love is animal husband By Judy Mitchell Berks Co. Reporter OLEY, Pa. - For Wendy Shaw of Oley R 2, showing dairy animals “is the main thing I wait for every year;" and considering Wendy’s success this past show season, it wascertainly an occasion worth waiting for. As the 1976 fair season progressed, the results of area Holstein events became downright predictable as Wendy led her four-year-old Holstein cow in for the grand championship award again and again. Reading, Allentown, Kutztown and Oley fairs - “Wendy’s Doll” was a grand champion at them all. Although Wendy took a sizeable show string to the fairs, she recalls teat most people who approached her thought Doll was the only cow she had because Doll “just kept popping up on top.” Actually, Doll’s per formance this year really came as no surprise to Wendy who points out that it was almost a repeat of her 1975 fair season. So of course, when it came to selecting one of her animals to take to the Junior Dairy Show last month, Wendy didn’t have to think twice about her choice. Doll ac . fc^jd6>for VTfcJT* special savings many new MF products during the final days of our Savings Days Roundup Sale Hurry-Sale ends Oct 29! MF= Massey Ferguson LEBANON VALLEY IMPLEMENT 700 E Linden SI. Richland PA Phone (7171866-7518 companied Wendy to Harrisburg and again proved herself a winner when she was named grand champion of the Holstein breed in the Junior Dairy event. “I was really proud of her this year,” Wendy says of Doll, “she really did well for me.” If Doll performed well for Wendy, the fifteen-year-old 4-H and FFA member did pretty well for herself in showing and fitting this past season. “That’s really my show,” Wendy remarks enthusiastically, “and I work hard for it.” The highlight of the season for Wendy was being named State Champion Showman and Fitter at the Junior Dairy Show in Harrisburg. “That was tod much,” ac cording to Wendy, and although she placed in the top ranks in a number of area showing and fitting contests, she would “give them all up” for that'one victory in Harrisburg. - Wendy, who claims she wouldn’t trade her life on the farm“for a life in a miUion dollar mansion,” began showing dairy animals shortly after joining the 4-H at the age of eight. Although she helps with the field work at home when she’s needed, Wendy’s “first love on the Personalized MF financing, ifCUCD DOCK parts & service ' vtLLtK available N. H. FLICKER A. L. HERR & SONS INC. & BRO. CO. Maxatawny Phone 1215| 683-7252 farm are the animals.” She tends the dozen animals she now owns and does the milking in the evening. “I try to be with my animals as much as I can,” she remarks, “I try to be close to them because, afterall, they are my projects.” The very factthat Wendy is a tenth grade agricultural student at Oley Valley High School seems to suggest that this farm girl is as confident meeting challenges outside the show ring as she is in it. When she entered Oley Valley last year, Wendy became the first girl to ever enroll in the agricultural program at her school. “At first the boys just stared,” she recalls, “they couldn’t Relieve it.” She also recalls that they laughed, “but I was dead serious.‘“ That first year she “worked like crazy” helping her FFA chapter in every way she could; and by the end of the school year, the boys, who weren’t laughing anymore, elected Wendy to serve as their chapter reporter. Wendy says she plans on getting even more involved In FFA activities this year. As a chapter officer she will attend leadership training course, and she plans on entering this year’s public Ridge Road Perkasie PA Ph: 215-257-5698 or 257-5864 312 Park Ave Quarryville PA Phone [7l7] 786-3521 Wendy is shown with her very impressive assortment of trophies and ribbons which she has won in showing her dairy animals over the years. The most prized of all her awards is a framed letter and speaking events. As for claims she “wouldn’t have haveing been the first girl to missed it for the world.” enter the Wendy, who admits she program at Oley, Wendy doen’t like anything that has '® =5 5\ \ M. M. WEAVER S. G. LEWIS MARLIN W. & SONS AND SON SCHREFFLER North Groffdale Road Leola PA 17540 Phone |717|656-2321 West Grove, PA 1215)869-9440 869-2214 NISSLEY FARM SERVICE Charlestown Rd - Prospectßd Washington Boro PA Phone |717|285-4844 government bond to the right of the photo. These two items she received this year as state champion showman and fitter of the junior dairy show in Harrisburg. to do with homemakeing, hopes to go to college and become “a veterinary (Continued on Page 57] WAIVER OF FINANCE CHARGES ■ to March 1, 1977 on all MF farm tractors ■ to April 1, 1977 on MF plowing, tilling and hay harvesting equipment MF 1505 4-wheel drive tractor MF 235 tractor MF 128 baler MF 260 forage harvester Pitman, PA [7l7] 648-1120 PAUL J. EICHERT & SON RDI, Orwigsburg, PA Ph: [7l7] 943-2304 .* V'3i
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