—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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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