—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Oct. 23, 1976
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Time in 4-H has flown for brother and sister
By JOANNE SPAHR
EPHRATA, Pa.. - The
photographs show either a
boy or girl at the lead of a
steer which is twice the size
of the person holding it, and
the little figures in the pic
ture are dressed in clothes
from an era gone by. The
overly grinning cherub faces
represented only partially
resemble the countenances
of the two teenagers showing
the scrapbook, but it is
evident from the grins and
laughter brought on by the
pictures that they are key
memoirs from the past.
At one point, Ron looks up
at his sister, Judy, and says
with a perplexed, con
sternated look on his face,
“Boy, doesn’t time fly?”
Both agree that, yes, then
time in 4-H has passed
quickly and that 4-H has
been a great experience for
both of them.
The two teenagers in
volved are Ron and Judy
Zimmerman, the children of
Mr. and Mrs. John Zim
merman, Ephrata HI. Both
have had active careers in 4-
H. Judy has been involved in
the Red Rose Beef and Sheep
Club for six years and has
been active in the Ephrata
Mmikittrick succeeds Martin
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Graham T. Munkittrick will
succeed Benny Martin as
Pennsylvania State Con
servationist for the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s
Soil Conservation Service
(SCS), Administrator R. M.
Davis announced today.
Munkittrick, 48, will be
transferring October 24, to -
Harrisburg, PA., from
Maryland, where he has
been State Conservationist
for four years. Martin, head
of SCS work in Pennsylvania
since 1972, will become State
Conservationist in
Nebraska.
Martin is a native of Idaho
and a 1951 agronomy
graduate of the University of
Idaho. He served in the U.S.
Navy from 1943 to 1946.
Martin joined SCS in 1951 in
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Community Club with swine
and 4-H veterinary projects.
Ron, 18, has had a nine year
track record of successes
and good times in the beef
club.
Together, and in
dividually, the two things the
brother and sister duo
mention about their time in
4-H is the fun they have had
and the people they have
met.
“If you don’t have fun, you
may as well not be in it,”
says Judy, matter-of-factly.
And, she has had fun, it’s
evident. For five out of her
six years in 4-H, she has been
involved in the Farm Show
at Harrisburg which she
thoroughly enjoys.
“I guess I've just been
lucky,” - she modestly
commented ivhen asked
the key to her success. But,
she has earned her laurels in
competition,' which
disproves her modest
remark. For instance, her
third year there, she had the
reserve champion Hereford.
One of her most vivid
memories from that ex
perience is that the person
she purchased the animal
from paced the floor the
whole time she was showing,
Idaho where he worked as a
soil scientist and district
conservatinist. He served as
area conservationist in
Colorado from 1961 until
1966, when he became
assistant state con
servationist for Kansas.
In 1970, Martin moved to
Harrisburg, Pa., where he
served as Deputy Station
Conservationist until his
selection as Pennsylvania’s
State Conservationist.
Munkittrick is a native of
New Jersey and a 1954
agriculture graduate of
Arizona State University. He
was awarded a Maker’s
Degree in public ad
ministration by Harvard
University in 1969.
Munkittrick served in the
U.S. Army from 1953 to 1955.
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And, it got to the point that
spectators drew a circle
around him which he was not
allowed to overstep.
Yet, her best memories, as
was mentioned, are of the
fun she had.
“You meet so many kids,”
she explains. The only
drawback of the competition
is that “they make us go to
bed too early.”
Judy has also been on teen
leader retreats, although, so
far, she’s never been a teen
leader. However, the
retreats aie valuable ex
periences because they
teach her how to help others,
especially younger people.
This year, also, she was
part of a junior livestock
fudging team which com
peted in 4-H State
Achievement Days at Penn
State. In that competition,
her team placed first and she
placed as second high in
dividual. The other members
of her team placed fourth
and fifth, so, as Judy puts it,
as a team they did “really
well.”
But, Judy’s not one to point
up her successes and neither
is Ron, although one ac
complishment of his 4-H
Munkittrick joined SCS in
1957 in New Jersey where he
served as a soil conservation
technician, soil con
servationist and district
conservationist before being
selected area con
servationist in Charlot
tesville, Va. in 1965.
In 1969, Munkittrick
moved to East Greenwich,
HI., where he was State
Conservationist for Rhode *
Island until he tranferred to
Maryland in 1972.
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Judy and Ron Zimmerman have and have ribbons and trophies as
been members of 4-H for many years, memoirs of their past achievements.
career has been being
named the third high in
dividual at State 4-H
Achievement Days in 1974
when the junior team he was
on placed first. He’s also
done quite well in local Farm
Shows such as the Ephrata
Fair, where he has had
champion animals for
several years. And, he also
has taken animals to Farm
Show for all but one of his
years in 4-H.
Yet, Ron, who is a senior at
Ephrata High School,
doesn’t look into the past as
much as he does to the
future. He’s now at the verge
of starting a career for
himself away from school
and 4-H. He’d like to go into
farming, although with the
prices the way they are, he’s
not sure what amount of
success he will have in
getting started in this area.
But, if he can, he will stay
with farm related work.
Right now he’s working for a
serum company, taking
blood samples of heifer
calves and veal calves for
research laboratory
materials. So, in the future,
it is possible he will go into
this type of vocation which
springs out of his interest in
agriculture.
Judy, however, has a few
more years to go before she
.needs to plan a career. She’s
a sophomore at Ephrata
High School where she is
taking the business course.
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She also takes a few
agriculture classes on the
side. And, she is very much
involved with the hockey
team.
As with her career, Judy
doesn’t need to concern
herself now about having to
leave 4’H, because she has
three more years to go,
which she fully intends to
enjoy.
“I know already that I’ll
miss it,” she says.
Hopefully, time won’t fly as
quickly in those next three
years as it did in the first stn
for her; and the past nine for
Ron.
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