—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Nov. 20, 1976
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Cindy Murphy is hew instructor at Willow Street
By JOANNE SPAHR
WILLOW STREET, Pa. -
She’s honest, open, and
forthright, which is a
combination her students
seem to like - already she is
called “Mom” by some of
them. “She” is Cindy
Murphy, the new floriculture
instructor at Willow Street
Vo-Tech.
The position Miss Murphy
has filled was really just
created this year. Prior to
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Cindy Murphy and one of her Penn Manor High School, look over
morning pupils, Randy Snyder of this year’s poinsettia crop.
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this, James Kerr was the
only floriculture-horticulture
instructor at Willow Street,
and he taught both subjects
with the help of a teacher’s
aide. This year, however, the
enrollment was so high that
horticulture and floriculture
were separated and a new,
two-teacher program was
created. Kerr now primarily
teaches horticulture and
Miss Murphy teaches
floriculture.
All told, Miss Murphy’s
class is comprised of 37
young adults - 22 arrive for
the morning session and 15
for the afternoon. The
students come from many of
the schools in the county
including McCaskey,
Solanco, Lampeter
Strasburg, Penn Manor, and
Pequea Valley. They are
bussed to the Vo-Tech school
where they get three hours of
vocational training.
they go togeth
One of the many skills Miss Murphy Jody Moore of New Providence, Pa.,
teaches her students is how to make on proper technique and color
sand pourings. Here, she instructs variations.
Miss Murphy’s program is
a two-year course with the
first year students taught
basically greenhouse
propogation, or greenhouse
care, and the second year
students learning floral
design.
“I really try to recreate a
shop atmosphere,” she says,
“because that is where many
of them will be working.” As
a result, much of the lear
ning takes place in an in
formal teaching at
mosphere.
Miss Murphy’s basic set up
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is to have a “theory” or
lecture segment during part
of the three hours, and a
corresponding lab for the
remainder of the session.
Some of the various arts she
teaches the students are
sand pourings, dish gardens,
fresh arrangements, and
dried arrangements.
A 1976 “Bicentennial
grad”, as she puts it, from
Penn State University where
she majored in ag education
and specialized in hor
ticulture, Miss Murphy is
only a few years removed
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from the age bracket of the
students she teaches. But,
unlike many beginning
teachers who see this as a
liability, Miss Murphy sees it
as a point to her advantage.
“I’m closer to their age so
I can identify with their
feelings and attitudes, she
says with assurance. She can
also identify with their
desire to work with plants,
because she has held many
summer and vacation part
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