22—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Jan. 1, 1977
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Nat’l Grange gives scholarship to deaf stiid
By JOANNE SPAHR
LANCASTER, Pa. - Last
week, Robert N. Collins, 423
N. Charlotte St., Lancaster,
received a $5OO grant from
the National Grange to help
him complete his education
at the Lancaster Theological
Seminary where he is
preparing for ordination in
the Lutheran Church. The
money he received will go
toward a month-long
seminar abroad which is a
graduation requirement he
must fulfill.
A graduate from Gallaudet
College in Washington, D. C.,
the only liberal arts college
in the world for the deaf,
Collins is one of seven per
cent of the - national
population who is deaf, and
for this reason has played a
unique roll in both 'the
Pennsylvania and National
Granges.
For five years now, the
National Grange has been
helping deaf organizations.
Several years ago the
Grange purchased specially
ThomasviUe 4-H
THOMASVILLE, Pa. - On
December 6 the ThomasvUle
Community 4-H Club held its
annual Achievement Night
.dinner for members and
their families at the County
4-H center near Bair.
The club gave awards to
the three highest cookie
salesmen in the club. First
place went to Kelly Rentzel;
second to Tim Eisenhart;
and third to Teresa Roser.
Installation of officers was
performed by Jack Parr and
Tommy Welsh. The officers
for the upcoming year are
Tommy Welsh, president;
Bonnie Wire, vice president;
Tina Parr, secretary;
Joanne Haskins, assistant
secretary; Jonathon Myers,
treasurer; Kelly Rentzel,
news reporter; Karen Parr,
assistant news reporter;
Nancy Eisenhart, song
leader; Teresa Roser,
assistant song leader;
Tammy Wetzel, game
leader; Joey Welsh,
historian; and Roy Thomp
son, assistant historian.
Outstanding project work
awards were presented to
the following members:
Dairy- Tommy Welsh, Rifle-
Jack Parr, Vegetables-
Teresa Roser, Foods-
Michele Lau, Tractor
'Jonathan Myers, Sewing-
Joanne Haskins, Poultry-
Roy Thompson, Knitting-
Sandy Eisenhart,
Automotive- Gary Welsh,
Bicycle- Paul Myers, Hor
ticulture- Nancy Eisenhart,
Handyman- James Roth,
Ceramics- Nancy Kulynych,
Goat- Debbie Rodgers,
Leathercraft- Joey Welsh,
Sheep- Beverly Eisenhart,
Photography- Bonnie Wire.
Other project award
winners in various project
areas are: Clothing- Tina
Parr, Carol Haskins, Rabbit-
Mike Welsh, Angela
Kulynych, Foods- Kristine
Sponseler, Dairy-, Christine
Wolf, Horticulture- Vicki
Rauhauser, Handyman-
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made telephones which work
on a principle similar to a
telegraph for this handicap.
These phones were
distributed mainly in the
state of Arkansas. The
Grange's most recent
project is a songbook written
for those who can hear but
want to leam sign. It in
cludes a complete set of sign
language to go with each
song, and may be the only
one of its kind in the nation.
That songbook was inspired
by Collins at the Penn
sylvania State Grange
Leadership School held in
Gettysburg in June.
At that conference,
Collins, who is 80 per cent
deaf but has a good speaking
ability, was a guest lecturer
for the Pa. group. Penn
sylvania has been active in
helping the deaf for three
years. As Collins spoke, his
wife Sarah, a teacher of the
multiply handicapped deaf'
for the York-Lincoln In
termediate Unit, presented
his speech in sign. At a
David Eshbach, Robert
Haskins, Crocheting-
Needlework- Lori Hoke.
The teen leaders are: First
year- Nancy Eisenhart,
Kelly Rentzel, Joey Welsh,
and Jonathan Myers; Second
year- Bonnie Wire, and Paul
Myers, HI; and Third year-
Tim Eisenhart, Jack Parr,
Jeff Roth, Tommy Welsh,
and Gary Welsh.
An alumni pin was
presented to Jeff Roth for his
achievements and club work
as a 4-H member. A letter
opener was presented to Tim
Eisenhart to signify that he
has obtained the highest
level of achievement in the 4-
H program. A Special Friend
of 4-H award was presented
to Rodney Wire.
Mrs. Vjcki Rhorbaugh
presented Harris Horn with
a special award for all the
years of service to the
Thomasville Community 4-H
Club.
The evening ended with a
friendship circle singing
Kum-ba-ya led by Mrs.
Harris Horn.
banquet she later taught the
group songs in sign
language.
This idea of teaching sign
language through song was
so well accepted, that the
National Grange began
working on the. unique
songbook which has recently
been published.
William Steel, youth
director for the National
Grange, explains that the
organization became in
terested in working with the
deaf five years ago when the
Council of Organizations
Serving the Deaf approached
them for help. The. Grange
decided to help the cause and
they have revealed that a
large concentration of deaf
are in rural areas.
“Unfortunately, we don’t
know all the cases of farm
families with this problem
because they will often hide
their children,” Steel ex
plained.
However, it was
documented in a 1971
government national health
survey that over 13 million
people in the United States
do have hearing im
pairments. A hearing im
pairment is a loss of hearing
- no matter how slight or
profound. And, nationally,
about 1.7 million persons are
profoundly deaf, or don’t
receive speech sounds
clearly endugh through
hearing to develop language,
even though they may be
aware of loud and random
voices.
The number of deaf and
bearing impaired in
dividuals in the state was
close to 800 thousand in 1971
and-at that time there were
80,946 deaf individuals in
Pennsylvania.
To help the cause in the
state, the Pennsylvania
Grange has been giving
contributions to deaf foun
dations since 1973.
That year a $lOB7 check
was presented to the Penn
sylvania School of the Deaf
at Germantown to purchase
an impedence audiometer. A
year later another $lOOO
check was presented to the
Pittsburgh Hearing and
Speech Society for use at
their own discretion.
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Robert N. Collins, left, receives a
$5OO check from William Steel, youth
director for the National Grange.
Collins, who is deaf, received the deaf
scholarship grant from the National
Grange to help fund a seminar
abroad, which is a requirement of the
In 1975 the Grange pur
chased six hearing main
tenance kits and presented
them to the Lancaster-
Lebanon Intermediate Unit
13. These kits were for the
use of technicians and have
been used in 21 different
school districts.
And, just this year the
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Lancaster-Theological
where he is preparing for
in the Lutheran Church
holding a one-of-a-kind:
published by the Nation,
which includes pictures '
language for the words to
group presented telecom
munication devices to the
Pittsburgh Hearing and
Speech Center, ~ In
corporated. Now, through a
tie with the state
organization, Bill Collins has
received help to do his
overseas seminar.
Future state support of the
deaf is undecided at this
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