Polish exchangee tells of life in homeland
By JOYCE BUPP
Staff correspondent
GLEN ROCK An in
tegral part of life for many
farm youngsters is in
volvement in 4-H activities.
And, that’s not true just here
in America, but in many
countries around the world.
Through exchange
programs, 4-H’ers and their
families have gained in
valuable international un
derstanding of each other’s
dreams and problems. The
most fortunate have earned
the chance to live in and
experience first-hand a new
culture.
Zdzislaw Stanislaw
“Stanley” Trojanowicz is a
28-year-old work program
i exchangee from Poland. His
' year-long working visit
began last March, when he
came to the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Irvin Rappoldt and son,
Larry, Glen Rock Rl.
Although the placement was
to be temporary, until a
permanent work assignment
on a farm could be found, the
family became very at
tached to the warm and
friendly young man and
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to stay. He soon became an
integral part of the family
construction business.
As a representative of the
International Agriculture
Training Program, spon
sored by the national 4-H
program, Stanley was one of
100 Polish exchangees
coming here annually.
Other countries taking part
in the program include
Hungary, the Soviet Union,
-and the Phillipines.
Placements are being sought
for exchangees arriving
each year.
Although he had studied
English for only one month
before coming to York
County, Stanley quickly
picked up the language
through living and working
with the Rappoldts, and he'
now speaks it fluently.
Stanley’s father manges a
40,000 acres state farm in
western Poland. A self
sufficient agriculture
economic unit, the state
farm is composed of 10
smaller operations, with
each one focusing on the
production of a particular
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modity. Included in the
scope of the self-sufficient
farm unit is the production of
livestock feeds, commercial
manufacturing of alcohol
from potatoes and grams
grown on the acreage as well
as slaughterhouses and food
processing facilities for on
farm workers.
The educational system in
Poland is slightly different
from ours, notes Stanley,
who has earned his Master’s
Degree in mechanization of
agriculture from an
academy of agriculture. All
students attend eight years
of elementary school. Then,
serving options are
available, based on test
results given to students who
desire further training.
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pursued through a three
year professional
(vocational-technical) sch
ool. Students hoping to at
tend college will study for
four years at the “gym
nasium,” the Polish
equivalent of an American
high school. Further
examinations must be
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passed for college ad
mittance, where four years
will earn a bachelor’s
degree, with a master’s
degree awarded for a fifth
year of studies.
“I hope to return to a
special college for my
doctorate degree when I go
back home,” anticipates
Stanley, as he considers the
testing he will have to un
dergo to enter that next level
of education.
His specialty field is in the
area of manure handling;
and as part of his studies, he
has designed waste disposal
facilities for the state farm
managed by his father.
Experimental work is being
done both with sloped
feedlots where manure is
flushed and pumped into
storage tanks and with
direct irrigation-style
pumping of waste into the
fields.
Fuels from manure is
another research study
being tried on the state
farm; and a methane gas
factory from the beef
manure is planned for the
future.
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A little bit of Poland will stay behind when
Stanley Trojanowicz returns to his home land.
Here he displays two costumed dolls atop a linen
cloth woven on the state farm managed by his
father.
Most businesses are
government-owned, but
some private establishments
are permitted with very
strict licensing. Farm land is
mostly in the hands of
private owners and supports
small general farm
operations of about 40 acres
of gram crops and a variety
of livestock. Sugar beets is
one very popular crop, with
the sugar extracted from the
beets at a manufacturing
facility and the remaining
pulp returned to growers for
livestock feed.
Much of the large fanning
equipment is owned by the
government, but rented out
to farmers through-
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“machinery unions,” which
growers can join.
“Most farmers have a
tractor,” Stanley adds, but
horses are still popular on
many small farms.”
Engines for large tractors
come from neighboring
Czechoslavakia and
caterpillar-track machines
are abundant.
Stanley was married just
one month before he came to
the Umted States. His wife is
a second-year mathematics
student at the University of
Poznan, and he expects that
she may someday be
working in the computer
field.
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