C32—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, January 26,1980
BY SALLY BAIR
Staff Correspondent
HARRISBURG - “I’m
overwhelmed,” Henry Moon
said simply as be accepted
an award by the Penn
sylvania International Farm
Youth Exchange (IFYE)
Alumni Associate n recently
in Harrisburg.
Moon, formerly assistant
state 4-H leader and
assistant professor of
agriculture extension at
Penn State, has retired after
35 years of service. In his
last 15 years with the
University, Moon’s duties
included working with IF YE
delegates and exchangees
and other aspects of in
ternational program.
Moon supervised the in
ternational adventures of 96
young people in the IF YE
and 4-H Teen Caravan
program. It was an ex
perience which left a deep
impression on him.
“I enjoyed every minute of
it. It brought me a lot of
happiness. I cannot express
what it has meant to me in
my life,” Henry told the
group of thirty-five alumni
who gathered to honor him.
“I owe many moments of
happiness to the program
and I appreciate what you’ve
done for me.”
The Association presented
Moon with an engraved
silver plate and a framed
picture featuring the IF YE
emblem surrounded by
Dauphin Co. 4-H
dancers win blue
at Farm Show
HARRISBURG - One of
the highlights of the Penn
sylvania Farm Show is the
Folk and Square Dance
Contest, according to
Frederick Rudy, Extension
Agent - 4-H Youth, in
Dauph’r County. This year
the Da phm County 4-H
Clubs entered two sets in the
competition.
This was the first year of
competition for these 16 4-
H’ers. These 4-Hers danced
three dances to determine
the white nbbon placmgs
and one additional dance to
determine the red and blue
nbbon placmgs.
The set entered in the
under 17 class won a blue
IFYE honors Moon after 35
paintings of nationals from
ten countries.
Moon is understandably
enthusiastic about the
benefits of this international
program. “For those who
participate,” Moon states,
“They experience per
sonality growth and gam a
depth of understanding
about the family and role
expectations. It is a great
contribution to them in
getting ready for life.”
He said there is a “deep
emotional impact” on the
delegates and their hosts in
another culture.
In the IFYE exchange
program, young people
travel to another country
and live with farm families
there in an effort to gain
better understanding of that
country’s way of life.
Henry added, “The ac
ceptance of a child-parent
relationship must have a
solid effect on the depth of
international understanding
achieved.”
Over the years. Moon
says, “The value to the in
dividual has remained the
same. They really leam to
understand another way of
life by living it.”
Some changes have oc
curred, however. The name
of the program has changed
from International Farm
Youth Exchange to In
ternational 4-H Exchange,
reflecting the fact that more
and more 4-H’ers are non
rural.
ribbon. This set consisted of
eight 4-H’ers. They were:
Brenda Hensley, Brenda
Fisher, Shelly Fetterhoff,
Cindy Baker, Greg Taylor,
Kurt Hess, Enc Kreider, and
Calvin Dunpsey.
The second set won a white
ribbon. These eight were;
Tina Taylor, Wendy
Wiesthng, Lisa Yohn,
Barbara Baker, Rick Baker,
Todd Kohr, Doug Shope, and
Scott Rummel.
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The Teen Caravan
program has been developed
as an opportunity for
younger 4-H’ers to ex
perience an international
exchange on a shorter,
smaller scale. Further
more, Henry notes, there are
now speciality interest
groups which travel behind
the iron Curtain countries of
Poland, Hungary and
Russia.
More developing countries
are participating through
the Youth Development
program in which young
people travel as advisers
who work with youth in their
host country. Henry noted
additionally that relations
with some Latin American
countries have become
strained as governments
change.
The program held its first
exchange in 1948 and
someone from Lehigh
County in Pennsylvania was
among the first eight young
people to travel abroad in an
effort to create a better
international understanding
which might prevent another
war such as the one the
world had just experienced.
It has grown and continued
to offer hundreds of young
peoplette opportunity to live
with host families abroad. In
Pennsylvania a total of 136
young people have par
ticipated m the program as
delegates.
Moon has also been
responsible for the ex
changees who come to
Pennsylvania to live with
farm families m this state,
and at times, it has provided
both challenge and humor.
The opportunity for the
exchangees is unique.
Moon states, “The ex
changees get a more honest
and accurate opinion of the
American family life. They
see a contrast with the
television shows, wild west
programs and movies which
are often offered in other
countries to portray the
American way of life.
“I have had the constant
feeling that exchangees are
overawed to find that the
American farmer works and
American kids work. Many
of them come from a class
system in which they don’t
work. They have learned to
appreciate the American
approach to the work ethic. ”
He added, “Exchangees
often go home saying,
‘Americas don’t have time to
relax’”.
Officers of the Pennsylvania International Farm Youth Exchange Alumni
Association present retiring Assistant State 4-H Leader with an award honoring
his work with the exchange program. From left, Davida Waters, former vice
president; Douglas Pierson, president; Henry Moon and wife Bunny.
Moon notes he often finds
the first host family is the
one with which the strongest
bond is made because it is
there that the language is the
biggest problem.
“Delegates are so
frequently endeared to the
first family that they want to
return and show off what
they have learned.”
Moon said he has ap
preciated all the letters he
gets from exchangees when
they return home, adding,
“Welcoming home IFYE’s
means so much to me.”
He said his work with the
program has “built a whole
family of contacts. The
IFYE program is a hard
thing to leave.”
Moon is married to the
former Bunny Ely. They are
the parents of four married
children and have five
grandchildren.
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