Cl2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 22,1950
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -
Three University of
Maryland field faculty
members have received
recent honors from national
and state professional
organizations.
They are Miss Julia A.
Lockard of Bel Air (Harford
county), Mrs. Kathryn K.
Jenkins of Middletown
(Frederick county) and Mrs.
Constance H. Pergerson of
Glen Bumie (Anne Arundel
county). All are Extension
home economics agents.
Miss Lockard and Mrs
Ohio chapter wins
nat’l BO AC award
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -
Preserving the history of the
1800’s farm life by con
structing an Agricultural
Heritage Farmstead has
earned the Monroeville,
Ohio, Chapter of the Future
Farmers of America the
national FFA Building Our
American Communities
(BOAC) award.
The chapter represen
tatives received the National
BOAC Citation, $2OO and a
plaque.
Working with the Huron
County Fair Board and
Heritage Society, the
Monroeville FFA members
moved and reassembled a 32
x 48 foot bam and a comcnb
at the fairgrounds. They
used the same construction
techniques as the original
builders did more thant 100
years ago by assembling
handhewn beams, roofing
the bam with cedar shingles
and cutting poplar siding
with a steam-powered mill.
The bam is now used for
senior citizen activities and
square dances. A farmhouse
is being refurnished, and
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Home Economists receive honors
Jenkins were honored on
November 6 at White
Sulphur Springs, W. Va.,
during the forty-sixth annual
meeting of the National
Association cf Extension
Home Economists,
Mis. Pergerson received
recognition on Oct. 23 at
McHenry (Garrett County)
during the annual fall
meeting of the Maryland
Association of Extension
Home Economists.
A native of Umontown
(Carroll County), Juba A.
future buildings will com
plete the farmstead.
The Monroeville FFA
members also built an oc
tagon bandstand, planted
trees and ornamentals and
built picnic tables for a park
To aid their vocational
agriculture classroom in
struction, they constructed a
greenhouse and landscaped
the adjacent courtyard.
Three other FFA chapters
were national finalists in the
BOAC program this year.
Franklin Senior High,
Louisiana, FFA members
built a school classroom,
baseball field and nature
trail. Project TIMBER-
Traming to Improve the
Most Beneficial En
vironmental Resource-was
the title of the Elma,
Washington, Chapter’s
reforestation project
Denmark, Wisconsin, FFA
members conducted com
munity safety programs,
tagged trees, raised
pheasants for release and
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Lockard is this year's
Maryland winner of the
Distinguished Service
Award from the National
Association of Extension
Home Economists.
The honor is presented
annually in recognition of
professional achievement,
leadership and service m
county Extension home
economics programs.
Miss Lockard has been an
Extension home economics
agent in Baltimore county
since January 1980. She
previously worked for 22
years in neighboring Har
ford county, both as a home
economics agent and as a 4-
H youth agent
Her recognition was based
in large part on the success
of a ‘ Parents and Children”
organization which she
helped to establish in Har
ford county This parent
education group was in
volved in sponsorship of
countywide workshops at
which more than 400
mothers and fathers
received training
In addition. Miss Lockard
conducted 67 special interest
classes, seminars and
workshops involving more
than 3,000 persons during the
past year m both Harford
and Baltimore counties.
In 1973 she was presented
the “outstanding youth
worker award” by the
Maryland Association of
Extension 4-H Agents.
Mrs. Kathryn K. Jenkins
of Middletown won the
Florence Hall award,
presented to six persons
throughout the nation each
year by the National
Association of Extension
Home Economists.
The award is presented for
outstanding programs
conducted by NAEHE
members who have been
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carrying out such programs.
Mrs. Jfenkins was
recognized for her Extension
education programs in
mental health. Singled out
for special mention was the
“Way Station,’’ a
resociahzation center for
released mental patients
which she helped to establish
in 1978. The center assists
outpatients in adjusting to
the community by teaching
them skills.
Born at Hagerstown
(Washington county), Mrs
Jenkins grew up in nearby
Jefferson county, W Va. She
has been a county Extension
home economics agent at
Frederick since 1965 and
county chairperson for the
University of Maryland’s
Cooperative Extension
Service during the past three
years.
Last year she won the
Distinguished Service
Award from the NAEHE.
Mrs Constance H.
Pergerson of Glen Bumie
has been named as the
state’s outstanding Ex
tension home economics
agent with four to seven
years of professional ex
perience.
A native of Portsmouth,
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agent in Anne Arundel
county since 1975.
Mrs. Pergerson is county
supervisor for the Expanded
Food and Nutrition
Education Program of the
U.S Department of
Agriculture. She is also the
Extension resource person
for food and nutrition
education work with all
audiences in the county.
Her newsletter reaches 500
persons in the county’s hard
to-reach areas of low-income
housing complexes. She also
works with senior citizens
groups. Her weekly
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buying tips” reaches an
estimated 17,000 persons.
She also makes daily
telephone recordings with
timely nutrition information
Mrs. Pergerson is
president-elect of the
Maryland Dietetic
Association, and she serves
on several statewide
professional home
economics committees. She
has appeared many times on
local television shows. In
some of these appearances,
she uses a puppet show
which she designed as a
symbol for the state dietetic
association.