Bl6—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, March 12,1983
Extension Agent Assn, names winners, elects officers
Siegel earns recognition
Linda Siegel, left, Lebanon County 4-H agent, receives Blue
Ribbon Achievement Award from Ellen Harkleroad. Perry
County 4-H agent, awards committee chairwoman.
UNIVERSITY PARK - Linda
Siegel, Lebanon County 4-H agent
on the Penn State Extension
Service staff, has been named
recipient of the first Blue Ribbon
Achievement Award presented by
the Pennsylvania Association of
Extension 4-H Agents.
The award was established to
recognize outstanding educational
4-H programming by a member of
the Extension Service staff.
According to Ellen Harkleroad,
Perry County 4-H agent and
awards committee chairwoman.
Mrs. Siegel assisted 4-H leaders in
establishing systems to improve
programs and increase volunteer
involvement. She also was in
strumental in developing a
Lebanon County 4-H program
council which dealt with such
concerns as leadership develop
ment, program evaluation,
finance, recognition, and
promotion.
The award recipient developed
innovative leader training
methods including an
organizational notebook, leader
newsletter, and kitchen con
ferences . Sixty-seven county 4-H
leaders took part in her series of
“Dig into Leadership” training
workshops.
Mrs. Siegel also assisted in
organizing four 4-H clubs for
handicapped youths. Many of these
boys and girls were “main
streamed” into existing 4-H clubs
and county programs.
A native of Selinsgrove, Mrs.
Siegel has been a member of the
Penn State staff since 1979. She
received a bachelor of arts degree
from Bucknell University.
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./dicers 01 _ association of Extension 4-H Agents for 1983, elected
March I at the Association's annual meeting in State College are, seated from left:
Richard Kauffman, Berks County, secretary; Carol Schurman, Indiana County,
president; and Bruce Richards, Delaware County, treasurer. Standing from left: Edward
Horning, Centre County, president-elect; and Gerald McCammon, Cambria County, vice
president. All are members of The Pennsylvania State University's Cooperative Ex
tension Service staff and devote a large percentage of their time to 4-H youth
programming.
4-H—
a family affair
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