B2o—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, July 16,1983
Co-op students
(Continued from Page B 19)
tended last year becuase “I got a
lot of encouragement from FFA
advisors at school. My brother
Doug had gone and liked it.”
For Deb, attending the Insitute
was a personal growing ex
perience.
“I learned a lot about
cooperatives and I learned a lot
about myself,” she says. “They
want you to be leaders, and I
learned to believe in myself and to
have self confidence. I learned to
relax when speaking in front of a
group.”
Another plus for Deb was, “I
learned to know a lot of great
people. I made friendships that
will last. I didn’t know about
cooperatives, and now I am a
strong believer in them. The in
stitue encourages scholars to think
about the cooperative form of
business. I will promote
cooperatives whenl go home.”
Deb agrees with Vicki about the
quality of kids who attend. “There
is a 'selection process, so there are
really top ones selected to be
here,” she says. “You have to be a
leader to be chosen to attend.”
While free time in the form of
dances, ball games and picnics are
built into the program, Deb states,
“If you are active there is not
much free time.”
There are always meetings to
plan the talent show or to work on
the newsletter. Nevertheless, Deb
points out, “Meeting new people is
a form of recreation, too.”
Deb is a junior in nursing at St.
Joseph’s Hospital School of Nur
sing.
Scholars are eligible to return
for a second year, and many do.
Seventeen-year-old Josh Wein
stock, son of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph
Weinstock, Phoenixville in Chester
County, went back for a second
year and is serving, again, as co
editor of the newsletter. Josh says
the newsletter staff interviews
some of the guest speakers and lets
scholars know what is going on
each day of the Institute.
From his experience last year
Josh wrote his junior term paper at
school on cooperatives. This year,
he says, “We are learning more
principles of cooperatives, and
more about the manager level and
employee relationships.”
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Each year participants at ttic
Institute form their own
cooperative, Minico, something
Josh thinks is an excellent idea.
“It’s a real legal co-op” he says.
“I was with Joan (the president)
when she signed the papers.”
Josh also said he thinks the
Institute opens up career ideas for
the scholars who attend.
One New York resident who is
participating in the Institute is
Russell Lerwick, 18, of Har
persville. He is planning to attend
Delaware Valley College in the
Fall and attended the institute as a
second-year scholar.
Russell says, “I heard about it
through FFA and saw it as a
leadership opportunity. Last year I
learned about cooperatives and
how they work and the important
role they play in agriculture and
the job field. I knew a little about
them before I came, but I
broadened my knowledge and
learned a lot more.
Russell lives on a dairy farm
where they raise heifers and cows
up to freshening age, and he
belongs to a sheep and wool
growers cooperative because he
raises sheep.
This year Russell says, “We go
into more depth about money and
the financial end of cooperatives. I
think I enjoy it more this year. I
feel more at home and I know more
about it. I think the Institue is
preparing future leaders who will
serve and will spread the word that
cooperatives are good.”
Many of the young people par
ticipating are from farms, but by
no means all of them. In fact, Joan
Gagliardi hails from center city
Philadelphia, and worked hard to
find a way to attend the Institue
after she learned about it from a 4-
H friend in Sullivan County. She
made some phone calls, got out the
encyclopedia to learn about
cooperatives and is taking an
active part.
Joan says, “I didn’t know a thing
about cooperatives.” The first
thing she learned is that there are
cooperatives in Philadelphia,
though not farmer cooperatives.
There are housing and food
cooperatives, but the principals
are the same - one member, one
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Joan came to the Institute
wishing to be elected to the board
of directors of Minico, and not only
succeeded in that goal, but also
was elected to serve as president of
the Board of Directors. She says,
“I learned a lot about
parliamentary procedure.” She
has been elected president of her
class for two years at Ursinus, so
she says, “I pretty much know how
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One of her first jobs as president
was to appoint a committee to
select a manager for the
cooperative. The committee
screened applicants and in
terviewed the top candidates
before selecting 18-year-old Don
Carter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mac
Carter of Washington County.
Don is in his second year, and
says, “I applied to be manager
because I thought it would be
pretty interesting. It is good ex
perience.”
His first job was to work with his
area managers in selecting the
right place from which to order
soda and pizza for their refresh
ments. Figuring price was the next
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Don admits that he’s working
harder than he did last year, but
seems to be enjoying every minute
of it. He said the manager gets a
salary, but not until the job is
finisheid. It is three percent of the.
profit, probably not enough to pay
tuition when he begins studying
dairy production at Penn State in
the Fall. He said the biggest
drawback to the job is that it must
be accomplished in such a short
time - just three days from start to
finish.
There’s no doubt that there’s a
lot of learning about cooperatives
going on in the halls of Ship
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leadership training taking place
with the work, and the result is
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