Outstanding 4-H'er people from all over, and learning
• "what projects they enjoy doing.”
She says she likes to encourage
youngsters to join 4-H. “It is most
definitely worthwhile. It has
helped me learn my own abilities. I
don’t know where I would have
learned public speaking. It helps a
person find out more about
themselves and what they can
really do.”
Asked whether she has realized a
monetary profit from her 4-H
activities, Deb laughs, “Showing
sheep is an expensive hobby.
Showing, buying equipment and
feeding them are all expensive.”
Deb now operates a deli stand at
Southern market where her
mother has had a stand for years.
There she also sells her flowers
and vegetables along with other
homemade salads and goodies,
and that, too, has proven
profitable, although! a lot of hard
work. She enjoys standing on
market mostly because, “Once
again, I get to meet people from all
over. Sometimes we have eggs
going to Virginia or chow-chow
going to Ohio,” she remarks.
Not the least of Deb’s abilities is
her public speaking talent. She
says she developed it through
conducting meetings as officers,
and last year she entered the
lublic speaking contest and spoke
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first annual Elmer Boyd award,
given by the Boyd family to an
OT fatJinding 4-H’er in memory of
former 4-H leader Elmer Boyd.
That menat a lot to Deb because
the year before at the Leader’s
banquet she had sat with Elmer
and his family. “He worked with
capons, so I enjoyed meeting
him,” she recalls. “They are an
outstanding family.”
Ribbons and trophies fill Deb’s
bedroom, but it is the intangible
benefits of being a 4-H’er that
perhaps mean the most. “I have
traveled all over - that’s what is
really neat,” Deb says, en
thusiastically. “I often think how
many fewer people I would know
without 4-H. Penn State is like a
second home to me, and my 4-H
activities have given me this op
portunity to look it over.”
She has also visited Juniata
College as a delegate to the Penn
sylvania Association of Farmer
Cooperatives Summer Institute,
and then was selected to attend the
American Institute of Cooperation
at the University of Montana - that
gave her first flying experience.
She traveled with a 4-H exchange
to North Carolina as well.
She says “I like getting to know
on “Pennsylvania Agriculture -
We’re Growing Better.” She was
asked to give that speech to the ag
industry banquet sponsored by the
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce,
and there met Penrose Hallowell,
Department of Agriculture
Secretary, who was pleased with
her facts and figures on Penn
sylvania Agriculture.
A senior at Penn Manor High
School, Deb is a member of the
Future Farmers of America there,
having Joined to learn more about
agriculture.
Debis unsure about her future,
but says candidly, “I think I would
have fulfilled my life if I came to "
farm and were a farm wife.” A
listener once chidfcd her for
wishing to be a farm wife, and Deb
said that she knows what an im
portant job it is and how diverse it
is, feeling her mother is special
because of her role as farm wife.
She would be happy working in
agriculture communications,, but
says she may find politics in
teresting too. “I think I have the
public speaking ability and can do
research and debate. Maybe I will
do something on the local level.”
Deb still has two years to be
involved in 4-H, and she has not
stopped setting goals. “I’d like to
go to National 4-H Club Congress in
Chicago. If I do that yet in my 4-H
t, I’ll be'
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 18,1984—815
Keeping a scrapbook is a lot of work, but a sure way to keep
track of the many awards, honors and nice experiences Deb
has had as Lebanon County's Outstanding 4-H Girl.