84-Lancasttr Farming, Saturday, June 1,1985
College education
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job on a dairy farm,” she notes.
Like Nancy, Kathy Strock of
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Mechanicsburg is using her
education on the farm. Kathy, a
1980 Penn State graduate, works on
her parent’s farm with her father,
J. Paul Strock. The Strbcks milk
120 cows and crop farm about 150
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“I wasn’t planning on coming
back on the farm, but I was in
terested in ag,” Kathy notes. She
entered college with the intention
of pursuing a career in research,
but a year into her studies she
changed her mind.
‘ 1 wanted to do something where
I could see the results of what I’ve
done,” she said, explaining that a
job as a researcher could not have
offered her that. “I never even
considered returning to the farm.
It was just not one of the options,”
she says.
But when the possibilty of her
coming home to the farm after
school was raised, her father said
simply, “I think you can do it.”
That was all the encouragement
Kathy needed to abandon her plans
for research and change her major
from plant science to agronomy.
Kathy believes her college ex
perience was important “because
it made me aware of a lot of things
I would never have known about.
“I think if I hadn’t gone to
college, there would be so many
things I’d do without knowing
why,” she says.
For example she always knew to
strip some milk from a cow before
beginning the milking, but she
didn’t know why until she was in
college. “You understand the
reasons why you do it, and it seems
more worthwhile.”
The facts she learned in school
are also useful when Kathy is
formulating feed, keeping records
and programming breeding in
formation into the computer. She
cares for the young stock and takes
care of all the reproductive work.
She also does milking, field work,
and feeding.
“But college is so much more
than learning facts,” she con
tinues. Kathy believes the ex
posure to new ideas and people she
got at college has been especially
important.
Like the others, Kathy says she
met people who have been in
valuable to her and who have
opened doors that otherwise might
have remained closed.
Kathy has found the com
munication skills she developed in
college to be especially useful.
“Don’t let anyone tell you you don’t
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Saturday, June 1
Lancaster Society 6 meets at the
home of Eva Parrett for a
program by dairy princess
Judy Miller.
Lancaster Society 1 meets for a
legislative meeting by James
Huber.
Lancaster Society 10 meets.
Tuesday, June 4
Lancaster Society 23 meets at 7:30
p.m. for an ice cream social.
need good communication skills,”
she stresses. “It’s important for
people to be able to speak well."
She credits her excellent com
munication skills with helping her
be selected a Young Co-operator
by Inter-State Milk Cooperative
last June. The contest involved
interviews with three judges and a
five-minute oral presentation.
Along with the title came an all
expense paid trip to Montana to the
National Institute of Cooperative
Education.
For all these young women, a
college education has helped them
on their road to successful ag
careers. The degrees may have
been helpful, but it is their
dedication to learning and a
hunger for knowledge and im
provement that is their ticket to
success.
Thursday, June 6
Lancaster Society 14 meets at noon
at Historic Strasburg for a 50th
anniversary celebration.
Lancaster Society 20 meets for an
auction.
Friday, June 7
Lancaster Society 19 meets for a
program called “Color Me
Happy,” by Carolyn Ten
nenhalz.
Saturday, June 8
Lancaster Society 25 meets for a
tour of the Water Street Mission
at 2 p.m.