82-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 15,1986
Former 4-H'er Evelyn Hess is Farm and
BY SALLY BAIR
Staff Correspondent
Editor’s Note: Leadership is one
of the most highly visible skills 4-
H’ers' learn. While most 4-H’ers do
not become president, governor or
senator, many of them do become
effective leaders within their
communities. In observance of
Pennsylvania 4-H Week, March 16
to 23, Lancaster Farming
highlights two former Lancaster
County 4-H’ers who serve in a
leadership capacity with Lan
caster County Farm and Home
Foundation as well as other
community organizations. Look
for other 4-H features throughout B
section.
With new project books focusing on nutrition education,
Evelyn finds she must do her homework prior to 4-H
meetings. Here she prepares a project lesson for her cooking
club.
4-H alumnus Pam'n Boyd continues to be active in eg community
BY SALLY BAER
Staff Correspondent Farm and Home Foundation, Boyd
LANCASTER - “I have never recalls helping to solicit donations
been shy in talking about how for the construction of the Farm
much my 4-H experiences meant to and Home Center in those difficult
me.” These are Darvin Boyd’s early years, and says, “As a
words as he reflects on the 11 years college student I was glad to get
he spent as a member of the some contributions for the Center.
Lancaster County Red Rose Baby As I look back when it was con-
Beef and Lamb Club, and the structed, the people who made it
Lincoln Communii lub. able gave a yeoman’s effort.”
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by Hamilton Bank. He enjoys his work in the agri-finance
department because of the chance to work closely with rural
people in a'Seven-county area.
Pai
Lancaster - Evelyn Hess, 817
Waterfront Drive, became the first
women president of the Lancaster
County Farm and Home Foun
dation two years ago. She had
previously served as secretary for
12 years, so is thoroughly involved
in the Foundation’s leadership. She
is also a former 4-H’er, well in
formed in the leadership skills
necessary to run a board of
directors.
As she turns over the reins to her
successor, she says she is glad to
participate simply as a committee
person once again. But she is firm
in her support of the Foundation
and the important role the Farm
Newly elected as president of the
m 4-H Week - March 16 to 23
and Home Center plays in the
Lancaster community.
Evelyn says, “I see how much
the building is used, and how it
benefits so many people. I think it
is used more and more all the
time.” She is especially happy
about some of the improvements
which have taken place in the
building, the most notable of which
is the painting of the walls in the
auditorium to give it a warmer
atmosphere. “The improvements
have added to the overall
usability,” she notes.
About her term as president,
Evelyn says, “It was an in
teresting experience.” It kept her
in close contact with the building
manager Chet Neuin, as well as the
board. Additionally, she adds, “I
never minded being secretary, but
is it work. You have to keep track
of the meetings and what goes on.”
Having served as a member of
the scholarship committee for
many years, Evelyn calls that her
most rewarding service. “There
are a lot of children I knew vaguely
and we could watch their
progression.” With the cost of
college climbing ever higher, she
also believes the Foundation is
providing valuable assistance with
their $l,OOO scholarships.
This year a total of 15 scholar
ships will be offered, with up to ten
to be given to students studying
home economics and agriculture
and the remainder to those
studying nursing. Selecting the
final recipients is not easy, but
Evelyn believes the hard work of
the committee pays off in seeing
students get a good start in their
freshman year.
Evelyn became a 4-H member
Now that he is taking the reins as
president, Boyd says, “The Center
serves an important role for
meetings in the agricultural
community, but it goes way
beyond that. The time is ripe for us
to take a look at programs and
evaluate our position over the next
three to five years. We want to be
able to keep the Farm and Home
Center as the hub of meeting
places in Lancaster County and
give it the proper attention to keep
it that.”
An outstanding 4-H’er while in
Lancaster County, Boyd now is in a
position to support 4-H as vice
president and director of the Agri-
Finance Department for Hamilton
Bank. He says, “Because of my
experience I can encourage the
bank to support many of these
programs. We have a commitment
to rural youth and to the rural
community. Hamilton Bank
supports over 50 programs in the
seven counties of our marketing
area.”
Boyd says he remembers joining
4-H, following in the footsteps of his
brother who was three years older,
saying, “We as a family were
interested in projects which would
give us responsibility and leam to
know other people, and 4-H was a
natural organization for us to get
involved in.”
Boyd became really involved,
with the support of his late parents,
Elmer and Pauline, eventually
taking over 14 different projects,
and traveling to Penn State a total
of five or six times on judging
teams, to Leadership School and
other activities.
Because of his total involvement,
he was named the Pennsylvania
winner in Achievement and at
tended the National 4-H Club
Congress in Chicago, th 6 highest
honor for a 4-H’er. He traveled to
the event twice, the second time as
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Home Foundation leader
Evelyn Hess credits 4-H with teaching her many of the
home skills she uses every day. Here, she waters one of the
many plants that decorate her home.
when she was ten years old, and the Lititz area to farm. Her father
continued through her 18th year, did general farming, including
enjoying both beef projects and raising tobacco, chickens, pigs and
sewing projects. The oldest of a dairy animals. Steers were their
family of three sisters, Evelyn chosen 4-H projects, she says,
recalls that she was encouraged to because her father was interested
join by a neighbor, Milton Jurell, in feeding steers and didn’t own
who was a leader with the Red registered dairy cows.
Rose Baby Beef and Lamb Club. She remembers that County
Evelyn was bom in Manheim Agent Max Smith came to all the
Township, and it was not until she
was nine that her family moved to
At his desk at Hamilton Bank, Darvin Boyd surrounds
himself with some 4-H mementos. He feels strongly that
much of his present success is due to the opportunities he
had in 4-H.
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