M-lanustar Farming, Saturday, March 15,1986
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meetings. “He was very much
looked up to,” she says, and now
enjoys a continuing association
with him as he serves the Foun
dation in an advisory capacity.
How was 4-H important to her?
Evelyn says with a smile, “I was
really, really bashful, and 4-H
helped me get over it. I also made
a lot of friends that I have to this
day. We still keep in touch, and I
would never have known them
without 4-H.
There’s every chance, of course,
that her husband, J. Robert, might
have remained unknown to her
without 4-H. After all, he grew up
on a dairy farm near Strasburg
and she was in Lititz. However,
they did meet at a 4-H roller
skating party and enjoyed many 4-
H activities together.
Their four children also enjoyed
the benefits of 4-H. They are: Rob,
31; Debbie, 29; Kim, 28; and Jack,
24. Debbie lives to Boston, with the
other three living in the Lancaster
area. Each of the children had
dairy animals, and the girls took
sewing projects as well.
Evelyn traveled to Penn State as
a 4-H’er with a demonstration on
the color wheel, and finds it
amusing that she was learning
warm and cool colors in her youth.
She says, “It was an excellent
experience, and I still use that
information. “One of her projects
was home improvement, in which
she slip covered a chair.
Frankly, she says the many
skills she learned in sewing are
valuable to her still and are skills
she never had a chance to learn
elsewhere. “We didn’t have home
economics in school, so I learned to
sew on buttons and darn in 4-H.”
Although she “never had any
champions” among her many
steer projects, she did experience
showing at the Farm Show and was
first in her class one year.
Today, Evelyn is a 4-H leader
with the Lampeter Guys and Gals
Club, which has about 50 members.
Evelyn is a cooking leader and
enjoys giving back to the program
some of the same enthusiasm and
encouragement her leaders gave
her. That club is somewhat unique
in that it has already organized for
the year and has begun meeting,
and will conclude before school is
| finished. Evelyn points out that is
their answer to declining
enrollments, and difficulties with
summer jobs, family vacations
and other obstacles in the summer.
The 4-H program has changed a
lot since her days as a 4-H’er.
“Then, the extension leader came
to every meeting. They were the
leaders and 4-H leaders helped,”
Evelyn recalls. She remembers
her cooking clubs meeting in the
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leaders farm home, with 4-H’ers
scattered throughout the house and
in the yard. They were all
“neighborhood girls,” and Evelyn
says, “We rode bicycles or walked
to the meetings.” They met at the
home of Ben Sheaffer, with Jean
Newcomer also serving as leader.
“I can’t imagine a life without 4-
H socially,” Evelyn says. “It was
very important then. But now kids
have many other involvements.”
She said a big change is that when
she was a member, 4-H carried a
higher importance. “It was a
priority in our live.” Now it
sometimes gets second or third
choice in the busy lives of
youngsters.
She also notes that there are far
more yOimger members than when
she was in the club. “There aren’t
that many members who stay in
after 15, Many have summer jobs,
and there’s also girls’ softball.
That’s a change of the times.”
The project variety is now much
wider than when she was a
member, something Evelyn feels
is necessary. “4-H has to change to
hold interest.” She notes the in
creased popularity of cake
decorating and other crafts, and
•e decreased interest in sewing
within her own club.
Evelyn says she continues as a
leader because, “I feel very
strongly about it. I think it’s
helpful. It’s a big advantage, and
it’s the least I can do.” While
Evelyn serves as a leader because
for her own experiences, she said
her club has many non-4-H leaders,
who simply volunteer because they
want their children to have the
experience.
Having lived on a farm for the
first 25 years of married life,
Evelyn is used to hard work. She
helped to milk the dairy herd,
something she enjoyed doing.
Today she fills half her days with
driving school bus for Lampeter
Strasburg School District. In the
beginning of her 20th year as a
driver, Evelyn continues to enjoy
the contact with the children.
Evelyn is a member of Farm
Women #2B, and has served as
president. She is active in the
Neffsville Mennonite Church, and
can often be found helping in the
nursery during their mothers’
programs each week. With her
husband in real estate, Evelyn also
does much bookwork at her desk.
As she continues to serve her
community, she is constantly
reminded of the importance 4-H
played in her life and puts to use
skills learned as a 4-H’er.
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a member of the winning state
judging team. “Those were great
experiences,” he recalls.
Just as large a thrill came to him
20 years later in 1981 when he
was selected as one of eight
National 4-H Alumni winners and
traveled with his wife and two of
his children to Chicago again. “I
felt the same excitement as an
alumni. 4-H was such an important
part of my background. It was a
gratifying experience,” he states.
“In 4-H you truly leam by doing.
There were so many things I
learned from my projects, par
ticipation and competition. They
were all invaluable to me as I went
through school and into my
vocation. I learned so much more
than what I learned just through
projects.”
Boyd notes, “It is the total in- support they needed to leam to
volvement, getting to know other keep records, and to be responsible
members, and learning to speak for caring for their animals,
and articulate. 4-H offers many Through this program, the
opportunities for leadership and Foundation supported thousands of
for program planning.” Korean young people.
Following graduation from Darvin says he has no doubt that
Delaware Valley College in 1964, his having lived 4-H for years
Boyd went to Korea in yet another helped him have an impact on that
4-H program, the International 4-H developing country. “This was
Youth Exchange program. He very valuable to that country in its
recalls, “It was a fabulous ex- earlier stages of development,” he
perience. After living with five remarked,
families in six months, with no After six years with the Foun
electricity, no flush toilets, and dation the Boyds returned to Akron
sleeping on the floor as they do, I and he worked in Harrisburg as the
did not consider it a hardship. I executive director of the health
learned that they share the same and welfare committee in the
aspirations for peace and an en- House of Representatives. He did
joyable family life as we do. analyses of legislation, studied the
“That was my first intercultural welfare system, and in general
experience and it made me ap- found the work very rewarding,
predate the importance of more After three years he resigned
international programs to promote from that job to seek the
better world understanding.” Republican nomination for
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Although he lost that 12-way race,
he said he learned a lot from the
experience. He had felt qualified
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of his international interests.
“From the beginning I knew the
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He gives the impression that he
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Working with agricultural loans
is not easy with the present
economy, but Boyd says
realistically, “The last five years
have been difficult times for
agriculture, but I think we’re
starting to turn the corner. I think
we’ll start to see the silver lining
around the clouds. There are still
challenges in the next few years,
but I think we’ve bottomed out.”
For Boyd, every day is a good
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people in agriculture and in this
part of the country. It is a real
pleasure. They have a strong work
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the importance of family. Such
important characteristics give
more meaning to life.”
Boyd himself is firmly com
mitted to family life as the father
of three children - Kevin, 11;
Cindy, 7; and Brian, 3. He said he
feels strongly the need to be
available to nurture children.
He also has a strong com
mitment to the community, and
serves as moderator of the
Ephrata Church of the Brethren,
now in his second three year term.
In somewhat of a departure from
agriculture, he is a member of the
Lancaster City-County Human
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