Bis-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 12, 1994
York Farm Bureau
Honors Pat Sueck
(ContinuMl from Pago 17)
trucker, the supermarkets,” she
emphasizes.
“We want to teach that without
agriculture, they won’t have any
thing to eat.” Pat estimates that
more than 8,000 Pennsylvania chil
dren, through 121 participating
teachers, have been touched with
the foundation’s agriculture educa
tion outreach in the three years of
Ag In The Classroom seminars.
The 90 teachers who took the 1994
five-day course at Penn State in
July, from urban, suburban and
rural schools, were so enthused
with the program that they raised
more than $5OO among themselves
to fund a scholarship for a teacher
to attend next year’s seminar.
“I can’t praise these teachers
enough,” smiles Pat. “They give
up a week of their own time, get
deeply engrossed in the subjects,
ask amazing questions and really
want to interact with farm fami
lies. They are just so enthusiastic.”
Twenty-two of the leaders
involved with the 1994 Ag In The
Classroom program were previous
graduates who returned to help
teach the sessions. Topics covered a
broad range of agriculture com
modities, conservation, nutrition,
research, agronomy, with lively
hands-on activities like making ice
cream in a tin can. Farm and proces
sor tours were especially popular,
while a resource fair gave teachers
the chance to gather materials and
information from participating agri
culture and agri-business groups.
Foremost goal of the Agriculture
Awareness Foundation is the educa
tion of educators, giving them back
ground in many facets of agriculture
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that is factual, rather than that based
on emotional appeal.
“Another goal I would like to
see reached is the development of
a sort of Weekly Reader publica
tion on agriculture for children,”
Pat says of her wishes for the
Foundation’s future. “We also
hope to put together some guide
line information for farmers who
host tours for children on their
farms, including some emphasis
on the myriad of agriculture-relat
ed careers.
Bubbling with enthusiasm over
the potential for teacher education
about agriculture, Pat chuckles
that her husband warns people
they should not ask her to explain
Ag In the Classroom because they
will not be able to stop her once
she begins talking. That enthusi
asm carries over in the fund-rais
ing and promotional presentations
she makes to organizations in
working to generate financial sup
port for the foundation.
Recently, while visiting with a
local organization of community
and business leaders, Pat ex
plained the plight of agriculture
with a personal example. Because
the market price of hogs has
dropped well below their cost of
production, the Suecks have been
dispersing the breeding hog herd
they’ve built over the last two
decades. In the middle of her
speech, Pat suddenly found tears
rolling down her cheeks as she
related that decision. Her tears
embarrassed Pat. Bui it vividly
pointed out to her listeners just
how much Pat Sueck cares about
farmers and the agriculture indus
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Lititz Church of the Brethren will
host the seventh annual Heifer Pro
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November 26 from 9 am. to 2 p.m.
Held the day after “Black Fri
day”—the biggest shopping day
of the year— the fair provides
conscientious Christmas shoppers
with an alternative to the material
ism of the holiday season.
This year’s fair also doubles as
a birthday party for HPI, which
marks its 50th anniversary in
1994. Free cake and ice cream,
compliments of Turkey Hill
Dairy, will be served from 12
noon as long as supplies last.
Sponsored by HPI and staffed
by an ecumenical group of more
than 50 volunteers, the fair
enables people to deal with two
problems at once —holiday shop
ping and global hunger.
Shoppers purchase animals or
shares of animals in the name of a
friend. The friend receives an
attractive HPI gift card. A family
in need receives the HPI animal
that is purchased. Colorfully dec
orated tables provide information
about how the HPI animals bene
fit poor families in the U.S. and
around the world. Shoppers can
choose from a variety of HPI ani
mals, ranging from cows, to yaks,
to honeybees.
Those wishing to take some
thing home with them can choose
from Discovery Toys and farm
related toys. Additional items
include homemade baked goods,
arts and crafts, HPI souvenirs, and
more. Homemade soups and sand
wiches will be on sale for lunch.
Special events for children
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of the Brethren will depict the his
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A nonprofit Christian organi
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dream was to give “not a cup, but
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Last year’s Living Gift Fair
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purchased 3 heifers, 5 yaks, 6
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