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VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Farming Staff
MT JOY (Lancaster
Co.) Every year youth arc
asked to tell what career or long
term goals they envision for them
From the left, the Herold Brubeker family etanda in front of the Mt. Joy farmhouee
where Harold wae bom and hie parents still live. From the left if Geraldine, Jonathan,
Justin and Harold. Brubaker is about to be named speaker of the house for the North
Carolina House of Representatives. He credits FFA and goal setting for his
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Brubaker Star Farmer, Speaker Of N.C. Ho
selves, especially youth who
receive honors, such as the FFA
Keystone farmer degree.
Almost exactly 32 yean ago, a
17-year-old senior at Donegal
High School was honored for
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receiving an FFA keystone farmer
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field man for the Holstein Associa
tion. and own a farm.
In a few weeks, the now
49-year-old man who has sinced
relocated to North Carolina, is to
be sworn into office as speaker of
the House in the Tarheel General
Assembly.
Harold Brubaker, son of Paul N.
and Verna Brubaker, of Ml Joy.
was back in Lancaster County over
the Christmas holiday to visit with
his parents and old Mends.
He lives in Asheboro, N.C. with
his wife Gerladine, a school nurse,
and children Jonathan, 14, and Jus
tin 10. Brubaker is president of a
real estate appraisal and consulting
firm and has served in the North
Carolina legislature as a represen
tative since 1977.
He also owns a 30-acre hum and
raises Belgian Blue beef cattle
a breed that produces extraordin
ary amounts of lean meat
On Wednesday, at his parents’
75-acre beef farm, Brubaker talked
about his outlook as a young adult
involved in FFA, the enjoyment of
being involved in the Witness Oak
FFA Chapter, and the importance
of the FFA experience in helping
him have the confidence and back
ground to be able to function well
in meeting the demands of a varie
ty of jobs.
Brubaker earned numerous agri
cultural awards while in high
school.
By age 16, he had already won
the title as top dairy cattle judge in
the state in 1962 and competed at
nationals: he also was a star chap
ter dairyman and star chapter poul
try farmer; he won a state essay
contest run by the Pennsylvania
Association of Farmer Coopera
tives; he was the youngest ever to
win the Holstein Boy of the Year
award.
In FFA, he also served as state
secretary and as a national vice
president for the North Atlantic
regiona, and toured the country
speaking to different groups.
He said in one year he traveled
60,000 miles, and at one point was
in San Francisco one day and in
Bangor, Maine, the next
He said that traveling around
and meeting people was something
he enjoyed, and it helped get him
interested in politics. He said
meeting Oregon’s former Sen.
Wayne Morris, who ran for several 4
use
terms as a Democrat, and then as a
Republican helped him also.
According to Harold, he asked
the senator if be thought a farmboy
could become a senator, and that
Morris answered. “What do you
think I am? I’m a sheep farmer.”
But one can be fairly certain that
Brubaker was not about to accept
an answer that would have placed
limits on what a farmboy can do.
When at 16, interviewd by a
Lancaster newspaper after receiv
ing an award from the newspaper,
Brubaker was quoted as saying,
“The whole agricultural field has
vast possibilities. There is a great
future in farming and in the not
too-distant future,.the farmer is
going to be regarded in the same
manner as professional people
such as doctors and lawyers are
today.
“However, education of the far
mer is the greatest need Especially
in this mechanized era when so
much dqpends on know-how to
reap the top benefits from
acreage.”
According to the article, he had
owned 16 registered Holsteins and
three Brown Swiss, and was plan
ning to renta 67-acre farm and pay
rent on it by raising tobacco in
order to compete for the top FFA
award. He was quoted as saying,
“The larger my farming program,
the more chance I have of
winning.”
His plans were to possibly go
into partnership with his father on
the family farm, and perhaps own a
farm of his own some day, but to
have it managed by someone else,
while he pursued a career related to
agriculture, in genetics or as a field
man for the state Holstein
Association.
The same year that Brubaker
was named state star farmer,
Donald Norman, now owner of a
registered Jersey herd at Breezalee
Farms in Liberty, also earned his
Keystone Farmer Degree.
This week, Norman said he
remembers Brubaker.
Norman said he first met Bru
baker at a leadership conference
offered by the Pennsylvania Asso
ciation of Cooperatives. Accord
ing to Donald, Brubaker enter
tained the group with his portrayal
of Professor Schnitzel a then
popular fictional character whose
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