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humor routine was based on
aspects of language and communi
cation by the Pennsylvania-Dutch.
At his parents’ home, Brubaker
pointed to an older console record
player and said that was where he
played his album of the professor
until he could also perform the
humor.
“I can’t sing or play an instru
ment,” Brubaker said, “and 1 was
in this talent contest, so I had to do
something.”
But Brubaker said the main
things that helped him achieve suc
cesses has been goal setting and
planning. “If you don’t set goals,
you can’t achieve goals,” he said.
According to both Brubaker and
Norman, FFA prepared them bpth
for being involved with organiza
tional activities that affect their
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life. It gave them a background and
confidence to speak in front of
others that few educational prog
rams today can offer.
Brubaker said especially impor
tant for him was learning par
liamentary procedure and public
speaking throught FFA and voca
tional agricultural.
He said that when he was in
FFA, “I remember thinking, ‘Why
do we need this, if we’re going to
be farming?’” But then an advisor
told him that if he didn’t leant how
to speak in front of a group of peo
ple and develop confidence, peo
ple would laugh at him if he tried.
Brubaker said he decided to leant.
But while fear of ridicule has
motivated many for self
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“You never know when you’re
going to have to reach back and use
those skills,” he said. “They are the
greatest skills you can have, along
with writing.
“All that is why I think it is
important to continue (FFA prog
rams) in high school. And if not in
high school, 4-H is a place to leant
it, but it’s so important
“It’s like learning to swim
you never know when your going
to need the skill,” Brubaker said.
His political career really
staned, he said, after graduating
from Penn State with a degree in
agricultural economics. He took a
job in North Carolina teaching
agricultural business, and within
six months a friend got him
involved in the Young Republican
organization there. Six months
later, he was chairman of the
committee.
Two years later, he was assistant
secretary of the state Republican
party of North Carolina, and after
turning down several invitations to
run for certain offices, he decided
to accept a third invitation to run
for the House. He said he figured it
was time to say, “Yes.”
While all this was going on, he
finished a master’s degree in eco
nomics from NCU and also
became involved in real estate
appraisals.
He said that a class in agricultur
al land appraisal in school and
when he was leaching at the com
munity college in Randolph Coun
ty, N.C.. where he lives, he saw
that no one was doing a good, in
depth analysis of property values.
He became the first in the county
and now employs more than a half
dozen people in that business.
About that same time, he helped
start a 4-H dairy club in the county
that still continues.
Currently his 70 Belgian Blue
cattle occupy much of his free
time. One of seven certified judges
of the cattle in the United States, he
also serves on the board of direc
tors of the U.S. breed oranization.
He has been breeding Belgian’s
for low birth weights and has
picked up and developed a line
with offspring averaging about 67
pounds. He traveled to Belgium
and England and Canada to seek
out the stock he currently has.
But after all these successes.
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Brubaker gives credit to those who
taught him and guided him, and to
the programs offered, such as FFA.
Donald Norman, whose family
is associated with the state Jersey
Cattl Association, said he agrees.
“I’m a strong supporter of FFA.
It’s one of those educational sys
tems that people don’t recognize
the importance of what’s being
done. It’s one of the few places
where students have an opproutni
ty to stand up in front of adults to
speak publicly in front of adults.
There’s so many things that FFA
did right.
“1 like to talk about the assembly
line of education,” Norman said,
referring to the general public edu
cation system. “You run (children)
into the room and talk at them. It’s
very efficient It’s the Henry Ford
system of education.
“But FFA gave you the oppor
tunity to do things with your
hands, and with academics. We
took the academic and vo-ag com
bination,” Norman said. “It gives a
good balance. A lot of these stu
dents today can’t do anything with
their hands. Just sitting and listen
ing to a teacher doesn’t mean you
can do it”
As Car as the successes that were
achieved by Brubaker, Norman
said, Tm not surprised. The only
surprise is that I expected him to be
in Harrisburg (as a political rep
resentative), instead of North
Carolina.”
He is also on several New York
Farm Bureau state committees,
including the Executive Committee
of the State Board of Directors, the
Audit Committee, the Executive
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vice chairman of the Resolutions
Committee, and chairman of the
Dairy Advisory Committee. On the
national level, he is a member of
the American Farm Bureau’s Dairy
Advisory Committee.
He is a past president of the St.
Lawrence County Farm Bureau
and a past state chairman of New
York Farm Bureau’s State Young
Farmer Committee.
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