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Love still blooms for these couples. , met each other through the Rul
Youth organization. From left, kneeling: Stewart and Anna Rentschler, Ida and
Allen Rlsser. Middle section: Paul and Edle Huber, Roy and Martha Jane Bru
Rural Youth Bring Back The Fun They Used To Have
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
STRASBURG (Lancaster Co.)
—Bob Groff showed up in his bib
overalls and plaid shirt at the Rural
Youth of Lancaster County Reun
ion Banquet held at Hershey Farm
Restaurant last Saturday.
“I wore this for three reasons,”
Groff said as he welcomed about
90 guests, who wore their Sunday
best for the annual banquet “Num
ber one, I didn’t have time to
change because I came right from
the cow stable. Two, I feel more
comfortable in this. And, number
three, I only have one white shirt
and I needed to save it for Sunday
morning.”
As master of ceremonies, Groff
interspersed many jokes and sto
ries between introducing the even-
Commlttaa mambara who planned the minion ara,front from Ml, Anna Rantachlar,
Nancy Witmar, Ann Dinar, and Edit Hubar. Back, Paul Hubar, Slaw Rantachlar, Paul
Wltmer, Carl DlllcFr, Mlllla Groff and Bob Groff.
Saturday
13, 1995
ing’s activities. His remarks
brought back “the fun we used to
have” and helped fulfill the even
ing’s purpose for “fun. fellowship,
and food.”
The Rural Youth of Lancaster
County was organized in 1937 by
former 4-H and FFA students to
provide social and educational
activities for young people.
The former members eagerly
recounted the fun they created
between the years of 1937 through
1952. They sang some of the old
songs that Roy Brubaker said
make up a great pan of the rural
meetings. His wife Martha Jane
played the piano just like old
times. And Anna Shreiner
Rentchler recited some poetry, a
popular event in the years before
teen-agers relied on movies and
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Dlller. Back row, Martha Stoner whose husband Raymond Is deceased, Jean
nette Miller whose husband Amos is deceased, and Paul and Nancy WKmer.
television to entertain them.
Many of the couples attending
the banquet said that it was through
Rural Youth activities that Cupid
struck and the love that sprouted
resulted in marriage.
Although the majority seemed
to have found their life’s mate
through the organization, there
were a few such as Ed Dieffen
bach, who said that although he
dated several members, it wasn’t
until he went back to college that
he found his wife Jane.
Dieffenbach was an lowa boy
who came to the county as a milk
tester in lieu of military service
during the war years. After he fin
ished college, Dieffenbach
became a county extension agent
in Susquehanna County. “But I
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Ed and Jane Diei ;qi
formerly from lowa, worked in Lancaster County as a DHIA
milk tester, and later was a Susquehanna County agent
before retirement.
Robert and Evelyn Hni attend tha Rural Youth Of Lan
caster County Reunion Banquet.