ifctt-Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, August 24, 1996 LOU ANN GOOD Lancaster Farming Staff MANHEIM (Lancaster Co.) Maggie Strausbaugh was bom to become Lancaster County’s 4-H Superior Award Winner, an annual honor given to an outstanding 4-H member. With both parents serving as 4-H leaders and an older sister winning a previous outstanding 4-H’' hon''* Mar life ha' jgg» rpha, w years, as the impetus for 4-H Involvement. Lancaster County Honors Superior LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.) County 4-H’crs were honored for their outstanding work on Tuesday evening during 4-H Achievement Night here at the Farm and Home Center. Lancaster recently took 32 4-H members to Penn State 4-H Week, competing in 12 different contests. The first place junior livestock judging team includes Nicole Eisenhour, Jessica Schmidt, and Kevin Pfautz. Kevin was also the first place individual in livestock junior juding. Fashion revue hon ors group included Melissa Hollo way and Amy Bernard. Second place for hippology (the study of horses) included members Kelly Sullivan, Dana Bryson, Carol Hol lingsworth, and Laura Henssler. The fourth place senior dairy judging team was honored. Mem bers include Jeiemey Welk, Joe Best, Elizabeth Smith, and Heather Oberholtzer. The fifth place senior livestock judging team included members Sara S trickier, John Hess, and Dean Livengood. Club scrapbook contest winners were also announced. They are Sequoia Riders, Saddle Cinches, Bioken Bit, Spinning Spurs, and Boots ’N Saddles. Top ten blue form scrapbook winners were announced, including Ist through Public Auction Register Closing Dale Monday 5:00 P.M. of each week’s publication AUGUST SAT. AUQ. 24 - Quilt Auc tion. For Souderto Menno nite Homes at 207 W. Sum mit Street, Souderton, Pa. Sanford Aldeifor Auction Co. TUES. AUQ. 27 - 9AM Adam Baum Egg Farms, Inc. Complete poultry oper ation liquidation, Rt. 34 Genoa, NY. Farm machin ery & Trucks, cages & feed ing equip, egg processing, feed mill & grain bins, everything sells .from ‘Born To’ Become Superior 4-H’er “I was bom into it Four-H is just what we did,” the 18-year-old said of her involvement in an astounding array of clubs. The daughter of Paul and Orpha Strausbaugh of Manheim recalled holding posters for her sister to do presentations before she herself was old enough to be a 4-H member. When her sister was named the outstanding 4-H’er in 1987, Mag- Members 3rd year. Abbey Hess, first, Whit ney Ann Rehm, second, and Dylan Ellis, third. Fourth through 6th year winners were Amy Hess, first, Mark Graybill, second, and Marisa Stoner, third. Seven year and up winners were Gerald Boyd, first, Melissa Holloway, second, and Durelle Leaman, third. Senior Honor Roll winners were Melissa Holloway, first, Gerald Boyd, second, and Amy Hoffines, third. Junior Honor Roll winners were Lauren Krantz, first, Laura Blank, second, and Abbey Hess, third. At the festivities, talent award winners were Laura Blank, fust; Rochelle Newcomer, second, and Robin Althouse, third. Graduating 4-H member scho larships were announced. Winners this year are Amy Hofflnes, Derek Stoner, and Durelle Leaman, each receiving $l5O. Kim McLaughlin received $2OO and Maggie Straus baugh, the 1996 Superior Achieve ment Award winner, announced at the festivities, received $350. Kir sten Kauffman, the 1995 Superior Achievement Award winner, won a $5OO scholarship award. Other contestants for the super ior award included Sarah Strickler and Gerald Boyd. 500,000 bird operation. Estate of Joe Baum, Baum Egg Farms, Inc. Roy Teits worth, Inc., auct WED. AUQ. 28- I:3OPM Belleville Livestock Market Herd Dispersal. For Info Gene Click 717-887-2703 or Sale Barn 717-935-2146. THURS. AUG. 29 • 9:3OAM Clinton Absolute Auction. Warwick Twp. Firoco. Ban quet Hall, RL 263, Jamison, Pa. Robert H. Clinton & Co., Inc., aucts. 4-H was sparked. After 10 years in 4-H, an ecstatic Maggie claimed the honor at the 4-H Achievement Night held at the Farm and Home Center on Tuesday night. Although this honor was the cul mination of a long list of achieve ments and will enable her to attend the National 4-H Convention in Nashville, Tenn., in December, it was by no means the first honor Maggie has garnered. She’s been to leadership confer ences, selected as a delegate to Harrisburg Capitol Days and to Washington Focus, been a region al fashion revue winner for two years, and received a trip to Puerto Rico as a member of the senior 4-H honor roll. “Four-H has developed a lot of life skills within me that would have gone undeveloped other wise.” the college-bound student sard. Most noteworthy to her are the public speaking skills, leadership, and responsibility that was honed within her. Maggie’s parents have been leaders of the 4-H Exchange Club for 15 years. During these years, the family has traveled to states such as Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arizona. They have reciprocated the visits by hosting families from those states in their home. They have kept as many as seven exchange 4-H’ers in their home at one time. “When the house is the fullest, we have the most fun,” Maggie said. “We don’t always have enough beds, but guests sleep on the sofa or whatever. By the time they leave, we have become best friends and cry our eyes out saying goodbye.” The 4-H Exchange Club holds tons of fundraisers so that mem bers can raise their own money for airfare. “4-H is diversified. The typical 4-H'er is no longer the kid with an animal,” she said. Some of her club involvement included basket making, calligra phy. sewing, cake decorating, wreath making, country wood painting, counted crosstitching, and Toastmaster’s (public speaking). A self-starter, Maggie isn’t afraid to take charge when she sees a lack. Two years ago, she noticed a community 4-H club “going downhill.” She explained, “No one wanted A LESSON WELL LEARNED... LANCASTER FARMING'S CLASSIFIED ADS GET RESULTSI After 10 busy years in 4-H, Maggie Strausbaugh achieved the ultimate honor the Superior Achievement Award. to take charge, so I organized the club and got the leaders for the dif ferent projects. The parents who volunteered are enthusiastic, and now it’s a thriving club.” Maggie has her own ideas for encouraging more membership and commitment to 4-H. She said, “Get them out of the community and into state and national 4-H levels. They’ll see something they like and will see it through to the highest competition.” In addition, Maggie said, the friendships that members make with those at regional and state competitions encourages them to continue in 4-H projects just to see them again at other competitions. Although 4-H has consumed much of Maggie’s time, she has also found time to be president of Erismen’s Mennonite Church Youth Group. At Man helm Centr al High School, she’s been captain of the marching band, involved in drama and track and field, and been involved with the National Honor Society. She’s also helped CUSTOM WORK with fundraisers to fight cerebral palsy, and spent a week each help ing with Habitat for Humanity and at hurricane cleanup in Florida. In addition to accumulating points for 4-H projects over the years, Maggie and other 4-H mem bers competing /or the superior achievement award needed to write an essay, be interviewed by a panel of judges, and give an impromptu speech. Judges reviewed each contestant’s scrap books detailing his or her 4-H involvement to determine the amount of participation. In addition to her sister Amy Jo, Maggie has a brother Matthew who is married and a brother Pat rick. IS. Maggie also works part time at Country Table Restaurant as a waitress. In a week, Maggie will be leav ing for Messiah College in Gratham where she will study for a nursing degree. She hopes to return to this area and work in a hospital’s emergency trauma unit BUY. StU.TI\AQ[ on lUNT THROUGH THE
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