NEWS &VIEWSShirley Geis, continued from page 10
grew more intense. Her scientifi c background proved especially useful in coaching students on the various judging teams and her riding awareness led her to help organize the fi rst statewide 4-H Dressage Show nearly 20 years ago. She lobbied local governments for more horse riding trails and facilities. She organized countless shows, fund raising and educational activities. Darryl Ann and Shirley loved marking the Horse Bowl papers. “Some of the answers to the questions are unique to say the least,” Darryl Ann said. “One time a question was: ‘What is a horse called that has never won a race?’ One kid wrote, ‘Slow.’ Another one said, ‘Very expensive.’ An- other question asked, ‘What’s a post-mortem?’ and the kid wrote, ‘A horse that died tied to a post.’ ” Darryl Ann said she and Shirley had to drill their teams hard because “we’d go up against state teams from New York backed by coaches from Cornell University or New Jersey, which had coaches from Rutgers. T e “no whining— be well prepared” routine has served our stu- dents well. We had one 4-Her who said he was scared to death of us because we made him work so hard. Years later, we got a letter from him when he earned his doctorate in medicine
in California. He wrote us that we had been the ones to teach him the value of studying and that we had been the turning point into making him an A student. “Kids, you know, can spot a phony a mile
away,” Darryl Ann said, noting that there is one thing Shirley was not “and that’s a phony.”
Shirley’s Legacy T e number of successful graduates from
Shirley’s 4-H programs is legion. Many are NEWS &VIEWScontinued from page 9
Congress needs to act before the end of the year on the Death Tax. On January 1, 2013, the Death [inheritance] Tax exemption will shrink to $1 million and the top rate will jump to 55%. Congress will be tackling Death Taxes during a lame duck session beginning November 27. We need you to contact Congress to protect farms and ranches from these devastating taxes. An estate tax exemption of $5 million and top tax rate of 35% provides “Virtual Repeal” to most
family farms and ranchers across the country. T e face of agriculture is changed by the Death Tax. You can’t protect family farms from being altered or lost forever when land, buildings and equipment are sold to pay the tax.
New Dressage Rider Tests T e U.S. Equestrian Federation announced on September 25 the addition of the new Dressage Rider Tests Program for the 2013 competition year. For more information, see
equiery.com/ sporting/dressage.
leading horse trainers and owners and most go on to excel in college and in their careers. Darryl Ann added that she knows no one
“who has given more to 4-H than Shirley Geis. She literally lived for 4-H.” When Shirley was asked why she spends so
much time helping others, her answer, as usual, was short and direct. “T ere’s not much point in being here if you
don’t.”
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