National Farmers Organization
Amway Grand Plaza in Grand Rapids, Michigan
January 20, 2005
Speaker/Storyteller: Robert Skoglund
The humble Farmer
Thank you, Malanie Dugan and Paul Olson for asking me to be part of your 50 Year Celebration
Chairman Paul Olson
Please come visit Marsha and me anytime.
You can hear the 8 most recent humble Farmer radio shows on the Internet anytime.
Overheard at the meeting: "It is more of a family than an organization. If you are in trouble these are the people
who are first to arrive with help and the last to leave. If you are taking up a collection where everyone puts in a dollar,
they will put in five and tell you not to say that they put in more than anyone else."
By working together, small farmers can make a difference.
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2. Leland Gunst
3. Alvin Houtsinger
4. Carol Statz
5. Toby Heiss -- He Took Care of His Friends
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7. Larry Stoschein
Mansfield, South Dakota
8. Larry Stoschein
Mansfield, South Dakota
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10. The Hy-Notes
Randy Wrozek
517-787-4288
If you knew the words to the songs they were playing, you were too old to be dancing.
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13. Laven Eldred & Harold Morehouse
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15. Dennis & Madelyn Stacer
Jennings, Kansas
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17. Rosemary Heiss
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19. Carl & Linda Wahlmeier
Jennings, Kansas
20. Barbara Dierinzen
21. Shirley Burg & Patricia Schilling
22. Richard Schilling & Joe Burg
23. Connie Schipke, Veronia Luersman, Larry Luersman
24. Edward Shima
25. Maxine Shockman
26. Maxine Shockman
27. Maxine Shockman
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33. Leander Wagner, Elko Minnesota
Sells Willie Nelson Hat to high bidder Paul Olson
34. Chairman Paul Olson
Taylor, Wisconsin
35. Chairman Paul Olson, Taylor, Wisconsin
Bought Willie Nelson Hat
36. Everett Hartman
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44. Jim Hightower & David Senter
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46. President Paul Olson
048. Wayne Prichard
49. Roger Christenson & Peter Dillenburg
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51. Robert Skoglund: The humble Farmer. -- My wife asked me why I always dressed so shabby. I said that clothes don't amount to nothing. It's the body underneath that counts. And she said, "Don't make it any worse than it already is."
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Thank you for looking at the pictures.
And thank you for being a great audience in Grand Rapids.
January 20, 2005
"I went to a one room school."
"The teacher always taught the lesson the the slowest one in the room."
"When we were 15, every Friday night we'd go to a dance at the St. George Grange."
"It was right next to the school."
785 River Road
St. George, ME 04860
After April 2, 2005 (207) 372-8052
Until March 31, 2005 (239) 985-0890
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© 2005 Robert Skoglund