Local Chapters to "be Honored,
Compete at FFA Convention
Tom Aaron and Dale Bollinger,
both from Quarryville, will be
among top FFA members to be
honored as thousands of FFA
youth gather in Kansas City, Mo.
for the 46th National Convention
October 16-19. Both have been
chosen to receive the American
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Aaron and Bollinger will be
accompanied to Kansas City by
their wives as well as Aaron’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. William
Aaron. They will be joined by Dr.
William Fredd, their FFA
Chapter advisor at Solanco.
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The American Farmer Degree,
highest degree of achievement in
the FFA, will be presented to 564
FFA members this year,
representing the best of more
than 447,000 FFA members
enrolled in the nation’s 7,798 high
school vocational agriculture
departments.
In addition to being named as
American Farmer, Aaron was
also named Northeastern Star
Farmer. The Star Farmer of
America will be announced
Thursday night, chosen from the
Regional Star Farmery of which
there are four regions.
Dr. Robert Herr, head of the
Vocational Agriculture depart
ment at New Holland, is
scheduled to be one of 77
vocational agriculture in
structors to receive the Honorary
American Farmer Degree. The
instructors receiving the degree
this year come from the ranks of
10,000 men and women who are
teaching vocational agriculture
throughout the United States and
Puerto Rico.
Area Chapters and teams to be
attending the Convention in
contest areas as well as Chapters
receiving special citations in
clude:
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Stephen Purcell, Upper Bucks
Tech FFA Chapter, North
Atlantic Region, has been named
regional winner of the FFA
Agricultural Sales and-or Service
Proficiency Award. One of the
four regional award recipients
will be named national winner.
Community Action Awards will
be presented to two area Chap
ters. Northern Lebanon will be
one of 33 Chapters presented the
National Gold Emblem award
while Grassland Chapter, New
Holland, will receive a silver
emblem. They are among 58
Chapters receiving national
silver and bronze awards for
their efforts in community
development.
Grassland Chapter and Nor
thern Lebanon Chapter will be
receiving gold emblems in the
National Chapter award
program, while Cloister Chapter
and Manheim Chapter will be
presented silver emblems. These
emblems are awarded for
superior performance in
programs of activities relating to
the vocational agriculture and
FFA programs in their high
school. This year 101 Chapters
are being awarded the gold
emblem, 102 Chapters the silver
emblem, and another 72 the
bronze emblem award.
Nelson E. Martin, East Earl,
past State president, will be one
of Pennsylvania’s two official
delegates. The 115 delegates will
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be representing their peers in
discussing and voting on issues
that will determine the future
course of the National
Organization.
Contest areas to be entered by
local chapters include: Garden
Spot, ag mechanics; Solanco,
dairy cattle; Pequea Valley,
livestock, Penn Manor and
Cloister, meats, Eastern York,
Penn Manor, and Bucks County
Area vo-tech, poultry. More than
710 FFA members will be entered
in various contest areas. To be
eligible for national competition,
members first competed and won
in chapter, district and state
contests.
Roger Good, Airville, will be
one of 99 singers as the FFA
chorus entertains during the
course of the Convention.
Jeff Glackin, Solanco Chapter,
will also be a Convention-goer,
having recieved the Rural Youth
Award at the Solanco Fair.
More than 13,000 FFA mem
bers and guests are expected to
attend the Convention. The
Convention is an annual event to
conduct the business of the
National FFA and give awards
for outstanding accomplishments
of FFA members on the national
level.
Meof Group
elects Lyng
Richard Lyng, formerly
Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture, was recently elected
the new president of the
American Meat Institute at the
conclusion of its 68th Annual
Meeting at the Conrad Hilton
Hotel.
Lyng succeeds Herrell DeGraff
who is retiring after 10 years of
service.
Lyng served as Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture from
1969 to 1973 under President
Nixon. He was responsible for
marketing and consumer ser
vices in the USDA. He also was a
director of the Commodity Credit
Corporation and was chairman of
the Child Nutrition Advisory
Council. Previously, he was
director of the California
Department of Agriculture under
Governor Ronald Reagan.
Originally from Modesto,
Calif., he was president of the Ed.
J. Lung Co., Inc., a family
operated seed business and was
former president of the
California Seed Association.
Lyng is a graduate of Notre
Dame University
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