!4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. October 27. 1973 2‘ (Continued From Page I) degree, that of “State Farmer”, is presented by the State FFA Association and is limited to no more than two percent of the State’s FFA membership in any one year. Only students who have earned the State Farmer Degree are eligible for the American Farmer Degree. In addition to having earned the State Farmer Degree, can didates for the American Farmer Degree must have been active members of the FFA con tinuously for at least three years. They must have a record of participation in local and state FFA activities and they must have completed all of the vocational agriculture in struction offered in their high school. Candidates must have been out of high school for at least a year and must have in operation, an outstanding supervised farming or agribusiness occupation program. American Farmer applicants must have earned at least $l,OOO by their own efforts through their occupational ex perience program and must have their earnings productively in vested or deposited in a bank. Finally, the American Farmer candidates must have demon strated outstanding ability through their leadership and cooperation in student, chapter and community activities. They must have a satisfactory scholarship record as certified by the local school superintendent or principal. Each American Farmer Degree recipient is presented a gold key and certificate by the Future Farmers of America. Recipients who attend the Convention are presented a check from the Future Farmers of America Foundation to help pay their travel expenses. Waybright is Regional V-P Another signal honor at the convention went to Doyle 0. Waybrigbt, Gettysburg RD2. Waybrigbt, a member of the Battlefield FFA chapter was elected vice-president of the North Atlantic Region. He is the 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Waybrigbt, and is a managing partner in a three family dairy operation which currently milks 475 cows. In FFA activities Doyle served as State President of the Penn sylvania FFA Association in 1971- 72. He served on the 1972 National FFA nominating committee and Members of the Solanco FFA Chapter Dairy Cattle Team were greeted in Kansas City by Mr. Avery Bose (left), Treasurer of Associated Milk Producers, Inc. of Antioch, Illinois, and Mr. William Powell (right), President of Mid-America Dairymen, Inc. of Princeton, Missouri. Team members (left FFA’ers Return Bearing Honors Dwight Seegmiller, national FFA president, presented Kansas City, Mo. The American Farmer Degree is the American Farmer Degrees to Dale Bollinger (left photo) highest degree of membership in the FFA, and it was and Thomas W. Aaron (right photo) at ceremonies presented to 564 FFA members this year, during the annual FFA convention held last week in Grassland FFA Officers and Advisor received national recognition for achievement in community development at the National FFA Convention in Kansas City, Missouri. William Erwin, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Rural was winner of the 1971 State FFA third-place finish in the dairy public speaking contest. He has judging contest by outscoring been credited for helping to everybody else in the nation, initiate several new FFA Clark’s teammates, Gary Akers programs in his home state. and William Hershey, Clark is First in QuanVville, won gold emblem Dairy Judging a warps for their individual Solanco’s Randy Clark, placings. Quarryville, led his team to a Nine classes of dairy cattle v* 1 x " nh to right) Randy Clark, Gary Akers and William Hershey were accompanied to Kansas City by their advisor, Arba Henry. Clark took high individual honors in the nation in the contest, while the Solanco team came in third. Development, Washington, D.C. greets Ray Martin, Chapter President; Ken Mull, Chairman of the FFA Community Development Committee; and FFA Advisor Mr. Robert Woods. were available for judging by 45 teams in the Dairy Cattle Con test. The team members ob served the animals from all angles for 12 minutes, but were not allowed to touch them. Atter the allotted time they were given an additional 12 minutes to prepare reasons for their placement choices. Finally they were given two minutes each to give their placement choices orally. The National Contest is a competitive activity in which young men and women test their ability to select top quality livestock and animal products - needed for successful production Sandy Cinder, left, a horticulture student at Mount Joy Vo- Tech, led her judging team to victory with a first place finish in ornamental horticulture judging held during a North Atlantic Region FFA contest at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, Mass. Sandy is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Cinder, Elizabethtown RD3. She’s shown being congratulated by Bruce Erath, regional FFA vice-president and marketing. Only FFA members who are under 21 years of age and who currently are following a planned course of study in vocational agriculture are eligible for the contests. Each team in the contest has competed with other chapters in their state for the privilege of participating in the National FFA contest. As sponsors of the contest Mid- America Dairymen, Inc. and Associated Milk Producers, Inc provide funds to help pay travel expenses of teams as well as to provide plaques and trophies for winning teams and medals for high scoring individuals. BOAC Awards BOAC (Building Our American Communities) awards were presented to Grassland Chapter FFA officers from Garden Spot High School as well as to the Northern Lebanon FFA chapter. The BOAC program is designed to develop leadership ability of FFA members by encouraging them to take an active role in the community. In the classroom, FFA members learn the com munity development process, survey community needs and wants, identify high priority projects and seek to cooperate with other community groups and individuals. The result of the program is expected to be not only better communities, but also better qualified citizen leaders and followers who will strengthen tomorrow’s American society. Assisting in the effort are the Fanners Home Administration (FHA) of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and Lilly En dowment, Inc., of Indianapolis, Indiana. The FHA is providing technical assistance in the form of classroom materials on rural development. Lilly Endowment is providing awards and ad ditional funds to help offset ad ministrative expenses through the National FFA Foundation, Inc.
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