IS— Lancaster Farming. Saturday. Saptambcr 13. 1975
Seeks
new
director
ALEXANDRIA. VA. • Jay
Hcnham, Administrative
Secretary of the National
FFA Alumni Association
since the organization was
founded haa announced that
he will resign his position on
February 29 to return to his
family farming operation
near Troy, Ohio.
Employed in 1971 to
organize and build a
National Alumni Association
for the Future Farmers of
America, Benham has been
largely responsible for the
organization's rapid growth
and initial success. Under
Benham's direction the FFA
Alumni Association has
grown to one of the largest
Alumni Associations in the
nation in only five years.
Forty-six states have
organized and chartered
State FFA Alumni
Associations m the past
three years and others are
now in the process of ap
plying for charters. At the
same time, local FFA
Alumni Affiliates have been
chartered in several hundred
communities where they
work in conjunction with the
vocational agriculture in
struction program and the
FFA to imporve education in
agriculture.
“FFA Alumni mem
bership already reaches
thousands of communities
and has increased at well
over the fifty percent mark
each year since the
association was founded,”
says Benham, who points out
that membership statistics
for 1975 look even more
promising than years past.
“I’m very optimistic about
the future growth of the FFA
Alumni Association,"says
Benham. “We’ve come from
zero to nearly 17,000
members in only five years
and the potential is in the
millions,’’ he expalins. “It’s
been exciting to see this
organization grow and it is
going to be even more ex
citing to see the growth in the
Future.”
An FFA Alumni himself,
Benham earned the FFA’s
highest degree of mem
bership - the American
Farmer Degree in
recognition of his own out
standing farming and
leadership record. He
continued his interest in the
home farm operation
throughout four years in
college anc later as a suc
cessful vocational
agriculture instructor in
Oxford, Ohio, where he also
became well known for his
daily farm broadcasts over
the local radio station. In
recent years Benham has
increased the size of the Ohio
farming operation with the
idea of eventually returning
to Ohio and a more active
role m the farming
operation. “I’m really
looking forward to getting
back to farming,” says
Benham, “although I’ve
certainly enjoyed this ex
perience of working with the
Alumni Association.”
With nennam s
resignation scheduled for
February 29, Jim Clouse,
Chairman of the FFA
Alumni Council has an
nounced that the seaach is on
for a replacement to be hired
by January 1, 1976. Anyone
interested in the position
may apply prior to October
15. "We are looking for a leadership is also essential."
P*f* on . wh ° *?** For further information or
ability to organize, details, persons Interested in
and administer a rapidly position should contact
growing natliona l l Jay Benham. FFA Alumni
organization, tityt • Administrative Secretary,
adding that a strong belief p 0 1505# A | cxandr j oi
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