Mack Wins Production Credit
Regional Award
For the second year in a row,
Tonya Mack has been awarded the
Production Credit Regional
Award. The honor is a result of
her silver and gold medals in the
state FFA record book contest
Mack is the daughter of Sonny
and Bonnie Fousnought of Sabins
ville, Tidga County. She is a
senior at Cowanesque Valley
High School, there she is a voca
tional agriculture student. Her
Supervised Agricultural Experi
ence Program has centered around
an extensive swine breeding enter
prise, which she has conducted
with her grandfather, Wallace
Ackley.
Tonya has been a very active
FFA member in the Cowanesque
Chapter. She has served as chapter
secretary for two years, served on
the BOAC, float citrus sales, and
parent-member banquet commit
tees. She has been a member of
the parliamentary procedure team
for three years and served the Tio-
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ga County FFA as secretary and
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' contests on the county level and
the livestock contest on the state
level.
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Hotl Wins Floriculture Record
Jodi Hall, a sophomore at State
College Area Intermediate High
School, won the State FFA Flori
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was first place in the Centre Reg
ion Farm Credit System Record
Book Contest. Her records give a
detailed account of her floriculture
supervised agricultural experi
ence. Her major crops consist of
poinsettias in the fall with spring
finding concentration on hangiffg
flowering baskets and flower bed
ding plant production. As a sepa
rate enterprise, Jodi manages the
school greenhouse and supervises
the vegetable production for the
FFA chapter.
Computers have been utilized,
by Jodi, to help keep track of pro
duction and plant inventories. She
also used a spreadsheet program
to arrange orders and deliveries
during the chapter’s annual citrus
sale. She has been the chapter’s
New York Ag Mechanics
A team from Letchworth Cen
tral School in Gainesville placed
first in the 1989 NY State Future
Farmers of America Agricultural
Mechanics Contest, hosted by
Alfred State College.
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leading citrus salesperson for the
past two years. Her sales activities
were rewarded when she was
named winner of the State FFA
Sales and Service Proficiency
Avterd at the Mid-Winter FFA
Convention held during the Penn
sylvania Farm Show. Jodi was
also naiped Chapter Star Agribu
sinessman at the recent State Col
lege FFA Banquet.
A central Oregon beef ranch
was Jodi’s first home. She lived in
the middle of thousands of acres
of range land. This is a big con
trast to the lifestyle she and her
family have experienced in their
three years of living in Pennsylva-
nia. Jodi has returned to Oregon
the last two summers to work on
her grandparents’ beef and wheat
operations. This summer finds
Jodi’s schedule too busy to make
the trip west She will start the
summer out at Stale FFA Aclivi-
The Letchworth team posted a
score of 445. Member Pat Albro
tied for second high individual at
154.5 points with Troy Staley of
the senior team from Charles G.
May Occupational Center, Mt.
Morris.
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Book Contest
ties Week where she has advanced
to the State Public Speaking Con
test and has applied for the talent
competition. Jodi will also be
spending time at a number of other
activities including The Summer
Institute of PSU/Pennsylvania
Association of Farmer Coopera
tives, The Hugh O’Brian Interna
tional Youth Conference, and The
FFA Washington Conference
Program. She also works part time
at a local landscape nursery.
Is there a future in agriculture
for today’s youth? Jodi feels that
there is, and she is hoping to capi
talize on her many agricultural
and leadership experiences. Her
plans include advanced FFA
involvement, international travel,
college, and eventually a position
as an agricultural education teach
er. As Jodi put it, “There is a tre
mendous opportunity in agricul
ture. It’s all important, everything
from beef to begonias.”
Contest
The other two members of the
Letchworth team —Jason Crane
and Don Errington—placed fifth
and sixth among individuals with
scores of 146 and 144.5, respec
tively.
High individual was Greg
Covert of Pioneer Central School,
Yorkshire, with 161 points, with
teammate Bart Blum ninth with
114.5. Team total for Pioneer \Vas
387.5, good for second place.
The senior team from Charles
G. May Occupational Center
placed third with a score of 384,
while the school’s junior team was
fourth with 379. Steve Werner of
the junior team was fourth high
individual with 149.5 points.
Marc Kem of the May seniors
was seventh high individual,
while Wade Roggow of the May
juniors was eighth, with scores of
132 and 119.5. Tenth place went
to Rick Kilner of the May juniors
with 110.
The youths were tested in three
major categories: construction,
soil, and water; structures and
electrification; and ag power and
machinery. The winning team is
eligible to compete at the National
FFA Convention in Kansas City,
Kans., in November.
Medals and trophies for the
state contest were provided by the
Charles G. May FFA Chapter and
were presented by Professor Alan
Myers of the Agricultural Engi
neering faculty at Alfred State
College.
Cedar Crest
Ten students from Cedar Crest
High School in Lebanon County
recently attend the FFA Activities
Week at Penn State. The chapter
parliamentary .procedure team
took top honors for the secondcon
secutive year by defeating seven
other finalist from across Pennsyl
vania. The other competing teams
in order of finish were Northern
Lebanon, Middleburg, Selins
grove. Greenwood, Juniata Valley,
Linesville-Conneaut-SMT, and
United.
In other contests involving
Cedar Crest FFA’ers, the chapter’s
scrapbook was rated as the best in
the state for the third consecutive
year and the fifth time in seven
years. Members on the scrapbook
committee were: Todd Balsbaugh,
Brian Knapp, Brian Boyd, Andy
111, Tom Camasta, Crystal Fox,