THE ARMY RESERVE. PARTOF WHAT YOU EARN IS PRIDE

Celebrate Our FFA Anniversary

Every Day

of the Year

Every Chapter Should

Have Some

Official

1978 FFA Golden Anniversary Calendars Hanging Up

in

the Community.

They

show

and tell the 50-yearsuccess story ofvo-ag and FFA.

And

they'll bring attention to

FFA TODAY.

Here's

How

To Participate: Use order forms in the

new

Supply Service catalog or the

new

Chapter Guide mailed to all chapters. Or send for a freesample kit from the FFACalendar Department, P. 0. Box 15130, Alexandria, Virginia 22309. Geta commit- tee of two or three to work on the project and send in an order as soon as possible.

Chapters can buy the calendars themselves to distribute or they can get a business firm to sponsor the calendars.

56 TheNational

FUTURE FARMER

FFA ⁱⁿ Action

(Continuedfrom Page52) with our

Young

McDonald's Farm. In cooperation with the Indiana

FFA

As- sociation and the Indiana

Commerce

Department, our chaptertraveled tothe capital building with a h'tter of pigs, a Hereford ^calf, a Holstein calf, a Suf- folk ewe with twin lambs and a white babygoat.

We

kept the animals in pens outside the entrance

way

to Governor Bowen's main office.

Many

of the building's employees and working poli- ticianstook time to

come

visit withus.

"We

also met with a second grade class from Indianapolis Public Schools and held animals to touch and pet.

We

also gave them

some

coloring books

we

had left from our 'Food For America' project.

(Dawn

Lane, Reporter)

The small animals exhibit by Green-

field, Indiana,

FFA

a+trac+ed lots of visitors. Dennis

McCiammer

shows a

lamb

to the children

who came

plus Senator Bruggenschmidt, in white coat at ^left, and Lieutenant

Governor

Orr.

Self-Confidence Graduates

Over 30

FFA members

from the North Florida area graduated from a Dale Carnegie course. These members, representing nine

FFA

chapters,

com-

pleted an in-depth study in developing self-confidence, communication, devel- oping potential abilities, remembering names, controlling tension and

human

relations.

The

coursewas offeredby

Tom

Lipe and Associates of Tallahassee. Mr. and Mrs.

Tom

^{Lipe spent}

many

hours each

week

working withthese members.

The graduates with their instructor, Mr.

Tom

Lipe, second row on the left.

State

Vo-Ag Program

Consultant

Gary

Hartley, State

FFA

Secretary

Woody

Hildebrandt and State

FFA

Vice President

Randy Hanna

served as graduate assistants for the group.

At the twelveth session, the class elected four outstanding

members

as the class officers.

They

are as follows:

President,

Mike

Carruth, state

FFA

vice president: Vice President, Glenn Miller, district II president; Secretary, Leatha Flowers,

member

of

Godby

Chapter; and Treasurer, Raison Lee, vice president of

Leon

^Chapter.

Three Day Short Course

The members

of the Crater Chapter

in Central Point, Oregon, beefed up

their

"Food

For America" program

making

it a three-day project at one of the three elementary schools.

The

pro-

gram

was designed for the third and fourth grades of 122 students.

Kent Bigham

was presiding chairman.

The

first day started with the

"Food

For America"

members

talking about the importance of farming and

how

crops are planted.

Then

for class in- volvement, the students were given

some

soil and a kernel of corn which

members

helped to plant.

After they planted the corn, other

members

took the kids through the grain elevator and fertilizerplant.

The

second day covered the import- anceoffarm machinery and theproper uses for theequipment.

Then

the

young

students were taken outdoors and were

shown

the operation of the different types of equipmentand permitted to sit

on the tractor.

The

third day took place mainlyout- doors where they saw the different types of farm animals and were

shown how

to milk a cow.

Many

of the stu- dents decided theydidn'tlike milk (but

it didn't

show

in thelunch line).

Later in the day, David Wolff

dem-

onstrated sheep shearing. Afterwards the students were given small pieces of wool and were taken back to their classrooms. (Michael Collins, Reporter) Milk

Carton

Delivery

The

state officers of the South

Da-

kota Association decided it wastime to tell the

FFA

story a different way.

Their idea wasto use a side panel of a milk carton todeliver thestory.

With the cooperation of Terrace Park Dairy of Sioux Falls, South Da- kota, the idea

became

areality.Terrace Park featured the side panel on half- gallon cartons of2 percentmilk. Overa quarterof a million of the cartonswere distributed in the three-state region of Minnesota,

Iowa

and South Dakota.

Ozzie Schock, a former

FFA member,

is the division

manager

of the dairy

who made

the side panel possible.

(Richard Kloucek)

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'cOii-^

Tony LamaLealher Prodacts, ^Inc., P. O. Box40500, Fori W'orlh,Texas7H40

A

^country

bumpkin

went North to work.

The

next

month

he wrote home,

"Made

foreman, feather in

my

cap."

A month

later he wrote,

"Made man-

ager, another feather in

my

cap."

A

week

later, a third letter was written home, "Got fired, send

money

for bus fare." His wife wrote back, "Use your feathers,_flyhome."

James Leggett Athens,Alabama

?00-

Mr. Jones installed a

new

light in the hallway forhis wife

when

he found out she was pregnant.

On

the night of the delivery he waited outside the bed- room.

"You

have a son," the doctor called out.

"And

another, a girl!"

Mad-

ly the farmer pulled the fuses and plunged the house into darkness.

"What's up?" cried the doctor.

Mr.Jonessaid,"Sure

had

todo some-

thing. I think it must have been the lightthatwasattracting tJiem!"

Robin Story Windom,Minnesota

A

farmer grew a giant strawberry that broke all records. Butwasn't about to

show

it to anyone or to have a news story written about it. But a newspaper reporter heard about the giantfruit and went to the farmer,

who

worried, "I'm afraid if I leave you alone to photo- graph the strawberry, you will steal it."

"Oh, no," answered the reporter. ^"/

have

come

to praise the berry, not to seize her."

Thomas LaMance Modesto,California Bill:

"What

do you call a metric cooky?"

Ann:

"A

gram

cracker."

KeithBlock Waubaj/.South Dakota

Man:

^"/ would like

some

pins

and

needles,please."

Store clerk: "Oh,

you

must be shop- pingforyourwife."

Man:

"No, I'm a sword swallower onadiet."

Mark

Ericson Galva,Illinois

The

applicant was having trouble filling out a long

employment

form.

On

the line asking for "length of residence at present address" he thought and fi- nally wrote "about 60 feet, not count- ing the garage."

Pam

Bunting Zanesville,Ohio First Salesman: "/ sell salt."

Second Salesman:

"Why, me

too."

First Salesman: "Shake!"

KevinThompson Roseau,Minnesota

Lady

visitor to little girl:

"And

what

willyou do

when

you'reas big asI

am?"

Little girl: "Diet!"

Pam Domecq

Tracy, California Bill^: "Joe,Ifeellikeafool."

Joe: "Why'sthat?"

Bill: "/ wrote a love note to

my

teacher

and

she sent it back with the spelling corrected."

HubertMeyer Ocala,Florida

"Now

class, pay strict attention to this final phase of our class instruc- tion," said the driver educationteacher.

"Now

what?" exclaimed one of the students impatient to get to the actual driving part of the course.

"This is

how

you fillout an accident form."

Nancy Kramer Algona, Iowa Circus

manager

to the

human

can- nonball:

"You

can't quit!

Where

will Ifind another

man

ofyourcaliber?"

LisaLair Cashion. Oklahoma

Mary: "A

friend of mine has 200 goldfish in her bathtub."

Terry:

"What

does she do

when

she takesabath?"

Mary: "She blindfolds them!"

Pam Domecq

Tracy, California There is nothing like the first horse- backride to

make

youfeelbetteroff.

Susie Davis Liberty,Kentucky

"I'm Brave

Hawk,"

said the Indian chief, introducting himself to a pale- face. "This is

my

son. Fighting Bird."

And

then, he addedwithpride, "Thisis

my

^{grandson,B-52."}

Susan Keith Centerville. Ohio

Charlie, the Greenhand

"Charlie, you'resohungryyou're seeing things. That'sarainbow, not 'Golden Arches.'"

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FARMER

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