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History Eleventhina seriesofarticlesabout the history ofFFA.

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President Martin Delgado and Secre- taryGrace Landers appeared on

Nancy

Clayton's

Farm

and

Ranch

Report on

KENS-TV

in San Antonio,

TX,

repre- senting theHighlands

FFA

there.

N-N-N

Principal

Roggy

was a guest at Gree- ley,

CO,

Chaptermeeting.

Greybull,

WY, FFA

sold 2,522 pounds of seafood items as a fund

raiser.

N-N-N

Turtle Leslie Applegate,

named

in honorof

FFA's

first national president,

won

the University of Maryland's

homecoming

turtle race. Lesliewas the entry of Collegiate

FFA

and competed against allthe big fraternity and sorori- ty turtles.

Some members

walked soybeans for an

FFA money-making

project.

Lake

Mills, IA.

N-N-N

One pumpkin

vine of Jim Brown, Barnesville,

OH, FFA'er

produced 1,000 pounds of pumpkin.

N.N-N

Riverdale, IL,

FFA

accepted a job offertoshock 20acres ofwinterwheat.

N-N-N

Winners in Perry,

OK,

Halloween party contest were Russell

Rupp

and Eric Seeligeras

Batman

and Robin; and

Ben

Passow as Dolly Parton.

N-N-N

National

Honor

Society

members

werespecial guestsataBloomfield,

NE,

FFA

meeting to observe parliamentary procedure.

N-N-N

The

Greenfield,

OK, FFA

gangtoured

Brawm's

Dairy

Farm

where they milk 2,500 cows; and the Producers Cooper- ative Oil Mill where they

make

cotton- seed oil products.

N-N-N

BOAC Chairman

Jack Wright of Keytesville,

MO, FFA

snappedhiscom- mittee into action to provide equipment and

manpower

todig out seniorcitizens snow.

44

The

city wide barbeque of Odessa,

MO, FFA

served two-thirds ofthe folks intown.

And

earnedthechapter $2,500.

N-'N-N

Providing labor force to set

up

and take

down

chairs at

Chamber

of

Com-

merce banquet earnedbucksforSpring- dale,

AR, FFA.

N-N-N

Battle Lake,

MN,

^is replanting a grove of trees wiped out by fire.

They

were originally planted by

FFA

12 yearsago.

N-'N-N

FFA won

the inter-school club bas- ketball contest (against

Key

Club, Ju- niorJaycees andthelike) inDover, FL.

N-N-N

Chaptersin Section 20in IllinoisAs- sociation are having an informational meetingon

how

to startan alumnichap- ter according to Reporter Hal Hudson.

Speaker will be J.

Glyndon

Stuff, past national

FFA

^president

from

IL.

N-N-N

Even

though the heaters went out in the greenhouse just before Christmas vacation, Scappoose,

OR,

has a good crop oftulips and Easter lilies for their spring sale.

N-N-N

All those

FFA emblems

on school lockers in Windsor,

MO,

are part of their chapter

FFA WEEK

celebration.

Emblems mark

the members.

N-N-N

Greg

St. Hilaire, reporter for Eisen-

hower FFA

in

WA,

says the chapter is

building a

new

trailer for hauling live- stock.

N-N-N

Crawford County in Meadville,

PA,

has a

"game

dinner" of raccoon, elk,

muskrat and deer.

N-N-N

They're assigning a Big Brother or Sister to newlyinitiated Greenhands in

John

Wayland

and Turner Ashby,

VA,

Chapters. Mostlyseniors,the"Bigs"can help the freshmen with Supervised Oc- cupationalExperience

Program work

or planning,

FFA

involvement or schoolin general.

Grant,

NE, FFA

officers installedthe officers of a newly formed Madrid- WheatlandChapter.

N-N-N

Active

FFA

treatedalumni

FFA

^toa

holidaymeal inNorth Iredell,

NC.

N-N-N

Chapters everywhere have been sell- ing citrus

—

^like Gardendale,

AL.

When

Prague,

OK, members

went out to judge lambs on the farm, there were only three. So an enterprising

member

got one of the farm cats as a substitute. It was an easy bottom of thejudging class, but it didn't stay "set up" verywell.

N-N-N

In Buffalo Center, IA,

FFA

boughta used deep freeze to store various meat cutsandcrop specimens.

They

alsoplan to store colostrum for

members

and famerstouse inemergencies for calves, pigs or lambs.

N-N-N

New

recreation idea for

Windom, MN,

^{is broomball.}

N-N-N

They've

popped

up $250 for the treasury of Centennial,

OR,

Chapter

selling popcorn.

N-N-N

They

raffle a saddle every year at

homecoming

dance to raise

money

for

FFA

in

Mountain

View,

WY.

N-N-N

The

pancake eatin'

champ

of Banos,

CA, FFA

^{is ShelleyPimental.}

Shelley beat 12 competitors by pigging

down

27 cakes in under 30 minutes.

Contestwasheld forthe student body.

N-N-N

During an ice storm in Prague,

OK,

the "hottest" items around were ice sleds

made

invo-ag shop.FFA'ers were the slippinest, slidinest

bunch

in town.

N-N-N

Out of 8,000 local chapters, there must be

more

chapter reporters that couldspring loose witha 15-centstamp and one sheet of notebook paper totell us theNews, Notes and Nonsenseabout

FFA.

TheNational

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