Board of Directors Minutes 1944

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING

President Hotel - Kansas · City, Missouri October 3 - 8, 1944

Practi'ce opening and closing ceremony.

General announcements and instructions.

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Check on hotel accommodations, railroad tickets, travel expense.

Miscellaneous duties and responsibilities, night work and registration.

llinutes of last meeting.

Review convention program. . Practice American Farmer ceremony.

Make plans for Officer-Delegate dinner.

a. Tickets, seating, guests, program, picture, delegate instructions. · Plan committee appointments.

Plan public speaking contest program.

Plan schedule of alternations for vice presidents.

.Make plans for officer tr.y outs with nominating committee.

Discuss pictures to be made.

Plan radio appearances.

Plan service club appearances.

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:·Plans '··for· Annual Banquet.·-.··

a. Seating guests.

b. Program.

Business to be presented to board;

a. Review reconunended amendments to the constitution - 1. 12 to

36

months.

2. Time required for degree advancement.

b. Gold emblem chapters not repeat the following year.

c • . The National F .F .A. Camp d. Contracts tor merchandise • . e. Prepare a budget for next year.

f. Policy on sending . tlowers.

g. Emblem and printing ,on scrapbook · pages (Seamans, Texas) h. Decal transfers

i. Binder for chapter

re~ords

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Review . National Program of Work.

k. RevieW items of business to come· before the convention.

1. Advisability of continuing commercial dinners., m. Request from Ayres of Minnesota

n. T shirts sold

by

Chapter Suppiy Co.

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MINUTES OF THE JOINT MEETING OF THE NATIONAL F.F.A. ADVISOR'{ COUNCIL AND THE BOAID OF TRUSTEES

Kansas City, Nissouri October 6, 1944

The meeting was called ·to order by Dr, W. T. Spanton. Those present inclooed: President Robert BOYanan, 1st Vice Pr,esident

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^Beverley

Roller, 2nd Vice President Ralph H. Sa,1l.zman, 5rd Vice President Arthur E. Clifford, 4th Vice President Robert Barthelmess, Student Secretary Byron Freeman, Treas'llrer Dowell J. Holfard, Messrs. Clements, Pearson,

·Johnson, and SWanson,. .Begional Advisers, Messrs. Jolmson, Sasman, Lowe, and Gammack, and Mr. Willard

w.

Beatty, Dire.ctor of Fducation Division, Office. of Indian Affairs.

The detailed program for the convention was presented and dis-

cussed. ·

Dr. Spanton presented information concerning the organization of the Future Ianners of A.Deri~a for Mr. Beatty's information.·

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cBeatty-presented.,.briefly facts about .. the .Indian school program.

He then requested that boys in Indian schools be permitted to organize chapters ~d affiliate with the Fut"ilre Farmers of iAmerica. He suggested that the F .F .A. constitution be changed to enable boys enrolled in s~hools · supported by Federal .funis to become mambers instead of limiting F .F .A •.

membe~ship to schools supported by Smith-Hughes an~ George Deen Funds.

llr. A.

w.

Johnson presented difficulties encountered in adminis- tering the program in. Indian schools in Montana. ·

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Mr • Sasman of Wisconsin explained that there had been no dis- . crimiliation against Indian boys in his State. He said most of them did

not come ~P to the standards· of white boys.

It was agreed by Mr. Beatty that a memo of understanding might be prepared between State Boards of Education and the Indian Service, arx1 they would agree to meet standards for looal chapters - or not . object i f dlapters were discontinued if standards were not met. Mr.

Beatty agreed to prepare a statement clarifying this problem.·

·It was the sense of the group that .the .proper proc~dure would be

for a State association iriterested in the problem to submit a proposed amendment to the national consti tutiE>n.

Mr. Beatty presented the· problem of Japanese Relocation Centers concerning the request for F .F .A. chapters in these centers.

It VIas moved by Mr. A. W. Tenney to refer the problem of Indian Scllools and F.F.A. to a committee of three and that the camnittee pre- ·

tara

^a resolution and submit it at the meeting the next morning, . and :that· ·not more than thirty minutes be used· for discussion, and that the

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group give

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committee a recommendation to guide it

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its workJ motion seconded and carried.

The follO'iing · cormnittee was appointed

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A. w. Johnson, State Supervisor o£ Agricul 'blral Education

in

Montana.;

Marvin

Jagels, Past N?-tional F .F

.A~

President; and, H. B. SWanson, Acting Federal Agent in

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the Agricultural Education Service o£ the u. s. Office of Education.

the following committee report was presented by

Mr.

SWanson s

"In light of the discussion held

wit~

Mr. W.

Wo

Beatty, Director of Education, · Offiee of !Jldian Affairs, relating to the establishment of

F .F-.A.

cha p&ers in Indian

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Schools, it is suggested by the Advisory

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Council and the

Board

of Trllsteea

. of the F .F

.A .. that the following

procedure

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1. That

Mr.

Beatty or

his ·representative contact one or

more Indian Schools desiring to establish chapters of F.F.A.

That representatives of such school or schools make their desire lmown to the State Adviser and the execu-

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tive

co~ttee

· or . that State . a,ssociation.

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"3• That the ·State association in its discretion submit a proposed amendment in the manner prescribed

b.y

the national constitution of the F .F.A.

in

order that the national delegate body may have this matter brought before it for action."

It

was

moved

by

:ur. Swanson that the report

be

adopted

as

read; motion

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seconded

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carried.

The meeting

was

adjourned.

Iespect£ully

subnitted~

a..uJ.or~

.A. W.

Tenney

Acting National Executive Secretary

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MINUTES OF THE NATIONAL F .F .A. ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETING Kansas City, Missouri October 6, 1944

The meeting was called to order at 4 p.m. by. Dr.

w.

T. Spanton.

Those present incluieds llessrs. A.

w.

Johnson, J. K. Lowe, R. E. Cammack,

L. :y;.

Sasman,

D. 11. Cleue·nts, E. J. Johnson, J. H. Pearson, H. B. Swanson,

.and A.

w. Tenney.

It was moved by

:ur.

^A.

w.

Johnson; seconded and carried, that the plan outlined in the ·ritual for conferring the American Fanner Degree and presenting the Keys be follolfed at the convention. ·

. It

was

moved by Kr. Lowe, seconded and_carried, to.

sustain

the

· action of the· Board or TrU9tees concerning employment

ef a

Public Rela-

tions

man. ·

It was moved by Mr. Sasman, seconded and carried, to sustain the action

of

the Board of Trustees concerning the Delaware American Farmer application.

It

was moved

by llr. Sasman, seconded and carried, to

sustain

the

... <.-action-of the Board· of-Trustees concerning the·

use

of-Foundation funds:.::::-..".-·., ..

for the National Public Speaking Contest awards •

It was moved by Mr. A.

w.

Johnson, seconded and· carried, that

a

committee

of

three

be

appointed to prepare policies concerning the conferring of the Honorary American Farmer Degree. The folloWing committee was appointed:

A. w.

Johnson, Montana State Adviser

R.

E. CaJDIBck,

Alabama-

State .Adviser .

A. w.

Tenney, Acting National Executive Secretary

··A brief summary of the business transacted by the Board of Trus- tees 'Was

presented_,

and, although no vote was taken, it was the sense . of ·the group that the decisions of the Board met with the approval of

the

Advisory Council. ·

The meeting was adjourned at Ss50 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,·

9:.~~;'1~

. · Secretary