Vice President, Central Region, SAM BROWNBACK, Parker, Kansas Vice President, Eastern Region, RICK McDANIEL, Nevada, Ohio Vice President, Southern Region, DANNY SCHIFFER, Orlando, Florida Vice President, Western Region, JULIE SMILEY, Mount Vernon, Washington. DAY, State Supervisor, Agricultural Education, Minnesota H. LACEY, Senior Program Officer/DVTE, U.S. MITCHELL, Consultant, Agricultural Education, New Hampshire G. SCROGGINS, Assistant Director, Vocational Agricultural Education, Texas. The Future Farmers of America (FFA) is the national organization for students studying vocational agriculture in public colleges under the provisions of the National Vocational Education Act.
The primary goal of the FFA organization is to develop agricultural leadership, cooperation, citizenship and patriotism. Support of state committees. 34; Rob"Hovis, East Region Vice President, Helena, Ohio; DeeSokolosky, West Region Vice President, Owasso, Oklahoma, and ChristopherC."Chris" Hardee, South Region Vice President, Chiefland, Florida.
LOUISIANA
MAINE
MARYLAND
MASSACHUSETTS DAVID W. LANE, Ipswich
MONTANA
NEBRASKA
NEVADA
NEW HAMPSHIRE
RUSTY BROWN, DOVER NEW JERSEY
NEW MEXICO
NEW YORK
NORTH CAROLINA JAY MARSHALL, Snow Camp
NORTH DAKOTA
OKLAHOMA
OREGON
PENNSYLVANIA
PUERTO RICO NELSON LOPEZ, Jayuya
SOUTH CAROLINA TOM DOBBINS, Townville
SOUTH DAKOTA
UTAH
VERMONT
WASHINGTON CARL HARDER, Ritzville
WEST VIRGINIA
WYOMING
ALABAMA
FLORIDA
IOWA
MASSACHUSETTS
MICHIGAN
MISSOURI
NORTH CAROLINA
WASHINGTON
ENGLAND
ARKANSAS Sammy Langston
DELAWARE
KANSAS Mona Lee Dawson
KENTUCKY Don Thomason Jr
MAINE Wayne F. Fox
MICHIGAN Pam Darling
MINNESOTA
NEW JERSEY
OHIO
PENNSYLVANIA Ronald Craig
VIRGINIA
WEST VIRGINIA Mark Johnson
ARIZONA Ronn Nelson
ARKANSAS
IDAHO
INDIANA
IOWA Dana Ruff
KENTUCKY
MINNESOTA Jody Fuller
NEW JERSEY Danny Roerig
PENNSYLVANIA Clyde McMillen
SOUTH CAROLINA Randford Miller, Jr
TENNESSEE Wayne Larry Duke
WEST VIRGINIA John Hanna
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9
OPENING SESSION
SECOND SESSION
Item 2 - To build the confidence of students in themselves and their work by developing desirable work habits and the effective use of their time by
Item 4 - To recognize achievement in supervised occupational experience programs, scholarship, leadership and other individual and group
Section B - Paragraph 2 - Schools with large enrollments and/or multiple programs in vocational agriculture may establish mini chapters as a sub-
Section B - Paragraph 2 - To retain membership during high school, the member must be enrolled in at least one vocational agriculture course during
Section B - Paragraph 3 - A member who is in good standing at the time of induction into the armed forces of the United States of Americashall be in
Section D - Item 5- Has demonstrated competency in an agricultur- al occupation and has a satisfactory scholastic record as certified by the voca-
Section A - Paragraph 2 - Each State is eligible to receive two Degrees for the first 500 members, one Degree for the next 500 members, and one
Section A - Paragraph 4 -The active membership will be computed on the basis of National dues received in the office of the National FFA Treasurer
The Aim and Purposes -
To develop competent and aggressive agricultural leadership
To create and nurture a love of agricultural life
To encourage members in the development of individual occupational experience programs in agriculture and establishment in agricultural careers
To encourage members to improve the home and its surroundings
To participate in worthy undertakings forthe improvement of the industry of agriculture
To provide and encourage the development of organized recreational activities
THIRD SESSION
- Code of Ethics -
- Refraining from loud, boisterous talk, swearing and other unbecoming conduct
- Taking pride in our organization; in our activities; in our supervised ex- perience programs; in our exhibits; and in the occupations of agricul-
- The Proper Use of the Official FFA Jacket -
- Members should refrain from use of tobacco and alcohol while wearing the FFA jacket or officially representing the organization
We are proud of our organization; in our activities; in our supervised experience programs; in our exhibitions; and in the occupations of agricultural experiential programs; in our exhibitions; and in the agricultural profession. Members should refrain from using tobacco and alcohol while wearing the FFA jacket or officially representing the organization.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10
FOURTH SESSION
FIFTH SESSION
SIXTH SESSION
Twenty-five year sponsors, executive, bronze, silver, gold and star sponsors and mem- were introduced. Phillipson, 1977 Chairman of the Foundation's Sponsorship Committee, welcomed and thanked all sponsors and congratulated the award winners and their advisors. The recognition of stars, gold and special project sponsors was highlighted by a colorful slide show, which was enthusiastically enjoyed by all.
DwightBuller of Hendricks, Minnesota, was named Star Farmer of America, and Michael Deming of Owatonna, Minnesota, was named Star AgribusinessmanofAmerica.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11
SEVENTH SESSION
CLOSING SESSION
COULD THIS BE THE MAGIC
James Bode, National FFA President
I now know that fairy tales can become reality, but not through the sleight of hand of a magician. We can all practice magic by simply finding our talents and challenging ourselves to work and make the most of those talents. We can no longer ask whether we should find this magic by discovering our talents and using them, but rather how long it will take us.
We can learn from the great heritage of the past. The Wright brothers couldn't fly because they had a magic wand, but because they didn't have a tolet. We can combine the strengths of the mind and the body with the goodness of the heart.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL
A NEW BEGINNING
I certainly do that with mixed feelings, but with many happy memories of the past year. The friendships formed over the past year will continue to grow and grow stronger, and I will watch as you, my friends, reach for your stars.
TO TRY AND YET FAIL
Use the amazing talents you have acquired to build a better agriculture, a stronger country and a perfect world, but most of all, use your abilities to build a better YOU. But on the other hand, if we don't achieve our goal, are we a failure? We are only ashes. The victors in life are not those who remain undefeated, but rather those who do not quit.
He has given us a wonderful body with many talents, and if we are blown down with the first wind of defeat and do not get back up, then we are wasting the former life He has given us. Too many people turn their lives into graveyards by burying their talents. What we become is our gift to God.
STRONGER EVERY DAY
That is the true disease of 'averageitis'. Lack of motivation and goals are the main symptoms. The mother sold the clothing store they owned to buy her husband's way out of prison. The family fled penniless to Shanghai, which was taken over by the Japanese not long afterwards. There are thousands of them, one by one, pointing out the dangers waiting to attack you.
Just start chanting while you tackle one thing, it can't be done, and you will do it. Howard Hill is probably the greatest archer who ever lived. At 50 feet, it could shoot almost any rifleman in the world. I hope you think this analogy is funny and that you are saying, "of course you can; how can a manhita intend not to see?" This is a good question.
It's one big morgasbord and we're all starving. It doesn't take a superhuman to be successful in FFA, just someone who serves a little, lives a little, enjoys a little and grows a little every day. That seed denies potential. Just as every plant develops from a tiny seed, we too must cherish the grain of potential within us. Once you grow that seed, don't let it wither. We must look ahead, live and experience every moment of every day as a challenge, and strive to allow it to blossom into its true potential.
What could be more wonderful than looking back on the day and knowing that you did everything as well as you possibly could. Having traveled in several countries around the world, I know that we are very fortunate in that "average inflammation" is not terminal. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
THE GAME OF LIFE
While there are some sad things about Alexander's choices, we can still probably gain some insight by briefly considering the key ingredients to anyone's success. Another ingredient for success is humility. You see, if we buy the claim that self-discipline is the key to success, then we must realize that the difference between the successful individual and the unsuccessful counterpart is not. Simply put, being a better disciplined person means just that – you are better at self-discipline.
In other words, we must be very tactful to communicate and extremely tactful to guarantee success in the game of life. The old saying, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," is not only religiously fundamental. It is also a key to understanding the entire game. Only when we learn to value the losses with the victories, the friends and enemies and even the good and the bad motives, can we ever become a winner.
The reward for winning the game of life belongs to relatively few because it requires spicing up the basics with intelligence, devotion and something hard to define. We must follow an ever-lasting process of perfection, maturation, and refinement, which should be considered, in the words of John Dewey, "the goal of living." The good person is someone who At the same time, it said that when he finished, instead of celebrating, they sat down and cried. He wept because his dreams had been denied him - not by someone else, for Alexander had won on the battlefield.
Instead, they were denied by the one man he could not conquer and defeat, the one man even his legions could not defeat. Alexander the Great had fallen victim to the awesome power that defeats so many of us even today. But let us remember the wisdom, truth and morality behind the words written many years ago. When we mingle with others, let us work diligently, just in our dealings, courteous to all, and above all honest and fair in the game of life.
SIMPLE THINGS
The simple things not only help the people around you, but open doors for the next steps to your bigger responsibilities. Even though the things you do seem small, insignificant and simple, remember that they are your stones. The simple things you do for others and for yourself will never compromise an exciting future, but instead will.
I would venture to say that if you stop and ask as a member of the FFA, you will find that the same simple things were going on 50 years ago as they are today. Simple things of the earth do not die. The living organism and the vitality of agriculture is nothing more than the simple act of planting and caring for a seed. Vocational Agriculture and the FFA have a simple purpose—to meet the needs of students preparing for careers and leadership in all phases of the earth's industry.
FFA members, a decisive step on your part for greater involvement and participation in the simple activities available to you will determine our future as agriculture's new generation. It all begins with the simple things you choose to be separated from the simple things you give away in everyday life. You, an uncompromising foundation, must for the next 50 years build a solid base for the simplest industry, the tillage, the simple industry on earth.
The Agricultural Career Show was established as part of the National FFA Convention in 1966 and added a new dimension to the week's activities. Professional associations, trade associations and educational institutions provide career materials and advice in all areas of agribusiness. This year's Agricultural Career Show was bigger than ever, and with the addition of the Hall of States to the show floor, it was better than ever. A list of Agricultural Career Show exhibitors with their addresses is maintained at the National FFA Center and is available to career agriculture teachers.
NOMINATING
AUDITING COMMITTEE
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY
34 FIFTIETH NATIONAL CONVENTION
NATIONAL INCENTIVE AWARDS
FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA 35
NATIONAL CHAPTER AWARDS
PUBLICITY
AWARD APPLICATION
NATIONAL CHAPTER SAFETY
BOAC
NATIONAL FFA CONTESTS
NEW CONTESTS
SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT
34;EMPHASIS 78"
Each "EMPHASIS78" State develops an operating plan for the use of in-state seminars while participating in national seminars. Statewide workshops are conducted similarly to national workshops with additional attention to specific state-specific projects. State teams, together with teacher educators, should conduct seminars for agricultural education students who do not know students about "EMFASI78".
NATIONAL FFA ALUMNI
We commend the National Alumni Council for recognizing Life Members and encourage local affiliates to become Life Members.
NATIONAL FFA SUPPLY SERVICE
NATIONAL FFA WEEK
NATIONAL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCES
NATIONAL PROGRAM OF ACTIVITIES
NATIONAL FUTURE FARMER MAGAZINE
INTERNATIONAL
REGIONAL STATE OFFICER LEADERSHIP CONFERENCES
NATIONAL CONVENTION
44 FIFTIETH NATIONAL CONVENTION
FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA STATEMENTS OF INCOME AND
RETAINED INCOME
OPERATING INCOME
OPERATING EXPENSES
46 FIFTIETH NATIONAL CONVENTION
OTHER INCOME
OTHER EXPENSES
STAR FARMER OF AMERICA
STAR AGRIBUSINESSMAN OF AMERICA
NATIONAL CHAPTER AWARDS PROGRAM
NATIONAL CHAPTER SAFETY AWARDS
BUILDING OUR AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
52 FIFTIETH NATIONAL CONVENTION
AGRICULTURAL PROFICIENCY AWARDS
AGRICULTURAL ELECTRIFICATION Sponsored by the Food & Energy Council
RANDY PHILMAN SCOTT EDWARD KLING
DEAN W. MAW
AGRICULTURAL SALES AND/OR SERVICE Sponsored by Allis-Chalmers Corp
BEEF PRODUCTION
CROP PRODUCTION
DIVERSIFIED LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION
HOME AND FARMSTEAD IMPROVEMENT
HORSE PROFICIENCY
ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURE
ROBERT WAYNE LOVELACE SUSAN DEWAR
LONNIE GRIGSBY KURT LUBBE
OUTDOOR RECREATION Sponsored by White Farm Equipment Co
MAURA JANE LONGDEN GARY GASPERSON
KURT WILLIAM KINGMAN
PLACEMENT IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
DON KUBA MARK ROSENE
PAUL MAIN ROGER JOHNSON
SWINE PRODUCTION
NATIONAL FFA PUBLIC SPEAKING CONTEST
JUDGES
Mason Carbaugh, Commissioner, Virginia Department of Agriculture and Commerce
TIMEKEEPERS
SPEAKERS
34;AGRICULTURE'S NEW GENERATION"
34;THE FARMER SPEAKS OUT"
34;FOOD: THE OTHER ENERGY CRISIS"
34;AMERICAN AGRICULTURE — MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF THE NEW FRONTIER"
Agricultural vocational training and FFA membership can be the most valuable experience of your high school career. It will be used forever. We need to educate more people by telling the story of agriculture and how it complements. Although many FFA members are involved in production agriculture, let's not overlook the importance of agricultural training in other vocational fields.
Patton was America's first star farmer, and Dan Worcester of Hill City, Kansas, was the forty-seventh chapter. I am sure that each of the American Farmer degree recipients' work experience programs can be viewed as equally impressive. Programs worthy of an American Farmer degree are not developed by accident - they are made through hard work and determination.
34;You have obtained your first degree, but let me remind you that the Chapter Degreepin, the State Degree charm and the American Degree key await those who deserve them. If there is one lesson in history that is undeniable, it is that national strength lies very close to the ground." I also firmly believe in the role of the Future Farmers of America and vocational agricultural training, to help provide.
Furthermore, I feel that agricultural development, like the development of all the other arts, will prevail by proving - "The best is yet to come." As you can see. The team is composed ofRandy Lack, BobyHalselland Harvey Morro andcoached by JoelEdwards, instructor,HatchValleyHigh School, Hatch,NewMexico.The. 1. Jim Holloway, Neosho, Missouri; 2. Wade Schuessler, Mason, Texas; 3. BrendaRoyal, Cheyenne, Wyoming; 4. Jerry Robertson, Adair, Oklahoma; 5. TyBerry, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
WEA PARTICIPANTS - 1977 K
AMERICAN FARMER DEGREE
ARIZONA
CALIFORNIA
COLORADO
CONNECTICUT
GEORGIA
KANSAS
MISSISSIPPI
PUERTO RICO
RHODE ISLAND
SOUTH CAROLINA
TENNESSEE
TEXAS
WISCONSIN
HONORARY AMERICAN FARMER DEGREE
ILLINOIS
102 received this recognition, including parents and advisors of state officers and parents of "Stars".
PARENTS OF STAR AGRIBUSINESSMEN
PARENTS OF NATIONAL OFFICERS
PARENTS OF STAR FARMERS
ADVISORS OF NATIONAL OFFICERS
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARDS
VIP CITATIONS
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CITATIONS
