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Yes! 74;75;76; Larimer County (Colorado) chapter. Got to go to the National Convention in 76. Saw Tanya Tucker,Nelson Rockefeller,Col.Harland Sanders,Jerry Clowers....Still have the blue jacket,too
 
I was in it 62,63,64,& 65 Rolling Prairie High School Rolling Prairie, Indiana. That is in Laporte County Indiana northern part of the state. I was president in 1965 and still have my jacket.
 
Yes! 68,69,70,71. Fredericktown High School, Fredericktown,Ohio. Still have the blue jacket, doesn't fit anymore though.
 
I was in Buffalo high school, Buffalo, Minnesota 59-60-61-62. Was reporter in 62 and still have my jacket also--don't fit any more tho!!Highlight of my FFA days, I was on soils judging team and had a perfect score on 1 pit.
 
Hunter, ND, from 1948 to 1952. Secretary and president of local chapter. All FFA members that attended the Winter Show one year got front row seats to hear Peggy Lee sing and she shook hands with all of us after the show. She was originally from a small town near Valley City, ND, so she was a local celebrity.
 
yes from 62 thru 66, president one year. also received state farmer degree at state convention. Was in Ellensburg, Washington chapter. Judged livestock and for some reason did better at dairy than other classes. Still remember going to championships for judging at Puyallup fair and judging the classes really quickly so we could go play at the fair. Yes still have jacket and yes, a long ways from fitting anymore.
 
Newberg, Oregon 1977-1980. Got to ride a bus to Nat'l Convention in Kansas City to compete in Farm Business Management. President Carter spoke to the group that year. Served as chapter treasurer and pres. Now am President of our alumni. Fantastic organization that served me and my sons well, believe it or not my advisor is still there so the boys and I had the same guy! #2 son went on to be State Treasurer.
 
Yes-- '58-'62 Indiana.

I often think that I got more value out of Parliamentary Procedure Training and competition,
Impromptu Speaking competition and holding regional offices, than I got out of most of
my college classes. It had a bigger overall impact on my career (non-ag marketing) than most of my college
classes as well. I am so glad I had a chance to call and tell my vo-ag teacher that 30 years later, just before he died.
 
Arthur, IL - member from 1978 - 1985. Got my American Degree and served as a State Section President in 1982 - 83. Loved every minute of it. Still help the FFA today.
 
FFA had been discontinued (locally) for quite a while when I attended high school. The school was pretty unfriendly to farm kids as others I knew made the same comment. The neighbor was able to go to a district that had FFA as his mother taught there.
 
Blanchester Ohio 77-81 and I had a lot of fun and learned a lot. I still have the blue jacket hanging in the closet. Bandit
 
Belvidere (IL)'56-60 Won the section 6 PP president award.Secretary also took first.Still mad at those other 3 that sat there and said nothing the whole contest so we finished 2nd .Adviser gave up on dairy judging,said to order them as best I could and then reverse it.Worked
 
79-82 and went to Kansas City in 1981. Good times and I ended up stationed by the door as Sentinel for 2 years at my school.
 
yep. 1960 - 1964. My Dad was Ag Teacher and was harder on me than the other boys. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. If you are on a Texas Rural Co-op his picture was in the last issue of Texas Co-op Power.
 
Alexandria, IN. 1960 - 1964. Chapter VP and state farmer degree did soil, livestock and crop judging. The FFA is a great organization for developing leadership skills.
 
1967-69. Oakway High School in Oconee County SC.
My Dad was also the Ag teacher and one of his classes was the only time I got a B for the year in high school. I had all A's in my other classes. Daddy was a retired army colonel.
I did wind up with an American Farmer Degree and received it in Kansas City.
Richard in NW SC
 
Chaplain and Student Advisor, 1979-1983, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and Chapter Advisor 1984-1989, Arcadia High School, Oak Hall, Va.
 
Scotland County (Missouri) high school graduating in 1978. I was the Chapter President and Secretary before that. There were only two of us that got the State Farmer degree that year. Now it seems anyone can get it. It used to mean something. It's been diminished now, it seems. They even downplay "farmer" in the name. It no longer is "Future Farmers of America". It's just FFA. Very sad. Mike
 
Laingsburg Michigan 1975-1977, Chapter Secretary when I was a Senior. One of my Brothers was chapter president after I graduated and handed that job off to our little Sister
 
Beaver River Central School chapter, 1964-1968. State Farmer degree in 1967. Various awards for Field & Forage, Crop ID, milk quality, and cattle judging contests. FFA and the rifle team were about the only things that made school tolerable.
 
There wasn't any fever that night. It was -30 degrees; I think that was in March of 1949. Her brother came to town in a surplus 6X6 to pick her up after the show and take her to the farm as one of her parents was sick. Roads weren't plowed; the 6X6 was the only way to get out to the farm. Her given name was Norma Engstrom.

I was never impressed with celebrities, so passed through the handshake line as fast as I could and went back to the jail. They had more FFA kids sleeping in the high school auditorium than they had beds, so 6 of us volunteered to sleep in the jail as there were no prisoners. The kids in the auditorium froze all night and we were nice and warm in the jail, that was in the basement of the courthouse.
 
Seven years in FFA, four in HS by 1961, and three after while working on home farm for disabled Dad. No shortage of BS in FFA...younger classmate got State Farmer Degree cuz advisor upped his dairy herd average by 100 pounds BF, since the herd was so poor. I was honest in my app, missed out. No big deal, herd wasn"t mine anyway, had no control over it.

I went to military, worked my way thru college for Ag degree, BS in Animal Science, started farming from scratch...still here after 43 years. Classmate, an only child, lost the farm in the 80s. Built silos he could never fill, expanded the dairy herd but didn"t take care of it. I went to his bankruptcy sale. Awards, pieces of paper, don"t mean squat.

When FFA changed the name from Future Farmers of America, to meaningless FFA, I thought that was just stupid. No shortage of bootlickers.
 
When I was in high school, we had FFA game hunts. Yes, actual game hunts with real guns SANCTIONED BY THE SCHOOL! There would be about 5-6 teams of student hunters and each team would go out on the first Saturday of hunting season. Each piece of game that was shot was assigned a certain number of points, as well as each species of game. A pheasant would be worth more than a rabbit or a squirrel. Each team had 2-3 adults per team and probably about 10 kids on each team. You were assigned so much time and by the time your time was up you had to be back at the FFA shop to check your game in. A week or two later we had a banquet where all the game was prepared and eaten and parents were included in the feast.
Can you imagine the headlines that would hit the news if any school did this today?
Matter-of-fact, my son, who is a senior in high school this year and a member of the same FFA that I was in, brought a rubber band gun to school when he was in eighth grade. This was nothing more than a crudely cut 2" X 4" with a couple of clothes pines glued to it. My wife and I didn't know he had it in his posession and he had picked it up for $ .25 a couple of days earlier at a garage sale. Two teachers tried real hard to have him expelled because he brought a "GUN!" to school. The principal just rolled his eyes, told him to go back to glass, and never bring the board to school again.
 
Joined FFA fall 1966 - Indian River Central School, Philadelphia, N.Y., graduated high school 1970, Empire Degree 1969, served as state officer 1969-70, attended national convention 1969, served on the local advisory board from about 1976 to 1984.
 
1952 thru 1956. Edon Ohio. Dairy and crop projects. I enjoyed the parliamentary procedure debate contests a bunch. Dad could not attend one of the FFA banquets and my Grand Father attended with me. That was something that my Grand Father really enjoyed and made it one of my best banquets ever. He had never attended anything like it. He only lived about five years after that. Reliving this in my mind just put a lump in my throat.
 
1974-1977 I was jr. Vp, chapter vp and chapter president. I received my America Farmer degree in 78 and was 5th in 1977 in the national ag mech contest. These years were some of the best in my life.
 
!958-61, vice president junior and senior years, Sussex High in Sussex, N J. Here by the rising sun, my duties bla bla bla LOL, Chuck
 
(quoted from post at 18:47:51 09/30/15) When I was in high school, we had FFA game hunts. Yes, actual game hunts with real guns SANCTIONED BY THE SCHOOL! There would be about 5-6 teams of student hunters and each team would go out on the first Saturday of hunting season. Each piece of game that was shot was assigned a certain number of points, as well as each species of game. A pheasant would be worth more than a rabbit or a squirrel. Each team had 2-3 adults per team and probably about 10 kids on each team. You were assigned so much time and by the time your time was up you had to be back at the FFA shop to check your game in. A week or two later we had a banquet where all the game was prepared and eaten and parents were included in the feast.
Can you imagine the headlines that would hit the news if any school did this today?
Matter-of-fact, my son, who is a senior in high school this year and a member of the same FFA that I was in, brought a rubber band gun to school when he was in eighth grade. This was nothing more than a crudely cut 2" X 4" with a couple of clothes pines glued to it. My wife and I didn't know he had it in his posession and he had picked it up for $ .25 a couple of days earlier at a garage sale. Two teachers tried real hard to have him expelled because he brought a "GUN!" to school. The principal just rolled his eyes, told him to go back to glass, and never bring the board to school again.
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When I was in school we sold magazine subscriptions as a FFA fund raiser. The prizes for the most sales were rifles and shotguns. They were handed out during school hours and many of them were carried home on the school bus. There never was a school shooting. Our local school is in the process of organizing a school trap shooting team, there are several schools in the area that already have a team.
 
Owosso Mi 74-77 sentinel,state farmer degree, Ag mechanics trophy. Can't remember if regional or state. Also farm management second in state if I remember right. Been a long time. Not sure where jacket is.
 
1963-67, harpursville, ny. took the train to kansas city for 1965 convention. never saw so many new x06 farmalls as on that trip.
 
Sisseton, SD Chapter 1996-2000. I judged Dairy Cattle and raised Beef Cattle. Received my American Degree in Louisville in the fall of 2002.
Lon
 
Future Farmers of America. It is a club like organization associated with Vocational Agriculture in high school.
 
Newton Chapter , Pleasant Hill ,Ohio 1972-75, Reporter, Liked livestock and land judging.Went to KC Convention and American Royal Livestock Show in Chicago .
 
Santa Fe TN high school chapter 1963-67. 1967 awarded state farmers degree and I attended the state convention in 65,66.67 and the national concention in Kansas City 65 and 66. I believe the FFA is the best student organization around.
 
Tipton, Indiana 1970-1973
State Runnerup Ag Mechanics demonstration my sophomore year.
Received State Farmer Degree.
Two trips to Purdue for State Convention, one trip to Kansas City for National Convention fall of 1972.

One of our fundraisers was growing sorghum that was processed into table molasses and we then sold it door to door.

Most of my sales I made driving around on a Farmall B that I restored in Ag Shop.

The work parties hand harvesting the sorghum and loading it for transport to the processor was loads of fun.

We were lucky to have great advisers that knew how to prepare us to compete at a high level, traits that have paid off throughout my life.
 
Maysville Missouri 1995-1999
Went to state in field crops my freshman year.

Sent in an audition tape (I play trumpet) for the national band and was chosen to play my senior year. That was the last year the national convention was held in KC
 
FFA member - Mid Prairie Community School - Wellman, Iowa 1969 - 1972

Chapter Advisor/Ag teacher - Iowa Valley Community School - Marengo, Iowa 1976 - 2010
 
79 to 85, Pierz, MN, 4th individual MN State Horticultural Contest 1982, 1985 MN Star Agri-Business Candidate for national, received the American Farmer Degree in fall of 1985, Became a life member of the National and State FFA Alumni Associations in the Spring of 1986 and I would encourage each and everyone here to become FFA Alumni Members and help continue supporting the FFA at the Local, State and National Level....Learn more at: FFA.ORG/GIVEBLUE or FFA.org/alumni
 
1970-75 star green hand , star farmer ,sentinel as freshman , secretary as sophomore ,president junior and senior yr ,Floyd Central in Floyd Co , ind , nearly yearly participates for,state team contestants for soil judging , chapter mtg ,.. in those days school encouraged clubs to curb juvenile delinquency and develope good citizenship.. our membership ballooned from barely 15 STRONG active members in 1970 to over 50 by 1975... at that point, after a district mtg behavior problem ,,at the next chapter mtg , I announced we had 10 we SIMPLY SHOULD kik out ,, that was in april .I ended up quittin myself as soon as I graduated in may ..
 
New to farm country, 71-73. Ag was a mandatory class and the Ag instructor was also the FFA guy who told us boys that we had to join FFA or get a poor grade. Never had much good to say about that. I joined but didn't really participate. Wrong age to try to force me into something.

Rick
 
1968-1972. Pilot Grove Missouri. Star Chapter Farmer, State Farmer, Reporter.

Built and set off home made acetylene cannon behind Vo Ag building during school hours when we had a substitute teacher.
We told the sub that it was just the torch backfiring and that it was normal. he bought it. End of story. Times have changed. I would still be in jail if it happened today.

Gene
 
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