Roharl Ncrrtott, Mt, Champaign teunty, U the new presMenf of 



the llUnoit future farmert of Amurlta, Jamei OMIord, center, 



Kane county, l« the new secretary-treasurer, and James Turner, 



Boone, right, is stcrte reporter. 



Star Farmer 



State FFA Elects Officers For 1949-50 

 At Annual Meeting in Champaign 



A 



UNIVERSITY of Illinois Col- 

 lege of Agriculture student from 

 Champaign county is the new 

 president of the Illinois Future 

 Farmers of America. He is 

 Robert Herriott who 

 served as secretary- 

 treasurer of the 

 state FFA during 

 the past year. Her- 

 riott was vice presi- 

 dent of section 13 

 of the FFA in 1947 

 and earlier this 

 year was named 

 president of the 

 Champaign county 

 Merle Miller 4-H club federa- 



tion. 

 Election of the Champaign county 

 youth to the presidency of the Illinois 

 FFA came at the closing sessions of the 

 21st convention of the organization on 

 the U. of I. campus late in June. 



James Gifford, Jr., Kane county, a 

 high school junior, was elected state 



secretary-treasurer and James L. Turn- 

 er, Boone county, was named state re- 

 porter. 



Elected to receive the distinctive title 

 of Star State Farmer of Illinois at the 

 convention was Merle Miller of DeWitt 

 county. Miller also took third in the 

 public speaking contest. 



Winner of the public speaking con- 

 test was Don Swedlund, Knox county, 

 who received the Gov. Adlai E. Steven- 

 son trophy from Roy Yung, state direc- 

 tor of agriculture. Swedlund who spoke 

 on "Water — Life Blood of Soils and 

 Men" also received a check for $100 

 from the national FFA. Second place 

 winner in the speaking contest was 

 Albert Kurz, Lee county. 



Honors also were won by FFA mem- 

 bers in statewide competition on out- 

 standing projects in six fields. Named 

 best in the state in the following proj- 

 ects were: 



Glenn Miller, Champaign county, 

 farm mechanics ; Marvin Cummersheim- 



er. Monroe, soil and water consena- 

 tion: Marvin Eckhoff. Woodford, farm 

 electrification; Charles Lewis. Brown, 

 star dairy farmer: Ivan Pieper, Ste- 

 phenson, farm fire prevention; and Ken- 

 neth Zobrisf. Bond, efficient milk pro- 

 duction. 



Fifteen Illinois FFA members were 

 nominated as candidates for American 

 Farmer Degrees. If accepted by the 

 national organization, the candidates 

 will receive their degrees at the national 

 FFA convention in Kansas City in Oc- 

 tober. This recognition is the highest 

 open to Future Farmers. It is limited 

 to one in everv 1.000 members. Sixteen 

 individuals who have made definite 

 contributions to the Illinois FFA re- 

 ceived honorary State Farmer Degrees. 



Approximately 300 members from 

 every section of the state received the 

 State Farmer degree. 



More than 1.400 attended the conven- 

 tion with delegates representing 446 

 FFA chapters in the state with a mem- 

 bership of 15.250. 



niinois FFA Honors 31 At 21st Annual Convention 



nctured at right ore American farmer Degree tandldatet from lliinois. This degree It one of the highest honors a future farmer con 

 win. left to right ore: Donald Woods, Idwardt county; Willis Barber, Bureau; W. H. St. John, Jr., Macon; J. M. Mollet, Bend; George 

 lewis. Brown; Gerald TetxIaH, Matoupin; Maurice Soucle, Will; AJl. Nennlnger, Boone; O. f. Torti, lee; Roy Brammeler, Washington; 

 J. A. Aggen, Whiteside. Not In the picture are C. R. Keftner, Stephenson; B. f. Mattton, DeKolb; O. A. Morgan, Champaign, and P. A. 

 Nobbe, Monroe. At left are those who received honorary Illinois Slate farmer degree* al the 3 1st convention. Front row, left 

 to right, are M. J. NIcol, III. Chain Store Council; I. t. Parett, secretary of general tervlcet, Illinois Agricultural Association; R. C. Kamm, 

 National Stocic Yard*, I. SI. louis; H. T. Wanberg, III. Bankers Ast'n.i Roy Yung, slate director of agriculture; Cecil Tendick, Jacksonville 

 Courier Journal; back row, M. V. Van Buskirk, III. Dairy Manufacturers Ass'n.; R. J. Maurer, falrbury voc. ogrlc. teacher; Dana lewis. 

 Brown county farmer; W. H. Dowell, pres.. III. Ass'n. Vocational Agriculture Teachers; C. 1. Mast, Jr., editor. Agricultural Leaders Digest; 

 Dean W. B. Spalding, U. of I. College of Agriculture. Not In picture, Paul Johnson, Editor, Prairie farmer; Carl Brock, Greenville 



vocational agriculture teacher; Kendall White, tigin Courier News. 



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