Robert Herriott, left. Champaign county. It the new president of 



fhe Illinois future farmers of America. James GIfford, center, 



Kane county. Is the neve secretary -treasurer, and James Turner, 



Boone, right, is state reporter. 



Name Illinois 

 Star Farmer 



state FFA Elects Officers For 1949-5 

 At Annual Meeting in Champaign 



A 



LMVKHSrrV oi Illinois (Jol- 

 le^'f of Afiriculture student from 

 (ihanipaign county is tlie new 

 president of the Illinois Future 

 Karmers of America. He is 

 Kobert Herriott who 

 served as secretary- 

 treasurer of the 

 state FFA during 

 the past year. Her- 

 riott was vice presi- 

 dent of section 1.'! 

 of the FF\ in 1917 

 and earlier this 

 \ear was named 

 president of the 

 Champaign county 

 4-H club federa- 

 tion. 

 Flection of the Champaign county 

 youtii 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 



Merle Miller 



.-ecretary-trea.-urer and Junies I., rurii- 

 er. Boone couiitv. was iianud >tate re- 

 porter. 



Fleeted to receive the distinctive title 

 of Star State Farmer of Illinois at the 

 convention was .Merle Miller of l)e\\ itt 

 county. .Miller also look third in the 

 public speaking contest. 



\^ iiHier of the public speakijig con 

 test was Don Swedlund. Knox county, 

 who received the Gov. Adlai F. Steven- 

 son tropin from Hov ^ ung. state direc- 

 tor of agriculture. Swedlund who s|)oke 

 on '"Water — Life Blood of Soils and 

 .Men' also received a check for SICMJ 

 from the national FF-\. Second place 

 winner in the speaking contest was 

 .\lbert Kurz. Lee county. 



Honors also were won liy !■ F.\ 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 (himmersheim- 



cr. Monroe, -oil and water conserva 

 lion; Marvin FckholT. Woodford, farm 

 I'leclrification; liharles Lewis. lirovMi. 

 star dairv farmer: Ivan Picper. .*^te 

 plienson. farm (ire prevention; and Ken- 

 neth Zobri-l. Iioiiil. ctTicient milk pro- 

 duction. 



Fiftt'en Illinois Fi' \ members were 

 nominated a> can«lidates for American 

 Farmer Degrees. If accepted by the 

 national organization, the candidate- 

 will receive their degrees at the national 

 1 I' A convention in Kan>;i> (.ilv in Oc 

 tober. This recognition i- ihe highe-l 

 open to Future Farmers. It is limited 

 lo one in eveiv I. Odd mi'mlier>. Sixteen 

 individuals who have made dehnite 

 coiUribntion- to the Illinois VV.K re 

 ceived honorary State I'armer D<'grees. 



.\pproxiniatelv '>dd member^ from 

 every -eition of the >tatc received the 

 State Fanner degree. 



More tlian l.ldd attended the coiuen 

 tion viitli delegates representing \-Ui 

 FFA chajiters in the >tate with a mem- 

 bership of l^.2."id. 



Illinois FFA Honors 31 At 21st Annual Convention 



Pictured al right ore American farmer Degree candidates from Illinois. This degree is one oi the highest honors a future farmer cat, 

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

 Lewis, Brown; Gerald Tetzlaff, Macoupin; Maurice Soucie, Will; AJi. Henninger, Boone; G. f. Torti, Lee; Roy Brammeier, Washington; 

 J. A. Aggen, Whiteside. Not In the picture are C. ft. Keltner, Stephenson; B. E. Mattson, DeKalb; D. A. Morgan, Champaign, and P. A. 

 Nobbe, Monroe. At left are those who received honorary Illinois State farmer degrees at the 31st convention. front row, left 

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

 National Stock Yards, E. St. Louis; H. T. Wanberg, lif. Bankers Ass'n.; Roy Yung, state director of agriculture; Cecil Tendick, Jacksonville 

 Courier Journal; back row, M. V. Van Buskirk, III. Dairy Manufacturers Ass'n.; R. J. Maurer, falrbury voc. agric. teacher; Darta 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 pickire, Paul Johnson, Editor, Prairie farmer; Carl Brock, Greenville 



vocational agriculture teacher; Kendall White, CIgin Courier News. 







