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Show Panguitch FFA Week Future Farmers of America at Panguitch High School are planning FFA week for March 18 through the 25 to commemorate the 50th an niversary of the FFA organization. FFA week is celebrated during the week of George Washington's birthday. Washington called the life of a farmer, "most delectable". "It ia honorable, it is amusing and with judicious management, it ia profitable," he said. The FFA was founded nationally in 1928 after similar organizatoins had started in several stales. It was an organization where students r uld apply what they learned in the classroom to their own farming experiences and to their own livea. The FFA has a membership of over 500,000 with chapters in approximately 8,500 high schools throughout the nation. It has state associations in all states and in Puerto Rico. Members learn through active participation how to conduct and take part in public meetings, how to speak in public and how to take a leadership role in their school and community. Each year the FFA recognizes several thousand members on the state and national levels for outstanding achievement in activities related to agriculture career and leadership. Recent food shortages in this country have reaffirmed the need for continuing a strong FFA program. |