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Show Delta Chapter, FFA, Wins Gold Award En National Chapter Contest of 7,000 Is Only Utah Winner In Top 20 In Nation Delta chapter, Future Farmers of America has won a gold award in the national chapter contest, sponsored by the FFA on their report re-port of accomplishments of the past year. The award will be made at the 22nd FFA national convention conven-tion opening in Kansas City Oct. 10. The Delta chapter is the only one in Utah to achieve this distinction, dis-tinction, and will be one of only 36 chapters from 7,000 chapters in the nation to receive the gold a-ward. a-ward. Three types of awards are made bronze, silver and gold. The gold award it top honors for the Delta chapter. Honorary Degree Marven Ogden chapter advisor, has been asked to attend the national na-tional convention to receive an honorary American Farmer degree. 70 Page Report This summer the Delta chapter wrote a 70-page report of accomplishments ac-complishments of members. The material was prepared by members mem-bers and the typing for the final draft was done by Emma Jean Pratt and Cherie Hannifin. The report re-port followed up the chapter work already in the national FFA office of-fice before Jan. 31, 1949. That program pro-gram told of what the chapter planned to do and the report completed com-pleted this summer told of what had been done. It was sent to the national office before Sept. 1, 1949. The report lists a membership of 53. A calendar guide gave projected pro-jected activities from July of last year through to June of 1949. This was followed by separte summaries summar-ies of each activity. The report also included their financial statement, state-ment, chapter budget, their constitution con-stitution some other articles, and concluded with the chapter story. The report was no small task in itself, and is a record of outstanding outstand-ing accomplishments. We quote some parts to give a picture of part of what the Delta chapter has done: "As of July 1,1949, 53 members completed 122 projects, making an average of 2.3 projects per member. mem-ber. However, some projects such as swine, were not broken down into feeders sow and litter, etc. The chapter averaged 12 improvement im-provement projects and 23 improved improv-ed practices completed. The membership mem-bership averaged 21 new skills and abbilities through the school activities and on the home farm. 92 of the members have long time ownership projects. In fact 35 members have long time projects pro-jects in swine alone, not to mention men-tion sheep,- beef, dairy, poultry j and crops. j The chapter purchased 1 registered regis-tered Chester White boar from j John S. Boyden Salt Lake City. j our registered Chester White gilts s from Merril Halam, Spanish Fork, ; four registered Duroc Jersey gilts i from Quin Shepherd, Delta and j 5 registered Duroc gilts from Dew- j ey Sanford, Delta. j The chapter organized a registered regist-ered Duroc Jersey chain the past year, purchasing 9 with chapter funds and 5 with individual funds. Theron Johnson was elected president presi-dent and Gary Fowles secretary. The club was organized similar to the Chester White club. However, we did not purchase i boar for the club this year. Instead we rented one from Dewey Sanford., and one from Milo Mortensen. Maylon Erickson was selected i to be awarded a registered Hoi- stein heifer by the chapter. The advisory committee made the selection se-lection of applications presented. I This heifer should prove to be a valuable animal. Thirty members exhibited 97 head of livestock in the Millard j County Junior Livestock Show. We j were also represented at Spanish j Fork and Nevada. j It is our plan to operate a chap- i ter crop and livestock farm." j Recreation. Too Twelve recreational activities i were listed, too, such as the FFA banquet carnival dance, Harvest all canyon parties, swimming parties, par-ties, Delta- Fillmore fights and the j summer outing. These coupled i with their chapter pr'ojects in beef 1 swine, dairy, poultry and crops and others, were reported in detail. de-tail. : This year the Delta chapter pla- j ced 4th in the chapter records, 2nd j in electricity, 3rd in farm mechan- 1 ics and 3rd in public speaking at the state convention. Goes to National Meet . I Gill Hilton, chapter reporter, will represent the Delta chapter at the national FFA convention Oct. 10 in Kansas City. He will play with ihe band, and is the only Utah FFA member chosen. He left Salt Lake City Wednesday for Kansas City for practices preceding pre-ceding the convention. The state association, Delta chapter, Delta high school and Millard county school board share the expenses of his trip. Gill was winner of the public speaking contest in the area for the third time this eyar, and placed third in the state contest. con-test. Reed Bunker, chapter president plans to leave Salt Lake City Saturday Sat-urday for the national convention. He will receive the gold award for the chapter. The chapter officers who are res ponsible for the past year's accomplishments ac-complishments were Sheldon Canister, Can-ister, president; Reed Bunker, vice president; Edward Skidmore, secretary; sec-retary; John Gardner, treasurer; Don Greathouse, assistant treasurer; treasur-er; Gill Hilton reporter; Maylon Erickson, assistant reporter; and Donald May, sentinel. Administrative Administra-tive officers are Angus M. Maugh-an, Maugh-an, superintendent, Millard county school district, and Glen W. Seeg-miller, Seeg-miller, DHS principal. |