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Show Joe Young Wins American Farmer F F A Degree Joe S. Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alva A. Young, recently returned re-turned from the National Convention Conven-tion of the Future Farmers of America Am-erica which was held in Kansas City. While at Kansas City, Joe received the coveted American Farmer Degree which is given the highest degree of membership in the National Association. Each state is entitled to one American Farmer for each 1000 members in the association. Utah with slightly over 3000 members is entitled to three members each year and Joe was one of the three selected for the year 1951. Joe is the first member of the Hinckley Hinck-ley Chapter to attain this high hon or and received his pin at the national na-tional convention, held Oct. 8-11. Minimum qualifications for the election to the American Farmer Degree are as follows: (1) Must have held each of the three prerequisite pre-requisite degrees (Greenhand, Chapter and State Farmer Degrees) De-grees) prior to election to the Degree De-gree of American Farmer, have been active member of the FFA continuously for at least 36 months, mon-ths, and have a record of satisfactory satisfac-tory participation in the activities of the local chapter and State association. as-sociation. (2) Must have satisfactorily satisfac-torily completed at least three school years of instruction in vocational voc-ational agriculture, or have completed com-pleted all of the vocational agriculture agric-ulture offered in the school last attended, have been out of high school for at least 12 months prior to the convention at which the degree de-gree is granted, and have in operation op-eration an outstanding program of supervised farming. Productive projects must show comprehensive planning, continuation continu-ation growth and increase in scope as substantiated by complete, accurate ac-curate and neat records. (3) During Dur-ing the period covered by his application, ap-plication, the candidate must have earned by his own efforts from farming and other agricultural work and have deposited in a bank or otherwise productively invested in-vested at least $500, provided that at least two-thirds of this amount is derived from his supervised farming far-ming program. In the cases where applicant has assisted in the support of dependent? depend-ent? the amount so expended m the judgment of the National Board of Trustees, may be con- sidered as an investment. (4) Show outstanding ability as evidenced by his leadership and cooperation in student , chapter and community activities , and have a satisfactory scholarship record re-cord as certified by the local school sch-ool superintendent or principal. In meeting these requirements, Joe served as president and vice-president vice-president of the Hinckley Chapter FFA served on various committees commit-tees of the chapter; won the chapter chap-ter public speaking contest and entered the regional competition, received his state farmer degree at the 1950 state convention; was a member of the National FFA band at the 1950 national conven-n conven-n at Kansas City; served as deleeate to the Utah convention, was member of various judgmg Teams of the chapter; and exhibited exhibit-ed beef animals at Spanish Fork, Delta, Cedar City and Ogden Livestock Live-stock Shows. Joe's productive projects pro-jects consisted of alfalfa seed fat beef breeding beef, and a share in a ranch located in Tooele coun- ty'ln community and church activities, acti-vities, Joe is at present superintendent superin-tendent of the Sunday school at Abraham, has played on the town and Hinckley high school base-bail base-bail teams and participated in the school and MIA plays. He was a-warded a-warded a scholarship to U ah State Agricultural College by the lears Roebuck Foundation for his outstanding accomplishments in the field of agriculture. |