By Julie Johansen
Emery High Future Farmers of America advisor Justin Thornley awarded 70 Greenhand and 14 Chapter degree pins Monday evening in the school’s annual ceremony. Seventy Greenhand degrees in one year is almost unheard of, but is a sign of the growing interest in the program at Emery High as this is the first year that freshman have been at the high school. Applicants for the FFA Greenhand Degree need to be enrolled in vocational agriculture for their second year to receive the bronze pin. Although there were not that many students present at the ceremony, they will receive their pins and certificates at a later date.
Fourteen members received their silver pins and FFA Chapter Degree certificates. These degree winners must have completed two years in ag. ed., received their Greenhand Degree, attended five official functions, demonstrated five parliamentary procedures, have a satisfactory scholastic record and conducted 45 hours of a supervised agriculture project. This is the highest degree that a chapter can award. It is prerequisite for the honorary FFA State and National Degrees. Emery High seniors Dax Hall and Chase Christiansen will receive their FFA State Degrees in March at the state convention in Logan at Utah State University.
Also competing at the FFA Utah State Convention in Logan in March will be the Emery High parliamentary procedure team and Byron Christiansen in creed speaking, as they were named area winners.
State contests for the chapter will be in April. Early morning practices are beginning now and Mr. Thornley is asking for volunteers to help train students for these contests. He also announced an IFA Stock Show Clinic on March 20 at USU Eastern.
