Martinsville High School - Artesian Yearbook (Martinsville, IN)

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Selected to carry the burdens for the F.F.A. were John Lowry, sentinel; Merrill Adams, reporter; John Pearcy, vice-president; Don Coffey, president; Mr. Telfer, sponsor; Joe Wagaman, treasui’er; John Flake, secretary. The coveted gold emblem award for first place was won by the local Future Farmers of America chapter in this year’s state chap¬ ter contest. This award, based on all the activities for the year, goes to only two schools in the state. Last year the club won the silver emblem for second place. At the district meeting held at Columbus in March, Martinsville and Plainfield won the honor of representing District 8 in this year’s F.F.A. Wins Gold Emblem state contest. This was our eleventh year for a first place in the district. During the summer the chapter enjoyed a three-day trip by chartered bus to St. Louis. Besides seeing a baseball game between the Browns and Philadelphia Athletics, visiting the St. Louis zoo and Forest Park, and staying at the famed De Sota Hotel, the chapter toured the Purina research farm. Fifteen Greenhand candidates were taken to Plainfield on November 1 to be formally initiated along with candidates from other nearby chapters. And on November 15, thir¬ teen Greenhands went to Franklin, where they were initiated with boys from fourteen other schools in District 8 into the next high¬ est degree, the Chapter Farmer. The highest degree given by the state or¬ ganization, the Hoosier Farmer degree, was bestowed last April on John Flake and Merrill Adams and this year on John Thomas, John Pearcy, Jean Coleman, and Kenneth Kitchen, with Mr. Telfer winning an honorary Hoosier Farmer degree. The F.F.A. played the Hi-Y in a benefit basketball game, which the Farmers won in BOTTOM ROW: Billy Cooksey, John Pearcy, Don Coffey, John Flake, Joe Wagaman, Merrill Adams, John Lowry, John Musgrave, Don Berry. SECOND ROW: Mr. Telfer, Eldo Denny, Bill Paul, Kenneth Kitchen, Ralph Foster, Earl Messmer, Phillip Bowers, Junior Telfer, Jean Coleman, Benny Toon, Robert Parker, Duane Messmer, Neil Alexan¬ der. THIRD ROW: Charles Toon, Lawrence Musgrave, Lawrence Stafford, James Pearcy, Robert Brenton, Paul Schoolcraft, Jackie Champlin, Charles Cragen, Ivan Bales, Lloyd Sloan, Larry Hess, George Frye, Norman Voyles, Wallace Leonard. TOP ROW: Dan Ennis, Bobby Burkhart, Joe St. John, Ralph Northern, David Bailey, Larry Scott, John Thomas, Don Bolin, Eugene Chatten, and James Don- nellan. Page Twenty-four

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Fifteenth Birthday with Variety of Activities Money-making projects play a prominent part in the club schedule. Selling candy at the noon hours, supplying workers for con¬ cessions at the ball games, and sponsoring the Dixie Four on March 24 were all means of increasing the chapter’s funds. Much-needed fluorescent lights, furnished by the group with the aid of school funds, were added in the sewing room, which doubles as the place for their bi-monthly meetings. The F. H. A. is open to all girls in grades ten through twelve, and the only requirement for becoming a member is at least one year of home economics. Membership is main¬ tained by earning a specific number of points, awarded for participation in the various activities. Points earned in F. H. A. activities also count towards honorary degrees of Junior Homemaker and Chapter Homemaker. These points can be earned by such activities as donating to baked goods or rummage sales, working on committees, working on ball-game concessions, attending church, attending reg¬ ular meetings and initiations, and participat¬ ing in special club activities. Each girl could watch her progress in point-making as stars were placed after her name on a chart in the chapter meeting room, presided over this year by Mrs. Ita Richardson. The gala event of the year is the F. H. A. Christmas tea. Members of the faculty are special guests, but all homemaking students are served as well. Chapter President Sara Pearcy is pouring for Gretchen Parmerlee, Joan Kitchen and Coletta Hacker. The formal initiation was the usual candlelight affair, with officers swearing in the awed candidates for membership. Page Twenty-three

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With First Place Ranking in State Contest an overtime, 14-13. The $85 raised was turned over to the T.B. Foundation. A school bus was furnished by Newt Wil¬ liams, local International Harvester dealer, for the annual summer project tour. This year the club inspected the livestock and crops projects of John Thomas. After view¬ ing the Thomas farm, the group toured the Bell Telephone Company and climaxed the day by playing softball at the City Park. The chapter met at Kenneth Kitchen’s farm for the annual summer meeting. A chalk talk by the Rev. R. D. Spencer and movies furnished the entertainment. The chapter raised money this year by helping with concessions at football and bas¬ ketball games, by selling certified seed corn, potatoes, and garden seed, by parking cars at the Morgan County Fair, and by selling the F.F.A. gilt. Other highlights of the year were the FFA-FHA party, Parent and Talent Night, Girl-Friend party, Father-and-Son banquet, Pay-off supper, and the state convention. Eagerly awaiting the take-off on the annual summer trip, this year to St. Louis, are Virgil Telfer, sponsor; Don Coffey, president, and Glen Sisco, bus driver. In St. Louis the boys visited the Purina research farm and the St. Louis zoo. One of several field trips during the year was to observe the treating of seed wheat on the Shirley farm. The F.F.A. Project Committee is meeting with a group of local farm machinery dealers to formulate a plan for a safety campaign. Possibly as a result of the campaign, which was concerned mostly with corn pickers, no accidents were reported in the vicinity during the season. This project won fourth in the state in the F.F.A. safety project. m farmervamerica Page Tiventy-five