Rockford High School - Indian Rocket Yearbook (Rockford, WA)

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OFFlCERS PYBSIGBDT - -, -v----- ----- Lauren Brown Vice President ------------ Keith Ahern Secretary ------------- Eugene weitkamp Treasurer --------------- Bob walker Reporter --------------- Wesley Brown Watch Dog - - -------- ---- Tommy Purtill The F. F. A. SPOHSOFBO a turkey raffle at Thanksgiving for the purpose of raising money. The F, F, A, Chapter of Cheney sponsored a Farm Shop judging contest on January 5lst. Rockford took second place from a group of ten teams. This contest is the first of its kind to have taken place in this area and it was very suc- cessful. The boys that judged in this contest were Eugene Welt- kamp, Kenny Purcell and Lawrence Berner. The alternates were Lauren and Wesley Brown. FARM CROPS JUDGING The Farm Crops contest was March I4, at Cheney and here the boys did very well oy taking first place. The second contest was at Whitman County and here they took third place. At the Cheney contest the boys won a rotating plaque. They were the first ones to have won it. This plaque goes for twelve years and then the school that has won it the most gets to keep it. The boys that did the judging were Desmond McDonald, Phil Hausken and Llewellyn McMillan. The alter- nates were Lawrence Berner, LeeRoy McMillan and Bill Goebel. LOCA L STOCK SHOW On May 4, the Rockford F. F. A. Chapter held their an- nual Stock Show. The show was very successful. There were about twenty-five fat steers and ten or twelve pens of hogs and sheepg altogether there was one hundred and fifty dol- lars in prize money given out to the different boys. From here the Rockford boys took their stock to the Junior Live- stock Show in Spokane. The stock from the Rockford F. F. A. boys amounted to about SIBOO when sold. MAJORETTES There are eleven majorettes this year. Phyllis Holcomb was elected as leader. Mr. Fitzpatrick and then Mr. Patter- son were advisers.

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stock judging team was made up of Lauren F. F. A. STOCK JUDGING The F.F.A. stock judging team judged at a large number of contests this year and as a whole were very successful. The contests are as follows: I TOWN DATE NUMBER OF TEAMS PLACING Dayton Sept. l5, l94l I7 5th Colfax Sept l9, l94l I8 5th Colville Sept 20, l94l IB 4th Pullman Sept 27, l94l 25 5th Portland Oct. 4, l94l 74 lst The Portland Brown, Kenny Purcell, and Don Nulph. The alternates were Wesley Brown and Eugene Weitkamp. Out of 222 boys present at the contest, Lauren rated 4th, Kenny llth, and Don 2lst. Tne average points of all of the contests which the boys took part in were Lauren-994, Eugene-988, Wesley-950, Kenny- 934, and Don-9l2. The boys were very fortunate in winning first place at Portland. They won the silver cup by fifty-two points over Dayton, washington. The team had very stiff competition at this contest which consisted of seventy-four teams. It is a known fact that Rockford is the sixth washington team to have won this cup in the past seventeen years. ln order to keep this cup the team from Rockford must wln first place next year. Mr. McCauley thought as a whole the team was very con- sistent throughout the year, and is very proud to have been the coach of so fortunate a stock judging team. Lauren Brown was chosen as one of the three representa- tives from Washington to attend the American Royal Livestock Show in Kansas City, Missouri. He was chosen by averaglng the total judging credits for the entire year which amounted to a total of 4678.lO points. POTATO JUDGING TOWN DATE NUMBER OF TEAMS PLACING Riverside Nov. 5, l94l l2 I2 Pullman Nov. lo, 194: 24 2 Ellensburg Nov.l5, l94I I6 7 The judging squad composed of Joe Miller, Bill Goebel, Desmond McDonald, Llewellyn McMillan, Phllllp Hausken, and Arnold Olson. Desmond and Llewellyn were the two high point boys of the squad during the judging season.

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