Vergennes Union High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Vergennes, VT)

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BLUE AND WHITE ISABEL HUSK is at her home in Waltham. MADELINE LAJOIE is at her home in Vergennes. DEAN LEONARD is employed in Fishman’s Department Store. MARIE MCCORMICK is employed at Ralli’s Soda Fountain. ELEANOR MILLER is at her home in North Ferrisburgh. JOYCE PALMER is attending Baypath Institute. FORREST RIVERS is attending the University of Vermont. MARGUERITE SENESAC is at her home in West Addison. CATHERINE THORPE is at her home in Waltham. MADELINE TORREY is taking a post graduate course at Vergennes. HELEN VANORNUM is at her home in West Addison. LUCILLE VANORNUM is at her home in West Addison. ALICE WARD is at her hotne in Waltham. HOWARD WASHBURN is employed in Merrill’s I. G. A. Store. GEORGE WILLARD is working for his father. MAROLYN POWERS is attending Green Mountain Junior College at Poultney. LOCAL President Earl Jewell T reasurer Hosea Langeway Reporter Howard Tatro OFFICERS Vice President Harland Bodette Secretary Alden Adams Watch Dog Guy Smith WHAT IS THE F. F. A.? The Future Farmers of America is a national organization of farm boys studying vocational agriculture in public and secondary schools under the provision of the national vocational educational acts. Courses in vocational agriculture were first established in the United States in 1917. From the very beginning the boys who were enrolled in these courses in various states felt a spirit of comradeship due to their background of country life and desires with regard to farming as a vocation. Within a few years, a number of local departments of vocational agriculture in most states had developed so called “Agricultural Clubs,” the members being composed of students of vocational agriculture. Such organizations were, in many instances, largely social and recreational in nature, but certain educational, self-improvement and cooperative features were often included as well. PAGE TWENTY-THREE

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VERGENNES HIGH SCHOOL V. H. S. SEARCHLIGHT ALUMNI SECTION Editor, Desmond Casey, ’39 GEORGE ADAMS is now attending Burlington Business College. ARLEEN ALLEN is in care of the Weeks School. MARION ANDREWS is at her residence in Vergennes. HOWARD BAILEY is in care of the Weeks School. RICHARD BARROWS is taking a post graduate course at Vergennes. MAURICE BELIVEAU is attending University of Vermont. ARTHUR BOOTH is attending Tristate College. JOYCE BULL is at her home in Cornwall. DANIEL BULL is attending Burlington Business College. GEORGE CARPENTER, Jr. is attending Baypath Institute. ANITA CHEVIER is in Hanover, N. H., with Mrs. Robert Henica. SIDNEY DANYOW is attending Green Mountain Junior College at Poultney. BEULAH DAVIS is at her home in North Ferrisburg. ELIZABETH DEMELLO is employed at Fisk’s tourist home. HARVEY DRINKWINE is a cottage master at the Weeks School. DORIS EVARTS is attending Burlington Business College. GERALDINE FINDLEY i s in care of the Weeks School. DOROTHY FITTS is in care of the Weeks School. MARY GAGE is attending Bay-path Institute. ELAINE HAMEL is taking a post graduate course at Vergennes. KENNETH HAMEL is at his home in Vergennes. PAGE TWENTY-TWO

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VERGENNES HIGH SCHOOL Undertakings of this type, therefore, under the guidance of enterprising local teachers mark the first tendency of students of vocational agriculture to “Gang together and do the things in an organized way. As the local vocational agriculture organizations grew in number, their successes and failures formed a pattern of experience by means of which efforts toward group action became more successful. Naturally the idea arose of banding together local groups of students of vocational agriculture. Instead of each group functioning separately, why not have some actual contact and definite ties between groups? Certainly the interest and tendencies of the members were along similar lines, and so the idea of state wide organizations with each group as an active unit developed and came into the picture. It is interesting to note that such names as “Jr. Farmers,’’ “Future Farmers” and the like, appeared in various sections of the country. However the pioneer efforts of the Future Farmers of Virginia attracted the greatest attention nationally, due to the very excellent ideals, purposes, ceremonies and definite constitution formulated by Henry Gresclose. Two years after the F. F. A. was founded, six states in the Southern region had in operation similar organizations patterned closely after the Virginia set up. In 1928 the first national convention was held at Kansas City, and since then the organization has grown rapidly. On July first, 1937, the active membership totaled 143,837 boys in 4,896 chapters of 47 states, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. In our own state we have 33 chapters, with a mem-l)ership of 480 boys. It is an organization with a non-profit voluntary membership, but it is self-supporting, operating nationally on ten cents a year membership dues. It has been in good financial shape from the beginning. Bills are paid promptly and the treasury maintains a safety balance at all times. ’ The primary aim of Future Farmers of America is to develop agricultural leadership. Other purposes include strengthening the confidence of the farm boy in himself and his work, creating interest in a more intelligent choice of farming as an occupation, creating love of country life, improving the rural home and its surroundings, encouraging organized recreational activities among rural people, promoting thrift and improving scholarship. It is designed to take its place among other organized agencies for the up-building of agriculture and the improvement of country life. Howard C. Tatro, President of the Vermont Association of Future Farmers of America. PAGE TWENTY-FOUR