Mount Pulaski High School FFA and Logan County Ag Scholarship
Committee receive $2,500 cash grants for student scholarships
From Phil
Bertoni
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[March 28, 2013]
MOUNT PULASKI -- This week, the
Mount Pulaski High School FFA and the Logan County Ag Scholarship
Committee each received $2,500 cash awards for their programs from
the America's Farmers Grow Communities, which is sponsored by the
Monsanto Corp.
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Mount Pulaski farmer Rick Harbarger was recently selected as the
Logan County winner in the 2013 America's Farmers Grow Communities
drawing, which annually singles out farmers from Illinois counties
to distribute these cash awards. This year, in further support of
Illinois counties that had been declared disaster areas by the USDA
due to the 2012 drought, Harbarger and other winning farmers in
these particular counties were able to double the $2,500 cash award,
making it a total of $5,000 for their target designations.
Harbarger said it was a "no-brainer" with his selection of the
Mount Pulaski FFA program and the Logan County Ag Scholarship
Committee, a division of the Lincoln/ Logan County Chamber of
Commerce. He has two children who have graduated from Mount Pulaski
High School.
In addition, the Mount Pulaski FFA received a $1,000 cash award
from Cottonwood Ag Management, coincidentally during the same awards
ceremony, appropriately held in Mount Pulaski instructor Ralph
Allen's ag and FFA classrooms and attended by his 2012-2013 FFA
officers and representatives of Monsanto Corp., Lincoln/Logan County
Chamber of Commerce and Cottonwood Ag Management. Mount Pulaski High
School's head counselor, Mrs. Nancy Olander, was also present;
Principal Terry Morgan was off-campus at a meeting.
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It's no surprise that Mount Pulaski's FFA program is in the
limelight. Mr. Allen's FFA classroom wall displays three large state
of Illinois plaques called "State Degrees," listing by years (since
1965) students who have achieved the highest Illinois State FFA
Degree, which is based on the student's SAE record-book project,
leadership skills, FFA involvement and academic GPA. Listed are 61
boys and girls… and counting. While gazing upon these striking
Illinois map-plaques, Allen quickly pointed out that many other
students whose names do not so appear, nevertheless have gone on to
become very successful in various agriculture pursuits.
Mr. Allen has eagerly and effectively taken over the helm of this
very successful program during his 13 years as the Mount Pulaski
High School ag teacher and FFA adviser. He has also taught at Mount
Pulaski High School for six years in the industrial arts program and
served as instructor for two years in the ag program at Lincoln Land
Community College. In addition, he has served as the cooperative
work training instructor at Mount Pulaski High School for the past
eight years.
He warmly and proudly introduced each of his FFA officers and
beckoned them to stand and explain their future educational goals --
which they all aptly did.
[Text from report submitted by
Phil Bertoni] |