1938-39 History
Currently we are working on compiling our chapter
history. Here is what we have so far for the 1938-39 school year.
| The following appeared in the Blytheville Courier
Newspaper on July 18th, 1938 |
| "Future Farmers go to Camp Couchdale" |
| A number of the Blytheville Future Farmers of
America, accompanied by their sponsor, Freeman Robinson, vocational
agriculture instructor in the local high school, went to Camp
Couchdale today to spend a week in swimming, fishing, boating,
boxing, playing tennis, and softball on the banks of Lake Catherine,
12 miles Northwest of Hot Springs. One day will be spent in
visiting Reghold dam, the millon dollar Veterans' hospital, radio
station KTHS, Belvedere dairy, and other points of interest around
Hot Springs.
The following boys made the trip. C.D. Ellis, Everett
Craig, Billy Meharg, J.L. Gurley, Theo Gurley, Frank Ashby, Harold
Lloyd, Gerald Sutton, J.B. Husband, Charles Gaines, Charles Purtle,
"Buddy" Baxter, Rowland Rounabill, and Cecil Austin. |
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The following appeared in the Blytheville Courier Newspaper on
Monday, July 25th, 1938
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Local FFA Group Wins Honors
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Members of the Blytheville chapter of the Future Farmers of
America, who have been vacationing for the past week at Camp Couchdale, 11 miles
northeast of Hot Springs, won the certificate of awards in three contests in
which the competed with 173 other campers representing 11 chapters of the FFA in
the state.
The certificates were given for victories of C.D. Ellis and
Harold Lloyd in boxing, Harold Lloyd in the tennis singles, and Billy Meharg and
Harold Lloyd in ping pong. The chapter played in the finals of the volley
ball, softball and domino matches.
The time at the camp was spent in fishing, swimming,
tennis, softball, volley ball, checkers, ping pong, and dominoes. One day
was spent in Hot Springs where the group visited the Reghold dam, the Veterans'
hospital, KTHS broadcasting station, bath house Lopege Museum, Fountain Lake and
Belvedere dairy. On the return trip, the state capitol and other points of
interest were visited in Little Rock. |
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The following appeared in the Blytheville Courier Newspaper on
September 12th, 1938 |
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Future Farmers go to Fair at Memphis
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A large group of the Future Farmers of America
of the city high school accompanied by their instructor, Freeman
Robinson, went to Memphis today to participate in the activities of
the FFA Day at the Mid-South Fair. The group was to parade
today in the opening parade of the fair.
Other members of the local FFA who make up the
dairy judging team, which has been choosen to represent Arkansas
will return to Memphis to compete in that contest. They are:
Everett Crate, Eugene Hood, Howard Lloyd, and Charles Abbot as
alternate.
Included in the group who went down today were:
Mark Anderson, Meddie Brown, Fred Burgeson, Dent Brown, Charles
Bunn, Yancy Caffey, James Carney, Walter Collier, Charles Gaines,
J.L. Gurley, Cleo Gurley, Arthur Hudson, James Long, Herbert Koonce,
John Mick, Joe OcGhee, Billy Mehart, Harvey Morris, Dallas Mitchell,
Wallace Norman, Clyde Perry, Fred Perry, Gerald Sutton, Herman
Tinker, Johnny Young. Billy Craig, a former member of the group
accompanied then. |
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