FUTURE FARMERS of AMERICA
75th ANNIVERSARY
GROVE ORGANIZES THE FIRST F. F. A. CHAPTER
From 75 YEARS AGO ~ THE PARIS POST-INTELLIGENCER ~
February 19, 2003 Edition
E.W. Grove Henry County High School agriculture professor Charles Pardue held an organizational meeting of a new Future Farmers of Tennessee chapter. The first president would be Edwin Diggs and other officers were John Upchurch, Emmett Pritchett, Joe Sensing, Johnny Jennings, Claude Kesterson and Bob Looney. (Organization date would have been about February 1928.)
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HENRY COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
FUTURE FARMERS of AMERICA
Officers ~ 2002-2003 School Year

Left to right
Front row: Tyler Smith, Sentinel; Ashley Miller, Secretary; Amanda Arnold,
Parlimentarian;
Heather Collins, Reporter; Ashley Arnold, President; Jared Doyle, Chaplin;
Back row: David Peale, Vice-President; Daniel Powell, Second Vice-President;
Chance Young, Student Advisor; Preston Bradley, Treasurer.
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Photo reprinted from The PARIS
POST-INTELLIGENCER
Special F. F. A. Section
February 19, 2003 Edition
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National FUTURE FARMERS of AMERICA
WEEK
February 16-23