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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 7
BY SENATOR CATHEY
A RESOLUTION
To designate April 7, 2020, as FFA Day at the Louisiana State Capitol and to commend the
state officers of the Louisiana FFA Association.
WHEREAS, in 1917, Congress passed the Smith-Hughes National Vocational
Education Act to appropriate federal dollars to states for the purpose of finding teachers,
supervisors, and directors of agricultural subjects as well as trade, home economics, and
industrial subjects in high schools across the United States and has funded programs created
pursuant to the Act since; and
WHEREAS, in the early 1920s, student interest generated by the addition of these
classes prompted the first state organization of future farmers, and in 1928, thirty-three
students from eighteen states convened to form Future Farmers of America (FFA), known
since 1988 as the National FFA Organization; and
WHEREAS, the goal of FFA, as conceptualized in its mission statement, is to make
a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier
leadership, personal growth, and career success through agricultural education; and
WHEREAS, the FFA motto, "Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live,
Living to Serve", provides members words to live by as they experience the opportunities
of the organization; and
WHEREAS, the national FFA organization consists of more than seven hundred
thousand members in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands;
and
WHEREAS, the Louisiana membership of the FFA organization continues to be
strongly represented by agricultural students in two hundred four chapters in fifty-one
parishes throughout the state with over eleven thousand members; and
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WHEREAS, the members of the Louisiana Senate recognize the importance of
agriculture to the economy of this state, as well as the importance of the education and
training students receive through agricultural education programs that develop competent
and assertive agricultural leadership; and
WHEREAS, the role that FFA and the training and education afforded by funding
through the Smith-Hughes Act play in maintaining Louisiana's agricultural sector as an
essential economic driver in the state are recognized and supported by the members of the
Louisiana Senate.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby designate April 7, 2020, as FFA Day at the Louisiana State Capitol.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana also
recognizes and commends the 2019-2020 state FFA officers, as follows: Jadyn' Durr,
president; Dekota McGee, secretary; Amber Bridges, vice president; Salem Johnson, vice
president; Trevor Touchet, vice president; Tristan Foret, vice president; Victoria Higdon,
treasurer; Zachary Mayfield, reporter; Lindsey Detraz, sentinel; and Matthew Phillips,
parliamentarian.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
Jadyn' Durr, state president of the Louisiana FFA Association.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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