| FFA Salute - Franklin-Simpson FFA |
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Franklin-Simpson FFA
School Name: Franklin-Simpson High School
Contact Name: Kali Duncan, FFA President
Home Phone: 270-586-6247
Contact E-mail Address: kali.duncan2011@gmail.com
City and State: Franklin, Ky.
Website Address: www.simpson.k12.ky.us/
Chapter Advisors: Magen Roberts and Ed Hendrick
Number of FFA Members: 187
Chapter Charter Date: We had two high schools in our county and they merged in 1962 to form the Franklin-Simpson FFA chapter.
History of Chapter:
We are one of the top chapters in our state because of our local facilities; we have had past state officers from our chapter, and have some national titles.
What classes are taught to FFA members? Principle of Agriculture, Agriscience, Aquaculture, Landscape Design I and II, Floral Design I and II, Greenhouse I and II, Ag Construction I and II, Small Animal Tech, Ag Mechanics, Equine Science, Wildlife Management, Ag Employability Skills, Ag Leadership
What contests does the chapter participate in? Welding, Junior and Senior Parliamentary Procurers Team, Agriculture Sales, Agriculture Marketing, Impromptu Speaking (all areas), Extemporaneous Speaking, AIC Exam, Junior and Senior Tractor Driving, Creed Speaking, Record Bookkeeping, Proficiencies, Western Kentucky University FFA Field Day, Kentucky State Fair, Job Interview and Soil Judging
Highest award give to the chapter: State Gold Emblem
Does the chapter have an Ag plot? If so, amount of acres and crops produced? No
If not an Ag plot, is there some type of ag or business enterprise the chapter runs?
Yes, we have an aquaculture lab and two working greenhouses. In our aquaculture lab, we have a tank that we raise catfish in and once they are big enough we will sell them to members in our community. Also, in the greenhouses we grow a variety of flowers, some vegetables, and this year we are going to start a small herb garden. The greenhouses bring in a lot of money to our horticulture fund after selling starts in the spring.
What is your biggest fundraiser?
Our biggest fundraiser is the fall fundraiser, which is our mum sale. We start pre-ordering the mums in the middle of August through the middle of September. We receive the mums in mid-September and deliver them to those who have pre-ordered, and we always order extra to sell out of the greenhouses to the community. This year we have sold over 1,000 mums.
What is your chapter’s strength?
Our chapter’s strength is that we not only have a high school FFA chapter, but our middle school also has their own FFA chapter, and a lot of chapters from our area don’t involve their middle school with the high school FFA. This is the strength of our chapter because we have a lot of underclassmen who show a lot of potential of having good leadership skills. We take the younger members and train them on how to become better leaders and how to become better speakers. That way when they get into high school and become upperclassmen they can hold higher offices and be able to be better leaders.
Most unique fact about your chapter:
Until recently we have kept our ag teachers for a long period of time. Mr. Hammers and Mr. Duncan were the longest serving teachers we had. Mr. Hammers served for almost 40 years and Mr. Duncan taught for 32 years and retired three years ago.
Favorite community service project:
Our favorite community service project is one that we have just started and we partner with Toy’s for Tots. We start collecting the toys the last week of October and continue through the first week in December. What we do is each week we focus on a certain type of toy and ask members to bring in those toys, and at the end we will give all the proceeds to Toy’s for Tots.
Is there a parent, community person, or teacher that has done outstanding service for the Chapter? Tell us about it.
Yes, David Duncan, was one of our agriculture advisors at our school for 32 years, and retired three years ago. When Mr. Duncan first started at the school our chapter had no rankings, or many wins, within the next few years things turned around quickly, he has won over 16 Agriculture Sales events and other state CDE (Career Development Events) events, and taken students to compete at the National FFA Convention. Even though he is retired, he is still very involved with our chapter. He helps us out alot by being at most every event that we host, he will either be on the grill cooking, picking up items for us, chaperoning events, provide transportation, assist in preparing members for contests, and sometimes will be a judge at our local, regional and state events. Anytime we ask him to do something he is willing to do it.
What else would you like to tell us?
We come from a very rural community, and agriculture is very important to many community members. With the community being very agriculture based, we have a lot of community support from local farmers and business such as the Kentucky Farm Bureau and board members. Along with the community support we have a very supportive FFA Alumni Program and Young Farmers of America (YFA) program that help us throughout the year. |
| 11/10/2010 |
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