Buckeye Career Center FFA Chapter celebrates at banquet

  • By Esther M. Silvius
  • May 14, 2010
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Outstanding members were recognized, Honorary Chapter Farmer Degrees bestowed and State and American Degree recipients honored during the 34th annual Buckeye Career Center FFA Chapter banquet. The event was held April 28 at the center in New Philadelphia, with 207 members, parents and guests attending. The Buckeye FFA Chapter has developed two top awards, or Star Chapter awards, for each of the junior and senior classes in each program area, the most outstanding and the most improved member awards. Receiving the most outstanding member awards were: food processing, Tiffany Williams, senior; natural resources, Luke Walters, junior, and Matthew Walters, senior; landscaping, David Hill, junior, and Tristan Cutshall, senior; floriculture, Jessica Stoneman and Chelsea Baker, juniors, and Jennifer Stacy, senior; equine, Dana Wheeler, junior, and Lacey Shuss, senior; and ag mechanics, Aaron Westhoefer, junior, and Clint Frye, senior. Members recognized for showing the most improvement in leadership, and participation in the classroom laboratory and the FFA were: Brandon Schott and Jesse Owens, ag mechanics; Jessica Burkhart and Macey Kohler, equine; Kelsey Harper, floriculture; Sydnee Shamel and Ryan Moore, landscaping; and Lori Ann Crawford and Brandon Furbay, natural resources. Lacey Shuss, the 2009-2010 FFA treasurer, received the outstanding officer award. A student in the equine department, Shuss is from Conotton Valley High School and a daughter of Gary Shuss and Dee Markwell. She will major in veterinary technology when she attends Brown Mackie College in October. Brooke Stafford from the equine management department received a special award for being the top scholar in the senior class. She has maintained a 4.0 grade point average while attending Buckeye Career Center, Stafford is from Conotton Valley High School and a daughter of Gary and Sharon Knisely. The top scholars in each of the agricultural classes were: Brittany Reichman, junior and Abby Varnes, senior, floriculture; Dana Wheeler, junior, and Brooke Stafford, senior, equine management; William Wilson, junior, and Taylor McNutt, senior, natural resources; Allen Patterson, junior, and Tristan Cutshall, senior, landscaping; Jeremy Slasor, junior, and Devan Pastricak, senior, food processing; and Charles Finton, junior, and Jesse Owens, senior, ag mechanics. The state organization recognizes local chapter treasurers and reporters who have done an outstanding job during their terms in office. This year, Lacey Shuss received a gold rating for her treasurer’s book and Jennifer Stacy received honorable mention for her reporter’s book. Other members of the 2009-2010 officer team were Jourdan Shrontz, equine program, president; Clint Frye, ag and diesel mechanics, vice president; and Jordan Dean, equine program, sentinel. Proficiency awards were presented to a number of students, based on the student’s supervised agriculture experience program, either working on the home farm, family business, volunteer experiences, school lab or student business enterprises, as follows: agriculture education, Johnnie Goss; agricultural sales, Luke Walters; beef cattle management, Aaron Westhoefer; dairy production placement, Jonathan Taylor; environmental science and natural resources, Timothy Wagner; equine science entrepreneur, Lacey Shuss; equine science placement, Macey Kohler; forage production placement, Chris Finton; forest management, Richard Antonelli; grain production placement, Keith Hoagland; outdoor recreation, Luke Walters; poultry production, Brandon Schott; sheep production, Jourdan Shrontz; small animal production and care, Dana Wheeler; swine production placement, Jesse Owens; and wildlife management, Tysen Peters. The highest award a high school FFA member can receive is the State FFA degree. This year, three members will receive their State degree at the State FFA convention in Columbus. They are Jourdan Shrontz, Lacey Shuss and Aaron Wesrhoefer. The top five salespeople in the chapter’s major fundraising activity-the fruit sales-were recognized. They were: Brooke Stafford, first place with $1,003 in sales; Johnnie Goss, second, with $751; Aaron Westhoefer, third, with $597; Cody Morrison, fourth, with $505; and Tristan Cutshall, fifth, with $440. The chapter had a number of judging teams participating in district contests. Some of the teams also participated in the State contests. The agriculture mechanics skills team of Aaron Westhoefer, Keith Hoagland, and Jonathan Taylor placed second in the district and fourth in State competition. The forestry team of Luke Walters, William Wilson and David Walton placed first in district competition. Placing eighth in State competition were State team members Luke Walters, William Wilson, David Walton, David Mizer and Tyler Harstine. The nature interpretation team of William Wilson, Luke Walters, and David Walton competed in several invitational contests, including a first place in district competition. The wildlife management team placed first in the district and fourth in State competition. Luke Walters, William Wilson, David Walton and Tyler Harstine, comprised the State team. Agriculture and industrial diagnostics team of Clint Frye and Aaron Westhoefer placed second at district and eighth at the State contest. The agriculture engineering team of Chris Finton, Keith Hoagland, Brandon Schott, and Aaron Westhoefer placed 21st out of 46 teams in the State contest. Two teams competed in the Envirothon contest, May 8. Billy Wilson, Luke Walters, David Walton, Tori Westhaver, and Lori Crawford comprised the junior team. The senior team members are Matt Walters, Taylor McNutt, Richard Antonelli, Tysen Peters, and Tim Wagner. The retiring 2009-2010 offices installed their successors, as follows: Aaron Westhoefer, president; Justine Laughlin, vice president; Dana Wheeler, secretary; Brandon Schott, treasurer; Jessica Stoneman, reporter; Keith Hoagland, sentinel; and Jonathan Taylor, student advisor. The new officers presented a plaque to Jeff Lesjak from Schoenbrunn Landscaping, the recipient of the Honorary Chapter Farmer degree. Jourdan Schrontz gave the welcome, Jordan Dean asked the invocation and Lacey Shuss and Shrontz were in charge of the year in review presentation.


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