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L W Student To Get State Farmer Degree
Bill Yapp of Lincoln Way FFA will receive the Illinois State Farmer Degree at the State FFA Convention in Urbana on June 13. The award is the highest in Illinois FFA, given to about 2 percent of the state's 16 500 members based on leadership school and community activity and successful FFA farming projects. Yapp has progressed from Greenhand to Chapter Farmer and Star Farmer, serving this year as Lincoln Way Chapter treasurer and expanding his farming program from one beef feeder and six acres of wheat to two beef feeders two production cows corn oats and alfalfa.
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Bill Yapp
George Yapp
New Lenox Township
Lincoln Way
Future Farmers of America
FFA
Urbana
Bill
Lincoln-Way
Supreme Court
Earl Benjamin Searcy
Justin Taft
Louise Emmerson
John Henry Altorfer
Peoria
William G. Stratton
Richard B. Ogilvie
Cook County Board
S. Thomas Sutton
Altorfer
Ogilvie
Samuel Shapiro
Department of Public Works and Buildings
Fanie Jones
Demos
George E. Langmeister
Mokena
William E. Smythe
Stephen B. Luzbetak
Stanley B. Waznis
Louis Bertani
Joliet
Krusemark and
General Assembly
W. Robert Blair
Park Forest
William G. “Bill” Barr
John J. Houlihan
Sammy Berk