FFA officers, Peckover honored at state convention
Four officers of the Marble Falls High School Future Farmers of America (FFA) Chapter and Bruce Peckover, the director of career and technology education at the Marble Falls Independent School District (MFISD) received state FFA Lone Star degrees during the Texas FFA’s 89th state convention, held July 10-14 in Corpus Christi.
FFA students are eligible to earn a Lone Star degree after completing agricultural instruction requirements, recognition at the chapter level, investment goals and community service. The state Lone Star honorary degree, awarded to individuals who work to help advance production agriculture and agribusiness education, is the highest degree of honorary FFA membership which can be bestowed at the state level.
Students earning Lone Star degrees include Amber Fearn, Benjamin Sconci, Holly Atkinson and Madeline Holder. Peckover was nominated for the state Lone Star degree by Marble Falls High School FFA sponsors Mike Rempe and Dawn Stratton.
“I was excited to see so many of our students earn their Lone Star degrees and was very honored to receive the honorary Lone Star degree on behalf of the Marble Falls FFA sponsors, students and community,” said Peckover.
“The state Lone Star degree is a terrific endorsement of our community’s investment in career focused facilities for all our CTE programs. It is also a wonderful way to recognize on a state level stage the hard work of our FFA students and sponsors (Shawn Reed, Mike Rempe, Dawn Stratton and Leonard Venghaus) as well as the dedication of our long-term volunteers.”
During the state convention, the Marble Falls officers voted for state constitutional amendments, state officers, and representatives to the national convention. Avery Marshall, 2016-2017 Marble Falls FFA president, was a finalist for state office during the Convention.
“We are proud of our students in our agricultural science classes,” said Rempe. “They have had the opportunity to learn skills for career success through our classes because of Mr. Peckover’s leadership of our ‘Workforce Ready’ model. Our FFA motto is, ‘Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, and Living to Serve.' The advisors feel that Mr. Peckover is the epitome of our FFA motto, so we were happy to recommend him for the honorary Lone Star degree.”
For more information about Marble Falls ISD’s CTE programs designed to produce professionally certified, workforce ready graduates, visit tx02216110.schoolwires.net/Page/2816.
