Amanuensis Monday: Future Farmers of America (1937)

An Amanuensis is a person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. 

Source: Alexandria-Monroe High School Spectrum, Alexandria, Indiana, 1937

The Future Farmers of America

First row from left to right: Leroy Waymire, Arthur McMahan, Paul Thurston, William Cranfill.  Second row: Basil Retherford, Eugene Hannah, John Featherston, Elbert Hague, Eugene Derstler, Noel Maddox, David Teague, Frank Tobin.  Third row: Eugene Fields, Robert Hobbs, William Blake, Forest McMahan, Bernard Balser, Fred Johnson, John Nacoff, Ralph Porter, Mr. Disque. Back row: Omer Young, Verne Sullivan, Harold Bess, Keith Sizelove, Harry Ellis, Fred Inglis, Lyle Summers, Charles Sayre, William Wright, Dale Blacklidge.

The Future Farmers of America is a National Organization of farm boys studying vocational agriculture with chapters throughout the United States, Hawaii, and Porto Rico.  Its purpose is to create more interest in farming as an occupation, and to instill and nurture a love of country life.

The thirty-three members of the local chapter participate in judging and corn husking contests, and their basketball team furnishes recreation.  Paul Thurston won the Hoosier Farmer Degree.

President: Herman Brown

Vice-President: Arthur McMahan

Secretary: William Cranfill

Treasurer: Leroy Waymire

Reporter: Robert Inglis

Faculty Adviser: Mr. Disque

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My maternal grandfather, William Lee Wright, is pictured in the back row.

Amanuensis Monday is a daily blogging theme which encourages the family historian to transcribe family letters, journals, audiotapes, and other historical artifacts. Amanuensis Monday is a popular ongoing series created by John Newmark at Transylvanian Dutch.

Christmas Overload

Barnabus D. Beagle, aka "Barney", 25 Dec. 2010

I think my poor beagle was on holiday overload yesterday when I caught him hiding underneath the Christmas tree.

I hope, dear reader, that you and your family had a wonderful holiday season and that your New Year is full of genealogical joy.

Sunday's Obituary : Cleo M. (Dorton) Wright (1895-1994)

Source : [undocumented, probably Anderson, Indiana Herald-Bulletin]

Alexandria - Cleo M. (Dorton) Wright, 99, 201 W. Broadway, died April 6, 1994 at her residence after an extended illness.

She was born Feb. 13, 1895 in Matthews, and had lived in Alexandria and rural Alexandria since 1917. She was a homemaker and a member of First United Methodist Church, Alexandria, and United Methodist Women's Society of the church. She was a 75-year member of the Order of the Eastern Star Chapter 179 of Alexandria.

Survivors include a daughter-in-law, Lola W. Wright of Anderson; a grandson, Dr. Stephen J. Wright of Anderson; three granddaughters, Mrs. Robert W. (Leigh Ann) Byrd of West Lafayette, Mrs. Scot (Cynthia) Ford of New Whiteland, and Mrs. Michael (Nancy) Catellier of Indianapolis; five great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Fred A. Wright, in 1985; a son, Orville C. Wright, in 1986; and her parents, John and Rosetta (Dunn) Dorton.

Services will be a 1 p.m. Monday at Noffze Funeral Home with the Revs. Carl Q. Baker and Steven Fritchman officiating. Burial will be at Park View Cemetery in Alexandria.

Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Eastern Star memorial services will be conducted at 7 p.m.

Memorial contributions may be made to the First United Methodist Church through the funeral home.