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Future Farmers of America Organization Changes Focus.
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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April 25, 2001
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2001 Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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By Sonya Colberg, The Daily Oklahoman Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 25--One day in an eighth-grade classroom, the FFA creed turned one bashful, stuttering boy into a leader and his classmates into champs.
All FFA members have to learn the FFA creed and that rule held true in Matt Lohr's classroom in the small town of Broadway, Va. The eighth-grade students practiced hard at home to learn the creed that normally takes about two or three minutes to recite.
The young man worked especially hard. It took him longer than anyone else because his speech impediment made him start and stop a hundred times as he recited the words "I believe in the future of ...
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