INDIANAPOLIS — Aside from honoring Indiana FFA members For his or her exhausting work and accomplishments By way of the previous yr, 5 pals of the agriculture enterprise have been additionally acknowledged with the Honorary Hoosier Diploma By way of the 92nd Indiana FFA State Convention.

Based mostly on the Indiana FFA internet website, https://inffa.org/Website.aspx?ID=2376, the Honorary Hoosier Diploma is given To acknowledge these people Who’ve made A strong contribution to not solely Indiana agriculture, However in addition in Indiana agriculture education of the Indiana FFA.

Definitely one of many people who earned this extreme honor is Bruce Kettler, who serves As a Outcome of the Indiana State Division of Agriculture director and has A exact ardour for agriculture, particularly for vocational agriculture packages.

When introducing him for the award, the 2020-2021 Indiana FFA State Officer Group said Kettler was a supporter, advocate and chief who has devoted his life to serving agriculture.

Aside from Kettler, 4 completely different people have been bestowed with their Honorary Hoosier Diploma:

• Gwen Mize, who has served as an agriculture educator at Manchester School from 1991 and Continues to be impacting the minds of future agriculture chiefs to Right now.

• Joseph Ramey, who has been the director of the Indiana FFA Management Center since 2018.

• Donald Sheldon has been involved Inside the agriculture enterprise for a quantity of yrs and is presently the agriculture educator at Cloverdale Highschool, the place he has been since 2017.

• David Taylor has been the agriculture educator at South Spencer Highschool since 1998.