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A Farewell from... Early Summer 2015 Volume 3 • Number 4 The CA FFA News is published quarterly by the California Association FFA. Starting Fall 2015 the CA FFA News will be reunited with the New Horizons magazine! Look for us next Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer inserted in your New Horizon magazine. California Association FFA Post Office Box 460 Galt, California 95632 (209) 744-1600 [email protected] www.CalAgEd.org Editor: Riley Nilsen [email protected] Graphic Design: Jennifer Luiz Patton Twisted Twig Design & Print [email protected] We want to hear from you... We are always looking for great stories about members and alumni around our state. Know of a story that we should feature in CA FFA News? Please email Riley at [email protected]. Submission deadlines: Fall.................................June 1st Winter............................September 1st . Spring.............................December 1st Summer..........................March 1st Stay in touch... “California FFA” 2 California FFANEWS • Early Summer 2015 Your 2014-15 California State FFA Officers 2014-2015 California State FFA President California FFA, thank you for an incredible year. Throughout my team’s adventures, we traveled to every corner of the State, but what made those experiences memorable was the people we met along the way. Moments like seeing the smiles on you faces as you received your State Degrees, laughing with you at your favorite restaurants, and watching how state conference impacted your lives will stay with me forever. I love FFA even more after this year because of you. Time and time again you have showed my team that our organization’s impact lasts way beyond this year of service. We are so fortunate because we know that even though our time in the Association jacket is coming to an end, it’s future is in your hands. Thanks for the laughs, the friendships, and the memories! We can’t wait to see where life takes you. Dipak Dipak 2014-2015 California State FFA Vice President When I reflect back on the last year with you California FFA, a huge smile immediately crosses my face. I am truly grateful and blessed to have had the experience to serve all 76,000 of you. I wish there were enough words to sum up how happy, appreciative, honored, and humbled I am, but instead; I will stick to the two simple words of “thank you.” California FFA, thank you for a year filled with incredible memories, laughter, love, tons of travel, and even greater people. Thank you for opening up your homes to my teammates and me during Chapter Visit season, for chanting “WATER” as loudly as possible at an ALA, or for great conversations at COLC’s. In addition, thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve alongside my five teammates who have now become my family. As your school year begins to wind down and no matter whether you’re a graduating senior or a freshman about to embark on sophomore year, I hope you continue to reach out and grab your potential. My biggest request from this year is that you never forget how special you are and that you can do anything you set your mind to. I hope that in the next stage of your life you use the skills you acquired from this year, or the last four years, and use them to better yourself, others, and the agriculture industry. Once again, I am incredibly grateful for this last year. I love all of you more than you know and I thank you so much for this year of service and this lifetime of friendship. Respectfully, Haley Warner Haley