Staller is about involvement.Bernie Staller has devoted his entire adult life to FFA FFA free fatty acids. service, launched as an agricultural education Agricultural education is instruction about crop production, livestock management, soil and water conservation, and various other aspects of agriculture. Agricultural education includes instruction in food education, such as nutrition. teacher and FFA advisor in Janesville, Wis., on through his years with the FFA Foundation before the consolidation of facilities and construction of the National FFA Center in Indianapolis. During those years, he moved from Wisconsin to Washington, D.C., and then Indianapolis. Recently, Staller confessed the job left time for little else--little else beyond making a permanent impression upon those he has taught and led. Retiring this fall during the diamond anniversary of the National FFA Organization, he intends to ratchet up his other noteworthy pursuits once he and his wife, Martha, relocate to southern Wisconsin to be closer to their family and long-time friends. Once there, he intends to devote attention to more personal passions including gardening, gourmet French cooking and furniture design and building. A master gardener, he enjoys the pastime because it affords him the rare opportunity to be outdoors. He especially relishes raising garden produce from heirloom seed. The farmer in him may be responsible for his practice of double, triple, sometimes even quadruple cropping his garden plot. He will continue employing his master carpentry skills building Shaker furniture Shaker furniture Furniture designed for the religious colonies of Shakers founded in the U.S. in the last quarter of the 18th century. The Shakers' designs reflected their beliefs that good craftsmanship was in itself an act of prayer and that form should follow function, an . Each piece, reflecting the Shakers' simple lifestyle, is unique, hand-crafted in his fully appointed workshop. He enjoys the pursuit "because everyday life can be so complex." The Stallers, who are avid learners, are also planning to take in some enrichment classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison “University of Wisconsin” redirects here. For other uses, see University of Wisconsin (disambiguation). A public, land-grant institution, UW-Madison offers a wide spectrum of liberal arts studies, professional programs, and student activities. . As a youth, Staller was active in both 4-H and FFA, serving as president of both his FFA chapter and 4-H club. He was an honors graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning bachelor's and master's degrees in agricultural education. He has served his association community well. In an early indication of his vision into the vital relationship between business and education, he was president of the Wisconsin Association of Agriculture Instructors. In 1979, the U.S. Office of Education selected Staller as one of five agribusiness agribusiness Agriculture operated by business; specifically, that part of a modern national economy devoted to the production, processing, and distribution of food and fibre products and byproducts. instructors from across the nation to develop an urban agricultural program. A director of the National Education Foundation of Alpha Gamma Rho Alpha Gamma Rho (ΑΓΡ) is a social-professional fraternity in the United States, with 72 university chapters. Though primarily a social organization, its members pride themselves on their affiliations to the life sciences and agricultural sciences. board for six years, he was its president from 1988 to 1990; he also is an honorary member of Gamma Sigma The Gamma Sigma Fraternity (ΓΣ) is the oldest fraternity west of the Mississippi River and was founded in 1863 and chartered in 1867 at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. Delta, the agricultural honor society honor society n. An organization to which students are admitted in recognition of academic achievement. . Staller served on the board of the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture and Life Sciences College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is the name of several colleges at different universities that offer instruction in agriculture and the life sciences.
Staller has always belonged to his local community, regardless of where he lived. While "stationed" in Wisconsin, his memberships included the Wisconsin Advisory Council for Vocational Agriculture Education, the Rock County Agriculture Workers Association, Rock County Horticulture Council, the Rock County Fair Board, and the Rock County Environmental Association. His numerous other affiliations included Trees for Tomorrow Resources Education Center Board, the Middleton Agribusiness Department Advisory Committee and his local church council. A frequent presenter and speaker at agribusiness and education meetings, he has authored numerous articles within the agricultural education and service community; his task force participation includes agricultural literacy efforts. Agri Marketing would like to thank Mickie Miller with the National FFA Organization and Paul Miner for their incredible contribution to this supplement. |
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