COOPER REPRESENTS SC AT NATIONAL COOPERATIVE CONFERENCE
COLUMBIA, SC…Hunter Cooper of Calhoun Falls, SC, where he is a junior in high school and an FFA chapter officer, attended the North Carolina-South Carolina Cooperative Youth Leadership Conference, held at the North Carolina FFA Center near White Lake, NC, in July, according to John W. Parris, State Director of Public Affairs with the SC FFA Association. He was sponsored by AgSouth Farm Credit.
Cooper was selected as the Outstanding Youth from South Carolina at the event and received an expense paid trip funded by the SC Cooperative Council to attend the National Institute of Cooperative Education at the University of Kentucky this summer. While at the national conference, he competed in the Youth Scholar Program and was selected as one of the top four male scholars. He will have an opportunity to attend the National Institute in Harrisburg, Pa., in August 2006.
“ The National Institute of Cooperative Education is designed to increase the participant’s knowledge of the American economic system and the global economy”, said Marie Stiles, Executive Director of the SC Cooperative Council, who accompanied Cooper to Kentucky.
Cooper, an outstanding FFA member, is the son of Stan and Mary Cooper of Calhoun Falls. His FFA Advisor is Calvert Sherard, Agricultural Education Teacher at Calhoun Falls High School.
