Miriam Pflug (left) with Hunter Cooper and Marie Stiles
COOPER RECIVES SC COOPERATIVE COUNCIL AWARD
COLUMBIA, SC.... Hunter Cooper, a junior at Calhoun Falls High School and an FFA chapter officer, is the first recipient of the South Carolina Cooperative Council’s Outstanding Youth Award. The award was presented by Miriam Pflug, Marketing Manager with AgSouth Farm Credit, ACA, at the annual conference of the council in Columbia recently, according to John W. Parris, state director of public affairs with the SC FFA organization.
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| Commissioner of Agriculture Hugh Weathers (left) with Hunter Cooper and Calvert Sherard. |
Mr. Cooper represented South Carolina at the Regional Cooperative Youth Leadership Conference at the North Carolina FFA Center last summer where he was selected the outstanding delegate from South Carolina and awarded an expense paid trip to the National Institute of Cooperative Education in Lexington, KY, sponsored by South Carolina Cooperative Council. He was accompanied to the national conference by Marie Stiles, Executive Director of the Council.
While at the national conference, he competed in the Youth Scholar Program and was named one of the top four males scholars. He will represent the South Carolina Cooperative Council at the 2006 National Cooperative Education Conference scheduled in Pennsylvania in August.
Mr. Cooper is the son of Stanley and Mary Cooper of Calhoun Falls. His FFA advisor is Calvert Sherard, Agricultural Education teacher at Calhoun Falls High School.