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Outstanding Teen Mollie Cromley
FFA Georgia State Secretary
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FFA Accomplishments:


FFA 2013-2014 Officer Team 
Southeast Bulloch
President - William Joiner                               Vice President - Mollie Cromley
Secretary - Hayden Farthing
Treasurer - Jacob Proctor
Reporter - Sam Goodman
Sentinel - Shelby McDowell

 

2013-2014 FFA Area 4 Officer Team
President - Shelby Key, Thomson, GA
Vice President - Mollie Cromley, Brooklet  Matt Bishop - Secretary, Hepzibah, GA           Lily Kowtko - Treasurer, West Laurens
Caleb Tinsley - Reporter, Burke County
Taylor Bauserman - Sentinel, Cross Creek

 

Georgia FFA Officers 2014-2015
President: Callie Warren, Lowndes
Secretary: Mollie Cromley, SEBulloch
VP: Kandice Hooper, Franklin County
VP: Emily Trammell, Murray County
VP: Julia Gonzalez, Effingham County
VP: Luke Nelson, Jones County
VP: Elizabeth Horne, Colquitt County
VP: Jarrett Williams, Appling County

 

Awards:
FFA Georgia Outstanding Secretary 2013
Washington Leadership Conference Scholarship Recipient
FFA Floriculture CDE Team Area Competition - 2nd Place
FFA Floriculture Area Competition - 2nd High Individual

 

Other Activities:
Radio News at Southeast Bulloch
Brooklet United Methodist Church Youth
Youth Leadership Bulloch Class of 2014
Beta Club
4-H

 

 

 

 

Mollie Cromley
Southeast Bulloch High School
Class of 2014
Parents: Ann & Lee Cromley

 

        Mollie Cromley started campaigning last year. "I figured it out in October of 2013," she said. "I went to a lot of events, at the region and the state level, to get to know a lot people." There were interviews the weekend before. A team of state FFA Officers conducted the question and answer session. "You have to be willing to be the person they need, and you have to know you can be that person," she said. She was competing against other high school FFA officers from three regions in the state: North, Central, and South.
        There was strategy involved. "You don't want to run against someone from your region or area. I didn't run for Vice President because Luke Nelson was running for that. We both won. We were the only two from the same region who decided to run as a region. Luke's from Jones County," she said.
Mollie also looked for something to make her stand out from the crowd of candidates. "I researched it and I decided to wear red lipstick to stand out. Whenever I wear official dress, it's part of my uniform and people remember it," she said.
        In addition to campaigning for state FFA secretary, Mollie also worked on her floriculture project. She grows gourds and peanuts on the family farm. She sells the dried gourds, which she paints or makes into bird houses, mostly through word of mouth or social media. Last year she yielded 250. She also grew one acre of peanuts which she pulled by hand and sold green or boiled. "Susannah Lanier, my agriculture teacher, bought some for the Livestock Association," Mollie said. "I had to prepare a proficiency plan to talk about my projects to allow them to be successful. Brian Elrich, my other Ag teacher helped throughout the process." Mollie's team won 2nd place in Area 4 competition.
        Mollie also helped her local chapter with a year's worth of activities. From the Brooklet Peanut Festival to the Georgia State Fair in Perry, GA; from the Area Awards Banquet to the National Convention; from cleaning up the Ogeechee River to a Veteran's Day service project, at least an activity a week was held during the school year. Mollie also helped the chapter raise funds through the Annual Pork Chop Dinner and the SEB Livestock show and barbeque dinner.
        This summer will be just as active. "It starts June 2nd, you blast off! You take off and don't land!" she said. Mollie will be attending meetings, conventions, training, and conferences. She will spend a week in Athens, a week in Macon, then on to Arkansas for state officer training. In July she will head to Washington, DC, for the state president's conference. "That's the most fun of the year!" Mollie said.
        Until this fall when she will enter the University of Georgia where she plans to major in - what else? Agribusiness.