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    • Camps >
      • Hakalau Upper Camp
      • Hakalau Lower Camp
      • Wailea Spanish Camp
      • Wailea Store Camp AKA Wailea Mill Camp
      • Chin Chuck Genjiro Camp
      • Chin Chuck Stable Camp
      • Honohina Upper Camp
      • Honohina Lower Camp
      • Honohina Mauka and Nanue Camps
      • Kamaee Camps - all three
      • Pake (Ah Ling) and Kaminaka Camps
      • Kahuku Camp
      • Yamagata Camp
    • Schools >
      • Hakalau School
      • John M. Ross School
    • Churches >
      • Hakalau Jodo Mission >
        • The Early Years
        • Years Between World Wars
        • The Mamiya Years
        • The Later Years
      • Honohina Hongwanji
    • Cemeteries
    • Hangouts and Memories >
      • Hakalau Park and School Complex
      • H. Fujii Store and Bakery
      • Jimmy's Hi-Way Cafe
      • Nishimoto Store
      • Nishiyama Bus Service and Garage
    • The Voice of Hakalau (Newspaper)
    • Work >
      • Hakalau Mill & Other Buildings
      • Wailea Milling Company: The Independent Homestead Mill
    • Hamakua Roads in the 19th Century: Firsthand Accounts
    • Bridges >
      • New Highway Bridges Hakalau 1950-1953
    • The Railroad
    • 1946 Tsunami
  • Today
    • Issues Today
    • Hakalau Farmers Market
    • Hakalau Jodo Mission Today
    • Honohina Hongwanji Today
    • Hakalau Reunions
    • Wailea Village Historic Preservation Community >
      • Cemetery Stewardship
      • Reviving Hakalau School
      • Senior Luncheons
      • Mochi Pounding
  • Tomorrow
    • Arsenic Remediation
    • Cliff Failures
    • Hāmākua Community Development Plan & Action Committee
    • Ninole Development (Mile Marker 19)
"You and those who follow you, will be putting your brains and your hands to a practical solution of one of the most serious problems confronting Hawaii today: home production for the needs of home consumption and an excess for export, and productive employment for our Hawaiian-born population."
- Excerpt from Governor Judd's address to Hawaii's First Future Farmers of America Convention, April 17, 1930
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1929. Sadoyoshi Furumoto, Waichi Ouye, Hisaichi Moribayashi, Kuwambu Morita prepare field for planting under the Smith Hughes Training Program. Photo from the Waichi Ouye Collection, courtesy of his family.
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To view other articles about the John Ross Chapter of Future Farmers of America in Hakalau, click on on the titles below:
  • An Address by His Excellency Lawrence M. Judd, Governor of Hawaii, Before the Future Farmers of America in their First Annual Convention, at Hilo, Hawaii, April 17, 1930

  • The John Ross Chapter, Hilo Tribune Herald, June 26, 1930

  • Smith Hughes Training Program and Hilo Tribune Herald Article, "Hakalau School Makes Enviable Farm Records", Hilo Tribune Herald, October 14, 1930
John M. Ross, manager of the Hakalau Plantation, is so pleased at the work these boys have been doing that he has promised any graduate of the Hakalau FFA Chapter a piece of land to cultivate under the same basis of contracts as regular farmers. - Excerpt from article about Mr. Choi's visit to Hakalau (left)
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1929. Waichi Ouye Weeding Cane
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1930. Waichi Ouye Plowing
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1929. These are the Future Farmer of America boys who won the inter-club basketball championship of Hakalau school. Left to right, front row: Takeshi Teruya, Yoshio Oba, Minoru Meguro, captain; Shigeo Isaki, Sadayoshi Furamoto; back row, Taft Penarosa, Kuwambu Morita, Waichi Ouye and Seiko Miyashiro.