CATA HALL OF FAME - CLASS OF 2002
Jerry Davis
Cal Poly SLO 1948, Cal Poly SLO 1955, Winters HS 1954-1957, Grass Valley HS 1957-1967, Assistant State FFA Advisor 1967-1986
CATA President 1963-1964
Teacher of Excellence Founders Award
| Jerry started both the Winters and Grass Valley FFA programs. As a high school teacher he was known as highly motivated, a teacher who strongly believed in SOE and FFA. During his years as the assistant state FFA advisor, Jerry was largely responsible for initiating the FFA Foundation, the FFA Packet Program, a state officer-training program, and many other FFA Programs we take for granted today. For many years Jerry was known as "Mr. FFA." |
Howard Dickinson
UC Berkeley 1913, Kerman HS 1914-1918, Kern County Union HS 1918-1960
CATA President 1923-1924
Teacher of Excellence
| Howard was in vocational agriculture education for 46 years. He began by developing the agriculture education program in Kerman. After four years he moved to Bakersfield where he developed the largest agriculture program in the Untied States. The Bakersfield agriculture program at one time consisted of 11 agriculture teachers, a large school lab with a dairy, a swine herd, and a beef herd. One year Howard purchased 453 steers to be fed out and shown by his students. He established the first public auction of students raised livestock, which is now known as the Kern County Fair. |
Lloyd Dowler
U. Wyoming 1935, U. Wyoming 1941, Wyoming HS 1935-1943, U. of Nevada-Reno, State Supervisor & Teacher Educator 1946-1948, Fresno Sate College Professor & Dean 1948-1969, CSU Fresno Teacher Educator 1969-1978
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Lloyd was a tireless promoter of agriculture education. After eight years of teaching vocational agriculture in rural Wyoming and three years in the Navy, Lloyd was hired at the University of Nevada to develop a teacher-training program for agriculture and to serve as state supervisor of agriculture education for the state. He came to Fresno State College as a poultry professor and served as Dean of Agriculture. Before developing the agriculture teacher preparation program there in 1969. When he resigned as dean he became the first agriculture education teacher educator at CSUF.
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Kenneth Easter
UC Berkeley 1929, Cal Poly SLO, Dos Palos HS 1931-1971
CATA President 1945-1946
Teacher of Excellence
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Ken taught at Dos Palos HS for 40 ½ years. He was a master teacher and maintained one of the strongest SOE programs in the state. Ken served as the livestock superintendent and was on the Board of Directors of the Merced Co. Fair. After retiring, he served as a student teacher supervisor for CSU Fresno. Ken won many honors for his teaching and professionalism including National Distinguished Citizen of the Year, Merced Co., Chamber of Commerce Man of the Year, and the Honorary American Farmer Degree. |