Jakubik '06 Earns National Farm Award
Jamie
Jakubik '06 and her brother, Matt, a Michigan State University
student, received the American FFA Degree at the National Future
Farmers of America Convention.The award became a family affair when her brother, Matt, received the same award at the convention.
The honor rewards years of academic and professional excellence, demonstrated leadership ability and outstanding achievements in agricultural business, production, processing or service programs. To be eligible, members must have earned and productively invested $7,500 through a supervised agricultural experience program in which they start, own or hold a professional position in an existing agricultural enterprise.
A 2003 graduate of Whittemore-Prescott High School, Jakubik grew up on the dairy farm owned by her parents Jeff and Yvonne. Besides milking cows, caring for calves, maintaining animal health files and other dairy tasks, she raised and sold market hogs. She would buy the hogs in April and raise them to show at the county fair where she sold the finished animals at auction.
A member of FFA since seventh grade, in high school she was an officer of the FFA chapter for three years. A business administration major at Alma, she is the co-President of Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE), and a member of Alma Leadership Alliance (ALA) and Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA). She is a teaching assistant in accounting and a sports information student worker.
Jakubik has been on the Dean's List every semester and earned the President's Cup her first year. She is a member of the Rho Chi Epsilon business honorary.
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Posted: Wed, November 2nd, 2005 at 11:26AM
