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B&W Professional photo of Elsie Hill Roland

Elsie Hill Roland, 1897-1973

In 1928 the Future Farmers of America (FFA) program was established in Kansas City, Missouri. Just three years later, in 1931, Elsie Hill Roland initiated the Allegany County FFA program at Flintstone School. She was the first woman in the nation to be certified by the Federal Government to teach Vocational Agriculture under the 1917 Smith-Hughes Act and would oversee the FFA program at Flintstone until 1964.