Fayette educator Robert Allen in Hall of Fame

Fayette educator

Robert Allen in Hall of Fame

Robert T. Allen

Jr. of Fayette County recently was inducted as a charter member of the

Georgia Agricultural Education hall of Fame.

The award was

made posthumously. Jane E. Garner accepted it on his behalf during ceremonies

at the Georgia Future Farmers of America Center in Covington.

The Hall of

Fame is dedicated to outstanding agriculture educators. Allen was inducted

along with 29 other educators as part of the second initiation of charter

members.

Agriculture

education has been an integral part of the education system in Georgia

since the Hughes Act of 1917.

Allen, raised

in Campbell County (now south Fulton), was one of two representatives

from the Georgia FFA selected to be on an NBC television broadcast for

having helped start vocational education in America. He received this

honor while studying for a bachelor of science in agriculture degree at

the University of Georgia. He also served as chancellor of the Alpha Zeta

fraternity, attended the National Conclave and excelled on the fraternity's

debate team.

He was actively

involved with the Association of Teachers of Agriculture and assisted

with the livestock exhibit program at the Macon Fair and with many FFA

rallies, conventions and area and district meetings.

Allen attended

several national FFA conventions in Kansas City as a leader and supervisor

and was awarded the honorary Georgia planter degree for his support of

the FFA.

Outside the

FFA, Allen was a Sunday School teacher and superintendent as well as chairman

of the Board of Deacons and Pulpit Committee for his church. He also served

as the Flint River Association Sunday School superintendent.

Allen passed

away in 1999.