Ridge Hughbanks to speak at AHS graduation
May 15, 2020
Alva High School senior graduation will be held Sunday, May 17, at 3:30 p.m. at Ranger Stadium on the NWOSU campus. It will look different this year with graduates sitting six feet apart on the field while relatives and friends gather in vehicles in the parking lot. No one is allowed to sit in the stands.
Speaking to graduates this year is Ridge Hughbanks. The ceremony will be broadcast live on KRDR 105.7 FM so those in vehicles may listen as well as those at home. Alva Review-Courier will also videotape the event.
Hughbanks is a fifth-generation farmer and rancher and a proud 2016 Goldbug graduate from Alva High School. He is the immediate past National FFA central region vice president, and took a year from college to serve in this capacity while promoting career and technology education and serving more than 700,000 FFA members across the nation.
As a national officer, Hughbanks traveled to 37 states and three countries, worked with more than 250,000 students and adults as a motivational speaker, helped secure funding for FFA members across the nation through the National FFA Foundation, and spent many weeks in Washington, D.C., working alongside legislators on Capitol Hill.
Prior to serving in this capacity, Hughbanks served as the Oklahoma FFA state president and traveled to all 77 counties in the state during his year of service.
Hughbanks is currently enrolled at Oklahoma State University where he is studying agribusiness with a pre-law emphasis. While at OSU, he has served as the attorney general for the Student Government Association, a senator for the Ferguson College of Agriculture (formerly CASNR), an executive officer for FarmHouse Fraternity, and volunteers at Turning Point Ranch where he learns and grows alongside special needs students and therapy horses.
During his freshman year, Hughbanks was selected as a "Top Ten Freshman Man" for the entire university.
A lifelong student, Hughbanks believes honesty is the foundation to building trust with others, most answers can be found in a book, and coffee should be drunk as God intended: hot and black.
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