The Green Hand (1940)

In 1932 University of Georgia agriculture professor Paul W Chapman wrote a novel about the Future Farmers of America FFA The Green Hand in which joining FFA improved the life of a young delinquent Fred Dale In 1939 SearsRoebuck Co sponsored the filmed version of The Green Hand and shot the film in Athens Georgia casting townfolk and university professors as its main characters The main character Fred Dale is played by UGA sophomore Alpha Fowler Jr the son of a state legislator A big man on campus in the 1940s Fowler Jr went on to his own career as a state legislator Other men prominent in Georgia and UGA agriculture appeared in the film