Landen Morris, who last year won the junior international auctioneering championship, graduated from the World Wide College of Auctioneering in Des Moines Friday.

Morris, of Roanoke Rapids and a graduate of Roanoke Rapids High School, completed 80-plus hours of intensive auctioneering training. 

Classes covered during the course included auctioning real estate, estates, antiques, heavy equipment, purebred and market livestock, automobiles, and fundraising events. 

Students were taught the rapid-fire chant of the auctioneer, how to contract auctions, ethics, auction bookkeeping, auction laws, auction technology, and the importance of the internet in today’s auction world. 

Students were instructed by and interacted with some of the world’s most successful auctioneers including past presidents of the National Auctioneers Association, state associations, and past international, world and state champion auctioneers. 

Morris said his next step will be going through the North Carolina licensing process and then looking at starting auctioneering full time with a firm before further down the road starting his own auction company.

World Wide College of Auctioneering was established in 1933 and has provided professional training for some of America and Canada’s most successful and well-known auctioneers. 

The school is internationally recognized and approved by most license law states. 

World Wide College of Auctioneering conducts classes three times a year. Anyone interested in becoming an auctioneer is encouraged to call 641-423-5242 or go to the college’s website at this link