100 historical 4-H pictures
celebrate the 4-H Centennial Year.
Portions of the display have
completed a ten library tour.
4-H Fair Quiz question
Commemorative ribbons: Diamond Anniversary ribbons and 4-H Centennial ribbons.
"Club work began wherever a public-spirited man or woman did something to give rural boys and girls respect for themselves and their way of life.
Wherever leaders gave the stamp of public recognition to youthful achievements on farm and in home, there club work began. This kind of incident goes a long way back...."
(from The 4-H Story by Franklin M. Reck, 1951.)
Bob Jamieson of ABC News reports, "It may come as a surprise, but there are 6,834,338 4-H members, three times the number there were 50 years ago..." In the televised segment aired Sunday, Jamieson describes the rural history of 4-H, "... when the climax of every summer was the competition at the county fair ",
and the ways in which today's 4-H brings activites and education to the cities. (March 24, 2002)
Newspaper articles reporting on our 75th 4-H Fair:
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