Cooperative Extension: 4-H

Where Are They Now: Kathy Watier By Ron Drum, Statewide 4-H Program Professional/Associate Director 4-H Resource Development As I am able to collect the information, I will, upon occasion, post additions to a series I’m calling “Where are they now?” This post is the first of what I hope will be many such posts and […]

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants By Ron Drum, Statewide 4-H Program Professional/Associate Director 4-H Resource Development Were you a 4-H Member? UMaine 4-H wants to hear your story. Please take a moment to fill out our short form and Tell Us Your Story! No, this blog post isn’t done, but you are correct that this […]

The Original Maine 4-H Brownie By Ron Drum, Statewide 4-H Program Professional/Associate Director 4-H Resource Development If I say “Brownie,” what comes to mind? Any of these? Harold “Brownie” Brown. The “Cloverbud” version of a Girl Scout. An old-time Eastman-Kodak camera. A very helpful British elf. The mascot of the Cleveland Browns, Cleveland’s Professional Football […]

March is Women’s History Month! By Ron Drum, Statewide 4-H Program Professional/Associate Director 4-H Resource Development The year 1997 is not a year I like to remember. That was a year when I lost a good friend. She was only 54 years old when she died. It was a terrible loss. She was a beautiful, […]

She Set the Bar High! By Ron Drum, Statewide 4-H Program Professional/Associate Director 4-H Resource Development In the photographs we have of her, she looks to be rather small, perhaps only 5 feet tall, if that. But what she lacked in stature she made up for in energy, enthusiasm, and leadership. She was the first […]

JoJo Thoreau By Ron Drum, Statewide 4-H Program Professional/Associate Director 4-H Resource Development Maine is known for her famous authors: Stephen King, Annie Proulx, David McCullough, JoJo Thoreau. What!? Never heard of JoJo Thoreau? Why, she is Maine’s newest recipient of a Western Writers Association Spur Award, one of the most prestigious awards in American […]

Firsts: Part 2! By Ron Drum, Statewide 4-H Program Professional/Associate Director 4-H Resource Development Happy New Year! Wait, I said that already, in Firsts: Part 1. So here we go with Part 2! All of the 4-H FIRSTS reported in Part 1 were happening in Maine and the darn program still wasn’t even officially called […]

Firsts: Part 1! By Ron Drum, Statewide 4-H Program Professional/Associate Director 4-H Resource Development Happy New Year! That’s what we yell on the first day of the year. Anyway, I yelled it, myself, again, this year. Did you? So, January FIRST! It’s good to be first. Everyone wants to be first. Nobody wants to be […]

Maine, the Way Gifts Should Be By Ron Drum, Statewide 4-H Program Professional/Associate Director 4-H Resource Development I may have mentioned a few times in previous posts that I used to work here. I was a member of the UMaine State 4-H Staff from 1992-1999. It was the chance of a lifetime. But an opportunity […]

The 4-H Silver Cups of Franklin County By Ron Drum, Statewide 4-H Program Professional/Associate Director 4-H Resource Development Sometimes things just don’t work out the way you had planned. That’s one of those facts of life, I think. Oh, you may be successful in the endeavor, but the path to the success is just not […]