{"id":14810,"date":"2018-12-20T10:53:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T15:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/?page_id=14810"},"modified":"2018-12-20T11:12:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T16:12:20","slug":"west-rockport-flag","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/alumni\/page-farm-and-home-museum-exhibits\/west-rockport-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"The West Rockport 4-H Club 4-H Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/12\/flag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14812\" src=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/12\/flag-179x300.jpg\" alt=\"West Rockport 4-H Club 4-H Flag\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/12\/flag-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/12\/flag-83x140.jpg 83w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/12\/flag-317x532.jpg 317w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/12\/flag-423x710.jpg 423w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/12\/flag.jpg 596w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a>The 4-H Flag we have in our exhibit was probably purchased from the <a href=\"https:\/\/shop4-h.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National 4-H Supply Service<\/a>, probably in the late 1930s or early 1940s. Presented to the State 4-H Office by Robert Umberger of West Rockport, ME in 1998; still affixed to the club\u2019s original wooden staff painted like a green and white barbershop pole, green and white being the official colors of 4\u2011H; Mr. Umberger indicated it had been used for at least 50 years during many 4-H club and 4-H county ceremonial events by the members of the West Rockport 4-H Club.<\/p>\n<p>Although obviously an old 4-H Flag, this flag is not the first 4-H Flag to exist, in Maine or elsewhere. In fact, it is uncertain when or why the first 4-H Flag was created. Perhaps it was created to add significance to a 4\u2011H Camp flag-raising ceremony, giving 4-H a flag to raise in addition to the national flag. Perhaps some 4\u2011H Member needed a \u201cbanner\u201d of sorts to identify his or her club in a parade or community ceremony. Maybe a 4-H club just wanted something to say their 4-H Pledge to! Whatever the reason may have been to place a 4-H Clover in the center of a white, rectangular background and use it as a flag, the concept quickly caught on. Produced in quantity and sold nationally by the National 4-H Supply Service, a 4-H Flag became a standard element of almost every 4-H Club meeting and event across the country right up to the present. In fact, it may be that the National 4-H Supply Service, which organized in 1925, was the first to create a 4-H Flag. <a href=\"https:\/\/4-hhistorypreservation.com\/History\/Supply_Service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A 4-H Flag is among the first items they offered for sale that first year of operation<\/a>, which is the earliest documentation of a 4-H Flag\u2019s existence the National 4-H History Preservation Team has found.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/12\/Bulletin_103_cover1915.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14823\" src=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/12\/Bulletin_103_cover1915-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Extension Bulletin #103, Girls\u2019 Club Work Series #1 from 1915 that includes the clover logo and motto\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/12\/Bulletin_103_cover1915-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/12\/Bulletin_103_cover1915-91x140.jpg 91w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/12\/Bulletin_103_cover1915-317x485.jpg 317w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/12\/Bulletin_103_cover1915-423x648.jpg 423w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/12\/Bulletin_103_cover1915-634x971.jpg 634w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2018\/12\/Bulletin_103_cover1915.jpg 653w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,196px\" \/><\/a>Although evidence of its first use on a flag is lacking, the 4-H emblem (a four-leaf clover with an \u201cH\u201d on each leaf) was being used in Maine as early as 1915 to identify the Boys\u2019 and Girls\u2019 Club Work, as it was first called in Maine. Here we see Extension Bulletin #103, Girls\u2019 Club Work Series #1 from 1915 that includes the clover logo and motto. The clover appears on a tomato; the word \u201cDemonstration\u201d above it and the phrase \u201cGirls\u2019 G &amp; C Club\u201d (standing for \u201cGardening and Canning\u201d) below it. This \u201ctomato emblem\u201d was adopted by Maine after proving popular in southern states as an identity for Extension \u201cGirls\u2019 G &amp; C Club work\u201d programs.<\/p>\n<p>The name \u201c4-H\u201d, building on the four-leaf clover emblem that was then becoming popular, was first suggested as a national identity for Extension Youth Work by Gertrude Warren of the Federal Extension Service. She was the first to use the name \u201c4\u2011H\u201d in a national publication in 1918 and argued for its adoption during Extension Service meetings in the early 1920s. She used the name \u201c4-H\u201d in Maine during a visit here in 1924 and Maine began to use \u201c4-H\u201d instead of \u201cBoys\u2019 and Girls\u2019 Club Work\u201d, or at least inter-changeably, from then on until \u201c4-H\u201d eventually superseded the name \u201cBoys\u2019 and Girls\u2019 Club Work\u201d altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 4-H Flag we have in our exhibit was probably purchased from the National 4-H Supply Service, probably in the late 1930s or early 1940s. Presented to the State 4-H Office by Robert Umberger of West Rockport, ME in 1998; still affixed to the club\u2019s original wooden staff painted like a green and white barbershop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":14757,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page-withsidebar.php","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14810","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The West Rockport 4-H Club 4-H Flag - Cooperative Extension: 4-H - University of Maine Cooperative Extension<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/alumni\/page-farm-and-home-museum-exhibits\/west-rockport-flag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The West Rockport 4-H Club 4-H Flag - Cooperative Extension: 4-H - University of Maine Cooperative Extension\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 4-H Flag we have in our exhibit was probably purchased from the National 4-H Supply Service, probably in the late 1930s or early 1940s. 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