{"id":10272,"date":"2017-08-18T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/?p=10272"},"modified":"2025-11-24T14:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:09:15","slug":"4-h-fix-where-has-the-time-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/2017\/08\/18\/4-h-fix-where-has-the-time-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"4-H Fix: Where Has the Time Gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #3698d4\"><strong>Where Has the Time Gone?<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><em>By Ron Drum, Statewide 4-H Program Professional\/Associate Director 4-H Resource Development<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t supposed to be \u201cpermanent\u201d anyway, if anything ever is. It was a two-year appointment that brought me back to Maine in 2015. At the time this started I thought, \u201cOh two years! That\u2019s a good long time!\u201d Then I blinked and it was gone.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that two years isn\u2019t very long at all.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, some folks who knew me back when I was here in the \u201990s haven\u2019t yet even realized that I returned! And now I\u2019ve left again! That\u2019s right, I\u2019m gone again. I\u2019ve returned to Pennsylvania, back where I started.<\/p>\n<p>But my-oh-my what a two years it has been. I wouldn\u2019t trade these last two years for anything. I really don\u2019t think I deserved them. After all, I had already been given 6.5 years as a member of UMaine\u2019s State 4-H Staff in the 1990s to live and work in Maine. So I was beside myself to actually get to come back to live in and work in and enjoy the state of Maine for two more years!<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s two more winters (although the 2015 winter wasn\u2019t much, the 2016 winter, with not one but TWO BLIZZARDS, kind of made up for it),<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"8\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-color: #ffffff;width: 50%;text-align: center;vertical-align: top\">\n<p><figure id=\"10275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2017\/06\/maine-winter.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10275\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10275\" src=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2017\/06\/maine-winter-185x250.jpg\" alt=\"snow-filled path to Wells Conference Center at UMaine\" width=\"185\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wells Conference Center on the UMaine Orono campus. That\u2019s my briefcase sitting against the snow.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<td style=\"border-color: #ffffff;width: 50%;text-align: center;vertical-align: top\">\n<p><figure id=\"10276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2017\/06\/maine-spring.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10276\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10276 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2017\/06\/maine-spring-186x250.jpg\" alt=\"trace of fresh snow beside the road; cell phone screen reads: Thursday, April 20, 2017 \" width=\"186\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yes, that is snow on the ground in April. I know it happens, but still!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>two more mud seasons (what those from the lower 47 call \u201cspring\u201d),<\/p>\n<p>two more summers (well, two Julys at least),<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"8\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-color: #ffffff;width: 50%;text-align: center;vertical-align: top\">\n<p><figure id=\"10278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2017\/06\/hamlin-grave.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10278\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10278\" src=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2017\/06\/hamlin-grave-188x250.jpg\" alt=\"Hannibal Hamlin\u2019s grave Mt Hope Cemetery, Bangor July 23, 2016.\" width=\"188\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannibal Hamlin\u2019s grave<br \/>Mt Hope Cemetery, Bangor<br \/>July 23, 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<td style=\"border-color: #ffffff;width: 50%;text-align: center;vertical-align: top\">\n<p><figure id=\"10279\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2017\/06\/lizard-hand.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10279\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10279\" src=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2017\/06\/lizard-hand-250x204.jpg\" alt=\"Rubber glove looks like a lizard foot\" width=\"250\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">I hope it is Halloween! Otherwise, I need to see a DOCTOR!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>and, the season I REALLY enjoy, two more autumns filled with orange pumpkins and children\u2019s laughter and wonderful, colorful autumn Leaves &#8212; and don\u2019t forget National 4-H Week!<\/p>\n<p>In a previous blog post, called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/2016\/12\/16\/4-h-fix-maine-the-way-gifts-should-be\/\">Maine, the Way Gifts Should Be<\/a>,\u201d I spoke of the wonders of Maine so I won\u2019t repeat myself here. Just know, if you haven\u2019t read that post, or don\u2019t know from personal experience, the wonders of Maine are truly wonderful. They, in fact, can take your breath away!<\/p>\n<p>But when I was here in the \u201990s, it was all about the programs happening right then. We were developing teen conferences, and establishing experiences like Maine 4-H Days; it was all about the Animal Science Commodity Committees and 4-H Volunteer Forums; it was all about who was representing Maine at the Eastern States Exposition, National 4-H Congress, Citizenship Washington Focus, and National 4-H Conference. It was all about working with so many wonderful people, too many to list, just to make Maine 4\u2011H happen.<\/p>\n<p>This time around it was different. This time, it was all about learning new stuff! To use the words of a recent Maine 4-H Camper, <strong>\u201cI learned things I didn\u2019t even know existed!\u201d<\/strong> This time the work was partly about the future &#8212; program evaluation to make our best better, utilizing online meeting technology to reach new audiences, exploiting new technologies such as Virtual Reality to enhance the learning experience &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>and partly about YOU &#8212; establishing a 4-H Volunteer recognition program so our volunteers know they are truly needed and appreciated and, so I could tell their stories, learning about all the wonderful Maine people who have helped, and continue to help, make Maine 4\u2011H the great program it is today.<\/p>\n<p>And I got to tell those stories to the WORLD!<\/p>\n<p>We did that primarily by establishing the <a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/tag\/4-h-fix\/\">4-H Fix<\/a> blog. Through it we met folks like Kay and Virginia Ward, Lydia Schofield, Betsy Carroll Anastasoff, F. Harold Bickford, not one, but TWO Maine 4-H Brownie Browns (Mildred and Harold), Evelyn Trotzky, and SO many more! This isn\u2019t even CLOSE to a complete list! What great people live here in Maine! What great fun it was to learn your stories and even GREATER fun TELLING your stories!<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s all over now. My two year hitch is up and I am back in Pennsylvania. So what about this blog? Now that I\u2019ve left, is this the end of the 4-H Fix?<\/p>\n<p>Well, perhaps not an \u201cend\u201d but change is certainly in the wind! Stories from now through the end of this year will appear once per month. I\u2019ll have a few more this fall. In October read all about Maine 4-H Clubs and in November the Maine 4-H Champions take center stage. My final post will appear in December; that one being all about 4\u2011H Singing! However, you\u2019ll also see at least one story by someone else this fall and maybe more next year, time will tell. However, next month, September, look forward to a story by Laura Wilson. She\u2019ll tell you all about a UMaine 4-H experience called \u201cFollow a Researcher\u00ae\u201d or FAR for short.<\/p>\n<p>But for this post, let\u2019s end with yet another story! This one is not a Maine 4-H story (but I wish it were!) or even about Maine at all. It is a 4-H story from the days long past, before there was a \u201c4-H\u201d in Maine; almost before 4-H existed anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The year was 1910. What we call \u201c4-H\u201d today was then just in its infancy, not even a \u201creal\u201d program yet. Just some young people in clubs working on projects under the guidance of Extension educators. To help people learn what value could be had from \u201cExtension Club Work,\u201d eleven Club Members from various places across the country were identified as being exemplary in their project work. These eleven young men had achieved substantial successes under extraordinarily difficult conditions proving just how good this new \u201cclub-work\u201d idea was! They were awarded scholarships and given other material prizes (farm animals, equipment, and so forth). They were also sent to Washington, D.C. as Extension Club Work representatives. They got to see the sites of the city while meeting with various dignitaries to explain what they were learning and doing.<\/p>\n<p>One of those dignitaries was the President of the United States, William Howard Taft. After making a bit of \u201csmall talk\u201d and hearing them each tell their extraordinary success stories, Taft turned to one of them and asked, \u201cDo you think you can do as well next year?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>I think I can do better<\/strong>,\u201d came the response.<\/p>\n<p>It became the standard by which 4-H has guided itself ever since. To Make the Best Better. 4-H\u2019ers continue to do this every day and, as far as we know, will continue to do so for a long time yet to come.<\/p>\n<p>Given what I\u2019ve seen here in Maine, I know this will be the case here! Thank you for letting me be a part of it! Now TWICE!<\/p>\n<p>For your next 4-H Fix, return in September when we will take you on a 4-H journey to the FAR corners of the earth but you really only have to travel as far as this blog!<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Were you a 4-H Member? <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-979\" style=\"border: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2010\/10\/4hlogo.jpg\" alt=\"4-H emblem\" width=\"121\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2010\/10\/4hlogo.jpg 121w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2010\/10\/4hlogo-105x108.jpg 105w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4h\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2010\/10\/4hlogo-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 121px) 100vw, 121px\" \/>UMaine 4-H wants to hear your story.<\/strong> Please take a moment to fill out our short form and <a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4hfoundation\/tell-us-your-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tell Us Your Story<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Click here to learn how to <a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/4hfoundation\/donate\/\">support UMaine 4-H<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>University of Maine Cooperative Extension conducts the state\u2019s most successful out-of-school youth educational program through 4-H, a youth development program that has been empowering young people in Maine to reach their full potential since 1913.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where Has the Time Gone? 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