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\"National <\/strong><\/span>is coming!<\/strong><\/h3>\n

By Ron Drum, Statewide 4-H Program Professional\/Associate Director 4-H Resource Development<\/em><\/p>\n

Happy National 4-H Week!<\/strong><\/h4>\n

This year the celebration will be October 2-8.<\/strong> So are you planning anything special? This year’s theme is “#4hgrown”! During National 4-H Week, use social media to tell the world how you are\u00a0#4hgrown!!<\/p>\n

As a Pennsylvania 4-H member, I always looked forward to National 4-H Week. Always the first full week of October, right smack dab in the middle of the fall foliage season, and usually the week in which my birthday falls (just saying), how could things get any better? The 4-H Clubs in my hometown would plan a parade, put exhibits into store windows, and plaster posters all over the place (celebrating 4-H, that is, not my birthday, just to be clear). I even led a 4-H Radio Club that took over the County Agent\u2019s five-minute \u201cExtension Moment\u201d a few National 4-H Weeks in the ’70s.<\/p>\n

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\"Browns<\/a>In fact, here I am representing 4-H Geology on the Browns Grove 4-H Club\u2019s float in Drums, PA\u2019s 1971 National 4-H Week parade.<\/p>\n

Being relatively (re)new to Maine 4-H, I wondered how Maine 4-H celebrated National 4-H Week in the early years. Here on the UMaine campus, through Fogler Library, I have access to an online newspaper collection. So I asked the machine to search for \u201cnational 4-H week\u201d between 1910 and 1940 in Maine (4-H began in Maine in 1913. It was called \u201cBoys\u2019 and Girls\u2019 Club Work\u201d at that time, \u201c4\u2011H\u201d becoming the popular name in the early ’20s).<\/p>\n

Nothing. \u201cNo results can be found,\u201d the machine said. Well, that wasn\u2019t too surprising since National 4-H Week wasn\u2019t started until 1945. I searched, all the same, one never knows, as was proved by what I found when I searched nationally. Up pops a 1934 Ludington Daily News<\/em> article (that\u2019s Ludington, MI) that says, \u201cLetters and cards from Miss Elna Hansen, one of Michigan’s four representatives at National 4-H Week at Washington, D. C., bring to her family vivid descriptions of her experiences.\u201d Then another, this one from the Indiana Evening Gazette<\/em> (Indiana, Pennsylvania, that is) of July 6, 1936. It included an account of a meeting of the Purchase Line 4-H Club, whose program included a presentation from a \u201cMr. J. F. Keim from State College,\u201d who \u201cgave a very interesting talk on club work and the National 4-H Club Week at Washington, D. C.\u201d<\/p>\n

Turns out the name was used before the event was created! In 1927, a week-long national 4\u2011H Camp was started, which brought 4-H members from across the country to Washington, D.C. That is the \u201cNational 4-H Week\u201d Elna attended and Mr. Keim referred to. By the way, this camp evolved into what we know today as National 4-H Conference, so designated since 1957.<\/p>\n

But I digress. We were talking about National 4-H Week in Maine.<\/p>\n

In 1942, as World War II raged around the world, here on the home front we were doing all we could to support the troops. What the country needed was a way for folks to be more self-supportive, grow their own food, make their own clothes, so the products made commercially could be used in support of our troops.<\/p>\n

Can you think of anyone who might grow their own food and\/or make their own clothes?<\/p>\n

Thus began the idea of the National 4-H Club Victory Program<\/strong>, which seems to have been spread over a month or more with one week specially designated as \u201cNational 4-H Mobilization Week\u201d! The Federal Extension Service, USDA, announced that 4-H\u2019ers would help win the war by buying less and becoming more self-sufficient! All the states jumped on board. The program name and special week\u2019s dates weren\u2019t always the same, however, state by state (4-H Mobilization Week in North Carolina, for example, was April 5 \u2013 12 in 1942, while here in Maine it was in March).<\/p>\n

In Maine, the program was called the Maine State 4-H Food and Victory Campaign.<\/strong> It was so big a deal that Maine\u2019s Governor, Sumner Sewall, signed a proclamation making March 1942 \u201c4-H Enrollment Month.\u201d His proclamation urged \u201call boys and girls of club age to enroll in the 4-H Food for Victory projects.\u201d I guess they did! An article in the February 2, 1943 edition of Augusta\u2019s Daily Kennebec Journal<\/em>, reported that \u201c15,000 Maine 4-H boys and girls produced over $340,000 worth of food in 1942.\u201d<\/strong> Not only is that a lot of dollars, but that\u2019s also a lot of 4-H\u2019ers!<\/p>\n

According to the same article, the 1943 program \u201copened on February first and will continue through April fifteenth. February sixth to fourteenth has been set aside as National 4-H Mobilization Week.\u201d The article goes on to say that Campaign officials explained, \u201cUncle Sam isn\u2019t asking the boys and girls to give away to the armed forces the food they have raised — just eat it at home, and buy less. The more we have to buy, the more we are taking away from the boys in the armed forces who can\u2019t raise gardens, pigs, chicks, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n

It seems the kids in Maine listened to their Governor, not only in 1942 but 1943 and 1944, too. Maine 4\u2011H enrollment reached almost 20,000 by 1944, a number not surpassed until the 1990s! As for their role in winning the war, it must have been pretty great! After all, we won the war!<\/p>\n

Which brings us to 1945. No more need for a \u201c4-H Food and Victory Campaign” or a \u201cNational 4-H Mobilization Week.\u201d However, the attention that special week garnered 4-H was deemed so effective, that they kept the week, just dropped the \u201cMobilization\u201d part or, in some places, changed it to \u201cClub.\u201d The idea of a National 4-H Week was quick to catch on, nationally and here in Maine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"March<\/a>A March 6, 1954 clipping found in a scrapbook made by Oxford County\u2019s Virginia Cyr (the paper was not identified, but probably was the Lewiston Daily Sun<\/em>), was headlined \u201cMore than Seven Thousand Maine 4H Club Members to Celebrate National Club Week.\u201d<\/strong> The sub-headline was \u201cNational 4-H Club Week to be observed March 6 to 14.\u201d The article says Maine would celebrate the 1954 National 4-H Week with special television and radio shows, meetings, project presentations, window displays, exhibits, a 4-H auction, and special pages in weekly newspapers.<\/p>\n

TV shows were planned<\/strong>, so I assume were aired, by 4-H members in York County on March 8 over WCSH-TV; several counties planned to participate in a Saturday afternoon show, March 13, over WABI-TV and a 7:00 p.m. show at WLAM-TV was scheduled. The planned auction was for northern Aroostook county on March 13 and special 4-H Jamborees were scheduled in both northern and southern Kennebec county. There was even a special display to be seen in the window of Draper\u2019s Store in Waterville<\/strong>, which included 4\u2011H\u2019ers giving presentations in the window after school each day of the week.<\/p>\n

We know Biddeford 4-H\u2019ers celebrated the special 4-H week!<\/strong> The March 12, 1954\u00a0Biddeford Journal<\/em> reported that the girls from the Arundel Go-Getters 4-H Club of North Kennebunkport, led by Mrs. Richard Talbot, had set up a display of 4-H sewing and 4-H home-cooking projects in the window of Kent Cleaners in Biddeford. The same paper in the following year, on March 9, 1955, reported that \u201cMaine\u2019s 6,775 young 4-H club members\u201d observed the week \u201cwith meetings and demonstrations\u201d (I assume they mean the educational kind of demonstrations, not the protest kind).<\/p>\n

Check this out! On March 2, 1957, Maine to Observe National 4-H Week<\/a>\u00a0(<\/strong>a full page spread which appeared on Page 7 of the Lewiston Daily Sun)<\/em> announcing the start of that year\u2019s National 4-H Week.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s ALL 4-H! And what\u2019s interesting as well is that on page 6 there are two more articles about 4-H!<\/p>\n

The 1958 National 4-H Week theme was \u201c4-H Salute to Parents\u201d! A press release from the UMaine State 4-H Office in Orono stated, \u201cMaine 4-H club members and leaders are joining in a salute to their parents this week during National 4-H Club week, March 1 to 8. Parents of 4-H club members seldom get the recognition and thanks they deserve for their guidance and promotion of 4-H activities, says Kenneth C. Lovejoy, state 4\u2011H club leader, Extension Service, University of Maine. Maine’s more than 5,000 4-H club members in some 400 clubs are uniting their heads, hearts, hands, and health in saluting their parents.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the record, the enrollment pattern seen in Maine in the \u201840s and \u201850s was not unique to Maine; it was repeated across the country. The big buildup during the war years, probably due to civic pride and the desire to be a part of something big, was followed by what could almost be called a \u201clet down\u201d once the war was over, so enrollments dropped off. Things didn\u2019t really begin to turn around again until about 1958 or 1959 when the earliest of the Baby Boom generation began to reach 4-H age.<\/p>\n

Oddly, I didn\u2019t find any National 4-H Week newspaper coverage after 1959 for Maine in this collection. Perhaps there just wasn\u2019t any coverage by the newspapers included in the collection! There was a State 4-H leadership change in the early ’60s. Perhaps the State 4-H Office was sending out fewer Press Releases in the 1960s and’70s!<\/p>\n

There was also a change in National 4-H Week in the early 1960s. In 1964 the good folks in the national 4-H office at USDA decided the fall would be a better time of year for this celebration so the 1964 National 4-H Week was held September 26-October 3. Then, in 1968, another change came about, moving the date to \u201cthe first full week in October,\u201d October 6-12 in 1968, and so it has been ever since.<\/p>\n

So it sounds like the manner of celebrating National 4-H Week was set early and changed little over the years. The description for Maine\u2019s 1954 celebrations matches nicely with my 1974 recollections of National 4-H Week as a Pennsylvania 4-H\u2019er, 1984 celebrations in Massachusetts as a 4-H Agent, and 1994 celebrations here in Maine while a member of the state 4-H staff.<\/p>\n

What are your memories of National 4-H Week?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Send me a message or letter and tell me about them. Add a sentence saying I have permission to use your information and, who knows, you may find yourself in a future \u201c4-H Fix\u201d!<\/p>\n

Were you a 4-H Member? <\/strong><\/h4>\n

\"4-HUMaine 4-H wants to hear your story.<\/strong> Please take a moment to fill out our short form and Tell Us Your Story<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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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":"

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