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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1960
Wy 4-H Club Accomplishments
BY DONALD JOHNSON
Eight years ago when I joined
the 4-H Club I never dreamed
’ that today I would be working
in the office of one of our United
States Senators, but here I am
in Washington, D. C„ doing just
that. This appointment w'as
achieved through 4-H Club
work.
My first 4-H Club project was
poultry. I started by being in
the county poultry chain. Be
ginning with 100 baby chicks, I
increased this project to 500 lay
ers. Today lam going to college
on money I made from this and
other 4-H projects. My profit
from this one project amounted
to over $2,000 —plus being a Dis
trict Winner three times and a
State Winner, which gave me
the trip to the National 4-H Club
Congress in Chicago and made
me a Master 4-H Club member.
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Happy Hands make Happy Homes
4-H boys and girls take an eager interest in making their
homes attractive and comfortable . . . and as a result bring
joy to their parents and themselves. Through 4-H Club
work they learn skills of lasting value in later life.
During 4-H Club Week, March 5-12, we salute them for
their many accomplishments in the home, on the farm, in
leadership and citizenship.
R. P. BOWDON REALTY, Inc.
1138 Main St., Forest Park PO 6-3107
In 4-H we learn by doing, so a
good club member always adds
other projects. I chose to raise
registered dairy calves and sell
them as springers. Income from
this project is also helping with
college expenses. One of my
greatest joys was showing these
calves at the Southeastern Fair.
Here I was rewarded with prem
ium money and ribbons. Through
my activities at the fair I
learned how to show dairy ani
mals, and in 1957 I was State
Grand Champion Showmanship
Winner and in 1958 won the
Dairy Judging Scholarship.
One of the most unusual ex
periences I had during my 4-H
Club years was the time my sow
farrowed with 15 pigs. Well, I
knew she could only feed ten. so
I had to put them on a bottle.
Not knowing what to feed them.
I called my County Agent, Mr.
Tucker, and asked if he knew a
formula for feeding pigs. He said
he didn’t but that I could use his
baby’s formula. So I did and
raised every one of them. Boy,
you just haven’t lived until you
have fed 15 pigs a bottle two or
three times at night under the
moonlight!
There is just no end to what
you can accomplish in 4-H Club
work if you will work hard. I
have won several trips and en
joyed them very much, but. of all
my club activities, the one that
stands out with me is the won
derful experience I received
while working as a Camp Coun
selor at Rock Eagle. Here you
really learn how to get along
with people because you play,
work, eat, have vespers together.
This experience was worth a
year’s college to me. That’s what
makes 4-H so wonderful—it
makes such a well-rounded per
son of you.
Being selected to work in Sen
ator Russell’s Office came as
quite a shock to me. I had en
rolled for the second quarter at
the University of Georgia when
the State 4-H Club office called
and said I have been the 4-H
Club member selected for this
honor. I am living at the Na
tional 4-H Club Center and at
tending George Washington
University. I go to school in the
morning and take three subjects,
then work in the afternoon in
the Senator’s Office. I enjoy my
work, and boy, the wonderful ex
perience I am getting and the
people I am meeting—even the
Vice President himself.
Had it not been for the inter
est and encouragement of my
Extension Agents, my family,
local leaders and 4-H friends, I
know I could not have accom
plished all the things I have in
4-H. So, thanks to everyone.
E. Clayton PTA
Meets March 15
Mrs. Mary Johnson, Health
Chairman, will present the pro
gram. A film will be shown on
Tuberculosis with guest speak
ers—County Nurses—Mrs. Tom
Cole, Mrs. Frank Castell.
Everyone is urged to attend.
—Robinson-Dunaway
East Clayton PTA Publicity
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County 4-H Club Council Officers
LEFT TO RIGHT: Ellen McEver, secretary; Keith Brown, vice
president; Lynn Trimble, president; Reuben Wallace, treasurer;
Kenneth Adams, reporter.
Muster 4-H Club, How to Belong
BY BRENDA BROWN
The early stages of being a
Master 4-H’er are filled with the
excitement of having attained
one of the highest honors of
4-H and of fulfilling the hopes
and aspirations held since the
beginning of one’s first steps
into the realms of the work of
the 4-H Club.
During the junior years of
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4-H. fifth through the eighth
grades, the 4-H’er works hard in
his inexperienced way to keep
records of his activities and car
ry out the projects he desires.
When he steps over the thresh
old into the Senior Club, he is
more experienced and as capable
of doing much more work in his
projects and on his record book.
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PO 6-5337
The Junior 4-H’er is allowed to
compete at the District Project
Achievement Meeting, but he is
not allowed to enter State com
petition. This is where the Sen
ior member has the advantage.
After a senior member has
worked hard and does his best
in delivering his demonstration
at the District Meeting, he may
win first place in that project.
If he does, he is automatically a
competitor at the State meeting.
Here he competes with the win
ners of the other districts in the
state. The 4-H’er who delivers
his demonstration well and has
kept his records accurately may
have the honor of being the
State Winner in his project.
These winners may receive in
addition an all expense-paid
trip to Chicago, scholarship,
savings bond, or a loving cup.
Although the title of the Master
4-H Club member and the trip
to Chicago are the goal of many
hard working 4-H’ers, some
never reach the goal. Every
good 4-H member does not get
to be a Master member, but ev
ery good member receives some
type of honor through 4-H. The
4-H gives to anyone who works
hard enough to receive its hon
ors and awards.
The Master 4-H Club, organ
ized to form a bond of fellow
ship among the Master 4-H’ers
of past, present, and future
years, does not compel any Mas
ter 4-H’er to join although mem
bership is open to any Master
member.
The activities of the club are
usually held three or four times
annually with much program
variety. Two events last year
were a convention held at an
Atlanta hotel, including a steak
supper on Saturday night of the
convention at one of Atlanta’s
parks, and there was a three-day
camp at Savannah Beach in
June.
As well as the wonderful and
enjoyable recreation of the club,
there are more important activi
ties sponsored. That of spon
soring International Farm Youth
Exchange students is one of su
preme importance. The 4-H Club
is not only interested in pro
moting the welfare and growth
of our own country, but in the
development of the world as a
union of brotherhood, sharing
prosperity.
These Exchange Students live
in the homes of the people in
foreign countries and show them
methods of farming used in our
country. In return, the stu
dents, better known in 4-H as
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1169 MAIN ST. TERRELL A. STARR PO 6-0274
IFYES, learn the customs and
methods of livelihood in that
country. In this way the Master
4-H Club serves as a link in the
chain of international under
standing.
Also sponsored by the club is
an IFYE Pageant held at the
State 4-H Council meeting each
year. Its purpose is for those
who have completed their time
as an IFYE to share their ex
periences with 4-H’ers at an or
ganized program.
The Master Club is not a club
that “pats itself on the back.”
This club presents a challenge.
The challeng« is “to master that
which has not been mastered.”
It is at this point that each Mas
ter realizes that his work has
barely begun. x
It is each Master’s wish that
every 4-H Club member have ex •
periences to treasure as he has.
To make this dream become
reality, the Master 4-H’er strives
to help the other 4-H members
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