1-24 Laureates Inducted Into National 4-H Hall of Fame
(Washington, DC) The National 4-H Hall of Fame inducted 24 distinguished laureates celebrated for their significant contributions to the national 4-H youth development program during ceremonies at the National 4-H Youth Conference Center Monday.

Inducted were Delores Andol, MN; Dr. V. Milton "Milt" Boyce, National 4-H Headquarters; Beryl J. Burt, AZ; Arthur Capper, KS; Joyce Clifford, KY; Frank Graham, MO; Otis E. Hall, KS; Ernest L. Holloway, OK; Erling Johannesen, ID; Alberta B. Johnston, OR; Bertha M. Jones, AL; Martha Harrison Jones, GA; Arne G. Kettunen, MI; Alphonse Marks, MS; James Marquand, OH; Edwin T. Meredith, IA; Kenneth E. Pickett, NJ; Victor Leander Roy, Sr., LA; James F. Sargent, MT; Cecil Staver, CO; Martha Van Rensselaer, NY; Dr. Tommy Walton, GA; Eleanor L. Wilson, National 4-H Headquarters; Blaine J. Yarrington, National 4-H Council.

4-H is a community of young people across America who learn leadership, citizenship and life skills. Young people who participate in university-based 4-H programs in their local communities gain these skills through experience-based activities.

The National 4-H Hall of Fame sponsored by the National 4-H Association of Extension 4-H Agents in partnership with National 4-H Council and National 4-H Headquarters, a division of the United States Department of Agriculture is online so that anyone can learn about the dedicated individuals who have shaped 4-H over its 102 years. Visit the National 4-H Hall of Fame at www.nae4ha.org/hof.



National 4-H Hall of Fame Laureates gather Monday after ceremonies at the National 4-H Youth Conference Center.


2-Missouri 4-H Foundation Honors "Mr. 4-H" With 4-H Youth Conference Center Gift
(Washington, DC)--Frank Graham, a longtime Missouri and national 4-H supporter instrumental in the purchase of the National 4-H Youth Conference Center, was honored during a brief ceremony Monday as the Missouri 4-H Foundation presented National 4-H Council with a $5,000 donation in his honor.

The donation will be used for renovations of the Missouri Room in J.C. Penney Hall on the campus of the Youth Conference Center. A portrait of Mr. Graham donated by the Missouri 4-H Foundation is now displayed in the room as a tribute to the man who has given so much to 4-H throughout his life.

Graham also was inducted into the National 4-H Hall of Fame on Monday. "Frank Graham respresents all the best of Missouri 4-H and 4-H nationally," said Missouri 4-H Leader Jo Turner. "He especially believes in the importance of 4-H volunteers and their contribution to 4-H. It's especially fitting that he be the second inductee into the National 4-H Hall of Fame since he new the [first Missouri National 4-H Hall of Fame inductee] J.C. Penney personally."

Graham was known as Mr. 4-H during his 33-year career as he inspired hundreds of 4-H youth development professionals with his vision and commitment to youth. He started as a county 4-H agent, choosing work with youth over a professional baseball contract. Graham was Missouri 4-H Program Director for 20 years and a founder of the Missouri 4-H Foundation. He also chaired the National 4-H Foundation Board of Trustees and the National Extension Committee on Organization and Policy Sub-Committee on 4-H and Youth.

"It's a great honor for me and my family. It represents so many people that have touched my life and whose lives I have touched," Graham said of Missouri 4-H Foundation donation to the National 4-H Youth Conference Center.



From left to right are Missouri 4-H Leader Jo
Turner, Frank Graham and National 4-H Council
President and CEO Don Floyd.


3-Spring Fling on goCyberCamp
goCyberCamp, a Web-based campground for children ages 8-12, is hosting a Spring FlingMarch 24-April 23. The Spring Fling is a collection of interactive games and activities that help kids think about and experience the change in season and biodiversity.

goCyberCamp and its Spring Fling are available to use FREE OF CHARGE in afterschool or other youth programs.

Youth workers and educators can register for a Caregiver login and password to enroll kids as campers and to gain access to hands-on activities that extend kids online learning.

Visit http://www.gocybercamp.org and click REGISTER.

Spring Fling online games and activities include:

1. Biological Inventory for goCyberCamp (BIG) & goCyberCamp Research Information Network (GRIN): Kids create a BIG by taking a survey of their environment during the Spring. Then, kids submit their BIG to have it published on GRIN. GRIN is where kids view each other's BIGs to learn about different places around the country in the Spring.

2. Wildlife Damage: Kids learn about the damage that can be caused by specific wildlife in specific situations through seven different activities. Through each activity, kids learn about strategies that can be used in containing wildlife damage.

3. Pollinator Matching: Kids learn about different pollinators and the flowers and plants they pollinate by matching one to the other.

Have your kids check out the Spring Fling on goCyberCamp today!

The National Cooperative Extension System and the National 4-H Youth Development Program developed goCyberCamp with a grant funded by the AT&T Family Care Development Fund, a joint project of AT&T, the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

4-Call for 4-H Information for National Agricultural Library Website
The National Agricultural Library (NAL) has initiated a new 4-H section on its web site at http://www.nal.usda.gov/ttic/four-h/ that outlines 4-H materials in its collection.

The 4-H section includes information about new acquisitions related to 4-H, 4-H in the catalog and the 4-H Professional Research and Knowledge Base materials that were put in the library in the late 1980s and 1990s to establish a database for research and professional development.

Michael Shochet and Kate Hayes of the National Agricultural Library (Beltsville, MD) and Jan Scholl, associate professor at Penn State University, are creating the 4-H section on the NAL web site.

The site is in its fledgling stage so if there is information you would like the library to include, please contact Jan Scholl at jscholl@psu.edu.


5-Tell 4-HCCS What You Want With Survey
The 4-H Cooperative Curriculum System (4-HCCS) wants to know! It wants to know what sort of curriculum you want to see in the future. If you are involved in 4-H, visit http://www.n4hccs.org/ and go to the bottom of the page to fill out the Product Interest Survey to help 4-H Cooperative Curriculum System find out what you want. The deadline for filling out the brief survey is April 1, 2004.

6-Get Published in the 2006 4-H Calendar
4-Hers have two opportunities to be published in the 2006 National 4-H Calendar.

The first is entry in National 4-H Council's Annual Photo Contest. Eligible photos must have won awards at the state or county fair from 1997-2004. Deadline for entry is April 1, 2004.

Thirteen photos will be selected for the 2006 4-H Calendar. Winning photos will be displayed at the National 4-H Conference Center in Chevy Chase, MD, and on www.4-hmall.org from September to December 2004. Photos will be gallery-mounted and framed and engraved with the photographer's name for the National 4-H Conference Center display.

Winners will be notified around May 2004 and are required to sign, along with a parent or guardian, a release to use the photo in the 2006 4-H Calendar. Winners will be asked to supply a second photo for the National 4-H Conference Center display. Winning photographs will be returned no sooner than December 10, 2004. Submissions not selected for the calendar will be returned by August 2004.

Submissions will only be considered for the 2006 4-H Calendar if they include the following information and criteria:

1. Full name and age of person submitting photograph.
2. 4-H affiliation.
3. Complete return address for both UPS delivery and USPS First Class Mail.
4. Telephone number.
5. List of county, state, 4-H, or other awards that submitted photographs have received.
6. A 25-word or less description of the photo from the photographer.
7. Photo submissions should be color, horizontal, and 8"x 10". Vertical shots will be accepted only if they can be cropped to fit the horizontal format of the calendar.
8. Only photos printed at a photo processing store or lab will be considered. No digital photos printed on a home printer, color photocopies, or low resolution digital prints will be accepted.
9. Please submit photos to 2006 4-H Calendar, National 4-H Supply Service, 7100 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD 20815.

The second opportunity is by telling us how 4-H Changed My Life! Your story might be featured in the 2006 4-H Calendar. If it is, you will receive a free gift certificate for the 4-H Source Book, the official catalog of the National 4-H Supply Service. Deadline for submissions is April 30, 2004.

4-H members, volunteers, parents, staff, and partners are welcome to furnish their storie. These personal testaments must tell the who, what, when, where, why, and how, so everyone can understand how 4-H changed your life. One story for each month will be featured in the calendar, and the author will receive one $10 gift certificate towards a future purchase in the 4-H Source Book.

E-mail, fax or mail your stories to Maria Cascioli, National 4-H Supply Service, 7100 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD 20815;mcascioli@fourhcouncil.edu, phone: 301-961-2948, fax: 301-961-2937.

7-4-Hers Can Get Cash for Community Service Projects
The deadline for 4-H clubs community service projects to be eligible for the 31st Colgate Youth for America Campaign has been extended to April 15, 2004. Youth for America is a chance for 4-H clubs to win up to $2,000 each for their most creative and best-executed community service projects.

So, now 4-H club community service programs running between March 1, 2003, and April 15, 2004, are eligible to win one of more than 350 cash awards. Entries still must be postmarked by April 30, 2004.

The extended deadlines supercede the dates on the current entry forms, which are available from from county 4-H agents, at www.youthforamerica.com, or by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Colgate Youth for America Campaign, P.O. Box 1058, FDR Station, New York, NY 10150-1058.

2003 local 4-H winners included a club from Ohio that instituted and taught court-ordered safe driving classes to teens who received traffic tickets; a Georgia club that created a beauty pageant for residents of a nursing home; and a California club that collected and distributed clothes, food, personal care items and bus tokens to homeless teens.

To date, Colgate-Palmolive has awarded nearly $6 million to America's children through Colgate Youth for America. The campaign, initiated in 1972 to encourage social responsibility, is now the longest-running corporate-sponsored program for young people.

Entry forms are now available from county 4-H agents, at www.youthforamerica.com, or by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Colgate Youth for America Campaign, P.O. Box 1058, FDR Station, New York, NY 10150-1058.