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BLACKSBURG - 4-H is asking its alumni to come home again.
4-H, the youth organization of the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service, wants to find where its former members are and what they are doing.
“We are looking for these alumni,” said Wayne C. Garst, executive director of the Virginia 4-H Foundation," and we are asking them to send us their names and addresses so we can count how many individuals have been part of 4-H over the years.
“4-H clubs have been a vital part of education for more than 75 years.” Mr. Garst said.
The 4-H four-leaf clover is one of the most widely recognized logos in the world as an estimated one of every seven Americans has been a member. Many former members have continued as volunteer leaders.
4-H started in Virginia in about 1908 as part of the “learning by doing” philosophy of education that was growing at that time.
The first organizations were , called com clubs. In them, rural youngsters learned new information about growing different crops, including vegetables. At about the
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