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Show 4-H Club Leaders Complete Training At State College Youth leaders from 27 counties of the state completed a week of intensive training March 1, when, the Extension Service's twenty-second twenty-second annual 4-H Club Leaders' Training course closed at the Utah State Agricultural college. I General sessions were held from 8 to 10 a.m., each day, followed ' by special sessions for departmental depart-mental work. Specialized instruction instruc-tion was offered in clothing, foods home furnishings, poultry, sheep, dairy, beef and swine, forestry and crops. Urging the leaders to promote more self-activity among youth, Director William Peterson advised delegates to recognize ability of. young people and let them take ili': " active part in planning for ire of agriculture and home ! within the counties. Dr. Thomas C. Romney, director of the L. D. S. Institute, emphasized empha-sized the importance of character education in 4-H club projects, and stressed the need for youth leaders to become more aware of this one factor. Record-keeping and the role it plays in 4-H club work and later life, was the main point made in talks given by W. W. Owens, assistant extension director and Miss Rhoda Nelson, club leader from Corinne. Miss Myrtle Davidson, assistant director for home economics, issued is-sued a plea on behalf of the children child-ren of Utah. Noting that the population pop-ulation is one-third children, she remarked that more attention should be mocused in them, to insure in-sure a sound group of future leaders. lea-ders. One of the most attractive rec-creation rec-creation programs ever to be offered of-fered visiting club leaders, was inaugurated on the first afternoon, after-noon, under the direction of Is-real Is-real Heaton, graduate assistant in the college physical education department. Recreative games for the leaders varied from ping pong and badminton to swimming and archery. Climaxing the third day of sessions, ses-sions, was the campfire ceremony held in the college fieldhouse. Center of activities was a bonfire kindled by 27 pieces of wood, each from a different county, and symbolic sym-bolic of the United workings of the 4-H club program. Presiding at the firelighting ceremony, Director Peterson emphasized em-phasized the importance of this unity in the progress of a successful success-ful continuance of 4-H club work. C. G. Adney, vice-president of the board of trustees spoke briefly in compliment to the director and 4-H club leaders, and the work in which they are engaged. Holders of Carl Raymnod Gray, Union Pacific scholarships at Utah State Agricultural college, and representatives of the company, were honored at a special banquet Thursday afternoon, as part of the training course program, Present Pres-ent were 36 scholarship winners from this region. Dr. John C. Carlisle outlined the following things modern education educa-tion should do for young people: help them to understand America and the people of America; help them to understand human and material resources of America and how to use them; help them to understand that democracy is on the march and help them to feel that they have a part to play in national progress. |