...in 1918, the very first 4-H club
in Hawaii was organized in Haiku, Maui? County Extension agents Harvey
F. Willey and Mabel Greene, under the guidance of Frederick G. Kraus
(Director of the Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Service from 1929 -
1936) organized a 4-H pig club consisting of 31 Maui youths.
...in 1923, Miss Greene intergrated
the 4-H club work under the public schools with teachers who were trained
in agriculture and home economics.
...that same year, the first 4-H
club organized in Makawao, Maui under the leadership of a Mr. Medeiros.
He was the first male 4-H leader on Maui.
...Mrs. Harvey Willey was the first
woman 4-H leader on Maui. Besides the clothing and food projects, the
club's service activities included fillin' out Sears mail order blanks
and U.S. money blanks. The leaders organized the first 4-H camp on Maui
in 1928.
...By 1926, there were 4-H clubs
on Oahu, Hawaii, and Kauai, too. That year, the Pollyanna 4-H Club of
Honolulu exhibited at Chicago and won a national prize. It was the first
time a club had participated from such a distant place as Hawaii.
...About 450 boy and girl club members
participated in the swine project and exhibited their project work at
the Territorial Fair in 1926. Some of the other projects that got under
way the first year were food, clothing, poultry, coffee, gardening and
raising rabbits.