“Western District 4-H Leadership Conference,” from the August 1956
issue of Extension Farm-News. Look at the photographs. They may be calling it
camp, but there are no shorts to be seen.
Staff member Jean Shields prepares name tags for delegates who
register. Avery County delegates include Bill Biggs, Tommy Norman and Niel
Stewart.
Margurite Shook’s class interests both 4-H’ers and also Jackson County
Agent Paul Gibson.
Staffer Bob “Oink” Carter directs delegates in “mixer” games at evening
recreation sessions.
The camp staff posed Saturday morning after final sessions of the week
long conference.
Good food made 4-H’ers happy.
Only a week of camping seems all too short to tired but enthusiastic
4-H’ers as they leave for home.
Highlighting a week of intensive leadership activities, a
formal banquet and dance on Friday night, August 17, closed the second annual
4-H Leadership Conference for the western extension district. The meeting was
held August 13 through 18 at the 4-H Camp at Swannanoa.
Seventy-five boys and girls representing the 15 counties of
the western district met in this week-long camping program designed to improve
their understanding of themselves and others and to improve their ability to
work with other club members.
Miss Joan Crawford of Clay county told the delegates how she
and other delegates at last year’s conference had returned to the county and
cooperated with Cherokee and Graham counties to hold a leadership weekend
patterned on the one held at Swannanoa.
Miss Crawford, Helen Cochran of Macon county, and Floyd
McCall of Transylvania county were on scholarships granted by Sears to attend
this year’s meeting as members of the camp staff.
G.L. Carter Jr., assistant state 4-H club leader, said that
the program avoided emphasis on competitive sports usually associated with summer
camp programs in an effort to provide the boys and girls with experiences which
they could not receive in their home communities.
Out of state members of the instructional staff were Gordon
Jones, 4-H recreation leader for the Indiana Extension Service at Purdue
University, and Miss Emmie Nelson, National Committee on Boys and Girls Club
Work, Bill Miller, program coordinator for the John C. Campbell folk school,
led discussions on leadership and directed craft game making.
Western District Home Agent Miss Mary Harris said that the
entire instructional staff, which included many of the district’s farm and home
agents as well as personnel from North Carolina State College, was one of the
most outstanding groups of workers ever to work with the boys and girls of the
western district.
W.B. Collins, western district farm agent, stated that each
of the 15 counties was represented by one or more delegates, and one from the
Cherokee reservation. Counties represented were: Avery, Buncombe, Cherokee,
Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Swain,
Transylvania, Watauga, and Yancey.
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