Girls' and Boys' Clubs Planning Summer Camps, July 10, 1925

Girls’ and Boys’ Clubs Plan Camps

Twenty counties throughout the state have reported plans for summer camps for boys and girls to the home demonstration department, and additional counties are expected to report later on. These camps are in charge of the home demonstration agents and farm agents, and in most cases will be joint camps. Other counties are planning summer camps for women belonging to the rural clubs.

Camping has come to be a reward for work well done. Miss Maude E. Wallace, who is head of the Girls’ Club work in this state, states, and the old idea of strenuous instruction has been largely discarded. A few hours of instruction will be given in the morning, and the rest of the day turned over to recreation. Most of the camps will be on the shore or near lakes where water sports may be included in the amusements. Contact with other boys and girls is the chief object and benefit from the camps.

From page 3 of the Norlina Headlight, July 10, 1925. Girls’ and Boys’ Clubs were the forerunners of 4-H Clubs.

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