4-H celebrates: 1930s
In the 1930s, the USDA Division of Textiles and Clothing develops and offers a dress and jacket pattern as the national 4-H girls uniform. Fabric choices include a green washable cotton broadcloth.
4-H girls do health projects. The 1930 state health champion, Marion Syndergaard of Grundy County, becomes the national health champion.
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(Left) Eleventh Annual 4-H Girls’ Convention, Iowa State College, Ames, June 15-18, 1938, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Territory of Iowa. Girls spell out: Iowa’s 100 Years, 4-H.
The first annual 4-H Girls State Convention met in 1928. The program at the right comes from 1932 and carries the theme: Essentials of Happy Living: The 4-H’s—Head, Hand, Health, and Heart.
Boys who exhibit at the 1937 Iowa State Fair follow the program at the left, which includes Boys’ Health Scoring and a Drama Festival in addition to crops and livestock demonstrations.
(Right) The 4-H Handy Book, developed in the 1920s, continues to carry club meeting guides, songs, creeds, and supply order blanks to each local 4-H leader.
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