Photos from 4-H in the 1950s

1950

National 4-H Club Congress Delegation by a Phone Booth

1950

These seven 4-H boys were awarded $100 scholarships by the Florida Bankers' Association during the 1950 short course (held on the UF campus).

Left to right: Earl Conway, Box 611, Callahan; Vill Pearce, Box 77, Kendall; Floyd Call, Executive Secretary, Florida Bankers' Association, Orlando; Paul Thornhill, Box 411, Dundee; Tommy Charies, Route 1, Bradenton; Herman Jones, Route 6, Box 78j, Jacksonville; Eugene Bland, Pinetta; Larry Loadholtz, Box 45, Seville

1951

National 4-H Club Congress Florida Delegation Portrait

1952

National 4-H Club Congress Florida Delegation Portrait

Boys 4-H club members eat watermelon at camp.

1953

National 4-H Club Congress Florida Delegation Portrait

Charlotte Woodward, president of the Pinetta Girls' Club (left), Mrs. Ruth M. Elkins and Maudie Hart, stencil some book ends at Camp Cherry Lake which is located near Madison. August 6, 1953.

Photo by JFC.

1955

Woodrow Brown Presents an Award

Boys State 4-H Club Agent Woodrow Brown Receives National 4-H Congress Registration Kit

4-H boys shaking hands with Boys State 4-H Club Agent on campus at the University of Florida

Boys program state 4-H staff and others in a meeting

National 4-H Club Congress Florida Delegation Portrait

Woodrow Brown Talks to Florida 4-H Delegates During Orientation at National 4-H Club Congress

Boys 4-H scholarship winner receives his award. 4-H banner in the background.

Boy winning public speaking during Short Course on the University of Florida campus shaking boys state 4-H club agent Woodrow Brown's hand. 4-H banner in the background

4-H boys at Short Course on the UF campus.

Woodrow W. Brown, state 4-H boys club agent, looks over tractor manuals with 4-H members in 1955.

Woodrow W. Brown meets Mr. Talbot and Mrs. Brown in 1955

1957

4-H Club Dairy Show. Boys and girls with dairy cows and 4-H banner in the background.

Girls State 4-H Council officers

National 4-H Club Congress Florida Delegation Portrait

National 4-H Club Congress Florida Delegation by a bus

John Woodruff of Santa Rosa County won the state tractor operators contest and will represent Florida at the Eastern States Tractor Operators' Contest in Richmond.

Bankers' scholarship winners at 1957 Club Short Course on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville.

L to R: Henry Moore, Walton County; Dan Norris, Lake County; Ed Lee Ayers, Nanatee; P.M. Hendrick, Hamilton; Mr. Earl Hardde, Gainesville banker; Austin Tilton, Putnam; Jay Bossinger, Manatee; and Bobby Muraro, Lake.

Joey Watkins and Judith Lively, Hawthorne, 1957. 4-H calendar.

4-H Calendar 1957

1958

National 4-H Conference Florida Delegation with Legislators by the United State Capitol in Washington, DC. Photo is signed.

National 4-H Club Congress Florida Delegation at Dinner.

1959

Florida 4-H members with state governor for a proclamation signing.

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African-American 4-H Club girls and an adult ready to board a schoolbus.

State 4-H Council officers, meeting in Gainesville, get together with James E. Gorman, Managing Director of the Florida Chain of Store Council, which sponsors the activities of the two councils.

L to R: Thomas Floyd, Escambia, vice-president, boys' councils; Sandra Dennison, Orange, president, girls' council; Mr. Gorman; Sue Roberts, Hardee, vice-president, girls; Billy Avery, Suwaneee, president, boys. Unknown date."