My sixty years with rural youth / by T.A. Erickson ; with the assistance of Anna North Coit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erickson, Theodore A., b. 1871.

Contributor:

Coit, Anna North.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

4-H clubs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1956]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

My Sixty Years with Rural Youth was first published in 1956. Reading this book will be like a personal visit and reminiscence for the thousands of persons, particularly in rural Minnesota and the Middle West, who have known the author affectionately as ""Dad"" Erickson. Mr. Erickson devoted much of his life to the 4-H club program for rural youth, serving as state 4-H leader in Minnesota for nearly 30 years. During that time, about half a million boys and girls became 4-H club members in the state and grew up to be better citizens, better farmers, and better homemakers because of ""Dad"" Erick

Contents:

FOREWORD; CONTENTS; TODAY AND YESTERDAY; A FARM BOYHOOD; SCHOOLBOY AND TEACHER; MORE LEARNING, MORE TEACHING; NEWFANGLED NOTIONS; COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT; STATE CLUB LEADER; OUR CLUBS TAKE ROOT; 4-H IN BLOOM; COME TO THE FAIR; A NEW JOB; 4-H YOUNGSTERS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780816668564

0816668566

OCLC:

476161435