4-H Stories

When the Cooperative Extension Service was established in 1914, Montana hired Augusta D. Evans as the first full-time state 4-H program leader. Traveling from Illinois, she stopped in Forsyth, Montana. There, before her first day of work, she gave a…

From the archives of the Montana 4-H Center, this 1953 photo shows 4-H’ers Dale Schneidt of Huntley and Shirley Wallace of Billings presenting a National 4-H Club Week poster to Dr. A.G. Peterson, president of Eastern Montana College of Education….