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TENNESSEE 4-H IDEAS VOLUME 03 - Issue 09 IN THIS ISSUE 4-H
All Stars Elect Officers/Select Statewide Service Theme UPCOMING EVENTS March 8
March 21-23
March 30-April 5
March 31
April 12
April 13-15
April 15
April 15
April 30-May 2
May 1
May 1
May 1
May 6-7
May 8-9
May 16-17
May 16-19
May 20
May 20
May 22
May 22
May 27-28
Tennessee 4-H Home Page: www.utextension.utk.edu/4H/ Online version of Ideas: www.utextension.utk.edu/4H/ideas03/ Ideas index: www.utextension.utk.edu/4H/ideas03/03-index.htm 4-H ALL STARS ELECT OFFICERS/SELECT STATEWIDE SERVICE THEME The All Star High Council met on February 28-March 1 in Crossville. They conducted a service learning project, participated in leadership training, and began making some very tough decisions about issues facing the All Stars organization. Two of the highlights of the weekend were electing new state officers and selecting the 2003 statewide service theme. The All Star service theme for 2003 is T.O.U.C.H. - Teaching Others Using Caring Hands. The new state All Star officers are as follows:
Thanks to all the Extension staff and volunteer leaders who worked to make the weekend a success. Special thanks to Bridgett Smith and Patrick Hamilton for leading the service project and leadership training. Lori Jean Mantooth 4-H SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS STILL BEING ACCEPTED 4-H scholarship applications are due in the state 4-H office on May 1. (The exceptions being the G.L. Herrington Scholarship and the AGR Scholarship which were due March 1.) The following scholarships are still available:
Please make your 4-H members aware of these opportunities. A detailed description of each scholarship can be found in Tennessee 4-H Awards and Recognition Handbook or online at www.utextension.utk.edu/4H/recognhndbook/sect06.htm. Scholarship applications were mailed to each county Extension office last December. If you need a Tennessee 4-H scholarship application form, they are available from the state 4-H office or from the Tennessee 4-H forms page at www.utextension.utk.edu/4H/forms/acrobat/scholarship.pdf. Steve Sutton 4-H S.O.S. AWARDS FOUR $5000 MINI-GRANTS Agents who attended the 4-H Service Learning Academy in January learned about youth voice, community need assessment, reflection, and other aspects of service learning. They were then eligible to translate what they learned into proposals for $5000 service learning mini-grants. Agents from twelve counties submitted proposals. The review committee decided to fund the following projects:
Congratulations to the recipients and to all the groups that have put so much effort into planning outstanding service learning projects. Lori Jean Mantooth CITIZENSHIP AND LEADERSHIP RECORD BOOKS RETURNED The citizenship and leadership achievement records have been evaluated and are being returned by UPS ground next week. Please look for them to arrive in the near future. Steve Sutton CUMBERLAND DISTRICT PROMOTING HONOR CLUB IN MARCH The Cumberland District has declared March as Honor Club Promotion Month. During this month, they will be promoting 4-H Honor Club membership by encouraging as many 4-H'ers as possible to join in their counties. Cumberland District area 4-H specialist Mitch Beaty will be conducting workshops to help counties make this opportunity to eligible youth. Honor Club is the first step in Tennessee's three-level recognition program... Honor Club, All Stars and Vol State. Honor Club recognizes members for participation. Membership does not involve being the winner in any kind of competition. Members receive points just for participating. Any 4-H'er qualifying with the minimum number of points on the application can achieve Honor Club recognition. Others are welcome to join the Cumberland District in this effort. Student staff assistant Sunny Rae Moorehead is eagerly awaiting your applications. She is ready to approve your members and have them begin to enjoy the opportunities awaiting them in the Tennessee 4-H Honor Club. Steve Sutton DISTRICT LISTENING SESSION COMPLETED The state 4-H office has completed their trip across the state to hold the listening sessions. The sessions were informative and helpful as we plan for the future of the Tennessee 4-H program. We are summarizing the information and will be sharing with you as we begin our planning process. Thanks to each of you who participated in the listening sessions. We value and appreciate your input regarding the 4-H program. Alice Ann Moore MEET THE STATE 4-H STAFF! - PEGGY ADKINS We want you to know more about the people who work in the state 4-H office. We will be featuring a different staff member each week in Ideas. Keep reading to find out about another one of our team. Extension 4-H Specialist, Peggy Adkins (formerly Peggy Lou Mustain, from Kingston, Tennessee where folks still call her Peggy Lou), has been on the UT faculty since 1999 after being homesick for Tennessee for 25 years. A 4-H friend of Steve Sutton, Dwight Loveday, Ralph Lovely and Ruth Henderson, she's a charter member of Tennessee 4-H Alumni, Inc. Peggy has degrees from Freed-Hardeman University and The University of Tennessee. A former Girls Clubs of Knoxville, Inc. executive director, and Cobb County Georgia Extension home economist, she created innovative educational materials for Georgia's 190,000 4-H'ers for 13 years for which she earned the President's Medallion for Public Service. She has served as president of the 3,400 member National Association of Extension 4-H Agents. She has chaired numerous national committees, including the nation's first and second Legislative Updates on Youth at Risk on Capitol Hill. In 1986 she was named One of Ten Outstanding Young Women of America and was presented a silver bowl by the Treasurer of the United States. In 1991 she was one of three non-minorities in our nation's 250-person delegation to the First African/African-American Summit, Ivory Coast, West Africa. The heat almost killed her, but it was an otherwise excellent opportunity for NAE4-HA to be represented. In addition, she served on the faculty of the National Youth Developers' Institute; was curriculum development specialist for a special 4-year Youth at Risk Project for National 4-H Council and USDA in Washington. Her TAXI (Taking Anyone into Expanded Involvement) volunteer management series is used nationwide and in several other countries. She was on the "Talking with TJ" Design Team. As curriculum development specialist for the Josephson Institute of Ethics, she created the CHARACTER COUNTS! "Exercising Character" series, used nation wide and in several other countries. In fact, over ten million Russian school children use "Exercising Character" (printed in Russian by their government) in their classrooms. She has trained teachers from Siberia to Curacao and even conducted the first island-wide teacher training on Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles. As a CHARACTER COUNTS! national faculty member she worked with communities from California to New Jersey, Michigan to Texas. She authored the "What's a Parent to Do?" series for CC! and has been a popular presenter. Peggy serves on a Federal Advisory Board (The Oak Ridge Health Effects Study) to DOE, EPA and the CDC as a spokesperson for residents who have been exposed to toxic and radioactive metals. Peggy has been married to Barry Adkins for 29 ½ years. Barry is a mortgage lender in Knoxville/Maryville after retiring from Delta Airlines. They have two children, Andy 21, who graduates from Abilene Christian University May 8 in Youth and Family Ministry. He is getting married June 7 in Austin, Texas. Amanda 18, is a graduate of Maryville high school and has visions of launching Patriot missiles in the U.S. Army. They also have three spoiled cats. They are also involved in Maryville's College Hill Historic District Association, the Adkins live in a 100-year-old work-in-progress, and are active members of Maryville Church of Christ. Alice Ann Moore MINI-GRANTS
AVAILABLE FOR JOIN HANDS DAY Up to 75 mini-grants are available to youth-led projects on JOIN HANDS DAY, June 21, 2003. The $250-$500 mini-grants are offered through the Youth Outreach Department of the Points of Light Foundation. While JOIN HANDS DAY supports youth-adult partnerships, this mini-grant opportunity encourages young people to take the lead. Applications are due March 28, 2003. America's Fraternal Benefit Societies, Points of Light Foundation, and the Volunteer Center National Network sponsor the JOIN HANDS DAY. The goal of the day is to develop relationships between young people and adults through volunteering. It is a day when young people and adults work together on an equal basis to plan, organize, and implement the day's activities. To be eligible for a mini-grants, the application must come from an organization. Applicants may request between $250 and $500. Requested money may be used to support staff time, project supplies, transportation, and meeting expenses. More information, including the application, is available at www.joinhandsday.org/scripts/minigrants_index.cfm. Applications may be mailed, faxed, or e-mailed to Laura Raine, Points of Light Foundation, 1400 I Street NW, Washington, DC 20005; fax 202-729-8255; e-mail lraine@pointsoflight.org. Applications are due no later than March 28, 2003. Applicants will be notified of their status by April 21, 2003. Lori Jean Mantooth PRESENTATION TEAM SELECTED FOR NATIONAL SERVICE LEARNING CONFERENCE 4-H Seeds of Service has selected a team of four youth and two adults to help present a workshop at the National Service Learning Conference in Minneapolis, MN. The opportunity was offered to any 4-H group that has worked with a 4-H S.O.S. mini-grant. Teams of two youth and one adult submitted essays outlining their service, leadership, and presentation experience. Congratulations to the following members of the National Service Learning Conference presentation team:
Lori Jean Mantooth THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s
easy to say, “It’s not my child, not my community, not
my world, not my problem.” Then there are those who see the
need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.
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