...in 1918, the very first 4-H club in Hawaii was organized in Haiku, Maui? County Extension agents Harvey F. Willey and Mabel Greene, under the guidance of Frederick G. Kraus (Director of the Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Service from 1929 - 1936) organized a 4-H pig club consisting of 31 Maui youths.
...in 1923, Miss Greene intergrated the 4-H club work under the public schools with teachers who were trained in agriculture and home economics.
...that same year, the first 4-H club organized in Makawao, Maui under the leadership of a Mr. Medeiros. He was the first male 4-H leader on Maui.
...Mrs. Harvey Willey was the first woman 4-H leader on Maui. Besides the clothing and food projects, the club's service activities included fillin' out Sears mail order blanks and U.S. money blanks. The leaders organized the first 4-H camp on Maui in 1928.
...By 1926, there were 4-H clubs on Oahu, Hawaii, and Kauai, too. That year, the Pollyanna 4-H Club of Honolulu exhibited at Chicago and won a national prize. It was the first time a club had participated from such a distant place as Hawaii.
...About 450 boy and girl club members participated in the swine project and exhibited their project work at the Territorial Fair in 1926. Some of the other projects that got under way the first year were food, clothing, poultry, coffee, gardening and raising rabbits.
