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RECORD 

 TURNOUT 



IAA--4-H Club Dinner 

 For Outstanding Farm 

 Youth Packs Banquet 

 Room To Door 



Clamoring for his autograph, 4-H'eri crowd 

 around tobfe of Movie Atfor Burt Lantaster 

 during lAA's annual Illinois 4-H Club din- 

 ner. 



Harry MeloY 



JUDGING from the record turn- 

 out at the lAA's traditional 4-H 

 Club banquet, Illinois' outstand- 

 inu farm youth like the idea of 

 getting tos:ether during the 4-H 

 Club Concress in Chicago in December. 



One youngster ar- ^_^ 

 rived breathless ar W^^ 

 the Morrison Hotel 

 a few minutes be- 

 fore the dinner 

 started saying hi 

 came up to Chicago 

 just for the lAA- 

 4-H Club banquet. 

 His train had ar- 

 rived a half hour 

 late. 



The banquet, 

 complete with party 

 favors and a musical trio, was well un- 

 derway when Movie Actor Burt Lan- 

 caster arrived with stage makeup still 

 on his face. Most of the boys and girls 

 enjoyed the visit of the Hollywood 

 celebrity and mobbed him for auto- 

 graphs. 



Lancaster played principal roles in 

 "Brute Force," "The Killers," and 

 "Sorry, Wrong Number." He was in- 

 troduced by Val Lauder, Keen Teens 

 editor of the Chicago Daily News. 



The dinner is an annual affair honor- 

 ing outstanding 4-H Club boys and 

 _irls. lAA staff members, guests, lead- 

 ers, farm advisers and parents of 4-H 

 members swelled the attendance to 

 about 500. Members of the lAA staff 

 acted as hosts at each of the tables. 



lAA Attorney Harry Meloy, master 

 of dry humor, acted as toastmaster and 

 ga\e the address of welcome. 



Principal speaker was lAA President 

 Charles B. Shuman. "We appreciate 

 the honors," he said, "you have brought 

 to Illinois. You have come a long way 

 in a short time. Because I can remem- 

 ber when 4-H work did not enjoy the 



high status it does today. 



"We are pleased that agriculture 

 throughout the nation has seen fit to 

 sponsor a youth program. You know 

 4-H work is a means to an end. You 

 are aiming at the day when you will 

 be operating your own farm and do- 

 ing a better job of it than we are do- 

 ing. We older farmers are ever aware 

 that vou are behind us ready to step 

 into our shoes. We are proud to know 

 you are the best in farm youth. There 

 is no reason why agriculture shouldn't 

 have the best young people." 



Introduction of a number of 4-H 

 members and announcement of their 

 accomplishments was made by Mrs. 

 Mary Hubbard and Herbert Deason, 

 both of the University of Illinois exten- 

 sion service. 



Responding for 4-H girls, Mary Lee 

 Wilson, Montgomery county, expressed 

 her appreciation to the lAA for the 

 meeting and spoke of the "fun of learn- 

 ing the 4-H way." "I enjoy," she said, 

 "the working together and the social 

 relationships with other 4-H'ers and the 

 feeling of working toward a common 

 goal to make a better world for to- 

 morrow." 



Thomas Sussenbach, Bond county, re- 

 sponding for the boys, said he was 

 pleased to be among lAA-Farm Bureau 

 people "because I know they are the 

 same people as myself." Sussenbach 

 said farm youth faced a great respon- 

 sibility but they knew it and were glad 

 to take up the challenge. 



John M. Budd, president of the C. & 

 E. I. Railroad was introduced and spoke 

 of the plan recently initiated by the 

 railroad to present prizes to outstand- 

 ing Illinois 4-H boys and girls in the 

 counties through which the railway 

 runs. 



Roy Johnson, lAA director of special 

 services, was in charge of arrangements 

 for the banquet. 



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