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Head, heart, hands, and health. This according to the official site, which we located in the Yahoo! National 4-H Category. But there's a story behind the fourth H. The 4-H Club is the country's largest extracurricular youth program, with almost seven million members. 4-H members engage in all manner of collaborative projects: animal training, textile making, plant growing, and rocket building, to name just a few. 4-H doesn't have a specific birth date, but rather grew out of a variety of boys and girls clubs at the end of the 19th century, a time
when the country was largely rural. These clubs were originally intended to pass down practical agricultural education to the children of farmers. In 1908, the clubs organized under the logo of a three-leaf clover, designed O. H. Benson. Each leaf stood for a different virtue -- head, heart, and hands. In 1911, Benson suggested adding a fourth H -- for "hustle." Club leaders later opted for the more dignified "health."
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