November, 2007
The Arizona 4-H
Youth Foundation
A Message from the President
IMPACT!!!
The Arizona 4-H Youth Foundation is making an IMPACT on
the lives of over 70,000 youth in our State who participate in
various 4-H Programs. Thanks to you, our donors and supporters, here are some recent highlights of the work of the Foundation
in supporting our Arizona 4-H Youth
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Subsidizing registration fees for JO.L.T., Journey:
Opportunities for Leaders of Tomorrow, S.T.A.R., State
Teen Adult Retreat (formerly Roundup) and other
State-wide leadership activities.
Assisting with travel and registration fees for our youth
to attend National 4-H Congress, (Atlanta, GA),
National 4-H Conference (Washington D.C.) and
Citizenship Washington, Focus (Washington D.C.)
Providing camp grants for innovative programs.
Awarded 38 scholarships, each valued from $600 to
$1,200 to 4-H youth to further their education after high
school.
Our Arizona 4-H foundation and youth have received a very
positive IMPACT from our new 4-H Corporate Sponsors
program. 28 companies have stepped forward and they are listed
in this newsletter. With their unrestricted donations to
Foundation programs and operations, we have been able to
enhance the 4-H experience and offer excellent leadership
training to many more youth in Arizona.
Lastly, in the past 18 month, individual donors and families have
funded 9 new endowment funds. In total, the Arizona 4-H Youth
Foundation has 66 endowments in our investment portfolio. The
interest money from these funds IMPACT our 4-H youth with
scholarships and leadership programs to prepare our young
people to be:
Leaders
Contributing citizens
Good decision makers
Thank you for your support.
Tim Knutson
Foundation President
Head - Heart - Hands - Health
Corporate Sponsors
The Arizona 4-H Youth Foundation would like to thank those individuals and
corporations who have chosen to participate in our Corporate Sponsor Program. By
choosing to participate, the following donors have helped to support the many
programs and services that 4-H offers to our young people today.
AcuComm, Inc
Arizona Drip Systems
Arizona Farm Bureau
Federation
Arizona Machinery
Arizona Public Service
Best Paving
Bingham Equipment
Company
Box Canyon Ranch
(Bob & Mary Bowman)
Calcot
Desert Tree Farms, Inc.
Doug Mellon Farms Inc.
Dunn Grain Company
Farm Credit Services
(SW Region)
Farnam
Gowan Company
(Caroline Jessen Foundation)
Jacque Accomazzo
Keithly-Williams Seeds
The Norton Foundation
Paul C. Helmick
Corporation
Pima County Farm
Bureau
Pivotal Sandia LLC.
Resolution Copper
Salt River Project
Shamrock Farms
Sundance Farms
Wells Fargo
Albert M. Lane Tribute
The Albert M. Lane Memorial Scholarship Endowment has been established and you can participate by sending your tax deductible check made payable to UA Foundation. Write “CALS-Lane Scholarship Endowment”
in the memo space on your check and mail it to: University of Arizona, CALS Development and Alumni Office,
PO Box 210036,Tucson, AZ 85721-2101.
Born in Fort Collins, Colorado, AL Graduated from Colorado State University and joined the U.S Army as an
officer in WWII. He served in the Battle of the Bulge and received a Purple Heart (Double Cluster) and Bronze
Star. AL was a UA State Extension Livestock Specialist and made many contributions to Arizona 4-H, the Arizona Cattle Growers Assn., and the San Carlos Apache Tribe. Al passed away on July 18,2006.
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Head - Heart - Hands - Health
Current Endowments
Endowments help guarantee perpetual support for 4-H groups, events, activities, scholarships and awards. Besides supporting 4-H, endowments
also provide stability by providing on-going support. Endowments can also be set up to benefit individual counties or a specific 4-H club. New,
named endowments can be created with a minimum investment of $10,000. This is a terrific way to remember a loved one, or honor living friends
and relatives. Gifts of any amount may be added to existing endowment funds at any time. Instead of creating a new endowment, you can also
choose to give to one of the endowments that are currently in place.
Margery & Gene Bayless
Jimmy Accomazzo Memorial
Margaret & Cliff Clements
Don Landeen Memorial
Paula & Cabot Sedgwick
B. J. & Betty Wells
Carter E. Nelms Family
Virginia May Memorial
Drusilla & William Macbeth
Edmund McGibson Family
Memorial
Mildred & Larkin Fitch
Bill & Judy Peterson
Dan A. Klingenberg
Everett Grondin Memorial
Graham Wright Honorary
Bob Stump 4-H Citizenship
Sarah Harman Memorial
Friends of Jim Kolbe
JOLT Legacy for Leadership
Joshua Partridge Memorial
Mohave County 4-H Leaders’
Council
Yavapai County
Edna & Otto Neely Memorial
Ruth M. Scofield Memorial
Gene Bayless Shooting Education
Mark Accomazzo Memorial
Kathleen & Fred Fritz Memorial
Gerry & Rex Eberline
Irene & Chase Traweek Memorial
Leatha & Howard Morrison
Memorial
Sharon O’Donnell Franklin
Memorial
Youth-Adult 4-H Leadership Fund
June Gibbs Memorial
Becker-Baguley
Judith & Richard Fleming
Scholarship
Pinal County 4-H Scholarship
Faul 4-H Ag-Ventures Endowment Elise & Harry Porterfield Memorial
Annette Firth Memorial
Chilson Memorial Camp Fund
Alzora & Cecil Miller
Conner Byestewa, Jr. Memorial
Pima County 4-H Leaders
Memorial Scholarship Fund
John Peter Bogle Memorial
Virginia Ott Kieckhefer Memorial
Farm Credit Services
Winifred & Kenneth Anderson
Anita & Everett Brown
Charlotte & B. P. Cardon
Jule & Marvin Morrison
Mary & Harold Arp
Emil Rovey Family
Vicky & Don Charles
Pima County 4-H Horse
Scholarship
Carol & S. Pugh
Pima County Jr. Livestock
Scholarship
Lucy Alice & Stuart Houston
Carolyn & J. Rukin Jelks Jr.
Norton Foundation Endowment
Emogene & George Gehrke
Memorial
Ethel & Kemper Marley
Eugenia Scott & Ralph Rogers
Hawthorne
Ginny Bruce Memorial
Haldiman Family
Betty Accomazzo Memorial
Mary & Arthur J. Faul – Millstone
Ranch
Tessa Leigh Griggs Endowment
Leonard & Rita Cheatham
Scholarship
Ralph Hall Memorial
Jim Faul College Book Fund for
4-H Scholars
Arizona AE4-HA
For further information on our Endowments visit our web page: http://cals.arizona.edu/4-h_foundation/
Endowment Highlight: Faul Endowment Fund
2007/08 Board Meeting Dates
Faul Scholarship Recipients Eligible for Additional Funds in
2008
11/16/2007 Financial Update (06/07)
2/15/2008
Just this past June, as a tribute to her late husband Jim, Mary Faul
5/16/2008
established the “Jim Faul College Book Fund for 4-H Scholars”. Mary
established this endowment to give current winners of the Faul
8/15/2008
Millstone Ranch 4-H Scholarships the opportunity to be awarded up to
an additional $500 to assist in paying for their college books. Priority
will be given to first year college students.
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Winter Board Meeting
Spring Board Meeting
Summer Board Meeting
2007-2008 College Scholarship
Recipients
Kayla Bidegain
Colten Butler
Rachel Christie
Julie Darr
Valley Telephone Scholarship
Betty Accomazzo Scholarship
Pima County 4-H Horse Leaders
Scholarship
Faul Scholarship
“4-H will never leave me!”
“I am the fifth generation in my family
to be in this great organization.”
“4-H has taught me so many amazing
things!”
“After I graduate college, I plan on
having my own 4-H club.”
Katie Goodwin
Kevin Gressley
Kylee Gauna
Tanner Herbert
Hawthorne Scholarship
Faul Scholarship
Farm Credit Services
Scholarship
Faul Scholarship
“I will forever be grateful for the many
opportunities that were provided to me!”
“I attribute my success to the teaching
from 4-H”
“4-H. A simple number and letter that
means so much!”
“4-H has had a monumental impact on
my life.”
Marshall Hunt
Amber Hruska
Candice Jonovich
Grace Jordon
Faul Scholarship
Cochise Scholarship
Faul Scholarship
Hall Scholarship
“4-H has opened up a future for me!”
“4-H makes great times and great
people!”
“I have gone places through 4-H!”
“4-H has helped me realize what can
happen with determination and a little
bit of elbow grease.”
Andrea Kelly
Kassandra Kinney
Danelle Knowlton
Jodi Knowlton
Grondin Scholarship
Jimmy Accomazzo Scholarship
Bayless Scholarship
CRSSS Scholarship
“4-H is molding today’s youth into
tomorrow’s future!”
“4-H has been a key influence in my
life!”
“My days in 4-H will forever be with
me!”
“4-H is definitely a program in which
you get out of it what you put into it!.”
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2007-2008 College Scholarship
Recipients
Megan Kuhn
Shannon Lee
Alicia Lopez
Amber Middaugh
Becker Scholarship
Faul Scholarship
Pima County Livestock
Scholarship
Faul Scholarship
“4-H has affected me in many ways that
will be unforgettable!”
“4-H has been a huge part of my life,
and I wouldn't have traded anything in
the world for it.”
“I have found many mentors and
heroes in 4-H!”
“My years in 4-H have been very
educational and fun!”
Andrew Olson
Matthew Olson
Heather Page
Faul Scholarship
Faul Scholarship
Gibbs Scholarship
“I have realized how much 4-H has
affected my life!”
“I believe that 4-H has branded me with
skills that will be with me forever!”
Robyn Ollerton
Faul Scholarship
“I learned the value of leadership and the “4-H was extremely important in makfavor of friendship through 4-H!”
ing me the person I am today!”
Dru Palmer
Nadji Remer
Shamree Rencher
Jessica Richardson
Fitch Scholarship
Faul Scholarship
Bayless Scholarship
Valley Telephone Scholarship
“I have seen 4-H make me a better
person!”
“My little mule Penny and I were immediately enrolled in 4-H”
“This program has given me life long
“It is my dream to teach farming skills
qualities, friends, experiences and memothat I have learned through 4-H, to
ries that I will never forget!”
farmers in 3rd world countries!”
Melinda Robinson
Jordan Selchow
Nicole Ward
Ryan Ward
Fitch Scholarship
Cochise Scholarship
Landeen Scholarship
Hawthorne Scholarship
“4-H has crafted me into the person that I
am today!”
“4-H is about setting a goal, working
hard to achieve it, and
learning from it!”
“4-H has by far been one of the biggest impacts in my life!”
“4-H has constantly provided me with
situations to utilize my communications
skills that I have learned”
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2007-2008 College Scholarship
Recipients
Katy White
Andrew Whiteside
Kayla Woehlecke
Amanda Zamudio
Faul Scholarship
Faul Scholarship
Faul Scholarship
Faul Scholarship
“4-H has taught me to be responsible
with my time, finish what I start, and to
enjoy the benefits from my hard work!”
“I hope to remain involved in 4-H and
provide others with the same experiences that I have been provided!”
“I am very proud to be a part of this
wonderful organization!”
“I am determined to help make a difference using the knowledge and skills
that has been taught to me through 4-H”
Joseph Zamudio
Michael Zamudio
Faul Scholarship
Faul Scholarship
“The life skills that I learned through 4-H “I am extremely excited to be able to
provided me with a solid foundation,
work with the students to teach them
moral beliefs, and a strong work ethic!”
agricultural skills!”
CONGRATULATIONS
to ALL of Our
Scholarship
Recipients!
The 2008-2009 Scholarship Application is now available on the 4-H Youth Foundation Website:
http://ag.arizona.edu/4-h_foundation/scholarships.htm
Announcing the 2007 Arizona
Delegation to National 4-H Congress:
One of the best loved 4-H activities is the opportunity to participate in National 4-H Congress. For
many years the trip has been to Atlanta, GA. The following members will be attending November
23 - 27: Reva Sullivan, Crystal Moreno, Xavier Ortega, Dana Dobbins, Jason Harris, Krista
McNaughton, Katie Radosevic, Shandina Williams and Kelly Serbic. The two chaperones are:
Melvina Adolf and Jacque Accomazzo.
Five Arizona 4-H members represented Arizona 4-H March 24-29 at the National 4-H Conference
which is held annually in Washington, D.C. The delegates participated in many programs and
learned how they can make a difference not only in their communities but also gave important
feedback to National 4-H Leaders. Last years delegates were: Ryan Klenke, Candice Hill-Crouch,
Jennifer Bates, Katie Radosevic, and Kelsy Auld. Julie Adamcin served as the chaperone.
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Event Highlights
Citizen Washington Focus
Board of Trustees
Hundreds of Arizona 4-H members
have participated in at least one of the
summer Citizenship Washington Focus
programs. This year 14 young people
from Arizona participated. This was
one of the first groups we have sent to
Washington which represented some
of the diverse groups involved in 4-H.
Mara Graves, Caitlin Henry and
Christine Henry represented our 4-H
Military programs. Eddie Ruiz, Mariah
Guerrero and Toni Brown came from
work in one of the charter schools
involved. Michael McKenna and
Marcus Tofolla are part of a program
on the Pascua Yaqui tribe, and Jenna
Naegle, Kristopher Croddy, Katie
Radosevic, Dana and Danelle Dobbins
represented traditional 4-H clubs.
Julie Adamcin served as the
coordinator for the program. Toni
Brown, Michael McKenna and Christine Henry were the adult
chaperones for the trip.
2007- 2008
ARIZONA 4-H YOUTH FOUNDATION
BOARD OF TRUSTEES ROSTER
2007 “STAR” Retreat!
FOUNDATION ASSOCIATE
ACCOUNTANT
Peggy Beaston
The Arizona 4-H Youth Development Program hosted the 2007
State Teen Adult Retreat
(STAR) program at the UA on July
27-29. STAR provided a
transactional "how to lead"
leadership experience. This year’s
focus was on strengthening and
expanding the
youth-adult
partnership in 4-H
in communities
throughout Arizona
by emphasizing the
Four Essential Elements (Belonging,
Independence,
Mastery, Generosity) of 4-H.There
were 60
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participants representing teams
from the following counties:
Coconino, Gila, Graham, Greenlee,
Pima, Pinal, Yavapai, and the
Arizona Operation Military Kids
program. Special thanks to all
who helped make STAR 2007 a
success!
PRESIDENT
Tim Knutson
VICE-PRESIDENT
Carol Wuertz-Behrens
SECRETARY
Donald Butler
TREASURER
Mack McKeon
PAST PRESIDENT
Dan Klingenberg
Board Members
Cliff Amator
Bill Brake
Bev Collier
Tim Dunn
Bill Eddings
Sen. Franklin “Jake” Flake
Denis Griggs
Cory Mellon
Don Walker
Doug Wright
Arizona Extension Representative
Bob Peterson
Event Calendar
11/23/08 - National 4-H Congress
11/27/08
3/6/08 3/9/08
Western 4-H Regional
Leader’s Forum
2/28/08
4-H Youth Foundation
Scholarship Applications
Due
6/29/08
Citizenship Washington
Focus
The Arizona 4-H Youth Foundation
325 Forbes Building
The University of Arizona
P.O. Box 210036
Tucson Arizona 85721-0036
4-H’ers Around Arizona