2003 Illinois Friend of 4-H Award
| John L. Huston, retired executive vice president
of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, was named 2003
Friend of Illinois 4-H. Huston joined the Happy Hustlers 4-H Club in Warren County in
1954. His projects included sheep, beef cattle and swine. He also
participated in public speaking, demonstration and livestock judging
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Huston attributes 4-H and his volunteer club leader’s enthusiasm for good livestock and competition for his career with the National Livestock and Meat Board and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.
“Many leadership
and public speaking opportunities that 4-H offers were very valuable for
me, such as being a delegate to the Canadian 4-H Club Congress, a delegate
to National 4-H Conference and a summer assistant at the National 4-H
Center,” said Huston.
Huston received a bachelor’s degree in agricultural education with an animal science option from the University of Illinois. He was inducted into the International Stockmen’s Hall of Fame and named Agri-Marketer of the Year in 1995 by the Chicago Chapter of the National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA).
Huston currently serves as chairman of the Illinois Agricultural Leadership Foundation, director of Extension Partners, delegate to the national Council for Agricultural Research, Extension and Teaching, and director of the International Meat Secretariat. In 1996, he served as chair of the Chancellor’s Commission for University of Illinois Extension and currently serves as director, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences Alumni Association. Huston has also served as a director of the National Farm-City Council, the Livestock Conservation Institute and chairman of the Illinois 4-H Foundation.
Huston
and his wife, Anne, have three children, Katie, Patrick and Mark.
4-H is the largest out-of-school educational program for youth in the United States. 4-H seeks to assist youth in acquiring knowledge, forming attitudes, and developing life skills that will enable them to become caring, competent, and contributing members of society. In Illinois 383,654 youth participate in 4-H and other youth programs of University of Illinois Extension. About 28,000 adult volunteers assist in the programming. For more information about 4-H in Illinois, visit: http://www.4-H.uiuc.edu.
L-R: Rich Clemmons, President, Illinois 4-H Foundation; John Huston; and Robert Easter, Dean, University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
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