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Auburn University College of Agriculture Freshman Kenneth Reese Makes State History in 4-H

| September 21, 2020 @ 10:00 am

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By Kristen Bowman
Auburn University

Kenneth Reese didn’t know he was making history. He just loved being a leader in Alabama 4-H.

The freshman in the College of Agriculture at Auburn University was the first Black president of Alabama 4-H, the statewide branch of America’s largest youth development organization. 4-H is delivered by the national Cooperative Extension, a community of more than 100 public universities – including Auburn – that provides educational and leadership experiences in which young people learn by doing.

“My very first 4-H club was in elementary school,” said Reese, a native of Jefferson County. “It wasn’t as active as most 4-H clubs should have been. It was more like to give kids an idea of 4-H. My mom was a schoolteacher, and I had expressed to her how much I loved 4-H, so we came together to start a club. From there, it just increased.”

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