Ted Hutchcroft was a Mediapolis Junior Farmers 4-H Club dairy project member. He was an IFYE to Great Britain in 1949. Ted was hired as Information Director of the National 4-H Club Foundation in 1959. He was active on several national 4-H public relations committees to shape the reputation of 4-H as a strong, highly regarded experiential youth development program. His previous work included USDA Information Specialist, Iowa Farm Bureau Federation director of a weekly radio station tape service, and associate in a weekly television film service. During undergraduate studies at Iowa State in Agriculture Journalism, he was Editor of Iowa Agriculturalist magazine, among the nation’ top student-managed agricultural magazines.
When the Foundation assumed responsibility for the Inter-American Rural Youth Program, Hutchcroft was named Director. PIJR was a joint, cooperative program serving Latin America and Caribbean countries. Its purpose was to cooperate with national governments and institutions and private organizations to develop effective informal educational programs so the rural young people could contribute to increasing agricultural production and improving rural living conditions. Now retired, Hutchcroft recently donated his invaluable collection of National 4-H Foundation and PIJR publications to the National 4-H History Preservation Program.
