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Last updated: September 6, 2002

   The Emerald Clover Society reflects the ultimate outcome of 4-H membership—extraordinary use of an individual's head, heart, hands and health to make our communities, our country and our world a better place in which to live.
   
2002 4-H Centennial Alumni: The Inaugural Class of the Emerald Clover Society
   

Norman A. BrownNorman A. Brown, Monroe County 4-H'er

Consultant, President Emeritus,
W.K. Kellogg Foundation

“4-H gave me considerable experience and skills in public speaking and leadership.”

Norman A. Brown has dedicated his professional and personal life to ensuring young people throughout the world have significant and meaningful opportunities to grow, develop and succeed. He began his career in the Far East working as a rural youth specialist for the U.S. Department of State. After returning to the United States, he was a vocational agriculture teacher in Bath before joining the Michigan Cooperative Extension Service. His career included serving as a county 4-H youth agent, an MSU professor and the state 4-H program director. After four years as dean and director of the University of Minnesota Extension Service, he joined the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, where he became internationally recognized as a benefactor of programs and opportunities that fostered the positive development of young people.

Brown retired from the Kellogg Foundation in 1991 and continues his leadership in nonprofit management and development as founder, president and CEO of the Partners of Americas and Norm Brown and Associates nonprofit consulting firm. He has a lifelong commitment to service to many nonprofits and for-profit organizations where he has been member, trustee, officer, president, founder and chairman. It’s no surprise that the elder President George Bush sought his leadership in developing the Points of Light initiative and growing its foundation, where he is a trustee and chairman of its board.