On May 8, 1914, the Smith-Lever Act was signed into law, establishing the Cooperative Extension Service. That same year the first Hawai'i 4-H program was started. Extension came to Hawai'i with the signing of the Territorial Extension Act in 1929, when UH President David Crawford was named Director of Extension. Since then, CTAHR has provided support to farmers, ranchers, families, and communities across the state.

2014 is the Centennial year of national Cooperative Extension and we're joining in the celebration. The commemoration will take a number of forms. You've already seen one of the outputs celebrating the impacts of our College, the CTAHR in Focus booklet that just came out. We'll be further celebrating the importance of Extension at the CTAHR Awards Banquet, at community events, in the quarterly Impact Report, in CTAHR Notes and CTAHR Alumni & Friends, on our Web page, through Facebook and Twitter, and we will promote our stories to news media.

Across the USA, extension professionals are celebrating their events through Twitter and Facebook. And CTAHR is joining them. If you "tweet," please follow and retweet our Twitter page @ctahrces100. Or check out our Facebook Page: CES CTAHR. Part of this effort is not only to celebrate Extension but to make us known both locally and nationally. Social media can help us.