Highlights from the April 12-15, 2007

Youth Leadership Conference

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1.  40 students from 30 high schools and 8 states: KY (1), MO (1), NC (3), NH (1), NJ (2), OK (4), TX (1), and VA (27).   

 

 2. The Award Winners:

CMDR Everett "Red" Ryder, (USN, Ret) Perpetual Plaque and

George Washington Award

Most Outstanding Leader - Kathleen L. "Kate" Saunders

Thomas Jefferson Awards

Outstanding Leader  (female) - Cassie A. Powell

Outstanding Leader  (male) - McKinley A. "Leon" Noel

MOWW's Bronze Patrick Henry Medallion Awards

Cadets Crystal A. Harper and Scott A. Enos

Superior Leader as Voted by His Peers - McKinley A. "Leon" Noel

(New)  The Sons of the American Revolution Outstanding Citizenship Award - Elena Smirnova

Most Outstanding Leadership Group Award - Christy Buchwald, Scott Enos (Chairman), Karri Kypriandes, "Shack" Shackelford, Elena Smirnova

Note:  Due to an error in our previous calculations, for which we profusely apologize, this is a one-time award for the actual first place team, Group 3.  Group 7 (below) actually came in a close 2nd place.

Outstanding Group Leadership Award - Group 7

Alex Dahl, Crystal Harper, Chris Meekins, Christine Quilpa, Kyle Treacy

3.  The $250 Tuition Fees for many of these students were provided by the several MOWW Chapters, Exchange Clubs, Veterans of Foreign Wars and their Ladies Auxiliaries, Vietnam Veterans of America, the Air Force Association, the Williamsburg Chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, and a Disabled American Veteran Chapter .

 

The Exchange Club of York and friends of the foundation volunteered to provide  out-of-State student shuttle support.