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Conference

Pictures

The

"Triple Threat"

Class

 

 For a printable picture with names, click HERE  [ PDF file  ]

For their Web-Page go to This Page

For a PDF copy of their CRITIQUE - Click HERE

 

Highlights from the April 28-May 1, 2011

Youth Leadership Conference

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  • 37 students from  22 high schools, 2 states, w/ 1 exchange student (Denmark)

  • The Award Winners:

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

George Washington Award

Most Outstanding Leader Award -  Julia Snipes

Lt Col Martin O. "MO" Detlie (USAF) Memorial Plaque and the

Thomas Jefferson Awards

Outstanding Leader  (female) - Katherine Barnett

Outstanding Leader  (male) -  Joshua Young

 

MOWW's Bronze Patrick Henry Medallion Awards

Cyril Anyetei-Anum

Tara Selfe

 

Superior Leader as Voted by His Peers - Zachary Adorno

 

Citizenship Awards

Courtney Harvey

Joshua Payne

 

Most Outstanding Leadership Group - Ashley Brenton, Jonah Brenton, Joshua Payne, Shawn Talley, Loralen Voliva

The $300 Tuition Fee for many of these students was provided by the several MOWW Chapters, Exchange Clubs, National Sojourners, Inc chapters, some parents, and Disabled American Veteran Chapter 13 of Yorktown.

 

 

                    Click HERE to read their comments about the Conference

 

 

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Past Conference Classes

The "First" Class

November 2002

The "Hooah" Class

April 2003

The "Freedom Shrine" Class

July 2003

The "Under the Boardwalk" Class

44 students from 7 States

April 2004 

The "Purple Heart" Class

40 students from 10 States

November 2004

The "Wind Talker" Class

42 Students from 10 States

April 2005

The "College Class" Class

21 Students from 6 States

November 2005

The" Awesome, All Friends" Class

46 Students from 10 States

April 2006

 

The "Veterans Day" Class

25 Students from 3 States

November 2006

see Class webpage

The "Jamestown Anniversary" Class

40 Students from 8 States 

April 2007

see Class webpage

The "Walking to Jamestown" Class

 26 Students from 6 States

November 2007

see Class webpage

 

The "Mo Detlie Memorial"Class

 33 Students from 4 States

November 2008

See Class Webpage

The "Learnin' the Ropes" Class

21 Students from 3 States 

April 2009

see Class webpage

 

The "Inquisitive Class"

32 students from 18 Virginia high schools

 
 
 Past Speakers
 

The Hon Anne Petera, Ex-Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia

John Rolfe, Husband of Pocahontas, and  America's first great entrepreneur

Dr. Nancy A. Bagranoff, Dean of the College of Business and Public Administration at Old Dominion University

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George Washington pauses for a 'portrait' near the James River at dusk

 

Thomas Jefferson

3rd President and primary author of Declaration of Independence

The Honorable Glenn Oder

 94th District Delegate to the Virginia General Assembly

 

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Richard Henry Lee

Delegate to 2nd Continental Congress, and actually proposed the Declaration of Independence 

The Honorable Gabe Morgan

Sheriff of Newport News, VA

Martha Washington with some insights about George and a Colonial woman's life

Jim Rice, Adjunct Professor Univ. of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and LTC, US Army (retired)

Captain John Paul Jones, Father of the U.S. Navy

Joe Emerson, C-Span Champion Teacher and Workshop Facilitator.

John Marshall, Secretary of State and 4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

The Honorable Harvey Morgan, District 98 Delegate to the Virginia General Assembly

Carter Braxton, Virginia Delegate to 2nd Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence

Deborah A. Hewitt, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor
Finance & Economics, College of William & Mary

Robert "Tex" Turner, COL, US Army (Ret) - Motivational leadership speaker

"Airborne"

Vernon J. Hurte, PhD. Assistant Director of Multicultural Affairs at The College of William & Mary

Meriwether Lewis, Explorer and surveyor of Lewis and Clark fame

The Honorable Melanie Rapp

 96th District Delegate to the Virginia General Assembly

John Marshall, Third Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

Virginia Delegate Phil Hamilton- Leadership in Government

Virginia Delegate Melanie Rapp - Leadership in Government

Greg Richardson, Senior Partner with Goodman & Company, the largest Virginia-based CPA and business consulting firm

  Conference Activities  

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We raise and lower the American Flag every day

Discussing Leadership attributes

 

Always a study guided tour of Colonial Williamsburg

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Skit Committee swept (?) the crowd

Yorktown Battlefield, where Revolutionary and Civil War battles were fought

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Yorktown Victory Monument,  celebrating Oct 19, 1781

Leaving on a jet plane- Florida,

New Hampshire, Utah, and California

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New category - Best Leadership Group Awardees

Bill Townsley introducing Col "Bri" Chabot, then CINC, MOWW

Daily News Committee doing their thing

 

Yorktown Battlefield Mortars in a Redoubt

Jim Rice's "Winning Colors" and personal leadership analysis

Jim Rice on Leadership

Earl Johnson Chaperone Extraordinaire

Investing $100,000 in all kinds of choices

"Wait until next year!!"

 

"..and the year after, we can put $10,000 here!!"

 

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"Charlie's Angles" singing their song

Guest, Lou Ferguson, leading Colonial Trivia challenge

National Sojourners "Building the Flag"

"After we build it, will it work?" - a Teamwork and Free Enterprise challenge

 

 

   

 

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The fort at Historic Jamestowne, first 'home' for the original colonists

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Chaperone Earl "Under the Boardwalk" Johnson

Hands-on Study Guided Tour of Jamestown Settlement to learn about life for the first colonist.   

"What are they doing?"

Bottom Line

Helping develop American Leaders, Patriots, and Citizens through current and historical teachings and leadership examples  

I think they won the Boardwalk Challenge!!

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