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Show Bryce Youth To National Youth Leadership Meet BRYCE Teresa Anderson, Bryce, attended the 1991 National Young Leaders Conference from June 18-23 in Washington, D.C. Having demonstrated academic achievement, leadership and citizenship, citi-zenship, Teresa was among 350 outstanding high school students a from across the nation at the con-' ference sponsored by the Congressional Congres-sional Youth Leadership Council. The theme of the conference was "The Leaders of Tomorrow Meeting the Leaders of Today." Throughout the uniquely designed six-day conference, Teresa met with key leaders and newsmakers from the three branches of government, gov-ernment, the media and the diplomatic diplo-matic corps. Highlights of Teresa's week in Washington were a lobbying seminar semi-nar and a panel discussion led by prominent journalists at the National Na-tional Press Club. She explored executive branch decision-making in a simulation entitled "If I were President." Teresa met with Senator Jake Garn, Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Representative Rep-resentative James V. Hansen. These meetings provided an opportunity oppor-tunity to discuss important policy issues and focus on topics of state and local concern. Culminating the National Young Leaders Conference Con-ference was the Mock Congress on Gun Control, during which scholars schol-ars assumed the roles of United States representatives by debating, lobbying, and voting on proposed hand gun legislation. Founded in 1985, the Council is a non-profit, non-partisan educational educa-tional organization committed to recognizing outstanding youth like Teresa and providing them with a "hands-on" civic learning experience experi-ence in the nation's capital. Over 325 members of the United States ? 1. I ; : : : , Teresa Anderson Congress have joined in the commitment com-mitment to educational excellence as members of the Council's Honorary Congressional Board of Advisors. "I firmly believe that by touching touch-ing one life, the National Young Leaders Conference enriches thousands thou-sands more," said John Hines, Council Executive Director. "Scholars return to their schools and communities charged with the lifelong duty of leading all Americans Amer-icans to better understand their rights and responsibilities in this participatory democracy." |