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Show v ftfftt & it, n-m! urn iH'imnp in ihmhw i '3SK A 1 11111 ilSfij (Ml CONGRESSIONAL SEMINAR. Tammy Robinson (left) and Blair Bentley (right) pose with their teacher Sandra Benson (center). The two outstanding students have been chosen to participate in a Congressional Seminar in Washington, D. C. PHS Students attend Washington Seminar PAROW AN - Blair Bentley and Tammy Robinson have been selected to attend a Congressional Seminar held in Washington D.C. Feb. 18-25. 18-25. The seminar is sponsored by the Washington Workshop Foundation as a non-profit, nonpartisan educational program in" American government for secondary school students. Blair Bentley and Tammy Robinson are seniors at Parowan High School and are very active in community com-munity and school affairs. They have demonstrated academic excellence in all fields at PHS and have a lively interest in government govern-ment affairs. They will enrich this interest by attending at-tending Congress, having sessions each day with high ranking officials from the White House staff, Pentagon officials, Supreme Court Justices and conducting a model congress. They will also see the Nation's capital with guided tours. The National Association of Secondary School Prin cipals has placed the Congressional Seminar on the Advisory list of National Contests and Activities for 1978-79. In addition, the program has received the support of the American Political Science Association, the National Association of Independent Schools, the National Council for the Social Studies, and is endorsed by the Smithsonian Institution's Office of Elementery and Secondary Education. The Washington Workshops Foundation is also the proud recipient of the American Award of the Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge for ''outstanding achievement in bringing about a better understanding un-derstanding of the American way of life. Sandra Benson, teacher of American History, Economics, American Problems, World History, and European History as well as the advisor to the Model U.N. Club will also accompany Alair and Tammy. |