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Show Four FBLA Leaders Go To Washington Meet Four members of the Pleasant Grove Chapter of Future Business Leaders of America will leave on June 15 for Washington D.C. to attend the 25th annual FBLA Natioanal Leadership Conference. Con-ference. FBLA is the national organization for students interested in-terested in and preparing for careers in business and business education. The national organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C, has close to 7000 chapters in the U.S., Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands and has a total membership of 130,000 students. Approximately 3,000 students and advisers are expected at this year's conference. con-ference. President Gerald Ford is scheduled to speak at one of the sessions. The major business of the conference is the election of national officers for the 1976-77 school year and a series of competitive events between chapters and state delegations. Pleasant Grove Chapter won two first place awards at the state conference, exhibit and money management project, and will compete in those two events. Those students going from Pleasant Grove are: Steven Harvey, Arnold Oliphant, Don Fenton, and Tina Jackson. Advisor Affra Nelson and her husband, Ray, will accompany the group. |