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Show Local Student Breaks Ground For National Leadership Center r Lynette Roper, 1981-82 national officer of Future Homemakers of America, officially broke ground for the organization's new national headquarters and leadership center in Reston, Virginia, a planned community 19 miles outside Washington, D.C., on Mon.,Sept. 28. The 30,000 square foot, three-level building will . be completed by the summer of 1982. "This center will give FHA so much more potential -- something tangible we can all take pride in - a project to show youth can do it " -said Lynette about the : project. The expanded space will make . it ' possible for the organization to provide better services to local chapters and more development training to state associations. As part of her duties as a national office, Lynette also attended a five-day training session at the national headquarters in Washington, D.C., Sep. 28 - Oct. 2. One of the most important outcomes out-comes of the week was planning the organization's 1982 National Leadership Meeting to be held in Atlanta, Georgia this summer. The student-developed student-developed theme and objective for this four-day four-day meeting is "Operation Out Reach-Move Reach-Move to Improve " ' 'During the school year, Lynette and 13 national officers will help direct programs for a national membership mem-bership of 395,000 young men and women in home economics and related occupations. They will sit on board of directors committees and develop future goals for the organization. In addition, they will head up the $2 million fund-raising fund-raising campaign for the new national leadership center. Lynette is a junior at Pleasant Grove High School. ' She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde V. Roper. Her chapter advisor is Joan Smith. Future Homemakers of America is a national vocational student organization founded in " 1945 with 2,387 chapters. Since then, it has in- LYNETTE ROPER volved over five and one half million young people and has grown to over 12,500 chapters with 395,000 members; v The Utah Association has 2,481 members in 64 chapters. . |