Sarah Hughes, a junior
at Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Central School,
was recently elected Vice President of
Communications for the New York State
Association of Family, Career and Community
Leaders of America (FCCLA). Sarah’s
installation as a state officer for FCCLA
took place on Saturday, April 4, 2009,
during the organization’s annual leadership
meeting.
Along with five other
members of the State Executive Council,
Sarah will travel to Nashville, TN, in July
for the National FCCLA Annual Leadership
meeting. While there, Sarah will attend
special workshops and meetings for State
Association Officers from around the
country, as well as more general sessions
about issues of importance to teenagers and
effective methods for sharing this
information with peers.
During the 2009 -2010
school year, Sarah will travel around New
York State as an ambassador for the State
Organization. She will also be meeting
several times with the other members of the
executive council to plan the focus and
content of the 65th FCCLA State
Leadership meeting, which will be held at
the Owego Treadway Inn in Owego, NY, from
March 24-27, 2010.
FCCLA is a national
vocational student organization that has
involved more than 8 million youths since
its founding in 1945. It is the only
in-school organization with the family as
its central focus and it is unique among
youth organizations because its programs are
planned and run by the members.
Sarah is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Hughes of Selkirk.
Her chapter adviser is FACS teacher Alice
Lammly.
FCCLA STUDENTS
ATTEND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
Dee Dee Lovelace, Rebecca
Young, Kate Houghtaling, Patrick Moore,
Madison Smith, Sierra Bastian and Ashley
Wilbur
attended the FCCLA conference. They are
pictured here with Sarah
Hughes and their advisor, Alice Lammly.
A group of RCS students
who belong to FCCLA attended a day of
workshops run by the National Guard. During
these workshops, the students learned how to
work together as a team. The group R5 was
also there, performing their motivational
program against drug use.
