12 from CEMC area join Washington
Youth Tour
A dozen high school
students will be heading for one of the world’s most awesome
classrooms this summer as participants in the Washington Youth
Tour. This week-long trip to the nation’s capitol is sponsored by
Cumberland Electric Membership Corporation and other rural
electric cooperatives throughout the United States.
Beginning Friday,
June 12, students from all across the country will explore many of
the historic monuments and tourist destinations of Washington,
D.C., accompanied by co-op employees and school representatives
from their home areas.
To qualify for
the trip, students wrote essays on the theme, “Electric
Cooperatives: Energizing Our Communities.” Winners were determined
by the Austin Peay State University
English department. Besides the incentive of the trip of a
lifetime, paid for by CEMC, the writers of the top three essays
statewide will be awarded college scholarships valued at $1,000,
$2,000 and $3,000 from the Tennessee Electric Cooperative
Association.
The following
students from the CEMC service area will be participating in this
year’s trip:
• Jamie Edwards,
daughter of Jimmy and Charlene Edwards of Clarksville. Jamie
attends Cheatham Central High School.
• Katie Fletcher,
daughter of John and Julie Fletcher of Adams. Katie attends Jo
Byrns High School.
• Angel
Gabbard, daughter of
Shanda Springer of Pleasant View.
Angel attends Sycamore High School.
• Colby
Gallahar, son of Scotty and Becky
Gallahar of Portland. Colby attends
Portland High School.
• Spencer
Garrett, son of Larry and Sherry Garrett of White House. Spencer
attends White House Heritage High School.
• Hunter Hammock,
son of Harry and Tami Hammock of Chapmansboro.
Hunter attends Cheatham Central High School.
• Weston Keen,
son of Ricky and Kay Keen of Portland. Weston attends Portland
High School.
• William Miles,
son of Louis Miles of Palmyra and Suzanne Cline of Clarksville.
William attends Montgomery Central High School.
• Drew Nash, son
of Andy and Emi Nash of White House. Drew attends White House
Heritage High School.
• Stephanie Shaw,
daughter of Steve and Wanda Shaw of Indian Mound. Stephanie
attends Stewart County High School.
• Kristen
Switzer, daughter of Russ and Rae Switzer of Dover. Kristen
attends Stewart County High School.
• Kelsey White, son of Steve and
Sandra White of Greenbrier.
Kelsey attends Greenbrier High School.
Accompanying the
students and CEMC staff representatives on the tour is Helena
Baier, a history teacher at Portland
High School.
Some of the sites
on this year’s tour are Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson;
the Marine Museum at Quantico; a guided tour of the Jefferson,
Lincoln, Vietnam, Korean and World War II memorials; Arlington
National Cemetery; the Holocaust Museum; Washington National
Cathedral; Mt. Vernon, the home of George Washington; and the
Smithsonian.
There’s a reason
so many past participants in the Washington Youth Tour have
described it as “the trip of a lifetime”: It is!
