Attention Bedford High School Sophomores

ATTENTION SOPHOMORES


Applications are now being accepted for the
17th Annual District 7910

Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Conference

June 26th through June 28 th, 2009

The Conference is aimed at giving young women and men an opportunity to develop their leadership potential. It will feature many thought-¬provoking events including inter¬active Leadership Labs, exciting guest speakers, and challenging mental and physical activities that will provide you with a chance to excel amongst and with your peers.

If selected, you will live, work and interact together with other students your age in an atmosphere of friendly competition. The program will challenge you to utilize and improve your skills and accept the responsi¬bili¬ties of leadership. Topics will include critical thinking, decision-making and ethics, communi¬cating effectively and public service.

There is no charge to attend RYLA!

But, there is a limit to how many can participate…The Rotary Club of Bedford will be conducting interviews and awarding Conference scholarship(s).

APPLY EARLY! Applications must be submitted before March 29, 2009 to be eligible to attend.

For more information, contact Christine Pinney, 781-271-0398 Christine@ChristinePinneyMarketing.com

Looking for nominees for a Rotary Leadership Conference- Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:
Christine Pinney,(Club’s RYLA Contact Name)

RYLA Chair, Public Relations Chair (Title)
781-271-0398_(Home Phone)
781-271-0398_(Work Phone)
(509) 271-0396_(Fax Number)

Christine@ChristinePinneyMarketing . com (take out spaces)

http://ryla.rotary7910.org

Rotary offers fantastic Youth Leadership Conference opportunity for high school sophomores

BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS – March 2, 2009 -- The Rotary Club of Bedford is actively searching for qualified candidates to attend this year’s Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) Conference! To be held from June 26th through June 28th, 2009 at Worcester State College in Worcester, the 17th Annual RYLA Conference will offer outstanding high school sophomores an opportunity to live, work and interact together in an atmosphere of friendly competition. It will be a program designed to challenge the participants to utilize and improve their skills and accept the responsibilities of leadership. Best of all, there is no charge to the students for the program! The Rotary Club of Bedford will sponsor 4 participants at this year’s conference.

Christine Pinney , local Committee Chairperson, said that participants would be selected from young women and men who have exhibited leadership abilities and who will be entering their Junior year of high school in the fall. The Rotary Club of Bedford is now contacting high school principals, guidance counselors, youth organizations and other sources for nominations of conference participants.

Aimed at developing the leadership potential of young men and women, the conference will feature many thought-provoking events including interactive Leadership Labs, exciting guest speakers, and challenging mental and physical activities that will provide the participants with a chance to excel amongst and with their peers. Topics will include decision-making, critical thinking, communicating effectively, ethics, and public service.

Anyone interested in obtaining further information should visit http://ryla.rotary7910.org/ or contact:
Christine Pinney at 781-271-0398 Christine@ChristinePinneyMarketing.com or any other member of the Rotary Club of Bedford.

Alexia Bililies named Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar

Congratulations to Alexia Bililies ’09 who has been named a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar for 2009-10!

From Bedford, Massachusetts, Alexia was a double major in

• International Studies and
  
• Humanities and Arts, and
  
• recently graduated with High Distinction in February 2009
  

At WPI,
Alexia studied Spanish language and culture at Grenada, Spain, and completed an interdisciplinary project on HIV/AIDS prevention strategies in Windhoek, Namibia. In the fall of 2008, she completed her senior project while working on the People’s Pharmacy Project with Caritas Internationalis in Santiago, Dominican Republic. Alexia has also served as an intern with the Massachusetts Public Health Association in Boston and the Bureau of Prisons Federal Medical Center in Ayer. She was a member of Phi Sigma Sigma, Crimson Key, and the Social and Legal Issues Club and served actively as a volunteer in the Worcester community.

As a Rotary Scholar,

• Alexia will complete a Masters in Disaster Management at the University of Copenhagen next year.
• The purpose of the Ambassadorial Scholarships program is to further international understanding and friendly relations among people of different countries and geographical areas.
• While abroad, scholars serve as goodwill ambassadors to the host country and give presentations about their homelands to Rotary clubs and other groups.
  
• Upon returning home, scholars share with Rotarians and others the experiences that led to a greater understanding of their host country.

The Rotary Foundation's Ambassadorial Scholarships program is
currently the world's largest privately funded international scholarships program for university-level studies. Since 1947, nearly 38,000 men and women from about 100 nations have studied abroad under its auspices. Examples of outstanding Rotary alumni include the Bill Moyers, a US journalist; Sadako Ogata, UN High Commissioner for Refugees; Paul Volcker, former chairman of the US Federal Reserve Board; Carlos Alberto Da Mota Pinto, former prime minister of Portugal; Otto Borch, Danish ambassador to the US; Helmut Jahn, architect; Chiharu Sakai, Japanese pianist; Kerry Healey, former lieutenant governor of Massachusetts; and Roger Ebert, a popular US film critic.

Congratulations once again to Alexia, who joins Akanksha Sharma ’08, Helena Zec ’06, Christin Reynolds ’04, and Karen Kosinski, ’02 as recent Rotary Ambassadorial Scholars from WPI.