American Legion Field-Allen Post 148 has established the
following time frame as guidance for the high school junior boys and girls
wishing to attend their respective Dirigo State conventions in June 2016.
Interested juniors should submit their names to the Windham
High School guidance office and receive an information package before March 18th.
On March 18th representatives for the
Field-Allen Post and Field-Allen Auxiliary along with some of last year’s
delegates will brief this year’s juniors on the process and expectations. Application
forms will be available at this meeting.
On April Friday, April 1st, the Legion and
Auxiliary representatives will be at Windham High School to conduct individual
interviews for those interested candidates who have their paperwork completed. All
application forms, parental consent and medical forms must be completed by
April 1st to be considered.
Following the interview, the Legion and Auxiliary
committees will review the applications and recommend primary and alternate
candidates to attend Boys State and Girls State in June. Notifications will be
made of the results of the committee meetings the following week.
The current funding is for three boys and two girls to
attend their respective programs. If additional funding becomes available, than
additional candidates will be considered.
The funding for the programs, room and meals, is paid in
full by the Legion community (with the help of donations). Individual
candidates will be responsible for their own transportation to the Dirigo
locations and for incidental spending funds.
Specific needs are addressed in the information packages
provided to each candidate.
The Boys State convention will be held a Thomas College
in Waterville, the week of June 19th to the 23rd.
The Girls State convention will be held at Husson
University in Bangor the week of June 19th to the 23rd.
The convention is a very intense, emersion in government
programs. Once a delegate has committed to attending, they should plan on
staying for the entire week.
Those chosen by the State Convention will go on to a
National Convention. Three years ago, Windham was fortunate to send two
delegates selected by the State Convention to represent the State of Maine in
Washington DC.
For additional information, contact the high school
guidance office or go to the American Legion, Dept. of Maine website at http://www.mainelegion.org
and click programs in the left column, or http://www.maineala.org
and see Girls State. Locally, contact Mel Greenier at 892-7449 (boys) or Pam
Whynot at 892-4720 (girls).
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