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	Boys/Girls State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Each* of these Boys State and Girls State groups sends two delegates to Boys Nation and Girls Nation, in Washington, D.C. These delegates are usually the participants elected to the Governor and Lt. Governor positions.
		Louisiana Boys and Girls State, second largest of the organizations, does not send delegates because its program overlaps the national convention.
		Boys State and Girls State are summertime programs geared towards leadership and citizenship training sponsored by the American Legion for high school students between their junior and senior years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Girls_State (284 words)

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	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/nation.html (1254 words)

	Illinois Boys State
		Boys Nation delegates debate issues of public affairs, elect national officers, meet with members of the United States Senate and other officials, and are welcomed to the White House by the President of the United States.
		Boys Nation is a week long all expense paid leadership conference held each summer in Washington, DC.
		Two delegates from Illinois Boys State are chosen each year to represent the high school students in Illinois as delegates to the American Legion Boys Nation.
	illinoisboysstate.org /whatisboysstate/boysnation.htm (170 words)

	Boys State/ Boys Nation
		Boys Nation is patterned after the federal government, with its legislative sessions conducted in accordance with the rules for operation of the U.S. Senate.
		Besides operating their own version of the federal government, Boys Nation delegates tour the Capitol, the Pentagon, the Supreme Court and various memorials.
		Cost for each boy is $185.00 which is borne by Springfield Post 176 through donations to the Post.
	www.vapost176.org /boysst.htm (275 words)

	Boys Nation -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Boys Nation is an annual civic training event run by the (The largest organization of United States war veterans) American Legion.
		Former delegates to Boys Nation include (42nd President of the United States (1946-)) Bill Clinton and (Click link for more info and facts about Gaddi Vasquez) Gaddi Vasquez.
		Each year, two delegates in their junior year of (A public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12) high school are selected from each of the forty-eight American Legion Boys State programmes through the USA.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bo/boys_nation.htm (123 words)

	Boys fall behind girls in grades - 01/09/05
		PLYMOUTH -- The nation's boys are slipping and researchers say it's time to worry.
		Boys have traditionally been more physically active than girls and these characteristics are more pronounced earlier in life during the first years of school.Differences in learning behaviors were immediately clear for Fellows, the West Bloomfield mother of two boys and two girls.
		Twelve percent of boys were dropouts in 2001, compared to 9 percent of girls, according to the department.
	www.detnews.com /2005/schools/0501/09/A01-54261.htm (1976 words)

	Concerned Women for America - Feminizing the Nation's Boys
		At the recent United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women, the focus was on the role of men and boys in achieving gender equality.
		As a consequence, boys are falling further and further behind girls in academic achievement, and more and more of them are growing up uncertain about how to express their masculinity.
		For girls as well as boys, those qualities are essential for leadership and for achieving one's goals though, for Christians, they must be governed by appropriate motivation and exercised under the authority of Scripture.
	www.cwfa.org /articledisplay.asp?id=5694&department=BLI&categoryid=dotcommentary (887 words)

	American Legion
		Boys State attendance gives college bound students a decisive edge and is considered by scholarship committees and other select groups as important demonstration of commitment and leadership skills.
		Any worthy boy who completes his junior year in high school during the calendar year 2005 is eligible to attend the 2005 Boys State Session.
		Donations from individuals and groups are needed to make up the difference.
	www.ndlegion.org /boysstate.htm (986 words)

	Foul play ruled out in boys' deaths - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
		Sarubbi said an uncle of one of the boys wanted to look in the trunk because he was searching for a set of jumper cables.
		He said one of the boys had in the past played in the car, but did not say which one.
		That report is also expected to reveal the time the boys died, which authorities said they did not yet know.
	washingtontimes.com /national/20050625-104918-2921r.htm (593 words)

	Weber State University - Utah Boys' State
		The Boys' State program is sponsored by the American Legion in each respective state of the country to supplement high school civics instruction.
		Participation in Utah Boys' State is open to young men, based on availability, who maintain good citizenship and are in good academic standing.
		Further information regarding attendance at Utah Boys' State can be obtained from the respective high school counselor or local American Legion Post.
	www.weber.edu /AcademicAffairs/misc/utboysstate.html (404 words)

	Boys Nation
		The democratic and political processes are emphasized through the organization of party conventions and the nomination and election of an American Legion Boys Nation president and vice president.
		Each American Legion Boys Nation delegate represents his home state as a "Senator." The "Senators" caucus at the beginning of the session, organize into committees and conduct hearings on bills.
		The American Legion Boys Nation program provides a week of hands-on government experience in the nation's capital, combining lectures and forums with visits to federal agencies, institutions, memorials and historical spots.
	www.txlegion.org /boys_nation.htm (176 words)

	boys-nation
		At Buckeye Boys State, candidates to be considered for Boys Nation are nominated by their Section Heads and interviewed by a Boys Nation Selection Panel, composed of Buckeye Boys State staff members.
		Boys Nation follows the national political process and culminates its program with the election of the President of Boys Nation.
		Boys Nation delegates will tour many historic sites in and around Washington D.C. Boys Nation delegates lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery.
	www.ohiobuckeyeboysstate.com /boys-nation.htm (261 words)

	CD Baby: THE LOST BOYS: Rogues in a Nation
		Ironically, after an ensuing Royal Command Performance, the Lost Boys became a regular entertainment for the English nobility, all amidst exclamations of, "how shocking!" and, "they're scandalous!" from the delighted members of the royal court (an item of gossip from the period had it that Elizabeth was quite taken with Clarence, but this is unconfirmed).
		From what information survives, the modern scholar can glean this much: the earliest record of the Lost Boys' existence comes in the form of a manuscript, dated 1592, of an a cappella setting of "Who Is Sylvia?" from William Shakespeare's Two Gentleman of Verona, discovered in an early edition of the First Folio.
		The Lost Boys were comprised of four members.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/lostboys (1633 words)

	Journal Gazette/Times-Courier Online
		Local American Legion officials speculated that Walworth is the first Boys State delegate from Mattoon to move on to Boys Nation.
		After all, Walworth is only one of two delegates who will represent Illinois at the American Legion& Boys Nation leadership conference July 23-31 in the nation's capital.
		Boys State participants are divided into "counties," and Walworth's county chose him as its nominee for the conference's sportsmanship award.
	www.jg-tc.com /articles/2004/06/25/news/news04.txt (476 words)

	Illinois Boys State
		William was the Boys State representative from Illinois for the 2005 Samsung scholarship.
		Boys State would like to congratulate William Holdsworth of Sherrard, Illinois.
		In addition to his $1000 state scholarship, he has been awarded a $20,000 national scholarship.
	www.illinoisboysstate.org (162 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / For boys, new home, new parents
		The boys wolfed down their breakfast cereal and rushed off to school, saying goodbye to ``Mom'' and ``Dad.'' Sometime around Christmas, without explanation, the boys had stopped calling Anne and Jim by their first names.
		Anne believed the boys were constantly comparing her to the other ``mothers'' in their lives: Barbara, whom they still loved, and their foster mother.
		They were barely awake when they heard the boys tumbling out of their bunk beds and charging toward the Christmas tree in the living room.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2003/08/26/for_boys_new_home_new_parents (3967 words)

	www.mabsf.org
		Each year two citizens of Boys State are selected by their peers after a week of campaigning to become US Senators and represent Massachusetts in Washington, D.C.at Boys' Nation.
		The young men of Boys' Nation and the young women of Girls Nation were invited to the White House to meet President John F. Kennedy.
		In 1962, when Bill Clinton was a senior in high school, he was chosen to go to Washington, D.C., to participate in Boys' Nation.
	www.mabsf.org (240 words)

	Nevada Boys' State Nevada's premier leadership and citizenship training program.
		While Arnold and the executive staff were on the tour the 59th session of the Nevada Boys' State Legislature was in session in the Legislature building and a mock trial was in progress in the Nevada Supreme Court chambers.
		If you are an alumnus of the 2005 Nevada Boys' State session and would like to come back on staff login to the website and complete the 2006 Staff Application.
		When I was a young boy in Searchlight, going to school in Henderson, I had never traveled out of the area except to play baseball.
	www.nevadaboysstate.org (946 words)

	Welcome to the Daily Updates page.
		The names of the Boys' Nation delegates and the results of the city competition will be announced.
		Boys' Staters received qualified instruction and advice during the week from elected state officials.
		As groups of Tennessee high school juniors have been doing since 1949, this year's Boys' State delegates learned how to make contributions to their communities as future leaders by putting in a week of hard work and fun studying state government and politics.
	www.tntech.edu /tnboysstate/dailyupdates.htm (2329 words)

	Boys and Girls Clubs in Indian Country
		Building on the strong network of Boys and Girls Clubs located in Indian Country, the Navajo Nation is teaming with Boys and Girls Clubs across six targeted states to establish and implement the program.
		While the Navajo Nation will administer the entire project, the partnership includes 16 Boys and Girls Club organizations that serve over 20 tribes and are located in the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, Montana, South Dakota and North Dakota.
		The Navajo Nation has also subcontracted with FirstPic, Inc., a consulting firm who has been instrumental in establishing Boys and Girls Clubs in Indian Country since 1996 and has overseen several national program initiatives in Indian Country.
	www.naclubs.org /main/mentor.shtml (567 words)

	American Legion Post 119 Gulfport Mississippi - Boys State Program
		Boys States and Girls States vary in content and method of procedure, but each and every Boys State and Girls State adheres to the basic concept of the program...that of teaching Government from the Township to the State level.
		Boys State was originated by the Illinois Department of the American Legion in 1934.
		Mississippi's Boys State is known for it's leadership development and motivation, its dynamic and energetic Staff, and for the exceptional support the program receives from Legionnaires from across the State.
	members.tripod.com /post_119_gulfport_ms/bgstate1.html (5786 words)

	BoysNation
		Boys Nation - 2001, Washington D.C. Andrew Culp was one of the two delegates from the Nebraska Boys State selected to attend Boys Nation in Washington D.C. in July.
		The Madison Section at the 2001 Boys Nation.
		The Nebraska Boys and Girls Nation delegation with President George W. Bush.
	www.angelfire.com /trek/wgc/Christmas2001/BoysNation.htm (126 words)

	William Jefferson Clinton
		In high school in Hot Springs, Ark., Clinton considered becoming a doctor, but politics beckoned after a meeting with President John F. Kennedy in Washington, DC, on a Boys' Nation trip.
		Clinton taught at the University of Arkansas (1974–1976), was elected state attorney general (1976), and in 1979 became the nation's youngest governor.
		In an address to the nation that evening, he admitted to having had an “inappropriate relationship” with Lewinsky, but reaffirmed that he had not asked anyone to lie about or cover up the affair.
	www.factmonster.com /ipa/A0760626.html (1491 words)

	MSN Encarta - Bill Clinton
		In 1963, after his junior year in high school, Clinton was elected as one of two delegates from Arkansas to Boys Nation, a government study program for young people sponsored by the American Legion, a veterans organization.
		Clinton worked as a campaign coordinator for McGovern in Texas and Arkansas, and Rodham helped organize a voter-registration drive for the Democratic National Committee.
		He held several student offices, played the tenor saxophone, and was a member of the all-state band.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761564341 (903 words)

	Northpinellas: Teen rides junior politics' fast track
		Clearwater Mayor Brian Aungst's son shines at Boys State, makes the cut to Boys Nation and hopes to lead the group.
		Preparing for Boys State wasn't a priority for Aungst, but he has a game plan for the upcoming national program.
		Aungst, a program standout, had to ace two rigorous interviews before making the cut for Boys Nation.
	www.sptimes.com /News/070701/news_pf/NorthPinellas/Teen_rides_junior_pol.shtml (710 words)

	Missouri Boys State Press Releases
		Rippel was elected by the 96 participants of the Boys Nation program held at Marymount University in Arlington, VA earlier this week.
		Jordan M. Loggins of Chesterfield, MO was elected Governor of the 66th session of The American Legion Boys State of Missouri held on the campus of Central Missouri State University.
		Former Missouri Governor Bob Holden, a long-time supporter and volunteer at The American Legion Boys State of Missouri was inducted into the MBS Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Hendricks Hall at Central Missouri State University.
	www.moboysstate.org /press (1380 words)

	An era ends at Girls and Boys Town - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
		While in the public imagination, Girls and Boys Town is primarily thought of as an orphanage, most of the troubled young people living on its campus have been referred by families or social service agencies.
		In addition to the task of overseeing the 500-plus children and all the staffers at the Omaha campus, Father Peter has acted as an unofficial pastor to the national parish created by Girls and Boys Town.
		Assets include a research hospital in Omaha, a national resource and training center and a publishing arm, Boys Town Press.
	washingtontimes.com /national/20050702-123921-5213r.htm (497 words)

	Boys State
		Out of the boys that go to boys state, only 2 from each state are selected for boys nation, held in DC.
		Boys State is sponsored by the American Legion, and its counterpart, Girls State is sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary.
		There were 4 boys from my school selected, but from the area around where i go to school, including the town i live in, i know a little over 20 guys that are going.
	www.collegeconfidential.com /discus/messages/5/10260.html (2430 words)

	American Legion Boys Nation 2002 Homepage
		Boys Nation is a nationwide program of the American Legion which teaches federal government policies and practices to high school juniors in a week-long simulation.
		Welcome to the American Legion Boys Nation 2002 Website.
		Schedule of the 2002 Session of Boys Nation
	www.legion.org /boysnation/2002 (243 words)

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