Ilion High School - Class of 1953Herkimer Evening Telegram - March 28, 1953Judges Select Ilion Youth Leadership Award WinnerArticle 2Source pdf file is here Herkimer NY Evening Telegram 1953 00733.pdf on fultonhistory.com
Photo Caption: CONTEST WINNERS Michael Plano and Doreen Pelletier received $25 defense bonds last night from Earl Waldroff, exalted ruler of Ilion Elks Lodge, following their selection as Youth Leadership contest winners. Judges were Robert Patter on and Raymond Witter, high school principals at Herkimer and Little Falls. Shown, left to right, are Frank Capes, chairman of the Elks Youth Activities Committee; Plano, Miss Pelletier, Waldroff, T. S. Leahy, while Judges Patterson and Witter look on from the rear.
Judges Select Ilion Youth Leadership Award Winner ILION - Winners in the Elks Youth Leadership contest are Miss Doreen Pelletier, 80 S. Fourth Ave., Ilion, and Michael Plano, 535 Litchfield St., Frankfort, it was announced last night at the teen-age dance at the club. Judges in the contest were Robert Patterson, Herkimer Herkimer High School principal, and Raymond Witter, Little Falls High School principal. The youngsters were selected on leadership merits as vouched for by their teachers, parents, clergymen and friends. Miss Pelletier, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Pelletier, is one of the top honor seniors in Ilion High School and a member of the National Honor Society. She recently won first place in headline writing in a contest sponsored by the New "York State School Press Association. Michael, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Plano is one of Frankfort High's top ten honor students of this year's graduating class and has been an outstanding athlete throughout his high school days. The contest and dances have been sponsored by the Youth Activities committee of the local lodge headed by Frank Capes, assisted by Earl Waldroff, T. S. Leahy and Dale Johnson.
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