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Secretary of State Natalie Tennant speaks at ALMBS

Secretary of State Natalie Tennant
Secretary of State Natalie Tennant

Natalie E. Tennant was sworn in as West Virginia’s 29th Secretary of State on January 19, 2009. Since taking office, Secretary Tennant has focused on initiatives to create an open and engaging government for our citizens, maintaining fair and honest elections and implementing efficient technologies to better serve the businesses and agencies of our state.

Secretary Tennant attended West Virginia University where she earned her bachelor’s degree in Journalism and master’s degree in Corporate & Organizational Communication. While at WVU, Tennant was selected as the first female Mountaineer mascot.

Following the completion of her undergraduate degree Tennant started her broadcasting career working at television stations in Clarksburg and Charleston where she reported the news for more than ten years. Prior to being elected, Tennant was co-owner of Wells Media Group LLC, a Charleston based video production and media training company she operated with husband Erik Wells.

Secretary Tennant is dedicated to using a practical and common sense approach in fulfilling her duties as the Secretary of State. It is her principle belief that being an elected official allows for her to be a servant to the people of West Virginia.

Secretary Tennant is very active with the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS).  She is currently Co-Chair of the International Relations Committee and only days upon entering office presented and was awarded a bid to host the 2011 NASS Summer Conference.  Tennant represented West Virginia while traveling with a dozen other secretaries of state in Taiwan.  She met with Taiwan President Ma Ying-Jiao along with officials from the Taiwanese Council of Agricultural and Mainland Affairs and other national leaders and business owners. Recently, Tennant was named one of only twenty-four (24) to the Aspen Institute’s Rodel Fellowship program in public service. She is the first and only West Virginian to receive the fellowship in the five years of its existence.

Along with her duties as Secretary of State, Tennant also sits on the boards of the American Heart Association and Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Secretary Tennant currently resides in Charleston with husband State Senator Erik Wells and daughter Delaney.

For further information please contact:
Ashley Parsons
aparsons@wvsos.com
304.558.6000

http://www.sos.wv.gov/

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ALMBS 2011 Journalism Staff

Full Time Staff

Position Name Cottage
General Manager Swayde Carpenter Calhoun
Newspaper Editor Devin McIlvain Braxton
Broadcast Manager Alec Salakovich Panhandle
Staff Reporters Andrew Carroll Gilmer
Alex Jones Braxton
Jesse Kidd Lewis
Tyler Moyers Barbour
Clark Palmer Gilmer
Alex Petry Kanawha
Sam Ransbottom Monongalia
Cameraman/Photographer Nick Robertson Barbour
Graphic Design Alden Roth Lewis
Xavier Nolan Panhandle
Website Coordinator Austin Shahan Kanawha

Part Time Staff

Position Name Cottage
Cottage Reporters Michael Bragg Webster/Barbour
Nick Brownstead Randolph
Robert Fulton Monroe
Seth Hamrick Kanawha
Austin Hickman Marion
Troy King Lewis
Patrick Means Braxton
Michael Roy Gilmer/Calhoun
Drew Wade Monongalia/Upshur
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Rosie the Riveters speaks at ALMBS

Rosies 2011

Mazie Mullins, from Clendenin, was a Rosie the Riveter. During World War II, she riveted bombers at Goodyear Aircraft in Akron. She actively works with Thanks! Plain and Simple and other Rosies to make the West Virginia Rosie the Riveter Project a model for America .

As a child she helped her family clear the land for a farm and house. As a pre-teen, she worked for .75 cents a day doing laundry for lumberjacks. As a young woman, at Goodyear, her motivation was to “bring our boys home.” Her fiancé was killed in action just before he was to come home on leave to marry her. She says of these experiences, “I am glad learned the value of hard work, early. I am blessed to have worked hard for my country to help bring our boys home safely. Unfortunately, many did not make it home. Rosies just wanted to do our best to help end that war.”

Mazie is one Rosie featured in the film, “We Pull Together: Rosie the Riveters, Then and Now” which Thanks! Plain and Simple’s has planned and managed.

Ilene Humphreys is Mazie’s daughter. She is on the Honorary Board to help work with leaders to teach about Rosie the Riveters. (Daughters of Rosie the Riveters are called, “rosebuds.)

Anne Montague is the Executive Director of Thanks! Plain and Simple, the nonprofit organization that has created the West Virginia Rosie the Riveter Project, so that the rest of America will model our state in finding and learning from our Rosies. She is Executive Director of the film, “We Pull Together: Rosie the Riveters, Then and Now” to premiere in Charleston the evening of June 28th at the Capital Theatre.

Tijah Bumgarner is the videographer for the West Virginia Rosie the Riveter Project. Originally from Fayette County, she graduated from Cal Arts in Los Angles, and she is now getting a graduate degree in film making at West Virginia State University.

http://www.thanksplainandsimple.com/
Thanks! Plain and Simple
5313 Carleton Ct (Suite F)
Charleston, WV 25313
(304) 776–4743 (Ofc)
(304) 545–9818 (Cell)

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Attorney General Darrel McGraw Speaks at ALMBS

  • Born November 8, 1936 and raised in McGraws, Wyoming County, West Virginia
  • Married to Jorea Marple, and has four children
  • Attended West Virginia University, Graduated with B.A., M.A., and J.D.
  • Awarded post-graduate Fellow/Scholar funded by the Ford Foundation
  • Served as counsel to West Virginia Governor Hulett C. Smith
  • Served as general attorney to the federal government in State Department
  • Served as counsel to West Virginia Legislature
  • Was in private practice from 1969-1976
  • Justice of West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, 1976-1988
  • Chief Justice of West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, 1984 and 1988
  • Elected as 35th West Virginia State Attorney General 1992-Current (Elected 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004)
  • Appointed to Council of State Governments by National Association of Attorneys General

http://www.wvago.gov/

Main Office
Phone: (304) 558-2021
Consumer Hotline: 1-800-368-8808
Fax: (304) 558-0140

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College Fair

American Legion Mountaineer Boys State

Career Day – College Fair

All 4 year Colleges and Universities, as well as, Potomac State College of WVU are invited to participate in the annual Career Day – College Fair for the Boys’ State program.

Program Information:

The Boys’ State program is held each year as a training ground for the leaders of tomorrow. The program encourages good government through participation in a model state experience.

The program annually hosts over 300 students, all of which are rising seniors (Class of 2012).

This is an honors camp experience with minimum GPA, school administration, and community leadership recommendation requirements to be eligible.  West Virginia’s best and brightest students take part in the week long program.

Program Details:

West Virginia American Legion Mountaineer Boys’ State College Fair will be held on June 17th with set-up starting at 12:15pm in the Assembly Hall at WVU Jackson’s Mill, Weston, WV.

RSVP’s for Boys’ State should be directed to Chris Sharps by e-mail at: Chris.Sharps@wvlegion.org.

Response deadline is Wednesday June 8th.

If you have any questions, need additional information, or would like directions to the fair sites, please correspond with the representative listed above.

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2011 ALMBS Manual of Government

This manual provides everything needed for you to complete a successful week at the American Legion Mountaineer Boys State.  You will receive a copy of this upon your successful registration at the program on Sunday, June 12, 2011.

2011 ALMBS Manual

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Director Clarence Walton

WALTON, Clarence E., 63, of Cameron, W.Va., died Thursday, May 26, 2011 at Ruby Memorial Hospital, Morgantown, W.Va.

He was born April 30, 1948 in Glen Dale, W.Va., the son of the late Homer and Marcella Morris Walton.

Clarence was a retired school bus driver with Marshall County Schools, a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War, and a Christian by faith. He was a member of the American Legion, Cameron Post #18, for which he held many offices; Director of the American Legion Mountaineer Boys State; a former Dept. of West Virginia American Legion Vice-Commander; a certified Hunter Education Instructor; and a former 4-H leader.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two brothers, Earl and Marvin Walton; a sister, Rose Verledene Crouse.

Surviving are his wife of 28 years, Marjorie Walton; two daughters, Carrie (James) Plourde of State College, Pa. and Chelsea Walton (Evan) Hewitt of Cameron; a sister, Helen Robinson of Moundsville; two grandsons, Conner and Owen Plourde; several nieces and nephews.

Friends will be received at a memorial gathering from 1 until time of Memorial Service at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 29, 2011 at the Altmeyer Funeral Home, Lutes & Kirby-Vance Chapel, 118 Grant Avenue, Moundsville, with Rev. Doug Richardson officiating.

The Cameron Honor Guard will conduct military services at the funeral home.

Interment will be at the convenience of the family in Highland Cemetery, Cameron.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Mountaineer Boys State, American Legion Dept. of WV, Attention: Mountaineer Boys State, P.O. Box 3191, Charleston, WV 25332.

Online condolences may be expressed at www.altmeyer.com.

The American Legion Mountaineer Boys State is permitting comments for those who would like to share a story about Clarence.  Please do so below.

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Governor George Capel

2010 Governor
73rd ALMBS Governor

George Capel won the office of Governor in General elections this week, and has been in charge of, in principle, all of MBS.  George came to MBS from Wood County, and was a citizen in Kanawha Cottage.  He had a part in much of the MBS business politically, and also had a quote for this 73rd Boys State.  “Money can’t buy happiness; however, it can make you very comfortable in your unhappiness.”  He also had a specific piece of advice for the next Governor of Boys State, “Don’t wait until 20 minutes before the ceremony to write your inauguration speech.”

Governor Cody Steffick

2009 ALMBS Governor
72nd ALMBS Governor

Today excitement hit a new level as Cody Steffick, native of Marion cabin and Hurricane, West Virginia, was inaugurated as the 72nd governor of Mountaineer Boys State along with the rest of the state officials. Judge Fred Fox took the honor of inaugurating our new Supreme Justices, Commissioner of Agriculture, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, Speaker of the House, and Governor. As each official took his oath of office the crowd was silent in utter reverence and their words echoed around the room, filling the gaps of the room and the minds of the citizens. Following the oaths was a powerful address from Cody Steffick. Governor Steffick made the following statement during his speech, ”Today we are no longer Nationalist or Federalists, we are one Boys State!.”  His ideas of bipartisan leadership and cooperation were vital in his campaign, which solicited over 86% of the votes. Now as the week continues, we can see firsthand the work of our new governor and continue in the positive direction that his fantastic leadership and political prowess has pointed us in.

Governor Dane Hamilton

2008 ALMBS Governor
71st ALMBS Governor

Last nightes debate was very, very interesting. The position for Boys State Governor may very well have rested on the candidatees responses. The Nationalist candidate, Dane “The Train” Ham-ilton, responded to the questions very well, especially with his clever answer for the “What are the benefits to lowering the alcohol consumption age” question.

Dane “The Train” Hamilton wasn’t the only candidate for Boys State Governor, however. Mr. Alexander Ross “Honest Abe” Taylor proposed some unique opposition. He and Dane “The Train” have a few views that they share, but are strongly opposed on their views regarding West Virginia’s environment. “Honest Abe” diligently opposes the coal mining industry and encourages a Going Green plan. “The Train”, however, proposes that coal mining remains as it is but does not wish to destroy the environment.

Dane “The Train” Hamilton emerged victorious over Alexander Ross “Honest Abe” Taylor as Boys State Governor. “Honest Abe” gave it his all and ran a good campaign, but Dane “The Train” still managed to excel to great heights