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She
was elected president of the Southern Region of National Collegiate 4-H
and the chair of the National Collegiate 4-H National Action Board (NAB)
at the National Collegiate 4-H Conference in Denver Feb. 22-25.
Casey
is a member of the Troy University Collegiate 4-H Club where she is a
junior. She was secretary of the Southern Region last year but had no
plans to seek office at the national conference.
"I
wasn’t planning on running for an office, but I was honored to be
nominated and elected," she said.
The
16 presidents of the four at-large and smaller regions serve on the NAB
and one is elected to chair the board.
Casey
was not seeking that leadership position but, again, she was nominated
and elected.
"There
will be a lot of responsibility associated with both positions but it’s
a responsibility I gladly accept along with the opportunities that come
with it," Casey said.
"Much
of the business will be handled through conference calls within the
Southern Region and among the other regions. There are 45 national
organizations in National Collegiate 4-H so I’ll be really busy with
all we have going on in the Southern Region and working with the other
regions."
And
then there are the added responsibilities and opportunities of the
chairmanship.
"As
the chair of NAB, I’ll be making trips to Phoenix, Washington D.C. and
Atlanta and a three-day conference in Minneapolis, Minn.," Casey
said. "I’ll be the collegiate liaison to the National 4-H Council
and will be in Washington, D.C. to talk about legislation affecting the
council.
"To
keep up with it all will be a real juggling act but it will be
interesting and exciting. Collegiate 4-H is so widely represented —
Colorado, Maryland, South Dakota — all over the country. It’s going
to be very rewarding to work with so many different people. I’m
looking forward to it all."
Casey
served in various leadership capacities in the Pike County 4-H clubs.
She
competed on the national level in the Egg Cookery competition and the
Avian Bowl.
She
was a member of the State 4-H Council and a head counselor at the
Alabama 4-H Center’s summer program.
She
represented Pike County at the National 4-H Conference, the Washington
Citizenship Focus and the National 4-H Congress. She was one of eight
representatives from the nation elected to the design team to plan a
National 4-H Congress.
Jaine
Treadwell is a freelance writer from Brundidge. |
