Aniya Williams (left) has been selected to attend the Eighty-Sixth Session of ALA Tar Heel Girls State, being held June 21-27. Pictured with her is Mary Wright, American Legion Auxiliary Unit 322 treasurer and district president.
The Morganton, Berry-Chambers-Wright Unit #322 of the American Legion Auxiliary has selected Aniya Williams as the citizen who will attend the Eighty-Sixth Session of ALA Tar Heel Girls State, being held June 21-27, at Campbell University in Buies Creek.
ALA Tar Heel Girls State is a leadership development program for rising high school senior girls to learn how government functions by creating their own state. Program participants organize their local governments and develop two fictitious political parties with party platforms, campaigns, and conventions.
The week culminates in the election of a slate of state officers to govern their newly created state. Citizens draft bills and resolutions to be voted on by their new state’s General Assembly. The installation of state officers, a showcase of stars, and engaging speakers are some of the highlights of the week’s activities.
ALA Tar Heel Girls State is sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary Department of North Carolina. All 50 states have a Girls State Program. Begun in 1939, North Carolina’s Girls State program has the distinction of having the longest, continuously running Girls State program in the nation as it did not suspend the program during World War II as all other states did and most recently continued with sessions during the pandemic.
Aniya is a rising senior at Burke Middle College and has held every position within the Junior American Legion Auxiliary, including president and vice president.
Pam Genant is the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 322 membership director.
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