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Canada and "the-U.S.", was the principle platform and now the aim of the recent— - 1y elected International 18-year-old AY' President, Rita Pendergast, from Kensington, P.E.I.
Rita was newly elected during the annual Inter— national AY Conference held in Washington D.C. this November.
She has been actively involved in P.E.I. Allied Youth for the last four years servingas Provin- cial Secretary, Provincial President, and the repre- sentative for P.E.I. to
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ionic/5— Unofficial. figures show hat 1425 full—tine and 79 part-tine students are nrolled at the University, hose figures reflect a ecrease in full-tine nrolment of 138 students Ver last year's figures, 'llt an increase in part- UIE enrolment of 27 tudents.
A breakdown by years 10/08 there are 476 DeShmen, 374 Sophomores, 37 Juniors and 288 iniors.
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run for the position of International President in this year's conference.
In Washington, Rita was supported by a very strong delegation of Islanders. 130 AY'ers attended the conference and with the total attendance being 240, people certainly knew the Islanders and Rita were there!
She was elected by a voting delegation consis— ting of 2 delegates from each of the six regions represented at the confer— ence plus the Old Cabinet which is the group of 6 regional International reps of last year‘s con— ference thus providing equal representaticnfor all re- gions. ‘
Campaigning for this ele- ction consisted of 20 pic- ture posters by U.P.E.I.'s Iee Donnelly, 200 leaflets from the Dept. of Education and 150 home-made posters done by Rita's Island sup- porters. Says Rita, "pos- ters were all over the place and they were really a great help."
Actual campaigning con- sisted of speeches and questioning from all atten— ding delegates in the as— sembly. The six candidates were then put on "the hot- seat" and questioned fur- ther by only the voting
‘ party. Rita said, "This
was tou_ " but obviously the voters thought she was great.
When asked what her resp— onsibilities were as Inter- national AY President,
Rita explained, "A prin- ciple responsibility is to plan the next International Conference along with my ' cabinet. I also attend all the regional conferences
to help out where I can and'to pass around the good wor ." Rita added that she would also like
to study the AY Consti— tution which she says is rather "worn out."
The International Organ- ization of Allied Youth is composed of six regions. They are N.S., Nfld., & P.E.I. being the 3 Cana— dian posts. with the three U.S. counter parts being 'Itaxas, South and North Carolina (South East AY) , and VT., New York, and . Penn. (North Eastern AY) .
Each of the six regions have their own program and Rita said "P.E.I. is the best." Island AY is sub— sidized by the gov't, therefore they have a. lot
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of incney to work with. They also have two full- time workersf Alan Andrews and Andy Hutchinson in the Dept. of Education. "We are under the division of Youth, Fitness and Recre— ation, AY being the Youth." The gov't sponsors us as their youth group and its fantastic."
AY is very active on P.E.I. with forty two Is— land "posts" or clubs. "The Island is lucky in that besides community pos ts there are so many Jr. High and Sr. High clubs."
AY programming here con- sists of 6 main points. They are L) social fitness, outdoor living, peer edu- cation; 2) environmental education; 3) community aid; 4) leadership train— ing; 5) working with the handicapped: and 6) work— ing With Sr. citizens.
Social fitness provides youth with much up to date info. on such topics as marijuana, drugs, V.D., etc. Sessions are conducted ' Lth AY and the leadership institute for all new lea— ders and members.
Peer Education has in- creased sharply with the success of the Peer Alco- hol Education Program car- ried out by Sr. High Sch— ool students in the Jr. High levels. This was a program started in Texas and brought to the Island 3 years ago. Texas and P.E.I. are two regions with an excellent working relationship .
This will be Miss Pen - dergast's last year work— ing in the AY organization, as she has gone as far as she can go. For the next three years she'll be com— pleting her B.A., B.Ed. program at UPEI.
Rita describes AY as "A learning experience and serving group all in one which teaches a lot about others and yourself."
Rita is certainly going to have a full year trav- elling through Canada and the States "spreading more love and unity between the six regions" and helping as she 'goes. She has a lot of ideas she wants to see done this year and as she says, "I know they're big propositions but I'd love to start them."
Considering all. that. Rita has accomplished for AY locally and provincially she should have no problem“ internationally. Best of luck Rita!