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Youth Tour Reunion seeks former winners


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—TOUCHSTONE ENERGY COOPERATIVES T


he Oklahoma Association of Electric


Cooperatives,


along with participating electric cooperatives across the state, is coordinating a 50-year reunion of all former Rural Electric Youth Tour participants on July 20, 2013 in Oklahoma City.


Senator Lyndon B. Johnson inspired the Youth Tour when he addressed the National Rural Electric


Cooperatives Association (NRECA) Annual Meeting in Chicago in 1957. The senator and future president declared, “If one thing goes out of this meeting, it will be


sending youngsters to the national capitol where they can actually see  and represents.”


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Consequently, some Texas electric


cooperatives sent groups of young people to Washington to work during the summer in


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representatives from each state arrange to be in Washington, D.C. during Youth Tour week.


Today over 1,500 students and 250 chaperones participate in the annual Youth Tour, with over 70 students from Oklahoma attending each year. In all, Oklahoma’s electric cooperatives have sponsored over 2,600 students since 1964.


Please watch your newsletter for further reunion updates, or contact Jennifer Dempsey, Oklahoma Youth Tour coordinator at 405-607-0161 or jdempsey@oaec.coop. You can also join the Facebook group, Oklahoma Youth Tour 50 Year Reunion, at http://www.facebook. com/


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