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director of member services, education and youth—and the Youth Tour director for 15 years—at Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives. “T ey could have continued wandering around the museum—our time was very limited—but they didn’t. I was fl oored by the respect they showed Mr. Matthews.” Tanner Gatlin, Jazzlyn


Pennybaker, Tempie Stewart and Preston Sturgell won OEC’s Youth Tour contest in April and were awarded with the all-expenses- paid trips. T e week in the nation’s capital included tours of Arlington National Cemetery, Ford’s T eatre, Mount Vernon, the Smithsonian and Holocaust museums and a private tour of the U.S. Capitol with Oklahoma Congressman Markwayne Mullin. “T e most exciting part of the


trip was the visit to the Arlington National Cemetery,” Sturgell said. “It was a bittersweet feeling being


there knowing all those men and women gave their lives for me to be able to live freely in America.” Others were grateful for new,


lifelong friendships formed throughout the week. “I loved meeting so many new


people. T ese guys and girls are now my best friends. Friends for life,” Pennybaker said. Other highlights of the trip


included the Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the U.S. Marine Corps Sunset Parade and the riverboat cruise on the Potomac River. T e students also interacted with three Oklahoma Congressman: Mullin, Frank Lucas and Sen. Jim Inhofe. “It was encouraging listening


to these 17-year-olds ask pertinent questions of our elected offi cials,” Rogers said. “T e future is in their hands. Because of that, I am encouraged and excited. T ere is nothing they cannot do if they put their minds to it.”


Left: Sturgell, Stewart, Iwo Jima veteran Frank Matthews, Gatlin and Pennybaker; Top: OEC chaperones Rogers and Wall “photo-bomb” Sturgell, Gatlin, Pennybaker and Stewart; Middle: A group of Youth Tour participants and chaperones pose for a quick photo with Katie Couric outside the U.S. Supreme Court; Bottom: Sturgell and Gatlin outside the White House.


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