November 15, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Inaugural LEAD Summit a Tremendous Success
LEAD Summit 2011, organized and hosted by students in the LSUS LEAD program, was held on the LSUS campus on Friday, November 11th. Approximately 150 high school students and faculty from sixteen regional high schools in Webster, Red River, Desoto, Bossier, and Caddo parishes, along with several Barksdale Air Force Base Airmen, and over fifty LSUS LEAD students participated in the event. Organizers and attendees hailed the first ever conference a phenomenal success and plans to make LEAD Summit 2012 even bigger and more far-reaching have already begun.
LEAD Summit participants spent most of the day in groups with students from other high schools and a LEAD or military mentor discussing ethical and moral issues they face in their daily lives in a roundtable open discussion format. The Summit was opened by the Barksdale Honor Guard presenting the colors and the pledge of allegiance. Intermittently throughout the day participants sat in on LEAD student presentations on leadership, character, honor, integrity, morality, ethics, and the elements of leaders of character. Participants also attended the LSUS Veteran’s Day Program. Air Force Colonel Robert Fournier was the keynote speaker at the Summit lunch which was followed up by a lively question and answer session that also included lunch special guests Air Force Brigadier General Peyton Cole and Lt. Colonel Charlie Morgan.
LEAD Summit 2011 mirrored the National Conference on Ethics in American (NCEA) held at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The purpose of the venture was to promote and facilitate character and leadership development within area high school students. The event was organized and significantly paid for by LEAD students along with additional generous underwriting support from Mr. George Khoury.
LEAD is LSUS’s unique inter-institutional character and leadership education and development academic and community outreach and development program.
Summit attendee Alex Parker from Northwood High School was the winner of the i-Pad raffle held in the closing ceremony.
LEAD Summit 2012 is tentatively scheduled for Monday, November 12, 2012.
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In the accompanying photograph: Barksdale Airmen and LEAD mentors facilitate ethical issue discussions with LEAD Summit 2011 high school student attendees.
For more information contact Wayne Hogue – Wayne.Hogue@lsus.edu (318)797-5276 or visit http://www.lsuslead.org.
