Monday, August 23, 2004

Episcopal senior Sara Paccamonti was elected national first vice-president of the National Junior Classical League during its annual summer convention, which was held June 26-30 in Richmond, Va.

Her duties include working with state and local JCL chapters to increase membership and publicity, as well as planning next summer’s convention. Some of Sara's goals for her year in the national office are to promote publicity activities during National Latin Week in the spring and to update promotional materials for the national organization. She also will attend a number of other states' conventions during the year.

Sara served as state first vice-president for the 2003-2004 school year, during which time she created an informational brochure about JCL to distribute to students and teachers who were not members. As a result of her work, the Louisiana chapter scored highly in both the membership and publicity contests at National Convention. Episcopal also scored in the top 20 individual schools in the National Publicity Contest.

The Junior Classical League is an organization of more than 50,000 Latin and Greek students in the United States and several other countries.