144 High School seniors attended the 58th annual Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) Conference held from June 10 to 14, 2018 at Messiah College in Grantham, PA. Rotary District 7390 holds this annual conference for seniors who are selected and interviewed by the 43 Rotary Clubs in the District. Rotary District 7390 encompasses 7 counties: Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry and York.
The 5 day conference is filled with interesting speakers, team building activities and fun. At the end of the conference, the students vote on the top 8 conferees. Seven of the students receive the Lloyd Bollinger Award which is a $350 cash award. Those students were: Harrison Perring (York Suburban High School, York Rotary), Victoria Jean-Baptiste (William Penn High School, York Rotary Club), Abigail Wurzbach (York Catholic High School, York Rotary Club), Lucy Svetec (Manheim Township High School, , Lancaster-Sunrise Rotary Club), Nathanial Bamford (J.P. McCaskey High School, Lancaster Rotary Club), Avery Cook (East Pennsboro High School, Mechanicsburg-North Rotary Club), David Deitz (Eastern Lebanon County High School, Myerstown-ELCO Rotary Club). The top Conferee is awarded the William E. and Violet W. Nitrauer Leadership Award which is a $700 cash award. The recipient this year was Katelyn Cocco (Hershey High School, Hershey Rotary Club).
Pictured L-R: Conference Director Dave Seibert, RYLA Chair Gary Crissman, Harrison Perring, Victoria Jean-Baptiste, Abigail Wurzbach, Lucy Svetec, Nathanial Bamford, Avery Cook, David Deitz, Katelyn Cocco, Conference Director Donna Griest.