ba/hrc.pr                 97-272          Contact: Angela Withers, 301-468-4260
  

HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION
AWARDS BONDS TO STUDENTS
IN YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM               For Immediate Release: August  26, 1997


     Thirty-one Montgomery County Public School students received $100 United States
Savings Bonds from the Human Relations Commission for attending the 1997 Montgomery
County Youth Leadership/Human Relations Program. 
     Held at Camp Letts in Edgewater, the program offered workshops in positive
interaction among teens, leadership skills and cross cultural communications to students
representing various social, economic and ethnic backgrounds.
     The participants, who ranged in age from 14 to 18, attend the following local high
schools: Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Quince Orchard, Richard Montgomery, Springbrook, Watkins
Mill and Winston Churchill. 
     According to one of the students, Churchill senior and Peer Counselor Monica
Herzburg, the program provided a positive experience because "The participants all came
away really understanding students of different cultures."
     Formerly known as the Human Relations Camp, the program was relaunched and
coordinated by the County's Department of Recreation, the Human Relations Commission and

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the Montgomery County Public Schools.  This is the first year that bonds were given to the
students.
     For more information on the program, call the Montgomery County Human Relations
Commission at 301-468-4260.
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