VOTE! Your Conduct Influences Ages Yet Unborn

It has been a busy few weeks for the George Washington Oklahoma Ambassador.  Prague Middle and Elementary Schools spent the day with the Ambassador where the older students used “sticky note” votes to determine which characteristics of Washington made him a great leader and the younger pupils recreated “Washington Crossing the Delaware.”   She has traveled to Norman for the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence Fall Forum then went to Idabel to do lessons about Washington’s innovative farming and his impact on the Revolution with Pre-K through 8th grade classes at Denison Schools.  Two days were spent at Justus-Taiwah Schools where students, teachers, and the Ambassador discussed the first Presidential Election and Washington’s leadership.  The Ambassador next journeyed close to the Red River where she met with Greenville Elementary students to do some hands-on activities about the General.  The younger children played a game about Washington’s farm and the older students created “rumper” stickers for Nelson, George Washington’s horse.  It was Red Ribbon Week at Westside Elementary in Claremore so third and fourth grade students and faculty, using themselves as giant tokens on a board game, competed to see which group learned more about George Washington.  The Ambassador spent Monday and Tuesday of this week talking to students and teachers at Madison Middle School in Bartlesville about Washington, the Electoral College, and elections.  I believe our first President would have been pleased with the number of Americans who have taken an avid interest in America and its policies.  As our first president stated, “It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.” Every American needs to cast their vote today.

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