PRESS RELEASE

July 16, 2007

Montrose High School Sophomore Earns Silver Medal in National FCCLA Competition

Montrose, Colorado. Travis (T.J.) Speck earned a Silver Medal at the National Family, Career and Community Leaders of America, Inc. (FCCLA), conference in Anaheim California. FCCLA is a nonprofit national career and technical student organization for young men and women in family and consumer sciences education in public and private school through grade 12.

T.J., a sophomore at Montrose High School, competed in the Focus on Children category.

The event required a service project, a display board, and a speech. The service project was an evening of babysitting provided for the children of Montrose High School faculty members during the 2006 holiday season. The evening included many arts and crafts projects, dinner, and a visit from Santa Claus with photos made for parents. T.J. was the Santa. For his speech, he rewrote a portion of, “T'was the Night Before Christmas.”

At this time, T.J. is considering college training to work as a Fishery specialist.
He was also recently elected to be the FCCLA Vice President of the Scenic West area of Colorado. He will be attending Leadership training in Denver for that position. T.J. is the son of Kathe Speck, a SPED aide at Centennial Middle School in Montrose, and Tim Speck of Eagle.

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