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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

GOVERNMENT HOUSE



Charlotte Amalie, V.1. 00802

340-774-0001



NATIONAL STUDENT LEADERSHIP WEEK



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BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES



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A PROCLAMATION



National Student Leadership Week serves as an ideal time to bring attention to the

important and integral contributions that student leaders and all student activities make in

our nation’s schools.



Schools sponsor student leadership activities to provide students with vital

experience in exercising a voice in matters of common concer, reconciling diverse

interests, and selecting leaders.



Student leaders are a positive influence on their peers, modeling good character and

scholarship in and out of the classroom, and serve as change agents to improve the overall

climate and academic performance levels of their schools.



Student leaders do not automatically develop sound leadership skills and require

trained, dedicated faculty advisers to help them develop the essential traits and

characteristics of a leader and to provide the positive experiences necessary to expand their

skills and foster their paths to becoming effective leaders. The support of school

administrators and faculty, parents, and community members is necessary to help ensure

the successful education of all emerging student leaders.



NOW, THEREFORE, I, Kenneth E. Mapp, Governor of the Virgin Islands of the

United States, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Revised Organic Act of 1954,

as amended, do hereby proclaim the week of April 16-22, 2017, as Virgin Islands Student

Leadership Week in support of National Student Leadership Week, and I urge the residents

of the Virgin Islands to seek opportunities to recognize student leaders in our schools and

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support their training and activities as they prepare themselves for their future stations as

leaders of our territory and the nation.



IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand and caused the Seal of the

Government of the United States Virgin Islands to be affixed at Charlotte Amalie, St.

Thomas Virgin Islands, on this _ ||! “Uay of April 2017, A.D.



Kenneth E. Mapp

Governor



ATTEST:



Osbert E. Potter

Lieutenant Governor