Young Leaders Conference

Terri Wenzing, a senior at Francis Scott Key High School, has been chosen to attend the National Young Leaders Conference, which began yesterday, through Sunday in Washington.The conference is a leadership development program for high school students who have demonstrated leadership potential and scholastic merit.The theme is "The Leaders of Tomorrow Meeting the Leaders of Today."Students will interact with key leaders and news-makers from the three branches of government, the media and diplomatic corps.

Ashley Randolph, a junior at Towson High School, was among the 350 outstanding high school students from across the nation selected to attend the National Young Leaders Conference held earlier this month in Washington.*Catherine C. Fenselau, chair of the chemistry and biochemistry department at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and director of the Center for Structural Biochemistry, has won the 1993 Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award, sponsored by the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh.

Heather Weisse, a junior at South Carroll High School, recently attended the National Young Leaders Conference in Washington.The conference is a leadership development program for high school students who have demonstrated leadership potential and scholastic merit.The theme of the conference was "The Leaders of Tomorrow Meeting the Leaders of Today."Students visited embassies, met with national and local elected officials and participated in leadership skill-building.The daughter of John and Robin Weisse of Winfield, Heather has been an active member of 4-H since age 5. She acts in local and school theater groups, is on the yearbook staff and is a member of the Student Government Association.

Marc D. Donohue, chairman of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Engineering, won a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator's Award.*Towson Catholic High School junior Jim Englebach is the first-place winner of The Baltimore Sun's Investment Game. Mr. Englebach will receive a $100 U.S. savings bond.*Monica R. Kane, 1992 graduate of Lake Clifton/Eastern High School, has been selected as a youth ambassador by the People to People Science Exchange Program.

Beth Gilmore, a senior at Mount de Sales Academy, served as a page for the General Assembly in February.*Diane Levine, an English teacher at Bryn Mawr School, is the 1993 recipient of the Mrs. Lucy Eastwood Broadus Memorial Award for travel abroad.*Brian Elieson, Joseph Fisher and Graham Watson, three Calvert Hall College students, have been named finalists in the National Merit Scholarship program.*Dolph Habeck, a junior at Severn School, was selected as the first-place winner in the Southern Maryland district level competition of the American Legion National High School Oratorical Contest held in February in Laurel.

Winfield Community Volunteer Fire Department will offer advance sale ride tickets for its annual carnival. The tickets are good for one ride-all-night wristband for July 8, 9 or 10 during the carnival. Tickets purchased at the carnival for ride nights will be $13. Advance tickets cost $7. Times and dates for advance ticket sales are: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today, Monday, Wednesday, and July 5; and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow, Sunday and July 6 and 7. Tickets are available from the firehouse at 1320 W. Old Liberty Road.

She had seen the nation's capital before as a tourist.This time, Bonnie Borland saw it as an insider. The South Carroll High School senior was among 356 students from around the country who attended the National Youth Leaders Conference in Washington Oct. 18-23."

A FRIEND returning from Berlin had a rare souvenir -- a bottle of Gorbachev vodka.Years ago, before the Soviet leader became such a hit in the West, we remember seeing advertisements touting that fire water on West Berlin buses. It was comforting to see that the old Gorby schnapps was still around.The Kremlin apparently is not amused. Claiming the German vodka is earning its success illegally "inasmuch as the president of the U.S.S.R. involuntarily takes part in advertising the product," Soviet authorities are preparing a court case to wipe the Gorbachev brand "off the face of the earth."

Towson State University's Office of Minority Affairs is honoring 10 men and women during Black Heritage Month with the Distinguished Black Marylanders Award: Wendell G. Wright, executive director, the Lois J. Wright Memorial Concert Series; Evelyn T. Chatmon, assistant superintendent, Baltimore County public schools; Idell Pugh, retired administrator, Baltimore public schools; Martha Allen, educator and community activist; Marcella Holland, an assistant state's...

Teen to participate in leaders conferenceJoanna Bush of Columbia will participate in the National Young Leaders Conference tomorrow through Sunday in Washington, D.C. The conference is a "hands on" leadership program for high school students who have demonstrated leadership potential and scholastic merit.Joanna, a student at Wilde Lake High School, will be among 350 young leaders from across the country at the convention.The theme of the conference is "The Leaders of Tomorrow Meeting the Leaders of Today."