Bio: Frost, Renae – General Mills Award (1977)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Frost

---------Source: Owen Enterprise (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 09 Feb 1977

Renae I. Frost of Owen-Withee High School has been named 1977 General Mills Family Leader of Tomorrow. The student won the honor by scoring highest in the school in a written knowledge and attitude examination administered to high school students here and throughout the county on December 7, 1976. The Family Leader will receive a certificate from General Mills, sponsor of the annual Search for Leadership in Family Living, and will now be considered for state and national honors.

From the ranks of all school winners in the state, a State Family Leader of Tomorrow will be selected through judging centered on test performance, and will receive a $1,500 scholarship. The second ranking student will receive a $500 scholarship. Encyclopedia Britannica Education Corporation will present “The Annals of America, a 20 volume reference work, to the state winner’s school.

Representing every state and the District of Columbia, the 51 General Mills Family Leaders of Tomorrow will gather in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia in April for an expense paid education tour there and in Washington, D.C. During the tour, personal observations and interviews will be conducted to select the All-American Family Leader of Tomorrow, who will receive a $5,000 scholarship. Second, third and fourth place national winners receive scholarships of $4,000, $3,000 and $2,000 respectively.

The test, personal observations and interviews are all prepared and conducted by Science Research Associates of Chicago.