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Coral Ramsey: Defining Leadership

The Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that the “Chamber Spotlight” award for the month of February 2010 is awarded to Coral Ramsey. Coral is a senior at Pinckneyville Community High School.

Coral has shown an exemplary contribution to the Community through her leadership skills. Coral became an active young leader in our area last year when she entered a pool of over 200 applicants to be chosen to attend the Lead SI leadership convention at SIU-Carbondale. After filling out an application, which according to Coral “was more difficult than most college applications…12 pages with two full essays and two short answers,” she found out that she had been selected as one of 27 area high school students accepted to attend Lead SI. At the three day conference Coral learned valuable leadership skills from successful Southern Illinois leaders. She learned to engage in peer networking, to be an exceptional teammate, to use her own strengths instead of dwelling on weaknesses and the importance of strong female leaders in today’s society.

Since this convention Coral has become very active in Pinckneyville groups. The Strategic Planning Committee in Pinckneyville has added Coral to their group and she is one of the High School Ambassadors for the Chamber of Commerce. In addition, Coral is the Junior Editor for the Pinckneyville Press.

Coral’s future plans include attending The National Young Leaders Conference in April 2010. Coral is one of only four students from Pinckneyville to have ever had the honor to attend this national conference. She also plans to attend college but to date she has not selected a school or definite major, but is leaning toward law school.

Congratulations Coral and keep up the good work!