2018-08-01 GHS Beta - PROOFPittsylvania County Board of Supervisors
RESOLUTION
2018-08-01
VIRGINIA: At the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors Business Meeting, on Tuesday, August
21, 2018, the following Resolution was adopted honoring Gretna High School’s Beta Club:
WHEREAS, the National Beta Club is the largest independent, non-profit, educational youth
organization in America, and for more than 80 years, it has prepared today's students to be tomorrow's
leaders. Between the Junior Beta (grades 4-8) and Senior Beta (grades 9-12), the Organization has
helped nearly seven (7) million students learn how to make a life for themselves—and, since 1991, it
has awarded over $6 million in scholarships. There are now more than 500,000 active members and
more than 8,750 clubs nationally and internationally. It has become the nation's largest independent,
non-profit, educational youth organization; and
WHEREAS, at Gretna High School, students must have a 3.5 GPA to be invited in, and must
maintain a 3.2 GPA. Students are also required to complete at least twenty-five (25) hours of
community service per semester, which include things such as the community trunk or treat at
Halloween, participating in “book buddies” at the elementary school, and raising money for different
families in need; and
WHEREAS, Gretna High School’s Beta Club traveled to Hampton, Virginia in February to compete
in the State Convention; and
WHEREAS, four (4) ninth (9th) graders, Xander Birchfield, Eden Ilconich, Brendan Myers, and Kailey
Wertz, worked together for the first (1st) time and placed first (1st) in Beta Build. This was the first (1st) time
Gretna High School had ever competed in this particular competition; and
WHEREAS, Beta Build is a competition where the students must build a structure or invention with
a given list of supplies, and they are also given a prompt that tells certain moves the students must
make; and
WHEREAS, in June, they traveled to Savannah, Georgia, for the National Competition. The
students were given new prompts and lists and Gretna High School placed third (3rd) at Nationals.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors does hereby
express their deepest congratulations and admiration to the Gretna High School Beta Club for its
accomplishments at the State and National Competitions; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be presented to Gretna High School.
Given under my hand this 21st day of August, 2018.
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Robert W. Warren, Chairman
Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors