Ruth Bryan Owen 4th District Florida Member Committee on Foreign Affairs Florida Resident Secretary Walter S. Buckingham Vero Beach, Florida Congress of the United States House of Representatives Washington, D.C. Vero Beach, Florida February 20, 1932. (over) Dear High School Principal: Once more Mrs. Owen is inviting high school boys and girls to make a Patriotic Pilgrimage to Washington as her guests. I am sending you herewith poster announcements for your bulletin boards. If you need more than I have sent please make request [sic] for them and I will forward them to you. The selection of boys and girls to go on the trip is to follow the same procedure as in former years. “Good citizenship” is to be the standard. You will find on the poster announcements and on the ballots the outline of the plan. Each student in your senior high school should vote on a blue ballot and on a pink ballot and the result of this student voting should give you the names of three boys and three girls who, in the opinion of the students, stand highest in “good citizenship.” We then ask that you and your faculty select one boy and one girl from among those chosen by the students. The names of the one boy and one girl so selected should be made known to your County Superintendent and I would like very much for you to have these names submitted to him on or before the 15th of March. If I can be of any help to you please feel free to write to me. Sincerely yours, [signature] Walter S. Buckingham WSB:M