ALA Girls State Information

June 2026

After much thought and many meetings and conversations, it has been decided to bring a motion up at the Convention on Friday at 10 am, to separate the Girls State program from the Boys State program.

We joined with the Legion in 2022 and had a 3-year trial period.

We have many concerns and reasons for wanting our own program.

Our joint director, Jennifer Dalrymple has had no control or input in the program.

Our Girls State chairman has not been recognized, but was told her duty was to fundraise.

The Zoom meetings were not offered to all our Auxiliary committee.

There has been no transparency on the financing, no accounting.

The registration does not work and it is extremely inefficient.

We wanted to let our membership know what was going on.

We will have more discussions and answer all questions at convention.

It is also understood we will need to work together to pull this off.

Leona