Nineteen Baylor School students have been selected for an Honors Program that has been created as part of a new partnership with the Institute for the Public Trust, a non-partisan, non-profit organization based in Raleigh, N.C.
“The IPT is focused on finding, recruiting and training new great leaders from the private sector who will aspire to run for public office,” said Baylor Headmaster Scott Wilson ’75, in announcing the new IPT initiative. “Their selection of Baylor as the first incubator for high school leaders reflects directly on our 121-year heritage of educating leaders.”
Until now, IPT has focused its educational work with student leaders at UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, N.C. State, N.C. A&T State University, and Wake Forest University. The new partnership will give Baylor Honors Program students access to some of the leading voices in civic leadership while attending special seminars at Baylor and at the campuses of Duke, UNC, and NC State in March 2015.
Baylor Honors Program students for 1014-15 are Natalie Becker, Caroline Boone, Stella Buckner, Parker Catlett, Caroline Combs, Emily Culp , Cat Davis, Vivien Eckert, James Hornsby , Aman Madan, Tommy McFarland, Wes Nation, Maggie Pierce, Anders Pokela, Will Raines, Cayman Seagraves, Jazmin Simpkins, Elizabeth Webb and Sean Zhang.
IPT Director Frank Hill says he believes the first Constitutional Congress had “the very best and smartest people in the nation convene in 1787 and produce the greatest governing document the world has ever known,” and has stated that “the Institute for the Public Trust is dedicated to developing the next generation of Thomas Jeffersons, James Madisons and Alexander Hamiltons.”