ANN WISEMAN NAMED JUNIOR COTILLION DIRECTOR

Charlotte, NC – The National League of Junior Cotillions has announced the appointment of Ann Wiseman as the new director for its Eastern Shore Chapter in Wicomico County, MD.

The National League of Junior Cotillions program, which features character education, etiquette, and social dancing training for 6th through 8th grade students, includes five classes and one ball over a six-month period. The program gives students instruction in the social courtesies and ballroom dancing needed for better relationships with their family and friends. Students actively learn life skills through a creative method employing role-playing, skits and games.

The social behavior component ranges from rules of conversation to formal and informal table manners. In addition to the usual courtesies connected with dancing, etiquette instruction is also provided with regards to the following: acknowledgment of gifts, behavior at cultural and civic events, correspondence, interaction in groups, introductions, paying and receiving compliments, receiving lines, sportsmanship and sports etiquette, instructional dinners, telephone and cell phone courtesy, and many other areas of social conduct.

The National League of Junior Cotillions setting will encourage children to be comfortable together, to make new friends and to enjoy themselves. Communication skills learned by young ladies and gentlemen in a peer group setting provide graduating students with increased confidence and poise in social situations.

Executive Director Anne Colvin Winters said, “We are very happy to have a community leader with the experience of Ann Wiseman to head up our new Eastern Shore Chapter in Wicomico County.” Mrs. Wiseman is currently vice president of the board of directors and development director for Women Supporting Women, a cancer support organization headquartered in Salisbury with offices in Berlin, Easton, and Crisfield, as well as assisting businesses on the Eastern Shore with marketing and network training as the director of the Business Networking International (BNI) Eastern Shore with eight chapters in her area.

Mrs. Wiseman grew up on the Delmarva Peninsula and graduated with a nursing degree from the Eastern Shore Community College in Melfa, VA. She specialized in both labor/delivery and as a surgical nurse for several years around the country. In 2004, after graduating from the Dale Carnegie Leadership Class in Salisbury, Mrs. Wiseman earned national certification as a legal nurse consultant and started her own firm, B. Ann Wiseman and Associates working with attorneys through the Mid-Atlantic area. In 2005, she received one of five “Oscars” of the National Alliance of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants at their conference in New Orleans.

Currently, Mrs. Wiseman is a member of the Shore Leadership Class of 2009. In 2005, she was a member of the Maryland State Team for the Lumina Foundation on the Study of Retention of Low-Income Adult College Students. Immediately after Hurricane Katrina hit the New Orleans area, Ann was asked to chair St. Paul’s Church’s Family-to-Family Task Force, and currently serves on the Shepherd’s Board and on the Praise and Worship Team at SonLife Community Church.

The National League of Junior Cotillions is headquartered in Charlotte, NC, where the program was established in 1979. There are hundreds of chapters in 33 states across the country, involving thousands of students. Winters said, “We are delighted to see cotillion training expand into Wicomico County. It will have a great impact on the self-esteem and social development of young people across the nation.”

If you would like to know more about the program, please contact Ann Wiseman at (410) 341-0065, the National Headquarters at (800) 633-7947, or visit the NLJC award-winning website at http://www.nljc.com/.