Presque Isle FBLA visits New York City

    PRESQUE ISLE – Twenty-eight Presque Isle Regional Career and Technical Center students toured New York City in March. All students are either enrolled in a business technology program or are a member of the Future Business Leaders of America Club at PIRCTC.
 The students and their seven chaperones left Presque Isle at 1:30 a.m. on a Cyr bus March 8 and returned at 4 a.m. Sunday, March 11. The tour included a trip to the top of the Empire State Building, tours of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Trinity Church, Ground Zero, the Federal Reserve Bank (the students went down 80 feet below street level to the vault that holds more gold than found at Fort Knox), the New York Mercantile Exchange, Battery Park, the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the United Nations, Rockefeller Center, and the group took in a couple of Broadway plays (“Phantom of the Opera” or “Lion King”).
    There was also free time to shop and gawk (Trump Towers, Tiffany’s, and many other world renowned stores and landmarks) on 5th Avenue and dine at the Hard Rock Café in Times Square.
    Alan Curtis, adviser to FBLA and trip organizer, would like to thank both the students and the chaperones, Beth Curtis, Susan and John Johnston, Laurie Buck, Wanda Glovins and Alden Swanson for helping make the trip both enjoyable and educational.