Samuel Wettach: Decorah High School National Honor Society induction Sunday

The Decorah High School National Honors Society will induct 40 new members during its annual ceremony Sunday, January 24, at 3:00 p.m. in the high school auditorium.

This year's program will include speeches by (...) Sam Wettach, and Andrew Peter. (...)
In order to be inducted into National Honors Society, a student must have maintained a 3.5 grade point average, and have been selected by a committee of faculty on the basis of leadership, scholarship, character and service to others.

The current National Honor Society members are (...) Samuel Wettach, Slade Williams and Samuel Zook.

[ Weiterlesen hier: Quelle ]

Megan Wettach: 1,000 bears matched with $1,000 for Red Cross disaster relief

American Red Cross, represented by Sal Alaniz, received 1,000 bears donated by this year's Little Miss Iowa, Alexis Schroeder of Wheatland, and $1,000 to match, a gift from the Wettach family businesses, Premier Prom and Family Dental Health Services Inc., both in Mt. Pleasant.

"I guess what we were trying to do is not make an issue (about) us but to inspire people to action," said Mary Wettach of Family Dental.

Schroeder has been collecting bears for the Red Cross for a while. Before that, she was collecting them for foster children.

[ Weiterlesen hier: Quelle Golden Triangle Media ]

Dr. David Wettach and the Eternal Punishment

Another Wettach might be entering the IMDB soon, where clown and actor Adrian Wettach, Vogue model and actress Dolores Wettach and Gisela Höter (close Wettach descendant) as well as Jeff Wettach (crew member on Wishmaster 2) already are - via "Eternal Punishment" from JD Productions, filmed this March.

Eternal Punishment is the story of a young man, Sean, whose intellectual capacity and eccentricities have labeled him an outcast. The sudden and tragic death of his father results in guilt that sends him down a path of self-destruction ending at the brink of suicide. Through the determination and support of an old musician, Sean explores the depths of his soul in search for understanding.

Dr. David Wettach from Muscatine, Iowa, is playing the role of Sean's father and can also be spotted in the trailer for a short moment:



[ Source: Muscatine Journal ]

Matthew Wettach bound for boys state

A pair of Mt. Pleasant High School juniors are heading to the American Legion's Boys State convention, set for June 10-15, at Camp Dodge in Johnston.
The American Legion Bob Tribby Post #58 named Matthew Wettach and Jack Thomas as the two selectees for 2007.
According to member Dean King, the post's selection committee takes recommendations from its members, school counselors and other community sources to find two quality young men for Boys State. He said part of the search criteria includes students who are community-minded, exhibit leadership and good character and are academically sound.
"We try to pick the cream of the crop from the junior class," King said, "and in these two I think we did it." (...)
Wettach is the son of Drs. Steve and Mary Wettach and grandson of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Wettach, all of Mt. Pleasant.
He is a member of the National Honor Society and a member of the Rotary Interact Club, represents students on the Mt. Pleasant Community Library board and is on the student council.

His extracurricular school activities include chamber choir, symphonic band, show choir and jazz band. He has appeared in numerous school and community presentations, most recently as Professor Fenton in the school-sponsored play, "Bullshot Crummond."
Wettach has received the Prudential Spirit of Community Award, National Day Military Gold Award, Daily Point of Light National Award, the Presidential Volunteer Service Award and the Presidential Academic Award.

He has been honored by Gov. Chet Culver and Rep. Dave Heaton for his volunteer work and was selected for "Kids with Character" for his volunteer efforts. He currently ranks in the upper two percent in the junior class.
Wettach is also active in the Explorer Post 1846, interpreting Iowa history for visitors during Midwest Old Threshers and other special events.
Wettach is a member of the Swedesburg Luther League, presently serving as vice-president.

Boys State is a summer leadership and citizenship program sponsored by The American Legion for high school students between their junior and senior years.
The program participants are divided up into smaller groups that are given city names. The "citizens" of each of these cities then elect mock municipal officials and representatives to the mock state legislature.

If enough "citizens" are present, then a county level is added to the program between city and state. The participants also elect state officials, such as governor, lieutenant governor, and other state-level officials representing their real state.
The legislature then meets to organize, elect leaders, and to pass bills in a way that is similar to how their actual legislature operates. (...)

Matt said he felt honored to be selected for Boys State by the Legion.
"I hope to get a more accurate understanding on how government works, meet new people and new perspectives." (...) Wettach said he's hoping this will help prepare him for college. "It's going to be like a guys' dorm," he said. "We have five days to get to know each other." He noted that President Bill Clinton was a national boys stater, as were vice-presidents Al Gore and Dick Cheney.


[ Source and full article ]

Taylor Wettach supports Art for Peace

MUSCATINE, Iowa — The moment Muscatine High School sophomore Raul Canahui brought his original artwork before the MHS Student Council Tuesday, words of admiration filled the room.

Canahui came before his peers to ask if he could create a mural on a wall in the fine arts corridor of MHS.

“This is what I have in mind,” he said as he unfurled a large pencil etching of teenagers circling a fountain with the word PEACE written in block letters at its base. (...)

Council member Taylor Wettach, a sophomore, moved that the Council approve helping fund materials for the project and the Council unanimously approved the motion. (...)

Canahui, who came to Muscatine from his homeland of Guatemala three years ago, has been drawing since he was 3 years old. He is considering a career as an illustrator for children’s books.
[ Complete article here: Muscatine Journal ]

Jeff Wettach leads to success: Luther's track-and-field very good.

The Luther indoor track season finished on a positive note with both the men’s 4x400 meter relay team and shot putter Jess Jewell (‘08) posting outstanding performances at the NCAA Division III National Indoor Track and Field Championships.

The relay team, consisting of Lucas Reidenbach (‘08), Mike Tangen (‘08), Ryan Potter (‘07) and Tyler Sherden (‘07), finished eighth with a time of 3:20.26 to earn All-America honors. All-America honors eluded the team last year after injuries derailed what had been a successful season.

“This achievement has been a dream of mine and my teammates for all of our years running track,” said Reidenbach. “It is crazy that it has actually come true.”

Although the team ran fast enough to qualify as All-America, the runners know they can perform even better.

“Going into nationals as the final seed we knew we had nothing to lose,” said Sherden. “Making it to the meet was an accomplishment in itself but none of us were going to be satisfied with that.” (...)
“Things just came together that day,” said Sherden. “We improved our season’s best time by almost four seconds, set a new school record and earned ourselves the 10th and final spot at the national meet.”

Perhaps the most impressive characteristic of the team is their aspiration to build upon what already are incredible careers.

“They have a great desire to improve,” said head coach Jeff Wettach. “I was so pleased with the way they prepared.” (...)

Wettach also stressed the divide between the indoor and outdoor seasons.

“We definitely point towards the outdoor season,” he said. “Success in the indoor season is really just a bonus, but it shows we are capable of running faster outdoors.”

“If we do not make it to nationals this outdoor season I know that I will be very disappointed,” said Reidenbach. “We are ready and Coach Wettach has prepared us extremely well for the outdoor season.” (...)
[ Read all at: CHIPS ]

Clinton meets Wettach - Sen. Hilary Clinton came to Mount Pleasant

Hosted by Tom and Christie Vilsack at their home on North Main Street in Mt. Pleasant, Senator Hilary Clinton greeted over 100 visitors during a breakfast open house.
Most of the visitors were older community members, retired workers, but there were a few college and high school students who made the meeting.
Many stayed long enough to meet and briefly discuss an issue and then left for work or classes. Others stuck around to hear what the former Governor had to say by way of introducing the former First Lady of the U.S.
Vilsack credited Clinton for his first gubernatorial win, bringing the limelight of attention on a campaign to which few were paying attention.
He said Clinton was tried and tested as few presidential candidates are, adding that Clinton is ready to assume the mantle of President of the United States. "So we wanted to share our friends with her," he said.
Clinton recalled her work back in 1974 with Tom Bell of Mt. Pleasant, Christie Vilsack's brother, during the impeachment proceedings against President Nixon. She credited the advancement of renewable fuels, plus recent education increases and child health care developments to the work of the Vilsacks.
(...)
High school student Matt Wettach said he was impressed with Clinton's talk. "She's very articulate and I think all the issues she talked about are what America needs.
"I'm also grateful that she came to Mt. Pleasant to show an interest in small-town America."
(...)
[ Read it all at: MP NEWS on ZWire ]

No.# 1 in Iowa: Matthew Wettach earns presidential service honor

It was the first time in Todd Liechty's career in education that he has even seen The President's Volunteer Service Award, and the heavy medallion that comes with it, much less conferred one onto a student.
The Mt. Pleasant high school principal presented the award to Matthew Wettach last night prior to the start of the National Honor Society inductions, in which Matthew also participated.
Matthew was recognized Monday night at the Mt. Pleasant school board meeting as receiving the honor; only the paperwork and the hardware had not arrived from Washington, D.C. However, they were available last night and given to Wettach as the Iowa high school volunteer service selectee. "He's number one in Iowa," Liechty said.
Last December, the Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C, named Matt a "Daily Point of Light".
Matthew created an ongoing program called "Write Smart," designed to provide the basic school supplies for kindergarten children in the Mt. Pleasant area who have been identified as economically disadvantaged.
Using the proceeds earned from his summer lawn-mowing job, he decided to provide each student with a backpack filled with the materials listed on area school supply lists.
In addition to the supplies, he enclosed a hand-written note encouraging the child to do his or her best in school throughout the year.
Project volunteers at the Tolson Community Action Center in Mt. Pleasant filled a total of 32 backpacks with materials. The cost of each pack with materials was $71.42 and the total cost of the project was $2,285.44.
"This is very rewarding that others notice the time you put into [volunteering]," Wettach said. "It's also encouraging to keep doing [the project]."
As a junior he has another couple of summers in which to mow lawns and raise money to put more book bags together for kids.
Principal Liechty described Wettach as "a great kid" and "a fantastic young man.
"He's very intelligence, but you'd never know it, because he is so easy to be around. He has so many things going for him, but he's humble and just wants to fit in."
He noted that Matt is the only student from Iowa to receive this award. He will go on now for national consideration among the other 49 honorees in the country.
"I'm not sure," Liechty added, "but I think he just might get the national award, too."
[ Full article: MPNEWS ]

Matthew Wettach: Iowa's Top Youth Volunteer in 12th Annual National Awards Program

DES MOINES, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Matthew Wettach, 17, of Mount Pleasant and Candace Carlson, 13, of Council Bluffs today were named Iowa's top two youth volunteers for 2007 by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, a nationwide program honoring young people for outstanding acts of volunteerism. The awards program, now in its 12th year, is conducted by Prudential Financial in partnership with the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP).

Matthew was nominated by Mt. Pleasant Community High School in Mount Pleasant, and Candace was nominated by Lewis Central Middle School in Council Bluffs. As State Honorees, each will receive $1,000, an engraved silver medallion, and an all-expense-paid trip in early May to Washington, D.C., where they will join the top two honorees - one middle level and one high school youth - from each of the other states and the District of Columbia for several days of national recognition events. Ten of them will be named America's top youth volunteers for 2007 at that time.

Matthew, a junior at Mt. Pleasant Community High School, founded a program that has provided backpacks filled with new school supplies to 125 kindergartners from low-income families over the past two years. "I remember when I was in grade school, some children would get picked on because they did not have nice new school supplies like everyone else," he said. "I would share my school supplies with them, but felt frustrated because I wanted to do more."

Matthew finally got his chance. During the summer of 2005, he began mowing lawns to earn money for a project he calls "Write Start." He approached a local community center to identify children in need, and asked kindergarten teachers for the list of supplies required of new students. Then Matthew diligently watched ads for the best prices on school supplies, and spent thousands of his hard-earned dollars at local stores. The purchased supplies were stuffed into backpacks along with personalized notes, and delivered to the community center for eligible kids to pick up. In addition, Matthew organized a drive to provide the kids with coats, hats, mittens and teddy bears during the holiday season. Matthew says he hopes to expand Write Start soon to other communities. (...)

------------------
While in Washington, D.C., the 102 State Honorees will tour the capital's landmarks, attend a gala awards ceremony at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and visit their congressional representatives on Capitol Hill. In addition, 10 of them - five middle level and five high school students - will be named National Honorees on May 7 by a prestigious national selection committee. These honorees will receive additional $5,000 awards, gold medallions, crystal trophies and $5,000 grants from The Prudential Foundation for nonprofit, charitable organizations of their choice.

Serving on the national selection committee will be U.S. Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota; Arthur Ryan of Prudential; actor Richard Dreyfuss; Alma Powell, chair of America's Promise - The Alliance for Youth; Robert Goodwin, president and CEO of the Points of Light Foundation; Amy B. Cohen, director of Learn and Serve America at the Corporation for National and Community Service; Kathy Cloninger, CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA; Donald T. Floyd Jr., president and CEO of National 4-H Council; Michael Cohen, president and CEO of Achieve, Inc.; Kathryn Forbes, national chair of volunteers, American Red Cross; Joe Militello, president of NASSP; and two 2006 Prudential Spirit of Community National Honorees: Ajay Mangal of Pascagoula, Miss., and Geneva Johnson of the Bronx, N.Y.


[ Read more at the Source: Biz.Yahoo.Com ]

Muscatine, Iowa: Taylor Wettach for more Student Participation in Councils

It didn't take Taylor Wettach more than a moment to agree that all the students at his school should be encouraged to bring their ideas to student council meetings.
[ Aged off server at: Muscatine Journal ]

Matt Wettach honored by D.C. group

Matthew Wettach of Mt. Pleasant has been named a "Daily Point of Light" by the Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C.
Matthew has created an ongoing program to provide the basic school supplies for kindergarten children in the Mt. Pleasant area who have been identified as economically disadvantaged.
The need for the program was identified by area educators, the community Action Program and the Southeast Iowa Head Start Program.
These entities provided Wettach with suggestions on what types of supplies were needed, how to implement the project, and identify the group of students who would be attending kindergarten in the fall.
With this information, Wettach began his "Write Smart" project in August of 2005. Using the proceeds earned from his summer lawn mowing job, he decided to provide each student with a back-pack filled with the materials listed on area school supply lists.
In addition to the supplies, he enclosed a hand-written note encouraging the child to do their best in school throughout the year.
A total of 32 back-packs were filled with materials by project volunteers at the Tolson Community Action Center in Mt. Pleasant. The cost of each pack with materials was $71.42 and the total cost of the project was $2,285.44.
Extra back-packs were sent to Louisa and Des Moines County for distribution by their Community Action Directors.
In October, Wettach followed up on his "Write Smart" project with a Halloween book, stickers, pencil, small treat and a personalized note, which cost $2.95 per child. Community Action Director Sheila Church suggested that with winter here, a coat drive may also benefit area children.

You can read the entire story in the MPNEWS Dec. 28 issue.

[ Source: MPNEWS.net ]

Jeff Wettach is all for Co-Ed Housing

For anyone who has ever complained about being trapped in the Luther bubble, President Rick Torgerson has recently endorsed a Co-ed Housing Proposal that plans to bring the real world a little closer to campus.

The decision to support the proposal was made by Torgerson after meeting with the Board of Regents this past weekend. Community Assembly also endorsed the proposal Feb. 14 by a vote of 25-3.

The new housing proposal gives students the option of having a co-ed by room living arrangement. According to the proposal, the co-ed by room policy will place male and female rooms on the same dormitory floors.

Individual rooms will remain same-gender. Currently, only same-gender students live on any given floor in the dorms.

“I think it is a great idea,” said Jeff Wettach, head track and field coach. “Times have changed. It is a logical next step for students.”

“As a parent of a Luther student as well as a faculty member, I would have no problem if my daughter wanted to live in a co-ed dorm,” Wettach added.

[ Source: CHIPS, Newspaper for Luther College ]

“Improve one percent every day.” Coach Jeff Wettach right on Track

“Improve one percent every day.”

That’s the motto of the men’s track and field team. After placing third at the Augustana Viking Olympics behind Augustana (IL) and UW-Eau Claire, that one percent per day could mean a conference championship down the road for the men.

The Norse had six different first place finishes — three individual and three in the relay events.

Head Coach Jeff Wettach expressed excitement about the performance.

“It’s a great start to the outdoor season,” he said. “It was perfect for team development which is really important this time of year.

“Going into the meet, we talked about being confident, competing tough and having fun and we did all that.”

[ Read the full article: CHIPS ]

Matthew Wettach: Freshman shares history through works of great-grandfather

Matthew Wettach, freshman at Mt. Pleasant Community High School, presented his nationally recognized History Day Project at the Dover Museum in New London on Sunday.
Two summers ago, Wettach was given the option of participating in the 24th Annual National Contest of National History Day by his middle school teacher. Wettach knew that he had a great project in the photographs of his great-grandfather, Pete Wettach.
Pete Wettach's photography has played a large part in chronicling Iowa's history and was recently featured on Iowa Public Television.
Wettach knew that he would be able to utilize his great-grandfather's works to "express different aspects about the Great Depression and Roosevelt's New Deal."
His project did well on all levels, and eventually Wettach was asked to travel to the University of Maryland in Washington, D.C. to present his project. Wettach's hard work paid off, and he was awarded 2nd place at the national level.
While the project competed two years ago, Wettach still occasionally presents his project to interested parties. Over the past year and a half, he has presented his project approximately five times.
Wettach is the son of Steve and Mary Wettach of Mt. Pleasant.
[ Read it at: Mt. Pleasant News ]

Megan talks Business - Wettach for Governor?

Mount Pleasant, Ia. - Megan Amanda Wettach - former Miss Teen Iowa, current Miss Burlington and would-be Miss Iowa - hurried into the store on the Mount Pleasant town square ready to talk business.

Her business.

A growing business.

"We did a half million dollars in revenue this past year," said Wettach, sitting a few feet from hundreds of prom dresses on the racks in her store. "I didn't have any idea this would be possible when I started."

Who, indeed, would have imagined?

The 21-year-old University of Iowa junior started her business when she was a senior at Mount Pleasant High School. She and her parents, Steven and Mary Wettach, both dentists in Mount Pleasant, sketched out a plan on a napkin driving home from a trip to West Virginia. They'd been there buying clothes for a pageant Wettach was entering and she wondered why there wasn't a store like that in Iowa.

"Lots of girls enter pageants," she said. "They need suits for interviews, swimsuits and gowns. I decided there was a niche."

And since every girl needs a prom dress - or two or three by the time they finish high school - why not sell those as well?

That's how the first business, Premier Prom & Pageantry, started in a small building next to her parents' house here. Word got around and girls started driving from Des Moines, Waterloo, Davenport, Illinois and Missouri for dresses.

Wettach moved her business to the town square, changed the name to Premier Prom and Bridal Boutique and started selling wedding dresses.

In 2002, her first year in business, she convinced suppliers a 17-year-old girl would pay the bills and she sold 75 dresses. Now, suppliers make dresses especially for Wettach. She has 18 employees, her business has been featured in national magazines and 1,500 dresses hang in her store.

Then there's a second business. It's her own line of clothes called the Megan Amanda Collection. She comes up with the concept, has dress designers in New York, China, Russia, Brazil and, yes, Mount Pleasant, sketch it out. The dresses are being manufactured in China and the first samples are going to buyers at retail outlets next week.

"This really is exceeding all of our expectations," she said.

One admirer is Gov. Tom Vilsack.

"She got that business started in high school and people in town scratched their heads about it," said Vilsack, a family friend from Mount Pleasant. "But she developed into an extraordinarily shrewd businesswoman. She has high expectations about herself and she's met those expectations. She's everything you'd want in a young person."

Wettach vows that her businesses won't keep her from finishing college. And she promises her businesses - including ones that aren't yet operating - will remain in Iowa.

"I was offered a job by a (dress) manufacturer to help double the size of his business," she said. It meant big money, but Wettach passed.

"It was a great opportunity, but I want my own businesses," she said. "The Megan Amanda Collection has the potential to be a multimillion-dollar business within several years. I'm going to have a national fashion label and have it based in Iowa."

That's because she is committed to making it all happen in Iowa.

"This is where I'm from," she said. "This is where I'm staying."

What about the future?

"I'm in the Miss Iowa Pageant in June," she said. "I'm taking a semester off college to prepare for that."

Will there be more businesses?

"I'd like to have stores around the Midwest. I'd like to become the number one prom dress wholesaler in the country. I'd like to be the CEO of several of my own businesses."

Marriage and kids?

"Absolutely. I understand I have to have a life."

What else?

"I'm thinking of politics someday. The truth? I'd like to be the first woman elected governor of Iowa."

The current governor won't be surprised if it happens. "She's going places," Vilsack said.

"I have goals," Wettach said. "I want to show young girls they can be successful in business and politics. I want to show them they can strive for excellence and succeed."
[ Read it all at: Des Moines Register ]

Head Coach in College Sports: Jeff Wettach at Luther now for Men and Women

TRACK AND FIELD: Luther College women's cross country and track and field coach Betsy Emerson will resign effective at the end of the school year.

Jeff Wettach , who has been men's head track coach for 18 years and men's cross country coach for eight, will assume head coaching duties for the men's and women's programs at Luther.
[ Read more at: Des Moines Register ]

Jeff Wettach in Sports: IIAC Indoor Track and Field Championship

In Chips, the weekly newspaper of Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, USA, there's a full-length article about the IIAC Indoor Track and Field Championship last weekend, where Head Coach Jeff Wettach gets interviewed.
[ Read it at: CHIPS ]

The People in the Pictures: Stories from the Wettach Farm Photos in National TV

Current's annual survey of national programs in preparation for public television lists for 2005 the following: The People in the Pictures: Stories from the Wettach Farm Photos. Producing station: Iowa PTV. Distributor: NETA. Epi-sodes: 1 x 60, formatted for pledge. Status: complete. Producer/director: Laurel Bower Burgmaier. Host/narrator: Lee Kline. Contact: Wayne Bruns, 515-242-4183.
Visual essay portrays farm families during the Great Depression through World War II and the postwar years, as seen through the eyes of Iowa photographer Pete Wettach.
[ Source ]

Farm Life in Black and White: Pete Wettach Exposition

"Farm Life in Iowa: Photographs by A.M. Wettach" opens today in the MacNider Art Museum's Kinney-Lindstrom Gallery in Mason City, Iowa (USA).

The exhibition, on display through March 20, features 30 black and white photographs taken by A.M. "Pete" Wettach (1901-1976) from 1925 to 1960, 35 of the most revolutionary years for farming as a way of life in Iowa.

The exhibition, organized by the University of Iowa Museum of Art in Iowa City, is a reflection on the past generation of Iowa farmers and the consequences of the philosophies and events that affected their lives. (...)

"We recognize ourselves in Pete Wettach's pictures," Edwards said. "Even if you didn't live on a farm, you hear stories about that way of life, and the farm landscape still defines our surroundings. It's apparent that although much has changed in 60 years, many traditional characteristics of life in Iowa remain."

(...) More than 10,000 negatives taken by Wettach are housed at the State Historical Society of Iowa in Iowa City. Formerly a farmer himself, Wettach was employed as a loan officer for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), which provided financial and technical support to debt-ridden and dislocated farmers. While employed by the FSA, and for more than 20 years after, Wettach worked out of his home in Mount Pleasant as a freelance photographer.

His photographs have appeared in Wallace's Farmer, Farm Journal, National Geographic and the Saturday Evening Post.

Wettach's photographs provide important historical evidence of farming advances in Iowa and honor traditions that stressed independence and self-sufficiency. His subjects included obsolete farming methods such as planting corn with a check wire and buckrake; haymaking; handy gadgets; and poignant portraits of farmers and their families.

Throughout its tour, the exhibition will be shown at 10 art museums, libraries and galleries across the state of Iowa. The exhibition is funded by the General Education Fund of the University of Iowa through the Office of the Provost. (...) For more information, call (641) 421-3666.

[ Read more: GlobeGazette (Source) ]

Megan Wettach: Winning Entrepreneur

Competitors in the Northern Plains Student Entrepreneur Award competition are not typical college students. In addition to worrying about papers, tests, and weekend plans, each competitor also juggles the responsibilities of owning a business. This spring, they were rewarded for their dedication to being both full-time undergraduate students and small business owners.

On May 5, the winners of the 2004 Northern Plains regional competition were announced. Dustin Lindahl took first place, winning $2,000 and a chance to compete for $10,000 in the 2004 Global Student Entrepreneur™ Awards held at the Collegiate Entrepreneur Organization (CEO) Conference in Chicago. The conference will be held in November. Megan Wettach was named second place and took home $1,500.

Megan is a Communications major at the University of Iowa. She owns Premier Prom & Pageantry, a formal wear boutique. Megan started Premier Prom & Pageantry as a high school senior. Her business has been featured in Seventeen Prom, Supermodels Unlimited, Prom Time, and Pageantry magazines.
[ Read more here ]