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By Anita L. Sherman
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
“It was a life-changing experience,” said Morgan Roach, 17, a senior at Highland School in Warrenton.
Roach spent three weeks in July as a Republican Page for the 2002 summer session of Congress. Roach, who lives in Rappahannock County, was the only local student chosen for this honor.
Rep. Frank R. Wolfe, who recommended her for the position, notified her of her appointment in May. “It is an honor to represent the 10th Congressional District of Virginia, and I am sure you will do a great job,” Wolfe said.
Roach, who attended the National Young Leaders Conference in Washington, D.C. last summer, now knows her way around the Capitol Building — in a unique way.
“The first day we were handed a map and told to find things for ourselves,” said Roach, who said that, at first, the task seemed overwhelming.
“We had to learn our way around to all the offices, but in a day or so — it was amazing — we had it all figured out,” said Roach.
She relished the freedom and independence that the three-week stay in the U.S. House of Representatives Page Residence Hall afforded her.
“I'm really ready for college now,” beamed the ebullient Roach, who was only one of 72 pages selected nationwide to serve the government in this capacity.
Pages are employees of the House of Representatives and, as such, their work is important. Although sponsored by a specific Congressman, pages work as a team and their duties consist primarily of delivering correspondence and legislative material within the Congressional complex.
Some pages may be assigned to answer phones in the Members’ Cloakrooms or monitor a telephone bank of incoming requests for page service.
A page’s duties might extend well beyond midnight,
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