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PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY WYNN SCHEER Students at the Labadie (Missouri) Elementary School performed the Where Freedom Speaks pageant in 1998. Social Studies teacher Wynn Scheer wrote that the pageant and its teaching materials were "an excellent learning experience for the participants and spectators." Since 2005 the We the People Constitution Tour has taught more than 10,000 eighth graders about the fundamentals of national government through a guided tour of the major landmarks in the nation's capital. Students line up in the Congressional Auditorium of the Capitol Visitor Center to ask a question of Rep. Norm Dicks at the 2010 Youth Forum. Society member Joe Grano talks with incoming Senator Barack Obama at the Society's 2005 welcoming reception for new Members of Congress in National Statuary Hall. THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY AND BEYOND NOW IN ITS FIFTIETH YEAR, the United States Capitol Historical Society continues to reflect the vision of its founders as it endeavors to bring the history of the Capitol and Congress to the public through an ever-widening variety of public programs. The Capitol remains a beacon of liberty and the promise of representative self-government in trying times. Its history is a constant reminder of this organization's responsibility to transmit that promise to posterity. WINTER 2012