Virginia Boney Awarded GOP Women’s Internship

Written by Thomas C. Hanson

Apr 02, 2008 at 12:00 AM

Virginia Boney Virginia Boney, a junior political science major at Furman University, was awarded the Dorothy Kabis Internship for this summer at the National Federation of Republican Women headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. Boney was one of three nationwide to receive the six-week internship. She was honored at the Greenville County Republican Women’s Club meeting March 27 at the Poinsett Club. The internship provides housing, roundtrip airfare and a small monetary allowance. Boney is active in the Furman College Republicans and worked in the Mitt Romney presidential campaign last fall and winter. Kabis was president of the National Federation of Republican Women from 1963 to 1967. She served as treasurer of the United States under President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1971.