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Letter from the NYSCAA President

Greetings fellow NYSCers!

If you are reading this, you are choosing to stay connected to a truly unique program that continues to provide amazing experiences to some of the best science and math students in the United States. Today, our connections are important to us, as it is how we choose to spend our time, and thus a part of our identity.

With so many tools to communicate with others from around the globe to stay connected, we hope you will take a moment to use one of those tools to let us know where you are, what you are doing and what you have experienced since your time in those beautiful West Virginia hills. We would love to hear from you! Please fill out an NYSCAA Bio Update Form.

Exciting things are happening! Ooooohhhh, Aaaaaaahhhh!

The National Youth Science Foundation, the organization that exists to raise funds to support the NYSC and develop other programs, is purchasing land for the purpose of building a new science camp! We are at the first stage of this process, and hope you will want to be involved in this historic project! A special dedication is planned at the 2008 NYSCAA Reunion for the future home of the NYSC!

2008 is a special year as it is the 45th anniversary of the first National Youth Science Camp. Each 5th year from that anniversary year in 1963, we have an NYSCAA Reunion in West Virginia. Please take time to look at our 2008 Reunion schedule of activities and decide to join us for a week (or a few days) of fun, and experience again some of those special Science Camp moments. I have been to a few reunions over the years and this is definitely one to attend!

Whether you know it or not, you are part of a very elite fraternity, only two from each state, each year since 1963 and staph. We all share the similar experience of having attended NYSC, but more importantly we share a connection that is difficult to put into words. There is a network of people in the world that whether you attended in 1963 or 2007, you are all connected as members of the NYSCAA. If you would like to support the work of the NYSC Alumni Association, please choose to pay your membership dues for 2008.

Some of us are poor college students, some are starting families and building careers, and some are enjoying the success of applying our talents in our work over the years. At whatever stage your life is at, please consider a gift to the National Youth Science Foundation to support the continuation of Science Camp. You may remember that you and your parents didn’t have to pay for your summer in West Virginia, so pay it forward for those future NYSCers. There is also the Adler Endowment Fund that needs your support so it can continue to grow and ultimately support the NYSC in perpetuity.

If you are looking for a way to spend your upcoming summer, consider applying to serve on the NYSC staph (yes, it is spelled correctly since they are an infectious lot).

I wish you and your family a safe and happy holiday season and an amazing new year.

Yours in Service,

John P. Giroir, LA 1989, NYSC Staph 1990-1995

P.S. Boomba Hey to those 1989ers out there!