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Scott Russell Sanders to Keynote SCA Conservation Commencement Print
Naturalist Writer to Speak in Charlestown, NH on August 12
(CHARLESTOWN, NH, 8/3/2005)---Renowned author, professor and environmentalist Scott Russell Sanders will deliver the keynote address at the Student Conservation Association (SCA)’s inaugural “conservation commencement” at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, August 12 at The SCA Center for Conservation Service in Charlestown, NH.

For more information, contact:

Kevin Hamilton

(603) 543-1700

Mr. Sanders has earned numerous writing awards for his fiction, non-fiction and childrens’ books. He is a contributing editor for Audubon and editorial advisor for Orion magazines and frequent contributor to those and many other magazines. A distinguished professor of English at Indiana University, Mr. Sanders is also an acclaimed lecturer.

SCA President Dale Penny notes although SCA has been placing student volunteers and interns in national parks and forests for the past 48 years, this will be the first time they’ve been invited to the SCA campus to celebrate their conservation service at an official commencement program.

“The nationwide accomplishments of SCA’s conservation volunteers are extraordinary and deserving of acknowledgement,” says Penny. “As our members ‘graduate’ from this moment in their lives to pursue other meaningful contributions for our environment and communities, we are delighted that Scott Russell Sanders has agreed to deliver an inspirational keynote address underscoring the importance of lifelong stewardship.”

Penny indicates SCA members unable to attend the commencement will find video, photographs and text of the remarks on the SCA website (www.theSCA.org) and the organization also plans to publish the speech and other comments in a booklet. As part of the commencement exercise, SCA will host a picnic for its resource management partners, alumni, staff and others.

Founded in 1957, the Student Conservation Association connects young people to our natural world by engaging high school, college and graduate students in hands-on service to the land. SCA volunteers and interns help to protect vital habitats, threatened wildlife, and other at-risk resources in national parks, forests and urban green spaces that serve more than 250 million visitors per year. Their unique experience instills an ethic of conservation and inspires lifelong stewardship that benefits the volunteer, our society and our environment.