Happy Thanksgiving from SCA!
As we approach the holiday season, I want to take a moment to tell you how much all of us at SCA appreciate your continuing engagement and support. This year, more than 4,200 young women and men completed vital conservation projects in parks and forests, and in cities and rural areas in all 50 states. The impact they had on the land was exceeded only by the impact the land had on them.
In August, when SCA Founder Liz Putnam received the Presidential Citizens Medal, President Obama not only named Liz as the first conservationist ever to receive the prize; he also honored the service of over 60,000 SCA members since 1957.
These accomplishments would not have been possible without the full support of our agency partners, loyal supporters, alumni, and staff who collectively form the SCA community.
Thank you so much and best wishes for a happy Thanksgiving!
Dale Penny,
President
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SCA's from Windigo, ISRO in the the 1980's
As regards SCA, you may be interested to read "Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson (2006). He established more than 50 schools in Afghanistan/Pakistan. He's a one man Peace Corps.
Bruce Weber, my Interpretive Specialists in the early 1980s was paging through the book and noticed Tara Bishop's picture with Mortenson at the Khyber Pass. She was one of our SCAs at Windigo about 1982. She married Mortenson after participating in a dinner hosted by Edmund Hillary.
Bruce remembered Tara because she lived in Kathmandu, where he had been. Her dad Barry Bishop climbed to the top of Everest , May 22, in 1963, one of the first Americans to do so.
Also, PS I think Wayne Pacelle, head of American Humane Society, was in that same Windigo SCA bunch.
Oh how we could be so lucky to such good kids come forth!!