New board members at large elected.Each year ACA ACA - Application Control Architecture members have the opportunity to directly elect part of the National Board of Directors. This year, three board members at large were chosen. Board members will take their place on the board February 24, following the Council of Delegates meeting; their term ends in 2005. The newly elected board members are: Cathy Palmer Cathy is the director of camps and property for the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts, recreational and service organization founded (1912) in Savannah, Ga., by Mrs. Juliette Gordon Low (1860–1927). It was originally modeled after the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, organizations created in Great Britain by Sir Robert Baden-Powell during of Manitou Manitou supreme deity of Algonquin and neighboring tribes. [Am. Indian Religion: Collier’s, X, 91] See : God Council. She is a member of the ACA Wisconsin Section and serves the section as past section president and standards visitor. Cathy states, "I am blessed "I Am Blessed" was the second single released from Power of a Woman. The single was released just after the girl group just had scored their third #1 hit in Japan with "Who Are You". with the greatest job in the world! I am a camper! -- for more than thirty-nine years, I have LOVED camping. I have been a camping professional for the past eighteen of those years. During my career I have directed three accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. nonprofit agency camps. What we do through the camp experience changes lives forever! We bring children and adults from all walks of life together. Through shared experiences, growth, and self-awareness opportunities, we weave beautiful tapestries of friendship, unity, and understanding. "... we must do all we can to build better bridges between our profession and the college students interested in becoming camping professionals--they are our future. We need to invest in them so that we can assure the continuation of camping, this life changing valuable experience -- by doing so we will make even stronger our commitment to provide 'Better Camping for All' -- for future generations to come." Nancy Linkroum Pennell Nancy began her camp career as a seven-year-old spending ten of fourteen summers traveling from Florida to Aloha Hive in Fairlee, Vermont Fairlee is a town in Orange County, Vermont, United States. The population was 967 at the 2000 census. Fairlee is home to Lake Morey which claims to have the longest ice skating trail in the United States. . She met her counselor husband at camp and settled in Chester, Vermont, where she and Hugh raised four children. For several years, she served on the Aloha Foundation Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. , of which Aloha Camp is one of its program centers. She currently serves as director of Aloha Camp. As a member of ACA affiliated with the New England Section, she serves as the New England Section Association of Independent Camps (AIC AIC Association des Infermières Canadiennes. ) board member. In her platform, she states, "I tend to be a bit of a generalist. I am committed to the camping industry, and see my ACA National involvement as working where I am needed. In AIC, I have been part of a group preparing materials that will help counselors get credit for their summer work. Helping the education community to better understand the role of camping in the lives of campers and counselors is an area I would be interested in pursuing. Spreading the message of any large organization takes many thinkers and doers, and I look forward to putting my time and energy in to advancing the goals of ACA." Peter D. Surgenor Peter is the executive director of the Presbyterian Conference Association in Holmes, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , which serves the Presbyterian Churches in Hudson River Presbytery presbytery (prĕz`bĭtĕr'ē, prĕs`–), in architecture, the space in the eastern end of a church reserved for the higher clergy. It was also known in the early Christian Church as the apse, tribune, or exedra. , New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Presbytery, and Long Island Presbytery. He is a member of the ACA New York Section. National Education Council Chair; Membership Committee -- New York Section; Camp Director Institute Trainer; and Standards Visitor. Peter states, "I discovered the power of camping as a college student leading wilderness trips for a private camp. The lessons I learned there have been with me as I discovered the gifts of church camping with children and young adults. As a volunteer in ACA, I have seen how adults can provide positive experiences for children and grow themselves. "I am excited to see the ACA Board refining a vision for our Association and pursuing leads to form alliances to move toward that vision. ACA is making wonderful progress in coordinating research and public awareness to share the power and necessity of camping experiences with the wider public." Thank you to all who voted. In addition, ACA extends its gratitude to those who were also on the ballot: Dennis L. Elliot and Sharon Kosch. |
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