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[APO-L] National Spring Service Day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith Rielage)
Thu Feb 13 10:39:37 2003
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:27:19 -0600
Reply-To: Keith Rielage <krr@hbar.wustl.edu>
From: Keith Rielage <krr@hbar.wustl.edu>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
Dear Brothers,
Just a reminder of the upcoming National Spring Service Day set to
coincide with National Youth Service Day on the weekend of April 11-13th.
We, as a fraternity, are using our Spring Service Day to remind ourselves
of our promise to help serve America's youth. I urge each chapter to plan
and carry out a project that either helps youth or directly involves youth
in your service. By teaching the youth of today about the joys of serving
and helping others we build a better future and possibly develop their
life long interest in service.
A lot of useful information on planning projects and project ideas are
contained in the National Spring Service Day handbook mailed to all
chapters in November. You may also find it on the National APO website
(www.apo.org). There you will also find a link to the National Youth
Service Day webpage that contains a wealth of information including
planning guides and a way to publicize your event on the web.
Feel free to perform a youth project at any time this spring if April
11-13th is a busy time for your chapter. You can also perform a long-term
project through out the semester such as reading to children in the head
start program for a few hours a week.
One such project that has been developed by our partner, America's
Promise, is the Power of Five program. This program utilizes chapter
members as facilitators in elementary school classrooms to teach the
principles of service working closely with the classroom teacher. More
information on this program can be found on the APO national website --
National Spring Service Day page. You can also email
poweroffive@americaspromise.org for all of the necessary materials.
Please feel free to contact any of the National Spring Service Day
co-chairs: Voltaire Villanueva (voltaire@allaboutvoltaire.com), Jenn
Rielage (jrielage@siu.edu), or myself (rielagek@kenyon.edu) if you have
any questions. We are also interested in hearing about the service
projects that you have planned or are currently performing that benefit
youth.
Best of luck to all of you this semester,
Keith Rielage, Co-Chair Nat. Spring Service Day
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Keith Rielage, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Physics Department
Kenyon College
