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NYSAFCS
President’s Message May, 2010 Hello
everyone, As
my presidency of NYSAFCS, 2009-2010 draws to a close it is time to
reflect. It has been a very
challenging and at the same time an exciting and rewarding year for us. Overwhelmingly
the Centennial Celebration Conference, “Celebrating the Past,
Sustaining the Future” was the years highlight. The Centennial Celebration portrayed the
Lake Placid Conferences on Home Economics at the Lake Placid Club 1899-1909
sponsored by Annie Godfrey Dewey, Melvil Dewey and Ellen Swallow Richards.
Kudos to Shirley Ware as the conference chair. Another
highlight of the year was having our spring board meeting at SUC Oneonta with
Rosemarie Avanzato as our host. A tour
of the renovated Human Ecology building
puts Oneonta’s FCS Departments in the forefront. Top notch facilities including the textile
lab, fashion design computer lab, commercial kitchen, new foods labs, climate
controlled historic costume collection, and child care center will help
perpetuate and sustain Family and Consumer Sciences into the future. We
also had a unique opportunity to interact with students in various Human
Ecology and FCS curricula. We promoted
the benefits of membership in AAFCS/NYFCS that can enhance academic and
career success. Our interactions
provided time for students (pre-professionals and new professionals) to share
career paths, experiences, and enjoy networking over lunch. Another
area we are proud to move forward with is our new “Special Project
Grants”. These grants are
designed to enable and encourage the continuation and development of further
collaborative educational and environmental efforts within FCS. A description of the guidelines is included
in this newsletter. Among
additional efforts is the construction of our new website. We also oversaw the the
re-organization of LID and securing the name change to NYSFCS with
documentation from the NYSDOS. Many thanks go out to We
are proud to have a contingent attending the AAFCS Conference this June in We
look forward to having passed the gavel to |
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