SEDS-USA Update (the start of something new!)

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From: Chris Lewicki (chris@lewicki.com)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 01:34:01 MST


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Hi,

This post begins a series of periodic updates from your national SEDS
organization, as to the status and activities of SEDS at the national level.
This initial post is going out to a wide-distribution, but future posts will
be sent to some subset of this distribution (we'll determine that based on
your feedback).

SEDS-USA (the national board), is also "by students, for students" much as
the individual chapters are, and those students involved in SEDS-USA, are
often involved in the leadership of their own chapters. As such, SEDS-USA
waxes and wanes as the chapters often do. As an interested SEDS Alumni, a
former SEDS-USA chair and chapter president, I've helped to maintain the
"bare minimum" level of activity at the national level during these lulls,
but hopefully the most recent lull has come to the end.

Now to the update! Several students have surfaced recently and expressed an
interest in revitalizing the national organization. The two most recent are
JoHanna Przybylowski (MIT SEDS President), and Joshua Neubert (MIT SEDS Vice
President), along with David Lavender from Virginia Tech SEDS (serving as
acting Director of Chapter Affairs). I'm working with these students and
acting in the capacity of SEDS-USA Chair until enough students get involved
and we have formal elections to establish the board.

Thus ends this first, brief update, but you can look forward to more
frequent (weekly to bi-weekly) updates from us as we get organized. You can
expect to be hearing from myself and the other students as we get back in
touch with you.

As we get started, I'd like to hear what your desires are for how SEDS-USA
might help your chapter better network with other chapters, take advantage
of opportunities available to students, and otherwise serve the chapters as
best we can. Even better would be for you to volunteer your time and passion
for space exploration by serving on the SEDS-USA board of directors!

Ad Astra Per Ardua
(To the Stars By Effort)

-Chris Lewicki
Acting Chair, SEDS-USA

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