attending State Council of Presidents

Former Germanna dual enrollment student faces challenges, but you can help
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Jobs in homeland security and intelligence go way beyond being a spy or computer programmer. Come hear more
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Good news for parents of Spotsylvania high school students in Germanna dual enrollment classes
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Germanna host summit on thousands of current job openings and business opportunities in homeland security and intelligence community
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Thanksgiving Message:
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Happy Thanksgiving

Friends and Colleagues,

To those individuals and organizations we work with in our service area: Please accept this simple message of thanksgiving for your friendships and partnering with Germanna. Without your support, Germanna would have found it difficult to continue effectively serving our students and communities. So many businesses, educational institutions, nonprofits, and governments stepped forward to offer us space and other support after the August earthquake that it is too long a list to write here. So many of you donate time and resources to our Foundation to invest in the good work we do. So many of you serve on our Boards and Advisory Councils. 

To those who serve at Germanna, whether part-time or full-time employee, volunteer, board member, or contractor: Thank you for all that you do and have done in spite of the great challenges we have faced. Despite budget cuts, economic uncertainties, earthquakes and hurricanes, you have continued to focus on students and their education and success. Some of you have lost private offices or moved off campus. Some of you have taught using online tools for the first time. Some of you are bunched together in hallways and corners. All of you have faced stress, change, and disruption in small or great degree.

Therefore, all of you are at the head of my list of things for which I am most humbly grateful: That I have the honor to serve Germanna, our students, and our communities alongside each of you is a great privilege and thankful duty.

I thank each and every one of you from my heart.

May you celebrate Thanksgiving with those you love, with good memories of those who are no longer at your table, with hope that those who are serving in harm's way return safely and soon to your table, and with warm food and gratitude within.

David

The Nature Conservancy

The Nature Conservancy, a group on Flickr.

More good news for Virginia
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Germanna had a good contingent attending last night's Madison County Chamber annual dinner

Germanna's green building attracts attention
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Germanna's Educational Foundation 2012 Philantropist of the Year, the Stafford County EDA:
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Help Germanna's Student Government in a worthy cause
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Congratulations to the Germana Educational Foundation's 2012 Philantropist of the Year, the Stafford County Economic Development Authority
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Congratulations to Germanna alumna Mary Murphy
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Linda and I will be thanking all the supporters of Germanna's Educational Foundation at tonight's Annual Dinner
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Congratulations to Germanna's VP Rick Brehm and to Len Kogut VP at Southwest Virginia CC for graduating from Lead Virginia
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Learn about thousands of current job openings and business opportunities in homeland security and the intelligence community
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at Germanna's Culpeper Center at the Chamber annual banquet

attending Germanna Local College Board meeting

Good news for Veterans
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Germanna joins with our distinguished alumnus, Steve Jones, and family in honoring the life of his beloved mother, Delores Jones
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Coverage of Germanna's Veterans Day program
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Germanna mourns the loss of Carl Silver and joins in celebrating his life
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Very nice coverage of our enrollment increase although the quake closed only 1 building, not the whole Fredericksburg campus
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corrected email for alumni to tell me your stories is dsam@germanna.edu

Are you a Germanna alum? If you ever attended you are. Please consider sending me your story to dasam@germanna.edu

Attending annual meeting of the State Board for Community Colleges in Charlottesville

Germanna still growing
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Germanna's Educational Foundation Annual Dinner:
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Roy Branklin, retired Marine & student at Germanna Community College, opens the 2011 Veterans Day National Day of Remembrance Roll
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"The longer I live the more I mistrust/theatricality." Adrienne Rich

"For in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, 'hold[s] office'; everyone of us is in a position of responsibility; and, in the final analysis, the kind of government we get depends upon how we fulfill those responsibilities. We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve." J F Kennedy

Germanna student Kelli Hale takes ownership of her life and helps others turn theirs positive as well
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In Richmond at state meeting on possible Goodwill and Germanna Community College joint efforts

other colleges who have answered the roll call for those who are not able:
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with Pam Shifflett, reading some of the names those who cannot answer the roll call

Veterans' Day 2011

When I was young, I vividly remember my mother making a point to buy a poppy for each of us to wear on our clothing for “Reembrance Day,” as she still called November 11. We know it as Veterans’ Day, but she was born November 30, 1918, just nineteen days after the guns fell silent to end the War to End all Wars, and that is what the day was called when she was a child. She always reminded me of 11-11-11 because the Armistice took effect on November 11 at 11 am.

Today is another 11-11-11. And, unhappily, many wars have followed.

Today, beginning at 9 am at both Germanna Community College campuses, students, faculty, staff and community members will read from the roll of those who have died in the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. You are welcome to participate:

http://www.germanna.edu/germannahighlights.asp?article=3

Today we also pause to thank our veterans and remember those not here to be thanked. It is the least we can do.

We can also:

- hire a veteran
- retrain a veteran
- assist a veteran in trouble
- pray for those who are serving and have served
or just feel a deep gratitude in our hearts for those who have answered the call and stood their ground so we can live without having to defend ourselves.

The poppies that we wore memorialized the poppy fields in Flanders where many Americans lie instead of having come home. Around the cemetery, many battles were fought in the Ypres region. Heavy fighting over the years of the war cost about a million casualties. The battles were memorialized in a famous poem by a veteran of that war:

In Flanders Fields

By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) Canadian Army

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

Veterans Department web site:

http://www.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetday_faq.asp

Learn about job opportunities in homeland security and the intelligence community:
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having breakfast with Delegate Ed Scott before the legislative session begins

Community Colleges seen as a vital alternative:
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Celebrate & Support Germanna Community College's Educational Foundation at its Annual Dinner:
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Good info for all of our veterans:
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I voted. Have you?

Make history: Vote Tuesday November 8.
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Thank you Mrs. Lee for your support in the creation of Germanna's Culpeper Center:
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enjoying The Beatles tribute show: http://ping.fm/sMA8v

Culpeper is a great destination
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Germanna's Ollie Burton gives us good advice on security using smartphones and tablets
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Volunteer readers from the community are welcome. For information about the Germanna roll call, and to volunteer to be a reader, Kathryn A. Denner at 540/423-9123.
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attending meeting of Career Partners Board at Eastern View HS

Helping those who have credits but no degree to complete is vital but a tough challenge
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attending Governor's Forum on Education & Workforce Training in Richmond