Comments on: Rob Spackey ’08 Shares Fellowship Experience with PP55 Board http://blog.alumnicorps.org/2009/10/08/rob-spackeys-comments-to-the-board/ Alumni in Action Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:50:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Pancho http://blog.alumnicorps.org/2009/10/08/rob-spackeys-comments-to-the-board/comment-page-1/#comment-159 Pancho Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:45:13 +0000 http://blog.alumnicorps.org/?p=701#comment-159 Robby, I am soo proud of you! Somehow, you did not ignore the call divine to step and use your abilities for the greater good of this organization that is transforming the lives its young clients. Here, in Namibia, I am only the Princeton graduate and one of a handful of US graduates. So far, my efforts to promote study options in the US have been via my own interpersonal networks (at my Church, at the American Cultural Center, in Windhoek, through family friends). The American cultural center is a place I volunteer about applying to the United States, but it has yet to mount a fully institutional, nationwide campaign to inform people about these options. I am going to call back a student now that came to presentation at the cultural center and who is thinking of taking SAT subject tests. A local American teacher told them here that they should not take the subject tests, becaus they are too hard. My struggle is to find the best way to encourage them to strive to take all tests necessary to apply to the best schools (especially our Princeton). Thank you for your contribution, it was so inspiring. Robby, I am soo proud of you! Somehow, you did not ignore the call divine to step and use your abilities for the greater good of this organization that is transforming the lives its young clients. Here, in Namibia, I am only the Princeton graduate and one of a handful of US graduates. So far, my efforts to promote study options in the US have been via my own interpersonal networks (at my Church, at the American Cultural Center, in Windhoek, through family friends). The American cultural center is a place I volunteer about applying to the United States, but it has yet to mount a fully institutional, nationwide campaign to inform people about these options.

I am going to call back a student now that came to presentation at the cultural center and who is thinking of taking SAT subject tests. A local American teacher told them here that they should not take the subject tests, becaus they are too hard. My struggle is to find the best way to encourage them to strive to take all tests necessary to apply to the best schools (especially our Princeton).

Thank you for your contribution, it was so inspiring.

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