GC_and_LC_Winter_2012

Letter from Stephen & Angela Peters, Founders GC & LC WINTER 2012 NEWSLETTER Celebrating Equity, Access & Excellence Gentlemen’s & Ladies Clubs W I N T E R 2 0 1 2 S P E C I A L R E C O G N I T I O N Van Landingham Rotary Club donate blazers to Hilton Head... More

Letter from Stephen & Angela Peters, Founders GC & LC WINTER 2012 NEWSLETTER Celebrating Equity, Access & Excellence Gentlemen’s & Ladies Clubs W I N T E R 2 0 1 2 S P E C I A L R E C O G N I T I O N Van Landingham Rotary Club donate blazers to Hilton Head Island High School GC. GC President becomes Senior Class President-Meet Michael Miller. STAR Academy GC forms partnership with Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC. GC & LC Reading Initiative with the American Reading Company. The release of the Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and African-American Males 2012 reminds us of the “Urgency of Now!” The patterns of failure and lowexpectations of our children have become so common and widespread that a recitation of the numbers no longer generates alarm or even surprise. The real danger is that too many educators and too many members of the public at large have begun to accept this dismal state of affairs as the norm. The most important underlying challenge is to Less