2008ANNUAL REPORT - Dutchess Community College

thankyouThank you so much for your generous gift to the DutchessCommunity College Foundation. We cannot express enoughhow important your support of DCC is to the success of our students and ourCollege. With the help of dedicated people like you, we will continue to be an outstandingeducational resource for the community.Scholarship recipient and Student Government Association President Curtiz Simpson wanted topass along his appreciation as well.“As a scholarship recipient who has benefited from your generosity, I would liketo personally thank you for supporting the DCC Foundation. The scholarship Ireceived has helped me to meet my financial obligations, allowing me to attendDutchess.DCC has done wonders for my education, career, and character. I am confidentthat as I go on to my next institution of higher learning I will be more than preparedto achieve my goals and become another success story because of DutchessCommunity College.I want to send my sincere gratitude to the donors, faculty, administration, staff,and everyone who assisted me in my journey at Dutchess. I am now focused anddetermined to make a better life for myself and hopefully set a good example forother young people to follow."Curtiz is one of many students who have benefited from your support. Thank you for continuing tohelp people like him meet their educational goals and prepare for a successful future.“Let us think of education as the means ofdeveloping our greatest abilities, because in eachof us there is a private hope and dream which,fulfilled, can be translated into benefit foreveryone and greater strength for our nation.”- John F. Kennedy18 2008 ANNUAL REPORT