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Meet
Perrine,
the WildLink
Expedition
Leader
 HELLO
-- my name is Perrine
and I am the new WildLink Expedition Leader! I am employed
by the Student
Conservation Association
(SCA) for the course of the academic year to work specifically
on this program. I
graduated from the George
Washington University in Washington, D.C.
with a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Environmental Studies
and a minor in Biology. I'm looking forward to an exciting
year with all of you!
I
moved to California from Ohio in August and started working
in Yosemite a few weeks later. Within the first month I
received GLOBE
Teacher Training and Leave
No Trace Training. WildLink
Team
2 arrived the next month and I had a chance
to see the world in a different way. It is one thing to
see beauty through your own eyes, but to see the excitement
and realization of what life truly is, reflected in another
person's entire being, is truly inspiring.
While
we were at Chain Lakes, I felt at peace. I heard the wind
softly caressing the trees and the birds singing sweetly
as they were kissed by the breeze. I felt the comfort of
knowing that I was helping to make a small difference in
these students' lives, to at least create a happy memory
to revisit as life grows more difficult. Some students were
so proud to have done the seemingly impossible and they
positively glowed with accomplishment. This is a feeling
that they can take with them to any part of life.
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I
am now preparing for WildLink Team
3 and eagerly anticipating their arrival!
l feel so lucky to have the opportunity to meet and work
with so many wonderful people. I look forward to a year
of education, for the students, myself, and everyone affiliated
with this program in any way.
If
you have any questions about this program, please feel free
to contact me.
Buffalo
Soldiers website complete
Our
first interactive web-based diversity curriculum site is
ready for use in classrooms! This site, the Buffalo
Soldiers Project, discusses the role of African-American
soldiers in Yosemite at the turn of last century. It is
narrated by an African-American Yosemite Park Ranger, Shelton
Johnson. It is the first of its kind in our "Shadows
in the Range of Light" series.
Obata
Exhibit at deYoung Museum
One
hundred works of Japanese water-colorist, Chiura
Obata, are now being exhibited
at San Francisco's deYoung Museum. Obata's love for natural
beauty is depicted in these striking works. Obata spent
a great deal of time in Yosemite before World War II, capturing
the seemingly uncapturable in each of his brush strokes.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he and his family were
relocated to a Japanese internment
camp in Topaz,
Utah. There, he continued to
paint and to teach, however, his works took on a new dimension....
The
exhibit will be running until December 31, 2000 at the deYoung
museum located in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California.
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