From: Jennifer Wiseman (jwiseman@pha.jhu.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 05 2003 - 18:07:28 EDT
Dear chr-astro friends,
Greetings!
I hope the summer transition to Fall is
gentle for you.
As you have heard from previous email,
our summer meeting of the American Scientific
Affiliation (ASA) was awesome. The astronomy
and cosmology theme was evident in so many
different ways: in lectures, panel discussions,
discussions between astronomers, worship times,
and Bible study. We had a lot of fun together too.
(See photos and info at www.asa3.org.)
Anyway I am writing to see if any of you would
like to be a *Mentor* to a young person
(generally a graduate or undergraduate student)
who is a Christian in astronomy. Several of
these young folks signed up at the ASA meeting requesting
a "Mentor", but there aren't enough people who
have signed up to be "Mentors"! This is a lot of
fun and doesn't take much time: basically you
just make yourself available to chat with
your Mentee occasionally, via e-mail for example,
to provide informal guidance and encouragement
and answer questions they might have about
this career path. Perhaps you might see them
at conferences like the AAS meetings, too.
Please write to Don Munro (ASA Executive Director)
if you can serve as a Mentor (if you are a
professional astronomer in research and/or possibly
teaching). His email address is don@asa3.org. He will
try to match you up with someone with similar interests.
You need not have attended this year's ASA meeting.
You might need to be an ASA member (or join) though,
so if you aren't and would like to be, check
out www.asa3.org.
You can make a lot of difference in someone's
life just by being a non-threatening support,
friend, and contact for them. So please consider
being a Mentor!
Thanks,
-Jennifer Wiseman
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