President's Corner
March 08, 2010
Greetings from McCook Nebraska.
Spring is almost here. I think it is hiding under the snow but it is close. It has been a long winter. It seems like winter just keeps coming and coming. Waiting for winter to get over is like waiting on Congress to pass legislation concerning FFELP. They say they are going to but it never happens. Sometimes I think weather has the same frame of mind. Just look at global warming. You think you have it all figured out and then you freeze all winter, due to the snow and cold temperatures.
The good news is spring is just around the corner, flowers will be coming up and sooner or later they will pass legislation concerning FFELP. In the mean time we are getting prepared to go to DL, so we are not bored. We really do not have time to be bored with all the changes in Pell. I have listened to 4 Pell presentations over 8 months and came away with 5 different versions of the program. Who would have thought, when they said ACG and Smart Grant were going to end, that they would come up with something even harder to track. I think congressmen are kind of like meteorologists. They are both wrong a lot of the time but they still get paid, and we still listen to them, no matter how many times they miss their forecasts.
I hope your spring semester is well underway and you are ready to start packaging students. We have a lot of good things happening the next few months. Winter will end, the grass will turn green, the flowers will start coming up and spring conference will be here. Mark your calendars for April 14-16th in Lincoln.
Don’t forget to schedule your vacation and definitely plan on attending RMASFAA Summer institute in Utah.
By spring conference, we will have 2 and maybe 3 new directors in NeASFAA: Grace, Mid-Plains and Methodist. I hope you take time and introduce yourselves to them.
On a sad note, we have had many of our lender friends leave NeASFAA. We wish them well in whatever place they their paths lead. Change is hard even in the best of times.
For me it has been a year of change. First as President, second dealing with what congress gives us, third with taking on a new job and trying to get moved. Not to mention trying to sell a house with 2 feet of snow on the ground. A three hundred mile commute does get old, especially when it snows every time I go back to Omaha or my wife comes to McCook.
And by the way do you know spring is just around the corner!!!!
I wish you a spring filled with joy and the hope of a new life in Him.
Dale Brown
NeASFAA president
