Dear Governor’s School Alumni and Friends,
I wish to thank you for what you have contributed to sustaining the Governor’s School and for what you might do in the future. As you know, we are racing toward an October 25th fundraising deadline in order to maintain a vestige of this unique institution on which to build for the future. Many different individuals are working diligently with the determined hope that through shared efforts, we can keep the school’s fundamental shape unbroken as we work toward full funding and full capacity.
I know that the Governor’s School lodges something essential in the minds and spirits of those who have been a part of its community. I often quote the poem “Separation” by W. S. Merwin to describe the effect of the six weeks whose impact goes through us like “thread through a needle” in which “everything is stitched with its color.”
For most students and those who teach and live with them for six weeks, the Governor’s School has vital consequences for individual lives. Shakespeare’s lines from All’s Well that Ends Well extend Merwin’s metaphor when he writes: “The web of our life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.”
I believe that this great gift of the Governor’s School, once the gift of the state and in these hard times the gift of its alumni and friends, is one of the good yarns woven into the web of our lives and those whom our lives touch.
I thank you for what you have done to support the school, and appeal to you to keep your initiatives alive – and to talk with others about how they too might contribute to this critical cause.
My best to each of you,
Lucy Milner, On-Site Director
N.C. Governor’s School West
