I greet you in the Ghanaian spirit of Sankofa!  During this biennium, to more effectively and efficiently serve children, I will focus on lessons learned from many sources.  Among those is the symbolic meaning of the Sankofa bird to my position as National President.  The Sankofa philosophy stresses the importance of reaching back to retrieve and retain knowledge gained in the past to apply in the present to succeed in the future.  That is a promising message of OPPORTUNITY!

Our past provides valuable lessons on the CONSISTENCY with which we adhere to our founding standards and principles.  Our present provides the opportunity to realign ourselves in CAMARADERIE to devote the best of our individual strengths, talents, and resources to apply promising practices harmoniously and unselfishly to our tasks for children.  Our future visualizes continuing success as we realize our administrative and programmatic goals in HEER (Health, Education, Employment, and Recreation) plus Arts and Humanities.  Our ultimate reward is the evidence-based improvement in the quality and quantity of our positive impact on the children in each COMMUNITY we serve.  And our blessing is that, for over half a century, we have maintained allegiance to our traditions while we set an admirable pace to improve the future for children and families with targeted focus on reducing the devastating effect of Diabetes and advocating for greater emphasis on Child Mental Health. 

I welcome your continuing enthusiastic support as we remain motivated by a past that guides our CONSISTENCY, a present that strengthens our CAMARADERIE, and a future that serves our COMMUNITY.  That, is the spirit of Sankofa and the spirit of Continental Societies, Inc.®

I invite you to visit our website regularly to keep abreast of our mission and our successes.

Continentally,