Hello everyone!
The school year is coming to
an end and with it, unfortunately, the experience of building the Lake Effect Environmental Archive.
The Lake Effect project will
be wrapping up at the close of this school year. I think it is safe to say that everyone on the project greatly
enjoyed themselves and although we are sad
that it is done we are proud of our work and quite happy with the
results. We have had many adventures throughout the course of the
project and look back on them with the fondest memories. We set high
goals for the project and we achieved almost all of them.
This project was a certain success. I hope you (the public) make use of
this great resource and use it to your full advantage.
The entire archiving process
is much more than organizing and storing materials; it is an on going,
evolving process that is full of thought, learning, and creativity. I
feel that every member of the Lake Effect Team
has grown and benefited personally from taking on this project. We
learned more about ourselves and more importantly about the environment
around us. It is critical to remember that the environment, our
environment, is what we make of it. This idea shows that
the environment is not just the outdoors, but any place, a space where
all its constituents make up the whole. Whether it is the town of
Waukegan as an environment, the Harbor ecosystem, or the bodies within, there are always positive and
negative aspects and the best way to appreciate these aspects and that
environment is to ask questions. Be inquisitive. When you ask, you learn
an answer, and with learning comes knowledge. Knowledge is power and
knowledge is truth.
Hopefully you (the public)
will use the Lake Effect Environmental Archives and the tools it
provides to answer some of your questions.
It was a pleasure working on
this project and I sincerely thank Lake Forest College, Lake Forest College Environmental Studies, the Mellon Foundation, Nancy Nichols,
Dr. Dohrmann, and Dr. Miller for giving me the
opportunity to be a part of this wonderful project. I am proud to be a
member of the Lake Effect Team. Thank you everyone!
Enjoy the Archive!
Not saying goodbye, but till next time - cheers!
