This October 24th, WISE by all of its various names celebrates several anniversaries:

Forty years of WISE at Woodlands; Twenty Years at Scarsdale, Croton and New Rochelle High Schools; Fifteen or more years at 15 more high schools and thirteen more with ten or more years. This includes many of yours.

Over 30 schools have had WISE for 10 or more years.

We hope to fill a hall with 300 celebrants to share the joys of all of the thousands of students who went through the program. Hopefully, many of the 300 will be Alumni from those schools who can share their mutual yet diverse experiences and help us raise funds to keep WISE strong everywhere it exists and to help us bring it to new schools across the nation.

Below are the details. Invitations will follow over the summer.

Please help us round up as many WISE alumni as possible to join us.

Celebrate WISE-ly

Date: Thursday, October 24, 2013
Location: DoubleTree Hotel in Tarrytown, NY
Format: 6 pm Cocktails & 7 pm Dinner

Featured Speaker:

Andrew Ross Sorkin:Deal Book Editor & Columnist, NY Times, Too Big to Fail Author

Honorees:

Deborah W. Meier: Senior Scholar at NYU’s Steinhardt School, Board member, Coalition of Essential Schools, Teacher, Principal, Innovator, Author, Advocate.

Bill Brown, WISE Staff member, in memoriam

Eric Rothschild, Scarsdale teacher, Social Studies Chair, Senior Options Pioneer