We hope that this forum feels like home to you all and that you can stay in touch for years to come.

If this experiment works, we will migrate all classes to Yahoo! Groups over the next few months.

Write Your Legislators!
If you have just returned from Governor's School, the GSAA asks that you write your state legislators and tell them what you thought of the program. Every year, Governor's School has to prove its value to the people who fund it, the state government. Your letters go a long way to convincing them that GS is worth keeping. You can find out who represents you at The General Assembly Home Page. Look on the right for the Who Represents Me lookup, find out who your representatives are, and write them. It's the best thing you can do for the Governor's School, so please, write them today.

Looking for Fresh Content
Attention all alumni, we are looking for new, fresh content for the NCGSAlumni site. We are looking for digital photos and even digital videos. We are looking for your stories and memories.  We are looking for success stories, and we are looking for your article on what Governor's School meant to you.  Please contact Sam Sanders (Art 71) to learn how to submit your material.

Protecting our site
Spam has become the bane of our attempts to keep you connected and informed. Recently, we had to limit our BBS to registered users because of spam. See the Spam Story and see how you can help us. 

Update Your Information in the Alumni Database
Help us keep in touch with you! Please update your contact information in our Alumni Database. Everyone is in there, whether you joined the GSAA or not. From 1963 to now, you can find long-lost friends, and help them find you!  

About GSAA...
The North Carolina Governor’s School Alumni Association is a service organization comprised of people who once attended the NC Governor’s School. It is not a non-profit organization, and it is not a registered political action committee, though it does have as its core goal to support the Governor’s School through contributions and raising public awareness. 

What Does the GSAA Do?

The purpose of the GSAA is threefold:

1. To promote and raise public awareness of the Governor’s School.

North Carolina’s Governor’s School is the oldest Governor’s School in the nation. It is a part of our statewide heritage. Today, there are over 50 governor’s schools in over 35 states, many of which were modeled on the North Carolina concept. Despite that heritage, many people in our own state have never heard of the Governor’s School, and many who have heard of it do not know what it is. Particularly, many members of the Legislature have never heard of it. So part of our goal is to make our state aware of the Governor’s School and to focus attention on this excellent program among the legislators who provide the funding for the School. We do this through letter-writing campaigns and by promoting GS among high-school guidance counselors. Several attempts at wider-ranging media coverage have gone nowhere, as GS is simply not controversial enough to attract the attention of the papers and television.

2. To provide funding for the Governor’s School’s student activities.

Due to the shrinking budget for GS, many programs related to student activities were cut from the budget in the mid-1980’s. These programs, while not essential to the mission of the School, were considered essential to the sanity of the students and faculty. Simple things, like music for parties, social events, ice cream and lemonade, and gas for the bus would not be available if the GSAA did not make a donation each year. Even with our support, the funding for these events has been scant for the past few years. So a large portion of our proceeds goes to this. In a way, the students from each class are given the opportunity to provide support for the class that will follow after. Without this support, the social interaction of GS would dwindle, and along with it the opportunities for students to make new friends and interact with their peers. The GSAA believes that this social growth is equally as important as the intellectual growth that GS fosters.

3. To provide a forum through which alumni can stay connected.

This is primarily accomplished via our web site, and secondarily via our annual Alumni gathering. Our goal with the web site is to keep track of all GS alumni and make contact with those who have been lost over the years. We want to provide a place where all alumni can come and make contact with one another, find long-lost friends, connect with their classmates, and stay informed on the news about Governor’s School. Since we get very little media attention, the web site is probably the only place to get news about GS. On Alumni Day, we try to provide the alumni with an annual return to Governor’s School, so that they can re-experience the atmosphere that changed their perceptions of themselves and their environment. For many, GS was a life-changing experience. Through alumni gatherings, we attempt to let alumni experience that again.

Along with these primary goals, the GSAA also selects the members of the GS Foundation Board and assist with setting policy for the Governor’s School via their permanent position on the Department of Public Instruction’s GS Board of Governors.  

Read more at  GSAA Membership page.

New GSAA Open Forum Bulletin Board
As a result of a decision made at the 2001 GSAA Annual Meeting, the GSAA will began conducting our business and support contact through an alumni bulletin board. You will be able to post to the BBS and also be involved with GSAA business. The BBS is available now, and many of you may already be registered. (An e-mail went out to all alumni who had an E-mail address in our files, inviting them to come to the board.)

The BBS is open for business. Come and start chatting with your friends today! Click here to go to the BBS.

GSE Alumnus Named a Rhodes Scholar
Samuel Malone, an alumnus from GSE 1997, had been named a Rhodes Scholar.
Check out the GSAA News!

Attention All GS Alumni!
The GSAA was founded in 1986. However, the school itself began in 1963. Therefore, there are thousands of potential GSAA members with whom we have lost contact. If you are one of these members, please let us know where you are by e-mailing us or updating the Alumni Database with your new contact information. Please include the year and school you attended, your Area I, and your maiden name.

NCGSAlumni.org offers:

• A guestbook to communicate your comments to other alumni readers.

• Photo album

• Memories: stories and flashbacks of Governor's School

• Links to websites managed by the state and alumni

• Email addresses of alumni

• Forms to submit your contact information or website URL's

• Current news from staff and alumni.

• GSAA organization information

• Campus visitor information

• Downloadable files

For detailed information on Governor's School of North Carolina, take a look here.