
“In thinking about the first 25 years and the next 25 years, I was drawn to the Network's website. Somehow it seems a metaphor for both the past and the future of the Network, its members and the people served by its members. If you look at the web pages identifying the Network's sponsor members you see those web pages reflect where the Network came from and where it is going and growing. There are some Sponsor members who have been members for 25 years. Given how much the field of aging is changing and how rapidly it is expanding, there are some Network members whose sponsorship might have surprised us even just a few years ago. Similarly, if you look at the online calendar, the breadth and depth and variety of programs offered to Network members and their constituency reveals the strength of some traditional approaches and the vitality and creativity of new approaches hardly imaginable when the Network was formed. Finally, if you just look at the website itself and how much it offers and how much it has grown since it was introduced, you realize that the strength of the Network is its members and its directors. Get involved. You and the people you serve will benefit."