Just wanted to thank you, personally, for your support of the Venture program. Ten months ago, my daughter was a 27 year old high school dropout, homeless in Las Vegas, with a felony theft on her record. She asked to come home, and did, and was only able to find work part time at McDonald s thanks to her record. Then she applied to Venture and was admitted. It lit her up. Suddenly, she was coming home Tuesdays and Thursdays wanting to talk about what they d read, the discussion they had in class, essays she was writing. The change was, to us, astonishing. And wonderful.

She not only completed the Venture program, she enrolled full time at Weber State University in January and is completing her first full term here, with good grades. My wife and I were, as I said, astonished at the turnaround, and we both think it would not have happened without Venture and the faculty who work in it.

So, again, from me, my wife, from our whole family: thank you for your support of the program at WSU. It works. If you run into anyone who has doubts about that, please feel free to refer them to me.

Father of a Venture Graduate

Affiliation: Ogden, Utah