HTC Membership Meeting

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HTC Meeting Jan 20, Vince Gutschick will talk about the Las Cruces Academy

 Vince is chair of the board of the Las Cruces Academy, which is the city’s relatively new non-profit private school for gifted and advanced children.  The Academy has the mission of educating these promising students, who are increasingly underserved in the overloaded public schools, so that they become conscientious leaders in the community.  Coupled with this is the LCA Outreach Program to aid the education of all students in the community and to reach the adults as well.  The Academy emphasizes math, science, and languages – all students learn English, Spanish, and Chinese every day.  It currently serves 27 children in grades K-5, growing rapidly in enrollment and adding a grade a year until it becomes a pre-K – 12 school.

 The Academy helps the community recruit and retain high-tech professionals who need a strongly academic school.  Las Cruces has great potential for economic development, and specifically in high-tech industries, but only as the educational infrastructure builds up.

The Las Cruces Academy is growing fast, having doubled in 2 years.  It has begun a capital campaign to buy and improve a property that will eventually become its campus for 350 students.

Vince Gutschick bio

Vince has pursued a long career in science, in both research and teaching.  He earned a B.S. in chemistry from Notre Dame in 1966 and a Ph. D. in chemistry / chemical physics from Caltech in 1971.  He had a postdoc at Berkeley and a term Gibbs Fellowship appointment at Yale before a 10-year stint at Los Alamos in Theoretical Biology and then in Environmental Sciences.  In 1985 he moved to NMSU, where he taught and did research for 22.5 years, with sabbatical sessions in Australia, at Stanford, and in Montpellier, France.  He took early retirement in 2008 to run a small scientific consulting firm he founded (gcconsortium.com) and, as it came to occupy most of his time, to help his wife, Dr. Lou Ellen Kay found the Las Cruces Academy, a non-profit, private school for gifted and advanced children.

Date:Friday, January 20, 1912

Time:11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Location: Sunset Grill 1274 Golf Club Road

Contact: For more information contact Richard Majestic (HTC President), rmajestic@msn.com(575) 521-0018.