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Our
Management Team
A Message from the President
In February, 2008, NESI reached
its 30th anniversary. Today, I reflect back on words I had
written over twenty years ago in November of 1997, and which
remain just as relvant today.
Nearly 10 years ago, I had a dream to begin
a very special company that would deliver educational services
to students who did not attend public schools. Thus, the odd
name NonPublic Educational Services, Inc. came about. This
company would try to help and educate private school, Navy,
Army, Marine and Air Force enlisted students, adults in prison,
school drop outs, and any other students who needed help in
a special kind of way. (Decades later, this description
of NESI still applies.) Dr. Kenneth Underwood helped
me to make the dream a reality. Ken was at my side at the
very beginning in February 1978.
We were very lucky. Ken and I won the Virginia
NCIA By-Pass contract in March 1979. [This is now the
Virginia Title I By-Pass and NESI has won every subsequent
competition of this contract and will soon begin our 29th
year of service.] We hustled; we hired; we trained; we
made mistakes. We learned very fast! Since then, we have been
fortunate to obtain contracts throughout the country for the
special services NESI has to offer.
We have grown from a company of two people with
a dream, to a 'family' including our affiliate Richard Milburn
High Schoo, Inc. (NESI and Richard Milburn Schools, have
over 700 employees and serve the educational needs of 14,000
students annually in the US and worldwide.) It's not
easy trying to put it all together, spread from Massachusetts
to Florida, from Virginia to Hawaii. It takes a special management
team to do this. (In 2008 those words are still true.
I can not imagine a finer group of managers with the passion
and dedication to the educational needs of our students. Brief
summaries of our Management team can be found at the top of
the page.)
In 1985, NESI was selected as one of the fastest
growing private companies in the United States by Inc,
Magazine. I look back at the first ten years as the beginning.
Now, we are ready to move on to new challenges.
NESI now further along in providing
special educational services. We have over 50 active Federal,
State, and school district contracts. We provide Title I Education
Services, Secondary Educational Services, Management Services
for charter schools, High School Completion, Department of
Defense High School Summer School Services, Military Occupational
Specialty Training, and US Army Forces Command Foreign Language
Training.
I thought long and hard about
how I wanted to close my message, because there are many people
I should thank. But I thought these following words, written
in 1987, truly capture my vision for NESI:
Wherever there is a child or an
adult in need of special educational services, there is a
need for NESI. Help me to help them. Give me your best. I
will give you my best.
Robert H. Crosby
President
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