Turning Points in the Growth and Development of AESA

Perhaps the most fulfilling experience a human being can have is to watch one's own child develop from a helpless, fragile baby to a full grown, autonomous adult. Not equal to this experience but analogous to it in both the process and the emotional satisfaction is the opportunity to witness an organization of which one is a part start out as a very rudimentary entity and develop into an international association that is capable of meeting the multiple needs and interests of its clientele. participation by educational service agencies in Europe). We have written this article to achieve several purposes: To update and expand the history of this organization written in 2001 by Lee Christiansen, a former executive director of the Association who helped initiate a number of initiatives described in this article. To create an awareness, and pride, among the organization's current members of the wisdom and vitality of the membership in growing an organization from a small group of like-minded Educational Service Agency (ESA) chief executives into an international