NCGR Home Join "Around the World" Join Our Yahoogroup About NCGR    Purpose & History    Message from the Chair    Board & Officers    Ethics Code    Bylaws    Birth Chart    Donate to NCGR NCGR Membership    Join NCGR Here Chapters & SIGS Education & Certification NCGR-Certified Astrologers Professional Empowerment (PEP) Conferences & Events    NCGR at UAC 2008 Articles Publications    Enews    Geocosmic Journal    Memberletter Research Buy Books, Journals, Recordings    Geocosmic T-Shirts!    Downloadable MP3s    CDs    Order & Shipping FAQ    Privacy Policy Contact NCGR Links	Warren Kinsman Treasurer Click to contact: After graduating from Syracuse University with a B.A. in Liberal Arts, Warren Kinsman spent two years in Turkey as a Peace Corps Volunteer, teaching English as a Foreign Language to Turkish junior and senior high school students. The Peace Corps offered him a job upon completion of his volunteer service, and he's resided in Washington, DC ever since. Following a year with the Peace Corps where he traveled around the country visiting Peace Corps training programs, he took a position as an English and Sociology teacher in the DC Public School System. He's often said that he earned his degree at Syracuse University, and his education at Anacostia Senior High School. In the four plus years at Anacostia, he knows he learned far more from his students than he was able to teach. This was his first face-to-face experience with genuine poverty in America. After his fourth year as a teacher watching more and more students arrive in high school less and less prepared, he came to the conclusion that we needed to begin addressing the lack of basic skills being imparted on the pre-elementary and elementary level of education, or else we could forget about hoping to see students succeed in high school. That led him to a consulting firm working with Head Start programs for the next dozen years. It was also during this period he began exploring the world of Astrology. One of his former students, who he had hired to work in an academic enrichment program he directed one summer, began shoving these little horoscope blurbs in his face, telling him how much they fit him. It made him recall his mother's interest in the subject, and how much he and his brother and sister kids razzed her about that "unscientific nonsense." Kinsman's remarks to his former student were less tactful than those to his mother; however, after a summer of both listening to this 17 year old, and warding him off, Kinsman was curious enough to actually go to an astrologer and have her do his horoscope. It would be interesting to report that he received a first rate reading, but he didn't. In fact, he thought it was so general that he was almost ready to forget about it, with the exception of the last thing she told him. She said that when Kinsman was 5 years old, his father tried to commit suicide. Well, if the truth were to be told, that's exactly what his dad attempted (unsuccessfully). And Kinsman didn't find out about it until he was nineteen. That one visit ended up in the commencement of his astrological studies, which have been going on now for over 35 years. Kinsman has been active in the astrological community for most of this time. For many years he served as Matrix Software's traveling representative, where he exhibited their software at conferences around the country. He helped found the Washington, DC chapter of NCGR, and was later appointed to serve on the NCGR Board as Director of Chapter Affairs, a position he enjoyed for 10 years. In 1999, he resigned hoping NCGR would give opportunities for younger members to serve on the board. This eventually happened, but interestingly for him, these changes resulted in his being asked to return to the Board as Treasurer in 2002.
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