Open Letter to my Community

Dear Cardinal Glass employees,

As most of you know, as most of you have been hounded for personal opinions, during the past few weeks or so I have been working on an assignment for my Understanding Communities course and as most of you know I choose all of you to base my research on. As the conclusion to this project reaches the deadline I look back at everything I have learned about my community. From how the community was born to how it maintains itself during this economic struggle. A lot of my thinking has changed in terms of how I view my community now versus when I first began this assignment. Before this assignment I did not truly see certain aspects of how my community functions as a whole.

Before I started this class I really thought I knew what a community was and what it meant to be a part of one, but boy was I wrong. It wasn’t until after I started this project that I realized just how much I wasn’t seeing. As I moved forward in my project I began to realize just how much of a family type structure this company is. We are all looking out for each other’s best interests and I am truly grateful to be a part of this community. I have learned that a community is more than just the people that make it up; it is the root of the source of what defines it.

It is also amazing to see that even though we have faced economic hardship it has not derailed us from moving forward as a community. With our most recent accomplishment of beginning to produce laminated glass that will better hold up against server weather conditions such as those seen following hurricane Katrina and more recently hurricane Sandy.

I would like to conclude this letter by expressing my greatest appreciation to those that helped me during the process of finishing this project. I want to thank those that took the time out of their days to sit down with me and have thoughtful conversations about what this community means to them as well as those that answered my questions with thoughtful responses. I really do look forward to at least a few more years with this community before moving on to bigger things and I hope that as we move forward we continue to grow and thrive as a community.

 

Sincerely,

Christoper Cutchall