The surprise guest speaker at the ACE Mentor Program’s 25th Anniversary Celebration May 14 was retired Gen. Colin L. Powell. The former four-star general and secretary of state finds a lot in common between ACE and his initiative, the America’s Promise Alliance, of which he is founding chairman.
“You talk to young people who aren’t sure of what they want to do with their lives. You talk to young people who have difficulties at home,” Powell told the gathering of almost 400 students, parents, mentors and industry executives in National Harbor, Md. “They need an adult in their life. That’s what you all do.”