The history of CTY is rich and long. The program has been in existence for nearly 20 years. However, to the best of my knowledge, there has been no one recording this history for the benefit of CTYers. The diffrence between an oral history and a written history is huge. In an oral history, things are passed down by word of mouth, and while some stories may survive, many are garbled and lost.
Important information is lost.
And as it is said, those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. In the real world, it takes twenty years for one generation to merge into another. Baby Boomers meld into Generation X, which melds into whatever the heck they are calling folks who are young now. At CTY, a generation is much, much shorter. For example, my nomore year was in 1997.