TASK DEFINITION: Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.
PROBLEM: My purpose in writing to you is twofold. First, to inform you of some recent activities of the SPEA MHA Alumni Association and second, to ask for your commitment, both financial and participatory.

SOLUTION: I am writing to you to inform you of recent activities of the SPEA MHA Alumni Association.

PROBLEM: The Girl Scout program offers an array of benefits to our girls and adult leaders. Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. commissioned SPEC Associates (Social Program Evaluators and Consultants, Inc.) to conduct a National Outcomes Study of the Girl Scout program.

SOLUTION: The Girl Scout program offers an array of benefits to our girls and adult leaders. Girl Scouts commissioned SPEC Associates to conduct a National Outcomes Study of the Girl Scout program.

PROBLEM: "The LAT reports on a minor variant of the Y2K problem: pre-paid headstones with precarved year-of-death prefixes reading 19--, owned by folks who are living longer than they expected to."

SOLUTION:
"The LAT reports on a minor variant of the Y2K problem: pre-paid headstones with precarved year-of-death prefixes reading 19--..."