[etni] Fw: ETAI Newsletter 22 - July 2009

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Subject: ETAI Newsletter 22 - July 2009


ETAI is getting better and better!
Newsletter 22:  July, 2009

Dear Readers,

This is the last Newsletter of the year, written the day after the Jerusalem 
Conference.

The Conference was, as expected, an excellent event, with a ‘buzz’ to it 
that happens at all the best conferences.  I didn’t get into any sessions 
myself, except for plenaries, because of ETAI meetings of one sort or 
another, but I heard a lot of good feedback about them.  The exhibition was 
well attended (well, it could hardly not be, as it was strategically placed 
in the corridors on the way to sessions!), the main auditorium was spacious 
and comfortable, and the arrangements for lunch and refreshments very good 
indeed.  Congratulations to Susan Bedein and her team, and to Marna as 
always ably managing registration, as well as to the brilliant group of 
orange t-shirted ushers. For the first time at this conference we were able 
to take payment by credit card, which was very convenient for all concerned 
(further evidence for the ‘ETAI is gettng better and better’ trend!).

At the Annual General Meeting, Mitzi Geffen was voted in as (Vice) Chair. 
It works like this: Mitzi will work as Vice-Chair of ETAI for the coming 
year, while I continue to function as Chair for my second year of office. In 
July 2010 she takes over as Chair, and I become her Vice-Chair for the 
following year.  In 2011 we vote in someone else, who will work as Mitzi’s 
Vice-Chair for a year, before taking over from her as full Chair in 2012. 
And so on. So the Chairperson always in fact functions for four years as 
either Vice- or Full-Chair.  (Am I making myself clear?)  This is how it 
works at IATEFL, and Susan Holzman suggested we adopt the idea at ETAI: it 
seems like a very helpful, supportive, system.

Meanwhile, over the summer Micki Zaritsky and Ann Shlapobersky will be 
working on a new website, and on a distribution list of all members, so that 
we can send you things by email instead of snail-mail.  Watch this space! 
In the next newsletter I hope to announce a new web address and facilities! 
Valerie Jakar and her team are working on a call for papers and registration 
forms (already!) for the International Conference in July 2010, and Debbie 
Lifshitz and her team are looking for sponsorship, so that we can make the 
International Conference as attractive as we can, while keeping down 
conference fees for members.

Even these hard-working people will, I hope, find time to take a rest and 
enjoy some vacation!  I wish the same for all of you reading this 
Newsletter, and will do my best to practise what I preach!

Penny Ur
ETAI Chair

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