NEWSLETTER!
Volume 25
Number 4
March 2013
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Thanks to all who worked to make our January workshop with Norah Lulich Jones a great
success! We had 42 persons in attendance with the following representation: UNCW – 17;
CFCC – 1; CCU – 6; New Hanover Co. – 6; Brunswick Co. – 2; Duplin Co. – 1; Pender Co. – 5;
Bladen Co. – 1; Private K-12 schools – 2; Military – 1.
Thanks also to those who worked at the Intercultural Festival booth in February. The passports
were such a success that all 250 were taken. Office of International Programs has offered
financial assistance for next year so that we can have even more passports and prizes. P.S. If you
weren’t there to have your picture taken as/with the Mona Lisa, you missed a great opportunity!
They don’t let you get that close to her in the Louvre.
MARCH 16 MEETING
Location: Leutze Hall 138, 136, and 131
Time: 8:30 -12:00
We will be open early to receive raffle items!
8:45
Breakfast Snacks and Registration – Buy your raffle tickets!
9:10
Business Meeting and Announcements
9:30
Presentation of Scholarships to High School Seniors
9:40 – 10:10 "Making Students Aware of Language Similarities" - Dave Graber,
Foreign Languages and Literatures, UNCW
10:10 – 10:40 "An Initiative to Expand Teaching and Learning of World
Languages"´- Roza Starodubtseva, Foreign Languages and Literatures, UNCW
Break – Fill out yearly evaluations, please!
1l:00 – 12:00 THE GREAT FUND-RAISING RAFFLE
(See next page for more information on the raffle.)
INFORMATION FOR RAFFLE: Read this carefully!
We need help from everyone to make this raffle as big a success as the one last year! I know
that many on the fund-raising committee are already gathering donations from restaurants,
merchants, artists, and friends so that we will have plenty of good raffle items. If you are on the
committee, please contact Cindy Richards or Rosemary Jordan to see what you can do to help.
Cynthia.richards@nhcs.net<mailto:Cynthia.richards@nhcs.net> and
sara.jordan@nhcs.net<mailto:sara.jordan@nhcs.net>
In addition to donated items from businesses, we ask all of our members to consider what you
might donate. We love baked goods, handmade items, and teaching tools, books, and supplies
that you may no longer need.
Also consider the marvelous “white elephants” that we all have in our closets and garages! A
big part of the fun is seeing what is up for the winning!
Plants are welcome (I hope they still are!), but no puppies, kittens, birds, snakes or other
wildlife!
Things we have had in the past: surfing lessons, golf rounds, pens, golf balls, and jelly beans
from Air Force One, rib-eye steaks, a whole ham, pound cakes, banana bread, chocolate chip
cookies, assorted pies, painted chairs (I think one is coming this year!), a turtle lamp and other
less-descript (?) lamps, multiple tables, handmade pottery, a baby quilt, an artificial ficus (“lives”
now in FLL), tickets to Airlie Gardens, pizzas, dinners-for-two, a night in a bed-and-breakfast
inn, jewelry, decorating items, many original paintings, CD’s, a mask from South America, new
luggage, tickets for frozen yogurt, popcorn gift certificates, wine (sshh!), and the list is longer
than my memory!
Last but not least: Bring $$$$ for tickets. Each ticket is a dollar, but bonus tickets will be given
for purchases of $5, $10, etc.
UPCOMING CAMPUS AND LOCAL EVENTS:
For Cinematique Films, see http://whqr.org/topic/cinematique-wilmington-film-series
For UNCW Presents, see http://uncw.edu/presents/season.html
YEARLY DUES: It is never too late to pay dues. While we have had 72 persons participate
in some way this year, we have 48 paid members. For many years it has been our goal to
reach 50 paid members. This is as close as we have ever been! Surely we can get a few
more!
Yearly dues are $15 ($5 for full-time students). Checks should be made to Cape Fear Foreign
Language Collaborative. Dues may be paid at any meeting or mailed at any time to Julie Bordo,
202 Wayne Drive, Wilmington, NC 28403. We depend on your dues to help with miscellaneous
expenses and with the scholarships.
SPONSORS: CFFLC is sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at
the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Other sponsors this year include The Women’s
Studies and Resource Center at UNCW and the Business Office of UNCW. We are most
grateful to Vista Learning for covering all of the expenses for our January speaker.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Please contact Joann Mount at mountj@uncw.edu in the event that you
have professional information and announcements that you would like distributed to our
membership.
Everyone is encouraged to forward a copy of this newsletter with a personal invitation to
attend to your foreign language and ESL colleagues in your school or county.
As always we will keep track of attendance for the year and will distribute certificates
verifying attendance at meetings. These may be used to request CEU credit from your
school system.
Joann McFerran Mount, Coordinator of CFFLC
Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, UNCW / mountj@uncw.edu