rkenner@vax2.concordia.ca rkenner@alcor.concordia.ca Roger, I hope you enjoyed your vacation back in July/August 2001. I think that's the last I heard from you. That's where I got these addresses, and here's hoping at least one is active. Hey we've been missing you at TESOL Conferences lately. At the last one it was pointed out that CALL IS is coming on its 20 year anniversary, and I was the only one in Baltimore who could remember that far back, so I was asked to write up something for the newsletter. I know you've been systematically archiving this era, and your archive was easy to find through the CALL-IS site. Let me offer you some feedback and then I'll ask for some in return. This page: The CALL Interest Section Community History http://rkenner.concordia.ca/call_is/call_is.htm I like the use of the term 'community'. There's a broken image link at the top. Your pic perhaps? Looking for http://rkenner.concordia.ca/call_is/xx.jpg Foreword, second para: It is for this reason that I have begun this projet (sp) The Years of CALL-IS Toronto: 1983 The TESOL Convention was held in Toronto, Ontario in that year. There was a pre-conference seminar <-- technically it was a 'symposium' Others' Observations to be filled in here! You can link to me: http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/tesol/newsletter/callis_began.htm CALL-IS missed all the deadlines outlined in TESOL's constitution for aceptance in 1983 (sp) I've sort of skimmed through the rest. What an admirable job! I can see why it sort of tapers off at the end. In my article I'll call for feedback for you. This page http://rkenner.concordia.ca/call_is/chairs.htm last chairs listed are 2000/2001. It looked to me like Tom Robb was just winding up a chair position for 2002/2003 (could he have been re-elected to assoc.chair?) In any event assoc.chair for 2002/2003 was Greg Kessler, he's just become chair, and I THINK the assoc.chair is Susanne McLaughlin. Greg Kessler http://rkenner.concordia.ca/call_is/founding.htm A Short History of the Founding of the CALL-IS Interest Section Interesting the way you start off here, same way I did. I swear I wrote mine before seeing yours. We both started computing the same year. I didn't realize you weren't in Hawaii ... I was trying to work out how you and I had ended up doing this in Houston. The 'hidden purpose' behind the symposium revealed at lunch in Toronto is a revelation to me. How I happened to get 'elected' is well documented here. Why did you decline your nomination? I was trying to recall why I led the way and not you. Not many typos here: Houston ... CALL-IS's official business meeting took place on March 7. Fifty-hree people were present (sp) I had included this in my acct: The Hyatt Hotel in Houston was built around a huge, enclosed atrium, at the foot of which was a bar. It is here where the officers of the IS met to discuss its future. We discovered, for example, that our petition could not be put forward without a "Statement of Purpose". This same was hashed out over a few beers and quickly typed on Don Loritz's portable typewriter, to be delivered to the TESOL Executive. I'd called the atrium a gazebo and thought it was your 'portable' - will change that This has been a really great read, Roger. Hope you can make it to Long Beach. You'll receive a returning hero's welcome. I liked your Colleagues Kenner page too, nice with all the hearts. Sheryl's picture has stripes. I refreshed, still had them. How's Sheryl? How's Alex, one of the most cuddly kids I can remember? Ever see Tom Cobb? Or Marlise? I heard from him the other day.