Supplement for members of the
Nationalities Council of Indiana, Inc.
1. My apologies to the Taiwanese-American Association of Indianapolis! They won not one, but TWO grand prizes at this year�s International Festival.
TAAI took home the Grand Prize for the best ethnic group food booth AND the Grand Prize for the best cultural booth!
Other award winners were: Taste of Congo (1st prize, food booth), and for culture booths by category: Theme � Czech-Slovak Society (runner-up), Barangay Club (1st); educational value � Society for the Preservation of Persian Culture (runner-up), Latvian Community Center (1st); creativity � Slovenian Cultural Society (runner-up), Japan-America Society of Indiana (1st), and quality � Indianapolis Minyo Dancers (runner-up), Sons of Norway (1st).
2. Y�all come! Mark your calendars for 18 January 2003. That�s when you need to bring the very best in ethnic cuisine to the annual Winter Gala! Cecelia Rose-Dickinson is chairman, and she�ll be mailing more information after the holidays. It�ll be in St. Alban�s Episcopal Church, corner of Emerson and 46th Street, Indianapolis � the same place as last year. All NCI members � and members of all NCI ethnic member groups � are invited to attend. In addition to our super-duper pitch-in dinner, there�ll be entertainment from our members AND our new officers and board members will be introduced.
3. The Nationalities Council does NOT have a meeting this month (according to our By-Laws, we don�t meet in December or January). Ethnic group representatives have the time off!
4. However, there will be a special gathering of the current and incoming board members only at 7 p.m. Monday, 9 December, in the Willkie Room of the Athenaeum, 401 East Michigan Street, Indianapolis. Here�s who should attend: Mauvene Borton*, Nelleke Bruyn�, Bob Bunnell#, Moussa Cisse#, Adriana deAguiar*, Naty Dumaual�, Ahmet Fer#, Linda Guckenberger�, Sharon Haruff�, Phil Hughes#, Josef Laposa�, Chao-Hung Lee#, Charles Lindgren#, Jos� Lusende*, Gene Maresca#, Susan McKee#, Jane Misko*, Elvia Reyes�, Cecelia Rose-Dickinson*, Frances Russell#, Susan Salenda�, Steve Schurtter�, Chuck Workman� (* Board term ends 31 December 2002; � Board term ends 31 December 2003;� # board term ends 31 December 2004; officers serve one-year terms).
5. Although The Ethnic Hoosier goes to all who are (or might be) interested, this supplement is prepared just for NCI members.
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