The Ethnic Hoosier��..����.. July 2003

Published by the Nationalities Council of Indiana

 

You can find us on the Internet at

http://www.nationalitiescouncil.org

(for information about NCI, Indiana and the world)

 

President�s Message�.

 

There's a lot of stuff going on in the ethnic community!  A new Scottish Society is in its formative stages in Terre Haute, a new Mexican dance troop in Indianapolis has contacted us about performing at the International Festival, the Australians have started meeting, and a new Brazilian group may be organizing in Indianapolis as well.

There have been so many meetings by groups interested in serving the diverse international community in Indy that we have had to split up the duties of going to the various meetings among a number of us on the Nationalities Council. Plus, we are already getting requests for speakers from our outreach program, which is still just in its formative stages. If you have an ethnic background and can do "show and tell" at schools during the workday, we NEED you! Increasingly -- this is where the action is!!!

 

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Did you know�.

 

  • Gov. Frank O'Bannon created a Native American Indian Affairs Commission in June by executive order?
  • Indiana University Bloomington is one of six schools profiled as successfully internationalizing its campus by the Washington, D.C.-based NAFSA: Association of International Educators?
  • The cover story for the July issue of Indianapolis Dine features Indy's authentic Mexican restaurants?
  • Frank Emmert is the first director of newly established Center for International and Comparative Law at the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis? A native of Germany, he comes here from Concordia International University Estonia, where he was dean of the law school.
  • A research team from the Human Performance Laboratory of Ball State University will visit the Star City spaceflight complex outside Moscow, Russia, again in October? They're studying the effects of long space missions on muscle tissue.
  • Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis has renamed its Afro-American Studies program the African American and African Diaspora Studies?
  • Nels Ackerson of Sommer Barnard Ackerson PC attended the World Economic Forum in Switzerland as part of a delegation from Harvard University?
  • Sixty medical professionals from Indiana traveled to Cuba in May to perform free hip and knee surgeries? Organized through Operation Walk, it was led by Dr. Merrill Ritter of Mooresville.

 

In Memoriam�.

  • Barbara Stewart, an NCI delegate from the Indiana German Heritage Society who started the Ethnic Expo in Columbus died 17 June aboard the QE2.
  • William L. Hoelker, 91, of Oldenburg, died 14 February.� He was the popular Schnitzelbank singer in the Ind. German Heritage Soc. booth at the Int'l Festival.

 

 

July�s International Calendar for Indy�

(for more details about these and many other events, see the complete calendar at http://www.nationalitiescouncil.org)

 

7: Board meeting, Italian Heritage Society of Indiana.

8: Regular meeting of Three Sister Cities Initiative. 9:30 a.m. Indianapolis Convention and Visitors Association offices, downtown.

9: Regular meeting, Trade & Tourism Subcommittee, Indianapolis-Cologne Sister City Partnership Committee. 11:30 a.m. Athen�um, downtown.

9: Open House, Ambassadors for Children. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Pangea Lingua Translations & Communications, 3620 North Washington Blvd., Indpls.

9: Board meeting, Indiana German Heritage Society. 4:30 p.m. Athen�um.

9: Stammtisch. 6 p.m. Program on "The Letters of Catharina Schute Gutknect Feil" by Dr. Dolores J. Hoyt. 7:30 p.m. Indiana German Heritage Society. Athen�um, 401 East Michigan Street, Indianapolis.

9: Regular meeting, Scottish Society of Indianapolis. 6:30 p.m. Social hour, pitch-in dinner and "gathering o' the clans". Indianapolis Firefighters' Union Hall, 748 Massachusetts Avenue, Indianapolis.

11-12: Indianapolis Feis. Indiana Convention Center, downtown Indianapolis. Sponsored by Indiana Irish Cultural Society.

12: Saengerchor Festival. 5 p.m. German Park, 8600 South Meridian St.

14: Regular meeting, Nationalities Council of Indiana. 7 p.m., Willkie Room, Athen�um, 401 East Michigan Street, Indianapolis.

18: Performance of Latin music by Orquesta Son and Conjunto Urbanos (part of Eclectic Music Series). MacAllister Center, Garfield Park.

19: Summer pitch-in luncheon and Slovenia program of Indianapolis-Piran Sister City Committee and Slovenian Cultural Society. 1-4 p.m.

20: Annual Picnic, Hoosier Chapter, Japanese American Citizens League.

25: Performance of Latin music by Mariachi band Zelaya and Neblina del Cielo (Eclectic Music Series). MacAllister Center, Garfield Park.

26: Drum Corps International. Indiana Convention Center, downtown.

26: Heimath Preussen and South Side Turners Festival. German Park.

 

 

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