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by the Nationalities Council of Indiana, Inc.
ATTENTION,
please! NOTE REVISED FESTIVAL DATES!
It�s official: this year�s 25th anniversary edition of the International Festival is set for the first weekend in November � 1-4 November 2001 -- in the newly-renovated Expo Hall at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Want to know what�s in the works? Join us at the next Nationalities Council meeting at 7 p.m. Monday 14 May in the Willkie Room of the Athenaeum, 401 East Michigan Street, Indianapolis).
Here are some possibilities we�re mulling over: a gala invitational �preview� on Thursday evening; the Naturalization Ceremony on Friday evening, a dance party (think salsa y tango!) on Saturday evening, family-oriented events on Sunday afternoon.
���� Last call for input on our new web portal! Check out the listing for your group on the work-in-progress site http://www.cs.iupui.edu/~smckee, Phil Hu�s site, http://www.am-biznet.com/indyfest, and Chao-Hung Lee�s site, http://134.68.129.11/. Look those over, please, and and e-mail corrections, additions, comments, etc., to [email protected].
������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� [Susan McKee, President]
Benjamin Pollack, a junior at Park Tudor School, Indianapolis, is the only student to be awarded a scholarship from the American Association of Teachers of German? He was the Indiana finalist in the association�s German language competition.
New WISH-TV anchor Joy Dumandan, whose parents were born in the Philippines, is the cover story for May�s issue of Indianapolis Woman?
Hamilton County Alliance has formed the Hamilton County Diversity Resource Center to help local immigrants integrate into the workforce? The Census Bureau estimates 2000 Hispanic population in Hamilton County at 2,911 and Asian at 4,451.
The chaplain at St. Richard�s Episcopal Day School in Indianapolis, Jessica Nakawombe, was born in Kampala, Uganda?
The president of LifeNets, an Indianapolis-based relief organization that helps needy children around the world, is Victor Kubik? He was born in Ukraine.
The Aktar H. Siddiqi Memorial Scholarship Fund has been established at Indiana State University in honor of the late Professor of Geography, who was born in India. Contributions may be sent to the fund in care of ISU, Terre Haute, IN 47809.
Vop Osili, architect for the new Urban League building at 777 Indiana Avenue, Indianapolis, was born in Nigeria?
The IUPUI Campus Strategic Plan for Internationalization has
increasing
international student enrollment as one of its goals? International
student
enrollment at IUPUI has increased 50% in the last five years to 646
May�s International Calendar for Indy�.
1
"Relations between
Islamic & National Elements in the Palestinian Authority,"
lecture by Reuven Paz, Senior Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East
Policy. Dinner meeting of Indianapolis Committee on Foreign Relations, 6 p.m.,
India Palace Restaurant, Indianapolis.
6
Fifth annual Mexican Fiesta Cinco de Mayo, Warsaw, Ind.
9
Stammtisch (6 p.m.) and program (7
p.m.) by Fr. Dennis Duvelius, Sponsored by Indiana German Heritage
Society, Athenaeum, Indianapolis.
10-11
Multicultural Fair at Lynwood Elementary
School.
14
Nationalities Council of Indiana, 7 p.m., Willkie Room, Athenaeum, 401 East Michigan Street, Indianapolis. All are welcome.
16
"International Environment and Security Issues." Lecture by Wiliam A. Nitze, assistant secretary of the Environmental Agency. Dinner meeting of Indiana Council on World Affairs at Butler University.
17
Luncheon meeting,
Association of International Women. Information, Sally Sebeckis,
317:571-1602 or [email protected].
(For more on these events�and others�see the
calendar on the website!)
����������� Maria Benigno Lagadon, a founding member and the first president of Barangay Club of Indiana, died 13 April 2001. Mrs. Lagadon, a retired Professor of Spanish at Marian College, also was a founder of the International Center of Indianapolis.
Wadie Jwaideh, founder and retired chairman of the Near Eastern Languages and Literatures program of Indiana University Bloomington, died 9 March 2001.
����������� Zenta Anselm Rudzats Drics, former international president of Latvian Catholic Student Academic Association and its Indianapolis chapter, died 24 April 2001.
Do you have an item for the calendar, or an �international sighting� for the next issue of The Ethnic Hoosier? E-mail it to: [email protected].� Deadline is 25 May 2001.