THE ETHNIC HOOSIER ���..���. May 2001

Supplement for members of the Nationalities Council of Indiana, Inc.

 

  1. There are lots of changes in store for this year�s International Festival. If you want to have a say about what we do and when we do it, please plan to attend the next meeting. Here are some of the possibilities (and there will no doubt be more added to the list before the next meeting date arrives!):
    1. The festival will be held the first weekend in November in the newly renovated Exposition Hall on the Indiana State Fairgrounds. This is the same building where the first festival was held in 1976, but you won�t recognize the place now.
    2. School trips are invited for Thursday and Friday, with Seniors groups tentatively penciled in for Friday afternoon.
    3. We�re working to bring the Naturalization Ceremony back to the festival for Friday evening, and we still need a Festival Team leader for that event.
    4. Saturday night could be dance night with a Latin beat; we�re considering a European theme for Sunday (Polka Boys, anyone?) What do YOU think?
    5. And, yes, we know there haven�t been 25 International Festivals � this is, however, our 25th anniversary year!
  2. Has your organization paid its dues for 2001? If not, please do so before or during the May meeting. Only regular member-organizations with paid-up dues can vote. Becoming a dues-paying member is not only important to our �clout� in the community (and in attracting corporate sponsors for International Festival 2001), it affords you a better slot and lower fee for participation in the festival!
  3. The current list of delegates from regular and associate member-organizations of NCI is available through our website. If your listing is not right, please e-mail us.
  4. Everyone�member or not-- is welcome to attend NCI general meetings on the second Monday of each month (except December and January). You don�t have to be a member to come � but we actively seek and welcome new members.
  5. Although The Ethnic Hoosier goes to all who are interested, this supplement is designed just for NCI members.
  6. Website reminders: check out not only my work-in-progress NCI homepage site (http://www.cs.iupui.edu/~smckee), but also NCI�s two other volunteer-created websites, Phil Hu�s at http://www.am-biznet.com/indyfest, and Chao-Hung Lee�s at http://134.68.129.11/. These three will be combined into our very own NCI portal before May is over! Last call for corrections�.

 

Susan McKee

President

Nationalities Council of Indiana