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To be sure that we have enough food, beverages, and supplies, please e-mail english@auburn.edu  by Wednesday, August 21, 2002 at 4:40 pm with the number of adults and children who will attend.  

Spouses, significant others, and children are all welcome to come. We have reserved the Upper Picnic Area and will provide a meat dish, beverages, ice, plates, cups, napkins, and forks.  We ask that you bring a salad, a vegetable, or a dessert to share. No alcoholic beverages are permitted in Alabama state parks. 

Arrive at any time you wish but plan to eat around 5:00 p.m. Picnic tables are available under the pavilion and scattered throughout the park. We will gather-rain or shine!

Chewacla State Park has hiking trails and open spaces for games and other activities. Bring frisbees, lawn chairs, musical instruments-- or simply plan to eat and socialize. The admission fee is $2 for adults and $1 for children 6-11. There is no charge for children under 6.

Hope to see you Saturday!

Great Flicks
The Great Books program will be hosting a series of movies on selected Wednesday nights this semester.  The movies represent a range of films and include films of possible interest to faculty and students in both Great Books I and Great Books II.  

Feel free to incorporate these films into your teaching as you see fit.  You might wish to require your students to attend the showing of a film based on a text you are teaching, encourage students to attend films related to time periods or subjects you are covering through other texts, or decide not to use the film in any way in your teaching.  The choice is entirely up to you.  All students, however, are invited to attend the movies.

For a complete list of movies, click here:  "Great Flicks" series.  For more information, please see Constance C. Relihan, Coordinator of Great Books.

Society for Technical Communication Chapter Pacesetter Award 
Auburn University’s Technical and Professional Communication program and the Birmingham Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication received the 2001-2002 STC Pacesetter Award.

                                    For reaching out to the student and professional members of the Birmingham Chapter 
                                    despite their geographic location, especially for the 2^nd Annual April in Auburn Workshop.

Art Cinema
A manager at the Wynnsong 16 Carmike Cinemas is interested in helping us get an Art Cinema theatre established.  Art Cinemas usually show "Indie" films and foreign language films.  To convince Carmike to do this he needs to show that there is support for this idea in Auburn.  To show your support, please email Emmett Winn, Dept. of Communication and Journalism, at winnjoh@auburn.edu. 

Diane Boyd, Patsy Fowler, Kelley Swilley were hooded at the graduation ceremonies August 5.  Congratulations!

Marvyn Petrucci has four poems in the current issue of Exposure Magazine and one in the contest issue of the GSU Review.

On 30 July, Don Cunningham conducted a day-long writing/communicating-across-the-curriculum workshop for faculty and staff at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery. The workshop was for faculty and staff of Air University, USAF's university for active-duty personnel. Faculty from the Air Command and Staff College, the Air War College, and the Squadron Officer School, School of Advanced Airpower Studies, and the Academic Instructor School participated.

Donald Wehrs' essay "The 'Sensible,' the Maternal, and the Ethical Beginnings of Islamic Feminism in Djebar's L'Amour, la fantasia and Loin de Medine" has been accepted for the 2003 French Issue of MLN.

Heather Lord's article "Annual Reports: A Literature Review, 1989-2001" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Technical Writing and Communication.

 

If you would like to include an item in the "Professional Notes" section of The English Channel, please submit your note to Betsy Smith.

 

Alum Roxanne Russell has been teaching ESL at the English Language Center at Michigan State University for a year.  In April she presented: "Creating and Assessing Multitask  Web Portfolios" at TESOL.  She is currently working with Daniel Cozart, another alum, on a Self-study Composition book for EFL students in Korea.

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Lunch for Lead-Teachers and Others

Department Reception 

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