The
annual
Membership Tea (our enrollment party) will be held in the Fireside Room
of
First Lutheran Church on Friday, September 30 from 2 to 4 p.m. This is
a great
chance to reconnect with and visit in a casual setting with your
foreign
language friends. Please bring finger
food to share and plan to greet our new members.
Thad and Inez are seeking volunteers to work that day. Contact them using the roster of officers at
the end of the newsletter.
At
the tea
you can formally register, pay fees, buy and pick up books for the year
ahead. Please bring a check, as we do
not have credit card capacity. If you pre-registered online, please
come to the
enrollment party to pay fees and purchase books. Fees
are $140 for full membership, $25 for associate
membership. It is possible to enroll
for just the fall or winter/spring semester at a portion of the fee.
If
you
cannot attend the enrollment party, you can register online at
http://www.lacauserie.org and mail your check to Thad Carver at 4316
Brookridge, Fairway, KS 66205. The board has also approved adding a PayPal
option to allow online payments through the website and this should be
available soon. After September 30, registration, payments and book
purchases
will be done only on Fridays at noon, after classes have ended. This allows our officers to participate
fully in their own classes.
Class
Schedule
Classes begin October 7th. Note: A new Italian class is on the schedule
this year. Check the website for course
descriptions. All classes begin
promptly on the hour and end 50 minutes later.
Hour French Spanish Italian 8:00 a.m. Beginning I 9:00 a.m.
Beginning I
Reading and Conversation Beginning II
10:00 a.m. ·
Beginning II ·
Intermediate
Intermediate Grammar Intermediate
11:00 a.m. ·
Guided Conversation ·
Café Conversation ·
Beginning ·
Advanced Conversation Advanced Grammar 12:00 noon Cultural Programs - Open To All
Members Advanced Convers
Handicapped
Parking
Since all the back entrances to the church have
stairs, we
wanted members to know that there is handicapped parking available in
the
circle drive at the front of the church.
Enter the front door and take the elevator to the basement for
classes. If you need help figuring out
the elevator, ask someone in the church office for help.
While we
were out…
The
executive board toured the church before its August meeting and we
think you’ll
be pleased by the remodeling effort they have undertaken over the
summer. The Fireside Room has new,
brighter
lighting, modern blinds on the windows, and the coffee area has all new
appliances. We will have six classrooms available to us and
many
have been repainted.
Gourmet
Catering has agreed to brew fresh coffee for us each Friday morning (no
more
instant coffee!) and a sign-up list for snacks will be available at the
Membership Tea. If you’d like to bring
treats, let Anastasia Thompson know what week you might like to help
(913-851-2507 or thomsearch@aol.com). Program
planning update…new Italian chair needed
Each
year a
valiant group of members plans interesting cultural programs for La
Causerie. These programs are held on
noon after classes have ended and often include native speakers of the
languages
we study. A program chair is needed for Italian program planning this
year. Please let Inez know if you would
take on this task.
Thanks
to
our other program chairs who are already hard at work developing
programs for
the year ahead including Hubert Dye (French), and John Morrison
(Spanish).
Bringing
great foreign films to KC To
support
the ability of festivals to bring good foreign films in Kansas City and
also to
promote La Causerie to potential students, the Board of Directors
approved
sponsorships for Spanish, French and Italian films at upcoming
festivals. Some discounts to La Causerie
members may be
available, so you’ll want to get a membership card at the September 30
Membership Tea.
La
Causerie
will sponsor one French and one Italian film at the Kansas City Film
Festival
as well as a Spanish film at the Latin American Cinema festival.
In each
film festival program an ad will promote La Causerie. You are welcomed
and
encouraged to support these activities.
Latin American Cinema
Festival Three Saturdays
left: September 17, 24 and October 1st. http://www.kansashumanities.org/pdf/LatAmFest05.pdf Kansas City Film Festival
October 15-21, 2005 La
Causerie members get in for a
discounted price of $5.
Check
http://www.filmkc.org/ffkc.html
for details.
Nadine
Indyk has dual citizenship and is of Parisian origin.
She has had past experience with Alliance Française of New
Orleans and with private, corporate immersion instruction. She
has lived
in Kansas City for many years where she and her husband had a real
estate
agency. She taught a summer class for Alliance Française KC (and
will be
rehired for the fall term) and her students are enthusiastic about
her.
You will be too! Website Have
a
question? Check out our website at
http://www.lacauserie.org. Course
descriptions provided
by the instructors are a new feature, and we hope they make it easier
for
prospective students to see where they might fit in and encourage
prospective
students to enroll. This is also where you can check for changes
in any
of your courses.
September
30, 2005
Membership Tea; Registration for
2005-06 classes October
7, 2005
Classes Begin November
24
No Classes;
Thanksgiving December
23 and 30
No Classes
Program
dates will be available at the enrollment party and in the next
newsletter—stay
tuned.
Executive Board
Members 2005-2006: President:
Inez Pennington
816-353-4596
zeni at zeni dot net First VP:
seeking
a candidate
Second VP:
Anastasia Thompson (also Chair
of Social & Hospitality)
913-851-2507
thomsearch at aol dot com Secretary:
Cerise Harris
816-353-8905
rharris90 at kc.rr dot com Asst.
Secy: Dalene Bradford
816-523-6812
dbradford at kc.rr dot com Treasurer:
Thad Carver
913-236-8688
carver at kc.rr dot com Asst. Treas:
Mary Lew McCarty (also Chair of Book Sales)
913-345-2089
marylewmccarty at hotmail dot com September 2005 Newsletter
Register
for fall classes…party with your friends
French
Teachers
Please
join us in
welcoming two new French teachers this year.
Helene Genuyt
is a
French native and presented a program for us last year about the
"Gardens
of Versailles", her hometown. She too has agreed to teach at
Alliance Française KC this fall. Helene and her husband returned
from
France mid-August and she is ready to go with fall classes.
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