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November 9, 2004
November Newsletter
Willkommen!
For those of you who don’t know me, I’m serving as the interim National Secretary-Treasurer of Delta Phi Alpha while John Reynolds is spending the year at the University of Salzburg. John will be rejoining us and resuming his work for Delta Phi Alpha in midsummer 2005.
As you may have noticed, this is the first time we have distributed a Delta Phi Alpha newsletter electronically. I have done this for two reasons:
· I learned this fall, much to my chagrin, that sending a hard copy to our advisers makes it more likely rather than less likely that the newsletter gets misplaced.
· It’s clear that distribution is much easier for chapter advisers when they have an attachment that they can forward to their entire membership rather than bothering with making copies and sending them through the mail.
The officers of the organization will be very interested in hearing from you on this
or any other issue.
The Annual Delta Phi Alpha Scholarship Competition
This year’s scholarship competition has just been completed. Our winners are:
· Sophomore-Junior Category: Cory J. Krediet of Drew University (Iota Phi; advisers Elfriede Smith and Edye Lawler). Mr. Krediet will receive a $1000 scholarship for study in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland next year.
· Graduating Senior Category: Ramona Lukauskaite of the University of Illinois at Chicago (Zeta Chi; adviser Elizabeth Loentz) will receive a $2000 cash award for study at a German university next year. Ms. Lukauskaite also becomes Delta Phi Alpha’s nominee for a DAAD graduate fellowship.
· Graduating Senior Runner-up: Sandra Booth of Longwood University (Iota Psi; interim adviser Geoffrey Orth) will receive Delta Phi Alpha’s second nomination for a DAAD graduate fellowship.
The competition this year did not lack worthy candidates. Many thanks are due our hardworking Scholarship Committee: Dorothee Ostmeier (University of Oregon), chair; Anne Winston-Allen (University of Illinois-Carbondale); and Mary Wauchope (San Diego State University). We thank also the advisers and recommenders for this year’s fine group of candidates.
The Annual Meeting of Delta Phi Alpha
The 2004 annual meeting of the organization will be held on Saturday, November 20th, in Chicago, in conjunction with the ACTFL Conference. The membership is cordially invited to join me and our national officers--President John Jeep (Miami University); James Davidheiser (University of the South); and Ronald Horwege (Sweet Briar College)--to meet over dinner beginning at 7 p.m., at that famous Chicago landmark, the Berghoff Restaurant, 17 West Adams. If you plan to come to the dinner meeting, please e-mail me at orthgc@longwood.edu by Wednesday, November 17th, so that I can add your name to the reservation.
Death of Inge Halpert
We note with sadness the death of Inge Halpert, Professor Emerita of German at Columbia University. Ms. Halpert, who was long active in Delta Phi Alpha, died in New York City on July 30 this year at the age of 77. A native of Berlin, Ms. Halpert served as Chair of German at Columbia in the 1980s and as the editor of the Germanic Review. The Inge Halpert Memorial Fellowship Fund has been established for undergraduate study in German (contributions should go to Columbia University, Inge Halpert Memorial Fellowship Fund" c/o Allison Searson, Columbia University, University Development and Alumni Relations, Mail Code 7722, 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 964, New York, N.Y. 10115). May thanks to Reece Conner of the University of Nebraska-Omaha for forwarding this information
A Final Word from the Secretary-Treasurer
We strive to have a one-week turnaround on certificates for newly initiated members. Fortunately, many chapters have begun to have both fall and spring initiations so that we’re not doing all the work in April. As was apparent from last spring’s experience, many letters and checks seem to get misplaced in those hectic days at the end of the academic year and never reach the national, then we all spend much time in September trying to remember who last saw the check or mailed the initiation list. So we encourage you by all means to have more than one initiation a year, the earlier in the semester, the better. Nota bene: Remember to add $6.00 to your single check for each new member who wants a Delta Phi Alpha graduation cord.
I hope to see many of you in Chicago!
Mit freundlichen Grüßen!
Geoffrey Orth