■F" *^j|,... <^r^9 INFORMATION CENTER ESPERANTO LEAGUE for NORTH AMERICA No-l NEWSLETTER February, 1970 >SAN FRANCISCO CONGRESS OFFERS INTELLECTUAL AND RECREATIONAL TREATS Twin themes of the 1970 Congress of the Esperanto League for North America (E.L.N.A.) at San Francisco July 22 to 26 will be the age of inter- national communication and the year of international education. All sorts of auxiliary attractions are offered by the Local Congress Committee of which William Harmon is chairman - a boat tour of San Francisco Bay, excursions to see the giant redwoods and Jack London's Valley of the Moon, a walking tour of the largest Chinatown outside Asia, and meals at some of the finest restaurants in the world for which San Francisco is famous. Biggest drawing card of all will be the 3-week courses in beginning and advanced Esperanto offered for credit at San Francisco State College July 6 - 24, to be taught by William Auld of Scotland, editor of Norda Prismo, text- book writer ("Esperanto - A New Approach" and "Pasoj al Plena Posedo")/and Esperanto poet and philosopher whose "La Infana Raso" has just been issued in a second edition. Tuition for the 3-credit college-level course is $72. Early enrolment is recommended, particularly for out-of-staters. Write: Dr. Lloyd R. O'Connor, director of summer courses, San Francisco State Col- lege, San Francisco 94101. Congress sessions will be held on the State College Campus where guests will also be housed. Details of Congress fees and housing costs will be sent to all E.L.N.A. members by the Local Congress Committee in March. -o- >H0PE FOR THE YOUNGER GENERATION? The drop-out and the sit-in, the turn-on and the goof-off, the up-tight and the down-with, and other prepositional preoccupations sometimes seem to have infected the whole of modern youth. It is therefore gratifying to re- port that at least some young Esperantists are involved with the teach-to. At Baltimore, Thomas Goodman has been teaching an experimental course in Esperanto for an after-school group meeting daily for three weeks at the Wood- lawn junior high school. Fifteen 7th-grade students of roughly comparable ability who will be studying French or Spanish next semester were selected for the course. Goodman hopes to do a follow-up study next year to determine the effect of such instruction on the language-learning ability of the students. In New York, Neal Preston and Mark Mandell meet every Sunday afternoon with a group of their contemporaries from the Ethical Culture Society. Bruce Landon for the second year teaches an Esperanto club at the Great Neck high school where he is a senior. Even the faculty advisor is learning the inter- national language. Preston attended the college-credit course at North Adams (Mass.) State College last summer on a scholarship from the New York Esperanto Society. Landon's expenses were paid to the 1968 E.L.N.A. Congress at Covina, Calif. j*r w^ -2- NL 2/70 ■^TPei Pamphlet Widely Distributed At the Public Affairs Committee's annual meeting, a report on the distri- bution and promotion of pamphlets showed that of the 55,000 copies printed of No. 434, "Wanted: A World Language" by Mario Pei, all but 4,750 have been distributed. Besides 25,000 copies for E.L.N.A., 10,000 were bought by the British Esperanto Association with its own imprint. Organizations purchas- ing smaller quantities included the Esperanto-Asocio, Brock university in Ontario, and the Esperantic Studies Foundation. Of the E.L.N.A. stock about 2000 copies remain after a mailing of 11,000 to all the public libraries of the United States, Veterans hospitals and U.S. Armed Service Centers and an earlier one of 2500 to college libraries. -o- ->Advanced Course at North Adams College Members of last summer's Esperanto course at North Adams (Mass.) State College are being canvassed about the possibility of returning for an advanced course June 29 to July 17. A minimum of 10 students for Esperanto I or Esperanto II will be necessary. Prerequisite for Esperanto II is either Esperanto I or the possession of an elementary proficiency certificate from the American Association of Teachers of Esperanto. For information, write Allan Boschen, 195 Partridge Rd., pittsfield, Mass. 01201. St. Joseph's high school in Pittsfield will have an Esperanto class beginning Feb. 24. A cable television program in which actual class sessions in Esperanto would be rebroadcast to several Berkshire communities fell through when a change in management brought about the withdrawal of promised sus- taining status for the series. -o- An in-service credit course (D-678) in Esperanto for New York teachers is under way at P.S. 99, Queens, sponsored by the school principal, William Finegold, and taught by Mark Starr. One of P.S. 99's teachers has asked for a speaker for her class. Students at the Pierre Van Cortlandt school at Croton-on-Hudson and the Midwood high school in Brooklyn have heard about Esperanto from Mr. Starr. The Memorial junior high school at Valley Stream, Long Island, has asked for a speaker; this grew out of requests to E.I.C. from two students who had chosen to write about the international language for their term papers and infected their fellow students with their enthusiasm. -o- "Faktoj pri Israelo" is a 20-page pamphlet published by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Write the Ministry in Jerusalem or contact your nearest Israeli consulate. E.I.C. has a few copies available; send 10 cents to cover postage and handling. -o- ARE YOU CHANGING YOUR ADDRESS? Send a notice to the Esperanto Information Center, 156 Fifth Ave., Room 821, New York, N.Y. 10010. Bulk-rate mail can- not be forwarded and it costs the mailer 10* for eve^ry piece returned. •Vxf ■iff -3- NL 2/70 >ESPERANTO HOUSE ESTABLISHED AT COVINA A lease has been signed for a building in downtown Covina, Calif./ to be known as Esperanto House/ which will serve as a center of operations for the Esperanto Institute of Southern California and Americans for Esperanto; provide classrooms for the Tri-Community Adult School Systems' evening Esper- anto classes and possibly for other daytime classes; and house the Charles R. i Peterson memorial library and a permanent exhibit. The San Gabriel Valley Esperanto Society plans monthly international dinners at Esperanto House with Italian and Mexican menus for openers. Friday nights will be open house for Esperantists, with Mrs. Hazel Foster as hostess in residence. The building will be formally opened April 3>, Esperanto House is being incorporated as a non-profit organization spon- sored by the Esperanto Institute of Southern California. Charter membership certificates are available to supporters who pay 1970 dues of not less than $12. One-shot contributions are also solicited. The board of directors in- cludes Francis E. Helmuth, E.L.N.A. president; W. Campbell Nelson, presi- dent of the institute; Leslie Green, national chairman of Americans for Esperanto; Esther Holohan, president of the San Gabriel Valley society; William Glenny for the Los Angeles Esperanto Club; and George Stacey, presi- dent of the Esperanto Society of Inland Empire. Americans for Esperanto, an organization designed to gain mass support for Esperanto among non-speakers of the international language, is still deal- ing with applications and inquiries in response to a general mailing in Decem- ber. In southern California where regional directors have already been select- ed, a membership of 75 is reported with San Diego and Santa Barbara still to be heard from. (E.L.N.A. membership automatically includes membership in Amer- icans for Esperanto.) For information and organizational material, write Box 4162, Covina, Calif. 91722. -o- In Alaska, Walter Gnagy of Juneau addressed three English classes at the Haines high school on the subject of Esperanto, and at Whitehorse in Canadian Yukon Territory he covered three English and one mathematics class, sending in to E.I.C. sign-up lists of teachers and students wanting still more infor- mation about Esperanto. -o- A Braille copy of "Paŝoj al Plena Posedo," an introduction to Esperanto literature by William Auld, is being made for the London Library for the Blind by the British Blind Esperanto Association. -o- An Eastern Region Esperanto Conference is being planned for March 28-29 with the Washington Society playing host. For details, write Robert Davis, 116 White Birch Court, Greenbelt, Md. 20070. -o- At the funeral of Mrs. Carle Brawner of Monravia, Calif., her husband of 39 years read the Twenty-third Psalm in Esperanto, saying that it seemed appro- priate that his final words to her should be in "our dear language." They were married soon after a 1937 meeting at an Esperanto conference in Washington. w* NL 2/70 ->NEW ESPERANTO BOOKS AVAILABLE The books listed below have been recently received by the Esperanto Book Center (29 Windsor Rd., Great Neck, N.Y. 11021) and the Esperanto Book Service (2129 Elizabeth St., San Carlos, Calif. 94070). Published by Stafeto, all are well bound, with stiff paper covers. Add 35 cents for handling costs on or- ders of less than $5.00. EL LA POVO DE LA TERO. William Frederick Rolt. 145 pp., illus. $2.25. Popularized treatment of soil chemistry. LA BELA SUBTERA MONDO. Leander Tell. 96 pp. with 24 pp. of photo- graphs on glossy paper. $2.50. Fascinating book about caves for fireside spelunkers. LA INFANA RASO. William Auld. 2nd ed., 122 pp. $1.85. This classic by the Esperanto poet and editor again available. ARĈOJ. Geraldo Mattos. 142 pp. $1.85. Collection of poems by a Brazilian with introduction by G. Waringhien. VOJAĜO INTER LA TEMPOJ. K. Kolocsay. 197 pp. $2.50. Tenses of Esper- anto verbs and other fine points of grammar. This item back in stock. -o- >EDITOR URGES UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE The following is an excerpt from the Congressional Record of December 4, 1969 in which Congressman James J. Delaney (N.Y.) quoted from an editorial in Columbia, official magazine of the Knights of Columbus, entitled "The Job for the U.N.: The Language of Peace": Elmer Von Feldt, editor of the magazine, says in the course of his argu- ment, "Both by correspondence and direct conversation Columbia has been in touch with U Thant, secretary general of the United Nations, urging him to establish an international commission to study this question and have it pre- pare recommendations to be submitted to the U.N. General Assembly for action. "Thant has expressed agreement with the idea but insists that the question of a universal language is such a highly emotional issue that it would be dif- ficult for the office of the U.N. secretariat to introduce it. Thant's hope is that member nations can propose the idea for discussion. "However difficult the problem may be it seems obvious that someone, possibly in concert with other interested parties, should start the ball roll- ing..... Every person genuinely committed to peace should contact his top government official and his nation's representative at the U.N. to encourage such a move. . . . Here is where you can lay a stone for the temple of peace for which future generations truly will bless you." ĝjMjh, ESPERANTO LEAGUE for NORTH AMERICA ^SJhiŜ^ 156 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10010 Return Requested Address Correction Requested NON-PROFIT ORG. U. S. POSTAGE Paid New York, N. Y. Permit No. 657 DATED MATERIAL ^, fa J, &Jq-*/o ESPERANTO LEAGUE FOR NORTH AMERICA 1970 MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION Your membership in the Esperanto League for North America (E.L.N.A.) will help us publish our Newsletter and ELNA-Bulteno, operate information centers on both Coasts, and serve those who are teaching and using the international language Esperanto as a medium of people-to-people contact. Please join today with the handy form below! 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