LU
NEWSLETTER
News of the Language Problem and Esperanto as a Solution
Jan-Feb 1988

Making   News
This Issue
U.N. & Esperanto
A report on the ILN.-sponsored Confer-
ence on Language in Religion starts off
our coverage of Esperanto at the U.N.
Esperanto was die subject of one paper
delivered during the proceedings. You'll
also read about translation and the work
of ILEA at the United Nations.
See Page 5
U.S. & Soviet Citizens Talk
Charles Hall reports on the Unique op-
portunity for U.S. and Soviet citizens to
meet and discuss common goals and
aspirations at the Citizens' Summit held
in February of 1988.
See Pages 6-7
A Golden Opportunity
Bernard Golden writes on informing the
public about Esperanto in this first article
of three thathe will write for ibeNewslet-
ter over the next year on various topics.
Next issue Dr. Golden will discuss neolo-
gisms and Esperanto.
_____________________See Page 8
In This Issue
Editorial
From the Central Office
Letters to the Editor
And Much, Much More to
Delight  and  Inform  You!
ELNA Convention '88
San Diego Vokas!
Mission Bay Park: A series of islands, lagoons, waterways and peninsulas form this 4,600-acre
park in San Diego (photo courtesy of San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau).
THE ESPERANTO LEAGUE FOR
NORTH AMERICA will be holding its
36th Annual Conference during the pe-
riod July 15-20,1988, attheRamada Inn
in San Diego, California.
Conference fee is $35, including meet-
ing access, refreshments, conference
materials and transportation to/from air-
ports. For those who can't attend the
entire Conference, one-day passes are
available for $7. The optional banquet
(choice of Beef Brochette, Chicken
Tampico or Vegetarian dinners) on Tues-
day, July 19, costs $15 per person, in-
cluding tax and tip.
Lodgings at the Ramada Inn cost
$52.00  per  night  single  occupancy,
$28.50 per night double occupancy, plus
7% tax.
The Ramada Inn is located within easy
walking distance from Old Town, the San
Diego of 1867, with its Victorian Village
and Junipero Serra Museum. There will
be an optional excursion on the afternoon
of Monday, July 18, to Balboa Park and
its world-famous zoological gardens;
cost of the optional excursion is $20.
Registration and fees, including lodg-
ing, may be sent to the ELNA CO., P.O.
Box 1129, El Cerrito, CA 94530. Please
indicate type of room preferred (single,
double), preferred roommate (if you have
one), and whether you are a smoker or
non-smoker.
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EDITORIAL
Has a new era begun for Esperanto? If
you are new to the language, you might
well think so; if you have been involved
with the Esperanto movement for some
time now, you probably won't notice
much of a difference. But there are a few
signs, here and abroad.
Membership in UEA grew in 1987 by
more than three thousand—almost eight
percent. That has to be a record of some
kind. For some years UEA was butting its
head against the 40,000-member barrier;
now, in the space of a year, it has moved
up to face the new 50,000-member bar-
rier.
Almost nine hundred of those mem-
bers are from the United States. This also
has to be a new record. These member-
ships are divided about equally between
associate members (ELNA members
who are not also individual members of
UEA) and individual members. The fig-
ures are not exaggerated; UEA works up
its statistics in such a way as to avoid
overlap.
It was widely believed that after the
World Esperanto Congress of 1986 in
Beijing, the last decade's almost frenetic
growth of the Esperanto movement in
China would slack off. This does not
seem to have happened. As an example:
last fall my good friend Chien Ming-chi,
who is paid to teach Esperanto at East
China Normal University in Shanghai,
was confronted by a basic class contain-
ing more than seventy would-be students
of Esperanto. In the new spring semester
she has been saddled with a new class of
equal size. ECNU has now formed its
own university Esperanto Society.
The California Department of Educa-
tion this year sponsored the All-Califor-
nia Esperanto Conference in Sacra-
mento. DoE has some undefined interest
in the possibility of using Esperanto to
improve the state of education in Califor-
nia. The Berkeley Esperanto League is
developing a proposal to introduce Espe-
ranto into two Berkeley-area grade
schools; if successful, this might develop
into a pilot project operating under the
moral, if not financial, aegis of the state.
It is a good time to be involved with
Esperanto. I feel particularly honored to
have been chosen to edit the ELNA
Newsletter, at least temporarily, during
this period.
There will be changes in theNewsletter
to reflect the changes in the worldwide
Esperanto movement. Some of you will,
I hope, agree with these changes. Some of
you will, I also hope, disagree with them.
One of our first changes is to attempt to
inaugurate a letters-to-the-editor col-
umn. Tom Goodman, long-time ELNA
member, motor of the Esperanto move-
ment in the Baltimore area, sometime
member of the ELNA Estraro, leads off
the column this month with some disqui-
eting ideas about the health of the Ameri-
can Esperanto movement. I hope that
others of you out there will feel the desire
to express your ideas.
Mark Stephens, the Director of the
Central Office, has promised to provide a
regular column for theNewsletter— well,
as regular as his duties will permit, any-
way. You'll also find the first of his
columns in this issue.
We hope to continue the new column
on UEA that we began with the Septem-
ber-December issue. Esperanto is, after
all, an International Language, and it ill
behooves us to ignore the activities of our
major International Organization—an
organization with which ELNA is
closely associated.
This month you'll find us a bit short on
local news. We hope to remedy that by
the next issue. For instance, in the next
issue you'll see reports on the March
open house at the ELNA office and on the
All-California Esperanto Conference—
plus whatever information from March
and April those of you outside the
editor's immediate area will be kind
enough to send him.
In future, I hope to be able to provide
you with more complete reports on re-
gional conferences. We've had three of
those for the past few years: TKEK in
California in the springtime, and
NOREK and the Intermountain Confer-
ence in the autumn. This year we're
adding a new one: the Midwest Confer-
ence in the late springtime.
As promised in the last issue, one of the
major changes we're going to make is to
increase the number of Newsletter pages
each year. Currently you, the members of
ELNA, receive 72 pages of Newsletter
each year. I think that a larger and more
frequent Newslelter is justified. It won't
happen all at once; but, as promised in the
last issue, we'll finish off this year with
two sixteen-page issues. That is, inciden-
tally, good insurance against having the
editor produce another late double issue:
can you imagine the amount of work that
would go into producing a single 32-page
number of the Newsletter?
As stated in the last issue, the deadline
for material for the May-June issue is
April 25. You may not have this issue in
hand by that time, so let me alert you to
the deadline for the following issue:
because of the summertime vacations,
the deadline for material for the July-
August issue is July 25.
One final point: language. In the past
there have been arguments over whether
or not the Newsletter should use pre-
dominantly English or Esperanto. Some
national magazines—-e.g., La Mondo in
China—prefer to use the national lan-
guage almost exclusively; others, such as
Budapeŝta Informilo, stick with
Esperanto. La Revuo Orienta in Japan
tries to maintain a happy medium, and to
some extent that is what we will do. If you
want to contribute something in Espe-
ranto, feel free to do so; if you feel more
comfortable with English, I won't object.
I hope that we will get plenty of material
in Esperanto; I myself write in Esperanto
if I consider it more appropriate (e.g., in
book reviews).
As editor, I reserve the right to correct
grammatical errors and spelling in either
language. I would not arrogate to myself
the right to "correct" your writing style.
For the moment, please send all mate-
rial for the Newsletter to: ELNA News-
letter, c/o Don Harlow, P.O. Box 551,
Pinole CA 94564.
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Allan C. Boschen discussed at some
length the strides Esperanto has been
making in the Third World in a letter to
the Editor of The Berkshire Eagle
(November 5, 1987).
An interview about Esperanto with
Dmitri Perevalov, Chairman of the So-
viet section of the Mondpaca Esperan-
tista Movado, appeared in the English-
language version of the Soviet informa-
tional magazine Sputnik (December,
1987). The article is very interesting and
objective, though the reference by the
interviewer (Juri Trofimov) to "times in
some countries when the language was
simply banned" for some reason fails to
identify the countries in question.
Perevalov's description of how he
"caught the Esperanto bug" will be par-
ticularly revealing for those who have
traditionally considered Esperanto a
strictly European phenomenon.
Dianne Thomas of Lifelines (December
2, 1987) has an excellent article about
Esperanto based on an interview with
Esperantist Janet Emmons of Dearborn,
Michigan. The article centers around
Emmons' correspondence with other
Esperantists in Poland and Yugoslavia,
and how the use of Esperanto brings them
closer together than any other language
could.
Eugene F. Durand has a rather objective
article about Esperanto, "100 Years of
Hope," in the Adventist Review (De-
cember 10,1987) published by the Sev-
enth-Day Adventist Church. Durand's
doubts about Esperanto's current or fu-
ture success (based on an obvious lack of
information about the current state of the
Esperanto movement) are obviously re-
gretful, and his suggestion for "... trans-
lating [Seventh-Day Adventist] materi-
als into Esperanto for reaching the mil-
lions who speak it" is worth noting,
(thanks to John Birmingham for sending
this article)
While Marjorie Smith's essay "A Matter
of Interpretation" that appeared in
Newsweek (December 14,1987) did not
mention Esperanto, it raised the question
of the language problem in a very direct
way. Smith, who is apparently unfamil-
iar with Esperanto, is in favor of all na-
tional leaders making use of interpreters
when conferring with each other, and we
wouldhave to agree that—in the absence
of Esperanto! — some interpreters are
about a thousand percent better than no
interpreters, (thanks to the Chicago Espe-
ranto Society for reprinting this article in
their newsletter)
Keeping in Touch (Winter '88), news-
letter of The Children's Museum in Flint,
Michigan, carried an alert about the
founding of the Esperanto Language
Study Club, (thanks to.Howard Saunders
for sending this .article)
ELNA member Maya Kennedy of Ken-
sington (California) published a letter
about Tolstoy's relationship with Espe-
ranto in the Vegetarian Times (January,
1988).
Louise Woo of the Orange County Reg-
ister (January 11, 1988) wroteafine long
article about the establishment of "La
Amikeca Domo" (The Friendship
House) in Garden Grove (California).
The long article, which includes a box
describing Esperanto and giving some
examples, is based upon interviews with
several Esperantists including Thorn
Wilkerson, J. Tillman Williams, ELNA
CO. Director Mark Stephens. Doug
Butler, Michelle Misir, and Dan Dawes.
Allen C. Boschen's letter to the editor,
which appeared in the Berkshire Eagle
(November 5,1987), was reprinted in the
Berkshire Section News (February,
1988) of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, Inc. (thanks to
Allen C. Boschen)
In the category of "advertising we least
need" is a supposedly "amusing" piece
by Bruce Felton, corporate communica-
tions (?) manager of D'Arcy Masius
Benton & Bowles: "Advertising in Espe-
ranto," which appeared in Advertising
Age (February 1, 1988). According to
Mr. Felton, whose tongue is plugged so
firmly into his upper cheek that it seems
to have lodged in his brain, regional vari-
ations in Esperanto make it impossible
for Swedish Esperantists to understand
the typical Esperanto phrase "La Crud-
busters fa ci vian ovena klen kum un salo
mostra" (Crudbusters gets your oven
showroom-clean) — a version of Espe-
ranto which we all know is spoken no-
where within 101 light years of Earth.
Maybe Mr. Felton could take some point-
ers from the president of Sony, who knew
how, when and to whom to apologize for
a similar piece of nonsense last year,
(thanks to Peter Krause for pointing this
article out to us)
Steve Rosenthal, in Mac WEEK (Febru-
ary 23, 1988) starts an article
"Macintosh] applications need a com-
mon language" with: "Someday perhaps
we'll all speak the international language
Esperanto as a second tongue — and
someday all Mac applications will freely
exchange data. Until then, it helps to
travel and work with multilingual
friends." Though the article isn't about
language per se, Rosenthal uses many
linguistic metaphors to explain the prob-
lems with data transfer between applica-
tions, pointing out that "...basic gestures
may get you by for the simplest of every-
day business, but you really need a com-
mon language for more serious informa-
tion exchanges." (the editor thanks him-
self for noticing this article)
In his interview with Presidential candi-
date and televangelist Pat Robertson,
David Frost asked Robertson whether he
thought that "speaking in tongues" (glos-
solalia) is a "kind of spiritual Esperanto."
(thanks to Reg Reid for pointing out this
passage)
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}AL   PEPOPT
n  the United States
CALIFORNIA
A new Esperanto club, the North Valley
Esperanto Group (NVEG), meets on the
third Saturday of each month at the Faith
Reformed Church in Anderson. The
president is the Rev. David Th. Stark.
(Cathy Schulze)
LOUISIANA
Dr. Bob Hardy, a psychiatrist at the Base
Hospital atBarksdale AFB, has proposed
as a slogan on the hospital's coat of arms
the words DEFENDI, RESANIGI,
SERVE "While the use of Latin in unit
slogans is quite common," Dr. Hardy
writes in his letter of proposal, "this
would be the first unit slogan within the
entire military, I am sure, that is con-
veyed in Esperanto, the world's universal
second language. As such, it would not
only be legible to the millions of Esperan-
tists in the world (a far greater number
than those fluent in Latin, for example),
but would also reflect our commitment to
science, logic, and a new way of doing
things." (Dr. R. O. Hardy)
MICHIGAN
Esperantists in Hint, Michigan, have
founded the Society of Esperanto Lan-
guage Friends (Inc.). Howard F. Saun-
ders is President, Horinda Rosen is Vice-
President, John O'Dell is Director of
Education and Training, Carolyn Wil-
liams is Director of Membership and
Recruiting, and Jim Hillaker is Volunteer
Committee Member. The group is plan-
ning, among other things, a late autumn
Caribbean cruise for Esperantists.
(Howard F. Saunders)
Sherry Wells spoke to the Hamtramck
Rotary on January 7. ("La Semanto")
JanetEmmons spoke to the Rouge Valley
Branch of the Women's League for
Peace and Freedom in January. ("La
Semanto")
**.
The Library in Southfield had an Espe-
ranto display case for four weeks, and the
Library in Dearborn had one for six
weeks. ("La Semanto")
Janet Emmons hosted a program about
Esperanto at the Henry Ford Centennial
Library in Dearborn. 26 people were
present. Mary Napolitan talked about her
experiences at the World Esperanto
Congress in Warsaw this past summer.
("La Semanto")
NEW YORK
The Esperanto-Societo de Noyjorko is
considering proposals from the Espe-
ranto Society in Suzhou (China) and the
Esperanto group in Xi'an (China) for the
establishment of sister-club relation-
ships. (J & N Medrano)
John Bailey of the Esperanto-Societo de
Novjorko has given a copy of the ELNA
Booklist to the local library. Other
Esperantists in other parts of the country
might consider doing the same... (Cathy
Schulze)
Problems with Interpreters
Although Esperanto allows people to
speak to one another directly, some
people feel that the use of interpreters is
good enough. Newspaper columnist
William Safire writes about an incident
involving interpreters during the recent
meeting between Reagan and Gor-
bachev. While on television, the two
engaged in some friendly conversation.
Reagan brought up a Russian proverb,
"doveryal no proveryal—trust but ver-
ify." Gorbachev responded in Russian
which the interpreter rendered as "You
repeat thatat every meeting." But accord-
ing to Russian language experts, Gor-
bachev used a rude word in his response
(boltaete). A closer translation of his
remark would have been, "You do run on
at the mouth about that." One wonders
how the president would have felt about
that.
How much better would itbe if each of
them had learned some Esperanto? They
could dispense with the interpreters and
speak directly. Remember the problems
that President Carter had in Warsaw,
when an interpreter used out-dated words
and syntax. Carter was made to say that
he had an "erotic desire for Poles" and
that he had left the U.S. never to return.
The above article appeared in "La
Semanto" March/April 1988, the
newsletter of the Esperanto Society of
Michigan, P.O. Box 3011, Southfield,
Ml48037-3011.—red]
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MM® KM
ESPERANTISTS PARTICIPATE
IN U.N. CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE IN RELIGION
With the active participation of UN staff
members and members of the World Es-
peranto Association, the long-awaited
Conference on Language in Religion
took place on Friday and Saturday, May
15 and 16,1987, sponsored by the Center
for Research and Documentation on
World Language Problems. Held at Ber-
gen Community College, New Jersey,
USA, the conference brought together
some forty linguists, theologians, clergy
and international specialists for a discus-
sion of the role of language in religious
practice and belief across the world.
The conference began on May 15 with a
discussion of practical aspects of cross-
cultural commun-ication in a religious
context, a presentation on the language
policy of the World Council of Churches
by Andrea Cano and speeches by Lynda
Icochea, Director of the Center for Inter-
national Studies atBergen, and Ted Mall,
of the Christian Ministries to the UN
Community.
Mme. Frangoise Gestae, Director of the
Translation Division of the United Na-
tions, opened the conference's full day of
deliberations on May 16. The morning
began with a session on the nature of
religious language, with presentations by
Gilbert Fell (Monmouth College),
Robert W. Hall (University of Vermont)
and Adnan Yusuf, Chief of the Arabic
Translation Service at the United Na-
tions. Later sessions dealt with the prob-
lem of inclusive language, with mysti-
cism, and with religious practices.
Participants were pleased and surprised
when Father George Kory tkowski, of the
Diocese of Metuchen, gave his paper,
"Esperanto for Religious Purposes," in
the International Language Esperanto.
An English translation, distributed to the
audience, allowed non-speakers of Espe-
ranto to follow the speech. Father Ko-
rytkowskd, a native of Poland, who has
taught and studied in universities in Po-
land and Italy, is more comfortable
speaking Esperanto than speaking Eng-
lish. The speech provided several of his
listeners with their first opportunity to
hear Esperanto in action and to note its
suitability as a conference language.
The day ended with some practical ex-
amples of the religious role of language,
in a ceremony organized by Father Mau-
rice Carroll, of St. Vincent de Paul
Church, and Francis Dubois, of UNDP.
The evening program featured a concert
by the United Nations Singers.
The Center plans to publish the confer-
ence proceedings.
NOVJORKA KONFERENCO DE CED & LA TRADUKA FAKO DE UNO
Laŭ kuna organizado de la Traduka Fako
de la Unuiĝinta Naciaro kaj la Centro de
Esploro kaj Dokumentado pri la Monda
Lingvo-Problemo, okazis Internacia
Konferenco pri Lingvo kaj Komunikado
ĉe la sidejo de la Novjorka Oficejo de
UEA je la 11a de decembro 1987. La
konferenco pritraktis la temon "lingvo
kaj kulturo en internaciaj organizaĵoj".
Partoprenis la konferencon pli ol 100
homoj. El la 26 kontribuintoj, 13 estas
funkciuloj de UNO. Unu el ili estas helpa
generate sekretario de UNO kaj alia,
helpisto por generate subsekretario. La
konferencon malfermis la direktorino de
la Traduka Fako de UNO kaj fermis la
direktoro de CED, Prof. Humphrey
Tonkin.
Kiel ni raportis en la pasinta numero, post
la konferenco okazis akcepto, dum kiu
Tonkin, en sia rolo kiel Prezidanto de
UEA, transdonis laPremionZamenhof al
la direktoro de UNICEF, James P. Grant.
Antaŭaj premiitoj estas s-ro Robert
Muher (eksa helpa generate sekretario de
UNO) kaj s-ro Amadou Mahtar M'Bow
(tiarna generate sekretario de UNESCO).
S-ro Grant laŭdis la laboron de UEA por
antaŭenigodeinternaciakomprenadokaj
diris: "Esperanto kaj UNICEF havas
saman signifon: Espero." UNICEF el-
donos libreton pri la stato de la infanoj de
la mondo en Esperanto.
(el UN kaj Ni #47)
UEA & AMBASADEJOJ DE UNO
La 2Ian de septembro, 1987, la
prezidanto de UEA, Humphrey Tonkin,
vizitis la polan ambasadon ĉe UNO kaj
pasigis unu horon en pozitivaj diskutoj
kun la ambasadestro koncerne subtenon
flanke de la pola registaro al Esperanto ĉe
UNO. Li ankaii renkontis funkciulon de
la nederlanda ambasado por raporti pri la
UK en Rotterdamo (1988) kaj varbi i.a. la
helpon de la nederlanda registaro. S-ro
Tonkin planas viziti pliajn ambasadojn
ĉe UNO kaj deziras firme starigi repu-
tacion de UEA kiel la ĉefa internacia
neregistara organizaĵo, kiu okupiĝas pri
problemoj de internacia komunikado.
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REPORT ON THE SOVIET-AMERICAN CITIZENS' SUMMIT
Feb. 1-5, 1988, Alexandria, VA
By Charles M. Hall, Editor,
EFHA Newsletter
Although my acceptance as a delegate
to the conference appears to have been
based on the fact that I had once taught
Russian at the University of Utah, my
personal motive was to attend, meet
whatever Esperantists happened to be in
attendance, and be a part of making as
significant an impression on behalf of
"La Esperanto Movado" as possible
without becoming obnoxious. As far as I
can tell I, or rather we, were successful.
I should add that it appeared at one
point (and it all happened very fast) that
I would not be able to go because of my
total lack of financial resources. The
conference, food, lodging, etc., was
$975, and the round trip plane fare was
$238 from Utah. However, being a re-.
sourceful Esperantist, I located a com-
pany who needed a car driven to Arling-
ton, VA, and another one to be driver
from Mt. Jackson, V A to Utah. I also had
a friend who needed some research done
in Washington, B.C., so my transporta-
tion was essentially paid for. As for my
food and lodging, I want to publicly
thankNeal and Holly in Boulder, CO, for
their hospitality both going and coming
from Utah. I also stayed one night with
John Dale in Falls Church, V A, and three
nights with my brother-in-law's family
(notEsperantists) in GreatFalls, VA, and
ate very frugally otherwise.
It was so special to get John Dale's help
in preparing Esperanto materials to be
handed out at the conference, and his
advice on how to overcome the problem
of- not being able to act as the official
delegate I had been accepted to be (actu-
ally I wore a PRESS pass and represented
the Esperanto Movado).
I was further helped by Mr. Dick Sher-
wood, the man in Utah that I contacted to
become a delegate in the first place. He
let me have his ticket to attend the first
luncheon, which gave me a chance to
hear Carol Rosin, Dr. Brian 0"Leary,
Theodore Taylor, and Soviet Cosmonaut
Georgy Grechko. At this luncheon, I
became painfully aware of the weakness
of a bilingual conference of this nature.
The speeches by the three Americans
were outstanding and certainly deserving
of theenthusias tic audience response, but
I knew (even with my very rusty Russian)
that Georgy- Grechnko's speech was
equally deserving of the audience's en-
thusiasm, but it got almost no response.
Even the people with earphones on their
ears, who were supposed to be getting
simultaneous translation, seemed obliv-
ious to the great things he was saying.
After the luncheon, I had the unique
opportunity of having an unencumbered
though brief chat with Carol Rosin and
Dr, O'Leary. I told Dr. O'Leary how
impressed I was with the idea of a joint
Soviet-American space flight to Mars in
1999, and how I liked the picture of the
Soviet and American flags planted on
that planet side by side, but I said I had
this question: "When these two groups of
Astronauts work together on that project,
what language do you suppose they will
be speaking?" Well, he and Carol were
not so sure. So I helped them by suggest-
ing that it would be a great day when
those Astronauts could work together
using a common neutral language, to
which Carol Rosin responded, "Oh, you
mean Esperantol" to which I .said:
"Right!" Then she added: "I love Espe-
ranto. It is a great idea."
With my PRESS badge, I was able to
attend "Task Force Meeting #2," and I
chose from a rather broad selection the
EDUCATION section. I was pleased,
while looking around the room during the
introduction, to see Esperanto listed as a
discussion topic in both Latin and Cyril-
lic letters. As the main group was divided
into small 7-8 person discussion sections,
I chose the CtJRRICtJLtJM section,
since that was closest to the wall where
"Esperanto" was written. My inquiries
regarding the origin of the "Esperanto"
sign eventually led me to a delightful and
enthusiastic "Komencanto" named He-
len Tittle King, currently of Largo, Flor-
ida, and formerly of Edwardsville, where
her husband had taught at Southern Illi-
nois Univ. before retiring.
The discussion leader did a great job of
setting us up to make an excellent presen-
tation for the cause of Esperanto, when
she asked each member of the group to
express themselves regarding their "se-
cret" project. Helen was able to give an
introduction to the Esperanto concept,
which she did in an excellent manner. A
second or third person around the circle
from Helen was none other than Dr.
Robert Muller of UN fame. Since neither
Helen nor I had personally met him be-
fore, we were surprised and highly
pleased when he strongly endorsed all
Helen had said and added his own testi-
monial to the great value of Esperanto.
By the time it was my turn to speak, I
could hardly contain my excitement, as I
did my best to put the finishing touches
on our totally unrehearsed Esperanto
presentation.
The next day, our curriculum Task
Force group was supposed to solidify
some proposals to the EDUCATION
section as a whole. Somehow, however,
we were unable to input a solid proposal
regarding Esperanto that the group
would accept. Some of them encouraged
us by saying that we would be able to
work Esperanto into one of the proposals
which had been accepted. After the
meeting had somewhat broken up, the
discussion leader asked me how I felt
about the outcome. When I said I was a
little disappointed that we had not been
able to put together an actual Esperanto
proposal, she surprised me by saying:
"Oh, that's right. We did not get a pro-
posal on Esperanto. Well, let's do it." So
she gave me a proposal form, and Helen
and I got together and wrote up a very
ambitious proposal, inspired somewhat
by what William Shanks did and is doing
at Arizona State Univ. in Tempe, going
from a one-man to a 25-man Esperanto
6 The ELNA Newsletter
club in a relatively short time by consci-
entiously following seven or eight well-
planned steps. We were also inspired and
encouraged by the meeting the California
Esperantists are going to have at the State
Board of Education in Sacramento in
March.
Details of our proposal will be given
later. Suffice it to say here that it will
involve building sizeable Esperanto
groups in Florida, Utah, and a couple of
areas in the Soviet Union during this
1988 year. It was necessary to give the
addresses of a couple of Esperanto
groups in the Soviet Union to make this
proposal valid. We are grateful to Jim
Deer of Portland, OR, for the addresses
he got published in Kresko, with which
we have had successful correspondence,
and which made the submission of this
application possible. We want to return
the favor by giving the name and address
of the one Soviet in the conference whom
we were able to locate who has some
knowledge of Esperanto: Mikhail
ZYKOV, Global Family Soviet Peace
Committee, 36 Prospekt Mira,
MOSCOW, USSR. Of course, we will
need all of the help we can get from any
of you, our fellow Esperantists, in reach-
ing the goal we have outlined for our-
selves, if it is nothing more than keeping
us informed of your activities to increase
the number of Esperantists in your area.
I shall next report on the Round Table
sessions that I attended regarding the
"Sister Cities" or "Twin Cities" program.
Although I have not noticed much Espe-
ranto activity related to this program, it
appears to have great potential especially
as it relates to the rapidly increasing
Soviet-American matchups that are oc-
curring. For example: Oakland-
Nakhodka; Boulder-Dushanbe; Kiev-
Chicago; Moscow-Washington. There
are about 20 official matchups so far.
Finally, I would like to tell how won-
derful it was to chat with Dr. E. James
Lieberman and other Esperantists in the
Washington, DC, area on John Dale's
phone. I also enjoyed my visit with Dr.
Ruth Browning in the Arlington Library
in Columbus. I only wish I could have
taken time to visit more Esperantists
along the way. I expect to be able to visit
others in mid-April when I travel to Mil-
waukee, WI, via Lincoln, NE, to present
seminars involving East European and
Germanic family history (genealogy)
research. Of course, the most exciting
thing about these seminars is that the
hosts are already requesting literature on
Esperanto in preparation for my lecture
about how I use the International Lan-
guage in my family history field trips to
and correspondence with Esperantists in
Europe.
FROM THE CENTRAL OFFICE
During the year the Central Office
receives about 2000 letters, cards and
phone calls from all parts of the country
and many areas of the world asking for
information about Esperanto. To cope
with the large number of inquiries, we
have prepared two packets of informa-
tion that can automatically be sent to
interested parties to answer most of their
questions.
Packet 1 consists of: a pamphlet about
Esperanto; the first lesson of the free ten
lesson postal course; a list of Esperanto
clubs; a list of learning aids available
from ELNA; and an invitation to receive
further information about Esperanto.
A recent change to the invitation for
further information is the addition of two
spaces to indicate the names and ad-
dresses of friends that would like to learn
aboutEsperanto. Atpresentabout30% of
the sheets that come back have requests
for information to be sent to friends.
About 9% of those that request packet
1 will take the next step and ask for more
information. At this time we will send:
information about ELNA and UEA;
"The Cultural Value of Esperanto";
"Correspondence and Traveling with
Esperanto"; "On Learning Esperanto";
"TEJO"; "Esperanto and Children"; alist
of specialist organizations; useful ad-
dresses; "The ABC's of Esperanto"; and
a copy of the ELNA Newsletter.
One sampling taken last year indicates
that about 15% of those who receive
packet 2 will go on to become members
of ELNA without any further prompting.
In addition to supplying information
directly to the enquirers, the Central
Office recently started supplying some
20 clubs with monthly listing of people
who write in from their area. We do this
so that local clubs can inform people
about club meetings and events of local
interest. At the same time, we will usually
include any news or items of interest so
that your club president or secretary can
pass them on to club members.
If your club would like to be enrolled in
this Program please write to the Central
Office with the name of your club and the
range of zip codes in your area. After the
initial mailing of names for your club has
been sent, we will mail updates at the end
of every month.
Another reinforcement to the process
of informing the public about Esperanto
is the reappearance of the "ELNA Up-
date." This update will be mailed outfour
times per year to all ELNA members and
anyone who has written in during the
previous 12 months. The update contains
news briefs gleaned from the many dif-
ferent periodicals that come to the office,
and is intended to show the diverse ways
that Esperanto is being used in the world
today.
There are two primary ways of know-
ing how successful the League is at pro-
moting Esperanto in the United States.
One is the number of members that
ELNA and UEA has here in our country.
The other is the number of requests we
receive for information about Esperanto
here at the Central Office. If you would
like to help spread the word about Espe-
ranto, please write the CO. for a copy of
"Suggestions for Promoting Esperanto."
Be sure to include a self-addressed
stamped envelope
—Mark Stephens
The ELNA Newsletter 7
Informing the Public about Esperanto
By Bernard Golden
ManyAmericanEsperantistsare already
familiar with Dr. Bernard Golden.
Originally a noted archaeologist from
the United States, Dr. Golden now makes
his home with his wife in the town of
Veszprem, Hungary. Dr. Golden is
known throughout the Esperanto world
as an accomplished author of fiction and
plays, and a specialist on various aspects
ofEsperantology. This is the first of three
articles which we will be publishing by
him over the next year on various topics.
[For reasons beyond the control of Dr.
Golden and ELNA, publication of this
article has been delayed; so I have taken
the liberty of pushing all of his projected
dates back by a year. The article is other-
wise exactly as received.]
I regard the dissemination of informa-
tion about Esperanto on the national and
local level as a joint activity which the
national Esperanto organization coordi-
nates. Competent individuals carry out
the work either independently or in col-
laboration with local groups and organi-
zations of specialists in various occupa-
tions. The media of publicity are existing
magazines, newspapers and reviews or a
special periodical about Esperanto in the
national language, for example Vilag is
Nyelv (World and Language) published
in Hungary. In my opinion the latter is
superfluous and fails to reach the public
effectively. I doubt that a monthly or
bimonthly devoted to language problems
in the world in general and to Esperanto
specifically is a useful means of commu-
nication for the informational goals of the
Esperanto movement. The important
question is: does such a magazine have a
market among members of the reading
public?
The situation is quite different with
regard to periodicals dealing with special
subjects or aspects of life. The market for
these already exists prior to publication.
Thus a sufficiently broad base of sub-
scribers and purchasers can be assured in
order to guarantee the financial success
of the publication. For example, it is
possible to estimate more or less exactly
the number of dog owners in any country
in order to know how many potential
readers exist for a magazine about dogs.
It is also very probable that every serious
chess player regularly reads a periodical
about that game. And what woman can
resist the temptation to thumb through a
fashion magazine? The same can be said
about other magazines, the contents of
which attract different sectors of the
public such as automobile owners, home
gardeners, hunters, etc. But who is going
to dig into his pocket for money for a
melange of language themes? If I have
correctly understood the explanation of
those who propose such a periodical, the
readership consists of an indefinite group
of intellectuals in the social order.
I propose an educational program, the
aim of which is to reach a much wider
group, possibly the entire part of the
population which is in the habit of read-
ing periodical literature. Another essen-
tial characteristic of my project is the
planning and directing of information to
each special group in the framework of its
own sphere of interest or professional
work. It is evidently a matter of having
reading material prepared by Esperantist
specialists for their colleagues. For this
purpose there are in all countries today
dozens of well-known journals, maga-
zines and newspapers with steady sub-
scribers and loyal readers. It is much
more valuable for an article to appear in
such a periodical than in a magazine
about language problems.
I propose that this year competent
Esperantists with the ability to write se-
lect about twenty periodicals in different
fields and prepare articles aimed at the
readership of each publication. One ar-
ticle each in a group of prestigious peri-
odicals in several countries in 1988
means that the message of Esperanto will
reach a readership a thousand times
greater than that of the annual issues of a
language magazine still relatively un-
known and with a very limited circula-
tion. Besides, the program is not planned
for only one year, but is a part of a
/
publicity campaign of long duration.
During the first year an endeavor
should be made to publish an article a
month, that is, a total of twelve in 1988 in
each country participating in the plan.
For the following year thirty periodicals
should be selected with the aim of getting
at least two articles published each
month. In the following years the number
of monthly articles increases: three, four,
five, etc. If this procedure succeeds, in
the first decades of the second century of
Esperanto perhaps himdreds of articles
about Esperanto will appear in periodi-
cals all over the world, in addition to
more frequent newspaper reports, and
Esperanto will have become a topic of
daily reading.
Here are some suggestions to guide
the work of the first year. Articles suit-
able for an illustrated weekly can be
prepared on the occasion of anniversaries
concerning the history of the national
Esperanto movement and the pioneers
who taught the language and published
the first books and periodicals. "The role
of women in the Esperanto movement"
could be the title of an article for a
women's magazine. There is a place for
literary works such as translations of
short stories and poems originally writ-
ten in Esperanto in different types of
cultural reviews. Very appropriate for
children's magazines are fairy tales, sto-
ries and poems translated from children's
literature in other languages with Espe-
ranto serving as a bridge-language. A
study entitled "Our national literature in
Esperanto translation" as well as critical
and comparative literary essays have a
place in journals dealing with literature
history and comparative world literature.
In this connection, there are various
compilations of bibliographies and book
reviews of foreign language literature
which are not complete if Esperanto lit-
erature is not mentioned. These periodi-
cals contain data about literary works in
minor languages such as Ukrainian,
Albanian and Yiddish. Why not Espe-
ranto, too?
Continued on Page 10
8 The ELNA Newsletter
ws from Ahmad!
AFRICA: "Brulo kaj Ritmo", the first
collection of African poetry in Espe-
ranto, was the result of considerable in-
ternational collaboration. A collection of
poems by Angolan poet and statesman
Antonio Agostinho Neto was translated
by Angolan Esperantist Lutumba Tim a.
With the help of the Esperanto Club of
Norrkoping, Sweden, whose member
Eugeniu Mustea (now with a UN mission
in the Dominican Republic) discovered
the manuscript in Luanda, Angola, the
book was published. Kris Long of Great
Britain checked the manuscript from a
linguistic standpoint, and it was pub-
lished by the International Cultural Serv-
ice of Yugoslavia and Vulpo-Libroj of
the Netherlands.
GERMANY (DEMOCRATIC RE-
PUBLIC): As of 1988, according to a
recommendation from the Ministry of
Higher Education, colleges and universi-
ties in East Germany my teach Esperanto
as an elective subject if competent in-
structors are available. It appears that
Esperanto will soon be taught in about
fifteen such institutions.
GERMANY (FEDERAL REPUB-
LIC): The German Esperanto Associa-
tion at the conclusion of its 65th annual
convention in Rastatt declared "that a
tendency in the European Community
toward favoring a few languages threat-
ened European integration" and that
"Esperanto should be gradually intro-
duced as a subject of equal standing with
other languages; and schools in border
regions should teach die language of the
neighboring country." The organization
called for "the introduction of model
courses in Esperanto at universities and
in adult education programs in accor-
dance with a UNESCO resolution of
November 1985."
GREAT BRITAIN: The renowned li-
brary at Oxford University, the Bodleian
Library, recently held a major Esperanto
exhibit. The exhibit was arranged by Dr.
Marjorie Boulton.
POLAND: Esperanto got its start in the
city of Bialystok, and it somehow seems
appropriate that the Bialystok newspaper
KurierPodlaski should be the first in the
world to publish a daily column about
Esperanto. The author of the column, S.
Dombrowolski, needs material: send
magazines and such to him at Kurler
Podlaski, ul. Wesolowskiego 4, PL-
15000 BJALISTOK, Poland.
VIETNAM: In Ho Chi Minh (formerly
Saigon), 375 Vietnamese and 25 Cambo-
dian young people studied Esperanto last
year in formal classes.
SURINAM: A series of three postage
stamps to honor Esperanto's centennial
was issued.
FRACTURED INGUSH
"The lift is being fixed for the next
days. During that time we regret that
you will be unbearable."
—Sign on elevator in Romanian hotel
The flattening of underwear with
pressure is the job of the chamber-
maid. To get it done, turn her on."
—Sign in Japanese hotel room
"Because of the impropriety of enter-
taining guests of the opposite sex in
the bedroom, it is suggested that the
lobby be used for this purpose."
—Hotel sign in Zurich
"All rooms not denounced by twelve
o'clock will be paid fortwicely."
—Warning posted in Budapest hotel
LETTERS
Bleak Future for Esperanto in U.S.?
This is an open letter to the members of
ELNA to address what I believe to be a
most serious issue: the future of Espe-
ranto in the USA. While there will proba-
bly always be some people who find out
about Esperanto through library books, a
weakened (or eventually non-existent)
national organization could greatly di-
minish any real involvement with Espe-
ranto for many potential newcomers.
I realize how much the Central Office
has depended on the volunteer help of a
few truly dedicated older people and,
seeing relatively little commitment from
most younger members by comparison, I
have concern for the day-to-day work
that will need to be done by others to keep
ELNA a viable organization in the future.
I doubt if one or two workers in the
Central Office will be enough to fulfill all
the necessary tasks for even our present
size work load to continue (much less an
expansion, were national interest to in-
crease). More salaried workers might be
part of the answer—for which more in-
come would be needed, whether from
increased dues orprices of materials sold,
or investments, etc.—but surely more
volunteers are still going to be needed.
I don't have any easy answers, but
want to stimulate some thinking about
this problem among our members so that
we can do more than just "get by" for a
while longer—and really do some long-
range planning for ELNA's future (if
there is to be one). Please submit ideas for
upcoming issues of this newsletter so that
others may share in the process.
Thomas H. Goodman, Baltimore, MD
[Tom.froma strictly financial point of view, ELNA
is currently in better shape than it has ever been.
And although the Esperanto youth movement in the
USA is very small by the standard of other nations,
I personally know of five young people who have
occasionally worked as volunteers at the CO.
during the past year. But as a national organiza-
tion, ELNA has indeed in the past been a bit short
on "long-range planning"—and 1 think that we
should really be working on that in the near future.
—DH]
The ELNA Newsletter 9
Ann©unc@im&inŭ
At the Technical University of Budapest,
researchers have designed ESPAROL, a
speech synthesis system for Esperanto,
to run on the Commodore C64 or C128.
The system includes a piece of equip-
ment to be connected to the Commodore
machine (presumably through the car-
tridge port, though this is not made clear
in the news release), and a program on a
floppy disk. The system can be accessed
through BASIC or other computer lan-
guages, and made to produce continuous
text spoken at variable speed, whispered
or spoken hoarsely. The entire system is
available for 350 Deutschmarks (about
$200). A similar system for IBM PC's
and compatibles is now being developed,
and will be available for about $300.
Wang Thomas Seraphin, one of the
African participants in the World Con-
gress in Warsaw last year, is looking for
work outside his own country. He has
worked as a hotel receptionist and has
studied economics. He speaks French
and understands a little English, as well
as speaking Esperanto. He is willing to
take on any kind of work. If anyone can
help him in any way, please contact him
(in Esperanto) at: Wang Thomas Sera-
phin, c/o Ndig-Djob Nicolas, B.P. 1916
DOUALA, Cameroun.
11a Internacia Semajno de Esperanto.
La Kultura Centre de Montpellier propo-
nas al vi lerni aŭ perfektigi viae scipovon
pri Esperanto de la 20a ĝis la 28a de
aŭgusto 1988. Profitu, samtempe trapas-
ante agrablajn feriojn en montara ripoza
loko kadre de agrabla familia domo,
proksime de Svislando (30 km. sudori-
ente de Ĝenevo). ĉi tiun jaron la restado
estos aparte interesa car ni kalkulas pri
multe da alilandaj partoprenantoj por
krei vere internacian etoson. Vi trovos
plurajn nivelojn de Esperanto-kursoj kaj,
ankaŭ, piediradon en la montaro, ekskur-
sojn, belajn vesperkunvenojn, kaj bonan
manĝaĵon, Restadkosto kun tri manĝoj:
111 FF tage. Ebleco tendumi proksime.
Aliĝo/Informo: ESPERANTO, 5 rue du
Dr. Roux, 34000 MONTPELLIER,
Francio.
Translators wanted. Esperanlists who
would like to help promote Esperanto by
aiding in the translation of some of Dr.
Richard Mullins' writings into Esperanto
and a third language of choice are invited
to contact Dr. Richard Mullins, 342 W.
Washington St., Macomb, BL 61455
Infanbildoj. En la 5a de junio ni havos
urban feston nomatan "Dontak". Ciujare
en la unua dimanĉo de junio ni havas la
feston, kaj ĉiujare nia Esperanto-Rondo
okazigas ekspozicion en la festejo, tuj
apud la haveno de Jokohamo. En la festo
venas multaj gejunuloj, infanoj kaj ankaii
pli aĝaj geviroj, jen kun amikoj, jen kun
familianoj. Do, la ekspozicion rigardas
tre multaj civitanoj. Ci-jare ni planas
ekspozicii bildojn de infanoj en la
fltondo. Ni estas tre ĝojaj, se ni povos
ricevi multajn bildojn de infanoj el diver-
saj landoj. Do, ni petas vin sendi bildojn
de Infanoj en via lando, kaj ili atingu
antaŭ la fino de majo. Sendu al DOI
ĉieko, Jokohama Esperanto-Rondo, 18-
14 Saido 1-ĉoome, Koonan-ku,
JOKOHAMO, 233 Japanio.
Argentina Esperanto-Lernejo serĉas
subtenon flanke de la tutmonda esperan-
tistaro. Ili bezonas monon kaj legaĵojn.
Se vi povas sendi malnovajn librojn,
revuojn, ktp, aŭ eĉ dolarojn, tio multe
helpus. Monon oni povas direkti al ilia
UEA-konto, kodo hali-r; legaĵojn oni
sendu senpere al Argentina Esperanto-
Lernejo, Casiila de Correo 278, RA-2000
ROSARIO, Argentine.
^&as:
GOLDEN from Page 8
Magazines about hobbies and amuse-
ments form another promising group of
special interest periodicals, not only for
news items and articles but also for regu-
lar features. A travel magazine can report
about arrangements made by national
and international Esperanto organiza-
tions. Readers of philatelic magazines
will certainly be interested in news about
Esperanto stomps, postmarks and other
paraphilatelic material.
Much more exacting is writing for
publications in the academic field, and
only a specialist himself can convince
other learned individuals. In a profes-
sional journal concerned with the meth-
odology of foreign language teaching,
attention can be directed to the value of
Esperanto as an introduction to further
language learning.
In many periodicals intended for
worldwide distribution, there are tables
of contents and also summaries in foreign
languages. The languages most fre-
quently used are English, French, Ger-
man and Russian. An attempt should be
made to introduce Esperanto for this
purpose.
It is possible to present many more
details and suggestions for acquainting
the public with Esperanto more effec-
tively than has been done in the past.
Well-planned programs directed at spe-
cific goals and the presentation of infor-
mative subject matter by authoritative
experts are the foremost requirements for
successful results.
[What do you think of Dr. Golden's gen-
eral plan? What about some of the spe-
cific steps he proposes? Do you think
such a plan is feasible in the United
States? If so, do you think the American
Esperanto movement is in a condition to
undertake this or some similar sort of
plan? Send your opinions, in English or
Esperanto, to: ELNA Newsletter, do
Don Harlow, P.O. Box 551, Pinole CA
94564.]
[In the May-June issue Dr. Golden will
regale us with a short Esperanto article
on "Neglositaj neologismoj"; and the
September-October issue will carry his
answer to the question "Is a Pan-Ameri-
can Esperanto magazine possible?"]
10 The ELNA Newsletter
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Note: Names and addresses arepresented
in boldface; family names andcity names
are capitalized. Commas are used to
show where sepamtion occurs between
lines in an address.
BRAZILO
Anderson Laranja FRAGOSO, Rua
da Jaqueira 45, 29100—VILA
VELHA—E.5. 20-jara universitata
studento, interesiĝas pri lernado de
firemdaj lingvoj, aŭskultado de mallon-
gondaj radiostacioj, muziko, filozofio,
fremdaj kulturoj, k.c.
ĈEĤOSLOVAKIO
Pavel VOLF, Stadrodska 1483,34701
TACHOV. 37-jara invalida geologo-
pensiulo, pri naturo, geografio, vivo de
homoj; ankaŭ volas interŝanĝi bildkar-
tojn, naciajn kandojn en E-o.
GERMANIO (FEDERALA RESPUB-
LIKO)
Bettina RADAU, Windscheidstr. 28,
D-4000 DUSSELDORF 1 (BRD).
24-jara komencantino.
Marion PREISENDANZ, Feldstr. la,
D-4005MEERBUSCH1 (BRD). 22-
jara komencantino.
HUNGARIO
CZINKOTA Mihalyne, BUDAPEST,
Ov u. 176/a, 1147. 53-jara libroten-
istino, apartenas al Esperanto-klubo,
Ŝatas ĝardenumi, rigardi televidon,
legi, triki, stebi kaj vojaĝi.
HEGEDUS Tamas, PAKS, Kurcsatov
19., 7030. 17-jara studento, kun geju-
nuloj pri ĉiuj temoj.
IRANO
Hossejn AZIMLJAN, nu 19 str. Rohol-
lahe, Ghaem mahallhe, GHAEM
SHAHR-MAZANDN. 17-jara
Kevin MOWLAI, 161 Yahcjaabad,
44176 LAHIJAN. 17-jara.
IRELAND
Brendan O'DRISCOLL, 44 Ardara
Ve., The Donahies, 13 DUBLIN. 52-
jara, popolmiiziko, lit.
JAPAN
NAKAZAWA Hirofumi, Kamiisida 3-
3-19, Kofu-si, 400 YAMANASI-ken.
29-jara bankoficisto.
KOREA
Esp-klubo ĉe Hankuk Univ., CPO
Kesto 4258,100 SEOUL. 25 mem-
broj volas kor. pĉL
POLLANDO
Ireneusz KOPEC, ul. Buczka 2a, 68-
200 ZARY. 24-jarulo, interesiĝas pri
radioamatoroj, elektroniko kaj Espe-
ranto.
Elzbieta ZELICHOWSKA, ul. 22
Lipca 12, 28-400 PJNCZOW. 31-
jara inĝenierino, specialisto pri mikro-
biologio. Krom Esperanto scipovas la
germanan, rusan, iom la francan. "Mi
volonte legas librojn, gazetojn, telev-
idas interesajn programojn. Mi ŝatas
danci kaj kanri. Mi interesiĝas pri
historio, sporto kaj turismo. Mi
preferas ekskursi somere kaj pli vo-
lonte ekskursas perpiede. Mi ankatt
volonte pentras."
Marcin SWIATEK, Gdansk-
Wrzeszcz, ul. Zwirki i Wigury IF/
22, 80-463 ZASPA "C". 17-jara
knabo, interesiĝas pri arto, muziko,
literaturo, kaj sporto.
Anna LEWANDOWSKA, ul. Kolor-
owa 8/3, 02435 WARSZAWA 122.
28-jara.
CHECKO Daniel, str. stBatorego 2,
PL-68200 ZAVY. 28-jara fraŭlo;
naturismo, fil., num., pk
Czeslaw FURMANEK, Trzcinica,
38207 PRZYSIEKI,Krosno. 34-jara
instruisto elementa.
Eva TOMCZYK, ul. Janowskiego 40,
25-551 KIELCE. 13-jarapmbk.
LqqqI   Cpptqpt$
Arizona: Wm. Shanks, E-o Soc. of AZ, 1345 W.
Escarpa, Mesa, AZ 85201
California: E-o Assn. of Los Angeles, 3430
Peck Drive, Beverly HiEs, CA 90212
California: San Diego E-o Club, 3470 Juniper
St., San Diego, CA 92104, (619) 284-8081
California: Inland Empire E-o Group, 3920
Market, Suite 141, Riverside, CA 92501,
(714) 689-5576 or (619) 949-1958
California: Orange Co. E-o Assn., Box 1538,
Garden Grove, CA 92642
California: Santa Barbara E-o Soc, 4710 Dexter
Dr. #9, Santa Barbara, CA 93110
California: SFERO, 410 Darrell Rd., Hillsbor-
ough, CA 94010. (415) 342-1796
California: Berkeley E-o League, Box 324,
Berkeley, CA 94701-0324, (415) 222-0187
California: E-o Group, 440 Bret Harte Rd.,
Sacramento, CA 95864
Colorado: E-o Assn., 4825 W. Moonhead Cir.,
Boulder, CO 80303
Colorado: Denver E-o Group, 995 Humbolt
#205, Denver, CO 80218
District of Columbia: Washington E-o Soc,
4406 - 35th St. NW, Washington, DC 20008
Florida: Florida E-o Soc, 3988 Sabal Drive,
Ovieda, FL 32765
Idaho: David Baron, Box 37, Eagle, ID 83616
Illinois: Chicago E-o Soc, Box 64774, Chicago,
H. 60664-0774
Maryland: T. Goodman, 3218 Shelburne Rd.,
Baltimore, MD 21208
Michigan: E-o Soc. of Michigan, PO Box 3011,
Scaithfield, MI 48037
Michigan: Soc. of E-o Language Friends, 432
N. Saginaw St, Ste#202-338 Northbank Ctr.,
Flint, MI 48502-2016, (313) 766-1238
Missouri: St. Louis E-o Group, 8894 Berkay
Ave, Jennings, MO 63136
Montana: Montana E-o Soc, 330 Lindley PL,
Bozeman, MT 59715
New York: NYC E-o Soc, 80-50 Baxter Ave.
#3D, Elmhurst, NY 11373
New York: UN Office of UEA, 777 United
Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017
North Carolina: E-o Soc of the Guolinas &
Virginia, P.O. Box 58063, Raleigh, NC 27658
Ohio: E-o Assn. of Ohio, 1144 Kingsdale Terr.,
Columbus, OH 43220
Oregon: Portland E-o Soc, 11905 SW Settler
Way, Beaverton, OR 97005
Pennsylvania: 26 E. Roumfort Rd., Philadel-
phia, PA 19119
Utah: E-o Club, Box 2166, Salt Lake City, UT
84110
Washington: Seattle E-o Soc, 6002 NE 61st Sl,
Seattle, WA 98115
Regional (Rocky Mountain States): Intermoun-
tain E-o Group (AZ,C»JDMTNM,UT,WY),
4825 W. Moorhead Circle, Boulder, CO
80303
Regional (New England): E-o Soc. of New
England, Box 44, Fayville, MA 01745
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Esperanto League for North America, Inc.
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CELEBRATE THE BEGINNING OF
THE SECOND CENTURY OF
ESPERANTO
CELEBRATE THE
80TH ANNIVERSARY OF UEA
ROTERDAMO (NEDERLANDO)
JULY 23-30
By Feb. 20,1344 participants from 54
countries had already signed up for the
73rd Universala Kongreso de Espe-
ranto. Of this number only 39 are from
the US. The total estimated number is
2500. It will be an auspicious convention
without being so big that we feel lost.
Something big and exciting! On a
suggestion from an Esperantist from
Madagascar, the Local Congress
Committee has agreed to organize a
"county fair" type bazaar at the UK; all of
the profits will be used for financial assis-
tance to participants from third-world
countries. At the bazaar, vendors will
offer their countries' arts and crafts,
publications, stamps for collectors, ori-
gami kits, needlework, embroideries, etc.
Musicians and actors will add to the
atmosphere.
If you are interested in participating in
this U.K., time is short. You should call
Esperanto Vojaĝ-Servo right away. We
will provide information on costs and
make airline reservations for you. We
have also organized a post U.K. excur-
sion and cruise through four countries to
Switzerland—an elegant way through
the heart of Europe.
27 Jun-15 Jul: The best Esperanto
classes in the World! San Francisco
State University!
15-20 Jul: ELNA Annual Convention-
San Diego—Post Convention tour
from San Diego to Disneyland, the
Grand Canyon, Yosemite, and San
Francisco (if we get enough response).
15-22 Jul: 44th Annual Inter. Youth
Conference—Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
23-30 Jul: 73rd UNIVERSALA KON-
GRESO DE ESPERANTO.
30 Jul-7 Aug: Post U.K. Cruise and Tour
visiting local Esperantists in Holland,
France, Germany, and Switzerland.
11-20 Sep: All-Pacific Esperanto Con-
ference and Australian Congress in
Brisbane during EXPO. This congress
is included in a tour of New Zealand
and Australia—9 Sep-2 Oct.
WRITE OR CALL FOR INFORMATION
Esperanto Vojaĝ-Servo
578 Grand Ave.
Oakland, CA 94610
(415) 836-1710
ELNA
President: Ken Thomson (1990)
Vice President: Dr. Duncan Chancre (1990)
Secretary: Virginia Stewart (1989)
Treasurer: John B. Massey (1988)
Other Board Members: Alberta Casey (1988), Ellen
Eddy (1988), William Schulze (1988), Dr. RonaldGlossop
(1989), Frank Helmuth (1989), Charles Power (1989),
Prof.   James  Fonseca   (1990),   William   R.   Harmon
(1990),David Wolff (1990)
Commissioners: William R. Harmon (CO), D. Holland-
Kaupp (Correspondence Courses), J. Gildemeister (Legis-
lative Affairs), R. Kent Jones (Science & Technology), H.
K. Ver Ploeg (Tape Service), Lucy Harmon (Travel Af-
faire), J. B, Massey (Wills and Gifting), Elbe Stein
(Women's Affairs), Dr. James Cool (Youth Affairs), Dr.
Julius Manson (United Nations)
Director, ELNA CO: Mark Stephens
ELNA Archivist: HalDreyer
Any member wishing la assist in the work of any of the
above named commissions or committees should commu-
nicate with the member shown.
ELNA Dues: regular, $25; family, $37.50; youth (under
26), $18; patron of USEJ, $9 + usual membership fee;
senior (65+), $15; sustaining, $50; life, $500. Dues are for
the calendar year and are tax-deductible.
UEA dues 1988	
Member-Yearbook Only (MJ)	$14.00
Member-Subscriber (MA)	$35.00
Societo Zamenhof (additional)	$70.00
Subscription only to Esperanto	$21.00
Subscription only to Kontakto	$10.50
life Membership in UEA	$875.00
Send payments for UEA memberships or subscriptions
to ELNA/UEA, Box 1129, El Cerrito, CA 94530. Make
all checks payable to ELNA.
ELNA Newsletter
Volume 24, No. 1
ISSN 0030-5065
Esperanto League for North America,
Inc.
P.O. Box 1129, El Cerrito, CA 94530
Telephone: (415) 653-0998
Editor: Don Harlow
Typesetting & Graphic Design:
Gregory V. Wasson
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use.
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