English Language
Institute
2005 Newsletter
From the director's desk .
  ELI wins record grant to expand teacher training in 2006  
  Faculty search fills full-time positions  
  Katharine Schneider retires  
  CAP students admitted to the University of Delaware  
  Third group of Algerian educators train at ELI, prepare for international conference  
  MA TESL graduates find job success  
  Conditional admissions for qualified PreMBA students  
  ALLEI continues to train lawyers and law students  
  Special Programs  
  Conference held for Chilean schoolteachers  
  Boy Scout project serves Chilean schoolchildren  
  Christina School District English Language Learners  
  Classroom notes  
  In memoriam: Ruth Jackson  
  Administrator Profile: Deb Detzel  
  Tutoring Center news  
  Evening classes offered to the community  
  ELI prepared for new internet-based TOEFL  
  ELI alum continues UD collaboration  
  Campus links  
  This old house  
  Evening of art  
  Personnel notes  
  Professional activities of faculty and staff  
  Homestay/host family programs: Bigger than ever  
  Cecily Sawyer-Harmon, homestay mom, instinctively  
  A sampler of 2005 graduates  
  Alumni news  
  Former ELI student thanks Newark community  
  Greetings to our alumni  

Greetings to our alumni

Barbara Gillette: gillette@udel.edu
I hope 2005 was a good year for you. Best wishes for 2006!

Barbara Morris: bmorris@udel.edu
After a summer safari in Tanzania with my daughter, Lia, who finished a research internship on Lake Tanganyika after graduating from Wesleyan University, I wish you all “hakuna matata” (no worries) for 2006!

Deb Detzel: debdetzl@udel.edu
Holiday greetings to all and best wishes for health, peace and happiness in the year to come.

Grant Wolf, Debbie Darrell and Gregory Wolf: gwolf19@yahoo.com
Our warmest greetings and best wishes for the New Year, from Kobe, Japan, to all our friends everywhere.

Janet Louise: jlouise@udel.edu
Happy Holidays to all of you! This year has been filled with a lot of travel—a wedding in Japan, the TESOL convention in Texas, a cruise to Alaska and a vacation on Prince Edward Island in Canada. Maeghan volunteered for hurricane relief in Mississippi. Praying for peace in the world.

Joe Matterer: jwm@udel.edu
Best wishes for the New Year to my friends around the world.

June Quigley: junerq@netzero.com
Present and past students: It has been a very busy year. I want to wish all of you peace, contentment and success for the next year. My e-mail address has changed. Please keep in touch.

Kathy Hankins: chewie1097@juno.com
I hope 2006 brings many blessings to all of our students scattered around the world and blessings to your loved ones! Don’t forget to speak English!

Kathy Vodvarka: chessie@udel.edu
My best wishes to all for a Happy New Year!

Ken Cranker: kjcranker@yahoo.com
2005 was a very busy yet wonderful year. I’m wishing you all some rest over the holidays and an equally fulfilling 2006. I hope you had a Merry Christmas!

Ken Hyde: kenny@udel.edu
No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style—Old Jhereg proverb. A mind is a terrible toy to waste—Ken.

Laurie Fuhrmann: lfuhrman@udel.edu
Here’s wishing you the very best this holiday season. May 2006 bring you peace and joy, fill your days with laughter, and allow love to guide your way.

Lee Horzempa:
Holiday greetings to all our former students! I hope that you are doing well and remember to keep speaking English. I hope the new year will bring peace in our lives and the world.

Leslie Criston: greece@udel.edu
Wishing you a year full of peace and hope and great health. My best always!

Lisa Grimsley: grimsley@udel.edu
I send greetings to all of you and wish you peace and joy in the New Year!

Lowell Riethmuller: lowell@udel.edu
“Reason’s greetings” to everyone. Please send us letters to the Alumni section of the ELI website. Have a good year.

Mary Long: mblong@udel.edu
May your holidays be happy and healthy wherever life finds you now.

Mary Beth Worrilow: worrilow@udel.edu
Wishing everyone much peace and love. Count your blessings and live life to the fullest! We miss you, Dolly!

Nancy Purcell: rtp3@aol.com
It’s good to hear from so many of you; thanks for keeping in touch! I hope you had a Merry Christmas. Happy New Year and all the best to you and yours.

Olive Yazid:
To all—health and happiness in 2006.

Russ Mason: rmason@udel.edu
Thanks for your friendship throughout this year. When I remember you, my heart feels “as bright as the sky and as deep as the sea!”

Ruth Bailis: rabo@comcast.net
Health and happiness to you and your loved ones. Keep using your English!

Sarah Petersen: gerald.petersen@verizon.net
True happiness is not the acquiring of things, things, things, but the freedom from wanting them. I wish you all true happiness.

Susan Coakley: scoakley@udel.edu
Happy holidays, everyone. Special greetings to my colleagues in Chile, and best wishes in 2006!

Walt Babich: wcbabich@udel.edu
Rosaline and I wish you a happy and prosperous 2006. Please keep in touch.

Wendy Bulkowski: delwindo@yahoo.com
Happy 2006 to everyone! In the spring of 2005, I returned to Newark from Japan and started teaching again at ELI. Living in another country is challenging and wonderful, as you all know, but it’s good to be home, too.