Dear Members and Friends,
Talk about full participation from the people who have joined the Literacy Council Board! Our newest Board members have been pitching in and taking on responsibilities that keep this organization moving forward.
Rachel Sanborn, who attended our March workshop, has taken over the position of
Hours Coordinator. Rachel is also tutoring a student whose first language is Chinese and helped to
translate a flyer into Chinese for group tutoring.
Rochelle Fortier passes the baton as
Newsletter Editor to
Victor Tiglao, who was also in the March workshop.Thank you, Rochelle, for your many years of marvelous newsletter editing. Victor brings a level of technical know-how that we require and the newsletter you are now reading is his first edition for DVLC.
As mentioned in the Spring Newsletter,
Jim Keenan has taken the
Database Manager position. We will eventually migrate our Volunteer and Student data from Access database to Excel spreadsheets once we are confident that we can do all the required reporting from Excel.
Ela Newacheck has stepped forward to be our
Volunteer Coordinator in addition to being the Hospitality Coordinator. She will most likely be requesting data from our new Database Manager to know what are the skills and interests of our volunteers in order to capitalize on those talents going forward.
Wendy Bojin-Liston, besides being Holly Sprague's backup for assigning students to tutors is taking over some of the
Workshop Registrar outreach responsibilities that Marion Keibel managed for our last workshop (with its overwhelming response from people interested in teaching ESL!) Marion will continue to bring her insightful ideas to our Board meetings as one of our Board Members at Large.
Denise Coyne and I will be traveling to Minnesota in September to attend the biennial ProLiteracy Conference. I have been reading descriptions of the 88 workshops being offered and I can't wait to learn what they have to teach relating to ESL and relating to operating a volunteer organization. I always return from conferences refreshed and re-energized for the work at hand.
Coming up on August 12 is our annual Summer Get-Together for our tutors. Our speakers this year will be two of our own tutors: Victor Tiglao and Sue Gannon. Victor will speak from the perspective of having learned English as a Second Language and now teaching ESL. Sue Gannon has experience with assisting job seekers. She would like
to determine interest in a group session for tutors who are helping their ESL students with the aspects of job search. See the invitation included in this newsletter.
Have a happy and safe summer!
Lucy Goodell
