Welcome to the Classical Association of Florida
From the CAF President
Salvete Omnes!
N.B. If you
had already sent out your FFLA registration from the form that was online,
then you had the correct address. The form I sent out on Tuesday had
the incorrect address. The one attached to this letter is correct
Welcome back to the new school year. I saw some of you during the summer
at ACL Institute and at the National Forum where we had a meeting brief
meeting on the CAF constitution – but more on that later. Once
again Florida students performed wonderfully, and there were some outstanding
performances by Florida teachers at the first ever World Series of Certamen
as well. My hat is off to all of you for the long hours of work that
I know these fine showing have behind them. The state Forum Planning
meeting went well this past weekend. I think that the State Forum will
be even better this year at the Wyndham Jacksonville Riverwalk.
First among the forms along with this letter you will find a registration
form for the Florida Foreign Language Association’s conference
in October at the Rosen Centre in Orlando. Many of you may have already
found the registration for the conference and the hotel on the FFLA
(http://www.ffla.us/conference/index.htm)
website. I am enclosing a corrected copy along with this letter. Not
only will we have some fine presentations by our Florida colleagues,
but we also will have Bob Patrick coming to join us from Atlanta speaking
on the use of oral Latin as a major means of instruction in the Latin
classroom. I really enjoyed his talk at ACL this summer and I know you
too will find what he has to say both fun and worthwhile.
This year’s Classical Association of Florida activities should
also prove interesting and important. I am looking forward to Karen
Rieffel’s talk on mosaics at the CAF Luncheon on Friday. Saturday’s
CAF meeting will have important constitutional issues presented which
we will be voting on there and at the CAF meeting in April. I will send
out a separate mailing shortly with the current CAF constitution and
some proposals for discussion.
You will also find a number of important forms attached with this mailing:
Classical Association of Florida Membership Form
Florida Junior Classical League Membership Form
American Classical League Membership Form
CAMWS Membership Form
Tallahassee Certamen Workshop Information and Registration
Tampa Area Certamen Workshop Information and Registration
Florida Junior Classical League Scholarship Application
You will find the appropriate deadlines and listed within each form.
As I mentioned above our State Forum will be in April. I that the various
regions can let us know the place and date for each Regional Forum by
FFLA. I know I have started inquiring around my own region!
If any of you have any questions about things in this packet or if I
can be of help to you, please do not hesitate to drop me a line via
email. And in the meantime I will hope to see you all in Orlando at
FFLA and the CAF meeting there.
All the best,
Geoff Revard
Classical Association of Florida & Florida Junior
Classical League Dates
| State
Latin Forum |
April
12rd-14th 2007 |
Wyndham
Jacksonville Riverwalk
|
Forms
Reviews
for the Tallahassee Certamen Workshop
