2008-09 Officers
Barb Ambos, President
Mimi Filer, Secretary
Edgar Shaudys, Treasurer
Mary O'Kane, Membership Chair
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2008-09 Programs
Aug. 14, 2008 - Picnic at Schiller Park and performance of Cyrano de Bergerac.
Sept., 2008 - High Tea at the home of Edgar and Elizabeth Shaudys
Nov. 9, 2008 - Lunch and Tour at Columbus Museum of Art.
Dec. 11, 2008 - Holiday Pot Luck
Feb. 8, 2009 - A British Auteur in America: Hitchcock's Vision of DuMaurier's Cornwall
March 12, 2009 - The Americanization of England by Peter Harris, 2009 Evelyn Wrench speaker
April, 2009 - Cincinnati Shakespeare Company presents The Comedy of Errors.
May 21, 2009 - Dr. Ann Hall will speak on Harold Pinter.
June 20, 2009 - Queen's Birthday celebration
July 19, 2009 - Annual meeting at Scioto Country Club
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| Amy Drake speaks on Hitchcock and du Maurier |
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Founded in 1923
The Columbus Branch of The English-Speaking Union is one of the oldest branches in the U.S. Established in 1923, the Columbus Branch has a long history of uniting people interested in understanding and reaching out to people of all nationalities and cultural heritages through the medium of the English language.
Today, to help create this understanding, the Columbus Branch participates in the English-in-Action Program. Volunteer tutors are matched with newcomers to the U.S. for one-to-one conversations, building their skill in understanding and speaking English and providing the basis for a cross-cultural exchange. Our branch also participates in the Books as Envoys Program, which was established by The English-Speaking Union of the United States. Each year, The ESU of the United States selects works of literature that best interpret life and culture in the United States. The Columbus Branch sends a set of these books to the ESU Branch in Budapest, Hungary.
Another program in which the Columbus Branch participates is the Walter Hines Page Scholarship Program.
The Columbus Branch also holds monthly dinner meetings, which feature interesting speakers, and provides other social events such as its annual English Tea.
| Middle School Debate project - our newest undertaking
In addition to the above programs, the Columbus Branch, along with branches in Kentucky and North Carolina, is participating in a pilot project cosponsored by the ESU national organization and ALOUD, Associated Leaders of Urban Debate. The debate competitions promote youth expression as a vehicle for urban education reform and civic participation. |
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