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November 8, 2005 Dear Alumni and Friends, I am pleased to announce that the last twelve months have been most interesting and successful for Germanic Languages and Literatures at UMass Amherst – newly re-named German and Scandinavian Studies – in terms of administrative gains and faculty, staff, and graduate student activities. Highlights of this year's scholarly and outreach projects include a very successful colloquium on “(Re)Visions: New Ideas in German and European Studies” run by our graduate students, an NEH Summer Institute on German and European Studies in the US, a three-week retrospective of East German cinema at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, as well as new publications and invited talks by graduate students and faculty members. Administrative gains include new hires, a conversion to tenure track, a re-designed undergraduate curriculum and name change and, to cap it all off, an agreement with Karl-Ruprechts-Universität in Heidelberg to locate its Heidelberg Center for North America on our campus. (See the attached Newsletter for more details.) We very much appreciate the donations that many of you have made during this past year. I can assure you that they have gone a long way in maintaining the intellectual activities of the faculty and students. In particular, your donations covered expenses for ten trips by graduate students who presented papers at a wide range of conferences and the possibility to host visiting authors and lecturers here on campus. When you hear from a student caller from UMass Amherst's Annual Fund, we hope you will make a gift to German and Scandinavian Studies or if you would like to mail a contribution to the Gift Fund or to the Ellert-Brauner Scholarship Fund, you may do so by indicating the Fund name and “German and Scandinavian Studies” on the notation space of your check; checks must be made out to the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Please send contributions to the Development Office, Memorial Hall, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003. We are very grateful for your continued support. If you would like to make a gift online, we invite you to visit www.umass.edu/development and select “Make a Gift Now.” Please stay in touch. We would be very happy to hear from you and invite you to send news of yourself for our website. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, James E. Cathey |
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