Call for nominations: NCOLCTL A. Ronald Walton Award - DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS 15 JANUARY 2003

[McGinnis, Scott]

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
THE A. RONALD WALTON AWARD

Since 2000, the National Council of Organizations of Less Commonly
Taught Languages (NCOLCTL) has annually given The A. Ronald Walton
Award, in honor of the late co-founder of NCOLCTL and founding Deputy
Director of the National Foreign Language Center, Dr. Ron Walton. The
Award is given in recognition of a career of distinguished service on
behalf of the Less Commonly Taught Languages. The first three awards
have been given to James E. Alatis (2000), Teresita Ramos (2001) and
Richard D. Brecht (2002).

Beginning in 2003, the selection will be based upon an annually rotating
pool of eligible Council member organizations. The organizations within
each annual grouping will be asked to select a nominee or nominees from
among their membership, and to send that nomination to NCOLCTL along
with a brief (no more than two pages) description of the nominee's
contributions to LCTLs in general and his or her organization in
particular.

For the year 2003, the following Council member organizations are
eligible to submit nominations.

   American Association of Teachers of Turkic Language (AATT)
   Cantonese Language Association (CLA)
   Chinese Language Association of Secondary-Elementary Schools(CLASS) 	
   Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA)
   International Association of Teachers of Czech (IATC, formerly NAATC)
   National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs (NASILP)

Nominations should be submitted no later than 15 January, 2003, to

	Scott McGinnis
 	National Foreign Language Center
 	7100 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 300
 	College Park, MD 20740
	Fax		301-403-1754
	E-mail	smcginnis at nflc.org

The recipient will be announced at the Sixth National Conference on May
2-4, 2003 at the University of California, Los Angeles.