Greetings

[Jonathan Amith]

Dear Paul (if I may),

Thank you so much for your interest and for your email. Your commitment
is fantastic, maybe there is even the possibility of doing some
community work if you are interested.

Anyway, I would like to speak by phone sometime. Perhaps next week you
could call (after the 15th) and we could chat. If I´m not home, please
leave a message. 717-338-1255

Best,
Jonathan


Quoting butlerpe at PURDUE.EDU:

> Professor Amith,
>   My name is Paul Butler and I have applied to the Nahuatl summer
> course that
> you are teaching in San Agustin Oapan.  I heard about this course
> from your
> email that you sent to the Nahuatl mailing list.  I graduated from
> Purdue
> University, West Lafayette in December of 2003 with a major in
> Anthropology
> and a minor in Spanish.  I have already been in contact with Beatriz
> Riefkohl
> at Yale and she told me about the rustic conditions in San Agustin.
> I told
> her that it would not be a problem for me as my family lives in a
> small
> village as well, Salinas Victoria, which is about two hours away
> from
> Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.  I have studied in Mexico before, in the D.F.
> and I
> have travelled extensively in Mexico and Guatemala.  I am interested
> in taking
> this course because I plan to go to law school and, later, become a
> human
> rights activist.  I have always felt a deep respect for the
> indigenous peoples
> of the Americas, especially in Mexico because I feel they are the
> most
> important part of who Mexicans are today culturally and socially.
> This is
> just a little bit about me, but I hope to be accepted to the program
> in order
> to meet my goals of being able to help the indigenous peoples of
> Mexico who
> are so often overlooked by both the government and the public.  I was
> asked to
> send you an email so you would be familiar with me when Yale Summer
> Programs
> contacts you to ask if you have heard of me.  I hope to meet you this
> summer,
> and thank you for teaching a course that I consider to be extrememly
> valuable.
>                                                         Thank you,
>                                                         Paul Butler
> Diaz
>


Jonathan D. Amith
Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology
Gettysburg College
300 N. Washington St.
Campus Box 412
Gettysburg, PA  17325
Tel. 717/338-1255