I wish you a Happy New
Year. I'm pleased to report that the
past year was another very good year at WICE.
We did well with our regular program offerings and we had a good summer
Writer’s Course the American University of Paris. Our Open House at the American Church in
September got us off to a good start for the current year. It was very well
attended by both WICE members and guests.
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| Ed Canady President - WICE |
Since we moved to our new
home near La Motte-Piquet metro with its separate classroom, we have begun to move
our classes there. This allows us to substantially
reduce external room rental costs and pass the resulting savings onto our
members by continuing to offer a selection of free courses and events and by
keeping enrollment fees lower for other courses.
We are putting the
final touches on our spring program which includes several new courses. Those
courses will be available on the website very soon we hope you will sign up for
them. We are planning a special event for you in early February and we will
send you an invitation. We hope you will
come and bring your friends. We are also working on a Money Matters Seminar for
February 2014 and a Paris Writers Workshop for June 2014 both of which would
take place at the American University of Paris. We will announce the details
for those two special programs as soon as we are able to finalize the plans for
them.
In closing, I would
like to thank the volunteers who make WICE go.
Do you want to know who they are?
We have over 60 volunteers working at WICE. All of our members of the Board of Directors
and our Program Directors are volunteers as well as those doing many other
jobs. They are truly a multicultural
team coming from France as well as the traditional English speaking countries
of the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and other
non-English speaking countries (for example Thailand, India and the Philippines
to mention a few).
Edwin N. Canady,
President