~[El~ANEWSLETTER News of the Language Problem and Esperanto As 0 Solution Sep-Oct 1988
~[El~ANEWSLETTER News of the Language Problem and Esperanto as 0 Solution Sep-Oct 1988 G'Day, Mates! IMaklng News This Issue Fromthe Central Office 4th Pacific Conference Mark Stephens, Director of ELNA's Central Office, provides alI the answers A long ride from Brisbane Airport through the city, past EXPO 88, brought Peg to the questions most commonly asked of Barkley and me to the College of Advanced Education in the hills of the suburb Mount the CO' s staff. If your own question isn 't Gravatt. answered here, let us know! We'd he We were welcomed at the Round House, a modemistic, architecturally prize- happy to respondo Just knock and it will winning conference center. Mter registering and checking into our comfortable he answered. Read the latest about the private rooms, we were reading to greet old and new friends-the social "get- ELNA Book Catalog, tapes, ete. acquainted" evening got an early start. See Page 6 Next day the fonnal opening was held in the great hall of the College theatre complex. Trevor Steele was the M.C. On stage were Ambassador Ralph Harry, lonel Onet, Romania & the U.S. president of the Australian Esperanto Association, Yoshimi Umeda (Japan), vice- Ionel Onet continues his series on his president of the Universal Esperanto Association, and senator Michael Macklin, experiences as an Esperantist immigrant Deputy Leader, Australian Democrats. Esperanto songs were heautifully sung by to the United States. This special section some 35 6th-graders from a local school which teaches Esperanto. is the first of many bi-lingual (Esperanto, Representatives of various Australian Esperanto districts greeted the convention, English) articles plannedfor theNewslet- as did representatives from various national organizations: New Zealand, China, tero Inner Mongolia, Japan, United States (ELNA by Cathy Schulze), Canada, New See Page 7-8 Guinea, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, West Germany, Great Britain.
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