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~[El~A NEWSLETTER News of the Language Problem and Esperanto os 0 Solution Sep-Dec 1987 Esperantists Gather in Warsaw IMaking News This Month Travel Opportunities Abound World Convention '87 The Esperanto Travel Service has a busy year ahcad of it. Esperanto is alive and welt, and ELNA's Commissioner in charge of Travel Affairs, Lucille Har- mon, is ready to serve you. PIan aU your Esperanto travel for 1988 by examining the many events described within. See back page for the latest Brozovsky-Back in the U.S.of A. Joel Brozovsky, after spending several years in Europe, is back and energetically plugging Esperanto in the Vnited States. Read his own descriptions of his many travels and experiences abroad and here athome. See page 9for full details Annual Reportsfrom ELNA Perhaps some of you think annual Good News for the U.S. Esperanto Community reports are hest suited for bedtime. But take a look at this year' s reports from the Esperanto Book Nears Completion! annual ELNA Convention and think again. They give you the best window possible on ELNA during the last year. David Wolff (MA), futme prospects. Numerous photo- coordinator of the Es- graphs, obtained by Richardson from See page 15 andfollowing peranto Book Project, various sources, including UEA's ar- announced on Febru- chives, illustrate this scction. rarY 29th,n1988, that the book is almost ln ThisIssue The remainder of the book consists of ready to be sent to the printer. ten lessons for Ieaming Esperanto, an Ivo Lapenna Dies 18 David Richardson (WA), the author of extensive reader of Esperanto texts, a the book, and Wolff are presently reading bibliography, a lcngthy Esperanto-Eng- Pitch for Controversial Book 19 through the final proofs of the V.SA 's lish vocabulary, and index. major contribution to the Jubilee. Wolff When received from the printer, the expccts the finished volume to he printed book will immediateIy he sent to every- Summer Coursesat SFSU 20 and ready for distribution within 2-3 one that has pre-paid for it. months. The expected relail price should he The book is aImost 400 pages longo It about $14.95, an incredibIe dcal on a And Much, Much More to contains four introductory chapters de- well-rounded book that should prove an Delight and Inform You! scribing Esperanto's past, present, and important tool for many years to come. The ElNA Newsletter 1 We Apologize! In ELNA's history it has happened So it happens that you are receiving a Office and shipped. Add three weeks that before, and it may happen again, that the September-December number in the the Postal Service often takes to deliver Newsletter has been delayed for an un- spring of the next year rather than a bulk mail, and you see the reason for the conscionable length of time. Reasons September-October issue in November. delay. have been various. Some such delays are ELNA does not intend that any mem- Nevertheless, in future we hope that unavoidable and can be anticipated, as ber of the organization should feel short- you will never have more than a two when the July-August number doesn't changed As you can see, this issue not month wait between receipt of Newslet- appear until October because the editor only covers a double length of time, but is . ters-except, of course, for the (and everybody else who has anything to also double-sized: 24 pages instead of the July-August issue, which is always do with publication) is involved with usual twelve. So the Newsletter for 1987 likely to be delayed because of the num- Esperanto courses, the national ELNA will total 72 pages, as usual. ber of summer events that lake time away convention, and the World Esperanto What of 1988? The January-February from editing and preparing materialo Congress and associated side trips and issue should only be about one month We expect to enforce our drop-dead tours until the end of AugUSLOther de- late; you 'Il get it in April, if aUgoes welI. dates on everybody concemed. Starting laysarealsounavoidable, although unex- A March-April issue will be available in with the May-June issue there will 00 a pected, as when the overworkedCentral May, a May-June issue in July or August, deadline for submission of material: the Office must put the priority of mailing a July-August issue in October, a 25th of the lastmonth before theNewslet- out theNewsletter behind that of answer- September-October issue in November, ter period (Le., 25th of Aprilfor the May- ing some hundreds of infonnation re- and a November-DecemOOr issue in June issue); the editor will have his own quests and filling a hundred book orders, January of the folIowing year. With any deadIine, as will the Central Office. triggered by some article about Espe- luck, you'lI get a pleasant surprise in WilI there be other changes, besides ranto in a national magazine. those latter two issues: four extra pages greater timeliness? Probably-but not The latest delay falis into this latter per issue to finish off the year, making now. The new editor, whoever they may category. The transfer of editorial re- 1988 an 80-page year. 00, willlikely have different tastes and sponsibility from Cathy Schulze, appar- You may ask: why should every issue priorities fram those of Cathy Schulze; ently prearranged and intended to be be delayed until after the date on the but everybody recognizes that the for- quick and smooth, broke down because masthead, or sometimes even later? mula she has followed in editing the of unexpected occupational commit- WelI, there are severa! contributing fac- Newsletter has been relatively success- ments at the other end. New arrange- torsoTo keep infonnation as up to date as ful, and so you are not going to suddenly ments had to be made, and this was not possible, it is difficult to fmish editing an find a totaUy alien Newsletter lying in easy because of the fact that most poten- issue OOfore the latter part of the first front of you. tial editors also have little or no time month. Our current plans are to provide UEA has extended the Jubilee Year to available. Eventually our pro tem editor the typesetter with programs aIready theendofJuly, 1988. Wehopethatbythe Charles R. L. Power, who is responsible ftled on Macintosh-fonnat diskettes so time the Jubilee Year ends the ELNA for colIecting almost ali the material you that he can save a fair amount of time in Newsletter will once again be a timely, fmd in this issue, relinquished responsi- setting up theNewsletter; nevertheless, it suitable representative of the Esperanto bility for preparing this issue to the Cen- will probably 00 the middle of the second language and the Esperanto movement. tra! Office and the Califomia Bay Area month in the pair before the Newsletter is Keep your eyes on this space for develop- Esperanto community. typeset, printed, colIated at the Central ments. 2 The ELNA Newsletter Mongolia (1987/3), an English-lan- II appeared in the Indianapolis (Indiana) I A series of articles about the annual re- guage publication from Mongolia, tells 1 Star (August 7, 1987), is largely based on gional conference of the Esperanto- about the history of Esperanto in that a telephone interview with ELNA mem- Grupo Intermontara in the Bozeman country and describes current activities ber and UEA President Humphrey (Montana) Daily Chronicle (September of Mongolian Esperantists. Tonkin. 10-September 15, 1987) culminated with a full-page article "Esperanto language The Cinderella Philatelist (July, 1987) In the San Juan (puerto Rico) El Re- of hope" by Staff Writer Terry Sacks, contains an article by Bob Dubois about portero (August 19, 1987), Pedro Zer- which was based around discussions "Esperanto: Early Universal Congress vigon discusses the Esperanto phenome- with ELNA members Joel Brozovsky Labels." Bob is currently looking for la- non at length in "La larga espera del espe- and Sidney and Ruth Culbert of Wash- belsfrom the 1915 Congress in San Fran- ranto." ington and Clark Pyfer of Montana. cisco. GeroldLingnau' s "Esperanto still setting The San Francisco (Califomia) Exam- Martin YantoftheColumbus(Ohio) Dis- tongues wagging 100 years after Unua iner (September 25) carries a long inter- patch (July 22, 1987) has a comprehen- Libro," a translation from the Frank- view by writer Jeff Sklansky with ELNA sive article about the status of Esperanto furter Allgemeine that appeared in the C.O. director Mark Stephens, Lucille on its hundredth anniversary in his col- German Tribune (August 23, 1987), is Harmon, and Don Harlow. umn "Behind the News." an excellent condensed report on the history, structuee, and current status of The Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) An article about Esperanto by Evelyn Esperanto. Orchestra Stagebill concert program Barber in the Sun City (Ariwna) News- I (October, 1987) mentions composer Lou I Sun (July 24, 1987) led to a response by I Singapore resident Peter Wells' Time Harrison's interest in Esperanto in a de- ELNA member Cleo Fort of Sun City Magazine (August 24, 1987) description scription of his Symphony No. 3. which was published in theJ uly 31 issue. of Esperanto as having "no cultural his- tory, no indigenous literature, and no Vegetarian Times (October 1987) in its Norman Melnick of the staff of the San monolinguals or even first-language Potpourri page carries an announcement Francisco (California) Examiner (July speakers," even though incorrect, was by James Parkerson of Bakersfield (Cali- 26,1987) describes his visit to Bialystok, not without its attractions to Singanallur fornia) telling about the Worldwide the birthplace ofL. L. Zamenhof, who is N.

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