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Dear MELTA members, colleagues and friends!
This year MELTA is marking its 10th anniversary and I’d like to express our gratitude to all 909 MELTA members and 495 participants of MELTA FB page for physically or virtually being together. I’d like to say “thank you” to all who have supported and inspired us since the 28th of May 2004:
Artyom Simonovich Soloveichik, head of the 1st September Fund and Pedagogical University,
The staff of the Editorial House «Pervoye Sentyabrya» and of the “English” magazine,
Our first President prof Victoria Vladimirovna Oshchepkova,
Vice presidents Alyona Gromushkina and prof Galina Nikolaevna Gumovskaya, who is our new President now,
Advisory Board: prof Terminasova Svetlana Grigorievna, prof Verbitskaya Maria Valerievna, prof Afanasieva Olga Vasilievna, prof Makhmuryan Karine Stepanovna, prof Solovova Elena Nikolaevna, prof Liudmila Aleksandrovna Gorodetskaya, prof Natalia Konstantinovna Bochorishvili for the support of our start
MELTA Coordination Council (heads of SIGs),
Moscow Teachers’ House and Moscow State Children’s library for hosting our Forums, Sessions and Festivals
Institute for the Humanities and Informational Technologies and its Rector prof Marina Volynkina who hosted our first 2 International Conferences,
English Language Office of the American Embasy: ELOfficers and Fellows, Elena Lubnina, Natalia Fomenko, American Centre, British Council and all ELPublishing houses in Moscow for sponsoring and awarding the Festival winners,
Our families: husbands, children – my son Iliya Boltnev for making our site in 2009 and sponsoring it ever since, parents — Alyona’s mother Liudmila Krestovskay, Directorate member of the Central House of Artists, who hosted our Session to set up in 2004,
Our talented students who have always been helping to organize and later to present at sessions, Forums and Festivals, all our fans.
In the end let me greet you with the words of our motto, the author of which is Yurovskaya Tatiana Arkadievna, Head teacher of “Marina” school:
Create and share!
Cooperate and care!
Communicate and dare!
Дерзать, творить, сотрудничать и верить!
AND here comes our new project for the coming year 2015: “MELTA Success Stories Album” on our site! You are welcome to email your MELTA Success Stories with photos of memorable occasions to me to be posted on the site: boltneva [at] mail [dot] ru.
It’s OUR history that we have lived through and go on creating and sharing!
Olga Boltneva MELTA vice-president. December 2014.
