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New CAAS 2009 Professional Development Grants: CAAS is offering a limited number of grants of up to $500 each for members to participate in focused courses or workshops related to the work of a teacher of Classics. Immediate applications have a deadline of May 31, and there will be a second round with a deadline of September 30. For more information, see the Grants page or contact Tom Hayes, the chair of the CAAS Grants Committee.

Slate of Candidates for CAAS Board of Directors: At its meeting on 25 April 2009, the CAAS Board of Directors approved the following slate of candidates for the Board, to be elected at the Business Meeting in October 2009. Members may nominate an additional candidate or candidates through a petition signed by at least fifteen CAAS members eligible to vote (voting members are those who reside and/or work in the CAAS region). The petition must be received by the Executive Director no later than July 1 (see the Contact page for the CAAS mailing address), and nominees must be CAAS members who reside and/or work in the CAAS region. Nominees with a valid petition will be added to the slate of candidates mailed to members along with materials for the annual meeting and presented for election in the Business Session.

• Second Vice-President: Shelley P. Haley
• First Vice-President: Sarolta Takács
• President: Phyllis Culham
• Officer-at-Large: David J. Murphy
• Director (District of Columbia): Sarah Ferrario
• Director (New York Eastern): Howard Handler
• Director (New York Central & Western): John H. Starks, Jr.

Recipients of Hahn Scholarship and 2008-2009 Grants: CAAS is pleased to announce that Jennifer L. Muslin, a graduate student at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York, has been awarded a Hahn scholarship to attend the American Academy in Rome during the summer of 2009. Sister Therese Marie Dougherty (the College of Notre Dame of Maryland) and Timothy Renner (Montclair State University) have received Program Grants from CAAS. For more information on these grants and the nine recipients of CAAS Resource Grants, see the Grants page.

New CAAS Executive Director and Newsletter: CAAS is delighted to welcome three of our members into new positions:

• Executive Director: Mary Brown of Valley Forge Military Academy & College has been appointed to succeed Mary English of Montclair State University beginning October, 2009. Please see more in the President's Letter in our new electronic newsletter.
• Newsletter: The newly launched electronic CAAS Newsletter was emailed on 25 March 2009 to all CAAS members with email addresses on file; if you did not receive your copy, please contact the two editors listed below. All back issues of the electronic newsletter can be accessed on the CAAS Newsletter Archive page.
  • Editor: David J. Califf of The Academy of Notre Dame, Villanova, Pennsylvania
  • Managing Editor: Chris Ann Matteo of Stone Bridge High School, Ashburn, Virginia

2009 Annual Meeting: The next CAAS meeting will be held on October 8-10, 2009, at the Doubletree Hotel Downtown Wilmington (opens in a new window). The deadline for submitting abstracts for this meeting has now passed.

2008 Meeting Follow-up:

• Thanks to all the CAAS members who attended the Business Meeting or sent in proxy ballots, CAAS now has a restated Certificate of Incorporation and new Bylaws, both fully compliant with New York State Non-Profit Corporation statutes. The Board has also adopted a comprehensive set of Regulations and Operating Procedures.
• See the Administration page for an updated list of CAAS officers, directors, and delegates and committees.
• Photos from the meeting help to re-capture its spirit, while the final Program documents its rich intellectual offerings.
• CAAS mourns the loss of celebrated translator and Princeton professor Robert Fagles after his death on March 26; the Princeton meeting was an appropriate venue for two tributes presented by Chris Ann Matteo and Sandra Bermann.
• Thanks to funding provided by Ann Raia's Presidential Initiative, a committee chaired by Judy Hallett awarded thirteen travel grants to attendees at the 2008 meeting, including three undergraduates, four graduate students, three secondary teachers, and three untenured college faculty members.

Thanks to CAAS, VRoma now speaks classical Latin! CAAS's recent grant to the enCore Consortium funded a workshop that enabled six classicists to translate the “voice” of VRoma (all of the system and interface messages, menu items, buttons, etc.) into classical Latin (photos from the workshop). See the VRoma Home Page to learn more about this project and how to experience the Latin in action.