My speech at the Welcome Party for us at Elting Memorial Library on September 11, 2016

This is my speech at the Welcome Party for Niimi College Study Tour Group held at Elting Memorial Library on September 11, 2016.

2016年9月11日、ニューパルツのエルティング記念図書館で開催された新見公立大学・短期大学アメリカ研修旅行団の歓迎会の際行ったお礼スピーチです。
(原稿は読んでいませんが、大体このような内容のことを話しました。)

Thank you very much for having a wonderful welcome party like this for us.

It is always my pleasure to be able to come back to New Paltz.

First of all, I would like to have a moment of silence for Maggie Caccamo who passed away in January.

She was a great host mother for my former students, my colleagues and myself.

She was a great cook too.

Please join me in moment of silence.


Thank you.

This is the tenth Niimi College's Study Tour to USA.

This tour cannot be continued without the understanding and cooperation of the people not only who are here with us in this room, but also who are not with us anymore but who are with us in our hearts, namely, George Danskin, Alfred Marks, Lis Clock and Debbie Kwiatoski.

I am really grateful to the support from all of you.

It is September 11 today.

I cannot finish my speech without mentioning 9/11.

Around this time 15 years ago, my fellow delegation members and myself, and other Japanese tourists who joined us were at a hotel in White Plains, waiting for my friends from New Paltz to pick us up.

Our friends who came down to pick us up were Tom Nyguist, Sue Sherburne, Jeff and Caleb Clock.

Thank you very much for rescuing us then.

I really felt that friends in need are friends indeed.

Thank you again for welcoming us as your friends.

We would like to spend a wonderful week this week with you.

Thank you indeed.

米大統領選第1回TV討論会が開催されるHofstra大学での学会発表(2002年3月23日)

アメリカ大統領選挙にむけてテレビ討論会の第1回が間もなくニューヨークのホフストラ大学で開催されますが、この大学は2002年3月、スタインベック生誕100周年の記念国際学会が開催された大学。

僕もこのように同大学で研究発表をさせてもらいました。

この時の経緯等については、2002年の国際スタインベック学会での研究発表をご覧ください。

またこの時のプログラムは、HOFSTRA CULTURAL CENTER
presents JOHN STEINBECK’S AMERICAS A CENTENNIAL CONFERENCEをご覧ください。

The first Presidential Debate between Clinton and Trump is going to be held in Hofstra University soon.

This is the picture of my presentation in Hofstra University at the Centennial Conference cerebrating John Steinbeck's birth in March 2002.

The program of this conference can be seen at:
HOFSTRA CULTURAL CENTER presents JOHN STEINBECK’S AMERICAS A CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE

本日、新見英語サロンの開催はありません(2016年9月27日)

本日(2016年9月27日)は、火曜日ですが、夏期休暇中で学術交流センターの閉館時間が早まっているため新見英語サロンの開催はありません。

来週の火曜日、10月4日より、新見市国際交流協会の英語講座との共同開催で新見英語サロンが再開します。

お楽しみに！