English Language Institute
2004 Newsletter
From the director's desk .
  ELI celebrates 25 years in Newark -- photo history  
  Teachers from Jordan and Morocco train at ELI  
  Scholarships for peace  
  CAP program continues  
  School of Ed graduates four MA TESL students  
  Ruth Jackson exits the ELI
stage
 
  PreMBA program adds two new courses  
  ALLEI attracts a variety of participants  
  ELI legal studies conference in Ecuador  
  Incheon teachers  
  ELI corporate training program grows  
  Special programs  
  ELI alumni -- then and now  
  ELI grad reaches high  
  The ELI T-shirt story  
  Christina ELI program  
  Personnel notes  
  Professional activities of faculty and staff  
  Algerian teachers gain skills  
  Classroom notes  
  Faculty profile  
  Homestay families  
  A sampler of 2004 graduates  
  Attention ELI grads: Continue your education back home  
  Greetings to our alumni  
  Japan/Delaware alumni association  
  Alumni news  

Alumni -- then and now (2)

Necip Çaysar: necip@netas.com.tr (Turkey ’84) with Scott Stevens at Longwood Gardens in 1984.

Necip studied business management at Istanbul University after leaving ELI and today is working for Nortel Networks in Istanbul as a software development manager. He is shown here with his wife Seher and twin daughters, Zeynep and Elif, four years old.

Miguel Armenta: marmen1@lsu.edu (Colombia ’99) with his wife and friends at his graduation from ELI in 1999

Miguel received his doctorate in petroleum engineering from Louisiana State University in December 2003. He is living in Baton Rouge, LA, with his wife and two children while working as a research associate at the university. Miguel reports that the English skills honed at ELI helped him to get a 4.0 GPA and to present four papers about his research at international conferences in Canada and the United States.
Philippe Gbetibou: philbetibo@hotmail.com (Côte d’Ivoire ’93) was named “Mr. ELI” in 1993. He is shown here with Desktop Publishing course teacher Barbara Morris and the first issue of the student paper, New Voice.

Barbara and Philippe at ELI in October 2004

Philippe with his daughter, April-Mary-Olivia, born in April 2003, wife Tosha and mother. He and his family recently relocated to Bear, Delaware, from Newark, NJ, where he was studying for an associate degree in airport management.