English Language
Institute
2006 Newsletter
From the director's desk .
  ELI receives 10-year accreditation  
  Three ELI teachers promoted  
  New 4 + 1 program  
  Teacher training hits the road  
  CAP students admitted to the University of Delaware  
  State Department-backed program expands  
  PreMBA program strenghtens links with UD MBA program  
  ELI offers law program for 14th year  
  Chase Bank employees brush up their business English  
  Special programs  
  ITA program: 20 years and counting  
  Inna Ferina, an educator who serves others  
  ELI offers new legal English class in regular program  
  Profiles  
  Professional activities of faculty and staff  
  Ode to tutors  
  ELI collaboration with Department of Labor bears fruit for immigrant population   
  Personnel notes  
  Professional development workshop brings renowned ESL trainer to Delaware  
  A sampler of ELI students: class of 2006  
  Homestay family keeps on growing  
   Alumni return to work, study  
  Classroom notes  
  Alumni news  
  Evening program grows   
  Student teachers help Christina School District English language learners  
  Greetings to our alumni  
  Connecting the world through ELI's culture cafe  
  Orientation program teaches by doing   

Alumni news

 
  Mehmet Sukra Gulay: gulay@animal.ufl.edu (Turkey '95) was married in March 2006. He and his wife, Ozlem, both veterinarians, are living in Burdur, Turkey, where Ozlem is working on her doctorate and Mehmet is an assistant professor in the Physiology Department at Akdeniz University.

Fernanda Skelton: fernandaskelton@comcast.net (Brazil ‘03) is working on a master’s degree in human resources at Wilmington College.

Flavio Fontenelle: flaviolgf@uol.com.br (Brazil ’82) graduated in mechanical engineering in 1986 and is currently working in Sao Paolo, Brazil, as a technical manager for a company that performs maintenance in petroleum refineries all over the country. He is married and has two sons, 8 and 3.

Junsik Choi: zunsik@gmail.com (Korea ’05) managers an IT company in South Korea.

Karim Meliani: karim.meliani@gmail.com (Morocco ’98) is working as a software engineer for Credit Suisse First Boston.

Masato Morishima: masato4morishima241984@yahoo.co.jp (Japan ‘05) has transferred mid-junior year (’06) to Sophia University, Faculty of Comparative Culture in Tokyo, to prepare for study at a business school in the United States.

In Memoriam

 

Yasir Memur (Turkey ’04) died on March 29, 2006, following a car accident. He was an undergraduate student at Goldey Beacom College in Wilmington. He will be missed by his friends and teachers at ELI.

Nori Ogawa: v9629@hotmail.co.jp (Japan ’06) While a student in the Pre-MBA program, Nori had the goal to sell his own line of clothing to retailers in the United States or Japan. His “Hear No Evil” brand with its distinctively designed heart-shaped logo on black and orange T-shirts is being sold to retailers in Japan.

Raphaelle Autogue: rautogue@hotmail.com (France ’98) is living in Lyon, France, where she is a buyer for a stationery company.3

 

 

 
Salvador Magaña: (Mexico '03) was ordained as a Catholic priest at the Cathedral of Saint Peter in Wilmington in April 2006. The first native of Mexico City to join the priesthood here, he currently serves St. John the Apostle Parish in Milford, Delaware.  
Horacio Moreno:
hmoreno@dgn-consultora.com.ar (Argentina '03) was married in May 2006 in his hometown, Chaves, Argentina. After the all-night wedding party, the newlyweds left for a honeymoon in Cuba.
 
  Juan Carlos Holguin (right): juancarlosholguin@hotmail.com (Colombia '03) finished his Master's in Law from New York University in May 2006 and is preparing for the New York Bar Exam