The summer of 1997 was a big success at ELI, and the hard-working and diverse group of ten summer teachers who augmented the ranks of the regular ELI faculty played a big part in that success. This year's summer faculty was comprised of men and women who serve the international community in a variety of ways.
Four returned after teaching at ELI in previous years. A summer regular, Marybeth Worrilow is an instructor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Delaware from September through May. Californian Charlotte Meneses is currently involved in the development of an interactive ESL cable TV program which she will co-host to be aired in Los Angeles County. Timothy Taylor, who "fell in love with world cultures" in his travels to Papua New Guinea, Israel, and Albania, is now teaching in China. John Fleischauer has returned to New York, to get back to work on the Ph.D. he has underway at Cornell University.
Newcomers to the ELI summer faculty also brought with them a wealth of English teaching experience. Robert and Michelle Tyvoll from La Crosse, Wisconsin, both taught English in China and Japan, as well as at various university programs in the United States. Betsy Lewis came to ELI after having taught at various American universities, including Harvard, as well as in Russia and Ukraine. She is honored to be working as a USIA EFL fellow in Moscow this academic year. Linguistics scholar Garon Wheeler directed an ESL program in a small university in South Dakota until accepting a similar position in United Arab Emirates this August. David Fox worked for eight years for Midwestern University Consortium of Big 10 Schools and Texas International Education Consortium teaching English in Japan, Malaysia, and Quatar before coming to ELI. James McNeal, who only recently returned to the U.S. after six years of working and living abroad in Korea, Taiwan, the Dominican Republic, Saudi Arabia and Oman, is continuing at ELI.
ELI is very grateful for the contributions that these terrific teachers have made to its summer program.