[Membroj] Fwd: Zamenhof's Great-Granddaughter Coming for Banquet

[Emil Volcheck]

Mesagho de Jim Ryan!  --Emil


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From: Jim Ryan <quillpower at cox.net>
Date: Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 23:23
Subject: Zamenhof's Great-Granddaughter Coming for Banquet
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Hello, everyone, I'm repeating here the message I put up on our Google Group:

I have some very good news.  For a few weeks I’ve
been communicating with the Polish embassy in Washington, trying to
arrange either a reception for Esperantists there, or for them to send
a speaker to a December banquet to commemorate the sesquicentennial of
Zamenhof’s birth.

It took a while to get an answer, but I finally did, and while they
said their embassy is just too booked to have an event there, they
went above and beyond in arranging a suitable commemoration:  They
have arranged for Wanda Zamenhof-Zaruski, great-granddaughter of LLZ
daughter of Krisztof Zaleski-Zamenhof, to come to Washington from her
Louisiana home to speak to our gathering.  The embassy will pay for
her transportation and lodging here.

I spoke to her; she is very friendly and enthusiastic.  She doesn’t
speak Esperanto anymore, but will be happy to speak about homaranismo,
to which she is devoted, the Zamenhof family, what the Esperanto
movement means to her, etc.

Possible dates at this point are Saturday Dec. 12 or Sunday Dec. 13.
Mrs. Zamenhof-Zaruski says she could do either but slightly prefers
Dec. 13.

Of course we need to finalize all this quickly, so I am asking for
input from all of you:

1)      Is there a general preference among our members for Saturday Dec.
12 or Sunday Dec. 13?  (Again, she prefers Sunday.)

2)      Is our usual banquet place, Burma restaurant in Chinatown,
appropriate for this?  Advantages:  Great food, low prices, our own
room, hospitality, they know us, we know them.  But since this will be
a very special banquet, should we look for someplace else a little
more stately, as befitting our very special guest and occasion?
Someplace with an Eastern European connection?  If we are going to try
for a new place, I need lots of help to find it, since I’ll be out of
the country Nov. 28 – Dec. 6.

Of course, Burma is the simpler option because of the reasons I
stated.  Remember that if we look for another place, it should ideally
be:

•       Metro-accessible for the carless.
•       Reasonably priced.
•       Reasonably nice, especially since this is an event co-sponsored by
the Polish embassy.
•       Willing to give us our own banquet room.

I realize this is short notice, but I only just heard from the embassy
and communicated with Ms. Zamenhof-Zaruski.  But we have enough time
to set this up and have a wonderful, memorable and historic event.

Input, please, ASAP.  I want to finalize the date and place within a
day or too, so any strong opinions on either must be submitted pronto.
 Again, if anyone feels strongly about a different locale, I will need
alternative suggestions.

Jim




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Emil Volcheck
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