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FEBRUARY 2007
CIF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND CIP, CIPUSA
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE
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COUNCIL OF INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP
C.I.F. ITALIA
Via Latina 63 – 81055 S. Maria C.V. (Ce) – Italy
Tel/fax +39(0)823/798631- e-mail: mimmo@thelnguagecentre.it
Dear CIF Friends,
I am very please to write to you this letter on behalf of CIF Italia!
The year 2007 marks an important achievement to us: 20 years of
existence and activities! It is our intention to make it a special moment and an
opportunity to reminisce all that we have shared, see ourselves as we are today
and think about the future.
To do this we are planning a long week-end in Capua (near S. Maria C.V.
in the South of Italy) at the end of April 2007, where we can first of all spend
some time together in an old seminar nicely renovated with some formal (but
not too much) moments and other not so formal, planned excursions to some
interesting sites in the area and, obviously, free time to visit others on your
own.
We are, therefore, particularly pleased to invite you to be part of this
opportunity to meet old and new CIF friends. Your participation would be a
precious gift to us.
We like to think that CIF for many people was, has been, is and will
be a significant life moment, and would like to add another of those special
moments April 26 – 30, 2007 for our 20th birthday! We are waiting for
you!!!
Mimmo Merola ,
President CIF Italia
CIF - ITALIA
Mimmo Merola
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COUNCIL OF INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP
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FOREWORD
In my last Editorial I had indicated the importance of 50th birthday, as a
major milestone in the life of an institution. The CIF international Conference
in USA is a wonderful time to come together and reflect on five decades of CIP
and the shaping a vision of Henry Ollendorff, the man who started CIP and
whose alumni seeded the beginnings of CIF International.
The vision, thoughts and ideas left behind by Henry Ollendorff, inspire us
and will continue to inspire us in our efforts to unlock the power of unity and