TIEP ALUMNI E-NEWS
Tennessee Intensive English Program
- Our 30th Anniversary Year!
In Memory of Founding Members:
John Eisterhold - International Scholarship Fund
Charles Gillon - Emergency Fund
TIEP Students Love to
Travel
Chie, Miu-Miu, Alex, Yuka
& Chisa visit downtown Paducah,
Kentucky.
Travel in English!
This summer a group of students delayed the urge to shop
and instead visited the historic downtown riverfront area of Paducah,
Kentucky. With the help of chauffer, photographer Mr. Frank Leach,
the students had a fun-filled trip! Just look at these photos...
A recent survey of TIEP students revealed that what they
most want to do is travel and meet lots of people to speak English
with. Mami Miyake, a student from Hirosaki, Japan, decided to to take
a side trip with her parents and grandmother to the Grand Canyon. See
photos. The Grand Canyon is easily accessible from Las Vegas, Nevada.
Flights to Las Vegas are very affordable and there are busses from
the city to various areas in the region.
New Intensive 2-week ESL seminar
One of our newly arrived students recently
requested a short, but intensive ESL seminar and we listened! TIEP
now offers an optional two week ESL program that takes place during
our normal break time. Topics for courses are determined by
participant requests. Summer 2004 TIEP offered English Through Movies
and Music, Reading and Writing about Local Travel, English Via Games,
and others generated by students. The two-week course is four hours
per day with several instructors and is designed to help students
learn English as quickly as possible with an emphasis on fun. At TIEP
we feel you learn a second language the fastest while enjoying
yourself! The Summer 2004 offering cost $500. The two-week seminar
can only be offered when a minimum of six students participate.
Hirosaki Students Visit Martin
American students visited Hirosaki,
Japan earlier this year with chaperones.
Eighteen Japanese junior high-school students accompanied
by five of their teachers from Hirosaki City visited Martin for a
week this summer. The students had English classes, a weekend
homestay with the families of their junior high-school American
partners, a field trip to Reelfoot Lake and Dyersburg, as well as
several gatherings. They visited the Martin Middle School and
attended a welcome reception, swimming party, banquet and farewell
gathering. This visit is part of an on-going exchange program between
Hirosaki and Martin, Tennessee. A group of American students from
Martin recently returned from a visit to Hirosaki with wonderful
memories of international travel and cross-cultural exchange.
Taiwanese Graduates of UT Martin Business Program Honored
At the Spring Banquet sponsored by the College of Business and
Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee at Martin two former
TIEP students were honored. Miao Ling Chen and Li Chien Lin of Taiwan
along with a number of American students were inducted into Beta
Gamma Sigma, an honorary business society. Dr Ernest Moser, Dean of
the College of Business presented the certificates of honor. We at
TIEP are extremely proud to see our former students succeed and
receive such well-deserved honors with their American colleagues.
Congratulations!
We love to see our international students succeed!!
Letter from TIEP Alumnus Eriko in Hiroshima, Japan
Dear TIEP teachers!
I am Eriko Sasaki and I used to study at TIEP in 1998. I hope
you are all doing well. I just found mail has arrived from you and
started thinking of you all. I heard the sad news about Dr.
Eisterhold after I came back to Hiroshima. My heart was aching very
badly. I hope his family is doing well. After I came back to Japan, I
finished my undergraduate degree and became an English teacher at a
junior high school in Hiroshima. I enjoyed teaching there for three
years. Last year I got married in a Japanese traditional way at a
shrine in Hiroshima. My husband is German, working as a chemistry
researcher in Japan. I hope to hear from you what is going on in
Martin, my loving town. Thank you very much for all of your love and
care while I was in Martin.
Please take care.
With a lot of appreciation.
Eriko (Sasaki) Uehlin
International Wedding in Martin!
Sung Hwei Park and Shu Chun Liu ("Angela") plan to have their
wedding ceremony on September 4 beside the Pacer Pond in Martin.
Congratulations!!
Peruvian Chosen as Outstanding Student for Summer 2004
Rocío Wallace received the Outstanding student award at the
End-of-Term Farewell Party this Summer. Rocío practiced
dentistry in Peru before coming to TIEP at UT Martin to perfect her
English skills.
UT Martin and TIEP Get New Telephone Numbers
Because of a need to upgrade the telephone system on the
University of Tennessee at Martin campus there will be a change in
all of the telephone numbers. The old number for the Office of
International Programs was 731-881-7340. The new number is
731-881-7340. Notice that all of the numbers with 587 prefix on
campus have changed to an 881 prefix. Any telephone numbers of houses
and businesses in Martin are not affected, only university telephone
numbers. So, the new FAX number for the Office of International
Programs is 731-881-7322. We are in the process of updating the
telephone numbers on the TIEP web site in its many languages.
Conversation Partners
Program
Conversation Partners Program brings upper-level
International TIEP students and American regular curriculum students
together. Introductions take place in an information gathering and
students meet several times over the course of the eight-week TIEP
term.
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read more about the
Tennessee Intensive English Program.
Advanced Test Preparation (ATP)
Continues! Many students have already reached their goals!
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