1999 MidTESOL Award Winners

By Cheryl Eason

Peggy Anderson, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, and the Perry, Iowa, public school system, were thanked for their dedicated service to MidTESOL and the profession of teaching English to speakers of other languages through the years with the Pat-on-the-Back Awards for 1999. Peggy most recently has served on the MidTESOL executive board as its historian. She has also served as MidTESOL president, was the plenary speaker at the MidTESOL 1997 Conference in Grand Island, Nebraska, and was associate chair for the Orlando TESOL Conference. Mary served on the MidTESOL executive board for many a year as its publishers' liaison. Both Peggy and Mary are described by those who have worked with them as people who consistently do "above and beyond" what is asked or expected of them.

Peggy and Mary, as Pat-on-the-Back award winners, received engraved plaques and lifetime memberships in MidTESOL.

MidTESOL also awarded four Travel Awards to presenters at the 1999 Conference in Iowa City. Recipients were Julie Brogno, Central Missouri State University, whose presentation was entitled International English and English Language Teaching; Chun Hu, University of Missouri at Kansas City, who presented From the Theories of Second Language Learning to Teaching Practice; Korakote Natiladdanon and Yuko Takayama, Central Missouri State University, who spoke on Guessing Unknown Words in Reading; and Tim Stoeckel, University of Northern Iowa, whose presentation was Constructivism: It's Not Just for Children Anymore.

The Travel Award winners had their registration fee waived and received $100 to help them cover their costs of attending the conference.


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Cheryl Eason
Department of English and Philosophy
Central Missouri State University, Martin 336
Warrensburg, MO 64093-5046

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