Our effective activities need to be publicized. There should be a letter writing forum on the Website. When we don't have an issue, we ought to create one. This is a long term process that is just beginning. We have to convince people that they can make more money if they know another language.
Economic development is a hot political issue.
Governor Alien's recent trip to Europe resulted in a Virginia Partnership in Economic Bulletin Development office in Budapest. The Bulletin can be used as a forum to prepare our colleagues, to keep this issue before our members and to reprint articles on this topic from other publications. The foreign language Academies are not being adequately publicized even to our own members. The PA Committee had 1000 pencils made with the Website address to hand out to people for publicity. Each Board member received several to distribute.