The search for Directors is always a long process and we are very lucky to be welcoming three new members and one replacement member this November. For at least the past five years, however, the process of solicitation of nominations and voting by the existing board has been used.
Nominees submit resumes, and the board votes on the nominations.
Three of the new members will serve three-year terms from November 2000 to November 2003. Collins is immediate past president of the Wisconsin Association of Teachers of Japanese and is a high school Japanese and French teacher in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Masumi Reade is immediate past president of the Japanese Teachers Association of Texas and teaches high school in The Woodlands, Texas. Motoko Tabuse, Ph.D., has worked on many national projects and presentations and is currently Associate Professor of Foreign Language, Japanese Section at Eastern Michigan University. We are very grateful that they volunteered, for their enthusiasm, and commitment to serve the field.