MESSAGES FRoM THE ADMINISTRATOR
Dear Colleagues:
I hope this message finds you well and enjoying the holidays.
I am honored to become administrator of the Chinese Language
Division. In 2008, as a relative newcomer to translation and interpretation, I
found tremendous support from the Chinese Language Division and American
Translators Association when I attended my first ATA Annual Conference in
Orlando. After serving as assistant
administrator for the past year, I am ready to step in as administrator for the
next two years.
I would like to thank our division’s Leadership Council and the
nominating committee for their hard work and devotion toward the success of the
CLD. We had a successful showing at the
ATA’s Annual Conference in San Diego this year. There were
eight Chinese language related presentations. I was able to attend most of them
and found them to be eloquently presented and well received. Our networking
dinner was very successful, thanks to the meticulous planning of Liping Zhao,
our assistant administrator. Prior to the networking dinner, our casual joint
lunch with members of the Japanese and Korean Language Divisions was also well
attended. Last but not least, catching
up with old friends and making new ones have always been the most enjoyable
parts of the ATA’s Annual Conference.
I am looking forward to working with you over the next two years
to make the CLD a bigger, stronger, and more successful language division!
Happy New Year!
Di Wu, ATA Chinese Language Division Administrator (2012-2014)
Chinese <> English
Translator and Interpreter
Contact: champlanguage@aol.com
Parting
wordS from BIN LIU
Dear
CLD members:
Happy
New Year to you and your loved ones! I send my best wishes for your businesses
and careers in 2013. As some of you already know, I completed my two-year term
as CLD Administrator as of October 2012. It was a privilege and a learning
experience to work with so many talented and enthusiastic volunteer members. I
can’t thank you enough for your selfless service and support. I particularly
want to thank the following individuals and groups:
1. Our past administrators:
Mr. Bruce Hyman and Professor Yuanxi Ma. Thank you for your nurturing encouragement
and gentle guidance with regards to Division matters.
2. Our Leadership Council
members: Mr. Di Wu, Acting Assistant
Administrator and Chair of the Chinese to English Certification Workgroup; Ms.
Katie Spillane, CLD Newsletter Editor; Ms. Evelyn
Yang Garland, CLD Newsletter Layout Editor; Ms. Liping
Zhao, Administrative Coordinator; and Mr. Huilin Gao, Webmaster.
3.
Our Nomination Committee members: Ms.
Barbara (Hua) Robinson, Chair; Ms. Xiaolei Kerr and Mr. Edward (Xianjun)
Liu.
4.
ATA Officers: Ms. Dorothee Racette, President; Mr. Nicholas
Hartmann, Immediate Past President; Mr. Walter Bacak, Executive Director; Ms.
Caitilin Walsh, President-Elect; Mr. Jamie Padula, Chapter and Division Relations Manager;
Dr. Karen Tkaczyk, Divisions Committee Chair; and Ms. Teresa Kelly, Meetings
Manager.
I
also want to congratulate Mr. Di Wu and Ms. Liping Zhao for being elected our
new Division Administrator and Division Assistant Administrator at the ATA’s
Annual Conference in San Diego. I wish them great success in moving the
CLD forward. I owe them my sincere thanks for their assistance in carrying
out the CLD agenda during the past two years.
I
was very happy to see so many of you in San Diego and to catch up with what is
happening in your lives and businesses. Now that we have mingled with members
from the Midwest, East and West of the country, it will be essential to build
on our social and professional connections and rally our members to achieve the
CLD’s goals. I am confident that with Di and Liping's strong and expert
leadership, our Division will be bigger, stronger and more prosperous in the
near future.
Most
sincerely yours,
Bin
Liu
English
to Chinese Translator
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