Baltic Tour Schedule
The CIDD Committee is grateful for your cooperation in hosting the Baltic Debate Tour.
The attached (or less dressy version below) is based on the best information to-date. I hope we can go ahead with the tour with as few changes as possible. Plane tickets have been purchased. If I have miscalculated and changes must be make, let me know as soon as possible. Most connections are comfortable. There are a couple cases where it helps to use airports in the region necessitating a drive to pick the debaters up. When there are two stops with one airport connect the first host will be responsible for picking the team up and the second host will see they make their next flight.
When possible I have tried to split weekends to even out the responsibility of hosting for those time periods. Hosts should be sensitive that occasionally the team will need time to do laundry and attend to personal needs. There will also be times when the team will appreciate some private time when no official events are scheduled. They, of course, also be appreciate of social events, sightseeing, and working hard most of the time.
The delegation from the Baltics composition is three women. Hosts are responsible for housing, meals, and entertainment expenses when they are visiting. Typical housing is at hotels or other university guest quarters. When we toured the Baltics some housing was with students and families. I know we often appreciated that more than formal accommodations. My expectation is that they will not mind staying with students or graduate students as appropriate. Use you judgment and I expect they will be fine.
NCA will invoice you for the hosting fee shortly after the tour is complete. You'll note in the line-by-line below if I have your official address. If I do not or do not have it correct, I would appreciate you letting me know. I would also appreciate local phone numbers so they know who to contact if arrangements get altered (weather, etc.). CIDD is providing some spending money for our guests but not enough to cover their local entertainment expenses (e.g., admission to attractions)
The students who are traveling to the US are Liina Naaber (Estonia) (Age 21) (), Evija Rudzite (Latvia) (Age 21) (), and Jurate Motiejunaite, Lithuania (Age 24) (). I have solicited a short biography which you can use for publicity and will forward that information when I have it. Also I have asked for electronic pictures which I will distribute. The picture here (and attached to the e-mail) is a picture of Jurate which I have from last summer's tour.
TOPICS: The programs can take several forms. Some will want a debate while others will prefer panels. Some will want to do both (panels with Q&A may be particularly appropriate for class visits) Remember also that Eastern Europe studies folks might profit from the visit. The students from the Baltics are familiar with various forms of debate. Each has extensive experience with Parliamentary debate as practiced at the Worlds. They are practiced in getting a topic announced shortly before the debate. They also have experience with Karl Popper debate which is essentially policy debate with three person on a team. The three divide where one debater takes each constructive and the third is the rebuttalist. Explanations of the format can be found at http://www.Idebate.org/ (the webpage of the International Debate Education Association--part of Open Society). I expect they will be comfortable with various speech times depending on your program needs. I will be contacting them for topic suggestions (and welcome your suggestions), and I expect with so few stops you can negotiate a specific topic with them directly. Increasingly, with the ease of electronic contact the tour participants are in-touch with hosts, via prior hosts, as the tour unfolds. The country directors are also points of contact to discuss programs. Each is a great person and I imagine open to your needs. Lativia: Andris Sudmalis () [Latvia director is Ineta Dreze but correspondence can be directed to Andris; Lithuania: Virginija Paksiene (); Estonia Katrin Viru ().
Baltic Tour Schedule:
March 10th Arrive NY Evija Arrive at JFK Int'l New York at 3:55 Sunday Afternoon (15.55 p.m.) on the 10th. Finnair from Helsinki
March 11th: Arrive at JFK Int'l New York at 3:55 Sunday Afternoon (15.55 p.m.) on the 11th. Finnair from Helsinki Jurate & Liina
March 11-13th
New York City, IDEA and Prisco hosting
Gabrielle Prisco ()
(212) 477-1971; Cell 34-742-0964
Svetlana Batrak ()
(212) 548-0325
March 13th
Fly to Univ. of Arkansas
13 MAR 01 - TUESDAY
AMERICAN 4525 L
DEPARTS: NYC/LAGUARDIA 230P NONSTOP
ARRIVES: FAYETTEVILLE/XNA 530P
March 14-18
Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Stephen Smith, Communication ()
University of Arkansas
417 Kimpel Hall
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
(501) 575-3046 or Home #: (501) 443-9706
18 MAR 01 - SUNDAY
AMERICAN 3722 N
DEPARTS: FAYETTEVILLE/XNA 612P NONSTOP
ARRIVES: DALLAS/FT WORTH 727P
AMERICAN 886 N
DEPARTS: DALLAS/FT WORTH 843P NONSTOP
ARRIVES: RALEIGH/DURHAM 1218A ARRIVAL DATE-19 MAR
March 18-20
Duke Univ., Durham, NC
Richard O'Dor ()
Duke University
Box 90245
Durham NC 27708
(919) 684-2401 (919) 544-5858
March 21-25
Wake Forest Univ., Winston-Salem, NC
Allan Louden, Communication ()
Box 7347, Reynolda Station
Winston-Salem, NC 27109
(336) 758-5408 (office); (336) 725-5444 (home)
Paul Stockamore, local host,
(336) 758-6470 Cell: 336-926-0205
25 MAR 01 - SUNDAY
DELTA 2117 K
DEPARTS: GREENSBORO 1135A NONSTOP
ARRIVES: ATLANTA 1255P
DELTA 1637 K
DEPARTS: ATLANTA 135P NONSTOP
ARRIVES: AUSTIN 254P
March 25-28 (or 27th depending on arrangement with St. Mary's)
Southwest Texas State Univ., San Marco, TX
Wayne Kraemer ()
Southwest Texas State Univ.
Dept. of Speech Comm.
San Marcos, TX 74050
Phone:
debate office 512-245-2331. If for some reason they cannot find us on the day of their arrival in Austin contact 512-665-3145. Leigh-Anne Dowdy, Assistant Director of Forensics, Southwest Texas State University
March 28-31
St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX
Alan Cirlin ()
St. Mary's College
Dept. of Comm.
San Antonio, TX 78228
(210) 431-2008
March 31-April 2
Baylor Univ., Waco, TX
02 APR 01 - SUNDAY
AMERICAN 3764 V
DEPARTS: WACO 830A NONSTOP
ARRIVES: DALLAS/FT WORTH 928A
AMERICAN 1440 V
DEPARTS: DALLAS/FT WORTH 1057A NONSTOP
ARRIVES: KANSAS CITY MO 1234P
April 2-4
NW Missouri, Maryville, MO
Roy Schwartzman, Assoc. Prof. of Comm. ()
Dept. of Communication & Theatre Arts
133 Wells Hall
Northwest Missouri State University
Maryville, MO 64468
(660) 562-1286 office (660) 562-1411 fax
Mary Moore ()
Office: 660/562-1506; Fax: 660/562-1411
Home: 660/562-3976
April 4-7
Emporia State Univ., Emporia, KS
Glen Strickland ()
Emporia State Univ.
Box 4033, Div. of Comm.
Emporia, KS 66801
(316) 341-5709
07 APR 01 - SATURDAY
AMERICAN 1056 L
DEPARTS: KANSAS CITY MO 1050A NONSTOP
ARRIVES: CHICAGO/O'HARE 1222P
AMERICAN 810 L
DEPARTS: CHICAGO/O'HARE 135P NONSTOP
ARRIVES: BOSTON 508P
April 7 - stay overnight in Boston
April 8-10
Bates College, Lewiston, ME
Lisa Heller ()
309 Pettigrew Hall
Department of Theater & Rhetoric
Bates College
Lewiston, ME 04240
Phones: 207 786 6475 (office); 508 579 7188 (cell)
10 APR 01 - TUESDAY
US AIRWAYS 3649 V
DEPARTS: PORTLAND ME 1050A NONSTOP
ARRIVES: NYC/LAGUARDIA 1230P
April 10-13
Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Max Schnurer ()
Dept. of Comm., 223 Lowell Thomas Hall
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
845-575-3000 x2075
845-896-3459 (home)
13 APR 01 - FRIDAY
NORTHWEST AIR 523 Q
DEPARTS: NYC/LAGUARDIA 1054A NONSTOP
ARRIVES: DETROIT/METRO 111P
April 13
Fly to Detroit
April 15-17
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
George Ziegelmueller ()
Wayne St. Univ.
585 Manoogian Hall, Dept. of Speech Comm.
Detroit, MI 48202
(313) 577-2950
Elizabeth Ryan ()
St. Mary's, Detroit, MI
Kathleen Edelmayer ()
Dept. of Communication
St. Mary's College of Ava Maria University
3535 Indian Trail
Orchard Lake, MI 48324
office: 248-683-0324
Kelly Steele
734-604-6969
18 APR 01 - WEDNESDAY
NORTHWEST AIR 1204 V
DEPARTS: DETROIT/METRO 135P NONSTOP
ARRIVES: NYC/KENNEDY 324P
April 18
Return to New York City
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