Re: Pins and breakfast

[gillespiep@vms.csd.mu.edu]

Good idea, Elisabeth.  All the Milwaukee bureau had to offer were the 
little blue stickers lots of you wore to the conference.  And I asked 
Harley for free pins, but they weren't as generous as John Deere.  They 
did give us a good discount, though, for our order.  

Paula Gillespie

On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton wrote:

> This will be my first CCCC (though I am a scarred veteran of too many
> loathsome MLAs for my own good) and I'm looking forward to the pins, the
> breakfast, and meeting everyone.  I have two quick suggestions.  When I
> organized the SCWCA in Austin last year the Austin Convention and Visitors
> Bureau had huge amounts of stuff they were willing to give to conference
> registrants.  I could chose between little Austin lapel pins and a packet
> of bluebonnet seeds (I chose seeds).  It's possible that we could get free
> cactus pins or something like that just for the asking.
> 
> Also, if we run into any snags looking for  breakfast place, I'll try to
> help.  The small group of restaurants for which my husband is controller
> has three places in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area, so I know plenty of people
> who know the restaurant market there.   We took Jeanne Simpson to the
> original Z'Tejas in Austin when she was our guest at the SCWCA.
> 
> Oh well...I guess I'll return to the maddening task of trying to schedule
> hours for my 62 consultants!
> 
> Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton,Ph.D.
> Coordinator
> Undergraduate Writing Center
> FAC 211
> University of Texas at Austin
> Austin, TX 78712
> (512) 471-6222
> epiedmontmarton@mail.utexas.edu
> 
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