ESU Atlanta Branch

President's Corner

August 19, 2024

To Atlanta Branch Members,

Greetings!  I am honored to start my second year as your Branch President and look forward to our upcoming ESU sponsored events.  In addition, I am honored to now serve on the National ESU Board and to serve as the Chair of the ESU National Task Force Committee.  I also have the pleasure of participating as a member of the ESU National Happy Hour Committee and am looking forward to all of the fascinating speakers planned for the 2024/2025 year.  

Regarding membership renewals, you will receive renewal notices in early September.  Please consider not only renewing your Membership, but also becoming a National Sponsor or Patron. 

On August 23 we will have a meeting of your new Board. I am pleased with the hard work and enthusiasm of the Board Members.  Plans are underway for some great programs for the 2024/2025 year. 

Please mark your calendars for the following:

Sunday, September 1st , 4-6 PM
Speaker - Grahame Davies CVO

Renowned poet and lyricist
Past Director within King (formerly)
Prince Charles' Office
Cathedral of St. Philip, Gould Room
2744 Peachtree Rd NW, Atlanta, GA 30305 
Reception to Follow   Guests Welcome

Sunday, September 15, 4-6 PM
Wrench Speaker – Baroness Catherine Meyer, CBE, Life Peer, Trade Envoy to Ukraine 
Survivors, by Christopher Meyer, KCMG, former British Ambassador to US, published posthumously. Historical Biography of the real-life story of Lady Catherine Meyer's family and their dangerous journey across Siberia
Lenbrook Atlanta
3747 Peachtree Rd. NE
Atlanta, GA 30319
Heavy Hors d'oeuvres and full bar - Members $45.00, Guests $55.00

Sunday Brunch, September 29th, 11:30 
Speaker- Dr. Patrick Allitt

British Prime Ministers
Ansley Golf Club
196 Montgomery Ferry Dr NE, Atlanta, GA 30309 
Members $45.00, Guests $55.00

Tuesday, October 15, 4-6 PM
Speaker- Michael Thurmond, CEO DeKalb County
Author: James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia: A Founder's Journey from Slave Trader to Abolitionist
Cathedral of St. Philip, Gould Room
2744 Peachtree Rd NW, Atlanta, GA 30305
Book signing 
Reception to Follow   Guests Welcome

Please note that the ESU Annual Conference will be held in Cleveland, Ohio on October 18th – 20th.  The ESU National website has all of the relevant information as well as the schedule of events.  You are invited!

In addition to our large traditional events, such as our events with Distinguished Speakers and the Holiday party; The ESU Atlanta Branch continues to organize the yearly Shakespeare Competition, Boyce Ansley School programs and T-Lab Scholarship programs.  

Let's all continue our adventures together at the ESU!  

Sincerely,

Susan Phillips, President
ESU, Atlanta Branch

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News And Events

General Membership Meeting Featuring Dr. Patrick Allitt

 

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General Membership Meeting

General Membership Meeting
September 1, 2024

 

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Travel and Learn Abroad Scholarship 2024

What did you do on your summer vacation? If anyone asks Bridget Walsh, a high school English teacher at Brookwood High School in the Gwinnett County School System this question, she has an inspiring answer.  Bridget, ESU Atlanta's 2024 Travel and Learn Abroad Scholar (Tlab), spent three weeks at Exeter College, Oxford participating in an English Literature seminar (English Literature Summer School | Oxford University Department for Continuing Education).  Bridget will share her Oxford experience at one of our future programs. The date and time will be posted on our website under the Calendar of Events.

The Atlanta branch of the English Speaking Union's (ESU) Tlab scholarship for classroom teachers fully funds a study abroad program in England or Scotland and provides a travel stipend.  Information about this scholarship is available at TLab: Travel and Learn Abroad - Atlanta Branch (esuus.org), and the 2025 scholarship application process will be posted in early November, 2024.

 

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2024 Annual Garden Party

 

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