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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times">Dear AHCT Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Times">On behalf of the officers and board of AHCT, please accept cordial best wishes for the New Year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Times">I’d like also to note a couple of highlights for our annual conference in El Paso, March 3 – 5, 2011.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Luciano García Lorenzo, from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid, will deliver a keynote lecture on Friday, March 4, titled: “’El médico de su honra’ y los inicios de la Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico.”<span style="mso-spacerun:
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</span>A second plenary session, on Saturday morning, March 5, will feature the Andak Theater Company from Los Angeles with Dakin Matthews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>It will focus on their performance of Dakin’s translation of Lope de Vega’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>“The Capulets and the Montagues,” at the Chamizal that evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Members who are able to extend their stay in El Paso to include Saturday night’s performance should find it very worthwhile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>AHCT will provide transportation by van between the hotel and the Chamizal that evening, and the hospitality room will also be open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Times">Conference director Angel Sánchez has asked for volunteers to drive vans any of the evenings during the conference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Please contact him at: </span><a href="mailto:angel.sanchez@asu.edu"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;font-family:Times">angel.sanchez@asu.edu</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;font-family:Times">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;font-family:
Times">Full details for the conference, including registration and hotel reservations, can be found at the AHCT web site: www.comedias.org.</span><span style="font-family:Times"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Times">I look forward to seeing you in El Paso.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Times"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Times">Very cordially,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Times">Bob Johnston<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family:Times">AHCT President<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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