Come One, Come All!

TO THE WYRID FALL CONFERENCE

School District Central Office

615 Hamilton Street

Douglas, Wyoming

Satruday and Sunday,

September 8 & 9, 2001

A block of 20 rooms have been reserved at the Best Western Inn in Douglas, 307-358-9790. Cost is $55/night for one or two people/room. Reservations must be made by AUGUST 25th.

"Legal, Mental Health &

Medical Interpreting:

A Cameo Presenatation"

Presented by Ann Witter-Merithew

Registration 8:00 a.m.

Saturday Workshop 8:30-5:00

(Lunch included)

Business Meeting: 9:00-Noon, Sunday, September 8

 

Anna Witter-Merithew, B.P.C., CSC, CI, CT, OIC:C, SC:PA & SC:L, has 26 years of experience in the field of interpreting as both a practitioner and educator. She has also served as Summer Institute Skills Specialist and Distance Mentor for the Educational Interpreter Certification Program. She is thrilled to be working with the program in this capacity.

    Before moving to Colorado with her husband, Michael, Anna taught full-time in the Interpreter Training Program at Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, North Carolina. She also served as the president of Advancement Seminars, Inc., a company which provides development programs and diagnostic assessment services for interpreter practitioners and educators of interpreters.

    Formerly, Anna was the Chairperson for the Department of Interpreter Education at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). She is also a co-founder of the Conference of Interpreter Trainers (CIT), a professional association of intepreter educators, and recently completed two terms as the association's Vice President. Between 1983 and 1986, Anna had the priviege of serving as the Vice President (2 terms) and President of Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf.

WYRID Fall Conference Registration