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All the convention forms are now posted! Please check the "Sponsor's Resources" section to view them. Other updates include: revising the "TJCL Convention" section, re-creating the sub menus, and archiving all the old forms under the "Forms" section as links.
Also, please welcome our new West TN sponsor, Mrs. Abigail Braddock from Houston High School! As convention draws closer, make sure to check the due dates-- you wouldn't want to miss any of these! Thanks for your cooperation, and feel free to send me an email if you have any concerns with the website!
Hello! Just to let everyone know, we should have all the 2008 forms up soon.
We now have a TJCL Calendar! You can access it by clicking on the link! All deadlines for the state convention will be posted on there. For those of you who do not already know, the convention will be April 10-12 at Austin Peay University! More information on this will be posted within the next few weeks. Please contact us if you need any information before then.
Today's update included a revised officer list. New and upcoming plans include a functional calendar, different tabs for teachers, students, and parents, a more appealing background, and last (but not least!) an updated navigational system for the site! I hope everyone is enjoying the school year so far! Please check back soon for new updates!
Hello everyone! The new membership forms will be posted this weekend, as well as many other new reformations to this site! Thanks for being patient while we worked out a few problems, but now that everything is settled I am looking forward to customizing this website and providing the information that all of you TJCLers need!
If anyone has pictures from NJCL convention, or even last year's TJCL convention, please email them to me so I can post them and/or distribute them to the historians and editor. The more pictures, the merrier!
Also, if anyone has any suggestions or opinions on what they think would make an awesome website, just let me know! I'm very open to all opinions and (constructive) :D criticism. Today is the first day that I have been able to log on, so hopefully the site will be edited and brought back to life very soon!
Thanks again for being patient!
More forms and resources added in the Sponsor's Resources section.
Also, please welcome Callie Riggins from Rossview High School, Clarksville, as our new Secretary. Matt Robbins had to step down because his school is not attending this year's TJCL.
A large number of information documents and forms that need to be sent in have been uploaded to the Sponsor's Resources section. Students should feel free to check out the section for the information packets.
April 19-21 will be the days for the 2007 TJCL Convention at Rhodes College in Memphis. Stay tuned for more informaiton and documents.
Edit: Deadlines and dates updated on the Rhodes 2007 pages (TJCL Convention section), and the pre-convention information document has been uploaded to the Sponsor's Resources section.
Ok, so yeah. I was cleaning out my email and realized that I had forgotten to upload the Membership Forms. Whoops! They're now up under Sponsor's Resources. Sorry for the delay!
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Sadly, I am here to inform the TJCL community that Mr. Wayne Duff of MUS (a teacher I have had for two years, unfortunately not a third) has passed away. Read on for his obituary by The Commercial Appeal.
EDWARD WAYNE DUFF, 52, passed away at the home of his sister, Anita Carson in Canton, OH on July 10, 2006. Mr. Duff will especially be missed by the faculty, staff, students, and alumni of Memphis University School where he taught Latin for the past 21 years. Prior to his career at MUS, Mr. Duff taught six years at Briarcrest and six years at Glenmore Academy. He was a graduate of Oakhaven High School and earned a B.A. from the University of Memphis and an M.A. in Latin from the University of Washington. An ardent classicist, he served on the Board of the Tennessee Junior Classical League and frequently attended conventions of the Classical Association of Middle West and South, national and state conventions of Junior Classical League, and state conventions of Teachers of Foreign Languages. He was also fluent in German. Mr. Duff received many accolades for his teaching, most notably the Distinguished Teacher Award in 1990 from the Tennessee Junior Classical League and the John M. Nail Outstanding Teacher Award in 2006, an award given to him by the MUS Senior Class for his love of learning and sincere interest in the welfare of his students. Mr. Duff was an accomplished pianist and organist; he played piano for MUS theater auditions and weekly assemblies at MUS and was organist at Oakhaven United Methodist Church for 36 years, the church where he was a member since his youth. Mr. Duff will also be remembered for his passion for travel. Over his years at MUS, he often took students on trips to Italy and Greece, as well as traveling the world on his own and with friends. In addition to his sister, Mr. Duff leaves a niece, Heather Ivan and four great-nephews.
His funeral took place on July 14th at Forest Hill Funeral Home. Mr. Duff will be greatly missed.
The Gallery @ TJCL.org has officially been opened. Currently there are only pictures from Alex Trent in it. However, I should be receiving pictures from Mr. Warren and Caitlin Kopp soon to add to the gallery.
If you want your pictures (even art submissions) to be added to the gallery, please email them to me (click on my name below).
Edit: Oh, and please include information about pictures if you can (like name, etc.). Thanks!
TJCL needs pictures, now. If you have any pictures you would like to appear on the TJCL website, please email them to me (click on my name under this sentence).
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