Kudos and thanks to all the members who during the past ten years have made the Newsletter a valuable communication tool. Here are some historical facts. In 1988, President Maria Manoliu said in her annual report that "The proposal for publishing a quarterly newsletter could not be carried out because nobody, not even the author of the proposal, has accepted to undertake the responsibility of editing it . . . (ARA Journal 12 (1989): 283). The following year, however, the situation had changed. She made it known that: "Our Executive Committee has decided to entrust the publication of an ARA Newsletter to an editorial Board, whose members are Professors Aleksandra Gruzinska, Dan Gabriel Cacuci, Nicolette Frank (Europe), Monica N. Grecu, Peter Gross, Olga Porumbaru, and Mircea Sabau. We are sure that after the confirmation by our General Assembly, the Committee will find appropriate ways of realizing this proposal which has been made by many of our ARA members (ARA Journal 13-14 [1990]: 310-3110). Indeed, the General Assembly approved the project and the first newsletter (Vol. 1:1) appeared in August of 1989. ARA members are invited to contribute news of significant interest about their scholarly activities

July 21^st has been designated for registration only. The 25^th of July is reserved for a visit to Brussels. This leaves July 22 and 24 for the session meetings, and meetings of the General Assembly, and Executive Committee.

The University of Liège was founded in 1817. It comprises eight faculties. Some 13,000 students attend it every year.

Liège is a charming town on the river Meuse, with a long tradition in culture, history and politics as well as a particularly rich and refined gastronomy. It is located at about 100 km east of Brussels, the capital of Europe.

Prof. Masalar was born in Hida, Salaj, Romania in 1945. He is a Belgian Citizen and Professor at the University of Liège (Belgium). He is currently the Manager of Systèmes de Production Mécanique – Métrologie de l’Université de Liège à la Faculté des Sciences Appliquées. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the University "Politehnica" of Bucharest (1967). In 1976 he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Applied Sciences at K.V. Leuven (Belgium). He has published 12 books, more than 130 papers and conferences and taught more than 20 courses in Uncertainties of Measurements. Prof. Liviu Masalar is the Chair of the 24^th ARA Congress (1999).

The details have yet to be fine-tuned, but the 25^th ARA Congress will be held in the year 2000 at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal with ARA President, Dr. Ion Paraschivoiu, as our host. Portugal and the University of Aveiro may be our destination in the year 2001. Prof. Vasile Staicu who is an Associate Professor there is also a member of ARA

Ruxandra Botez

George Brotea

Sorin Farsirotu

Liviu Masalar

Dan Mateescu

Mircea-Alexandru Mateescu

Edmond T. Miresco

Adriana Nastase

Martha Salcudean

Florentin Smarandache

John Starway

Liliana Surugiu

Gheorghe Barbu

Alexandru Codoban

Ion Dinulescu

George Coanda

Constantin Niculescu

Sorica Sava

Ioan Tepelea

Republic of Moldova:

Veniamin Apostol

Valerii Canter

Stefan Cartofeanu

Anatolii Casian,

Valerian Dorogan

Valeriu Dulgheru

Nistor Grozavu

Valery Rudic

ARA President, Dr. Ion Paraschivoiu, has named Dr. Stefan Cartofeanu as responsible of the ARA Branch in the Republic of Moldova. Dr. Cartofeanu may be reached at:

Technical University of Moldova

Bd. Stefan cel Mare, 168

MD 2004, Chisinau

Republic of Moldova

Phone/Fax: 373-2-248378

With the newly admitted members, the total number of ARA members and Corresponding members has grown to over 150 (about 110 in the Diaspora and about 40 in Romania and Moldova).

During the period of March 5-9, 1999, Minister of Culture Dr. Andrei Marga and his wife, Dr. Delia Marga, visited Arizona State University. One purpose of the visit was to discuss details of academic exchanges between Arizona State and the University of Babes-Bolyai in Cluj, where Dr. Marga is Rector and where Arizona State's first summer program in Romania will be held between July 4-31, 1999. However, the principal purpose of Dr. Marga's visit was to meet with University officials regarding opportunities for larger programs of scholarly exchange between the two universities. They might involve collaborative research, the exchange of academic personnel, and the contributions of Arizona State faculty to emerging academic programs at Babes-Bolyai. Toward this end, Dr. Marga met with ASU President Lattie Coor, with Dean Gary S. Krahenbuhl and Associate Dean Linell Cady of the College of Arts and Sciences, as well as with Prof. William Davey, Director of International Programs. Faculty involved with the development of the Romanian program at Arizona State look forward to the opportunity of increasing institutional relations with Babes-Bolyai.

David William Foster

Regents Professor of Spanish,

Interdisciplinary Humanities, and Women's Studies

Chair, Department of Languages and Literatures

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-0202

480-965-3752; 480-965-0135 (fax)

Dr. Ileana Orlich

e-mail: orlich@asu.edu

Mr. Fay lives in Paris and New York.

Dr. Constantin Corduneanu

Mariana Zavati Gardner is the recipient of many awards for poetry. Her poems appear in various anthologies. She is the subject of a notice [for distinguished service] in the Dictionary of International Biography (1999). Her latest collection of poems is entitled: Whispers (1998). ISBN: 0-9532973-0-6.

This is a book of literary essays, notes and conversations, mostly about contemporary Romanian literature and history. The book was presented by the Romanian National Television as "One of the most interesting books recently published in Romanian." It is published by Cerna Publishing in Bucharest, Romania.

Dr. Domnita Dumitrescu has published several linguistics articles on Romanian:

"Los adjetivos en el sintagma nominal: Posición y predicación." In collaboration with Prof. Mario Saltarelli, University of Southern California), Signo y Seña 5 [Journal of the Linguistics Institute of the University of Buenos Aires] (February 1996): 23-60.

"Romanian and the Non-Nominative Subject Parameter." In collaboration with Prof. Pascual José Masullo, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina. In: Aspects of Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XXIV, March 10-13, 1994, ed. by Claudia Parodi, Carlos Quicoli, Mario Saltarelli, and María Luisa Zubizarreta, Washington D.C., Georgetown University Press, 1996: 213-226.

"Un modelo de análisis sintáctico de las preguntas eco en español y rumano": Actas Do XIX Congreso Internacional de Lingüística e Filoloxía Románicas, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1989. Publicadas por Ramón Lorenzo, Sección I: Lingüística Teórica e Lingüística Sincrónica. Fundación "Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Conde de fenosa," A Coruña, 1997:. 933-962.

"Attributive Adjectives in Romance: Toward a Unified Theory of Modification." In collaboration with Mario Saltarelli, USC. Actes du 16-ème Congrès International des Linguistes. Paris, 20-25 juillet, 1997. Ed. by Bernard Caron. Oxford/Elsevier Sciences, 1997. [CD-ROM version]

"Fenómenos paralelos de contacto con el inglés en el español y el rumano de Estados Unidos." Atti del XXI Congresso Internazionale di Linguistica e filologia Romanza, Centro di Studi Filologici e Linguistici Siciliani, Università di Palermo, 18-24 settembre 1995, a cura di Giovanni Ruffino. Vol. V: Dialettologia, geolinguistica, sociolinguistica. Max Niemer Verlag, Tübingen 1998: 275-283.

"Two types of predicate modification: Evidence from the articulated adjectives of Romanian." In collaboration with Mario Saltarelli. Theoretical Analyses on Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 26th Linguistic Symposium on Romance languages (LSRL XXVI, Mexico City, 28-30 March, 1996). Ed. by José Lema and Esther Treviño. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 1998: 175-192.

Dr.Dumitrescu has been re-appointed, for another 3 years (1999-2001), as asscociate editor of Hispania, the journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. She is in charge of the section entitled The Hispanic and Luzo-brazilian World. She has also been reelected for three more years as Vice-president in charge of the Western US region of the Spanish Honor Society Sigma Delta P.

Dr. Domnita Dumitrescu.

The ARA Journal will be published again as a double volume (23-24). Vol.25 will include articles about the beginning of ARA: Dr. Matasa, Dr. Cepoi, and others, who are founding members will share their recollections about the early days of ARA. The volume should be ready for the 25th Congress in Montreal in the year 2000, a silver anniversary for the ARA Journal..

At the December 1999 MLA Convention in Chicago the RSAA will celebrate its 25 years of activities. The organization is an affiliate of the Modern Languages Association. Many ARA members are also members of the RSAA. For information about officers, dues and membership the following address may be consulted on the web: http://www.uwo.ca/modlang/RSAA/index.html

ARA Members should send their most current CV to Prof. Ion Paraschivoiu, Département de Génie Mécanique, Ecole Polytechnique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, (Québec ) Canada H3C 3A7.

Ion PARASCHIVOIU, President. Département de Génie Mécanique. Section aérothermique, Ecole Polytechnique, C.P. 6079, Succ. "Centre ville, Université de Montréal, Montréal, (Québec ) Canada H3C 3A7. Tel.: (514) 340-4711. FAX: (514) 340-5917. E-mail <iopara@meca.polymtl.ca>

Ladis KRISTOF, Vice-President. Prof. Emeritus, Portland State University, Portland Oregon. Home: 23050 N.W.

Peter GROSS, Roosevelt Dr., Yamhill, OR 97148.

Vice-President and Liaison Officer. Information and Communication Studies Zip 600, Univ. of California, Chico, CA 95929-0502.

Monica M. GRECU, Secretary-General. Dept. of English, School of Arts and Sciences, Univ. of Nevada at Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557-0077. E-mail <grecu@unr.edu>

Ernest. H. LATHAM, Jr., Secretary. 285-A G Streeet S W, Washington D.C. 20024-4337.

Constantin CORDUNEANU, Admission Officer. Dept. of Mathematics. University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76010. Tel.: (817) 272-3261; (817) 272-5765. Fax: (817) 272-5802; E-mail: CORDUN@UTARLG.UTA.EDU.

Miron BONCA. Treasurer. 3153 Country Club Drive, Costa Mesa, CA 92626. U.S.A

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Dinu GIURESCU, Romanian Academy. Calea Victoriei, 125 Bucharest, Romania.

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Claude MATASA. 2026 Scott Street, Hollywood, FL 33020-2417. <Matasa@aol.com>

Nicolae H. PAVEL. Dept. od Mathematics. Ohio university. Athens, OH 45701.

Irinel DRAGAN. Department of Mathematics. University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76010

O. BARLEA, Sendinger Str. 63-J, Munchen 2, 8000 Germany.

Alphonse JUILLAND. Stanford University.

Maria Manoliu MANEA. University of California at Davis.

George. E. PALADE. University of California at San Diego.

Toma PAVEL. Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.

Emil TURDEANU. La Sorbonne, Paris, France.

Maria Manoliu MANEA. (1982 -1995). University of California at Davis.

Constantin CORDUNEANU. (1995-1998). Dept. of Mathematics. Univ. of Texas. Arlington.

Bârlea, Octavian. Romania and the Romanians. Los Angeles, 1977 $6.00

Quinlan, Paul D. Clash Over Romania. Los Angeles, l977. $7.00

Manoliu-Manea, Maria. Editor. The Tragic Plight of a Border Area: Bessarabia and Bucovina. Humboldt, l984 [Out-of-print.]

Georgescu, Vlad. Istoria Românilor de la origini pâna în zilele noastre. Davis, l984 [1st ed. out-of- print]. 1990 [2nd ed.]. $25.00

Arcade, L.M., Ion Manea, Elena Stamatescu, editors. Homo Religiosus: To Honor Mircea Eliade. Hommage à Mircea Eliade. 1990. $20.00

Timiras, Nicolae. Anii tineretii. Berkeley: 1991.$12.00

Manea, Ion. Editor. Români în Stiinta si Cultura Occidentala. Enciclopedie. Davis, l992. $35.00. [2nd Ed. 1996]. $50.00

Manea, Ion. Editor. A.R.A. Journal 12 (1989); 13-14 (1990); 15 (1991); 16-17 (1992); 18 (1993); 19

(1994); 20 (1995). each volume $20.00

Corduneanu, Constantin, Editor. Libertas Mathematica Vols. I-XVIII, 1981-1998, $30.00

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