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This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the Peace Corps, with two days of celebrations, in Washington, DC, September 22 – 24. (http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=about.fiftieth)
Hotel availability is limited, because the International Monetary Fund’s biennial Washington, DC meeting is going on, during the same dates.
Kevin Elder, of Planit Meetings, is holding a block of rooms, for Peace Corps events, at the Hotel Rouge, a Kimpton Hotel, a few blocks, from Peace Corps offices, and event sites. Please contact Kevin, for your Peace Corps reunion hotel needs, or any time you need one, or many hotel rooms, in Washington, DC, and other cities, in the US.
Kevin has been in the hotel business for more than 25 years, and has preferred rates at many hotel brands. He and his quality assurance team regularly visit hotels, that he sells, to determine if they meet his high standards.
Email or call Kevin, for your Peace Corps reunion, or other hotel needs!
Kevin Elder
Planit Meetings
kelder@planitmeetings.com
919-387-0057 phone
919-387-3731 fax
202-257-8330 cell
About John
About John
John Bolinger was born and raised in Northwest Indiana, where he attended Ball State University and Purdue University, receiving his BS and MA from those schools. Then he taught English and French for thirty-five years at Morton High School in Hammond, Indiana before moving to Colorado, where he resided for ten years before moving to Florida. Besides COME SEPTEMBER, Journey of a High School Teacher, John's other books are ALL MY LAZY RIVERS, an Indiana Childhood, and COME ON, FLUFFY, THIS AIN'T NO BALLET, a Novel on Coming of Age, all available on Amazon.com as paperbacks and Kindle books. Alternately funny and touching, COME SEPTEMBER, conveys the story of every high school teacher’s struggle to enlighten both himself and his pupils, encountering along the way, battles with colleagues, administrators, and parents through a parade of characters that include a freshman boy for whom the faculty code name is “Spawn of Satan,” to a senior girl whose water breaks during a pop-quiz over THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. Through social change and the relentless march of technology, the human element remains constant in the book’s personal, entertaining, and sympathetic portraits of faculty, students, parents, and others. The audience for this book will certainly include school teachers everywhere, teenagers, parents of teens, as well as anyone who appreciates that blend of humor and pathos with which the world of public education is drenched. The drive of the story is the narrator's struggle to become the best teacher he can be. The book is filled with advice for young teachers based upon experience of the writer, advice that will never be found in college methods classes.
Another of John's recent books is Mum's the Word: Secrets of a Family. It is the story of his alcoholic father and the family's efforts to deal with or hide the fact. Though a serious treatment of the horrors of alcoholism, the book also entertains in its descriptions of the father during his best times and the humor of the family's attempts to create a façade for the outside world. All John's books are available as paperbacks and Kindle readers on Amazon, and also as paperbacks at Barnes & Noble. John's sixth book is, Growing Old in America: Notes from a Codger was released on June 15, 2014. John’s most recent book is a novel titled Resisting Gravity, A Ghost Story, published the summer of 2018
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