The fifth biennial Watson Conference was held last week (October 7-9) and focussed specifically on Writing Center work. The following pictures were taken at the conference.

Proud mentors, Jon Olson (left) and Michele Eodice (second from right) join students Aesha Adams (Penn State) and Jennifer Meitl (University of Kansas) following their panel presentation at the Watson Conference.

Members of a panel organized by IWCA Past President Paula Gillespie included (L-R) Jennifer Meitl (undergraduate writing consultant, University of Kansas), Jim Nute (former tutor at the University of Maine), Paula Gillespie (Marquette), and Aesha Adams (doctoral student at Penn State and former tutor at Marquette).

With the acknowledged party crasher on the far left are Helen Szymanski, Ellen Schendel, and Candace Stewart (who drove in from Athens, Ohio just for the reunion party!), participants in the 2004 Summer Institute.

The “Connections and Change� panel discussed the impact of the IWCA Summer Institute on writing center professionals. (L-R) Anne Ellen Geller (Clark University), Neal Lerner (MIT), Harry Denny (SUNY Stony Brook), Dawn Mendoza (Simmons College), and Dawn Fels (Fontbonne).

Jim Nute, a former tutor at the University of Maine, visits with his former director, Harvey Kail, at the Watson Conference.

Harvey talks with Kathryn Valentine (New Mexico State, SI 04) and Mary Wislocki (New York University, SI 04) at the IWCA Summer Institute Reunion at the Brown Hotel.

Carol Mattingly, gracious hostess of the Watson Conference carries a tune with Carl Glover while a bewildered pianist tries to keep up.

Carol Mattingly (SI 03) and Brad Hughes (SI 03) enjoy a reunion at the Watson Conference.

IWCA President Jon Olson kicks back with a Kentucky bourbon during the Summer Institute Reunion at the Brown Hotel.