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Announcement - New Appointments
an'ya, Sue Mill & Alison Williams


The World Haiku Club is pleased to announce three new appointments in the important beginners' area.

an'ya has kindly agreed to take up the position of Director in Charge of Beginners with immediate effect. She will also work as Editor of WHCbeginners for World Haiku Review. Though an'ya will be responsible mainly for WHCbeginners, she will also be in charge of the development and promotion of welfare of beginners in the whole of WHC. I wish to thank her for her contributions so far and would like to ask you to join me in wishing her all the best and success in her new capacity.

Simultaneously, Sue Mill and Alison Williams have been so kind as to accept their new positions as Co-Facilitators of WHCbeginners and Co-Editors of the World Haiku Review's WHCbeginners section. With these appointments, WHCbeginners list is expected to be more successful and useful than it has already become. There will be an improvement of WHCbeginners in the near future to make it more of a specialist list for a much smaller number of dedicated mentees with more focused, "intensive" and sophisticated methods. an'ya will oversee the changeover process. Details will be announced in due course. As a timely coincidence, the current cycle of C & C mentorship at WHCbeginners is going to come to completion at the end of this month when the changeover will take place.

I will be announcing more appointments and also some more new mailing lists to be activated in the coming weeks. This is based on the general review of all the lists and World Haiku Review for possible improvements. Closely related to the improvement of WHCbeginners is the creation of a large list of a workshop type. This will be called WHChaikuforumworkshop and will replace the present WHChaikuforum which in turn will become a more specialised list for "senior" haiku poets with a much smaller membership and an expectation of higher standards and quality and also of attracting more "established" good haijin as new members. All the existing members of WHCbeginners and WHChaikuforum will be tentatively transferred to become members of WHChaikuforumworkshop and then application will be invited anew for WHCbeginners and WHChaikuforum.

The three lists, WHCbeginners, WHChaikuforumworkshop and WHChaikuforum, plus our WHCvanguard will constitute the "trunk" (main body) of WHC if we compare ourselves to a young tree. Other lists are branches. Let us hope that the tree
will grow further in the second year to a fully-fledged entity with higher standards and quality.

Kengin,

Susumu

22/11/01

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