I'm
looking for Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Holter. Her maiden name is Miss Mary Elizabeth
Mohler.Any information about her is greatly appreciated!I found that she
taught at Glradora High School <Glendora High School??> near
Los Angeles. I would llove to contact the school in the near future!!!
fumiko 2005
I had no luck. We don't know how to find her...2006 Alice in Nara Foreman
sensei
1989.3 And
today I found my own work on the internet^_^
"Lead Me to Heirinji Templei
by Fumiko Noda (Tachibana)" Music by Mr.
Foreman
"Alice in Nara
by Fumiko Noda (Tachibana)" a short story written in 1980.
There is a drill attached to it too!
Msaya Saito,Foreman
sensei and I are looking for you!!
I am sorry I was missing for a long time. Please
email me
The
most beautiful place in the world
"MY
ALBUM" is almost all about the years spent as a
Japanese language teacher since 1991.
All other previous years spent as an English teacher in Japan
and a writer/poet are no longer here. It's about
time to go back
not to anywhere but where I was supposed to be.
"I
am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset now."
"But we must wait," I said.
For what?"
"For
the sunset. We must wait until it is time."
At first you seemed to be very much surprised. And then you laughed to
yourself.
You said to me:
"I am always thinking that I am at home!"
from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery
http://www.angelfire.com/hi/littleprince/frames.html
This
is an incredible place to believe the world.
Pleae read!ftachibana@aol.com
I'm
looking for Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Holter.
Her maiden name is Miss Mary Elizabeth Mohler.
Any information about her is greatly appreciated!
I
found that she taught at Glradora (Glendora?) High
School near
Los Angeles from the article that I found. I would llove
to contact the school in the near future!!! fumiko
How are you guys doing? Let the memories not fade
Hope you are doing fine!! That was my last
semester at swc. JPN220 Write me when
you have time.
Yukio
2004
2003 Fall
On the way back from Drosh
The man keep watching me
and the night is cold
with trees on the slopes
showing off their roots.
We drive and drive
not knowing if we'll ever reach the refugees
tonight. And the yellow moon
is the only headlight
as I curl
in this Chitrali goathair carpet
tough in hunger and thirst
warm as a goat
and wishing I
were a tourist again.
here we are
after your pedaling hours
and hours on the heavy bicycle
me behind you
with your dirty shirt as a seat
me behind you
stuck to your sunburnt back --
here we are
with skies high above us clouds
low above us birds
together with us the waterfall
sounding around us
and evening light
is solid as the stone stairs
as voices' laughter
spills over the tops of green leaves
children from faraway
maybe by the lake
and your bathing in springwater
as a cuckoo
is telling us when
to look up, look up, look up
-to the continent and backs
2005
Vienna
Mizuma Akira chan & Emi4 at Kikyogaoka Yukio 3 in Kunitachi with Ojiichan ^_^
my old photos
Ascona
Colloquium, Switzerland1980My
Calligraphy at Writers Bookstore & Haven
my early days in San Diego with friends 1989
Playing drums with students Spring 1986 photo by Joshua Blake
1998SWC
Summer Course students 2002Temecula
Winery photo by bm
Community Service/Involvement:
Volunteered as Contact Person
& PR for San Diego Region Japanese Speech Contest & web since 2001:
"Those
awards, which come with $1,000 and a reserved parking space next school year,
were presented
by Berta Cuaron, vice president for instruction." North
County Times
Nominated for DFA. Palomar College, March 2005.
Teacher Training Summer Institute (Exchange Japan), Bryn Mawr College, 1994
(Scholarship)
National Endowment for the Humanities, second half of the program, Gakushuin
University, 1993 (Grant)
National Endowment for the Humanities, first half of the program, San Francisco
State University, 1992 (Grant)
Authentic material based teaching led by late Dr. Mishima, San Francisco State
University.
Goddard Graduate Program, Vermont College of Norwich University, 1982 - 1984
(Scholarship)
Grand prize (Poetry Contest), Tokyo English Literature Society, Poetry Contest
open to native speakers of English, 1983 (prize: cash)
Grand Prize (Short story), Japalish Review, Philippin Ministry of Tourism, a
Trip to the Phillipines 1982 (prize: round trip to the Phillipines)
and some other small poetry awards.
Fond memories winning prizes in schools:
Third Place: English Speech Contest, Niigata University :)
Special Prize, School Song Contest, Lyric, Nara Joshidai Fuzoku High School
:) Cash award (1000 yen)
Grand Prize, School Song Contest, Music, Nara Joshidai Fuzoku High School :)
Cash award (1000 yen)
TOEIC
TEST (2 CD's), Seibido Shuppan, Tokyo, March 20, 1998
ISBN4-415-08652-7 (Out of print)
HappyAlphabet,
AlphabetPress. San Diego, December 1998
To
the Continent and Back, jSpecial Issue of Printed Matter (English) SaruPress
International
formerly owned by Tokyo English Literature Society, 1989
ISBN 0-935086-12-9 , (Out of print) This book will be re-printed sometime this
year.
Dictionary:
Cooperated in the produciton of featured articles on American
families and schools, 1995,
Victor Anchor, English Japanese Dictionary, Gakken Publishing, Tokyo, 1996,
ƒrƒNƒgƒŠ[ƒAƒ“ƒJ[‰p˜aŽ«“T
Other
side river: free verse: Contemporary Japanese Women's Poetry, Volume 2
edited/translated by Leza Lowitz and Miyuki Aoyama (The Rock Spring Collection
of Japanese Literature)
The work of 36 Japanese women poets, 256 pp, 5.5 x 7.25", paper 1-880656-16-7,
$14.00
Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley, CA 1995
Other Side River: Free Verse
(Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature)
http://tinyurl.com/oohw7 (amazon.com review)
http://tinyurl.com/zapjx@(amazon.co.jp review)
A Long Rainy
Season: Haiku and Tanka
(Contemporary Japanese Women's Poetry, Vol 1)
(Winner of the 1995 Benjamin Franklin Award.)
http://tinyurl.com/hrbvz (amazon.com review)
http://tinyurl.com/qjdfv (amazon.co.jp review)
StoneBridge
web site:
http://www.stonebridge.com/OTHERSIDERIVER/osr.html
http://www.stonebridge.com/LONGRAINY/long_rainy_season.html
"Amazon.co.jp
Stone Bridge Pressからの「Contemporary Japanese Women's
Poetry」シリーズ第2弾は、シリーズタイトルの示すとおり「日本人女性が
書いた詩の英訳集」である。
Book Description
Japanese poets have been writing tanka and haiku for hundreds of years. Japanese
free verse, however, is barely a century old, and women's free
verse in Japan is younger still. This collection, the second volume in the Stone
Bridge anthology of contemporary Japanese women's poetry, introduces the work
of some three dozen of Japan's finest women poets who specialize in free verse.
Remarkable for their diversity and passion, these poems provide a vivid
contrast to the more traditional verse forms featured in Volume One, A Long
Rainy Season.
From the Publisher
Stone Bridge Press is a leading English-language publisher of Japanese literature
in translation. Our ROCK SPRING COLLECTION OF JAPANESE
LITERATURE features absorbing and important translations of classical and contemporary
Japanese fiction and poetry. We believe that literature is a window
into culture and society, and an expression of what is most peculiarly, and
universally, human..."
ew Canadian Review, Midwest Poetry Reviews
WPBS Poetry and many periodicals.
Local Presentations List:
Integrating images into our daily teaching, from a technical point of view, CAJLT,
San Dieuito Academy High School, December 22, 2007, CAJLT
Integrating hot daily news into uor daily teaching,
from a technical point of view, CAJLT, San Dieguito Academiy High School, April
30, 2006 Yamatesen Kanji studies
thru Yamatesen, as part of Spring Japanese Afternoon at PalomarCollege, April
24, 2005,
San Diego Japanese Teachers Workshop Spring 2004, Saturday March 27 9:30 -2:30,
CSU San Marcos (University Hall 260)
1:05 - 1:35音楽を聴きながら楽しく感じを覚えさせてしまう方法
(Ongaku o kikinagara Tanoshiku kanji o oboe saseteshimau hoho)
(web site available for worksheets): Hamasaki Ayumi's Whatever and Utada Hikaru's
"First Love" were presented.
Enhancing learning via virtual and actual foreign excursions and cultural exploration,
LA, November 9, 2003.
Teachers of Japanese in Southern California (TJSC/Program)
Anime as a Learning Tool for the study of Japanese, San Diego
Japanese Teachers Workshop, Palomar College June29, 2002
ChibimarukoSentoniikunomaki was introduced.
Anime as a Learning Tool for the study of Japanese, CLTA (California Language
Teachers Association) Conference, April 26-29, 2001
(with . Ms. Yoko Wong)
Email, San Diego Japanese Teachers Workshop, Cal State University San Marcos,
January 20, 2001
Communicative Approach and the Jorden Method: Can We Mix Them?(with Ms. Kyoko
Shoji), Teachers of Japanese of Southern California (TJSC),
the Japan Foundation Language Center, Santa Monica, CA, November1994. We are
looking for our own handouts.
TJSC/Program
Ideas for Enhancing Student Motivation, TJSC, Cypress College, CA, April1992
TJSC/Program
Using Pop Songs in Teaching English, Department of English,
Niigata University, Japan, 1982
Odium Cafe & Bar, San Diego, 1989, San Diego "Artwork Festival, "
(with Steve Garber), Downtown San Diego, 1990 and 1992.
Border Voices, Organ Pavilion, Balboa Park, San Diego 1994
Poetry & Music with
MaryLu, La Jolla Country Day School, February 1998.
& many other readings at coffee shops, galleries, etc. in Tokyo and San
Diego. Teaching
in the US:
California State University San Marcos, Fall 2007.
Palomar College, San Marcos, San Diego, Japanese 101 101A 102 101B (Fall 1991,
Fall 1999 - present), 197, 201 (summer program in Japan)
Southwestern College, Chula Vista, San diego, Japanese 120, 120A 120B 130, 220,
(Spring 1991 - Fall 1994, Fall 1999 - Fall 2004)
Honolulu University/Independent studies (1999 - )
Self employed sabatical for one year.
La Jolla Country Day School, Middle School & Upper School (Japanese 1,2,3,4,4Honors)
, (Fall 1991 - Summer 1998)
San Diego Mesa College, Japanese 1,2, Conversation (Spring 1995 - Summer 1989)
Grossmont College, Japanese 1 (Fall 1997)
San Diego State University, Comparative Literature, Visiting Researcher, December
1989 - December 1990.
College Counselor for Bunka Women's University 1989.
I left Japan in the spring of 1989:
My sincere and heart-felt thanks to Dr. Dan McLeod at San Diego State Universtiy,
Prof. Steve Kowit at Southwestern College,
and all the writers and poets at the Writer's Bookstore and Haven, who gave
me all the support.
Teaching in Japan
Tokyo University of Liberal Arts (Tokyo Gakugei Daigaku=“Œ‹žŠwŒ|‘åŠw)
1984 - 1989
Saitama University 1988 - 1989
Senzoku Junior College 1984 - 1988
Osaka Kinki University Fuzoku High School
Niigata Prefectural Takada High School (Full Time)
Niigata Prefectural Takada Kitashiro High School (Full Time)
Academic Background:
BA, English Literature, Department of Humanities and Science, Niigata University,
Japan
MA, English: English Literature
and Creative Writing, Goddard Graduate Program at Vermont College of Norwich
University
(Interviewed
in Zurich, Switzerland,
January 1980. Goddard College, Plainfield, VT. Goddard College sold
the Goddard Graduate College Program to Norwich University in Fall 1981.
Other Graduate Courses
completed:
San Francisco State University (Japanese)
University of California Davis (English)
East Carolina University:
Proglems and issues in Education: Curriculum and Instruction for Japanese Language
Design of Multimedia Instructional material
Pennsylvania State University: Teaching of English as a Second Language
Writer's Workshop (Poetry) completed at Rochester University:
summer of 1982
while I was working toward the master's degree through Goddard Graduate Program.
Malcom Cowley's words still ring in my ears:
"Read a great deal, write a great deal, and get published."
Joel Agee and Linda Gregg, the author of TOO BRIGHT TO SEE were my mentors.
Countries visited or stayed:
Annual Trip to Japan with students since 2000
- current.
Annual visit to my parents grave
Annua. visit to my daughter in Tokyo. (Son works in Los Angels.)
India, Ladhak (1988) Pakistan (Peshawar, Chitral, Drosh,
Islamabad, Lahol) 1988, July - October
Europe:
Austria (Sarzburg, Vienna) 2005,
Belgium (Brussel) 2004,
Germany (Munich, Wurzburg) 1980, 2004,
Switzerland (Ascona, Geneva, Zurich) 1980, 2000, 2004,
Italy (traveling through northan part of it, Rome) 1980, 2000,
France (Sergy, Paris) 2000, 2005,
Spain (Madrid) 2003, Portugal (Faro, Lisbon) 2003,
Monaco 2000,
Vatican 2000,
Great Britain: London
2003, 2005, Scotland (Edingborough) 2005
US: my favoriate spot in the world: Delicate Arches in Utah.
Mexico: major trips
Zihuatanejo
2004 Ixtapa2004, etc. Zihuatenejo is the best among many other parts in Mexico.
Canada:
Toronto
May 2007, Niagara Falls Montreal
August 2008
Hobbies:
Playing
loving melody of Satie and Mozart
Gymnopédie No.1
conducting an orchestra in Austria!!
Dance: ballet, modern dance, etc.
<--when I was 12.If
my legs had been 30 centimeter longer, I would have absolutely become a dancer.
^_^
Guitar: Playing classical guitar. I played this and performed at the club meeting
Asturias by Albeniz MIDI
I wished I would be a street musician.
Dedicated fan of this guitarist:
Concerts attended: Tottori1982, Tokyo1987, 1988, San Diego 1995, Nice,
France 2000, Nice France 2003, San Diego 2005, and
one more time in San Diego...
Jazz Fest in Nice, France
2005
(C) Fumiko Tachibana 2008
from all good things old and new
<--when I was 12.If
my legs had been 30 centimeter longer, I would have absolutely become a dancer.
^_^
