Alliance Française Board of Directors.

Linette Hayat, President

Linette is the director of Continental Book Company, whose main focus is on importing language books for schools, pre-k through university level, where she uses her BA in French and Spanish Education. Her family is French but she was raised in the US and has also lived in Egypt and Montreal. Linette has been a member of the Alliance board since 1994 to ensure and support the promotion of French language and Francophone cultures in Colorado. Her hobbies include reading, traveling, cooking, attending films and the theater!

Message from Linette 3-19-08

Reynald Bodeux, Treasurer

Reynald was born in northeastern France and has lived in Colorado since the mid-90’s. He has an MBA from Colorado State University and graduate degrees in Economics and Finance from the University of Nancy II in France. Locally, he has worked for the finance departments of large international corporations. He enjoys long-distance bike riding, mountain climbing, and back-country skiing. He and his wife are raising their two young sons bilingually here in Colorado.

Dick Badler, Board Member

Dick Badler and his wife Geri are relatively recent transplants to Denver. Native New Yorkers, Dick's work as a senior corporate communications executive has taken them to Louisville, KY, Lausanne, Switzerland, back to New York, Chicago, IL and, most recently, Philadelphia, PA. He has now set up a corporate communications consulting practice, working with major corporations around the country and the world.

Dick joined Alliance Francaise in order to improve his French. His motivation was the fact that his second daughter had spent her junior year abroad in Paris and, after years of correcting her, she was now correcting him. However, his membership gave him an introduction to the full breadth of programs offered by the Alliance, and he believed he could make a contribution by serving on the Board.

Catherine Bédard, Board Member

Catherine was born in Béarn and grew up in the Pays Basque, Euskadi. She attended Maurice Ravel High School in St Jean de Luz. After graduate studies in Bordeaux, Paris and Boulder, she settled in Denver, now for the past 25 years. She teaches French for DPS Online H.S. She loves to cook, travel, the arts, dance Modern and Nia. Catherine spends the summers with her family in France.

Glenn Berwyn, Board Member

Glenn was born in Frankfurt, Germany lived there until the age of 18. He traveled to France annually, as some of his family resides in the South of France. Glenn holds a degree in International Affairs. He now manages money at Bathgate Capital and lives in Castle Pines. Glenn's primary objective with Alliance Française is to share, educate and promote the wonderful French culture and cuisine.

Amy Metier, Board Member

Amy Metier has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Colorado State University and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Colorado. She is an Associate Professor of Art at Metropolitan State College of Denver, where she if the Coordinator of Foundations and teaches painting. Amy also serves on the board of the DamContemporaries with the Denver Art Museum. She exhibits her abstract paintings at the Willliam Havu Gallery in Denver as well as other places in the United States, and participated in two exhibitions in Spain and Paris last year. Amy has taken adult students to France for the past three years, where they paint in Giverny and attend museums in Paris. She loves France and the French culture and hopes to learn more about it.

Christophe Poulet, Board Member

Larry Rhodes, Board Member

Larry attended Colorado College and Tulsa University School of Law. He clerked for Chief District Court Judge Campbell and served in the El Paso District Attorneys Office. Larry was licensed to practice law in 1983. He has also served on the Board of Care and Share and the Colorado Diabetic Association. Larry is currently in private practice.

Jeffery Richards, Honorary Consul of France

Jeff is the Honorary Consul for France in Colorado. A supporter and member of the Alliance Française de Denver since the 1980s, he is a former President of the Board of Directors. He has studied and worked in Paris and traveled widely throughout France. Other foreign residences include Switzerland, Germany, and Greece. A lawyer by training, he began his law career in Washington, D.C., where he moved from to join the firm of Anstine, Hill, Richards and Simpson and where he is currently a partner. A former practitioner of many exotic and interesting hobbies, these have mostly been postponed and instead he is regaling in the raising of his two spirited daughters, Laetitia and Nathalie. Jeff’s wife, Carolyn, is a former Board member, Vice President of Theater, Editor of “Le Canard,” as well as a current member of the Alliance and Co. Theater troupe.

Christian Roche, Board Member

Vincent Trinquesse, Board Member

Vincent has been residing in the U.S. since 1999, spending years living and working in New York and in New Jersey, working in an advertising agency. He later became the marketing manager for DISH Network and the French-language television channel TV5MONDE.Vincent recently moved to Colorado – and loves it! He now works for the Consulate General of Canada in Denver.He is fond of outdoor activities like skiing, biking, and running and is also an ‘amateur’ chef and wine lover; well, being born and raised in Burgundy in a family of wine producers, he is not ready to give up his background and education.