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Alliance Française
de Denver
571 Galapago Street
Denver, CO 80204-5032 USA
Tel: 303-831-0304
Fax: 303-573-0378
afd@afdenver.org
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Alliance Française Board of Directors.
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| Click here to read the Board President's Annual Report for 2009 |
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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!
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Dick Badler, Vice President
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.
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Kyle Swarthout, Treasurer
Kyle came to Alliance Francaise with several years of accounting, audit and tax experience gained in Colorado Springs and Denver. He earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Okla., where he was involved in the orientation of international students via International Student Services. He has traveled throughout France and visited friends in Paris, Bordeaux, Pau, Nice & Lyon. When opportunity presents itself, he and his wife Bernadett like nothing better than to be outdoors hiking, climbing, bicycling, traveling and sharing a bottle of wine with good friends.
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Fritz Bart, Secretary
Born in New Jersey of a Swiss father and a Canadian mother, Frederick B. (“Fritz”) Bart moved to Colorado with his family in the 1950’s. After college in New York State (major in Modern Languages—German and French), Fritz returned to Colorado to pursue graduate studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he earned degrees in Linguistics. After graduation he joined the Colorado School of Mines faculty, and for 12 years he taught humanities, English, project management, and technical communication. In 1988 he started his own consulting practice in business and technical communication, and since 1999 he has worked as parish administrator at Calvary Church, Golden. A member of the Alliance Française since 1988, Fritz served on the board of directors of the Alliance from 1989 until 2004, as vice president for finance, president, and secretary. Fritz continues the study of French at the Alliance each week.
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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.
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Glenn Berwyn, Board Member
Glenn was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and 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.
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Reynald Bodeux, Board Member
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.
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Rebecca Crosby, Board Member
Prior to becoming a successful real estate broker with Kentwood City Properties, Rebecca owned Crosby Partners, a pr/marketing company, for 20 years, working with Starbucks, Rock Bottom Restaurants, Stapleton, Lowry, numerous lofts in LoDo, the National Western Stock Show, and many more. She served on the board of the Denver Film Society for eight years and as chairman for two years. Currently, Rebecca serves as a director for the Denver Board of Realtors.Rebecca lived in Paris for three years as a child and has been involved with the Alliance Française de Denver for the last eight years. She is a confirmed Francophile.
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Tom McClure, Board Member
Tom has a Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue University and a Master of Arts degree from Ball State University. After retiring in 1999 from a lengthy career as Professor of Psychology at Metropolitan Community Colleges in Kansas City, Missouri, Tom relocated to Denver. His favorite activities include hiking, travel, the cinema and photography. Over the last few years, his photographs have appeared in several expositions in Colorado. He has been traveling annually to Europe since 1993 and over the years has particularly enjoyed experiencing the many differences in cuisine, culture and art that travel can provide the observant individual. He has been a longtime student at the Alliance Française de Denver and enjoys the challenge of working to increase his proficiency in a second language.
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Nancy Greeley, Board Member
Nancy is an attorney who, with her husband, Chuck, recently moved to Colorado, her husband's homestate. She joined the Alliance to improve her French. She went to France to participate in the Alliance's immmersion program and lived with her French family in Rouen. Her hobbies include reading, gardening, skiing and traveling. She attends weekly classes at the Alliance.
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Christophe Poulet, Board Member
Christophe Poulet works as an environmental health scientist for the Centers for Disease Control in Denver. His primary job is to provide environmental health expertise to communities and local health departments and the EPA on hazardous substances in the environment during environmental remediation. Another responsibility of this position is to provide similar expertise during emergencies. During his spare time he enjoys trail running, skate skiing and biathlon in the Rocky Mountains, and of course, speaking French. Chris Poulet has been on the Board of Directors since September 2007.
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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 and Editor of “Le Canard”.
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