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History of ARA Newsletter

In 1988, under the Maria Manoliu Manea Presidency, ARA felt there was a need for an ARA Newsletter as a means of communication among members, but there was no one willing to take the task. In 1989, the ARA Executive Committee decided to entrust the publication of an ARA Newsletter to an editorial Board, whose members were Professors Aleksandra Gruzinska, Dan Gabriel Cacuci, Nicolette Frank (Europe), Monica N. Grecu, Peter Gross, Olga Porumbaru, and Mircea Sabau. The General Assembly approved the project and the first newsletter (Vol. 1:1) appeared in August of 1989. ARA members were invited to contribute news of significant interest about their scholarly activities. The General Editor of the ARA Newsletter was Prof. Alexandra Gruzinska, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University. For a few years, the ARA Newsletter was listed in Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory.  Gruzinska was a professor of French, interested in Romanian culture and one of her research topics was the Romanian philosopher, Emil Cioran. You can find an old page with some informatio on Prof. Gruzinska (some links do noe work) at: http://www.public.asu.edu/~gzl747.

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In the past, for many years, ARA had a highly successful newsletter. We take this opportunity to give a big Thank You to her. She made an important contribution to ARA, and then, this was followed by a long gap.

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We are now reviving the ARA Newsletter. It will be in both English and Romanian. The first three issues will be sent to all ARA members, past and present, as well as all ARA friends and other people we know whom we think appreciate learning about Romanian values. After that, the Newsletter will be distributed to only the active ARA members, as a bonus for their membership, at the beginning of each month. Its title will reflect the themes and/or main subject(s) presented in the respective newsletter issue. It will contain information about ARA activities, events, news, as well as various short articles on Romanian issues, like ARA itself, in the fields of Arts and Sciences, in Romania and around the world. New items will be posted on the ARA website, https://main.ara-as.org