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ATASC Presidents’ Message:

Posted by atasc on September 11, 2009 at 04:12 am

ATASC Presidents’ Message: ATASC BOard for 2010

Vega Sankur: ATASC President

Ersin Sengul - OCTAA President and representative

Hafize Turgut – TALL Co-President and representative (with Naime Berkoz)

Leyla Cohen – VATAN President and representative

Aytac Biber - ATASC-SD President and representative

Vedat Aslay – LATAA President and representative

Sevda Kupoglu Alexkson - ATASC Vice President

Ergun Tamer – Chief Financial Officer

Burcu Tansu – Corporate Secretary

Ayse Sule Ulubay – Member at large, Treasurer

Asuman Yilmaz – Member at large – Special Events

Tolga Yaprak – Member at large – Communication

We are all very excited to serve as volunteers to the Turkish American community whether in ATASC or in an ATASC chapter. We all agree on mutual support and total cooperation between chapters themselves and between the chapters and ATASC. We developed our 2010 goals in this spirit and agreed on the division of activities that are complementary to best serve you.

Four ATASC schools  are ready to educate the next generation in Turkish language, history and culture.  The volunteers at each chapter put their hearts and souls into these schools. I hope that you will join us in this effort by enrolling your children and/or volunteering for these schools. Furthermore, we are preparing a Children’s Festival on 18th of April in Long Beach to celebrate the Turkish Children’s Bayram.

One of the goal sof new ATASC Board is to keep you, ATASC community, better informed of ATASC issues as well as happenings in your local chapters. You are hearing from ATASC periodically in such and/or joint communications with your chapter presidents. We also just opened this group in Facebook to keep up you up to date facebook. We are awaiting your feedback about what is working, what can be done better.

Vega Sankur
ATASC President for the ATASC Board.

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ATATURK’s Corner

Ataturk dedicated 23 Nisan, the anniversary of the Turkish National Congress in 1920 to Children. His vision was:

FUTURE BELONGS TO AND IS PROTECTED BY FUTURE GENERATIONS.
He expressed it best when he addressed Turkish Youth:"

"O Turkish Youth! Your first and foremost duty is to defend and protect the Turkish independence and the Turkish Republic for all eternity. All the mighty strength that you will need exists in the noble blood a-flowing in your veins!."

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

For a full text, Click HERE

ATASC THANKS:

ATASC THANKS THE SPONSORS OF THE CHILDREN'S DAY (as of 3/31)

Bulent and Sema Basol,
Ergun and Juliana Kirlikovali,
Haluk and Vega Sankur,
Tulin and Metin Mangir,
Nevin and Selim Senkan,
Burcu Tansu
Emrak Kovacoglu - www.totalbeauty.com
Orhan Arli - www.arliscatering.com
Songul and Tolga Yaprak

ATASC SCHOOL IN IZMIT, TURKEY

ARSLANBEY ATA-SC OKULU On August 17, 1999, western Turkey was struck by a devastating magnitude-7.4 earthquake. Many thousands of people were killed, and many more made homeless by the quake that was centered near Izmit. Contributing to the rebuilding process, ATASC initiated an effort in February 2003 to build a new school for the children of Izmit. The school admitted its first class on September 13, 2004. ATASC still continues to support its namesake school.
Since 2006, ATASC sponsored 13 needy children, helped send 6 children to Space Camp Izmir, opened up a Computer Lab and a Science Lab. Most recently ATASC helped the school to open up a pre-school by furnishing four pre-school classrooms named for ATASC chapters. VATAN Chapter is currently in the process of furnishing a conference salon for the students of the elementary school.