Community College Humanities Association
Southern Division Conference
Miami Beach, Florida
October 26-28, 2000

FEATURED SPEAKERS AND PERFORMERS
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Thursday, Oct. 26, Plenary Session

This acclaimed gospel ensemble will sing a selection of gospel standards as well as several lesser known pieces that they have rescued from obscurity.  Wayne Bumpers directs the group and will provide commentary and historical background on each of the songs that the group sings.

Friday, Oct. 27, 11:00 a.m.

A native of Camaguey, Cuba, Eduardo Zayas-Bazan is a nationally known educator in Spanish language and culture. His Spanish language textbook, Arriba!, is one of the most widely used in colleges and universities. He is the author of a recent intermediate college textbook for Spanish, Conexiones, also published by Prentice Hall. In addition to contributing numerous articles in regional and national journals, he is the co-author, co-editor and translator of seventeen books. Dr. Zayas-Bazan has served as president of several national organizations that are dedicated to the teaching of language and culture, including the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese and the National Association of Cuban-American Educators, where he currently holds the position of Chair of the Board of Directors.  Dr. Zayas-Bazan has also served as associate editor of Hispania, the journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.

Dr. Zayas-Bazan is Professor Emeritus in Foreign Languages at East Tennessee State University where he served as chair of the department for twenty years. He is the recipient of many awards including East Tennessee State University's Distinguished Faculty Award, Sigma Delta Pi's Premio Martel, given every three years to the nation's outstanding chapter advisor, and the Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association's Jacqueline Elliot Award for outstanding service in foreign language higher education.

Dr. Zayas-Bazan has an M.S. in foreign languages from Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, KS, and a Doctor en Derecho degree from Universidad Nacional Jose Marti, Havana, Cuba.

Les Standiford

The New York Times says of Les Standiford that he makes writing "...look easy and elegant ...each scene unfolds like a little gasp for breath." The Philadelphia Inquirer says that Standiford's work "...calls to mind the fiction of Graham Greene." Les Standiford is currently Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Florida International University in Miami. He is the author of the novels, Spill, Done Deal, Raw Deal, Deal to Die For, Deal on Ice, Presidential Deal and Black Mountain. His novels have been reprinted in the United Kingdom, Holland, France, Germany and Japan. He has been a regular reviewer for The Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, New York Newsday, and The New York Daily News.

Standiford attended the Air Force Academy, Columbia University School of Law, and holds a B.A. in Psychology from Muskingum College in Ohio and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah. He is a former screenwriting fellow and graduate of the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. He is the co-author of Bones of Coral, a screenplay based on the novel of the same name by James W. Hall, for MGM-Pathe. He wrote the screenplay adaptation of Spill, recently released as a feature film on SHOWTIME starring Brian Bosworth. He is author of the text for the best-selling book of photographs by Alan S. Maltz, Miami: City of Dreams, and of the history, Coral Gables: The City Beautiful.

Standiford is a past recipient of the Frank O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in Fiction, and a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Fiction. His short stories and articles have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies, including The Kansas Quarterly, Writer's Digest, Smoke Magazine, The Key West Reader, and Confrontation.

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