#588: HOTEL ACCOMODATIONS -- HSA/AHAD CONFERENCE (fwd)

[Robert Corbett <bcorbett@netcom.com>]

From: Leslie Desmangles <Leslie.Desmangles@trincoll.edu>

from :Leslie G. Desmangles, HSA Conference Chair

NOTICE TO ALL THOSE ATTENDING THE HSA/AHAD CONFERENCE IN ATLANTA

Those who are planning to attend the annual meeting of the Haitian Studies
Association (HSA) and the Association for Haitian American Development
(AHAD) in Atlanta in November should send in their hotel reservations
immediately.

It has come to our attention that the American Red Cross (ARC) is also
having its annual international meeting at the same time than the HSA/AHAD
conference. The ARC meeting, I am told, will attract no less than 30,000
people who will occupy a good number of the hotel rooms in Greater Atlanta.
A block of rooms was reserved early last winter for HSA/AHAD, but the hotel
staff informs us that it may not be able to guarantee these rooms if, as we
come closer to the month of November, it estimates that these rooms may not
be occupied. The hotel may soon begin to release these rooms to the ARC
members.

If you are planning to attend the HSA/AHAD annual meeting in November, I
would urge you to call the hotel and reserve your room immediately, and I
mean no later the next three or four days. The Hotel is the Sheraton
Buckhead Hotel, and the telephone numbers are:

1 (800) 241-8260
1 (404) 261-9250

Leslie G. Desmangles 
HSA Conference Chair

Leslie G. Desmangles
Professor
Department of Religion 
International Studies Program 		Tel (860) 297-2407
Trinity College				
Hartford, CT 06106-3100 USA
Leslie.desmangles@mail.trincoll.edu	Fax (860) 297-5358