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OCTELA Spring

 Conference

 2008

March 7-8, 2008

Crowne Plaza North

6500 Doubletree Avenue,
 
Columbus Ohio 43229


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Group Code: OCTOCTA

Deadline to receive conference rate is
February 25, 2008

 

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**About Our Keynote Speakers**

Loung Ung

 

 

 

Loung Ung is a survivor of the killing fields of Cambodia where some two million Cambodians—out of a population of just seven million—died at the hands of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge regime. Loung was born in 1970 to a middle-class family in Phnom Penh. Five years later, her family was forced out of the city in a mass evacuation to the countryside. By 1978, the Khmer Rouge had killed Loung’s parents and two of her siblings, and she was forced to train as a child soldier. In 1980, she and her brother escaped by boat to Thailand where they spent five months in a refugee camp after which they relocated to Vermont. Her memoir First They Killed My Father: a Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Harper Collins, 2000) is a national bestseller and recipient of the 2001 Asian/Pacific American Librarians’ Association Award for Excellence in Adult Non-fiction Literature. Her second book Lucky Child was published by HarperCollins in 2005.

——To view a video of Loung Ung, go to http://www.creativewell.com/ung.html# and click on View Video.
 
Susan Campbell Bartoletti has written picture books, novels, and nonfiction for young readers, including the Newbery Honor book Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow. Her work has received dozens of awards and honors, including the ALA Robert F. Sibert Award for Nonfiction, the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Nonfiction, the SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction, and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. Despite writing about depressing subjects such as the horror of the Third Reich in Hitler Youth, famine in Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, and child labor in Kids on Strike! and Growing Up in Coal Country, and the pain of arranged marriages in A Coal Miner's Bride, she insists that she has a good sense of humor, no doubt a defense mechanism developed as a result of teaching eighth grade for eighteen years. She lives with her husband in northeastern Pennsylvania. They have two grown children.

Susan Campbell
Bartoletti

 

Rick Sowash

Rick Sowash was born in Mansfield, Ohio, and has always had a lively interest in Ohio's history, geography and culture. He has always liked "making things up"—telling stories and also writing stories. He started writing his first stories when he was in the 4th grade and is also a composer of classical music, having written some 200 works. Some of his most popular books include Heroes of Ohio: 23 True Tales of Courage and Character (1998); Ripsnorting Whoppers: Humor from America's Heartland (1994); Clarence the Slipshod Vaudeville Man (1974); and Critters, Flitters, and Spitters: Amazing Ohio Animal Tales. He has also been a politician, theatre manager, radio broadcaster, and innkeeper and lives in Cincinnati with his wife Jo and their children Shenandoah and John.