For the last several years the branch of the English-Speaking Union that represents the District of Columbia and its neighboring communities in Maryland and Virginia has been occupying an office at 1604 New Hampshire Avenue NW, just off Q Street NW and only two blocks east of the north exit of the Dupont Circle station on Metro's Red Line. We're enormously grateful to the landlord from whom we've been renting, the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and we're delighted that its genial Secretary, Dr. John Churchill, has become associated with ESU Washington as a member of our Advisory Board.

For several months in late 2002 and early 2003 we occupied space that had been graciously provided by Klemm Analysis Group in the building at 1785 Massachusetts Avenue NW that houses the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Immediately prior to that, we rented facilities at 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW from the Woman's National Democratic Club (pictured below), an organization with which we continue to collaborate on cultural and educational programs. We also schedule a number of each season's activities in additional venues, among them the Arts Club of Washington, the British Embassy, the Cosmos Club, DACOR Bacon House, the Historical Society of Washington DC, the Shakespeare Theatre Company, and the University Club.

We're in transition at the moment. Mark Olshaker has succeeded John Andrews as Executive Director, and ESU Washington has reduced its overhead costs by giving up its quarters in the Dupont Circle area and relying, at least for an interim period, upon donated facilities elsewhere. Meanwhile the branch has replaced its former mailing address with a post-office box number. Our e-mail designation has altered as well, to esuwdc@verizon.net, but our Web, telephone, and fax details remain unchanged.

President	Gerald B. Kauvar
First Vice-President	James C. Ledyard
Treasurer	C. Braxton Moncure
Vice-President	A. Graham Down
Vice-President	William FitzGerald III
Vice-President	William L. Renfro
Vice-President	Marjorie J. Williams
Director	Stephen F. Black
Director	E. R. Braithwaite
Director	D. Elizabeth Crompton
Director	Daisy P. Crowley
Director	Donald H. Dewey
Director	George F. Farr
Director	Robert A. Fratkin
Director	Wendell Vilas Graham
Director	William F. Huneke
Director	Celia H. Josephs
Director	Willee Lewis
Director	Jeanne A. Roberts

Executive Director

Mark Olshaker

Advisory Council Members

Robert A. Brand

John Churchill

Armida Colt

Gilbert M. Grosvenor

Macauley Howard

Priscilla Liggett

Phillip H. Miller