TESL Nova Scotia Board of Directors
TESL NS 2024 Officers:
President: Daniel Shaw
Vice President: Evelise Rabassa
Recording Secretary: Muhtadi Mohammed
Membership Secretary: Nicola Sattler
Treasurer: Sandra Powell
Communications Coordinator: Rita Andraous
Members at Large: Marianne Stante, Sandra Borges, Cong Chen, Karan Sethna, David Threadgold, Sandra Murdock, Farshad Shafiei, Fatemeh Azizi Hanieh
Newsletter Editor: Esther Tong, Yi Zhen
Webmasters: Sharon Churchill, Krista Royal
TESL NS Representative to TESL Canada: Rania Ghaly
By-laws and Financial Statements
The latest version of the TESL NS By-laws (2018) can be downloaded by here: By-laws for TESL NS (Nov 2018).pdf
The Memorandum of Association for TESL NS (2018) can be downloaded by clicking here: Memorandum of Association TESL NS (2018).pdf
TESL NS reports its financial status every year at its AGM and to both the Nova Scotia Registry of Joint Stocks and Revenue Canada’s Charities Directorate. These documents are public record and can be viewed upon submitting a request to info@teslns.com.
Past Presidents of TESL Nova Scotia:
2022-2023: Krista Royal
2020-2021: Julie MacDonald
2018-2019: David Packer
2017: Kris Mitchell
2016: Mary Lou Harnish
2014-2015: Rory Leitch
2012-2014: Fe Leonor Baculi
2010-2012: Andy de Champlain
2009-2010: Julian Inglis
2007-2009: Ellen Pilon
2006-2007: Emily Amos
2004-2006: Sandee Thompson
2002-2004: Jayne Geldart
2000-2002: Norma MacSween
1998-2000: Sandra Heft
1997-1998: Betsy Kennedy
1996-1997: Kathy Burnett
1995-1996: Bernice Doucet-Pearce
1994-1995: Sherry Gardner
1993-1994: Jennifer Wallace
1992-1993: Gerry Mills
1990-1992: Margaret Page
Presidents of TESL Canada from TESL Nova Scotia:
2010-2011: Ellen Pilon
2002-2003: Maureen Sargent
Margaret Page Bequest:
In 1995 TESL Nova Scotia received a generous bequest from Margaret E. Page of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The bequest helped to fund the Plenary Speaker at each annual TESL NS Conference through 2018.
