Thursday April 3, 2008 at 7:00 a.m.
Creole Queen (docked near the conference hotel)
Ticket Prices: $30 (faculty; buy now); $20 (students; buy now)

Plan now to attend the usual Congenial, Caloric, and Conversational Community (how's that for 4 cs?) gathering on THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2008, AT 7:00 A.M., and be ready for a special treat.

The breakfast this year will be held aboard the Creole Queen, a paddle wheel steamer docked right near the conference hotel. We have reserved the boat from 6:30 - 8:30 a.m., and we will have plenty of room for the food, the program, and ourselves.

Directions: Exit the Hilton New Orleans Riverside (headquarters hotel) and cross the circle driveway. Walk to the right, crossing the streetcar tracks, and continue up the steps toward the Riverwalk Marketplace. You will see the ticket booth for the boat to the left, and the boat will be directly in front of you (you will see it as you walk up the steps). We will set up a check-in table in an obvious place, so look for wide-awake WPAs.

The menu includes:

Croissants & Biscuits
Scrambled Eggs
Sausage or Bacon
Cheesy Grits
Orange Juice & Coffee
AND
For a special taste of New Orleans: King Cakes!!

The cost for faculty is $30 per person. Graduate students pay only $20.

Donation to Connors Fund: We invite contributions to the Connors Fund to offset the subsidy to graduate students. For those who did not know him, Bob Connors was not only a superb rhetorician and scholar, but he never missed a WPA breakfast. Therefore, in honor of his commitment to the occasion, WPA has instituted a fund in his name to better enable graduate students to participate. Suggested amount: $7.50. Any amount welcome! You can contribute by choosing the $7.50 Donation to the Connors Fund or by selecting Variable Donation to the Connors Fund. In your shopping cart at check-out, click on "update" to change the quantity to whatever amount you'd like donate.

In addition to good food and conversation, a brief program of awards and announcements will conclude in time for everyone to attend the Opening General Session mere steps away at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside.

Purchase Your Breakfast Ticket Online

• Breakfast ticket for faculty ($30).
• Breakfast ticket for students ($20)

To purchase a breakfast ticket, visit the relevant product's page, then click on "add to cart." You can then add more items (extra tickets, donations) to your cart of check-out at any time. At check-out, you'll be prompted for your WPA site username and password, then you'll make your credit card or echeck payment through PayPal, where you can decide to use a credit card or an existing PayPal account. When finished, you will receive a generic receipt from PayPal by email and then can print a more detailed receipt after you're returned to Digital WPA (click on "view" in your order history next to the relevant purchase). To speed up the check-in process at the breakfast, be sure to bring your printed Digital WPA receipt with you!

See you there!