Council of Writing Program Administrators

2008 WPA Breakfast at CCCC in New Orleans
Thursday April 3, 2008 at 7:00 a.m.
Creole Queen (docked near the conference hotel)
Faculty Price: $30.00

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!!

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.

To purchase a breakfast ticket for faculty, click on "add to cart." You can then add more items (extra tickets, donations) to your cart or 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!