TAA's 20th Anniversary Dinner Celebration
Sponsored by the Text and Academic Authors Foundation (TAAF)
Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 7 p.m.
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Ellicott Room

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More than 40 people attended the TAA Foundation dinner, held at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, on Thursday, June 21, the evening before the start of the 2007 TAA Conference. Photo: Display of select issues of TAA's The Academic Author, one of which featured the launch of the TAA Foundation, and a handout containing the written history of the Text and Academic Authors Association.

TAA Foundation Executive Director Richard Hull talks with Dan Heath, who gave the keynote address at the TAA Conference the following day. Heath is the co-author of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

TAA Council member Stephen E. Gillen (left), and TAA Vice President President-Elect Paul Siegel (right) at the TAA Foundation dinner held at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, June 21.

TAA Foundation Board Member Alberto Ochoa (left), talks to Kathleen Miranda at the TAA Foundation Dinner held at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, June 21.

TAA Council Member Paul Rosenzweig and his wife Claire at the TAA Foundation Dinner held at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, Thursday, June 21.

TAA Workshop Presenter Kenneth Henson (left) and TAA Council Member Tara Gray (right), the recipient of the first Paul Anderson Memorial Membership Award, given at the TAA Foundation Dinner held at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, Thursday, June 21.

TAA Secretary Ron Pynn (left) and his friend Peggy Blood at the TAA Foundation Dinner held at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, June 21.

Former TAA Council Member Robert Christopherson (left) talks with TAA Foundation Board Chair Michael Lennie (right) at the TAA Foundation Dinner, held at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, June 21.

Bobbe Christopherson (left) and Robert Christopherson (right) at the TAA Foundation Dinner held at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, June 21.

Elva Anderson attended the TAA Foundation Dinner, held at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo in Buffalo, New York June 21, in honor of her husband Paul Anderson, TAA's first member, who died in November 2006. At the dinner, TAA gave the first Paul Anderson Memorial Membership Award to TAA Council Tara Gray, who workshops have brought in hundreds of new TAA members.

TAA Foundation Executive Director Richard Hull welcomes attendees to the TAA Foundation Dinner, held at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo in Buffalo, New York June 21.

TAA President John Wakefield (right) and his wife Janelle listen as fellow TAA Foundation Dinner attendees recount how they first became involved with TAA and why their involvement has endured.

TAA Foundation Board Chair Michael Lennie talks about the Foundation's major projects, a study of textbook diversity and a study of the textbook adoption process, at the TAA Foundation Dinner, held at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo in Buffalo, New York June 21.

TAA Founder Mike Keedy tells why he saw a need for an association for textbook and academic authors and thanks his successors for keeping his vision alive.

TAA Foundation Board Member Molefi Kete Asante tells why he became involved as a member of the TAA Foundation. He praised the Foundation's project to increase textbook author diversity.

TAA Associate Executive Director Kim Pawlak (left) with Tara Gray (right). Gray was awarded the first annual Paul Anderson Memorial Scholarship Award for her role in increasing TAA membership.