Fall 2021
Updates: Tom’s Fall Trip to Chita, Children’s Center, The Shipleys, International Student’s Day, Movie Club, Summer 2022 Tour to Siberia
Spring 2021
Remembering Olga Isaakovna Fleshler (1940-2020): bilingual edition of writings by colleagues and friends. Cover Letter by Chuck Ritchie with news about Anton Yudin and a major grant to the Children’s Center “Unity.”
Fall 2020
UPDATE: Shipleys project; Russia-US movie club movies viewed; 4th Annual International Students Day Tri-Country Video Conference; COVID-19…Report for the Children’s Center “Unity”…Profile: A Conversation with Anne, Jean and Charlie Dickinson…Memorial to Olga Fleshler, 1940-2020
Spring 2020
UPDATE: SB and the pandemic; Party with Olga and Elena at University of Minnesota; The Shipley’s project; University collaborations; Goodbye to our high school volunteers; 3rd Taste of Zabaikalye Tour moved to 2021; Join our call for very short “selfie” videos…NEWS FROM THE CHILDREN’S CENTER “UNITY” (Children’s Home in Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky)…RUSSIA-US MOVIE CLUB BY VIDEO CONFERENCE…AND THE PEOPLE STAYED HOME, poem by Kitty O’Meara, translation by Olga Fleshler…DONORS May 2019-April 2020
Fall 2019
Isabella Saldana Haworth cover letter; Updates about Children’s Center “Unity” in Petrovsk Zabaikalsky, US visit by Olga Fleshler and Elena Pishcherskaia, letter from Irina Shipley about their work with orphans, 2020 Taste of Zabaikalye Tour coming up, Third Annual Tri-Country College Video Conference on International Students Day, 11-17 yr old English learners to visit Minneapolis in Fall 2020, Isabella to teach in Chita this summer.
Spring 2019
Kevin Brondum cover letter, Spring Update (with Children’s Center news), Profile of Alexandra Koullick, SB volunteer, Tusovka and Recipe, Annual Donor Recognition, In Memoriam: Lucy Hartwell
Fall 2018
2018 [2nd] Taste of Zabaikalye Tour, 2nd Annual Tri-Country Video Conference, Comparative financial report: 2015 and 2017, Memorial to Tanya Sukhanova, Come to our Tusovka!
Spring 2018
Fall 2017
Tom Dickinson cover letter, Fall update: International Student Video Conference, Irina and Michael Shipley’s “boys”, “You’re Super” winners from Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky, Taste of Zabaikalye 2018 tour is on!, Thank you Paul Johnson; Profile of Janet Stewart; Taste of Zabaikalye 2018 Tour Aug 15 – 29.
Spring 2017
Janet Stewart cover letter, Spring update, Children’s Home Report, Profile of Kevin Brondum, Tom’s Summer in Chita, Donors, Poem by Slava Vyunov, “Out for Mushrooms.”
Fall 2016
Kevin Brondum cover letter, Children’s Center, New project with another Children’s Center, Profiles of two Chita entrepreneurs, Elena Prusakova and Natalia Zaitseva, Impressions of summer sojourns in Zabaikalye by the three Americans (one a dual American Canadian citizen) who taught English at camps this past summer, invitation to join next summer’s “Taste of Zabaikalye” Tour.
Spring 2016
Olesya Bezhina cover letter, Update, Children’s Center, Poem by Slava Vyunov, Donor list, Tours in 2017
Fall 2015
Jennifer, Tom, and Chuck all go to Chita in May–June, Children’s Home visit, two tours to Zabaikalye offered.
Spring 2015
Olga and Elena in the US, 2016 Tour info, Children’s Home, Decembrist note, Meet Tonya, Donors.
Fall 2014
Fall Fundraiser, updates on Summer Tour, Children’s Home and Village Schools, Meet Irene.
Spring 2014
Russian Song Recital, tour update, Tatiana Sukhanova, Children’s Home update.
Fall 2013
20 Year Anniversary, Star Tribune article dated 9/30/13 and Meet Victor Kulakovsky and Yelena Anisimova.
Spring 2013
Children’s Home 50-yr anniversary, Meet Elena Solovyeva, Volunteerism in Chita then and now.
Fall 2012
Chuck and Judy’s trip, meet Judy, thanks from English teachers for books, program updates, memory lane with Tom.
Fall 2011
Computer, Pen Pals and Pipeline for Children’s Home, Meet Paula (SB Chair) and Natalya Skliarova (Children’s Home Director) Thanks from Pushkin Library , Thanks to donors!
Fall 2011 Cover Letter
Spring 2011
Greetings from Paula & Sheila, New FB page, Vika from Children’s Home can sing!, Paul’s story, Kickoff Computer for Kids program.
Fall 2010
There’s an old Russian proverb, Chuck Ritchie’s visit to Chita, Updates, What we’re up to, Thank you to Donors!
Summer 2007
Goodbye…For Now, A message from Tom Dickinson, founder and President, A message from Judy Boudreau, Secretary – Treasurer and Board Member, Thanks to our Donors.
Summer 2007 Russian Translation Newsletter
Winter 2006
Last summer’s service/adventure tour thrills the Polakoff family, Service-tourism is a Gateway to Siberian Culture, plus much more.
Fall 2004
There I Was, A Toast to the Romantics, Russian Weddings, plus much more.
Fall 2003
More ideas? You bet!, In other News Exited, About My Exile, plus much more.
Summer 2003
It’s Has Been an Incredible Decade!, A Beautiful Friendship, Enchanted in Aginsk, plus much more.
Winter 2002
Message from Tom Dickinson, the Founder of SB, Tatyana Puchkova, Executive Director, My Journey to SB, Colin McMullan is writing to us from Krasny Chikoy, plus much more.
Winter 2001
Poetry in the Classroom, Letter from Zabaikal, Bringing a World of music to Russia’s Far East, 2001 Accomplishments, plus much more.
MUSICAL BRIDGES NEWSLETTERS
Spring 2001
Leadership!, Message from Chapo, Chairman, Message from Alina Simon, Executive Director, plus much more.
Fall 2000
Meet Beth Merrill, Our Executive Director, Images from Chita, plus much more.
Spring 2000
Message from our Chairman, Tom Dickinson,…e-mail diary of Jean and Charles Dickinson on their March–April trip to Chita, plus much more.
Fall 1999
Message from our President, Anne Dickinson, Emails from Chita, plus much more.
Spring 1999
President’s Message, And THANKS to Our Book and Computer Donors for the shipment to Chita, plus much more.
Summer 1998
Thomas Dickinson travels to Chita, Excerpts from letters to Musical Bridges, plus much more.
Fall 1997
Musical Bridges commitment to Chita.
Spring 1997
My Visit to the United States by Professor Oleg Gotlib, plus much more.
Fall 1996
President’s Report, Professor Oleg Gotlib visits the United States, Executive Director Report, plus much more.
Spring 1996
Letter from the field, History of Musical Bridges, Completed Projects, Current and Future Projects, plus much more.
Summer 1995
Letter from Anne Dickinson, Letter from Tom Dickinson, plus much more.
Fall 1994
Letter from Tom Dickinson.
1994 Cover Letter
1991 Introduction
Tom Dickinson, Pianist—1991 Tour, Letter from Tom Dickinson, Musical Bridges “A Connecticut Yankee in China and Russia”, plus much more.