Arriving at the conference in New York City in August of 1996, BettyAnn Leeseberg-Lange, then president-elect of VASTA, pulled me aside the moment she saw me. BettyAnn had seen my voice and speech website, the "v+s page" (hosted by the University of Windsor), and asked me if I would take on the development of the VASTA website. A year and half later, that website is now up and running, thanks to our hosts at Valparaiso University (where BettyAnn works, by the way). With the help of Melanie Best, Amy Armstrong and Valparaiso Webmaster George Synowiec, BettyAnn's electronic dream has come to life on the World Wide Web.

You can access the website by typing our URL (Universal Resource Locator), <http://www.vasta.org/>, into the "Location" window in your browser (for more instructions on accessing the web, see below). This will bring you to our table of contents page, listing the links we currently have available. You may have seen other URLs before, especially the most recent address at Valparaiso University - www.valpo.edu - where our site is housed. This URL still works, though our new Domain Name, < vasta.org >, is shorter, more efficient, and easier to remember !

<vasta.org> currently houses much of the resource material about our organization that is freely available to members of the public. You can browse through a letter of welcome from President BettyAnn Leeseberg-Lange, a directory of our Board of Directors and Officers (and their email addresses so you can contact them!), VASTA Membership info, including a brief description/history of the organization you can mail in, and a listing of VASTA Publications, including the Bibliography, our

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Training Guidelines and Newsletter information and contacts. Of interest to all members will be the VASTA Professional Index, which has in it the names, addresses, work history and teaching philosophy of our members. The Index features a form, which allows those not yet listed to add their details, which is then forwarded to me to check and convert into a webpage for the site.

This is some of the content on our site - please visit and check it out. We also have information on VASTAVOX, our "listserv" which is an electronic discussion group you can subscribe to via email. This wonderfully effective means of staying in contact with our colleagues continues to grow while it enriches our community. Recent discussions have included Khoomei throat singing, tips for helping a student with a vocal/medical problem and postings of upcoming employment and conferences. The VASTAVOX page on <vasta.org> has a form which will automatically connect you to the group.

We hope to continue to develop <vasta.org> While maintaining our concerns about copyright, and keeping some resources apart as "members only," we are looking for ways to include information on how and where to look for dialect information, specifics about our Constitution and Bylaws, our Promotion and Tenure Guidelines, and archival material. I am also in discussion with Rocco Dal Vera about possible tie-ins with the VASTA Journal so that we can include sound and multi-media as companion information to go along with the publication of our Journal. If you have any ideas for the website, please don't hesitate to contact me, email <earmstro@roosevelt.edu>, phone (781) 736-3348 or snail mail Eric Armstrong, Brandeis

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