August 23,
2004
To LaRES Delegates,
On behalf of the International Real Estate Society and the American Real
Estate Society, I am honored to welcome you all to the LaRES meetings
and to congratulate you and your organizing committee on what appears
to be an exciting few days of sharing your research and teaching methods.
I would also like to strongly encourage you to continue your efforts to
develop the Latin American Sister Society as a vibrant and established
organization. Although I am well aware that it has been a long slow process,
but as the saying goes, "Rome was not built overnight". It is evident
to me that the work your leaders have done most recently with the IRES
Board has started moving LaRES in a positive direction for increased growth
and success toward your goals of expanding the quality and prominence
of real estate education and research. We wish you the very best for a
great meeting where you will learn and grow from your shared research.
We also hope that you will become a close knit community of scholars that
support each and work together to expand real estate education and research
throughout your part of the world. Although I would have loved to attend
the conference (previous commitments forced me to decline an invitation
to attend), the IRES board and I are anxiously awaiting a full report
of your meetings. We are looking forward to working with you over the
next couple of years, as you work to expand the membership of the organization
to other countries as you build this important regional society of the
International Real Estate Society. If there is anything we can do to help
your progress, please do not hesitate to ask. Best of luck to you all
for a truly fulfilling but also a fun filled conference!
All the best,
Elaine Worzala
2003 President of the International Real Estate Society and
President-Elect of the American Real Estate Society
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