Antonia Hendriks, President

        
Dear All,
 
We have made a great deal of progress in 2010 so far:

• A curriculum review committee has met regularly over the year and will be presenting the results of their findings very soon.
• A strategic plan retreat and final document have produced the first formal TCF strategic plan. Board members Roger Noon (U.K.) and Peter Schwartz (VA) are working on the action plan, with Foundation Administrator, Penny Harrison, as we speak.  This plan is the result of diligent work and will be executed in the next three to five years. 
• We are looking for ways to continually improve communications which you, the member, have asked us to do.  For example, we are planning to include a short statement or bio on each member showing his or her expertise and/or profession in addition to the usual name and address information.  In this way we can see the wealth of expertise within our group and have the possibility to ask each other for advice, and more importantly, we would present our school, our affiliates and members in a more professional manner.
• Summer and Winter Trainings are held in the U.S. and Europe and we continue to get rave reviews from attendees. 
• We are providing more marketing materials for our affiliate schools to use, posted as PDFs on our website. 
  
  We are becoming a 21st century Tai Chi organization!  Feel free to send us your blogs to post on the home page of our website.  And keep looking for more changes and improvements to come!
   
  We are one,
  Antonia
  

Roger Noon

 Board Member, Roger Noon

Steve Shulman

Board Member Steve Shulman

After coming to New York City in 1974 to attend Manhattan School of Music, I've been a professional musician in the area since then. I've performed in many styles of music, from symphony orchestras to brass quintets, Broadway musicals, dance bands and everything in between. I've been fortunate to tour across the U.S. and in Japan. Currently, along with my NYC free-lance work, I spend my summers performing in the orchestra for the Utah Festival Opera Company as their principal trombonist.

In 1981 I began my studies of T'ai Chi at the School of T'ai Chi here in NYC, attending classes taught by Margaret Olmsted, John Shackford, Peggy Watson, among the rest of the NYC team. In 1984 I joined the apprentice program, taking my first apprenticeship at the NY Winter Training. As a beginner I had the opportunity to teach with Peter Angelo, Bob Etherington, Lee Felton, Matsu, Alice Sherer and many others. I found a lot of inspiration and growth in getting to know the instructors in the school!

Soon after my apprentice-teaching began I started helping out with the behind-the-scenes work in NY, first in helping with the bookkeeping, eventually becoming part of the administrative team. Later this grew to assisting with the summer and winter trainings for a number of years. When the New York house incorporated as a legal entity distinct from the training division (later this work folded into the TCF), I started serving on the NYSTCC Board of Directors.

In 2007 I joined the faculty at Manhattanville College (in Westchester NY) as an adjunct instructor of T'ai Chi, teaching beginners classes to the students there, and I have been teaching there steadily since then. I feel very fortunate in being able to bring T'ai Chi to a younger generation of students!