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•pg_3-13__BMT_pg3-58 4/30/13 11:51 AM Page 8 IN THE NEWS HARRIET ROSS TUBMAN 2013 CENTENNIAL COMMEMORATION In September of 2012, a kick-off gathering for the statewide, national and international programs, events and activities being planned to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Harriet Ross Tubman's passing was held at the Reginald Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture. Special guests included Ms. Patricia Ross Hawkins, Tubman's greatgreat-great niece, and other Tubman descendants from Maryland's Eastern Shore, Baltimore and Washington, DC. Pictured here are Tubman family members at the Reginald Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture. Last year's kickoff event was organized by Louis C. Fields, president of the African American Tour-ism Council of Mary-land, Inc. Fields has also helped plan many of this year's events listed below as well. This years activities include: • Feb 28-Mar 1, Tubman Day 2013 in WDC. Rsvp to email: loucfields@gmail.com. • Mar 8, 2013, Tubman Day at MD Statehouse, Annapolis, MD. Rsvp to email: loucfields@gmail.com. • Mar 8-10, Tubman Day in Cambridge MD. Call (410) 228.0401, (Mar 10, Harriet Tubman Boosters event, Auburn, NY) • June 1-3, Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Conference in Cambridge, MD. • June 19-22, NPS UGRR Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas, www.nps.gov/ugrr • Aug 1-3, Harriet Ross Tubman Family Reunion in Cambridge, MD. Rsvp to email: loucfields@gmail.com. • Sept 16-21, Follow the Tubman-Douglass-Henson UGRR Freedom Trail. MD to Niagara Falls. Rsvp to email: loucfields@gmail.com SAN DIEGO CVB CHANGES NAME TO SAN DIEGO TOURISM AUTHORITY The San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau changed its name to the San Diego Tourism Authority, effective January 1, 2013. The new name reflects the prevailing corporate naming of destination marketing organizations, domestically and internationally, and better communicates the organization's role as the "official travel resource of the San Diego region." "Our new name is direct, easy to understand, memorable and recognizable, which is vital as San Diego becomes more visible on the global tourism stage," stated Joe Terzi, president & CEO of the San Diego Tourism Authority. "The new name also speaks to the key role our organization plays as the authority on all things related to our region's tourism industry," Terzi added. Incorporated in 1954, the newly named San Diego Tourism Authority markets and sells the greater San Diego region as a premier meeting and vacation destination. The organization has satellite offices domestically in Washington D.C. and Chicago along with sales staff deployed in the northeast and Texas; it also has representation internationally with firms in the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan and Korea. The San Diego Tourism Authority is a private, non-profit, mutual benefit corJOE TERZI poration composed of approximately 1,100 member organizations, businesses, 8 B M & T ••• March/April 2013 ••• www.blackmeetingsandtourism.com