The Wende Project would like to acknowledge the energy, imagination, and dedication of the individuals who have contributed to this package. We are grateful to those who contributed to Wende, especially Jeffrey L. High and Charlotte Melin, along with curricular contributors Brigetta M. Abel, Sonja Fritzsche, Gundolf Graml, Jennifer M. Hoyer, Lisa Jennings, DeeAnn Sime, Virginia Steinhagen, Kristin Teuchtmann, Inga Vilkevich, and to Ari Hoptman for the contextualized illustrations. We would particularly like to thank Catherine Baumann and Ray Wakefield for consulting on the materials. Without their advice, encouragement, and suggestions, the project would not have grown as it has.

We would like to recognize as well curricular contributors Brigetta M. Abel and Jennifer M. Hoyer and Software Project Director Jeffrey L. High for Wende Software; curricular contributors Brigetta M. Abel, Perry Bennett, Sonja Fritzsche, Gundolf Graml, Mirko Hall, Jennifer M. Hoyer, Inga Vilkevich, and programmer Ronan Dowling as well as Project Directors Jeffrey L. High and Perry Bennett for Wende Online; and curricular development assistants Dan Cole, Jeremy Bergerson, Katjuscha Dörfel, Barbara Drescher, Kerstin Fest, Autumn Gould, Nicole Grewling, Mirko Hall, Michelle Hazelton, Heidi Johnson, Anselm Krückels, Jürgen Laun, Evelyn Meyer, William McJunkin, Bernard Reuter, Eric Rohn, Nicholas Shafer, Christian Sieg, and Zandra K. Warzonek who co-developed individual lesson and curricular components, as well as Maylene Cummings, Blythe Inners, Adi King, Mark Kreitzer, Karen Pauly, Rebecca Raham, and Friederike von Schwerin-High, who contributed to Wende in a variety of research assistant, editorial, piloting, and consulting capacities. We would also like to recognize the voice talents of Katjuscha Dörfel, Barbara Drescher, Kerstin Fest, Sonja Fritzsche, Gundolf Graml, Xiaoling He, Helena Karlsson, Evelyn Meyer, Anne Mihan, Karen Pauly, Bernard Reuter, Inga Vilkevich, and special guest Gerhard Weiss.

Diego Castillo-Rios, Ronan Dowling, Keej Thoj, Jeff Williams, and especially Diane Rackowski provided invaluable technical support for instructional technology development.

Brigetta Abel, Perry Bennett, Maylene Cummings, Sonja Fritzsche, Jeffrey L. High, Jennifer M. Hoyer, Charlotte Melin, and Ray Wakefield undertook grant writing on behalf of the project.

Finally, we would like to thank James A. Parente (Chair, Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch, 1998-2000), Arlene A. Teraoka (Chair, Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch, 2000-2001), and Jenise Rowekamp (Director, CLA Language Center) for the sustained support they have given to the project.