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56 THE SOUTH CENTRAL BULLETIN May, 1973 56 THE SOUTH CENTRAL BULLETIN May, 1973

News Notes Rolande L. Leguillon (St. Thomas), incoming president

of the Houston Association of the Teachers of Foreign Lan-

guages, reports a successful meeting on 10 March 1973. William Schaefer, executive secretary of the MLA, spoke on the topic "Language Teaching in the '70's." Harvey L. Johnson (UH), professor of Spanish, presided at the meet-

ing.

Bernice Larson Webb (USwL), reported in the March issue as having been a visiting professor on Chapman Col-

lege's World Campus Afloat for the fall semester of 1972, adds that in the four months of traveling around the world her husband taught classes in geography and she taught creative writing and the modern literatures of Australia, Asia, and Africa appropriate to the ports that were visited.

Barbara Dease (Jackson SC) plans to do her doctoral studies in the field of Black literature. Her leave of absence for this purpose is to begin in the fall. Clara Grochowska, who represents the department on the teacher education committee, participated extensively in the two-year self-

study for NCATE completed in February, 1973.

Hosea Phillips (USwL) was elected the 1973 chairman of the French 8 section of MLA. He served as secretary in 1972. His paper "French Literature of Louisiana" was pub- lished in the December, 1972, issue of the French 8 News- letter.

Virginia Koenig (USwL) attended a meeting of the State

Foreign Language Curriculum Committee at the State

Department of Education in Baton Rouge on March 16-17.

Mathe Allain (USwL) served as co-director of a sym- posium, "France and North America: The Revolutionary Experience," sponsored by the USwL Institute of French

Studies, March 26-30. Among the featured speakers were Albert Soboul of the Sorbonne, Richard Cobb of Oxford, and Gita May of Columbia University.

Robert Chumbley (LSU) received his Ph.D. from Yale

University in June, 1972, with a dissertation concerning twelfth-century prose fiction.

Warren Tucker and Robert Chumbley (LSU) delivered

an evening lecture-discussion on Structuralism and its appli- cation to literary criticism.

The Assemblee francaise, a local group of persons inter-

ested in the French language, has organized a conversational

group meeting at Louisiana State University twice a week and making use of the new language laboratory.

Alcorn A&M College, Lorman, Mississippi, has this past

year initiated a major in French and a minor in Spanish. New faculty members include Eligah D. Clark, instructor of

French; Warren Gates, professor of French; and Riwall LeBars and Christien Champalle, French aides from France.

News Notes Rolande L. Leguillon (St. Thomas), incoming president

of the Houston Association of the Teachers of Foreign Lan-

guages, reports a successful meeting on 10 March 1973. William Schaefer, executive secretary of the MLA, spoke on the topic "Language Teaching in the '70's." Harvey L. Johnson (UH), professor of Spanish, presided at the meet-

ing.

Bernice Larson Webb (USwL), reported in the March issue as having been a visiting professor on Chapman Col-

lege's World Campus Afloat for the fall semester of 1972, adds that in the four months of traveling around the world her husband taught classes in geography and she taught creative writing and the modern literatures of Australia, Asia, and Africa appropriate to the ports that were visited.

Barbara Dease (Jackson SC) plans to do her doctoral studies in the field of Black literature. Her leave of absence for this purpose is to begin in the fall. Clara Grochowska, who represents the department on the teacher education committee, participated extensively in the two-year self-

study for NCATE completed in February, 1973.

Hosea Phillips (USwL) was elected the 1973 chairman of the French 8 section of MLA. He served as secretary in 1972. His paper "French Literature of Louisiana" was pub- lished in the December, 1972, issue of the French 8 News- letter.

Virginia Koenig (USwL) attended a meeting of the State

Foreign Language Curriculum Committee at the State

Department of Education in Baton Rouge on March 16-17.

Mathe Allain (USwL) served as co-director of a sym- posium, "France and North America: The Revolutionary Experience," sponsored by the USwL Institute of French

Studies, March 26-30. Among the featured speakers were Albert Soboul of the Sorbonne, Richard Cobb of Oxford, and Gita May of Columbia University.

Robert Chumbley (LSU) received his Ph.D. from Yale

University in June, 1972, with a dissertation concerning twelfth-century prose fiction.

Warren Tucker and Robert Chumbley (LSU) delivered

an evening lecture-discussion on Structuralism and its appli- cation to literary criticism.

The Assemblee francaise, a local group of persons inter-

ested in the French language, has organized a conversational

group meeting at Louisiana State University twice a week and making use of the new language laboratory.

Alcorn A&M College, Lorman, Mississippi, has this past

year initiated a major in French and a minor in Spanish. New faculty members include Eligah D. Clark, instructor of

French; Warren Gates, professor of French; and Riwall LeBars and Christien Champalle, French aides from France.

Professional Status

H. Wynn Rickey (Univ. of Piano), a past-president of the SCMLA, has been named chairman of the department of foreign languages in the Frisco College of Liberal Arts of the University of Piano. He will also have some administra- tive duties as academic dean.

Bodo Gotzkowsky (Tulane), associate professor of Ger- man, has been made university chairman of the department of Germanic and Slavic languages.

At Tulane, Susan Layton (Ph.D., Yale) has been ap- pointed assistant professor of Russian, and Karl Heinz Hasselbach (Ph.D., University of Marburg) has been ap- pointed assistant professor of German.

Frederick A. von Ende (Pan Am U) has been promoted to an associate professorship of English. Paul Willcott has been appointed to be an assistant professor of English at the same institution.

Albert Fields (USwL) has been promoted to professor of English; Ann Dobie has been promoted to assistant profes- sor; and Theresa Chretien and Forrest Byrd have been ap- pointed instructors.

John Kunkle (USwL) has been appointed director of the

foreign language instruction center and assistant professor of French; he was awarded the Ph.D. last August from the

University of Wisconsin.

H. Todd Knox (USwL) has been appointed supervisor of the foreign language instruction center and instructor of French.

Joseph Smiley, president of the University of Texas at El Paso from 1958-1960 and again from 1968-1972, has re- tired to accept the designation of H. Y. Benedict Professor of French. For part of the interim he served as president of the University of Colorado. The board of regents of the

University of Texas System has appointed Arleigh B. Tem-

pleton, formerly president of the University of Texas at San

Antonio, as his successor.

James Mortensen (UTEP), assistant professor of English, has been appointed to the newly created position of under-

graduate advisor for the department of English and serves also as faculty advisor to the English Club.

Patricia Esslinger Carr (UTEP) has been promoted to the rank of associate professor in the department of English. She is now on leave of absence in Tulsa to devote her time to writing.

Robert M. Esch (UTEP) and Dorothy Stroud White

(UTEP) have both been promoted to the rank of assistant

professor in the department of English. He joined the fac-

ulty in 1962 and she in 1965.

Professional Status

H. Wynn Rickey (Univ. of Piano), a past-president of the SCMLA, has been named chairman of the department of foreign languages in the Frisco College of Liberal Arts of the University of Piano. He will also have some administra- tive duties as academic dean.

Bodo Gotzkowsky (Tulane), associate professor of Ger- man, has been made university chairman of the department of Germanic and Slavic languages.

At Tulane, Susan Layton (Ph.D., Yale) has been ap- pointed assistant professor of Russian, and Karl Heinz Hasselbach (Ph.D., University of Marburg) has been ap- pointed assistant professor of German.

Frederick A. von Ende (Pan Am U) has been promoted to an associate professorship of English. Paul Willcott has been appointed to be an assistant professor of English at the same institution.

Albert Fields (USwL) has been promoted to professor of English; Ann Dobie has been promoted to assistant profes- sor; and Theresa Chretien and Forrest Byrd have been ap- pointed instructors.

John Kunkle (USwL) has been appointed director of the

foreign language instruction center and assistant professor of French; he was awarded the Ph.D. last August from the

University of Wisconsin.

H. Todd Knox (USwL) has been appointed supervisor of the foreign language instruction center and instructor of French.

Joseph Smiley, president of the University of Texas at El Paso from 1958-1960 and again from 1968-1972, has re- tired to accept the designation of H. Y. Benedict Professor of French. For part of the interim he served as president of the University of Colorado. The board of regents of the

University of Texas System has appointed Arleigh B. Tem-

pleton, formerly president of the University of Texas at San

Antonio, as his successor.

James Mortensen (UTEP), assistant professor of English, has been appointed to the newly created position of under-

graduate advisor for the department of English and serves also as faculty advisor to the English Club.

Patricia Esslinger Carr (UTEP) has been promoted to the rank of associate professor in the department of English. She is now on leave of absence in Tulsa to devote her time to writing.

Robert M. Esch (UTEP) and Dorothy Stroud White

(UTEP) have both been promoted to the rank of assistant

professor in the department of English. He joined the fac-

ulty in 1962 and she in 1965.

56 56 THE SOUTH CENTRAL BULLETIN THE SOUTH CENTRAL BULLETIN May, 1973 May, 1973

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