Lourdes Morales Gudmundsson
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Vol. 1, No. 2
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dr. Morales-Gudmundsson, chair, continues conversations with various campus entities to broaden the outreach and impact of the foreign language program at LSU.
early this school year, she discussed the possibility of a language/business internship in Costa Rica with John Thomas, Dean of the School of Business, and Prof. Monte Andress, --, whereby LSU business students will take Spanish courses on campus and at the Universidad Adventista de Costa Rica (UNADECA) while engaged in a business internship at one of the many international corporations in the capital of San Jose. The success of this project will depend on many factors that are being studied at the moment.
another direction in which the department is moving is the addition of languages. Prof. Morales is currently involved in a collaborative grant-writing project with the newly established Institute for Cultural Exchange (sponsored by the History and Political Science/Sociology Department) to set up an Asian Studies Program that will involve the addition of Chinese language study and the development of our existing Korean language program. The grant will be submitted in October of 2001 and will be co-written by Profs. Rennie Schoepflin and Morales.
alumna gift increases department library
the Dept of World Languages is proud to announce a library gift from Carol I. Dunn. Carol has given our department an unspecified number of textbooks and works of literature in Spanish.
Carol graduated from La Sierra College in 1946 with a major in French and a minor in Spanish. Her first job was with the Inter-American Division as secretary to the father of Milton and Chloe Murray. Later she returned to California where she worked at the Pacific Union Conference for Don Thomas as press relations secretary. After four years, she decided she wanted to teach and enrolled at the University of Southern California where she received her M.A. in French in 1954. She taught Spanish and typing at Pacific Union Preparatory School for four years and French at Pacific Union College. After returning to Southern California, she taught French at Pasadena High School for 26 years until her retirement. Not content to live a sedentary life, she taught French part-time at San Gabriel Academy for four years and finally retired in 1993. Over the years, Carol has kept up her membership in the Alliance Francaise and joined the Salon Francaise four years ago. She continues to enjoy the meetings and keeping in touch with French language and culture.
some of the books donated were used by Carol in teaching Spanish and others came from her summer school experience at the Universidad Nacional Aut6noma de Mexico. GAMMA TAU AND NATIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE WEEK Gamma Tau helped to celebrate Alpha Mu Gamma's National Foreign Language Week (March 5-9) with a number of activities.
on monday evening, the movie "Mon Oncle Antoine," winner of the Cannes Festival Award, was shown in French with English subtitles. On Wednesday night, "The Official Story, II based on the period of the II desaparecidos II in Argentina attracted a small crowd of students.
for university worship on Thursday morning, a group of students and professors read biblical passages in different languages. John 3:16 was read in Korean, Spanish, Yoruba, biblical Greek, Arabic, and Micah 6:8 was read in biblical Hebrew. The participants were ?? , Bukky Olewole, Ray Rantung, Lynn Park, Erigena Millan, and Drs. John Jones, Dean of the School of Religion, Anees Haddad, professor of Sociology, and Wonil Kim, professor of Old Testament.
a special word of thanks to Heidi Saenz, out-going president of Gamma Tau, who organized all these activities.
new gamma tau initiatives
on sunday, March 11, five new initiates were inducted into Gamma Tau, our foreign language honour society. Held at the Stahl Center, surrounded by artefacts from many different countries, the ceremony began with prayer by Dr. Ella Simmons, Provost, and was followed by Marshall Esther Saguar, professor of Spanish, introducing each candidate with the three knocks that symbolize the three ideals of Alpha Mu Gamma: Enlightenment, Friendship, and the Sympathetic Understanding of Other People. Gamma Tau president, Heidi Saenz, read the pledge to Nancy Hutagalung, French, and Curtis Castro, Paul Hunter, Jane Kim, Olabukonla Olewole, and Xaviera Vanegas, Spanish.
the guest speaker was Alison H. Rice, alumna and doctoral candidate at UCLA in French Literature who has studied under internationally renowned feminist scholar, Julia Kristeva and has completed the "Diplome" program at the prestigious Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. Her topic was "For-ever-giving: Forgiveness and Julia Kristeva, Literary Critic. " Ms. Rice was also this year's recipient of the Gamma Tau Honorary Membership. First granted a charter in September of 1965, Gamma Tau came into existence thanks to the efforts of Dr. Kaljo S. Magi, then department chair at La Sierra College. Dr. Magi served as chapter sponsor from 1965-1971. The chapter had been dormant until 1999 when current chair, Prof. Morales, submitted a request for reactivation. The purpose of the society is to promote the importance of studying foreign languages. Alpha Mu Gamma also has a scholarship program for undergraduate students. SOCIAL WORK AND SPANISH
this year the Social Work Program under the leadership of Jill K. Rasmussen is recommending the Spanish minor. And the summer abroad programs are being strongly recommended. Social work majors interested in this program take Intermediate Spanish, Advanced Spanish Grammar, and one literature course to complete the required 28 units. Some of these students have already participated in our Costa Rica program and we expect more to strengthen their preparation in Social Work with language skills in Spanish.
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