| French and Italian, Spring 1997 | |
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Hugh Aprile, BA'95, spent last year as an intern at the United Nations. Fluent in both Italian and French, Aprile received a Rotary scholarship and is presently studying at the Université Robert Schuman in Strasbourg, France, where he is focusing o n the problems of international organizations and institutions, including the European Community.
Laura Salsini, PhD'95, is teaching at Purdue University as a visiting professor of Italian.
Molly Morrison, PhD'96, is teaching Italian at the University of Michigan.
Max Creech, ABD, again spent the summer in Vermont as assistant to the director of the Middlebury College Italian School.
Patricia Zupan, PhD'83, has been promoted to professor of Italian at Middlebury College, Vt.
Roger Pieroni, PhD'96, is teaching at Central College, Pella, Iowa. His doctoral dissertation, directed by Professor Charlotte Gerrard, dealt with the subject of the poetic novel in four contemporary French and Francophone authors.
In October, Angelo Iovino, PhD'83, was inaugurated as the president of the American University of Rome. Her dissertation, directed by Peter Bondanella, was titled The Decameron and the Corbaccio: Boccaccio's Images of Women and Spiritual Crisis. She later went on to work at the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington. This makes two college presidents who have graduated from our department in the last two decades. The other is Claire Gaudiani, PhD'74, president of Connecticut College.
Susan Jordan Myers, PhD'94, taught at Baldwin-Wallace College during spring 1995. She started a tenure-track position in fall 1995 at William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo.
Former graduate student Alain C. Charles de la Brousse has been translating American software into French at Intergraph Corporation in Huntsville, Ala. Before that he was substituting on a regular basis at different high schools in the area of Huntsville.
Ann Masters Salomone, MAT'72, who earned her PhD in 1989 at Ohio State, has accepted a position as assistant professor at Kent State University.
Barbara Sargent-Bauer, PhD'60, has recently published a book, François Villon: Complete Poems, edited with English Translation and Commentary, and two articles, "Villon, François," in Medieval France: an Encyclopedia; and "Persuasion and (Special) Pleading in François Villon," in 15th-Century Studies. In November 1995, she was the keynote speaker at the Eighth Virginia Medieval Symposium, University of Virginia: "Is It True, Think You? The Gothic World(s) of 12th-Century Historical Fiction." She was also an invited speaker in 1996 at the symposium on Villon at St. Hilda's College, Oxford, England: "Fortune versus François." She retired as professor of French and director of Medieval and Renaissance studies at the Universi ty of Pittsburgh in December 1993 but continues to direct two doctoral dissertations.
Manuela Gieri, PhD'89, has received tenure in the department of Italian at the University of Toronto and has published a book titled Contemporary Italian Filmmaking: Strategies of Subversion in Pirandello, Fellini, Scola, and the Directors of the New Generation (University of Toronto Press, 1995).
Virginia Jones, PhD'83, who teaches French at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, recently visited old friends in Bloomington during the Thanksgiving vacation. She continues to be very active as an actress in Cleveland theater and to write drama reviews as well. One of her most recent performances was in the Cleveland State University and the Cleveland Theatre Company co-production of Vieux Carré, a "memory play" by Tennessee Williams, in which she played to critical acclaim the role of Miss Carrie, a "loony spinster who has come down in the world." Jones also received excellent notices several years ago as Big Mama, a very different part, in Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Loren Keith Smith, BA'52, is twice-retired, first from the U.S. Army, where he served for 20 years, and second from a specialty retail shop he co-managed. Now living in Baltimore, he has embarked on a third career, as an artist's model.
Martha C. Fowler Dean, BA'64, MAT'70, is an attorney practicing law in Canal Winchester, Ohio.
Last June, the Philadelphia County Dental Society elected as its first woman president Judith A. McFadden, BA'64. McFadden, a onetime French professor at Temple University, has a private dental practice in Philadelphia and is editor of the Pennsylvania Dental Society's Bulletin.
Mike Schwartz, BA'64, won the 1995 William Harvey Award for excellence in writing for newspapers on the subject of high blood pressure and health. Schwartz writes for The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, Calif.
After singing professionally in Zurich and Munich, Judith Auer, MA'67, MM'71, joined the faculty of the University of Tulsa, Okla., where she teaches voice and directs the opera program.
Jerilyn Packer Rosenzweig, BA'68, teaches French at Adlai Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, Ill.
A grandmother as of last May, Jane Juergensmeyer Stuart, PhD'71, lives on a farm in Kentucky and is a member of the Kentucky State Poetry Society as well as the Academy of American Poets. Her "Moon over Miami" won the December 1995 Poetry Forum chapbook competition.
Cheryl Zink Wyne, BA'71, MS'75, is a graduate student in Spanish at Purdue.
Bonnie Schlammersdorf Sher, BA'72, sends word from Brussels, Belgium: "After IU, I was a Montessori teacher in Nashville, Tenn., and in Indiana, culminating in founding a school in Brussels. Paul, BA'72, and I have lived in Brussels for the past 17 years! He has his own law practice, and I am the ultimate volunteer."
Richard C. Williamson, MA'72, PhD'75, a professor of French at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, was recently selected to participate in the annual reading and scoring of the College Board's advanced placement examinations in French.
Indiana Campus Compact awarded a Faculty Curriculum Development Grant to Janina Traxler, MA'77, PhD'86, for her inclusion of a service project in French 101 at Manchester College, North Manchester.
Annie Picard Flagg, MA'79, is a senior compensation analyst for Barnett Bank, Jacksonville, Fla.
Sonia Childress-Hoek, BA'83, MAT'87, writes that she is "living life to its fullest and loving every minute" as a bilingual senior coordinator for Thomson Consumer Electronic's Canadian Division. She lives in Indianapolis.
Patricia Mary Panaia, BA'83, is senior manager of new business development for IDEXX Laboratories, Westbrook, Maine, a biotechnology company serving the veterinary and food and environmental markets.
In 1995, Catherine Perry, BA'87, MA'92, earned a PhD from Princeton with a thesis on Anna de Noailles. She is now teaching at the University of Notre Dame.
Virginia Picchietti, MA'89, PhD'95, is in the department of foreign languages and literatures at the University of Scranton, Pa.
Jennifer A. Berlinghieri, MA'91, teaches French and Latin at River Dell Regional High School, Oradell, N.J.
After earning a master's degree in experimental psychology from Kent State University, Karen Eck, BA'92, received a Fulbright Scholarship to attend McGill University, Montreal, where she has been collecting data on cognitive processing in French-English bilingual speakers.
A PhD student at the University of Georgia, Athens, Saralyn Harrell, MA'93, has passed her exams and is now working on her dissertation about 18th-century epistolary novels, authorial voice, and gender.
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