French & Italian

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Alumni news

Before 1960s

Martha Eckert Schaaf, BA'33, author of an alumni song, "Indiana, Alma Mater," was honored as a poet on the Internet's Poetry Hall of Fame, National Library of Poetry. She lives in Boca Raton, Fla.

Martha M. Diehl, BA'34, has retired and is living in Port Charlotte, Fla.

Jean Patton, BA'40, is retiring as school board watcher after 25 years. She lives in Bloomington.

Gerald Newmark, BA'48, MA'49, has a book in progress titled The Five Critical Needs of Children: The Key to Developing an Emotionally Healthy Child and Parent. His previous book, Buying Retail Is Stupid: Where to Buy Everything at 20 to 80 Percent off Retail in Southern California, was a Publisher Best Selling Regional Book. He lives in Tarzana, Calif.

Gloria A. Hannas, BA'49, has retired from teaching high school French. She still teaches French conversation on a self-employed basis. She lives in La Grange, Ill.

William D. Romey, BA'52, lectured about geology and geography in the Canadian Atlantic Provinces and Quebec aboard The Royal Princess in September 1997 and in the Mediterranean aboard Pacific Princess in October and November 1997. He continues to market his book titled Plus Ça ChangeFor the Love of France, Ash Lad Press, 1996, and is working on a popular geography memoir on Normandy. He lives in East Orleans, Mass.

Jo A. Vance, BA'58, was named Trustee of the Year in 1996 for Ohio's public libraries. She was honored at the Ohio Library Council's annual meeting. She lives in Lancaster, Ohio.

1960s

Paul W. Dickover, BA'64, MS'66, received the Those-Who-Excel Award of Excellence from the Illinois State Board of Education. He is a home school counselor and works for the Rockford Board of Education.

Dorothy A. Lambert, BA'64, went to Paris in February 1998 for two weeks. She visited her former IU professor, John N. Pappas, who at age 75 is still as active with college work, publishing, and conferences. She lives in Waukesha, Wis.

Barbara K. Williams, BA'64, MS'66, was awarded the Servant Leader Award by Leadership Southern Indiana. She is director of Catholic Charities in New Albany. She is married to James and has two sons: Kyle, an attorney in Jeffersonville, and Matt, a real estate developer in Louisville. She lives in Bloomington.

Bonnie L. Gammon, BA'65, is a broker associate with Re/Max Realty Professionals. The Real Estate Buyer's Agent Council awarded her the Accredited Buyer Representation designation. She lives in Bloomington.

Judith A. Auer, MA'67, MM'71, is retired from the University of Tulsa, where she taught voice and directed opera for 15 years. She moved to Boulder, Colo., to teach voice privately and to free-lance as an opera director.

Janet L. Ghattas, MA'67, has retired from teaching French after 25 years. She founded and is director general of a nonprofit educational organization providing programs of cross-cultural awareness through seminars, workshops, community service, and travel, especially to Senegal. Married to a human rights attorney in 1994, she lives in Cambridge, Mass.

Marianne P. Inman, MA'67, is president of Central Methodist College in Fayette, Mo. She is also a member of the Missouri Humanities Council.

Sylvia A. Straub, MA'67, PhD'72, is chief operating officer of the Employee Assistance Professionals Association. She traveled to South Africa, where employee assistance programs are becoming a significant part of the infrastructure.

Robert Earl Vicars, BA'67, is professor emeritus for the French department at Millikin University in Decatur, Ill.

Vida W. Lohnes, BA'68, MS'77, is working at Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland. She had previously worked at Timberline Lodge for 18 years. She and her husband, Jonathan, live in Rhododendron, Ore.

Maxine Bachelor, BS'68, MA'73, is teaching French and Spanish at Farms Middle School in Hartland, Mich. She is co-president and founder of the Academic Alliance of Teachers of Foreign Languages and Literatures for teachers in Washtenaw and Livingston counties. She lives in Brighton, Mich.

Karen L. Keltner, BA'69, BS'71, MM'73, PhD'80, continues to have an active career as an opera conductor, both at home with the San Diego Opera and throughout the United States and Canada. Since 1965, she had made trips to France every two to five years.

1970s

Photographer Elaine Levitt, MA'70, is vice president of the H. Levitt Co., a large wholesale industrial hardware supply house in Pittsburgh, Pa. She continues to enjoy shooting riverscapes, towboats, coal barges, the city skyline, flowers, children, and nearby rural landscapes. This spring, 19 of her photographs will be exhibited by the Mount Lebanon Public Library in Pittsburgh. She has already shown her pictures in two art galleries in Pittsburgh. We are proud to include one of her works here.

Rita A. Goldberg, BA'70, is vice president and senior benefits analyst of Atlantic Benefit Concepts. She lives in South Orange, N.J.

Mary Carmel Owen, BA'70, is director of major gifts at the Columbia University Law School in New York.

Candace M . Schelske, BA'70, MS'74, is director of admissions for Indiana Institute of Technology in South Bend.

Joanne Altschuler, BA'71, is an assistant professor in the Department of Social Work at California State University. She lives in Los Angeles.

Lynn Jongleux, BA'72, has left her private law practice and is now general counsel and corporate secretary at Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance Companies.

Richard C. Williamson, MA'72, PhD'75, was named a Chevalier in the Order of the Palmes Academiques by the French government. He is a professor of French at Bates College and lives in Auburn, Maine.

Earl D. Kirk Jr., MA'73, teaches as Baker University in Baldwin City, Kan. He coordinates the university's study abroad programs, serves as chair of the Department of Foreign Languages, and teaches French on a limited basis. He is also university registrar.

Marcia L. Meldahl, BA'73, received her master's in organizational management from Tusculum College in Tennessee. She was certified as a senior professional in human resources from the Human Resources Certification Institute, a division of the Society for Human Resources Management. She is now in business with a partner, providing management consulting services. She is married to Richard W. Piety and has a son, Matthew. She lives in Knoxville, Tenn.

Mary Bollinger, MA'74, PhD'78, teaches French at Marple Newtown High School in Newtown Square, Pa. She travels frequently to France. She lives in Berwyn, Pa.

Claire L. Gaudiani, MA'74, PhD'74, is president of Connecticut College. She lives in New London, Conn.

Sandra Obergfell Malicote, PhD'74, and Cathy Pons, PhD'89, former graduate students in literature and linguistics respectively, work together in the French section of the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. They are both thriving there and very much enjoy working together.

Robert K. McMahon, BA'74, is chair of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Kansas. He lives in Lawrence, Kan.

Grace Witwer Housholder, BA'75, is the author of The Funny Things Kids Say Will Brighten Any Day. She lives in Kendallville, Ind.

Laura Tisch Kauffman, BA'75, MAT'77, who participated in the IU Study Abroad Program in Strasbourg, France, is organizing a reunion of alumni who spent the 1973­74 school year there. The 25th-year reunion will take place in Strasbourg on July 7-8, 1999. To contact Kauffman, send an e-mail message to LTKauf@aol.com.

Lauren C. Pinzka, BA'76, is a senior lector in the French department at Yale University. She is now translating the Ben Franklin Papers from French to English for the Yale University Press while supervising a French language course and raising two children. She lives in New Haven, Conn.

Suzanne E. Graham, BA'78, was named association executive of the Bloomington Board of Realtors.

Barbara L. Rice, BA'78, is copy/line editor in the casting department of Back Stage, the East Coast theatrical trade newspaper. She also has worked in New York as an Equity stage manager, a prop supervisor for various productions at the New York Shakespeare Festival, a director, and a theatrical agent's assistant.

Robyn J. Grant, BA'79, was former state's ombudsman for long-term care. She lives in Bloomington.

1980s

Daniel J. Dornbrook, BA'80, is a technical communications consultant at Interim Technology in Chicago.

Mary Turcotte Brown, BA'82, has moved to Washington, D.C., where she is director of development for the Institute for Human Studies, which is affiliated with George Mason University.

Davis R. Jumper, BA'82, received his doctoral degree from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 1996 and is an independent consultant and researcher. He is author of Power and Politics: The Story of Malaysia's Orang Asli, University Press of America, 1997. Jumper lives in Bloomington.

John P. Welle, MA'82, PhD'83, is associate professor at the University of Notre Dame. His edition and translation of Peasants Wake for Fellini's Casanova and other Poems by Andrea Zanzotto was published in 1997 by the University of Illinois Press. He received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a book on Italian literary intellectuals and film history. He lives in South Bend.

Robb R. Boyd, BA'83, is a partner in the Jones Financial Co. He lives in Bismarck, N.D., with his wife, Mary, and sons, Ian and Nicholas.

Pat M. Panaia, BA'83, moved back to the Midwest after nine years in Maine. She is general manager of a network of veterinary laboratories. She is enjoying an exciting life at this fast-growing biotech company. She lives in Wheaton, Ill.

Michael D. Brand, BA'88, MA'91, is a French instructor at the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, La. He spent a year in Dakar, Senegal, where he participated in the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program.

Carmen L. Brun, BA'88, MBA'90, is general manager at the Crowne Plaza at the United Nations. The hotel is located in Midtown Manhattan. She lives in New York.

Michelle M. Harrison, BA'88, is working in New York as a sales manager for Bloomberg Financial Markets. She was married to Derek in April 1996 and is now mother to a daughter, Samantha.

Laurie A. Ramsey, MA'88, PhD'96, is an assistant professor of French at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn. She plays the violin in the Sewanee Symphony and the Middle Tennessee State University Symphony while enjoying life in the South with her cat, Euphrates.

Manuela Geri, PhD'89, is an associate professor of Italian and film studies at the University of Toronto. Her book on Italian cinema (University of Toronto Press) has received excellent reviews. Manuela, last year, became the happy mother of Luca. Congratulations!

Susan Jordan Myers, MA'89, PhD'94, is an assistant professor at William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo.

Kirsten Mueller Pickenpaugh, BA'89, earned her JD from the IU School of Law in Indianapolis.

1990s

Christopher J. Momenee, MA'90, is a self-employed screenwriter He sold an action adventure screenplay called "KID" to Disney. Momenee lives in New York.

Dani L. Nichols, BA'90, BA'92, is operations manager at North American Polymer Co. She also appeared in Henry VI and Smash, at the Bailiwick Theatre in Chicago.

Cristina Degli Esposti, PhD'91, formerly an associate professor of Italian at Kent State University, moved south to Arizona. Among other works, she has published a book on the cinema of Fellini.

Karin L. Lalendorf, BA'91, and Craig Veatch were married in August 1997 and live in Indianapolis. Karin is an associate at Dann Pecar Newman & Kleiman. Craig is completing a three-year residency in internal medicine at St. Vincent Hospital.

Theresa L. MacLaughlin, BA'91, is intelligence officer for the U.S. 41st electronic combat squadron. She served more than two years in Japan with the Air Force and several months in Italy supporting peacekeeping efforts in Bosnia.

Lisa M. Paulin, BA'91, MA'93, is director of foreign languages at the Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico City. This school is a prestigious, private university in Mexico.

Leah P. Wiley, BA'91, and her husband, David, moved to Roanoke, Va., where David was appointed music director of the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra. Leah played Sarah in Mill Mountain Theatre's production of "A Christmas Carol" and toured the area as a vocalist. She made her solo debut with the Kingsport, Tenn., Symphony Orchestra.

Valerio Ferme, MA'92, who received a PhD from Berkeley in 1997, is now an assistant professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Valerio has mantained close contact with us, and he is cooperating with Professor Ciccarelli on several projects.

Stephanie T. Kleine-Ahlbrandt, BA'92, served as a human rights officer in field missions in Rwanda for a year and in Bosnia and Herzegovina for six months. She is now working in Geneva at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights as the desk officer for Rwanda and Nigeria.

Sylvie Vanbaelen, MA'92, PhD'97, is completing her second year as a tenure-track, assistant professor at Butler University, where she teaches French language, 20th-century French literature, and francophone civilization. Vanbaelen also co-authored with Corinne Etienne, MA'95, ABD, an article titled "Place à la littérature dans le cours de conversation," which appeared in the March 1999 issue of The French Review.

Jeffrey R. Holt, BA'93, received a master's degree in French studies from New York University in 1995. He also received a "Deug Mention Droit" from the Universite De Toulon in France. He also pursued a "Licence En Droit" at the Universite De Tours in France. He hopes to obtain a "Maitrise En Droit," a French JD, in 1999. He lives in Milton, Vt.

Ellen A. Zimmerman, BA'93, earned her master's in international management at Thunderbird American Graduate School of International Management. She now works as a marketing development analyst of integrated solutions at 3M in St. Paul, Minn.

Christopher A. Meyers, BA'94, received a master's degree in historic preservation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He now works for the city of Gary cataloguing and documenting the downtown corridor's historic resources. He has identified previously unknown architectural works by George W. Maher and Frank Lloyd Wright. He lives in Crown Point, Ind.

Virginia Picchietti, PhD'94, an assistant professor at Scranton University, has been busy from a professional standpoint and has attended many conferences. She also has an article on Italian gender studies in North America coming out in a book that will be published in Italy.

Kelly Potts, BA'94, and Scott Locke were married on May 31, 1997. They live in East Lansing, Mich.

Laura Salsini, PhD'94, an assistant professor at the University of Delaware, has a book on the 19th-century writer Matilde Serao that has been recently accepted by a prestigious university press. Laura is working hard to strengthen an already competitive Italian program at the University of Delaware, and under her direction, the student enrollment has grown considerably.

Laura Dennis-Bay, MA'95, was married to Mark Bay on May 30, 1998. She is now pursuing a doctoral degree in French literature at IU Bloomington.

Juliana Starr, PhD'95, has a tenure-track position as coordinator of foreign languages and assistant professor of French at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tenn. Rosemary Lloyd had the pleasure of seeing her again at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, at a conference in honor of retiring Baudelaire scholar Claude Pichois.

Mylène Catel, PhD'96, is a faculty member at Minot State University in North Dakota. In February, she published a bilingual edition of her own poetry with the help of Rosemary Lloyd. However, she is placing all proceeds from its sale into a scholarship fund to be awarded by the Committee on the Status of Women to an unpublished woman artist from the Minot community. Mylène, or "Loo" as she prefers to be called, promoted the creation of this grant through a poetry reading at the Taube Museum. If you are interested in contributing to this fund, send $12 to Professor Mylène J. Catel, Minot State University, 500 University West, Minot, ND 58707.

Maureen C. Cunningham, BA'96, lives in Memphis, Tenn.

Kathleen T. Farrell, BA'96, is working on a master's degree in French translation at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

Amy Merrell, MA'96, is currently teaching in Cambridge, Ind., and living in Richmond. She teaches at high school, junior high, and elementary levels (the latter in conjunction with an art class).

Kirsten Peterson, MA'96, is living in the Twin Cities and has recently completed student teaching for secondary education certification.

Elyssa Greenberg Ram, BA'96, was married to Shaked Ram on June 25, 1997. She is pursuing a master's degree in elementary education at American University in Washington, D.C.

Tania R. Tawil, BA'96, is marketing coordinator at Speedvision and Outdoor Life Network in Chicago.

Denis Augier, PhD'97, finished teaching at Indiana State University and began a tenure-track position as an assistant professor of 16th- and 17th-century French literature at the University of New Orleans. In October 1998, he chaired a session, "Sciences and Frontiers," at the annual Conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary French 17th-Century Studies in Orange, Calif. He was also elected to the executive committee of that society. At present, he is doing research on Agrippa d'Aubigné, alchemy, and the poetry of Hesteau de Nuysement.

Norma Bouchard, PhD'97, is now an assistant professor of Italian at the University of Connecticut. Norma has published several articles and has co-edited a book on Umberto Eco (Peter Lang 1998), with Veronica Pravadelli, MA'92, who is now a PhD candidate in comparative literature.

Molly Morrison, PhD'97, is an assistant professor of Italian on the track towards tenure at Ohio University in Athens.

Francesca Parmeggiani, PhD'97, an assistant professor of Italian at Fordham University in New York, is working on her book on contemporary narrative, focusing on the works of Pasolini, Pomilio, Berto, and other authors who are interested in the relationship between spirituality and literature. She has had an article on Pomilio recently accepted, and she was back in Bloomington this February to read a paper at the "Cold War Culture: Film, Fact, and Fiction" conference organized by West European studies. Francesca read a splendid paper, and we were all happy to see her again.

Colleen Ryan, PhD'97, is now an assistant professor of Italian on the tenure track at Notre Dame University, and she has been active in both didactic activities and research. She is one of the main collaborators on the "Project Italica" for Italian language instruction on the Internet.

Emilio Lomonaco and Salina Bussien, MA'98, are living in Sydney, Australia, where Emilio works as a language instructor and a translator, and Salina works as the clothing manager for a big department store. She also works as a French and Italian translator. They both hope, of course, that the Olympic Games will be held in Sydney, after all.

Pierre Camy, MA'98, joined his wife, Jolene Vos-Camy (ABD), in Grand Rapids, Mich. Last fall, he taught French at Aquinas College and Hope College, and in the spring, he continued to teach at Hope and has begun teaching at Grand Valley State University. He is planning to enroll in a master's program in education this summer at Aquinas College. After a year and a half, he intends to look for a position teaching French in a high school. In the meantime, he will continue teaching at Hope, where the faculty, which includes Brigitte Hamon-Porter, MA'92, PhD'96, appreciate his expert IU training.

Dan Golembeski, PhD'98, has completed his dissertation, titled "French Language Maintenance in Ontario, Canada: The Community of Hearst." He is in his second year of teaching at Grand Valley State University near Grand Rapids, Mich. He will be traveling to southern France this summer with a group of Grand Valley students. Golembeski co-presented a paper comparing anglicisms in French Canadian and Louisiana Cajun with Kevin J. Rottett, PhD'95, at the 1998 AUPELF-UREF conference in Quebec City. He completed a translation of a business textbook concerning the changing conditions of bureaucracies as the '90s draw to as close, by the French sociologist Francois Dupuy (Macmillan 1999).

Dorothy Stegman, PhD'99, just defended her dissertation, "Communion and Cannibalism in Montaigne's Consubstantial Memory," which she wrote under the direction of Professor Eric MacPhail. She is an assistant professor of French at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez.

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