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3-16-1961
Robert M. Burgess selects faculty for the National
Defense Education Act Summer Language
Institute
University of Montana--Missoula. Office of University Relations
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FOR RELEASE THURSDAY, MARCH 1 6
Dr. Robert M. Burgess, chairman of the Montana State University Department of
Foreign Languages, faces the task of selecting 52 teachers from 300 applicants
from all over the country to participate in the National Defense Education Act
Summer Language Institute he will direct at MSU.
Applications for the MSU institute closed March 1, Dr. Burgess said, and now
he must narrow the field to 2 6 secondary teachers of French and 2 6 of Spanish for
the institute, which will be in session on the MSU campus from June 19 to Aug. 11.
Applicants that can not be accepted in the MSU institute may still be able tc
enroll in an NDEA summer language institute, Dr. Burgess said.
The U. S. Office of
Education has announced nine institutes in addition to those previously scheduled,
and applications for these nine are still being accepted, he explained.
The institutes still taking applications and the person to whom teachers
should apply are:
Elementary School Teachers of Japanese and Secondary School Teachers of
French, June 19 - July 28, Prof. Dorothy B. Aspinwall, Dept, of European Languages,
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, H. I.
Secondary School Teachers of French and Spanish, June 19 - Aug. 5* Prof. W» L.
Crain, Dept, of Foreign Languages, University of Kansas City, Kansas City, Mo.
Secondary School Teachers of French and Spanish, June 26 - Aug. 11, Prof.
William F. Falls, Dept, of Foreign languages, University of Maryland, College Park,
Md.
Elementary and Secondary School Teachers of French, June 26 - Aug. 12, Prof.
George B. Daniel, Dept, of Romance Languages, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, N. C.
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Secondary School Teachers of Spanish, June 26 - Aug. 11, Prof. Henry F.
Capasso, Dept, of Languages, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, R. I.
Secondary School Teachers of French, June 28 - Aug. 12, Sister St. Louis de
Gonzague, French Dept., Rivier College, Nashua, N. H.
Elementary and Secondary School Teachers of Spanish, Sept. 18 - June
8 (38
weeks), Prof. Joseph Axelrod, Humanities Division, San Francisco State College,
San Francisco, Calif.
Elementary and Secondary School Teachers of German, Sept. 11 - June
9, Prof.
George A. C. Scherer, Dept, of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of
Colorado, Boulder, Colo.
Elementary School Teachers of Spanish, June 1 9 - Aug. 4, Prof. Charles F .
Kirk, Dept, of Foreign Languages, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.
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