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THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS  MODERN  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  NEWSLETTER 

October,  1969        Director:  Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello 
Vol.  XXIII,  No.  1  Editor:  Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jr. 


Dear  Colleagues: 

In  this  first  issue  of  the  23rd  year  of  the  University  of  Illinois  Modern 
Foreign  Language  Newsletter,  it  is  my  privilege  to  send  greetings  to  readers  and 
colleagues  throughout  the  state  and  to  wish  you  all  a  successful  year. 

A  special  welcome  this  year  goes  to  Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello,  who  on 
Sept.  1  assumed  the  headship  of  the  Dept.  of  Spanish,  Italian,  &  Portuguese  at  the 
U.I.   He  will  also  serve  as  Director  of  the  Newsletter.   He  succeeds  Prof.  William 
H.  Shoemaker  in  both  capacities.   At  this  point  it  would  seem  appropriate  to  salute 
Prof o  Shoemaker  for  his  long  service  both  as  department  head  and  as  Director  of  the 
Newsletter.   All  of  his  colleagues  and  friends  will  join  me,  I  am  sure,  in  thanking 
him  and  wishing  him  well. 

Two  professors  return  to  the  Urbana  campus  after  a  year's  sojourn  in  Europe. 
They  are  Prof.  Francois  Jost,  who  returns  to  direct  again  the  Graduate  Program  in 
Comparative  Literature,  and  Prof.  Bruce  Mainous,  returning  to  his  post  as  Head  of 
the  Dept.  of  French.   Prof.  Mainous  spent  the  past  year  in  Rouen,  France,  as 
Director  of  the  Illinois-Iowa  Year-Abroad  Program;  Prof.  Jost  spent  a  sabbatical 
year  in  Switzerland  under  the  auspices  of  the  Center  for  Advanced  Study  and  also 
lectured  at  the  Univ.  of  Innsbruck  during  the  summer  of  1969.   We  welcome  them  back, 
and  also  welcome  Prof.  Philip  M.  Mitchell  as  Acting  Head  of  the  Dept.  of  Germanic 
Languages  &  Literature  during  the  coming  year.   He  replaces  Prof.  Harry  G.  Haile, 
who  is  on  sabbatical  leave  during  1969-70  in  Vienna.   More  detailed  reports  on  the 
activities  of  these  gentlemen  will  be  found  in  the  Notes  of  the  various  departments 
and  programs.   Our  best  wishes  also  go  to  Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jr.,  the  new  Editor 
of  the  Newsletter. 

What  will  the  coming  year  bring  for  us  in  the  field  of  foreign  language 
teaching?  Last  year  at  the  U.I.  we  witnessed  a  strong  movement  to  eliminate  or  at 
least  to  modify  drastically  the  2-year  undergraduate  foreign  language  requirement. 
A  series  of  faculty  meetings  were  held  in  the  early  spring  of  1969  out  of  which 
emerged  changes  and  a  certain  relaxation  of  former  requirements.   As  an  example, 
incoming  freshmen  are  no  longer  required  to  complete  their  foreign  language  as 
early  as  possible.   They  may  now  postpone  embarking  on  their  college-level  foreign 
language  study  to  suit  their  convenience  as  long  as  they  complete  the  requirement 
by  the  end  of  their  I4.  years.   This  relaxation  of  requirements  is  undoubtedly  re- 
flected in  my  own  department  by  a  rather  significant  decrease  (30$)  in  lst-year 
Russian  enrollments.   Another  loosening  of  former  requirements  has  been  the 
decision  to  permit  students  to  interrupt  their  sequence  of  language  courses  at 
their  own  option.   Formerly,  students  were  not  permitted  to  do  so  except  under  very 
special  circumstances. 

Perhaps  the  most  significant  changes  in  store  for  us  will  be  those  reflected 
in  recommendations  emerging  from  last  spring's  meetings  that  the  l+th  semester  of  the 
2-year  foreign  language  sequence  be,  if  not  completely  eliminated,  at  least 
seriously  overhauled  and  diversified.   Departments  have  been  requested  to  provide 
alternate  tracks  to  suit  individual  student  needs  instead  of  the  now-existing  uni- 
form l;th-semester  courses.   Suggested  options  are  such  diverse  courses  (or  sets  of 
courses)  as  conversation  courses,  specialized  technical  or  scientific  reading 
courses,  literary  reading  courses,  culture  and  civilization  courses,  etc.   In  some 
cases  the  option  suggested  is  that  the  readings  be  in  the  foreign  language,  but  the 
discussion  be  in  English.   Needless  to  say,  most  of  the  foreign  language  departments 
are  now  in  the  process  of  reevaluating  their  l;th-semester  offerings  and  preparing 


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new  ones.   Some,  like  the  French  Dept.,  have  already  established  new  courses  along 
the  lines  suggested  above. 

Whatever  the  long-range  effect  of  the  changes  that  face  us,  we  look  forward  to 
an  exciting  year.   May  yours  be  both  exciting  and  profitable. 

Clayton  L.  Dawson,  Head 

Dept.  of  Slavic  Languages  &  Literatures 

PROP.  ANTHONY  M.  PASQUARIELLO 
It  is  a  great  pleasure  to  begin  the  Newsletter  for  1969-70  with  a  welcome  to  its 
new  Director  and  the  new  Head  of  the  U.I.  Dept.  of  Spanish,  Italian,  &  Portuguese, 
Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello,  and  to  his  wife  Dorothy. 

Mr.  Pasquariello,  a  native  New  Yorker,  holds  his  B.A.  from  Brooklyn  College, 
his  M.A.  from  Columbia,  and  his  Ph.D.  from  the  Univ.  of  Mich.   He  has  taught  at  the 
Univ.  of  Mich.,  at  the  Univ.  of  Colo.,  and  at  Penn.  State  Univ.   He  was  also  Chair- 
man of  the  Dept.  of  Spanish,  Italian,  &  Portuguese,  both  at  Colorado  (I963-6I4.)  and 
at  Penn.  State  (1961+-69). 

His  publications,  teaching,  and  other  academic  activities,  many  and  varied, 
range  from  pedagogy  and  methodology  to  several  areas  of  specialization  in  liter- 
ature; among  the  latter;   the  19th  and  20th  centuries  in  Spain,  the  picaresque 
novel,  the  colonial  period  in  Spanish  America,  and  especially  the  theatre--an 
interest  which,  in  1967,  led  Prof.  Pasquariello  to  found  Modern  International  Drama, 
which  he  will  continue  to  co-edit. 

Those  of  us  who  know  Mr.  Pasquariello  have  always  appreciated  his  many  personal 
qualities;  we  are  indeed  fortunate  to  have  him  at  Illinois.   The  Spanish  Dept.  of 
Champaign-Urbana,  much  to  the  credit  of  Mr.  Pasquariello' s  predecessor,  Prof,  Shoe- 
maker, and  of  many  dedicated  colleagues,  is  one  of  the  best  in  the  country.   We  can 
look  forward  with  confidence  to  a  continuing  record  of  excellence  under  Prof,  Pas- 
quariello.  Welcome  to  Illinois. 

Edwin  Jahiel 

FLA    CONFERENCE 
The   3rd  annual  U.I.    School-University  Foreign  Language   Articulation   Conference  will 
be    held   on  Thursday  and  Friday,    Nov.    6-7,    in  the    Illini  Union,  with  Prof.   U.    Henry 
Gerlach  of    the   Dept.    of   Germanic    Languages   &  Literature   as   chairman.      The    theme   is 
"Teacher   Education--A   Continuous   Process."      The   guest   dinner   speaker   on  Thursday 
will  be   Mr.   F.    Andre"   Paquette,    Executive   Secretary  of   the  American   Council   on  the 
Teaching   of  Foreign   Languages.      The  guest   luncheon  speaker   on  Friday  will   be  Mr, 
Albert   Marzo    of  Aurora  West   High  School,  Aurora.      A  new  feature   of  the   conference 
will  be   exhibits   of  books  ana  teaching  materials  by   various  publishing  houses0 

MIDWEST   MLA   MEETING 
The   11th  annual  meeting   of  the  Midwest  Modern  Language   Association  will   be   held 
Thursday-Saturday,    Oct.   23-25,    at  the   Chase-Park  Plaza  Hotel,    St.   Louis,    Mo.      The 
host   institution  will  be   St.    Louis  Univ.      The  theme   of  the  meeting   is    "Criticism  and 
Culture,"  with  the   following  keynote  addresses:      "The  Plight   of  a  Man  of  Letters"  by 
Paul   Goodman,    New  York   City;    "Cultural   Elitism  and  the    Study  of   Literature"  by  Louis 
Kampf ,    MIT,    and    "Reflections   on   Contemporary   Criticism"  by  Alfred  Kerzin,    SUNY-Stony 
Brook. 

IFLTA  MEETING 
The  fall  meeting   of   the   Illinois  Foreign  Language   Teachers'    Association  will  be 
held  Friday   and    Saturday,    Nov.    7-8,   at   the    Sheraton   Chicago   Hotel,    Chicago.      There 
will   be  meetings   of   the    various  AAT  groups   on  Friday,  w  ith  FLES  meetings   and    sym- 
posiums on  Saturday.      Further   information  may  be   obtained  by  writing:      Mr.    Wilbourne 
Bowles,    Proviso   East    High  School,    Maywood,    111.    601^3. 


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ACTFL  MEETING 
The  3rd  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Council  on  the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Languages 
will  be  held  Friday-Sunday,  Nov.  28-30,  at  the  Roosevelt  Hotel,  New  Orleans,  La. 
The  program  will  be  "The  Teacher  as  an  Architect  of  Learning"  with  the  keynote 
address  by  Mr.  Kai-yu  Hsu  of  San  Francisco  State  College.   Further  information  can 
be  obtained  from  Mr.  F.  Andre  Paquette,  Exec.  Secretary,  ACTFL,  62  Fifth  Ave.,  New 
York,  N.  Y.  10011. 

MLA  CONVENTION 
The  Modern  Language  Association  Convention  will  be  held  Friday-Tuesday,  Dec.  26-30, 
in  Denver,  Colo.,  with  the  Univ.  of  Colo,  as  the  host  institution.   The  full  pro- 
gram will  be  available  in  the  Nov.  issue  of  PMLA. 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES  --  by  Prof.  Barbara  Smalley 

PROF.  JOST  RETURNS 
Members  of  the  Comparative  Literature  Program  are  pleased  to  welcome  back  to  the 
111.  campus  Prof.  Francois  Jost,  Director  of  the  Program.   Prof.  Jost,  who  has  been 
in  the  Center  for  Advanced  Study  for  the  past  year,  carried  on  his  research  in 
Europe.   During  May  and  June  he  delivered  a  series  of  lectures  at  the  Univ.  of  Inns- 
bruck and  the  Univ.  of  Fribourg.   He  also  lectured  at  the  Univs.  of  Ttlbingen,  Mainz, 
and  Bonn. 

GRADUATE  YEAR  ABROAD 
The  Comparative  Literature  Program  plans  to  establish  a  Graduate  Year  Abroad.   While 
in  Europe  Prof.  Jost  had  the  opportunity  to  consult  with  a  number  of  institutions 
that  have  expressed  willingness  to  serve  as  possible  centers  for  the  Year  Abroad. 
Among  those  ready  to  undertake  this  program  are  the  Univ.  of  Bonn,  the  Univ.  of 
Mainz,  the  Univ.  of  Ttlbingen,  the  Univ.  of  Zurich,  the  Univ.  of  Fribourg,  and  the 
Univ.  of  Innsbruck. 

We  hope  to  provide  further  information  regarding  the  Comparative  Literature 
Program  Graduate  Year  Abroad  in  the  very  near  future. 

FACULTY  NOTES 
Prof.  A.  Owen  Aldridge,  a  member  of  the  Advisory  Board  of  the  American  Society  for 
18th-century  Studies,  attended  the  meeting  of  the  society  in  Chicago  on  Sept.  5. 
During  Sept.  11+-31  Prof.  Aldridge  attended  the  11th  Congress  of  the  International 
Federation  for  Modern  Languages  &  Literatures  at  Islamabad,  Pakistan,  and  delivered 
a  paper  entitled,  "The  Influence  of  North  American  Revolutionary  Propaganda  in 
South  America."  During  Oct.  30-Nov.  1  he  will  take  part  in  a  symposium  held  by  the 
Modern  Greek  Studies  Association  at  Princeton  Univ. 

Prof.  Rocco  Montano  took  part  in  a  symposium  on  "Symbolism  in  Art  and  Litera- 
ture" held  at  the  Univ.  of  Padova  at  Bressanone  in  Northern  Italy  from  Aug.  13-15« 
He  delivered  a  lecture  on  "Reality  and  Symbolism  in  Dante." 

FACULTY  PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Montano  has  recently  published  the  following:   "Influenza  Crocianna  e  Stori- 
cismo  nella  Critica  Italiana,  "  Filosofla,  anno  XX,  fasc.  II  (aprile  1969)  223-21jlj.j 
"II  Tasso  e  la  Controriforma, "  Umane s imp,  vol.  II,  no.  1-2,  3-51:  "Is  Socialism 
Still  the  Way  Ahead?"  ibid.  52-61;  "Pope  Paul  and  Progressivism, "  ibid.  98-105; 
"Johnson  and  the  Country, "  ibid.  106-110;  "The  Machinery  that  Failed, "  ibid.  110- 
llli;  "The  Electoral  College, "  ibid.  115-116;  "On  Criticism  and  History  of  Litera- 
ture:   Letter  to  Rene  Wellek,"  ibid.  125-13!+;  "Una  Pubblicazione  Dell'Universita 
Cattolica  su  Dante,"  ibid.  139-11+3. 

NEW  FACULTY  &  STAFF 
The  members  of  the  Comparative  Literature  Program  are  pleased  to  welcome  to  the 
program  Prof.  John  Frey,  who  joined  us  this  fall.   He  will  teach  one  graduate  sem- 
inar in  comparative  literature  each  semester. 

We  are  also  pleased  to  welcome  Prof.  Vagn  Steen  from  Denmark,  who  is  presently 


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Visiting  Professor  in  German  and  Comparative  Literature  (see  Germanic  Notes). 
Prof.  Steen  is  teaching  Comparative  Literature  I4.6I,  a  seminar  in  literary  forms. 
The  topic  is  modern  poetry. 

Mrs.  Patricia  Pabisch  is  now  secretary  of  the  Comparative  Literature  Program. 
Her  hours  are  from  9:00  a.m.  to  3:00  p.m.  Monday  through  Friday  in  the  program 
office,  I4.OI  Lincoln  Hall. 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  ENROLLMENT 
Currently  there  are  ij.5  students  enrolled  in  the  Comparative  Literature  Program. 
Those  who  are  now  writing  their  dissertations  are:   Mrs.  Agnes  Brandabur,  Mr. 
Arthur  N.  Flodstrom,  Mr.  Christopher  Kertesz,  Mrs.  Barbara  Bluege  Lide,  Mrs.  Bar- 
bara Widenor  Maggs,  Mr.  Noah  Marcell,  Mr.  Bertel  Pedersen,  Mr.  Samir  Habib  Rizk, 
Mrs.  Helen  Hikawyj  Saciuk,  Mrs.  Kay  Parnell  Stoneklng,  and  Mrs.  Graeme  Douglas 
Tytler. 

Six  former  students  who  have  already  completed  the  doctorate  in  Comparative 
Literature  are:   Drs.  Suzana  Rigoleth  Cooper,  Roger  Barton  Johnson,  Siegfried  Ernst 
Mews,  Sondra  Rosenberg,  Anita  Rosenblithe,  and  Barbara  Martin  Smalley. 

FRENCH  NOTES  --  by  Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel 

LE  TRETEAU  DE  PARIS  HERE  ON  NOV.  5 
Anouilh's  Antigone  will  be  performed  by  Le  Treteau  de  Paris  on  Wednesday,  Nov.  S> 
8:00  p.m.,  in  the  Festival  Theatre  of  the  Krannert  Center.   There  is  not  much  point 
in  elaborating  on  the  importance  and  quality  of  Antigone,  one  of  this  century's  most 
popular  plays,  or  on  the  great  critical  applause  which  the  Trlteau  de  Paris  has 
received  for  many  productions,  and  in  particular  that  of  Antigone  during  their 
American  tour.   We  hope  that  you  and  your  students  will  come  to  Urbana  for  this 
event.   The  play  raised  critical  issues  when  first  performed  and  today  is  not  only 
valid,  but  peculiarly  appropriate  to  moral  problems  that  the  youth  of  America  is  so 
involved  with.   If  you  wish  to  order  a  special  edition  of  Antigone  (in  French) 
please  order  at:   Follett's  Bookstore,  Wright  &  Green,  Champaign,  111.  61820;  post- 
and  tax-paid  $.85.   The  added  bonus  this  year  is  the  beautiful,  comfortable,  and 
acoustically  excellent  Krannert  Festival  Theatre.   Tickets  are  $3«25»  $3*00,  and 
$2.75  for  the  general  public;  for  students,  $2.75,  $2.50,  and  $2.25. 

Mail  orders  should  be  sent  to  the  Box  Office  of  the  Krannert  Center  for  the 
Performing  Arts,  Urbana,  111.  61801.   Please  order  right  away  because  we  foresee  a 
full  house,  the  Krannert  has  a  limited  capacity  of  seats  (half  as  many  as  the  Audi- 
torium), and  we  would  hate  to  disappoint  our  out-of-town  friends. 

FRENCH  STAFF,  OLD  AND  NEW 
The  French  Dept.  now  numbers  3I4.  members  in  the  ranks  of  instructor,  assistant 
professor,  associate  professor,  and  professor.   This  includes  2  professors  primarily 
in  Comparative  Literature,  and  3  new  persons.   The  latter  are:   Instructor  Robert  M. 
Riggs,  formerly  an  assistant  in  this  department,  then  instructor  and  assistant  pro- 
fessor at  George  Washington  Univ.;  Instructor  Peter  Varkonyi,  formerly  assistant  at 
USCB  via  his  native  Hungary,  'France,  then  Berkeley;  and  Prof.  Robert  Nelson,  late  of 
Columbia,  NYU,  Yale,  Michigan,  and,  since  1959,  the  Univ.  of  Perm. 

Mr.  Nelson  has  been  a  Fellow  of  ACLS,  APS,  and  the  Guggenheim  Foundation. 
Author  of  several  scholarly  publications,  greatly  interested  in  undergraduate  as 
well  as  graduate  education,  including  language  training,  his  caliber  and  versatility 
are  matched  only  by  his  energy.   To  mention  only  his  books,  he  has  written:   Play 
Within  a  Play,  Corneille :   His  Heroes  and  Their  Worlds ;  he  has  edited  Corneille  and 
Racine :   Parallels  and  Contrasts ;  co-edited  with  Neal  Oxenhandler,  Aspects  of  French 
Literature ;  to  be  published  in  1970,  Le  Grand  Siecle :   anthologie  thematique  de  la 
litterature  franpais  du  17e  siecle,  edited  by  Jules  Brody  and  Mr.  Nelson;  to  be 
published  any  day  now,  Immanence  and  Transcendence :   The  Theatre  of  Jean  de  Rotrou. 

The  department  has  in  all  63  assistants,  of  whom  28  are  new;  of  this  last  group 
9  are  French,  1  is  Swiss,  and  1  is  British.  There  are  8  Fellows  this  year  (Univer- 
sity and  NDEA)  and  2  recipients  (fagon  de  parler)  of  fee-waivers.   The  backgrounds 
of  the  assistants,  old  or  new,  are  as  varied  as  they  are  interesting.   Most  of  them 


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have  in  common  residence,  study,  often  work  in  Prance,  in  many  cases  over  long 
periods. 

AATP  MOVES  TO  THE  U.I. 
[The  following  statement  was  prepared  by  Prof.  F.  W.  Nachtmann. ] 

On  Sept.  1  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  French  (AATF)  transferred 
its  national  headquarters  to  the  Champaign-Urbana  campus  of  the  U.I.  The  AAFT  is 
the  professional  organization  which  unites  teachers  of  French  at  all  levels,  claim- 
ing some  11,000  members  at  the  present  time.  Prof,  F.  W,  Nachtmann  of  the  French 
Dept.  of  the  U.I,  has  been  elected  by  the  Executive  Council  of  the  association  to 
be  the  new  national  executive  secretary,  succeeding  Prof.  J.  Henry  Owens  of  Eastern 
Mich.  Univ.,  Ypsilanti. 

By  an  agreement  entered  into  last  June  between  the  association  on  the  one  hand, 
and  Vice-Chancellor  Carter  representing  the  university  on  the  other,  the  university 
agreed  to  become  the  permanent  host  institution  of  the  association  and  to  provide 
housing  for  it  on  the  Champaign-Urbana  campus. 

The  U.I.  has  for  some  years  been  the  host  institution  of  the  National  Council 
of  Teachers  of  English  and  of  several  other  organizations. 

At  the  same  time  that  the  AATF  headquarters  were  moved  to  Champaign-Urbana, 
several  outlying  bureaus  were  consolidated  with  the  headquarters.   A  placement 
bureau  for  members,  previously  operated  from  the  campus  of  the  Univ.  of  N.  C.,  the 
National  Information  Bureau  operated  from  the  French  Embassy  in  New  York  City,  and 
the  Bureau  de  Correspondence  Scolaire  previously  located  at  Bloomington  Heights 
High  School  in  111.  have  all  been  pulled  back  to  the  headquarters  and  made  a  part 
of  the  responsibility  of  the  new  executive  secretary.   This  gathering  of  the  bureaus 
into  the  headquarters  should  make  for  a  much  more  efficient  operation. 

The  French  Review,  the  official  publication  of  the  association,  will  continue 
to  be  edited  on  the  campus  of  the  Univ.  of  N.  C.,  where  its  editor  is  located.   The 
president  of  the  association  is  Prof.  David  Daugherty  of  the  Univ.  of  Oregon.   Prof0 
Nachtmann' s  term  of  office  as  executive  secretary  is  for  3  years. 

Prof.  Nachtmann  has  been  a  member  of  the  French  Dept.  at  the  U.I.  for  21  years0 
For  the  last  3  years  he  has  served  as  the  executive  secretary  of  the  department.   In 
his  new  position  he  will  be  half-time  teaching  in  the  French  Dept.  and  half-time 
with  the  AATF.   The  university  has  designated  a  house  at  59  E.  Armory,  Champaign, 
for  use  of  the  AATF.   The  headquarters  now  includes  a  clerical  staff  of  3  which  will 
be  somewhat  increased  when  all  the  bureaus  are  in  full  operation  from  the  new 
address. 

ILLINOIS  AND  IOWA  YEAR  ABROAD  PROGRAM 
[The  following  statement  was  prepared  by  Prof.  Gabriel  Savignon.] 

What  was  a  year  ago  a  venture  for  the  Depts.  of  French  at  the  U.I.  and  the 
Univ.  of  Iowa  became  a  growing  success  as  the  1968-69  school  year  progressed.   On 
Sept.  10,  1968,  32  students  left  the  U.S.  on  the  H/S   Aurelia  for  France  where,  for 
the  majority  of  them,  1968-69  was  to  be  their  junior  year  in  France.   The  Illinois 
and  Iowa  Year  Abroad  Program  in  France  had  become  a  reality  for  the  9  students  from 
the  Univ.  of  Iowa  and  the  23  students  who  formed  the  111.  contingent. 

After  travelling  by  bus  from  Le  Harvre  to  Grenoble  and  visiting  "haut-lieux" 
like  Jumieges,  Vlzelay,  Dijon,  Geneva,  the  group  settled  in  the  capital  of  Dauphin! 
for  a  5-week  preliminary  session  at  the  Facultl  des  Lettres  et  Sciences  Humaines  of 
the  Univ.  of  Grenoble  from  Sept.  23  to  Oct.  25,  1968.   There  they  took  courses  in 
phonetics,  composition,  translation,  20th  century  literature;  they  listened  to  and 
participated  in  talks  such  as  the  French  political  parties  and  labor  unions,  student 
revolt,  comtenporary  French  cinema.   Weekends  were  spent  on  excursions  in  the  French 
and  Italian  Alps  and  to  the  Midi.   At  the  end  of  Oct.  the  32  participants  with  their 
resident  advisor,  Prof.  Bruce  H.  Mainous,  Head  of  the  Dept.  of  French  at  Urbana, 
accompanied  by  his  family  and  assisted  in  his  duties  as  Director  of  the  Program  in 
France  by  2  administrative  assistants,  Miss  Carol  Chase  from  the  U.I.  and  Mr.  Joseph 
Uris  from  the  Univ.  of  Iowa,  set  out  by  bus  to  Normandie  by  the  way  of  the  Loire 
chateaux  country  and  Chartres. 

Classes  in  language,  literature,  geography,  and  history  of  France,  and  history 
of  French  art  at  the  Faculty  des  Lettres  et  Sciences  Humaines  of  the  new  Univ.  of 


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Rouen  at   Mont-Saint-Aignan  ran  from  Nov.    to  the   end  of  Kay,    1969.      The   students 
also  prepared   for   the    3   sets   of  examinations   given  to  foreign   students  by  the   Mini- 
stere   de    l'Education   Nationals.      18    students   received    the    Certificat   Pratique   de 
Langue    Franqais    (ler   Degr6 ) ;    31,    the    Diplome    d'Etudes   Francais»s    (2eme   Degre )  ;    13, 
the    Diplome    Superieur   d'Etudes   Franchises    (3eme    Degr6 ) .      15   students   were   also 
granted   the   equivalent   of  the    Baccalaureat.      All  participants   received   a  minimum  of 
30    semester   credit    hours   for  their   work   in  French  language,    literature,    and    civil- 
ization. 

Extra-curricular   activities  while   at   the   Univ.    of  Rouen  included  several  ex- 
cursions  and  visits   in  and   around  Rouen,    as  well   as   to  Paris,    which  was  the    center 
of    attraction  on  weekends   for  many   of  the   participants. 

Both   in   Grenoble  and   Rouen,    the   Year   Abroad   students    lived  with  French  families 
having  breakfast   and  dinner  with  them,    while  the   noon  meal   was   taken  on  the   campus 
at    Saint-Martin  d'Heres   and  at  Mont-Saint-Aignan. 

The   total   cost   of  participation   in  the   program  was    $1701;  per   student. 

All   along   the   year,    both   in  Grenoble  and  Rouen,    French  professors   and  admini- 
strators  had  nothing  but  praise   for   the    students.      The   success   of   this  first   year 
is   due   to  the   originator   and  first   administrator   of  the  program,    Prof.    John  K. 
Simon,    now   Chairman  of   the   Dept.   of  French  at   SUNY-Buff alo,    and  especially  to  Prof. 
Bruce   H.    Mainous,    who,   with  the   support   of   Mrs.    Mainous   and   the   help   of  Kiss    Chage 
and  Mr.   Uris,    administered  this    initial  year  masterfully. 

As   these  words   are   being  written,    another  group   of   33   students   has    just    arrived 
in  France.      It   is   made  up   of  9   students  from  the   Univ.    of   Iowa,    17  from  the  U.I„ 
Urbana  campus,    2  from  the   U.I.    Chicago   Circle   campus,    i|  from  Northern  111.   Univ., 
and   1  from  the  Univ.   of  Wise,   at   Madison.      They  are  accompanied  by  Prof.    Weisz, 
resident   director    and    Visiting   Associate   Prof,    in  the   Dept.    of    French  at   Urbana, 
and  by  two   administrative  assistants,    Mrs.    Augun  Gross  from  the  Univ.    of    Iowa  and 
Mr.    Robert  McFarland  from  the  U.I.      Both  Prof,   and   Mrs.   Weisz   hail  from  the  Rouen 
area. 

Preparations   are   in  the  making  for  the  Program's   3rd  year    (1970-71).      A  new 
description  or  brochure   incorporating   a  few  changes  will  be   available   in  Nov. 
Inquiries    should  be   directed  to  Prof.    Gabriel    Savignon,    Chairman,    Governing   Com- 
mittee,   Illinois  and   Iowa  Year   Abroad  Program,    21|lj.  Lincoln  Hall,    Urbana,    111.    6l801„ 

FRENCH   JOURNAL   CLUB 
The   known  schedule   of   talks   include   Oct.   20,    Prof.    L.   Uffenbeck    (Wise),    "Sainte- 
Beuve   as   a   Critic   of   Chateaubriand,"   and  Dec.    1,    Prof.    Barbara   Bowen   (U.I.)    "A  New 
Look  at   the   French  16th  Century."     Both  talks  will  be  at   8:00  p.m.    in  Law  Building 
Room  D. 

THE    CENACLE 
The    Cenacle   is    a   student-staff   discussion  group  which  meets   informally  once  a  month 
to  discuss   a  topic,    usually  literary.      In  the  past   we  have  discussed   such  varied 
matters   as  the  disappearance   of  the  hero   in  modern  French  literature,    and  the  re- 
lationship  of  literature  to   the   other   arts.      Participation  is  not   limited  to  the 
French  Dept.,   and  anyone    interested   is  most   welcome.      For  the   first  meeting  this 
year   the   topic  was    "L' amour:      est-ce  un  theme   du  XXe   siecle?"     Prof.    Barbara   Bowen 
is   in  charge   of   the    Clnacle. 

ED0UARD  M0R0T-SIR 
Dr.    Edouard  Morot-Sir,    Cultural   Counselor   to  the    French  Embassy  and  Representative 
of  the   French  Universities,    has,    as  most   of  our  readers  know,    fulfilled  brilliantly 
over  many  years  his   task  as    "Cultural   Ambassador"  to   the   United   States.     He  has  now 
terminated  this   function,    but  fortunately   he  will  remain  in  this   country,    and  will 
continue  his   literary  and  philosophical  research  along  with  teaching   as  professor 
in  the   Dept.    of  Romance   Languages   of  the   Univ.   of  Ariz,    at   Tucson.      Our  thanks   and 
wishes  go  with  him. 


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GERMANIC  NOTES  --by  Roy   Allen 

NEW  FACULTY 
The   Danish  free-lance   writer,   poet,    and  literary  critic,    Mr.    Vagn  Steen,    has    joined 
the  faculty  of   the   department   as   Visiting   Prof,   for   the   fall  semester.      Mr.    Steen 
has   studied  at   Arhus  Univ.    in  Denmark    (19U7-56)   and  at   Oslo  Univ.    in  Norway    (1955- 
56).      He   has  also  taught  at    the   Univ.    of  Gothenburg  in  Sweden    (1957-65)   and  at 
Arhus  Univ.    (1963-65).      Last   spring   term  Mr.    Steen  was   Visiting  Prof,    in  the   Dept. 
of   Germanic    Languages   &  Literatures    at    Ind.    Univ.,    Bloomington.      He    is   the    author  of 
a  number   of   volumes   of  poetry,    perhaps   most   notable   of  which    is   Digte?    (1961;),    which 
allies   him  with  the    so-called    "Concretism, "  an   international   "movement"  in  poetry. 
Mr.    Steen  has   also   authored   several   volumes   of  children's   books.      This   fall  a t    the 
U.I,   Mr.    Steen  is  holding   a  seminar  on  modern  poetry  and   is   teaching   a  course   in  the 
Danish  language.      He    is   also  scheduled  to   present    a  lecture   on  the    subject   of   child- 
ren's literature. 

The  department  has   also   added  3  permanent  members   to   the   staff  this   year.      Mr. 
Richard  Figge    comes   to    the  department   from   Stanford  Univ.    with  the   rank  of  Assistant 
Prof.      He  received  the    B.A.    degree  from  Carle  ton  College    in  1961].,    the   M.A.    degree 
from  Stanford  Univ.    in  1966,    and    the   Ph.D.    at   the   same   institution   just   prior  to 
joining   the   faculty   of    the   U.I.      Mr.    Figge    is  a   member   of   Phi   Beta   Kappa,    was   a 
recipient  of   the    Woodrow  Wilson  Fellowship    (1965-66),    and   a   Fulbright    Fellowship 
for   study  at    Heidelberg  Univ.    (1961|-65).      He   completed  the  researching   and  writing 
of   his   doctoral   dissertation,    Heinrich  Heine ' s   Atta  Troll:      An  Analysis,    in  Dtissel- 
dorf   on  a  DAAD  Fellowship    and  a  grant    from  Stanford  Univ.      Mr.    Figge' s  wife,    Susan 
Figge,    has   also   come   to   the   department   this  fall  from  Stanford  Univ.      Mrs.    Figge 
was  granted  the   B.A.   degree   at  the   Univ.   of   Calif,    at   Santa  Barbara  in  1961].,    and 
the   M.A.    degree   at   Stanford  Univ.    in  1966.      She  was   a  recipient   of   a  Fulbright 
Fellowship  for   study    in  Kiel   at   the    Christian-Albrecht-UniversitSt    in  1961]-65,    and 
a  Woodrow  Wilson  Fellowship  for  1965-66.      Mrs.    Figge   is  currently   completing   her 
doctoral  dissertation  on  Elements   of  the  Metaphysical   Style   in   German  17th-century 
Poetry,    which  was   researched  prior    to    her   coming  to   111.    in  Dffsseldorf   on  a  DAAD 
Fellowship   and   a  grant   from  Stanford  Univ.      Mr.   Roland   Folter    joins   the   department 
this   fall  with   the  rank  of   Assistant  Prof.      Mr.    Folter   has    just  completed  his   doc- 
toral  dissertation  on  the  first  MS.    edition  of  Maler  Miller's   Iphigenia  for   Brown 
Univ.,    where   he   also  received  the   M.A.   degree   in  1967.      Mr.    Folter  obtained   the 
Arbitur   at   the   Karl -Schurz -Gymnasium  in  1962   and   studied   at    the   Goethe-UniversitSt, 
Frankfurt   a.M.,    from  1962   to   1965.      Mr.    Folter' s  fields   of   interest   are   the   Storm 
and   Stress   and  Bibliography   and  Methods. 

FACULTY   ON  LEAVE 
Three   members   of   the    full-time   faculty  of  the   department  are   on  leave  for   a  part   or 
all  of  the   current  academic   year.      Prof.    Haile  will  be  on  a   sabbatical  for  the   1st 
semester,    and  for  the   2nd  semester  has  been  appointed  an   Associate   Member  to   the 
Institute   for   Advanced   Study  at   the  U.I.      Prof.    Haile   is    engaged   in   3  projects 
during   this    year:      the   completion  of  his   biography  of   Goethe,    an  investigation  into 
the   outlook  for   humanities   studies   in  the  U.S.    and  the   commencement   of   a  work  on  a 
history  of    German  literature.      He  also  expects   to   spend  some   time   in  the  early  fall 
in  Germany,    Italy,    and   Sicily.      Prof.    Irmengard  Rauch  has  taken  a   leave   of  absence 
for  the  fall   semester   in  order  to  edit   a   volume   of   Old  Saxon  He  Hand  research  which 
is    to   be  published   in   the   series   Wage    der   Forschung    (Wissenschaf tliche   Buchgesell- 
schaft,    Darmstadt).      Prof.    Rudolf    Schier    is   also   on  leave   of   absence   for  the  full 
academic   year.      Prof.    Schier   is   doing   research  on  contemporary  literature   in  Vienna, 
Austria.      His   book  on  Trakl  will   appear  soon  in   the    Carl   Winter   Verlag,    Heidelberg. 

FRUCHTBRINGENDE   GESELLSCHAFT 
The    German  Research  Group,    "Fruchtbringende   Gesellschaf t, "  held   its  first  meeting  of 
the   year   on  Oct.   9  at   7:30  p.m.    in  the  Union.      The    speaker   of   the   evening  was   Prof, 
Henri    Stegemeier  who   spoke   on  the  topic    "The   Identification  of  Fabianus    Athyrus   and 
an  Analysis   of  his   Emblematical   Stechbtfchlein   (161]5;      1651;)."     The   second   meeting 
will   take  place   on  Nov.    1]  at   7:30   in  the  Union,    rooms  261-263-267.      The  guest 
speaker  will  be   Prof.    Josef   Matl  of  the   Univ.    of   Graz    (Austria).      Prof.   Matl   will 


speak  on  "Goethe  und  Schiller  bei  den  Slaven. " 

A  NEW  GERMAN  HOUSE 
Due  to  the  concerted  efforts  of  a  group  of  energetic  students,  a  German  House  has 
materialized  on  the  campus  of  the  U.I.  this  fall.   The  House  has  been  established 
in  the  building  located  at  108  S.  Gregory.   It  is  an  independent,  co-ed  and  co-op 
dormitory,  accomodating  at  present  10  women  and  ij.  men.   The  German  Dept.  is  spon- 
soring the  effort  and  has  assigned  a  teaching  assistant,  Miss  Jane  Thompson,  to  the 
House.  Miss  Thompson  will  act  as  a  contact  with  the  department  and  will  supervise 
and  help  organize  activities  in  the  House.   Coffee  hours  and  other  activities 
involving  German  Dept.  staff  and  invited  guests  will  be  held  from  time  to  time.   All 
interested  persons  are  cordially  invited  to  drop  in  for  a  visit  any  time.   "Open 
House"  was  held  on  Oct.  5« 

GERMAN  CLUB 
The  German  Club  will  this  fall  be  under  the  direction  of  Prof.  Charles  Daigh,  Ass- 
istant Prof,  in  the  Dept.  of  Secondary  &  Continuing  Education.   Prof.  Daigh  ob- 
tained the  Ph.D.  degree  in  German  from  the  German  Dept.  at  the  U.I.  in  1967.   The 
current  president  of  the  German  Club  is  Mr.  Bill  Preymann.   On  Sept.  25  at  9:00  p.m. 
the  German  Club  held  a  "Kleines  Oktoberf est"  in  the  Thunderbird  Restaurant,  at  which 
plans  were  drawn  up  for  future  activities. 

SLAVIC  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Michael  Curran 

SUMMER  VACATION  NOTES 
While  in  Europe  this  summer,  Miss  Temira  Pachmuss  interviewed  several  Russian 
writers  to  wind  up  her  research  project  leading  to  the  publication  of  Zinaida 
Hippius'  personal,  literary,  and  political  diaries.   The  trip  was  partly  financed 
by  a  grant  from  the  American  Philosophical  Society.   In  Paris  Miss  Pachmuss  re- 
ceived the  estate  of  Vladimir  Zlobine,  the  secretary  to  D.  S.  Merezhkovsky  and 
Madame  Hippius.   The  estate  contains  about  200  books  and  several  cartons  of  archival 
materials  in  Merezhkovsky' s  and  Hippius'  own  handwritings.   These  materials  will  be 
deposited  in  the  U.I.  Library. 

Prof.  Kurt  Klein  returned  to  Russia  for  the  first  time  since  the  mid-1930' s  to 
attend  the  1st  International  Conference  of  the  International  Association  of  Teachers 
of  Russian  Language  &  Literature  at  Moscow  State  Univ.   Over  500  teachers  from 
Europe,  Asia,  Canada,  the  U.S.,  and  Cuba  attended  the  conference,  which  was  devoted 
to  research  and  pedagogical  problems.   Among  the  speakers  were  such  scholars  as  V0 
V.  Vinogradov,  0.  Axmatova,  and  S.  K.  Shaumjan. 

NEW  FACULTY 
The  Slavic  Dept.  is  happy  to  welcome  I4.  new  members  this  fall:   Mr.  Kenneth  Brostrom^ 
Mr.  Elliot  Cohen,  and  Mr.  &  Mrs.  Henry  Zalucky.   Mr.  Brostrom,  who  did  his  under- 
graduate work  at  Cornell  Univ.  and  is  finishing  his  dissertation  at  the  Univ.  of 
Mich.,  has  just  returned  from  Oxford,  England,  where  he  worked  with  Mr.  Max  Hayward 
on  his  dissertation,  a  literary  analysis  of  the  prose  of  Boris  Pil'njak.   Mr.  Cohen 
did  his  undergraduate  work  at  Harvard  and  is  currently  finishing  his  dissertation, 
Autobiography  in  20th  Century  Russian  Literature,  at  Yale.   The  Zalucky s  received 
their  education  in  Warsaw  and  Moscow  and  are  experienced  teachers  of  both  Russian 
and  Polish.   Both  have  done  translations  of  books  and  articles  in  those  languages, 
and  Mr.  Zalucky  has  also  worked  for  Radio  Moscow. 

Prof.  Richard  Sheldon  from  Dartmouth  is  a  Visiting  Fellow  at  the  Center  for 
Advanced  Study  this  year.  He  will  be  working  on  the  Russian  literary  historian, 
Viktor  Shklovsky. 

FLA  CONFERENCE 
Attention  is  called  to  the  announcement  of  the  U.I.  School-University  Foreign  Lan- 

fuage  Articulation  Conference  on  page  2„   Since  there  will  be  no  Slavic  Section  at 
he  IFLTA  meeting  on  Nov.  7-8  in  Chicago,  this  will  be  the  only  chance  for  us  to 
meet  this  year.   All  high-school  Russian  teachers  are  cordially  invited. 


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RUSSIAN  CLUB 
On  Oct.  9  the  Russian  Club  presented  a  film  entitled  The  Grasshopper  (Poprygun*  ,ja) 
based  on  a  short  story  by  Anton  Chekhov. 

PUBLICATIONS 
Miss  Temira  Pachmuss  published  "Zinaida  Hippius:   Contes  d'amour,"  La  Renaissance 
(Paris,  1969),  no.  211,  25-1*7,  and  no.  212,  39-51+. 

SPANISH,  ITALIAN,  &  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  --  by  Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jr. 

AATSP  SOLICITS  NEW  MEMBERS,  ALSO  TESTING  CENTERS 
The  Downstate  Illinois  Chapter  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  Spanish  & 
Portuguese  is  Interested  in  setting  up  area  testing  centers  for  the  AATSP  National 
Examinations.   The  test  will  be  administered  between  Mar.  21  and  Apr.  1*,  1970.   The 
test  administration  time  is  75  minutes  and  requires  laboratory  listening  facilities. 
Schools  willing  to  set  up  area  testing  centers  should  contact  Dr.  James  E.  McKinney, 
Contest  Chairman,  Western  111.  Univ.,  Macomb,  111.  6114.55-   All  testing  materials 
should  be  ordered  by  the  deadline,  Feb.  1,  1970. 

The  Downstate  Chapter  also  wishes  to  invite  all  area  teachers  and  college  stu- 
dents to  affiliate  with  the  local  chapter  and  to  join  the  national  association. 
National  dues  are  $8  per  year  ($ti  for  students),  and  this  includes  a  subscription 
to  Hispania,  the  AATSP' s  official  publication.   Local  chapter  dues  are  $1.   Members 
may  participate  in  the  AATSP' s  Placement  Bureau  Service,  the  Sociedad  Honoraria 
Hispanica,  the  National  Spanish  Contest,  and  the  Spanish  Correspondence  Service. 
Applications  for  membership  and  further  inquiries  may  be  directed  to  Mrs.  Gladys 
Leal,  Champaign  Central  High  School,  610  W.  University  Ave.,  Champaign,  111.  61920. 

The  officers  of  the  Downstate  Chapter,  elected  last  spring,  are:   President, 
Mrs.  Barbara  Watson,  R.O.V.A.  High  School,  Oneida;  Corresponding  Secretary,  Mr.  Jack 
Clinton,  Limestone  High  School,  Peoria;  Recording  Secretary-Treasurer,  Mrs.  Lealo 

CIC  UNDERGRADUATE  STUDY  IN  BRAZIL 
The  Committee  on  Institutional  Cooperation  (CIC),  consisting  of  the  Big  Ten  univer- 
sities and  the  Univ.  of  Chicago,  has  inaugurated  a  Program  for  Undergraduate  Study 
at  the  Federal  Univ.  of  Rio  Grande  do  Sul,  Porto  Alegre,  Brazil,  to  run  Feb. -Dec, 
1970*   The  program  is  open  to  students  at  the  CIC  universities  who  have  overall  B 
averages  and  at  least  2  years  of  Portuguese.   Further  information  and  application 
forms  can  be  obtained  from  Prof.  Claude  E.  Leroy,  Director,  II4.IO  Van  Hise,  Univ0 
of  Wise,  Madison,  Wise.  53706. 

Prof.  J.  H.  D.  Allen  represented  this  department  and  the  U.I.  on  the  CIC  Under- 
graduate Study  in  Brazil  Committee. 

CIC  UNDERGRADUATE  SUMMER  STUDY  PROGRAM  IN  MEXICO 
Prof.  Merlin  H.  Forster  again  served  as  director  of  the  CIC  Undergraduate  Summer 
Study  Program  in  Mexico,  D.F.   A  total  of  lj.3  students  participated,  representing  all 
11  CIC  institutions  as  well  as  Eastern  111.  Univ.  Enrollment  from  the  participating 
universities  in  111.  was:   U.I.  8,  U.I.  Chicago  Circle  2,  Univ.  of  Chicago  1,  North- 
western Univ.  2,  and  Eastern  111.  Univ.  1. 

While  in  Mexico,  Prof.  Forster  participated  in  an  "Homenaje  a  Carlos  Pellicer" 
in  honor  of  the  Mexican  poet  in  June. 

NEW  FACULTY 
The  department  welcomes  3  new  faculty  members  this  year:   Prof.  Anthony  M»  Pasquar- 
iello,  Assistant  Prof.  Dieter  Wanner,  and  Assistant  Prof.  Isaias  Lerner.   [Prof. 
Edwin  Jahiel ' s  introduction  of  Prof.  Pasquariello  appears  on  page  2.] 

Prof.  Wanner  was  born  in  Bern,  Switzerland,  In  191+3,  and  attended  secondary 
school  in  Ztfrich.   He  studied  at  the  Univ.  of  Zurich  from  1962  to  1968,  and  there 
received  his  Dr. Phil,  degree.   He  has  also  studied  at  the  Univ.  of  Rome  and  the 
Univ.  of  Madrid.   Prof.  Wanner  taught  last  year  in  the  Dept.  of  Linguistics  at  the 
Univ.  of  Calif,  in  San  Diego.   As  a  Visiting  Assistant  Prof.,  he  shares  his  appoint- 
ment between  this  department  and  the  Dept.  of  Linguistics.   His  field  is  Romance 
philology  and  linguistics. 


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Prof .  Lerner  was  born  in  Buenos  Aires,  Argentina,  in  1932,  and  attended 
secondary  school  in  that  city.   He  studied  at  the  Univ.  of  Buenos  Aires  where  he 
received  his  Profesor  en  Letras  degree  in  193>9.   Until  1966  he  had  part-time 
appointments  at  the  Facultad  de  Filosofia  y  Letras,  the  Colegio  Nacional  de  Buenos 
Aires,  and  the  Instituto  Superior  del  Profesorado,  all  in  Buenos  Aires.   He  came  to 
this  department  as  a  graduate  assitant  in  1967,  and  was  promoted  to  instructor  in 
1968.   He  will  receive  his  Ph.D.  from  the  U.I.  in  Feb.,  1970,  in  Spanish  linguistics 
He  is  married  to  the  former  Lta  Schwartz,  also  of  Argentina,  Mrs.  Lerner  is 
presently  the  holder  of  an  NDEA  Title  IV  Fellowship  in  the  department. 

JUNE  GRADUATION 
The  department  awarded  7  doctoral  and  15  masters  degrees  in  June.   The  doctoral 
recipients,  with  their  present  locations,  were:  Mr.  Frederick  John  Bouma  (Ind. 
Univ.),  Miss  Sylvia  Jean  Brann  (Kansas  State  Univ.),  Mr.  Daniel  Elias  Gulstad  (Univ. 
of  Mo0),  Mr.  Romeo  Ronaldo  Hino josa-Smith  (Trinity  Univ.,  San  Antonio),  Mr.  Gary 
Eugene  A.  Scavnicky  (Wayne  State  Univ.,  Detroit),  Mr.  Jack  Raymond  Willey  (Gonzaga 
Univ.,  Spokane),  all  in  Spanish,  and  Mr.  John  Barkley  Means  (Temple  Univ.,  Phila- 
delphia) in  Portuguese. 

The  masters  candidates,  with  their  undergraduate  institutions,  were:  Miss 
Nyla  Mae  Gilkerson  (B.S.  Univ.  of  Kansas),  Miss  Judith  Ann  Huffaker  (A.B.  Knox 
College),  Miss  Karen  Beane  Loxley  (B.A.  Manchester  College,  Ohio),  Miss  Connie  Rae 
Moore  (B.A.  Utah  State  Univ.),  Mr.  Manuel  Prezha-Garcia  (B.A.  Northwestern  State 
College,  0klao ),  Mr.  Terrance  Anthony  Stevenson  (A.B.  Washington  Univ. ,  St.  Louis), 
Mrs.  Pamela  Carpenter  Strange  (B.A.  Colo.  College),  Miss  Frances  Day  Wardlaw  (B.A. 
College  of  Wooster,  Ohio),  Mr.  George  Earl  Wilson  (B.S.  Eastern  111.  Univ.),  Miss 
Mary  Elizabeth  Wright  (A.B.  Univ.  of  Nebr.),  and  Miss  Alice  Dolores  Zawilenski  (A.B. 
U.I.  Chicago  Circle)  in  Spanish. 

In  addition,  Miss  Janet  Rae  Fitch  (A.B.  U.I.),  Mr.  Roberto  Severino  (B.A. 
Columbia  Union  College),  and  Mr.  William  Anthony  Zanghl  (B.A.  SUNY-Buf f alo )  received 
masters  in  Italian,  and  Miss  Bonnie  Mae  Conway  (A.B.  U.I.)  in  Portuguese. 

FACULTY  SUMMERS 
Thirteen  members  of  the  faculty  and  staff  were  on  campus  to  teach  in  the  U.I.  Summer 
Session.   They  include:   Prof.  William  H.  Shoemaker  (dept.  head),  Profs.  Luis  Leal 
and  Robert  E.  Lott,  Associate  Profs.  Spurgeon  W.  Baldwin  and  Hugo  W.  Cowes,  Assis- 
tant Prof.  Thomas  C.  Meehan,  Instructors  Isaias  Lerner  and  Luis  Oyarzun,  and  Grad- 
uate Assistants  David  P.  Laws,  Nuria  Messeder,  and  Onoratino  Marrocco.   In  addition 
Profs.  J.  H.  D.  Allen  and  Henry  Kahane  taught  in  the  U.I.  Summer  Linguistics 
Institute. 

Prof.  Joseph  S.  Flores  served  as  a  counselor  and  advisor  in  the  College  of 
Liberal  Arts  &  Sciences  for  new  U.I.  students  who  had  declared  a  foreign  language  as 
their  major  field.   Assistant  Prof.  Anoar  Aiex  was  the  recipient  of  a  U.I.  Faculty 
Fellowship  for  continued  research  on  the  topic  "The  American  Scholar  in  Brazil." 

Prof.  Marcos  A.  Morlnigo  was  invited  to  the  Universidad  de  Noreste  in  Resi- 
dencia,  Argentina,  by  the  Facultad  de  Filosofia  y  Letras.   Prof.  Alberto  Porquera3- 
Mayo  did  research  in  Madrid  for  an  edition  of  El  prf ncipe  constante  by  Calder6n  de 
la  Barca.   While  working  in  the  Biblioteca  de  Menendez  y  Pelayo  in  Santander,  he  was 
invited  to  give  2  lectures  at  the  Universidad  Internacional  de  Santander.   Assistant 
Prof.  David  R.  Hershberg,  on  sabbatical  leave  in  Spain  during  the  spring  semester, 
spent  the  summer  in  Spain  and  Italy  where  he  completed  an  edition  of  Juan  de  Zava- 
leta's  Err ore s  celebrados  for  Clasicos  Castellanos.   Instructor  Maria  Elena  Bravo  de 
Maharg  and"  her  husband  Graduate  Assistant  James  Maharg  worked  in  Madrid  as  Course 
Directors  at  the  American  Institute  for  Foreign  Study. 

In  Aug.  Profs.  Leal  and  Cowes  attended  the  XIV  Congreso  del  Instituto  de  Lite- 
ratura  Iberoamericana  at  the  Univ.  of  Toronto.   Prof.  Leal  read  a  paper  on  "La 
visi6n  de  Anahuac  de  Alfonso  Reyes"  and  was  elected  president  of  the  Institute's 
Development  Commit tee . 

FACULTY  PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  William  H.  Shoemaker  has  a  book,  La  crttica  literaria  de  Gald6s.  now  being 
published  by  the  Revista  de  Occidente,  Madrid© 

Prof.  Merlin  H.  Forster's  review  of  Eugenio  Florit  &  Jose  Olivio  Jimenez's 


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La  poesla  hispanoamericana  desde  el  modernising  appeared  in  Hispania,  vol.  LI I,  no. 
2~~(May  1969),  3UV3U5. 

Prof.  Henry  R.  Kahane,  Mrs.  Renle  Kahane,  and  Prof.  Angelina  R.  Pietrangeli 
coauthored  "Hermetism  in  the  Alfonsine  Tradition,"  Melanges  Rita  Le jeune,  vol.  I, 

UU3-U57. 

Prof.  Robert  E.  Lott's  articles  include  "Un  hispan6filo  escoces  que  quer£a  a 
Colombia:   Robert  Bontine  Cunninghame  Graham,"  Bolettn  de  historia  y  antigttedades 
(Organo  de  la  Academia  Colombiana  de  Historia),  vol.  LV,  no]  6I4.8-650  (oct-dic  1968), 
707-713*  as  well  as  the  following  reviews:   Josse  De  Koch,  Introducci6n  al  "Can- 
cionero  '  de  Miguel  de  Unamuno  in  Books  Abroad  (Apr.  1969);  Gordon  Brotherston,  Man- 
uel Machado:   A  Revaluation,  in  HispaniaT  vol.  LII,  no.  2  (May  1969),  329;  Juan 
Valera,  Artlculos  de  "El  contemporaneo, ''  ed.  Cyrus  DeCoster,  and  Cyrus  DeCoster, 
Obras  desconocidas  de  Juan  Valera,  both  in  Revista  de  estudios  hispanicos,  vol.  Ill, 
no.  1  (abril  1969),  16TTT52  and  167-169;  Helmut  A.  Hatzfield,  A  Critical  Biblio- 
graphy of  the  New  Stylistics  Applied  to  the  Romance  Literatures  :~~l953-1965"|  in 
Symposium,  vol.  XXIII,  no.  2  (Spring  T969),  179-180;  and  Carmen  de  Zulueta,  Navarro 
LedesmaTn  Hispania,  vol.  LII,  no.  3  (Sept.  1969),  526. 

Prof.  Marcos  A.  Morlnigo  published  "Para  la  historia  del  espaKol  en  la  Argen- 
tina; las  cartas  guaranies  del  general  Belgrano,  "  Actas  de  la  5&  Asamblea  Interuni- 
versltaria  de  Filosof la  y  Literaturas  Hispanica3  (Universidad  del  Sur,  Valla  Blanca, 
Argentina,  1969),  197-203. 

Prof.  Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo  was  the  coeditor  with  C.  Rojas  of  Fllologia  y_ 
critica  hispanica;  Homenaje  al  Prof.  F.  Sanchez  Escribano  (Madrid,  1969),  3U9  pp« 
His  review  of  Werner  Krauss'  Problemas  de  la  cTencla  literaria  appeared  in  Atlantida 
vol.  VII,  no.  38  (marzo-abril  1969),  2l4.2-2lj3. 

Assistant  Prof.  David  R.  Hershberg  has  written  "Otium  and  the  Epitaph  of  Sul- 
picius  Similis,"  Romanische  Forschungen,  vol.  LXXX,  no.  I4.  (1968).   Assistant  Profo 
Thomas  C.  Meehan  reviewed  Coronaci6n  by  the  Chilean  novelist  Jos6  Donoso  in  Books 
Abroad  (Apr.  1969). 

TWO  GUILLEN  LECTURES 
Sr.  Fedro  Guillen,  well-known  Mexican  essayist  and  director  of  the  journal  El  libro 
y_  el  pueblo,  gave  two  public  lectures  sponsored  by  the  department.   The  first  on 
Oct.  UJ  was  "Novelistas  de  19i|0  a  nuestros  dlas"  and  the  second  on  Oct.  15  was 
"Novelas  de  la  revoluci6n  mexicana." 

SPANISH  CLUB 
The  Clrculo  Literario  Espafiol,  under  the  direction  of  Graduate  Assistant  Dagoberto 
Orrantia  as  advisor,  has  sponsored  2  activities.   On  Sept.  25  the  club  presented  the 
movie  Pedro  Paramo,  based  on  the  novel  by  Juan  Rulfo,  in  the  Auditorium.   On  Oct.  9 
Prof.  Merlin  H.  Forster  delivered  a  lecture  on  the  Chilean  poet  Pablo  Neruda, 
illustrated  with  the  British -produced  film  I_  Am  Pablo  Neruda. 

In  addition,  the  Cfrculo  has  resumed  the  Tertulias  which  are  held  from  3?00- 
1;:30  p.m0  every  Friday  afternoon  while  the  U.I.  is  in  session,  in  the  Federal  Room 
in  the  Illini  Union  Snack  Bar.   All  speakers  of  Spanish  are  invited  to  attend. 

§     §     §     §     § 
20  YEARS  AGO  IN  THE  NEWSLETTER 
From  the  Newsletter,  Oct.  1914.9:   "Dr.  John  Van  Home,  head  of  the  Dept.  of  Spanish 
and  Italian  at  the  U.I.,  is  on  a  sabbatical  leave  of  absence  In  Uruguay  this  year. 
Dr.  Arthur  Hamilton  is  acting  head  of  the  department  during  his  absence. . .Dr.  Van 
Home  is  studying  in  the  National  Library  [in  Montevideo]." 

The  University  of  Illinois  Modern  Foreign  Language  Newsletter  is  published  jointly 
by  the  modern  language  departments  of  the  U.I.,  under  the  direction  of  the  Head  of 
the  Dept.  of  Spanish,  Italian,  &  Portuguese.   Editorial  offices  are  located  in  251 
Illini  Tower,  Champaign,  telephone  (217)  333-3536.   The  Newsletter  is  available 
without  charge  to  all  interested  persons  in  Illinois  and  other  areas.   All  communi- 
cations by  mail  should  be  addressed  to:   The  Editor,  MFL  Newsletter,  221;  Lincoln 
Hall,  Urbana,  111.  61801. 


THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS  MODERN  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  NEWSLETTER 

November,  1969       Director:   Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello 
Vol.  XXIII,  No.  2  Editor:   Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jr. 

THE  SUMMER  LINGUISTIC  INSTITUTE 
The  Linguistic  Institute  of  the  Linguistic  Society  of  America  was  held  on  the  U.I. 
(Jrbana  campus  during  the  regular  summer  session  for  the  second  consecutive  summer. 
The  Institute  teaching  staff  included  13  instructors  from  9  U.S.  institutions  and  lj. 
foreign  universities  (in  Canada,  Czechoslovakia,  Israel,  and  Scotland),  as  well  as 
15  instructors  from  the  U.I.   Of  this  latter  group,  ij.  were  members  of  U.I.  foreign 
language  departments:   Profs.  J.  H.  D.  Allen  and  Henry  R.  Kahane  (Spanish,  Italian, 
&  Portuguese),  Associate  Prof.  Frederic  M.  Jenkins  (French),  and  Associate  Prof.  El- 
mer Antonsen  (Germanic).   In  addition,  2  members  of  the  visiting  staff  hold  their 
Ph.D.  degrees  from  the  U.I.:   Dr.  Ronald  Langacker  from  the  Univ.  of  Calif,  at  San 
Diego  and  Dr.  Sol  Saporta  from  the  Univ.  of  Wash. 

Prof.  David  Abercrombie  (Univ.  of  Edinburgh)  was  appointed  the  Linguistic  Soci- 
ety of  America  Professor,  and  Prof.  Gordon  Fairbanks  (Cornell  Univ.)  was  named  the 
Collitz  Frofessor. 

The  Institute  enrollment  numbered  \\2.\\   students  from  the  U.S.  and  22  foreign 
countries.   The  American  Council  of  Learned  Societies  awarded  31  Ford  Foundation 
Grants  and  \\2   National  Science  Grants;  in  addition,  the  Dept.  of  Linguistics  at  the 
U.I.  awarded  1$  Summer  NDFL  Title  VI  Fellowships. 

The  Institute  curriculum  consisted  of  I4.5  courses  ranging  from  general  introduc- 
tory courses  to  advanced  seminars,  and  included  offerings  in  descriptive,  historical, 
applied  and  mathematical  linguistics  as  well  as  syntactic,  phonological,  and  semantic 
analysis.   The  Institute  also  sponsored  11  Forum  Lectures  during  the  summer  session 
by  various  members  of  the  staff,  both  visiting  and  local. 

The  Director  of  the  Institute  was  Prof.  Robert  B.  Lees,  then  the  Head  of  the 
U0I.  Dept.  of  Linguistics  and  now  at  Tel-Aviv  Univ.,  Israel.   The  Associate  Director 
was  Prof.  Sol  Saporta  (Univ.  of  Wash.),  the  Assistant  Director  was  Associate  Prof. 
Howard  S.  Maclay  (U.I.),  and  the  Assistant  to  the  Director  was  Mrs.  Marion  So 
Holshouser. 

As  is  customary,  the  regular  summer  meeting  of  the  Linguistic  Society  of  Amer- 
ica was  held  at  the  host  institution  of  the  Linguistic  Institute.   This  year  it  was 
attended  by  over  i|00  participants  who  heard  I4.O  papers  during  the  meeting  on  July  21(.- 
21;  on  the  U.I.  campus. 

Two  other  summer  institutes  were  held  on  the  U.I.  campus  whose  members  also 
participated  in  the  Linguistic  Institute.   The  Dept.  of  Slavic  Languages  &  Litera- 
tures sponsored  the  Summer  Slavic  Institute,  and  the  National  Science  Foundation 
sponsored  the  Advanced  Research  Seminar  in  Mathematical  Linguistics. 

The  1970  Linguistic  Institute  will  be  held  June  23-Aug.  lij.  at  Ohio  State  Univ. 
The  2  main  emphases  of  the  Institute  will  be  theoretical  and  areal  linguistics.   The 
tentative  list  of  the  1970  faculty  includes  12  instructors  from  Ohio  State  Univ.  and 
17  visiting  instructors.   Of  the  visiting  staff,  9  are  from  8  U.S.  institutions  and 
8  are  from  7  foreign  universities  (in  Canada,  England,  Germany,  India,  Indonesia, 
Jugoslavia,  and  the  U.S.S.R.).   Further  information  about  the  1970  Linguistic  Insti- 
tute is  available  from  Mr.  Gregory  Lee,  Dept.  of  Linguistics,  Ohio  State  Univ.,  216 
North  Oval  Dr.,  Columbus,  Ohio  I4.32IO. 

PUBLICATIONS  OF  INTEREST 
In  an  effort  to  bring  items  of  a  pedagogical  interest  to  its  readers,  the  Newsletter 
will  frequently  list  books  and  pamphlets  of  interest  to  foreign  language  teachers. 
Those  items  which  pertain  to  languages  in  general  or  to  more  than  one  specific  lan- 
guage will  be  listed  in  the  General  News  section  of  the  Newsletter,  while  those  pub- 
lications which  deal  with  a  specific  language  will  be  found  in  the  Notes  for  that 
language.   Readers  who  have  come  in  contact  with  books  or  pamphlets  or  other  material 
which  they  have  found  useful  in  the  teaching  of  foreign  languages  are  encouraged  to 
contact  the  Newsletter  for  a  possible  listing  in  future  issues. 

Recent  publications  of  general  interest  include  the  following  listed  below. 

The  Handbook  of  Foreign  Language  Occupations,  listing  diverse  positions  open  to 
students  of  foreign  languages']  is  available  for  $1.75  each  from  Regents  Publishing 


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Co.,  Division  of  Simon  &  Schuster,  Inc.,  200  Park  Ave.  South,  New  York,  N.  Y.  10003. 

The  Modern  Language  Association  lists  information  about  2\\   U.S.  government  pro- 
grams in  its  new  publication,  MLA  Guide  to  Federal  Programs :   An  Analysis  of  Current 
Government  Financial  Assistance  Programs  for  Students,  Teachers,  Researchers,  and 
Scholars  in  the  Fields  of  EnglTsh.  and  P'orelgn  Languages.  Copies,  at  $2.50  each,  may- 
be ordered  from  the  MLA  Materials  Center,  62  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York,  N.  Y.  10011. 

The  ERIC  Focus  Reports  has  a  series  of  publications  for  $.25  each--an  excellent 
buyl   These  include:   No.  2,  Teaching  Hispanic  Culture  through  Folklore  by  Arthur  L„ 
Campa;  No.  6,  Folktale  and  Folklore  -  Useful  "Cultural  Tools  for  Teachers  of  German 
by  Gerhard  H.  Weiss;  No.  9,  French  Culture:   The  Folklore  Facet  by  Gene lie  Grant 
Morain.   These  should  be  ordered  by  number  and  title  from  the  MLA  Materials  Center,, 

Teachers  of  Spanish  and  French  will  be  interested  in  Teaching  for  Cross-Cultural 
Understandings  by  Tora  T.  Ladu,  State  Supervisor  of  Foreign  Languages  for  the  N.  C. 
Dept .  of  Public  Instruction.   This  booklet  comes  high  recommended  for  its  cultural 
information  on  Spanish  and  French  speakers.   Copies  are  available  at  $.50  each  from 
the  State  Dept.  of  Public  Instruction,  Raleigh,  N.  C.  276O3. 

126  U.I.  PRACTICE  TEACHERS  IN  LANGUAGES 
Prof.  Gilbert  Kettlekamp  of  the  U.I.  Educational  Placement  Office  has  announced  that 
the  U.I.  is  sending  out  126  foreign  language  practice  teachers,  the  majority  of  whom 
will  go  to  Chicago  and  suburban  area  schools.   Of  this  group,  60  will  practice-teach 
during  the  fall  semester,  and  66  in  the  spring.   The  126  practice  teachers  are 
divided  by  language  as  follows:   i|2  in  French,  20  in  German,  12  in  Latin,  9  in  Rus- 
sian, and  I4.3  in  Spanish.   Prof.  Kettlekamp  reports  that  this  year's  figure  of  126 
represents  a  70$  increase  in  the  last  two  years. 

Prof.  Kettlekamp  also  reports  that  the  number  of  call3  last  year  for  high  school 
and  junior  high  school  foreign  language  teachers  was  approximately  2,000,  the  same  as 
the  year  before.   Calls  for  college  teachers  were  down,  and  calls  for  elementary 
school  teachers  of  foreign  languages  remained  light 0 

MLA  AND  AAT  CONVENTIONS 
Attention  is  called  to  the  fact  that  the  MLA  and  the  AAT  conventions  will  not  be 
meeting  together  this  year,  but  at  various  different  times  and  places.   The  MLA  Con- 
vention, as  previously  announced,  will  meet  Friday-Tuesday,  Dec.  26-30,  in  Denver, 
Colo.   Information  about  the  various  AAT  meetings  can  be  found  in  the  departmental 
Notes  for  those  languages  in  this  issue. 

FLA  CONFERENCE 
A  complete  report  on  the  3rd-  annual  U.I.  School-University  Foreign  Language  Articu- 
lation Conference,  held  on  the  U.I.  Urbana  campus  on  Nov.  6-7,  will  appear  in  the 
Dec.  issue  of  the  Newsletter. 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Barbara  Smalley 

FACULTY  PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Francois  Jost,  Director  of  the  Graduate  Program  in  Comparative  Literature, 
published  "La  litterature  comparde  et  la  reforme  universitaire, "  Schweizerische 
Hochschulzeitung  Revue  III  (1969),  135-1U8. 

Prof.  A.  0.  Aldridge  published  "Biography  and  Realism, "  Les  Problemes  des  Genres 
Litteraires  [a  Polish  journal  of  comparative  literature],  vol.  II,  no.  2  (1969)* 

LECTURES 
Prof.  Aldridge  took  part  in  a  symposium  concerned  with  "University  Programs  in  Mod- 
ern Greek,"  held  as  a  part  of  the  general  symposium  of  the  Modern  Greek  Studies  Asso- 
ciation at  Frinceton  Univ.  on  Oct.  3I0 

Prof.  Rocco  Montano  delivered  a  paper  on  "Montale  e  Croce"  at  the  Midwest  Mod- 
ern Language  Association  meeting  in  St.  Louis  on  Oct.  23-25. 

Prof.  Montano  has  been  scheduled  to  deliver  3  public  lectures  sponsored  by  the 
Dept.  of  Spanish,  Italian,  &  Portuguese  and  the  Graduate  Program  in  Comparative  Lit- 
erature.  On  Thursday,  Nov.  6,  he  spoke  on  "Renaissance,  Reformation,  &  Counter- 
Reformation,"  and  on  Tuesday,  Nov.  18.  he  spoke  on  "The  Crime  of  Galileo." 

Prof.  Montano' s  3rd  lecture,  on  "Montale  and  Croce"  will  be  held  Thursday,  Dec. 


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11,  at  8:00  p.m.  in  196  Lincoln  Hall. 

SYMPOSIUM  PAPERS  PUBLISHED 
Papers  delivered  at  the  symposium  on  "The  Art  of  Narrative"  at  the  U.I.  in  Nov., 
1967,  have  now  been  presented  in  printed  form  in  the  current  issue  (Sept.  1969)  of 
Comparative  Studies.   Participants  in  this  symposium  included:   George  May,  Victor 
Lange,  Harry  Levin,  and  Sheldon  Sacks. 

UMANESIMO 
Friends  and  readers  of  Umane s imo  are  cordially  invited  to  attend  discussions  with  its 
editor,  Frof .  Rocco  Montano,  every  Sunday  from  3:00-5:00  p.m.  in  262  Illini  Union. 

FRENCH  NOTES  --by  Frof.  Edwin  Jahiel 

AATF  ANNUAL  MEETING 
The  [(.2nd  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  French  will  take 
place  at  the  Sheraton-Cadillac  Hotel,  Detroit,  on  Dec.  28-30,  1969.  Our  colleague, 
Prof.  Francis  W.  Nachtmann,  the  new  Executive  Secretary  of  the  Association,  will  be 
introduced  at  the  first  meeting,  and  will  speak  ot  the  new  [Champaign-Urbana]  head- 
quarters of  the  AATF  on  the  second  day.  Included  in  the  program  are  various  pedago- 
gical reports:  "Bilingualism  in  Canada, n  a  report  by  M.  Morot-Sir,  a  talk  on  Flau- 
bert by  Albert  Sonnenfeld  (Princeton  Univ.),  and  a  new  French  film. 

FRENCH  CLUB 
The  first  activity  of  the  year  for  the  French  Club  was  a  hootenanny  on  Oct.  15,  with 
the  collaboration  of  Associate  Prof.  Paul  Barrette  (guitar). 

The  French  House  held  a  picnic  in  Oct.  and  a  Hallowe'en  party  on  Nov.  1. 

STAFF  ACTIVITIES 
Our  colleague,  Mrs.  Anna  Maria  Sagi,  was  very  active  during  her  leave-of -absence  in 
Europe  last  academic  year.   An  anthology  of  hitherto  unpublished  poetic  works  by  Mrs. 
Sagi  was  published,  entitled  Laberinto  de  presenciaa  (Le6n,  Spain,  Graf ica  Celarayn, 
1969).   Upon  the  appearance  of  the  book  in  Spain,  Madame  Sagi  was  invited  by  "Radio 
Peninsular"  in  Barcelona  to  give  a  recital  of  her  poetry  on  the  radio.   Some  of  the 
poems  were  also  presented  on  Madrid  television  on  a  special  program  with  the  title 
"Poesfa  e  imagen. "  This  program  presented  a  recording  of  Madame  Sagi  reading  her  own 
poems.   The  literary  review  Destino  of  Barcelona  published  an  interview  with  Madame 
Sagi,  indicating  the  great  public  interest  in  her  book. 

Prof 0  Larkin  B.  Price  attended  meetings  of  the  Association  Internationale  des 
Etudes  Franchises  and  the  Assembled  Ge"n£rale  of  the  Society  des  Amis  de  Marcel 
Proust  et  des  Amis  de  Combray  while  in  Paris  this  summer  to  consult  with  Pierre 
Clarac  and  Yves  Sandre  concerning  his  collaboration  with  them  on  Les  Plaisirs  et  les 
Jours  section  of  the  l|th  Proust  volume  in  the  Pleiade  series.   "Textes  de  MarceT 
Proust:   trois  fragments  sacrifiSs  et  deux  portraits  (1892-1895) »  prSsentls  et  an- 
notes  par  Larkin  B.  Price  (avec  un  facsimile)"  appeared  this  spring  in  the  Bulletin 
de  la  Societe*  des  Amis  de  Marcel  Proust  et  des  Amis  de  Combray,  pp.  799-805^  and  a 
review  by  Prof.  Price  of  Louis  Bolle's  Marcel  Proust,  ou  le_  complexe  d1 Argus,  in  the 
Feb.  issue  of  French  Review,  pp.  l|6l-lj.62~^ 

Associate  Prof.  Stanley  E.  Gray,  along  with  other  colleagues,  attended  the  re- 
cent Midwest  Modern  Language  Association  meeting  in  St.  Louis  where  he  read  a  paper 
on  "Beckett  and  Queneau."  This  paper  was  also  read  on  Nov.  10  before  the  U.I,  French 
Journal  Club, 

Prof.  R.  J.  Nelson's  report  "Using  Radio  to  Develop  and  Maintain  Competence  in  a 
Foreign  Language"  appeared  as  No.  11  of  the  ERIC  Focus  Reports. 

The  latest  writing  on  Proust  that  we  know  of,  by  our  colleague  Prof.  Philip 
Kolb,  is  entitled  "Proust  and  his  Publishers"  and  is  included  in  Editor,  Author,  and 
Publisher  (Univ.  of  Toronto  Press,  1969). 

Prof.  Barbara  Bowen  attended  a  Rabelais  Symposium  at  SUNY-Albany,  Nov.  6-8,  and 
gave  a  paper  entitled  "Rabelais  and  the  Art  of  Bluff „n 

FRENCH  CULTURAL  EVENTS 
Among  the  many  French  films  shown  on  campus,  the  Film  Society's  program  includes 


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Godard'a    Lea    Carabiniers,    Godard's   Le_  Petit    Soldat,    Delvaux'  s   The   Man  Who    Had  His 
Hair    Cut    ^hort,    Clair's    It   Happened  Tomorrow,    Malle's   Le   Feu   Follet ,    Chabrol's   Les 
Cousins.      In   Oct.    the   Depot  had   several    spirited  performances    of   Jarry's   Ubu   Roi, 
Ubu    Cocu,    Ubu   Enc_halnt£.      There   was    a  recital   by   the   famous   organists   Marie-Madel- 
eine  and  Maurice   Durufl<§,    and  of   course   the   play   Antigone   on  Nov.    5« 

Marry  Me,    Marry   Mel    (Le   Mar i age   ou   Mazel   Tov)    is   an   absolutely   delightful   new 
French  film,    by    Claude    Berri,    who  made    The   Two    of  Us    (Le    Vieil    Homme    et    1 ' Enfant ) , 
In  many   ways    it    is    superior   to  The    Graduate    and~G*oodbye,    Columbus    to  which  it    is   the- 
matically  related.      Although  the   best   American  film-critics   have  praised   it   without 
reservations,    this   film  may  be   lost   in  the   cine-shuffle   of   today.      Its  French-Jewish 
humor--down  to   a  wedding  feast — is   interesting   to  compare   with  the   American-Jewish 
humor   of   the   other  2  films.      If  you  liked  Truffaut's   Baisers   Volls   and   its   low-key 
approach,    you  and  your   students  must  not  miss  Marry  Me,    Marry  Mel 

UNIV.    OF   NORTHERN   IOWA    SUMMER   INSTITUTE   IN  ANGERS    (FRANCE) 
Intended  for   teachers   of   French   and   carrying   8  hours   of   credit,    the  Univ.    of   Northerr 
Iowa   Summer   Institute  will   stress  understanding   and   speaking  French.      It  will  place 
participants   in  French  families  for   5   weeks   during   their  period  of    study.      It  will 
include   a   study  tour   of  Touraine,    Burgundy,    Alsace,    and   1  week  in  Paris,    for   8  weeks 
in  all:      June   1^-Aug.   10,    1970.      For  further   information,    contact  Mr.    Andre  Walther, 
Director,    French  Summer   Institute,    Univ.   of   Northern   Iowa,    Cedar   Falls,    Iowa   £0613. 

CHIMERES 
Chimeres   is   a  new   journal   published  by  graduate   students   in  French   at   the  Univ.   of 
Kan. ,    L"awrence,    Kan.    66014j..      They  welcome   articles   and/or  original   contributions 
(poetry,    etc.)    in  French  only,    by  graduate   students   in  other    schools. 

NEO-FRENCH 
Our   colleague,    Huguette    Cohen,    has   discovered   in  a  newspaper   the   following   excerpts 
from  letters   to   the  French   "Securitl   sociale." 

"Je  vis  maternellement  avec  ma  concubine." 

"Faites  un  effort:  mon  enfant  va  naltre." 

"Mile  Josette  est  digne  d'interet,  elle  est  fille-mere,  elle  nourrit  son  enfant 
au  sein  sans  pouvoir  joindre  les  deux  bouts." 

"Monsieur  le  directuer,  mon  mari  est  mort.   Dites-moi  comment  le  faire  sortir 
de  la  caisse." 

"Apres  le  passage  de  votre  controleur,  je  viens  vous  faire  un  demande  de 
maternity. " 

"Habitant  sur  un  derriere  et  ne  m'y  trouvant  pas  bien,  je  voudrais  un  pret  pour 
amelioration. " 

"Voici  huit  jours  que  je  suis  couchle  avec  un  docteur  aupres  de  moi.   J' en 
essayerais  bien  un  autre,  mais  mes  possibilitls  m'en  empechent." 

"Ouand  mon  petit  a  eu  cinq  ans,  la  caisse  m'en  a  coup4  la  moitie." 

"J'espere  que  vous  avec  pitil  d'un  pauvre  comheur  qui  a  sept  enfants  a  manger 
plus  sa  femme  et  sa  belle-mere." 

"Comme  mon  mari  doit  partir  chez  les  fous,  je  l'envoie  a"  votre  bureau." 

"Je  croyais  que  j'avais  le  droit  de  toucher  pour  le  travail  de  mon  cubain." 

"Orphelin  a  l'age  de  treize  ans,  j ' ai  vlcu  a  droite  et  a  gauche,  mais  tou jours 
dans  le  droit  chemin. " 

"N'£tant  pas  chomeur  reconnu,  je  me  suis  mis  a"  ramasser  quelques  morceaux  de 
tole  pour  faire  manger  mes  enfants." 

GERMANIC  NOTES  --  by  Roy  Allen 

AATG 
The  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  German  will  take  place 
this  year  in  New  Orleans  at  the  Jung  Hotel  from  Nov.  28-30.   The  department  will  be 
represented  at  the  conference  this  year  by  Prof.  Ruth  Lorbe. 

FALL  '69  ENROLLMENT  FIGURES 
Total  enrollment  in  German  for  this  fall  amounts  to  l670--a  decrease  of  close  to  ty.00 
students  from  last  fall's  total  of  2056.   The  most  sizable  drop  occurred  in  the  1st- 


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and  2nd-year  series  (101-101).),  where  the  enrollment  fell  from  1295  to  IO76.   As  ex- 
pected, due  to  the  relaxation  in  the  graduate  language  requirements  last  year,  there 
was  again  a  drop  in  enrollment  in  the  I|00-[j01  series  (German  for  Graduate  Students), 
although  the  drop  was  not  as  marked  as  was  that  of  last  fall;  enrollment  fell  here 
from  2o5  to  llj.9.   In  the  200-level  courses  there  was  a  decrease  from  250  to  215, 
while  the  300-level  courses  maintain  the  very  same  number  of  students  as  last  fall, 
127.   The  rise  in  enrollment  in  German  this  fall  took  place  in  the  I4.OO  series 
(courses  for  graduate  students),  in  which  the  total  rose  this  fall  to  103  from  last 
fall's  total  of  73«   Six  students  registered  this  fall  in  courses  in  Germanic.   The 
total  in  Scandinavian  this  term  is  39— an  increase  of  2  over  the  previous  fall  term. 

NEW  TEACHING  ASSISTANTS 
The  German  Dept.  is  most  happy  to  extend  a  cordial  welcome  to  15  new  Teaching  Assis- 
tants this  year.   Three  of  the  new  assistants  hail  from  Germany,  2  from  Austria,  1 
from  England,  and  1  from  the  Netherlands;  the  remainder  are  native  Americans  who  haw 
spent  some  time  studying  in  Germany.   They  are:   Katharine  Blocher  (B.A.  U.I.  Chicago 
Circle  1969,  S.S.  McGill  Univ.  1967),  Jeanne  Brown  (B.A.  U.I.  1969),  Martyn  Clarke 
(Univ.  of  Sussex,  Brighton,  1969),  Gerrit  Den  Hartog  (B.A.  Calvin  College  1965),  Rob- 
ert Fischer  (B.A.  Univ.  of  Nebr.  1967;  M.A.  Univ.  of  Nebr.  1969),  Patricia  Hofmeister 
(B.A.  U.I.  1969),  Brigitte  Lehner  (B.A.  Eastern  111.  Univ.  1969),  Thomas  Noel  (B.A. 
Univ.  of  Calif.,  Berkeley,  1962;  M.A.  Univ.  of  Calif.,  Riverside,  1965),  Peter 
Pabisch  (Pedagogical  Institute,  Vienna,  1966;  Teachers'  Training  College  1957 )>  Gun- 
ter  Richter  (B.A.  Univ.  of  Adelaide  1965;  M.A.  Univ.  of  Stuttgart  1969),  Jay  Rose- 
llini  (B.A.  U.I.  1969),  Wolfgang  Schwarzkopf  (Univ.  of  Kan.,  Eberhard-Karls  Univer- 
sitat,  Ttlbingen),  Jean  Soulier  (B.A.  Univ.  of  S.D.  1966;  M.A.  Univ.  of  Iowa  1969), 
Jane  Thompson  (B.A.  Univ.  of  Wise.,  Madison,  1969),  David  Vargo  (B.A.  Wabash  College 
1969). 

MMLA 
The  department  was  represented  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Midwestern  Modern  Lan- 
guage Association,  which  was  held  this  year  in  St.  Louis  from  Oct.  23-25,  by  Profs. 
Elmer  Antonsen  and  Ruth  Lorbe.   Prof.  Antonsen  attended  the  Executive  Committee  Meet- 
ing at  the  conference,  concluding  his  term  as  member  of  the  committee. 

FRUCHTBRINGENDE  GESELLSCHAFT 
The  guest  speaker  at  the  Nov.  meeting  of  the  Fruchtbringende  Gesellschaft  was  Prof. 
Josef  Matl  of  the  Univ.  of  Graz,  Austria.   Prof.  Matl  spoke  on  the  topic  "Goethe  und 
Schiller  bei  den  Slaven."  The  meeting  was  held  in  the  Illini  Union  at  7:30  p.m. 

On  Tuesday,  Nov.  18,  at  ij.:00  p.m.,  Prof.  Vagn  Steen  will  give  a  public  lecture 
on  "The  Poetic  Possibilities  in  Children's  Books."  The  lecture  will  be  held  in  II4I 
Commerce  West. 

GERMAN  CLUB 
The  annual  Christmas  party  of  the  German  Club  will  be  held  this  year  on  Dec.  5» 
beginning  at  8:00  p.m.   The  location  will  be  announced  at  a  later  date.   On  Dec.  15 
the  German  Club  will  sponsor  the  showing  of  the  film  comedy  The  Good  Soldier  Schweik 
in  Gregory  Hall  Auditorium.   The  dialogue  of  the  film  is  in  German  with  English  sub- 
titles. 

FACULTY  NOTES 
From  July  6-11  the  International  Conference  of  Nordic  and  General  Linguistics  wa3 
held  in  Reykjavik.  Iceland.   Prof.  Elmer  Antonsen  attended  the  meeting  and  delivered 
a  paper  entitled  Toward  a  New  Runic  Grammar."  Also  last  summer,  Prof.  Antonsen  was 
elected  "Korrespondierendes  Mitglied"  of  the  "Wissenschaf tlicher  Rat"  in  the  Institul 
fu*r  deutsche  Sprache,  which  is  located  in  Mannheim,  Germany. 

Prof.  Vagn  Steen,  Visiting  Prof,  in  the  department  this  fall  term,  gave  a  lec- 
ture before  members  of  the  German  Dept.  and  invited  guests  at  Indiana  Univ.,  Bloom- 
ington,  on  Oct.  9.   Prof.  Steen' s  talk  was  on  the  subject  of  his  experiences  in 
teaching  modern  poetry,  i.e.  "Pretty  Modern  Poetry."  In  pursuance  of  his  interest 
and  work  in  children's  literature,  Prof.  Steen  has  recently  been  visiting  libraries 
of  children's  books  in  schools  in  the  area  of  Champaign-Urbana.   He  also  recently 
gave  a  reading  before  2  classes  of  children  at  the  Prairie  Elementary  School,  Urbana, 

Both  Prof.  Steen  and  Prof.  Arne  Falck  became  members  of  the  American  Society  for 


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Aesthetics  at  a  recent  meeting  of  the  society  in  Charlottesville,  Va. 

FACULTY  PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Ruth  Lorbe's  book  of  interpretations  of  modern  poetry,  Lyri3che  Standpunkte 
(Bayrischer  Schulbuchverlag,  Mttnchen,  1968^ ),  is  being  received  well;  the  volume  has 
just  this  year  gone  into  its  2nd  printing. 

Prof.  Irmengard  Rauch  has  recently  published  an  article  entitled  "The  Heliand 
Versus  $-7  Again"  in  Folia  linguistica,  vol.  II,  no.  1/2,  39-lj-7.   Prof.  Rauch  has  al- 
so  just  put  2  lengthy  reviews  into  print,  one  of  Robert  Diamond's  The  Diction  of  the 
Anglo-Saxon  Metrical  Psalms  (Linguistics,  vol.  XLV,  76-78)  and  one  of  Moritz  Regula'E 
Kurzeefasste  erklarende  Satzkunde  des  Neuhochdeutschen  (JEGP,  vol.  LXVIII,  no.  3. 

U68-Kl. 

Two  books  by  Prof.  Vagn  Steen  will  appear  in  print  in  Denmark  this  month.   The 
first  is  a  bilingual  collection  of  poetry  with,  appropriately,  a  bilingual  title: 
Et  Godt  Bog^ je/A  Hole  Book.   The  second  volume  is  a  collection  of  literary  criticism 
entitled  Laesninger. 

NEW  COURSES 
Prof.  Francois  Jost  of  the  Comparative  Literature  Program  at  the  U.I.  will  give  a 
seminar  in  the  spring  term  on  the  technique  of  the  German  novel. 

At  the  request  of  students  from  other  departments  of  the  university,  Prof.  Juw 
fon  Wearinga  will  initiate  in  the  coming  spring  term  (1970)  a  course  in  Dutch  as  an 
auxiliary  language.   The  course  will  be  for  beginners  and  will  be  taught  in  English. 
The  title  of  the  course  will  be  Germanic  199. 

Also  in  the  spring  term  of  1970,  the  department  will  begin  a  new  series  on  the 
2nd-year  level,  German  107-108.   This  new  series,  a  1-year  course,  will  be  offered 
as  a  substitute  for  the  regular  l;th- semester  course  in  German,  German  IOI4..   Upon  com- 
pletion of  German  103,  the  student  will  thus  have  the  option  of  taking  either  the  1- 
semester  course,  German  lOij.,  or  the  year  course,  German  107-108.   German  IOI4.  will  as 
usual  be  taught  exclusively  in  German,  while  the  new  series  will  be  taught  in  Engljsh 
with  readings  in  German.   The  emphasis  in  the  new  series  will  be  on  reading  compre- 
hension rather  than  on  conversation  and  composition. 

TAP 
The  Newsletter  of  the  Teaching  Aid  Project  is  available  free  of  charge  to  all  teach- 
ers of  German.   The  newsletter  is  published  by  t he  National  Carl  Schurz  Association 
under  a  grant  by  Stiftung  Volkswagenwerk,  Germany.   It  is  part  of  a  project  developed 
to  improve  the  teaching  of  German  in  American  schools.   The  newsletter  contains  much 
timely  information  of  use  to  teachers  of  German.   Anyone  wishing  to  be  placed  on  the 
mailing  list  of  the  newsletter  should  send  name  and  address  and  Zip  Code  to  Mr.  Hans 
Deekin,  Director,  NCSA  Teaching  Aid  Project,  339  Walnut  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  19106, 

The  National  Carl  Schurz  Association  and  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of 
German  are  sponsoring  a  study  program  in  Germany  for  high  school  and  community  col- 
lege teachers  of  German.   The  objectives  of  this  program  are  to  give  teachers  an  op- 
portunity to  improve  their  command  of  German,  to  study  the  German  people  firsthand 
through  a  family  experience,  to  study  the  history,  politics,  music,  art,  and  liter- 
ature of  Germany,  to  learn  about  tne  application  of  linguistic  theories  to  classroom 
teaching  and  the  application  of  modern  teaching  methods  in  language  instruction.   The 
TAP  VI  Program  will  cover  the  period  of  April  2-June  19,  1970.   The  cost  of  the  pro- 
gram is  $2000,  $1000  of  which  is  paid  by  the  TAP  Program  and  the  other  flOOO  by  the 
participant.   For  further  details  and  an  application  form,  interested  persons  should 
write  to  The  TAP  VI  Program,  339  Walnut  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  19106. 

One  of  the  50-odd  participants  selected  to  take  part  in  the  TAP  VT  Program  this 
fall  is  Miss  Suzanne  Meinheit  of  Matteson,  111.,  a  senior  in  the  Teacher  Education 
Program  at  the  U.I. 

SLAVIC  NOTES  --by  Prof.  Michael  Curran 

AATSEEL 
The  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  Slavic  &  East  European 
Languages  will  be  held  during  the  Thanksgiving  vacation,  Friday-Sunday,  Nov.  28-30, 
in  New  Orleans.   It  will  take  place  at  the  Sheraton- Charles  Hotel  in  conjunction 


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with  the  ACTFL  annual  meeting  and  with  Loyola  Univ.  of  New  Orleans  as  the  host  insti- 
tution.  Among  the  speakers  will  be  George  Ivask,  Victor  Terras,  J.  Thomas  Shaw,  Wal- 
ter  Vickery,  Irwil  Weil,  and  Gerta  Htittl-Worth.   The  topics  cover  the  teaching  of 
Russian  in  high  school  and  college,  readings  of  Russian  and  Estonian  poetry,  linguis- 
tics, Russian  literature,  and  literature  of  other  Slavic  countries. 

CONFERENCES 
The  fall  meeting  of  the  Midwestern  Modern  Language  Association  took  place  on  Friday, 
Oct.  2L|.,  in  St.  Louis.   Prof.  Norman  Luxemburg  presided  with  about  15  present.   Miss 
J.  Willey  read  a  report  in  Russian  on  Sergej  Maximov,  a  Soviet  novelist  dealing  like 
Solzhenitsyn  with  the  theme  of  political  exile  and  concentration  camps.   Prof.  Gene- 
reux  read  a  paper  on  Druzhinin  and  Dudyshkin,  2  19th-century  literary  critics.  Profe 
Karl  Kramer  closed  the  conference  with  a  paper  on  Chekhov  considered  in  the  light  of 
impressionism,  a  subject  which  is  treated  at  greater  length  in  his  forthcoming  book 
on  Chekhovo 

On.  Nov.  21-22  the  annual  Bi-State  Slavic  Conference  will  be  held  at  the  Univ. 
of  Mo.  Memorial  Union.   Paper  topics  cover  the  field  of  Russian  history,  sociology, 
and  literature.   Prof.  Richard  Sheldon,  currently  at  the  U.I.  Center  for  Advanced 
Study,  will  read  a  paper  on  Solzhenitsyn,  and  Prof.  Ralph  Fisher,  director  of  the 
Russian  &  East  European  Center,  will  chair  a  panel  on  Russian  liberalism. 

PUBLICATIONS 
Miss  Temira  Pachmuss1  article,  "Zinaida  Hippius:   The  Warsaw  Dairy, "  was  published 
in  La  Renaissance  (Paris,  1969),  no.  211j.o 

STATISTICS 
The  enrollment  in  lst-year  Russian  language  courses  is  down  approximately  },0%   from 
last  year.   Enrollment  in  literature  in  translation  has  almost  doubled.   The  number 
of  graduate  majors  in  the  department  has  increased  by  approximately  17%, 

Three  students  in  the  Slavic  Dept.  were  awarded  their  M.A.  degrees  this  past 
month:   Lisa  Juhl,  Nina  Awsienko,  and  Crest  Holovaty. 

EXPANSION  OF  RUSSIAN  LANGUAGE  TEACHING 
The  State  Office  of  Education  recently  invited  Profs.  Clayton  Dawson  and  Kurt  Klein, 
as  well  as  Mrs.  Judith  Dalchl,  president  of  the  111.  Chapter  of  AATSEEL,  to  partici- 
pate in  a  television  interview.   A  film  was  made  to  encourage  the  expansion  of  Rus- 
sian language  teaching,  particularly  at  the  high  school  level  in  this  state.   The 
film  was  first  shown  on  Channel  20  in  Springfield  on  Tuesday,  Nov.  Ij..   Later  it  will 
be  available  from  the  Office  of  Education  for  public  showing  by  those  interested. 

RUSSIAN  CLUB 
On  Nov.  12  the  Russian  Club  held  a  meeting  on  the  2nd  floor  of  the  YMCA,  with  folk 
dancing  and  singing. 

On  Nov.  21  the  Russian  film  Fathers  and  Sons,  based  on  Turgenev's  novel,  will 
be  shown. 

SPANISH,  ITALIAN,  &  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  --  by  Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jr. 

AATSP  -  AATI 
The  51at  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  Spanish  &  Portu- 
guese will  be  held  Sunday -Tuesday,  Dec.  28-30,  in  the  Hotel  LaSalle,  Chicago,  111. 
The  General  Program  Chairman  is  Mr.  Albert  R.  Turner,  Evanston  Township  High  School, 
Evanston,  111.   A  special  feature  of  the  meeting  will  be  an  address  by  Sr.  Ram6n  Sen- 
der, well-known  Spanish  novelist  now  in  exile  in  the  U.S.,  on  the  topic  "El  mi to  en 
la  realidad  de  cada  dia  y  en  la  literatura. " 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  Italian  will  be 
held  in  Denver,  Colo.,  on  Sunday-Monday,  Dec.  28-29,  in  conjunction  with  the  MLA. 

I4.OOTH  ANNIVERSARY  OF  LA  ARAUCANA 
The  department,  together  with  the  Circulo  Literario  Espaftol,  will  sponsor  a  program 
to  commemorate  the  l|.00th  anniversary  of  the  1st  edition  of  Alonso  de  Ercilla  y  Zuni- 
ga's  La  Araucana  (1569)  on  Friday,  Dec.  5,  at  8:00  p.m.  in  the  General  Lounge  of  the 


Illini  Union.   The  papers  to  be  read  include  "La  Araucana  y  las  literaturas  naciona- 
les"  by  Prof.  Luis  Leal,  "La  guerra  araucana  que  vio  Ercilla"  by  Prof.  Marcos  A.  Mo- 
rinigo,  "La  Araucana  y  la  historiograf ia  francesa  sobre  America  en  el  siglo  XVTII" 
by  Instructor  Pedro  P.  Campa,  "Las  raujeres  de  La  Araucana"  by  Graduate  Fellow  Lia 
Schwartz  de  Lerner,  and  "La  Araucana  en  las  antologlas "  by  Graduate  Assistant  Hector 
R.  Romero. 

RECENT  DEPARTMENTAL  GRADUATES 
The  department  awarded  6  doctoral  and  11  masters  degrees  at  the  end  of  the  summer 
session.   The  doctoral  recipients,  with  their  present  locations,  were:   Mr.  Elton 
Martin  Anglada-Segarra  (Princeton  Univ.),  Mrs.  Carol  Roark  Blackburn  (Univ.  of  Ga.  ), 
Miss  Iris  Catherine  Jeffery  (Good  Counsel  College,  While  Plains,  N.  Y. ) ,  Mrs.  Judith 
Zelenka  Rojas  (U.I„),  Mrs.  Claire  Olson  Szoke  (Danville  High  School),  and  Mr.  David 
Torres  (Eastern  Wash.  State  College),  all  in  Spanish. 

The  masters  recipients,  with  their  undergraduate  institutions,  were:   Mr.  Adel- 
fo  Aldana  (B.A.  Graceland  College,  Lamoni,  Iowa),  Mr.  Steven  Norman  Dworkin  (B.A. 
Carleton  Univ.,  Ottawa,  Ont.),  Miss  Mary  Anne  Everson  (B.A.  Edgewood  College,  Madi- 
son, Wise),  Miss  Donna  Jean  Fritz  (B.S.  Eastern  111.  Univ.),  Miss  Susan  Ellen  Lei- 
bowitz  (B.A.  Cornell  Univ.),  Mr.  Felix  Soto  Maldonado  (B.S.  Bowling  Green  State  Univ. 
Ky.),  Mrs.  Mary  Anne  Wilkinson  Marrocco  (B.A.  Northwestern  Univ.),  and  Miss  Barbara 
Eileen  Olson  (B.A.  Augustana  College),  all  in  Spanish. 

Masters  degrees  in  Portuguese  went  to  Mr.  Lee  Roy  Donnell  (B.A.  Univ.  of  Ore.) 
and  to  Miss  Janet  Louise  Lyle  (B.A.  Miami  Univ.,  Ohio),  and  a  masters  degree  in  the 
teaching  of  Spanish  was  awarded  to  Mrs.  Sue  Taylor  Bertoleit  (B.A.  U.I.). 

NEW  FELLOWSHIP  HOLDERS 
The  department  is  honored  to  have  23  graduate  students  attending  on  full  or  partial 
fellowships.   Of  these,  llj.  are  new  recipients  this  year. 

New  holders  of  University  Fellowships  are  Miss  Suzanne  Brotman  (B.A.  U.I.,  Ful- 
bright-Hays  Grant  to  Argentina,  1968-69),  Miss  Harriet  Vanessa  Carter  (B.A.  Sophie 
Newcomb  College  of  Tulane  Univ.,  New  Orleans),  Miss  Miriam  Charlene  Cox  (B.A.  Augs- 
burg College,  Minneapolis),  Miss  Carolina  Adriana  Diaz  (B.A.  Univ.  of  Wise,  Milwau- 
kee), Miss  Karen  Ann  Freeman  (B.A.  Purdue  Univ.),  Miss  Sonia  Teresa  Ramirez  (B.A, 
Univ.  of  Ga.),  and  Miss  Bari  R.  Weintraub  (B.A.  U.I.,  Fulbright-Hays  Grant  to  Brazil, 
1968-69). 

Miss  Deborah  K.  Spruell  (B.A.  Univ.  of  Calif,  at  Santa  Barbara)  received  an 
NDEA  Title  IV  Grant,  and  Miss  Sherilyn  Hope  Freeman  (B.A.  U.I.)  and  Mr.  Malcolm  Noel 
Silverman  (B.A.  Queens  College,  New  York,  M.A.  U.I.)  received  NDFL  Title  VI  Grants. 

A  Graduate  College  Fellowship  went  to  Mr.  Ernest  Silvester  Merrill  (B.A.  Hamp- 
ton Institute,  Va. ),  and  Mr0  Terry  Lee  Collier  (B.A.  U.I.)  was  awarded  a  Graduate 
College  Special  Fellowship.   Tuition-and-f ee  waivers  were  given  to  Mr.  John  Christ- 
opher Eustis  (B.A.  Brown  Univ.,  M.A.  Middlebury  College)  and  Mrs.  Mihaela  Susan  (B.A< 
Univ.  of  Bucharest,  Romania). 

MIDWESTERN  MLA 
Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello,  head  of  the  department,  attended  the  Midwestern  Mod-  . 
ern  Language  Association  meeting  in  St.  Louis  on  Oct.  23-25  and  read  a  paper,  "Alfon- 
30  Sastre's  Escuadra  hacia  la  muerte:   A  Study  in  the  Human  Condition."  Prof.  Ange- 
lina R.  Pietrangeli  served  as  Chairman  of  the  Italian  Section  at  the  meeting. 

Ph.D.  recipients  from  this  department  who  read  papers  at  the  meeting  included 
Dr.  Josl  R.  Cortina  (Wayne  State  Univ.,  Detroit)  "Antonio  Buero  Vallejo,  Contemporary 
Spanish  Playwright,"  Dr.  Joseph  Schraibman  (Wash.  Univ.)  "Tres  tristes  tigres :   len- 
gua  oral  y  literatura, "  and  Dr.  Concha  Zardoya  (Univ.  of  Mass.  at  Boston)  "El  tema 
del  sueflo  en  la  poesia  de  Quevedo." 

FACULTY  NOTES 
The  new  head  of  the  department,  Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello,  and  Mrs.  Pasquariello 
were  hosts  at  a  reception  in  the  Faculty  Lounge  of  the  Illini  Union  on  Sunday  after- 
noon, Sept.  28.   Together  with  the  former  head,  Prof.  William  H.  Shoemaker,  and  Mrs0 
Shoemaker,  they  received  the  departmental  faculty,  staff,  and  graduate  students. 

Prof.  Shoemaker,  who  resigned  the  headship  effective  Sept.  1,  is  spending  the 
academic  year  as  an  Associate  Member  in  the  U.I.  Center  for  Advanced  Study. 

Profs.  Merlin  H.  Forster  and  Robert  E.  Lott,  formerly  associate  professors, 


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were  promoted  to  the  rank  of  full  professor  effective  Sept,  1. 

Prof.  Henry  R.  Kahane  is  on  sabbatical  leave  for  the  academic  year.   He  is 
remaining  on  campus  to  work  on  2  projects.   He  and  his  wife,  Mrs.  Ren6e  Kahane,  plan 
to  complete  a  presentation  of  linguistio  relations  between  Byzantium  and  the  West, 
to  be  published  in  an  Encyclopaedia  of  Byzantinology  now  in  preparation  in  the  Neth- 
erlands.  In  addition,  Prof,  and  Mrs.  Kahane,  in  collaboration  with  Prof.  Angelina  R, 
Fietrangeli,  are  working  on  the  problems  inherent  in  the  Grail  Myth. 

Prof.  Luis  Leal  has  been  reappointed  for  a  2-year  term  as  a  Member  of  the  Com- 
mittee of  the  Graduate  Record  Examination  in  Spanish  as  administered  by  the  Educa- 
tional Testing  Service,  Princeton,  N.  J.   In  addition,  Prof.  Leal  recently  returned 
from  New  York  where  he  served  on  the  Commitee  to  Formulate  Undergraduate  Programs  in 
Spanish,  the  results  of  which  will  be  published  in  a  future  issue  of  Hispania, 

Prof.  Marcos  A.  Morinigo  participated  in  the  "Cuatro  centenario  de  La  Araucana" 
program  at  the  Univ.  of  Mich.,  Sept.  21;-27,  where  he  read  a  paper,  "Definlcion  de  La 
Araucana." 

Prof.  Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo  attended  the  XI  Congress  of  the  International  Fed- 
eration of  Modern  Languages  &  Literatures  in  Islamabad,  Pakistan,  in  Sept.  He  read 
a  paper  on  "The  Particular  and  the  Universal  Truth  in  the  Dramatic  Theory  of  the 
Golden  Age. " 

Associate  Prof.  Spurgeon  W.  Baldwin  was  Chairman  of  the  Orientation  Committee 
for  new  teaching  assistants  in  the  department.   Prof.  Baldwin  was  assisted  by  Assis- 
tant Prof.  Thomas  C.  Meehan  and  Mr.  Pedro  F.  Campa.   Mr.  Campa,  formerly  a  graduate 
teaching  assistant,  was  recently  promoted  to  the  rank  of  part-time  instructor. 

Assistant  Prof.  Dieter  Wanner  addressed  the  Linguistics  Seminar  on  Sept.  25  on 
the  topic,  "Why  the  i  in  Italian." 

FACULTY  PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Luis  Leal's  recent  publications  include  the  "Pr6logo"  to  Ram6n  Rubin's  Quince 
palabras  (Mexico,  1969)  as  well  as  2  articles,  "Para  la  bibliograf£a  de  Jalisco,  " 
'Eoletln~~bibliograf ico  de  la  Secretarta  de  Hacienda  y_  Cr^dito  Publico,  2a  Ep.,  vol0 
XV  (abril- julio  1969  J,-!^-!^.  and  "Manuel  Alvarez  de  Castillo,  cuentista,  "  Et  Cae- 
tera,  2a  Ep.,  vol,  IV,  no.  5  (mayo-junio  1969),  81-93, 

Assistant  Prof.  Isaias  Lerner  published  "A  proposito  de  Cien  agog  de  sole dad, " 
Cuadernos  americanos,  no.  1  (enero-febrero  1969),  187-200,  and  he  reviewed  Alberto 
M1.  Salas'  Para  un  bestiario  de  India3  in  Sur,  no.  316-317,  120-123, 

Instructor- Martha  Paley  de  Francescato  published  "Julio  Cortazar  y  un  modelo 
para  amar  ya  amado,  "  Cuadernos  americano3,  no,  3  (mayo-junio),  235-21)1., 

Mr.  Richard  P.  Doerr,  a  former  graduate  assistant  in  this  department  and  now  a 
Ph.D.  candidate  at  the  Univ.  of  Colo.,  published  "Algunos  apuntes  sobre  el  llxico  de 
Cundinamarca,  n  Hiapania,  vol.  LII,  no.  2  (May  1969),  261|-272. 

PORTUGUESE  CLUB 
The  Portuguese  Club  has  resumed  its  bate-papo  coffee  hours  in  the  Coin  Room  of  the 
Univ.  YMCA  on  Mondays  at  l+:00   p.m.  while  the  U.I.  is  in  session.   All  speakers  of 
Portuguese  are  invited  to  attend, 

SPANISH  CLUB 
The  Clrculo  Literario  Espafiol  sponsored  a  lecture  on  Tnursday,  Nov.  13,  by  Sra.  Anna 
Maria  Sagi,  instructor  in  the  U.I.  Dept,  of  French  and  a  well-known  Spanish  poetess 
in  her  own  right,   Sra.  Sagi's  topic  was  "Caminos  de  evasi6n  y  de  misterio." 

SPANISH  LUNCHEONS 
The  department-sponsored  Spanish  luncheons  have  been  resumed  at  a  new  location,  the 
cafeteria  of  the  Illini  Tower  Residence  Hall  every  Wed.  from  11:14.5  a.m,-l:00  p.m. 
while  the  U.I,  is  in  session.   All  speakers  of  Spanish  are  invited  to  attend. 

The  University  of  Illinois  Modern  Foreign  Language  Newsletter  is  published  jointly 
by  the  modern  language  departments  of  the  U.I.  under  the  direction  of  the  Head  of 
the  Dept.  of  Spanish,  Italian,  &  Portuguese.   Editorial  offices  are  located  in  251 
Illini  Tower,  Champaign,  telephone  (217)  333-3536.   The  Newsletter  is  available 
without  charge  to  all  interested  persons  in  Illinois  and  other  areas.   All  communi- 
cations by  mail  should  be  addressed  to:   The  Editor,  MFL  Newsletter,  22I4.  Lincoln 
Hall.  Urbana.  111.  61801. 


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THE  UNIVERSITY   OF    ILLINOIS   MODERN  FOREIGN   LANGUAGE    NEWSLETTER 


December,    19&9 
Vol.    XXIII,    No.    3 


FrBhliche   Weihnachten 

Felices    Navidades 

Joyeux   Noel 

Buon   Natale 

Feliz   Natal 

C  PoatflecTBOu  Xpmctobhu 


Director:      Prof.    Anthony  M.    Pasquariello 
Editor:      Maxwell   Reed  Mowry,    Jr. 


FrcJhliches  Meujahr 
Pr6spero  Aflo  Nuevo 
Bonne   Annee 


Felice    Capodanno 


Feliz   Ano    Novo 


C  Ho bum  Toflou 


FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  ARTICULATION  CONFERENCE 
The  3rd  annual  School-University  Foreign  Language  Articulation  Conference  was  neld  on 
the  U.I.  Urbana  campus  Thursday-Friday,  Nov.  6-7.   It  was  attended  by  over  220  for- 
eign language  teachers.   The  theme  was  "Teacher  Education:   A  Continuous  Process." 
Assistant  Prof.  U.  Henry  Gerlach  of  the  Dept.  of  Germanic  Languages  &  Literatures  was 
the  cnairman. 

The  conference  officially  began  with  a  dinner  meeting  Thursday  evening,  Nov.  6„ 
Dean  Robert  W.  Rogers  of  the  College  of  Liberal  Arts  &  Sciences  welcomed  the  teachers 
assembled.   He  called  their  attention  to  the  new  Foreign  Language  Building,  now  under 
construction  and  due  for  completion  in  Feb.,  1971,  as  a  building  which  would  feature 
"experimentation  and  research  for  language  teaching."   Dean  Rogers  also  mentioned  the 
existing  U.I.  programs  in  Mexico,  Brazil,  Jugoslavia,  and  France,  and  pointed  out 
possible  future  programs  in  Hong  Kong,  India,  and  Iran.   In  closing  he  stated  that 
the  current  cnanges  in  the  LAS  foreign  language  requirements  "do  not  considerably 
alter  the  importance  of  foreign  languages,"  but  instead  they  enhance  the  opportun- 
ities for  the  students. 

Dean  J.  Myron  Atkin  of  the  College  of  Education  also  welcomed  the  dinner  group 
and  stressed  2  points.   The  first  was  that  the  college  programs  desperately  need  con- 
tact with  practicing  professionals  (i.e.,  the  high  school  language  teachers),  and  the 
second  was  that  the  education  curriculum  needs  the  perspectives  which  a  study  of  the 
humanities  can  provide. 

Following  brief  welcomes  by  the  heads  of  the  U.I.  foreign  language  departments 
or  their  representatives,  Mr.  F.  Andre1  Paquette,  Executive  Secretary  of  the  American 
Council  on  the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Languages,  spoke  on  "Changing  Constraints."  He 
began  by  citing  5  such  changing  constraints  in  American  life. 

In  the  1st  constraint,  the  changing  entrance  requirements  of  many  colleges  and 
universities,  Mr.  Paquette  stressed  that  all  degree  requirements  are  now  being  exam- 
ined, not  just  those  for  foreign  languages.   He  added,  however,  that  the  foreign  lan- 
guages are  more  vulnerable.   The  colleges  and  universities  are  facing  today  what 
secondary  education  faced  some  years  back;  a  college  education  is  now  becoming  "a 
right  and  an  expectation"  and  so  the  requirements  must  change  to  fit  the  majority, 
for  "all  the  children  of  all  the  people,"  according  to  Mr.  Paquette. 

Mr.  Paquette' s  definition  of  neo-isolationism,  his  2nd  constraint,  is  "a  turning 
inward  in  all  walks  of  life"  by  giving  more  attention  to  the  social  ills  of  our 
country.   This  is  manifested  in  black  study  courses,  ethnic  study  courses,  and  an 
increase  in  bilingual  education  following  the  federal  government's  Bilingual  Edu- 
cation Act  of  1967. 

The  3rd  constraint,  financial  pressures  in  all  aspects  of  government,  has  been 
felt  in  many  educational  programs,  but  particularly  In  the  Dept.  of  Health,  Education 

&  welfare's  reduction  of  its  Basic  Studies  Program  in  a  budget  cut  of  3  1/2  billion 
dollars.   This,  said  Mr.  Paquette,  "is  another  manifestation  of  a  reexamination  of 
priorities"  in  our  educational  systems. 

In  introducing  the  I^th  constraint,  the  changing  social  conditions  of  students, 


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Mr.  Faquette  said  that  the  keyword  for  students  Is  mass;   "mass  movements,  mass  pro- 
duction, mass  media."   He  continued  that  "today's  student  is  the  time's  most  fortu- 
nate man"  since  he  "can  experience  more  worlds"  with  fewer  temporal  and  spacial  lim- 
itations.  But  Mr.  Paquette  went  on  to  stress  tnat  the  old  norms  and  standards  are 
now  of  little  use  to  the  students,  and  there  are  no  new  norms.   The  student  protest 
is  a  3ilent  one  in  education:   attrition.   Today's  student  finds  no  relevance  for 
foreign  language  studies<> 

With  the  5th  constraint,  the  changing  social  conditions  of  the  faculty,  Mr0 
Paquette  said  that  teachers  "should  try  to  bridge  the  generation  gap  within  the  fac- 
ulty."  He  cited  anthropologist  Margaret  Mead  who  stated  that  World  War  II  is  the 
dividing  line  for  the  generation  gap  within  the  faculty.   A  teacher  must  therefore 
bridge  2  generation  gaps:   one  between  teachers  educated  before  and  after  World  War 
II  and  one  between  teachers  and  students. 

The  implication  of  all  these  constraints,  according  to  Mr.  Paquette,  is  that  the 
supply  of  foreign  language  teachers  might  exceed  the  demand.   To  help  offset  this, 
and  to  obtain  better  foreign  language  teachers,  Mr.  Faquette  feels  that  the  high 
schools  themselves--and  not  the  colleges  and  universities--should  determine  what  the 
teacher-training  for  prospective  teachers  ought  to  be.   Otherwise,  the  high  schools 
will  turn  to  non-university  career-trained  personnel.   Mr.  Paquette  felt  that  if  a 
Berlitz  instructor  could  do  a  better  teaching  job  than  a  college-trained  teacher,  the 
high  schools  would  pick  the  former  because  of  the  surfeit  of  teachers  available. 
"For  too  long,"  continued  Mr.  Faquette,  "we  have  felt  that  we  could  knock  one  lan- 
guage for  another... We  have  a  long  way  to  go  to  demonstrate  that  we  can  cooperate." 

Mr.  Paquette  went  on  to  stress  tnat  the  current  academic  reform  has  not  had  the 
impact  on  colleges  and  universities  as  a  whole  that  it  has  had  on  the  elementary  and 
high  schools. 

Mr.  Paquette  then  cited  William  Riley  Farker  who  once  said  that  languages  should 
have  a  positive  effect  on  students.   At  the  college  level,  however,  foreign  languages 
have  had  no  effect.   Mr.  Paquette  felt  that  foreign  languages  should  not  be  dominant 
in  a  student's  curriculum,  but  supportive.   To  do  this,  he  suggested  that  teachers 
improve  "by  recognizing  the  value  of  love"  (as  outlined  in  Erich  Fromm' s  The  Art  of 
Loving)  and  that  they  strive  to  convey  to  their  students  a  sense  of  history  in  order 
to  show  the  survival  of  the  species  and  also  the  survival  of  the  minorities  within 
them„ 

Mr.  Paquette  closed  by  calling  on  the  FLA  Conference  to  relate  the  elementary 
school  to  the  high  school  and  the  high  school  to  the  college,  and  also  to  foster 
foreign  language  teaching  which  would  emulate  "a  passionate  and  a  compassionate 
understanding.  '• 

Prof.  William  D.  Johnson,  Head  of  the  Teaching  Experiences  Laboratory  of  the 
U.I.  College  of  Education,  started  the  Friday  session  by  explaining  the  purpose  of 
his  department's  program  to  the  assembled  high  school  teachers.   In  most  teacher 
training,  according  to  Prof.  Johnson,  a  student  learns  various  method  theories  in 
h.is  courses,  but  they  are  generally  not  the  right  ones  to  help  him  with  his  problems 
when  he  first  starts  practice  teaching.   In  the  U.I.  Teaching  Experiences  Laboratory 
method,  a  student's  first  try  at  practice  teaching  is  in  a  laboratory  environment 
with  paid  student  volunteers;  the  session  is  recorded  on  videotape  so  that  the 
student's  instructors  and  advisors  can  later  point  out  suggestions  and  criticisms,. 
The  student  is  therefore  better  prepared  when  he  begins  his  actual  practice  teachingo 

Following  Prof.  Johnson's  talk,  there  were  separate  language  group  meetings  for 
teachers  of  French,  German,  Latin,  Russian,  and  Spanish.   The  teachers  then  recon- 
vened for  a  luncheon  meeting  at  noon. 

Mr.  Albert  F.  Marzo  of  Aurora  West  High  School  addressed  the  luncheon  group  on 
the  topic,  "The  Foreign  Language  Teacher  of  the  70' s."  He  began  by  recalling  his  own 
personal  experiences  in  student  teaching,  where  a  student  had  to  practice  teach  for  6 
weeks  "and  it  was  secondary  if  you  profited  from  it."   He  went  on  to  suggest  several 
changes  in  the  area  of  student  teaching. 

First,  Mr.  Marzo  felt  that  quarterly  workshop  conferences  should  be  held  for  the 
cooperating  teachers  of  the  foreign  language  student  teachers.   Also,  a  student 
teacher  should  spend  2  weeks  of  observation  followed  by  10  weeks  of  practice  teaching 
"to  be  wholly  involved."   Mr.  Marzo  further  suggested  that  the  education  courses  be 
kept  to  a  minimum  so  the  student  teacher  could  have  more  time  for  teaching.   He  also 
felt  that  the  student  teacher  should  write  a  constructive  critique  at  the  end  of  his 


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teaching  experience  so  that  the  cooperating  teacher  could  be  made  aware  of  any  prob- 
lems and  suggestions. 

Mr.  Marzo  said  that  each  school  which  accepted  student  teachers  should  offer  a 
course  on  school-community  relations  so  that  the  student  teachers  would  better  under- 
stand their  new  environment.   He  also  hoped  to  see  a  workshop  on  the  responsibility 
of  the  student  teacher  to  the  school  community. 

"My  teaching  years  have  rewarded  me  with  many  happy  moments,"  said  Mr.  Marzo  in 
closing,  adding  that  he  wished  similar  "self -satisfying  and  enjoyable  experiences  to 
"my  present  and  future  student  teachers." 

Following  the  luncheon,  the  language  group  meetings  resumed  until  3:00  p.m.  when 
the  conference  officially  ended. 

In  addition  to  the  program  of  meetings,  the  high  school  teachers  were  also  given 
opportunities  to  visit  various  U.I.  language  classes.   An  exhibit  of  textbooks  and 
teaching  materials  was  also  held  during  the  conference  at  which  various  textbook 
companies  and  U.I.  language  departments  had  displays. 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES  --  by  Prof.  Barbara  Smalley 

MEETINGS 
Frof.  FranQOis  Jost,  Director  of  the  Comparative  Literature  Program  at  the  U.I,,  was 
in  Utrecht  during  the  latter  part  of  Nov.  to  attend  a  Board  Meeting  of  the  Inter- 
national Comparative  Literature  Association. 

LECTURES 
Prof.  Rocco  Montano  delivered  a  lecture  on  "Montale  and  Croce"  on  Thursday,  Dec.  11. 
This  was  the  last  of  a  series  of  3  lectures  presented  by  Prof.  Montano,  the  first  2 
( "Renaissance,  Reformation,  &  Counter-Reformation"  and  "The  Crime  of  Galileo")  having 
been  presented  by  him  in  Nov. 

PUBLICATIONS 
Frof.  Montano  has  published  the  1st  part  of  an  essay,  "Schema  di  una  Storia  della 
Poesia  di  Dante,"  in  Convlvium,  vol.  XXXVII,  no.  3  (1969),  257-292.   The  2nd  part  of 
Prof.  Montano' s  essay  will  appear  in  the  next  issue  of  Conviylum. 

Prof.  A.  Owen  Aldridge  has  recently  edited  Comparative  Literature;   Matter  and 
Method  (U.I.  Press).   In  exploring  the  purposes  and  perspectives  of  comparative  lit- 
erature  in  his  introductions,  Mr.  Aldridge  defines  that  discipline  as  "the  study  of 
any  literary  phenomenon  from  the  perspective  of  more  than  one  national  literature  or 
in  conjunction  with  another  intellectual  discipline,  or  even  several."   Although 
stressing  relationships  between  authors,  literatures,  and  movements,  he  contends  that 
the  most  important  of  all  literary  relationships  is  that  between  literature  and  life. 
This  principle  is  reflected  in  the  17  articles  here  assembled  from  the  journal,  Com- 
parative Literature  Studies. 

Written  by  some  of  the  most  eminent  literary  critics  and  literary  historians  of 
our  times,  the  essays  range  from  Renl  Wellek's  "Philosophy  and  Postwar  American  Cri- 
ticism" and  John  Gassner's  "Varieties  of  Epic  Theatre  in  the  Modern  Drama"  to  "Armi- 
da's  Garden"  by  Mario  Praz,  "France-Amerique ;   The  Transatlantic  Refraction"  by  Harry 
Levin,  and  'Walter  J.  Ong's  "Evolution,  Myth  and  Poetic  Vision." 

Mr.  Adlridge's  book  is  now  available  at  the  bookstores. 

FRENCH  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel 

PROF.  BRUCE  H.  MAIN0U3,  OFFICIER  DE  L« ORDRE  DES  PALMES  ACADEMIQUES 
By  decree  of  the  Minister  of  National  Education  of  the  French  Republic,  Prof.  Bruce 
H.  Mainous,  Head  of  the  Dept.  of  French  at  the  U.I.,  has  been  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
"Officier"  in  the  Ordre  des  Palmes  Acad^miques.   Prof.  Mainous  was  named  "Chevalier" 
in  the  Order  In  1963,  and  presented  the  decoration  and  ribbon  by  M.  Jean  Bollard, 
Consul  General  of  France  In  Chicago,  on  Dec.  3  °f  that  year.   This  year,  M.  Jean  Dig- 
ras,  Cultural  Attach^  for  the  Midwest,  will  present  the  decoration  in  a  ceremony  dur- 
ing a  reception  on  Dec.  15,  in  Illini  Union  Rooms  A  &  B,  at  8:00  p.m.   Guests  will 
include  students,  staff,  and  officials  of  this  and  other  institutions,  and,  generally, 
friends  of  Prof.  Mainous. 


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Prof.  Mainous,  a  Virginian  by  birth  and  a  graduate  of  the  College  of  William  & 
Mary,  has  also  studied  at  Montpellier,  the  Sorbonne,  and  the  U.I.  (Ph.D.).   He  has 
taught  at  Nfmes  and  has  been  on  the  U.I.  staff  since  1914-8.   He  has  held  various  pro- 
fessorial and  administrative  positions  here,  including  the  Assistant  Deanship  of  the 
LAS  College,  and,  since  1965,  the  Headship  of  the  Dept.  of  French.   Most  of  our  read- 
ers are  familiar  with  the  wide  scope  of  his  academic  and  cultural  activities  and 
interests,  his  textbooks,  his  positions  in  several  state  and  national  organizations, 
activities  too  numerous  to  list  here,  save  perhaps  for  a  recent  one:   his  essential 
role  in  the  creation  of  the  Illinois-Iowa  Year-Abroad  Program  and  his  directorship 
in  residence  at  Rouen  for  the  1st  year  of  this  venture,  1968-69  [see  Oct.  Newsletterl 

Those  closer  to  Prof.  Mainous  know  how  successfully  he  has  led  the  U.I.  Dept.  of 
French,  constantly  improving  an  already  excellent  department,  and  keeping  ahead  of 
the  times  rather  than  just  following  them — a  formidable  job  in  these  days  and  in  a 
school  of  the  caliber  of  the  U.I0 

In  1808,  under  Napoleon  Bonaparte,  the  definitive  decree  was  issued  which  gave 
its  precise  form  to  the  University,  defined  as  a  body  exclusively  charged  with  public 
teaching  and  education  throughout  the  Empire.   That  was  the  basis  of  the  French  edu- 
cational system  as  it  exists,  in  essence,  to  this  day.   Honorary  titles  and  decora- 
tions were  created  then:   The  Palmes  Academiques,  which  became  an  Order  in  1955.   The 
Palmes  honor  cultural  achievement  and  are  awarded  to  writers,  artists,  educators,  and 
to  those  Frenchmen  and  foreigners  who,  living  abroad,  contribute  to  the  intellectual, 
scientific,  or  artistic  expansion  of  French  culture. 

THEATRE  ON  THE  U.I.  CAMFUS 
With  a  few  exceptions,  in  years  past,  we  were  a  bit  reluctant  to  urge  theatre  trips 
to  this  campus  because,  notwithstanding  the  artistic  interest  of  the  productions,  the 
physical  facilities  were  not  always  good.   Now,  the  superb  new  Krannert  Center  has 
changed  all  that:   the  Antigone  cast  declared  that  in  their  scores  of  theatres  they 
had  never  encountered  as  impressive  and  useful  facilities  as  those  of  the  Krannert. 

The  University  Theatre's  1969-70  season  has  included  already  Brecht's  Galileo, 
and  will  include:   Oliver,  the  musical  by  Lionel  Bart  (Dec.  II-IJ4.)  ;  Moliere's  The 
Misanthrope  (March  14.-8,  1970);  Shakespeare's  Othello  (Apr.  15-19);  Anouilh'  s  Thieves' 
Carnival  (May  6-10).   The  Studio  at  the  Center  (productions  by  students  in  theatre) 
will  present  Ionesco's  Exit  the  King  on  Dec.  I4.-6.   For  information  and  tickets, 
please  write  the  Krannert  Center,  Urbana  61801,  not  this  Newsletter. 

Opus  Blue  is  Pink  was  a  production  in  Nov.  by  the  Claude  Kipnis  Mime  Theatre  at 
the  Krannert.   Mr.  Kipnis  and  his  wife  Dinah,  who  did  the  sets  and  costumes,  are 
French-Israeli  artists.   Mr.  Kipnis'  teacher  was  Marcel  Marceau.   The  professional, 
brilliant  Kipnis  Company,  which  resides  on  this  campus  and  includes  Rita  Nachtmann, 
the  daughter  of  our  colleague  Prof .  F.  W.  Nachtmann,  is  another  attraction  which  has 
been  bringing  to  Urbana  visitors  from  often  distant  points. 

FACULTY  PUBLICATIONS 
We  have  just  received  2  offprints  of  articles  by  our  colleague,  Prof.  Charles  A. 
Knudson:   "La  Brogne,"  published  in  Melanges  off erts  a  Rita  Lejeune,  vol.  II  (1969) 
and  "Le  theme  de  la  princesse  sarrasine  dans  La  Prise  d' Orange  published  in  Romance 
Philology,  May  1969. 

ARTICULATION  REPORT 
[The  following  statement  was  prepared  by  Prof.  Emile  Talbot.] 

The  French  sectional  meetings  of  the  Foreign  Language  Articulation  Conference 
sought  to  give  high  school  teachers  the  opportunity  to  voice  their  opinions  on 
teacher  training  generally,  and  on  the  U.I.'s  program  in  particular.   The  morning 
session,  chaired  by  Mr.  Paul  Griffith,  discussed  teacher  training  at  the  undergrad- 
uate level.   Profs.  Stanley  L.  Shinall  and  F.  W.  Nachtmann  spoke  briefly  about  the 
program  at  the  U.I.   The  afternoon  session,  chaired  by  Prof.  Nachtmann,  discussed  the 
Master  of  Arts  in  Teaching  program  in  French.   Prof.  Frederic  M.  Jenkins  and  Prof. 
Shinall  explained  the  program  to  participants. 

The  high  school  teachers  had  a  number  of  suggestions  to  make.   Beyond  strength- 
ening linguistic  and  literary  training,  they  suggested  a  more  comprehensive  method- 
ology course  and  more  stress  on  testing  procedures  and  lab  operations.   In  addition, 
some  felt  that  a  longer  practice  experience  was  necessary.   A  number  of  participants 
expressed  the  wish  to  see  the  U.I.  offer  extension  courses  in  French  on  the  graduate 


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level  either  in  other  cities,  or  at  the  Urbana  campus  in  the  evening  or  on  Saturdays,, 

The  department  thanks  those  who  participated  and  will  consider  the  suggestions 
made  as  it  seeks  to  improve  its  teacher  training  program. 

CHICAGO-URBANA  COMMUNICATIONS 
Recently  Profs.  Stanley  E.  Gray,  Bruce  H.  Mainous,  Gabriel  Savignon,  and  Stanley  L. 
Shinall  of  the  Urbana  campus  Dept.  of  French  visited  the  U.I.  Chicago  Circle  for  con- 
ferring with  colleagues  on  topics  of  mutual  concern  and  interest.   Items  discussed 
there  included  the  hoped-for  establishment  of  the  M.A.  degree  program  at  the  Circle, 
the  Illinois-Iowa  Junior  Year  Abroad,  and  the  undergraduate  majors.   The  visitors 
report  that  the  visit  was  a  cordial  and  fruitful  one. 

IFLTA  MEETING 
Profs.  Bruce  H.  Mainous,  P.  W.  Nachtmann,  and  Stanley  L.  Shinall  attended  the  Illi- 
nois Foreign  Language  Teachers  Association  meeting  in  Chicago  on  Nov.  7.   Among  the 
graduate  students,  Sharon  Drazner  attended.   Some  stimulating  discussions  have  given 
impetus  to  innovation  in  our  Teacher  Training  Program  of  which  more  will  be  said  at 
a  later  date. 

EXTENSIONS  OF  THE  ARTIST 
A  major  exhibition  by  modern  and  contemporary  artists  from  the  world-famous  collec- 
tion of  Lydia  and  Harry  Winston  (Mrs.  Barnett  Malbin)  contained  original  graphics  by 
many  modern  and  contemporary  French  artists.   It  included  approximately  130  prints, 
35  portfolios  of  prints,  25  single  illustrations,  and  15  illustrated  books,  100  post- 
ers and  150  personal  greeting  cards  from  artists--all  documenting  extensions  of  the 
painter  and  sculptor  as  printmaker,  illustrator,  graphic  designers,  and  communicator,, 
By  the  time  this  item  reachers  you  the  exhibit  will  be  gone,  but  other  exhibitions 
may  be  known  in  advance  by  writing  the  Krannert  Art  Museum,  U.I.,  Champaign  61820. 
The  Museum  hours  are  Monday-Saturday  9:00-5:00,  Sunday  2:00-5:00,  also  Thursday  eve- 
nings on  March  19  and  26,  April  2,  9,  and  16  from  7:00-10:00. 

LE  CENACLE 
The  Nov.  18  meeting  of  Le  Cenacle  at  Prof.  Y.  Velan^s  house  dealt  with  "Chanson  et 
Litterature. "  Graduate  students,  guests,  and  staff  attend  the  Cenacle  meetings. 

FRENCH  LUNCHEONS 
The  French  luncheons  have  moved  to  the  Illini  Tower  Cafeteria,  Thursdays  from  ll:i(.5- 
1:00.   French-speaking  guests  are  welcome. 

LECTURE  RESCHEDULED 
Prof.  Barbara  Bowen's  talk  for  the  French  Journal  Club,  "A  New  Look  at  the  French 
16th  Century"  was  rescheduled  for  Dec.  8  at  8:00  p.m.  in  the  Law  Bldg.  Auditorium. 

GERMANIC  NOTES  --  by  Roy  Allen 

IN  MEM0RIAM  PROF.  FRANCIS  J.  NOCK 
The  German  Dept.  bereaves  the  recent  los3  of  Prof.  Francis  J.  Nock,  loved  by  all  as  a 
friend  and  highly  esteemed  as  a  teacher  and  a  scholar.   Prof.  Nock  passed  away  on 
Monday,  Nov.  3,  1969.   Prof.  Nock  was  educated  at  Haverford  College.   He  obtained  the 
M.A.  and  Ph.D.  degrees  from  New  York  Univ.   His  doctoral  thesis  dealt  with  a  Middle 
High  German  MS.  of  the  ParzivSl  by  Wolfram  von  Eschenbach.   He  taught  at  New  York 
Univ.,  the  Univ.  of  Wise,  and  at  the  Rice  Institute.   For  several  years  he  was  head 
of  the  German  Dept.  at  the  Univ.  of  Wichita,  Kan.   He  came  to  the  U.I.  in  19U8,  where 
he  taught  until  his  death.   His  administrative  ability  was  always  recognized  and 
utilized  in  many  ways.   From  19U8-52  he  served  as  the  director  of  German  101-102.   He 
was  appointed  to  various  departmental,  college,  and  university  committees  and  occa- 
sionally served  as  Acting  Chairman  of  the  German  Dept.   For  some  time  he  was  also  Ex- 
ecutive Secretary  of  the  department.   Of  courses  on  the  advanced  level,  to  mention  a 
few,  ne  taught  a  300-level  course  in  phonetics,  2  [|.00-level  courses  in  Middle  High 
German,  a  special  course  in  the  structure  of  the  German  language  for  new  teaching 
assistants  (designed  and  introduced  by  Prof.  Nock  in  1966)  and  a  special  topic  course 
on  his  favorite  19th-century  writer,  Ernst  Theodor  Amadeus  Hoffmann  (taught  in  the 


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summer  of  1967  and  announced  again  for  this  semester).   Prof.  Nock  authored  a  number 
of  German-language  textbooks,  including,  for  example,  An  Introduction  to  Scientific 
German  (1937),  Expository  German  (1951)>  German  Science  Reader  (1961).   Prof.  Nock's 
doctoral  dissertation  was  published  as  No.  22  of  the  Ottendorfer  Memorial  Series  in 
1935«   One  of  the  most  important  of  the  many  articles  he  published  was  the  product  of 
a  broad  study  of  the  relationship  of  the  M-group  of  Parzival  MSS:   Die  M-Gruppen  der 
Par  z  ival- Hands  c'nr  if  ten  (PBB,  1968,  11;5-173)»   Prof.  Nock  published  numerous  reviews 
and  also  translated  a  number  of  works  of  German  literature  into  English,  including 
E.  T.  A.  Hoffmann's  Kater  Murr ,  Schnitzler's  Literatur,  and  Sternheim' s  Nebbich. 
Prof.  Nock  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Marcia. 

A  memorial  service  for  Prof.  Nock  was  held  in  the  Union  on  Sunday,  Nov.  9,  1969. 

FRANCIS  NOCK  MEMORIAL  FUND 
A  loan  fund  to  assist  graduate  students  in  the  German  Dept.  is  being  established  by 
the  department  in  memory  of  Prof.  Francis  J.  Nock.   The  money  being  collected  for  the 
fund  will  eventually  be  turned  over  to  the  Univ.  Foundation.   The  fund  will  be  known 
in  the  department  as  the  Francis  Nock  Memorial  Fund, 

FRUCHTBRINGENDE  GESELLSCHAFT 
On  Dec.  11  at  7:30  p.m.  in  the  General  Lounge  of  the  Union  Prof.  James  Marchand  pre- 
sented a  talk  on  "Parzival' s  Guilt:   The  First  Visit  to  the  Grail  Castle." 

GERMAN  GROUP  MEETING  OF  THE  FLA  CONFERENCE 
[The  following  report  was  prepared  by  Assistant  Prof.  U.  Henry  Gerlach. ] 

This  report  is  offered  in  the  hope  and  with  the  suggestion  that  the  readers  will 
act  on  those  recommendations  made  at  the  conference  and  summarized  here  which  fall 
into  their  particular  shperes  of  influence. 

The  morning  session  on  Friday,  Nov.  7,  chaired  by  Prof0  Richard  Figge,  was  de- 
voted to  a  general  discussion  of  articulation  problems  faced  by  the  high  school  grad- 
uate who  enters  the  U0I.   It  was  pointed  out  that  many  high  school  counselors  are  not 
aware  that  students  can  complete  their  LAS  College  graduation  requirement  in  foreign 
languages  while  still  in  the  high  school 0   For  this  reason  we  quote  here  from  the 
"University  of  Illinois  at  Urbana- Champaign  Undergraduate  Study  1969/1970"  (U.I.  Bul- 
letin, vol.  LXVI,  no.  109,  May  2,  1969,  p.  68):   "Students  entering  the  College  of 
Liberal  Arts  &  Sciences  with  q.  units  in  1  foreign  language  have  satisfied  the  lan- 
guage requirement  for  graduation  from  most  curricula  in  that  college,  and  they  need 
not  take  the  placement  test  unless  they  plan  to  do  advanced  work  in  the  same  language 
they  previously  studied." 

Until  this  semester  it  was  an  LAS  policy  not  to  give  credit  for  language  courses 
taken  as  a  result  of  "back-placing."  Now  the  student  can  get  full  credit  for  each 
language  course  taken  at  the  university  even  if  the  placement  test  score  indicates  he 
should  start  all  over  from  the  1st  semester,, 

The  observation  was  made  that  in  high  schools  with  a  limited  language  program 
schedules  should  be  worked  out  such  that  there  is  continuity  of  learning  into  the 
senior  year,  thus  avoiding  the  problem  of  a  large  time  gap  between  the  most  recent 
language  class  and  college  entrance.   Several  teachers  felt  this  to  be  a  problem  that 
could  be  solved  only  by  the  counselors  who  advise  students  on  desirable  schedules. 
It  was  suggested  that  for  this  and  other  reasons  counselors  be  invited  to  future  lan- 
guage articulation  conferences. 

The  fact  that  students  exposed  to  different  methods  and  texts  in  their  high 
school  German  classes  find  a  uniform  and  perhaps  unfamiliar  approach  at  the  univer- 
sity led  to  a  discussion  of  how  these  students  can  best  be  prepared.   The  solution  to 
this  problem  is  contained  in  adoption  ,of  the  Guidelines  for  J£  Levels  of  Competence  in 
German  issued  this  fall  by  the  Office  of  the  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction, 
State  of  111.   This  pamphlet  sets  forth  clear  goals  to  be  achieved  by  stressing  all  1| 
communication  skills  from  the  start  of  Instruction.   (If  you  have  not  received  this 
publication,  ask  your  school  administrator  for  a  copy  or  write  to  Springfield.)   The 
teachers  using  the  old  ALM  materials,  entirely  devoid  of  grammar  presentation,  were 
shown  the  new  edition  which  has  systematic  "generalisations"  (a  euphemism  for  gram- 
mar).  The  move  toward  a  balance  between  the  i|  skills  evident  in  this  particular  text 
is  clearly  indicative  of  the  present  trend,  which  should  reduce  the  articulation 
problems  significantly.   No  longer  will  we  find  students  good  in  1  aspect  of  language 
but  sadly  deficient  in  another,  because  of  the  teaching  approach* 


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The  afternoon  session  was  devoted  to  teacher  education,  with  special  emphasis 
on  pre-service  training.   A  panel  consisting  of  Mr.  Richard  White  (Rich  Central  High 
School,  Olympia  Fields)  as  moderator,  Mrs.  Marion  Schultz  (Maine  Township  High  School 
South,  Park  Ridge),  and  Mrs.  Marcia  Bernhard  (Champaign  Central  High  School)  opened 
the  meeting.  Following  their  presentation,  there  was  a  group  discussion.   Some  of 
the  many  worthwhile  points  raised  are  summarized  below. 

A  period  of  observation  with  partial  involvement  should  be  the  student  teacher's 
1st  activity  in  the  school  where  he  is  to  practice  teach.   This  should  take  place  at 
the  beginning  of  the  year  before  the  students  have  become  accustomed  to  the  class- 
room routines  of  the  experienced  cooperating  teacher.   This  would  serve  to  rid  the 
student  teacher  of  the  idea  that  classes  generally  have  the  discipline  and  mental  set 
toward  study  which  he  finds  when  he  takes  over  somewhere  in  the  middle  of  the  term. 
For  this  reason  the  U.I.  highly  recommends  the  course  Educational  Practice  2£0 
(School  &  Community  Experience)  to  all  teacher  trainees.   In  German  this  course  is 
"pushed"  with  the  result  that  this  fall  8  out  of  9  students  in  German  281,  the  de- 
partment's methods  course  taken  just  before  practice  teaching,  had  availed  themselves 
of  the  opportunity  to  observe  in  the  school  where  they  were  scheduled  to  teach  laterc 

Such  observation  period  is  invaluable  to  the  teacher  trainee  before  he  begins 
student  teaching,  but  similar  observation  opportunities  should  be  made  available  much 
earlier.   Interested  freshmen  and  sophomores  need  such  a  chance;  they  could  then 
better  decide  whether  a  teaching  career  could  elicit  their  total  committment.   Also, 
professional  education  courses  would  then  not  simply  be  requirements  to  fulfill  but 
meaningful  steps  leading  to  one's  goal.   Prior  to  such  observation  the  student  should 
be  taught  how  to  observe,  e.g0  to  watch  for  specifics  of  presentational  method, 
classroom  management,  etc. 

Often  student  teachers  do  not  know  quite  what  to  expect  of  high  school  classes0 
Here,  too,  observation  could  help.   Generally  speaking,  the  language  classes  in  the 
high  school  are  just  that--and  not  a  forum  where  fine  points  of  literature  should  be 
discussed.   Another  problem  of  pre-assessment  arises  for  the  foreign-born  teachers. 
Something  best  described  as  a  "cultural  gap"  may  exist  unless  they  work  on  this  as- 
pect of  their  preparation  for  teaching  in  an  American  school. 

In  this  connection  it  was  suggested  that  courses  in  cultural  history  be  expanded 
to  provide  future  teachers  with  a  better  background  in  both  the  aesthetic  and  the 
ethnic  culture  of  the  German  language  area. 

Several  teachers  reported  that  teacher  trainees  working  under  their  supervision 
were  unable  to  write  a  usable  classroom  test.   This  comment  was  brought  to  the  atten- 
tion of  the  professor  who  teaches  the  departmental  methods  course.   As  a  result,  more 
time  will  be  spent  on  testing  and  grading.   For  next  term,  Rebecca  M.  Valette's  Mod- 
ern Language  Testing:   A  Handbook  (Harcourt,  Brace  &  World)  was  added  as  a  required 
text,  so  that  after  initial  exposure  to  it  the  future  teacher  will  always  have  it 
handy  as  a  reference  text. 

Teachers  now  in  the  high  schools  felt  that  In  the  training  of  teaching  majors 
the  acquisition  of  everyday  language  should  receive  equal  emphasis  with  the  language 
of  literature. 

It  was  suggested  that  co&'perating  teachers  communicate  their  comments  on  insuf- 
ficient preparation  of  student  teachers  to  appropriate  university  personnel.   Obser- 
vations about  a  particular  student  in  German  can  be  sent  to  the  Dept.  of  Germanic 
Languages  &  Literatures,  Attn.  Teacher  Training  Advisor,  371  Lincoln  Hall,  U.I.,  Ur- 
bana,  111.  61801.   Comments  about  the  general  program  of  teacher  training  should  be 
addressed  to  the  Coordinator,  Urbana  Council  on  Teacher  Education,  120  Education 
Building,  U.I.,  Urbana,  111.  61801.   Where  the  student  is  poorly  prepared  because  of 
the  quality  of  his  own  work,  individual  help  may  be  given.   When  a  course  or  program 
is  felt  wanting,  it  will  be  re-appraised. 

SLAVIC  MOTES  --  by  Prof.  Michael  Curran 

SLAVIC  CULTURAL  EVENTS 
The  Depot  Theatre  recently  presented  2  short  plays  by  the  well-known  Polish  writer, 
Slawomir  Mrozek.   The  plays  were  Enchanted  Night  and  The  Martyrdom  of  Peter  Ohey. 
They  were  both  directed  by  William  McCombe,  a  graduate  student  in  the  Slavic  Dept. 
The  casts  of  both  plays  also  included  many  members  of  the  Slavic  Dept.   Douglas  Clay- 
ton  played  one  of  the  leads  in  Enchanted  Night,  and  Elliot  Cohen,  Gary  Davis,  Mike 


Tudor,  and  Rich  Weathers  appeared  in  The  Martyrdom  of  Peter  Ohey. 

On  Sunday,  Dec.  7,  there  was  a  showing  of  the  Czech  film,  Loves  of  a  Blonde,  in 
the  Auditorium  at  8:00  p.m. 

On  Thursday,  Dec.  11,  the  controversial  Russian  film,  banned  for  2  years  by 
Khrushchev,  I   am  Twenty,  was  shown  by  the  Russian  Club  at  8:00  p.m.,  Auditorium. 

PUBLI CATI ONS 
The  publication  of  Zinaida  Hippius'  religious  diary  0  byvshem,  supplied  with  annota- 
tions and  an  introduction  by  Miss  Temira  Pachmuss,  is  scheduled  to  appear  in  3  sepa- 
rate installments  in  the  forthcoming  issues  of  La  Renaissance  in  Paris, 

GRADUATE  STUDENTS  NOTES 
Mr.  Alex  Vorobiov  passed  his  preliminary  examinations  leading  to  the  Ph.D.  degree 
this  past  month. 

NEW  COURSES 
As  an  alternative  to  the  audio-lingual  approach  now  used  in  Russian  IOI-IOI4.,  the 
Slavic  Dept.  will  introduce  3  new  courses  to  satisfy  the  LAS  language  requirement: 
Russian  121,  122,  123.   The  sequence  emphasizes  basic  Russian  grammar  and  vocabulary 
for  recognition  purposes  and  prepares  the  student  to  read  Russian  and  translate  into 
English. 

Two  sections  of  Russian  199,  an  undergraduate  open  seminar,  are  also  being  in- 
stituted,,  Section  A  will  deal  with  Russian  literature,  and  Section  B  with  Russian 
language  and  culture.   The  latter  will  use  films  to  be  shown  and  discussed  in  class. 

Another  new  course,  related  to  our  department,  will  be  Library  Science  i|33-K 
dealing  with  Slavic  Bibliography. 

RUSSIAN  SUMMER  ABROAD  PROGRAM 
Seventeen  U.I.  students  (Susan  Atkin,  Suzanne  Best,  Tom  Colberg,  Barbara  Fell,  Galen 
Foat,  April  Fritsch,  Sherry  Gehrke,  Sona  Janjigian,  Maya  Karanusic,  Ken  Olson,  Tom 
Parcheta,  Joanne  Reilly,  Ludmillia  Revenko,  Dan  Stein,  Anna  Tokarchuk,  Susan  Trebbe, 
and  Richard  Trojanowski)  and  7  other  students  from  Hawaii,  Stanford,  Chicago,  Michi- 
gan, Yale,  Davidson,  and  Toronto  took  part  in  the  program.   They  spent  5  weeks  in 
Zagreb,  Jugoslavia,  studying  Russian  at  the  Center  for  Foreign  Languages.   A  staff  of 
ij.  taught  grammar,  conversation,  and  literature  courses  on  3rd  and  1+th  year  level,, 

Classes  were  held  1±   days  a  week  so  that  the  students  could  have  ample  time  to 
travel  in  Jugoslavia  and  to  the  neighboring  countries.   The  final  3  weeks  were  spent 
in  Warsaw,  Leningrad,  Moscow,  the  Crimea,  Kiev,  Vienna,  and  Paris „ 

While  the  students  enjoyed  their  stay  in  Jugoslavia,  the  majority  felt  that  a 
stay  of  similar  duration  in  the  Soviet  Union  would  have  been  far  more  beneficial  in 
improving  their  fluency  of  Russian.   Our  next  Russian  Abroad  Program  will  therefore 
take  students  directly  to  the  Soviet  Union.  Unfortunately,  we  will  not  be  able  to 
arrange  a  program  for  1970.   Anyone  interested  in  a  program  for  1970  can  get  inform- 
ation from  the  latest  AATSEEL  Newsletter  or  by  writing  to  the  Council  on  Internation- 
al Educational  Exchange,  777  United  Nations  Plaza,  New  York,  N.  Y„  10017. 

ARTICULATION  CONFERENCE 
Twenty  high  school  teachers  of  Russian  attended  the  1969  Articulation  Conference,   In 
the  morning  session  Prof.  Kurt  Klein  talked  about  the  preparation  of  Russian  teachers 
at  the  U.I.   Since  1959,  when  the  program  was  started,  a  total  of  I4.I  teachers  have 
been  prepared.   Although  there  are  65  high  schools  where  Russian  is  offered,  it  is 
now  difficult  to  find  jobs  for  graduates  in  the  Russian  Teacher  Training  Curriculum, 
In  order  to  introduce  more  Russian  programs  into  high  schools  several  steps  have  been 
taken  by  the  Committee  on  the  Promotion  of  Russian  in  Illinois;  a  letter  has  been 
sent  to  Ray  Page,  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  about  the  present  status  of 
Russian  in  111. ;  another  letter  urging  the  introduction  of  Russian  will  be  sent  by 
the  Committee  through  the  State  Office  of  Education  to  all  principals  of  high  schools 
in  the  state;  finally,  a  television  program  on  the  teaching  of  Russian  has  been  taped 
and  is  available  to  all  interested  at  no  charge.   For  further  information  about  this 
film,  please  write  to  Dr.  Robert  Schultz,  Director  of  Instructional  Television,  Hern- 
den  Building,  South  5th  St.,  Springfield,  111,  62701, 

Mrs.  Maria  Zalucky  spoke  on  the  course  in  Russian  culture  which  she  and  her  hus- 
band taught  at  the  EPDA  Russian  Teachers'  Institute  at  the  U.I.  last  summer. 


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In  the  afternoon  session  a  panel  of  high  school  teachers,  consisting  of  Mr0 
Frank  Petronaitis  (Lyons  Township  High  School,  La  Grange),  Miss  Alice  Glowacki  (Hins- 
dale High  School),  and  Mr.  Stanley  Moore  (Rich  Township  High  School,  Park  Forest), 
discussed  their  work  as  cooperating  teachers.   They  pointed  out  that  our  students  aie 
generally  well-prepared,  that  practice  teaching  is  a  full-time  job,  and  that  the 
practice  teachers  should  therefore  be  given  fewer  assignments  in  their  university 
courses.   Other  topics  discussed  were:   closer  cooperation  and  possible  short-time 
exchange  of  high  school  and  university  teachers  of  beginning  language  courses;  the 
number  of  credit  hours  for  students  with  high  school  Russian;  and  independent  study 
of  Russian  in  high  schools. 

After  the  panel  discussion,  Mrs.  Marta  Brovina,  an  exchange  teacher  from  the  So- 
viet  Union,  talked  about  the  teaching  of  foreign  languages  in  Soviet  high  schools. 
Mrs.  Brovina  teaches  English  and  is  head  of  the  foreign  language  department  at  Mos- 
cow High  School  No.  123.   This  is  a  special  high  school  where  several  subjects  are 
taught  in  the  foreign  language.   There  are  more  than  10  such  high  schools  in  Moscow, 
and  several  in  Leningrad,  Kiev,  and  other  large  cities. 

SPANISH,  ITALIAN,  ft  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  --  by  Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jr. 

AUGUSTANA  SUMMER  SCHOOL  IN  SPAIN 
Augustana  College  will  sponsor  its  6th  Summer  School  Program  in  Spain  from  July  6- 
Aug.  IJ4.,  1970,  in  Madrid.   The  program  is  open  to  students  with  2  years  of  college 
Spanish  or  equivalent,  and  the  cost  is  approximately  $790  (including  air  transpor- 
tation from  New  York).   Further  information  may  be  obtained  from  Dr.  A.  Arjibay  Dor- 
este,  Director,  Summer  School  in  Spain,  Augustana  College,  Rock  Island,  111.  61201. 

AATSP;   MORE  MEMBERS  MEAN  BETTER  PROGRAMS 
The  Downstate  Illinois  Chapter  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  Spanish  & 
Portuguese  invites  all  interested  parties  to  join  the  organization. 

If  you  are  a  teacher;   You  will  be  kept  informed  on  all  meetings;  you  will  re- 
ceive Spanish  Contest  information  and  can  enter  your  students;  your  students  will  re- 
ceive awards  for  winning  performances;  a  worthwhile  meeting  is  planned  for  you  in 
April  which  will  be  of  particular  value  if  you  cannot  attend  the  Dec.  28-30  meeting 
at  the  Hotel  LaSalle  in  Chicago;  you  will  have  an  opportunity  to  participate  in  an 
exchange  of  ideas  among  other  area  teachers. 

If  you  are  a  student :   You  receive  all  the  advantages  of  membership  at  a  reduced 
fee ;  you  become  acquainted  early  in  your  career  with  teachers  in  your  field  at  all 
levels;  you  have  an  early  affiliation  with  a  professional  organization. 

If  you  are  a  college  or  university  professor:   Your  interest  and  participation 
are  invaluable  to  elementary,  junior,  and  high  school  teachers  who  look  to  you  for 
the  culmination  of  the  teaching  programs  in  which  they  participate. 

National  AATSP  dues  are  $8.00,  the  student  rate  is  li^.OO,  and  both  include  a 
year's  subscription  to  Hispania.   Downstate  Illinois  Chapter  dues  are  $1»00.   Send 
all  dues  to  Mrs.  Gladys  Leal,  Treasurer,  Champaign  Central  High  School,  610  W.  Uni- 
versity Ave.,  Champaign,  111.  61820. 

ARTICULATION  CONFERENCE 
The  Spanish  Committee  which  represented  the  department  at  the  FLA  Conference  held  on 
campus  on  Nov.  6-7  consisted  of  9  members  of  the  department:   Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pas- 
quarlello  (head  of  the  department),  Profs.  Joseph  S.  Flores  and  Angelina  R.  Pietran- 
geli,  Associate  Prof.  W.  Curtis  Blaylock,  Assistant  Profs.  David  R.  -iershberg,  IsaJas 
Lerner,  and  Thomas  C.  Meehan,  Instructor  Maria  Elena  Bravo  de  Maharg,  and  Newsletter 
Editor  Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jr.   In  addition,  Mr.  Thomas  Washington,  Jr.,  Centennial 
High  School,  Champaign,  was  invited  to  sit  on  the  Spanish  Committee. 

At  the  morning  session  cf  the  Spanish  section  meeting  on  Friday,  Nov.  7,  chaired 
by  Prof.  Hershberg,  the  teachers  discussed  points  raised  in  Mr.  Paquette's  speech  the 
night  before  and  also  the  LAS  entrance  requirements  in  foreign  languages.   During  the 
afternoon  session,  chaired  by  Prof.  Blaylock,  suggestions  for  changes  in  the  teacher 
training  curriculum  were  discussed. 

Prof.  Pasquariello  was  the  host  at  a  small  reception  for  the  Spanish  high  school 
teachers  on  Thursday,  Nov.  6,  prior  to  the  FLA  Conference  dinner,  in  the  Illini 
Union. 


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NEW  TEACHING  ASSISTANTS 
The  department  welcomes  13  new  graduate  teaching  assistants  this  year.   New  assis- 
tants in  Spanish  are:   Mr.  Donald  Max  Brayton  (B.A.  State  Univ.  of  Iowa,  M.A.  U.I.), 
Miss  Maria  Luisa  Freyre  (Profesorado  degree,  Instituto  Nacional  Superior  del  Profes- 
orado,  Buenos  Aires),  Mrs.  Teresa  Guerra  de  Gloss  (Lie.  degree,  Univ.  of  Madrid), 
Miss  Susan  Kingston  (B.A.  Vassar  College,  M.A.  Middlebury  College),  Mrs.  Shirley 
Taylor  Mason  (B.A.  Morgan  State  College,  Baltimore),  Miss  Candace  Jean  Mott  (B.A. 
U.Io),  Miss  Denise  Margaret  Nuccio  (B.A.  U.I.  Chicago  Circle),  Mrs.  Kay  Parnell 
Stoneking  (B.A.  David  Lipscomb  College,  Nashville,  M.A.  U.I.),  and  Mr.  Earl  G0 
Thompson,  Jr.  (B.A.  Iowa  State  Univ.,  M.A.  Univ.  of  Mo.)0 

New  assistants  in  Italian  are  Mr.  Fiore  Tony  Matteis  (B.A.  Univ.  of  Windsor, 
Onto,  M.A.  Middlebury  College)  and  Miss  Raffaela  Yvonne  Nanetti  (B.A.  Catholic  Univ., 
Milan,  M.A.  J.  Hopkins,  Bologna).   New  assistants  in  Portuguese  are  Miss  Silvia  Eliz- 
abeth Miranda  DeMoraes  (Bacharelato  degree,  Univ.  of  Ceara,  Brazil)  and  Miss  Janet 
Louise  Lyle  (B.A.  Univ.  of  Miami,  Ohio,  M.A.  U.I.). 

DUTTON  LECTURE 
The  department  sponsored  a  lecture  by  Prof.  Brian  Dutton  of  the  Univ.  of  Ga.  on  the 
topic  "The  Semantics  of  Honor"  on  Monday,  Nov.  21)..   Prof.  Dutton' s  field  is  medieval 
Spanish  literature. 

FACULTY  NOTES 
Prof 0  J.  H.  D.  Allen  will  represent  the  department  at  the  winter  meeting  of  the  Lin- 
guistic Society  of  America  in  San  Francisco,  Calif.,  during  Dec.  28-30. 

Prof.  Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo,  Associate  Prof.  Spurgeon  W.  Baldwin,  and  Instruc- 
tor Pedro  F.  Campa  represented  the  department  at  the  South  Atlantic  Modern  Language 
Association  meeting  in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  during  Nov0  6-80 

Dr.  Judith  Zelenka  Rojas,  formerly  the  head  of  the  department's  secretarial 
staff,  is  working  this  year  as  research  assistant  to  Prof.  William  H.  Shoemaker0 

Graduate  Assistants  Ronald  R.  and  Rinda  S.  Young  represented  the  department  at 
the  3rd  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Council  on  the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Languages 
in  New  Orleans,  La0,  on  Nov.  28-30. 

FACULTY  PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Merlin  H.  Forster  has  published  an  article,  "El  concepto  de  la  creaci6n  poeti- 
ca  en  la  obra  de  Carlos  Pellicer, "  Comunidad,  vol.  IV  (1969),  683-688. 

Prof.  Marcos  A.  Morinigo  served  as  editor  of  a  new  edition  of  Don  Quixote  pub- 
lished by  the  Editorial  Universitaria  de  Buenos  Aires.   Assistant  Prof.  Isaias  Lerner 
helped  Prof.  Morinigo  in  preparing  the  text,  notes,  indices,  and  preface. 

MESA  REDONDA 
The  Mesa  Redonda  meets  once  a  month  to  discuss  literary  themes.   The  group  i3  open 
to  departmental  faculty  and  to  those  graduate  students  who  hold  the  M.A.  degree. 
The  Mesa  Redonda  Committee  for  1969-70  consists  of  Prof.  Luis  Leal,  Assistant  Prof0 
Thomas  C.  Meehan,  and  Instructor  Martha  Paley  de  Francescato. 

The  Mesa  Redonda  has  sponsored  2  meetings  this  semester  in  the  Illini  Union. 
On  Friday  afternoon,  Oct.  ^1,    Mrs.  Francescato  introduced  the  topic  "El  escritor 
comprometido"  for  group  discussion.   On  Friday  afternoon,  Nov.  21,  the  Ecuatorian 
writer  Alfredo  Pareja  Diez- Canseco  spoke  to  the  group  about  his  writings. 

§      §      §      §      § 
EDITORIAL  THANKS 
The  Editor  wishes  to  thank  Graduate  Assistant  Peter  E.  Sutter  of  the  Dept.  of  Slavic 
Languages  &  Literatures  for  his  help  with  the  Russian  captions  on  the  front  page. 

The  University  of  Illinois  Modern  Foreign  Language  Newsletter  is  published  jointly 
by  the  modern  language  departments  of  the  U.I„  under  the  direction  of  the  Head  of  the 
Dept.  of  Spanish,  Italian,  &  Portuguese.   Editorial  offices  are  located  in  251  Illini 
Tower,  Champaign,  telephone  (217)  333-3536.   The  Newsletter  is  available  without 
charge  to  all  interested  persons  in  Illinois  and  other  areas.   All  communications  by 
mail  should  be  addressed  to:   The  Editor,  MFL  Newsletter,  22[j.  Lincoln  Hall,  Urbana, 
111.  61801. 


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THE  UNIVERSITY  OP  ILLINOIS  MODERN  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  NEWSLETTER 


January,  1970        Director:   Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello 
Vol.  XXIII,  No.  ij.  Editor:   Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jr. 

THE  PSYCH-O-GENERATIVE  METHOD 
Tnree  Illinois  language  teachers  are  achieving  dramatic  results  with  a  new  method  of 
language  instruction.   Mr.  Henry  H.  Farker,  U.I.  instructor  of  Latin,  has  50  students 
of  whom  50$  are  making  A's,  l±0%   B's,  10$  C's,  with  no  D' s  or  failures.   Mrs.  Karen 
Stone,  Dwight  Township  High  School,  has  2  Spanish  classes  with  85-90%  earning  grades 
of  C  or  higher,  and  60$  of  these  are  making  A's.   Mr.  Thomas  Washington,  Jr.,  Cham- 
paign Centennial  High  School,  also  has  2  Spanish  classes  with  55$  A's,  20$  B's,  and 
13$  C's. 

These  3  teachers  are  using  the  Psych-0-Generative  Method  of  language  Instruction 
which  tney  demonstrated  at  the  U.I.  Foreign  Language  Articulation  Conference  in  Nov. 
19o9o   This  method  came  about  after  7  years  of  research  by  Dr.  Samuel  Nodarse,  an 
assistant  professor  at  the  Univ.  of  Northern  Iowa,  due  to  his  dissatisfaction  with 
current  methods  of  language  instruction.   The  Fsych-0-Generative  method  consists  of  3 
basic  parts:   7  basic  sentence  structures  as  the  starting  point;  7  simple  processes, 
which  when  applied  to  the  7  basic  sentences  can  form  any  expression  imaginable;  and 
a  finite  number  of  areas  of  expression. 

The  F sych-0~Generative  hypothesis  is  that  every  person  is  born  with  a  psychogen- 
erative  mechanism  which,  when  it  receives  a  finite  number  of  language  symbols,  is 
carable  of  producing  an  infinite  number  of  language  variations.   Also,  each  person 
has  a  psychogenerative  learning  sequence  which,  when  it  coincides  with  the  sequence 
of  the  rresentation  of  material  to  be  learned,  produces  an  optimum  of  learning  and  a 
minimum  of  nonlearning  and  confusion.   The  method's  goal  is  to  determine  the  above 
sequence. 

The  F sych-0-Generative  theory  of  learning  is  based  on  the  fact  that  a  human 
being  does  not  need  to  be  taught  all  the  facts  in  the  field  of  study;  he  need  only 
be  riven  a  limited  number  of  selected  facts  which  can  be  generated  by  him  into  a 
series  of  infinite  knowledge  about  the  material  being  taught. 

The  system  uses  the  inductive  process;  material  is  rresented,  not  explained. 
It  is  rresented  without  the  confusion  of  variables  so  that  the  student  can  infer  the 
principles  that  the  presented  material  implies.   If  material  is  rresented  with  diff- 
erent variables  at  the  same  time,  the  other  variables  will  distract  the  student  end 
he  may  inductively  form  tho  wrong  conclusions. 

The  Fsych-0-Generative  method  stresses  realism.   Those  words  and  sentences  not 
used  witn  great  frequency  in  everyday  speech  have  been  eliminated  from  the  lessonso 
Lie  students  are  given  the  opportunity  to  concentrate  on  true  communication;  they 
learn  to  use  the  wide  spectrum  of  human  emotions  (anger,  joy,  irony,  etc.)  with  the 
newly-acquired  symbols  of  the  foreign  language.   This  cannot  be  accomplished  when  the 
student  is  concentrating  his  attention  on  differentiating  verb  tenses  or  trying  to 
remember  all  the  words  of  a  complicated  dialogue.   At  the  same  time,  the  student  is 
made  to  realize  that  the  topics  and  ideas  which  he  discusses  in  his  native  language 
can  be  said  in  the  foreign  language  which  he  is  learning. 

In  order  to  imprint  the  target  language,  the  Psych-0-Generative  method  uses 
oral,  aural,  and  visual  stimuli.   The  students  hear  the  material  pronounced  by  the 
teacner,  t.nen  pronounce  it  after  him  while  looking  at  the  material  projected  on  a 
screen  by  means  of  transparencies.   Workbooks  are  provided  for  practice  in  written 
work  to  reinforce  the  classroom  oral  work.   There  are  no  textbooks. 

A  sample  F sych-0-Generative  drill,  here  translated  into  English,  shows  how  new 
elements  are  introduced  one  at  a  time  to  reinforce  the  material  which  has  gone 
before.   Speaker  A--"Who  spoke?"   Speaker  B--"John  spoke."   A--"When  did  John  speak?* 
B--"John  spoke  last  night."   A--"Where  did  John  speak  last  night?"  B--"John  spoke 
last  night  in  the  library."   A--"With  whom  did  John  speak  last  night  in  the  library?* 
B--"John  spoke  with  his  friend  last  night  in  the  library."   A- -"What  did  John  speak 
about  with  his  friend  last  night  in  the  library?"   B — "John  spoke  about  music  with 
his  friend  last  night  in  the  library."   The  teacher,  after  presenting  this  material, 
does  not  monopolize  the  class  by  being  the  sole  interrogator;  he  allows  the  students 
to  ask  as  well  as  to  answer  these  drill  questions. 

The  advantages  of  the  Psych-0-Generative  method  are  that  it  applies  logically 


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and  consistently  the  principles  of  learning  theory  derived  from  studies  of  language 
structure  and  of  the  learning  process.   In  addition,  the  students  learn  grammatical 
patterns  naturally  and  apply  them  with  competency.   The  students  can  learn  up  to 
twice  as  much  in  a  year  with  this  system  as  with  other  systems.   The  students  can 
function  at  higher  levels  of  achievement  and  classroom  failure  is  drastically 
reduced.   Finally,  the  teacher's  role  is  minimized  to  develop  more  fully  the  stu- 
dent's potential  to  learn. 

Fsych-O-Generative  materials  are  available  for  French,  German,  Japanese,  Latin, 
Morwegian,  Russian,  Spanish,  and  other  languages.   Teachers  desiring  more  inform- 
ation may  contact  the  Psych-O-Generative  Center,  Box  1U3.  Waterloo,  Iowa  50706.   In 
addition,  Mr.  Parker,  Mrs.  Stone,  and  Mr.  Washington  cordially  invite  all  interested 
persons  to  contact  them  personally  to  arrange  visits  to  their  classes  to  see  the 
Psych-O-Generative  method  in  use.   Their  addresses  are:   Mr.  Henry  H.  Farker,  Depto 
of  the  Classics,  36I  Lincoln  Hall,  U.I.,  Urbana,  111.  61801$   Mrs.  Karen  Stone, 
Dwight  Township  High  School,  Dwight,  111.  60I|20;   Mr.  Thomas  Washington,  Jr.,  Cen- 
tennial High  School,  913  Crescent,  Champaign,  111.  61820. 

EUROPEAN  STUDENT  TOUR 
Vita  International  Association  and  Mr.  Gustav  Speder,  instructor  at  Springfield  High 
School,  are  offering  a  21-day,  8-country  tour  of  Europe  from  June  ll|.-July  I4..   The 
tour  price  of  $695   includes  round-trip  air  transportation  from  Chicago,  all  trans- 
portation and  sightseeing  in  Europe,  hotels,  and  2  meals  daily.   Additional  inform- 
ation may  be  obtained  by  contacting  Mr.  Speder  at  Springfield  High  School,  101  S. 
Lewis  St.,  Springfield,  111.  6270[|.,  or  by  writing  Vita  International  Association, 
1+00  E.  Randolph  St.,  Chicago,  111.60601. 

PUBLICATIONS  OF  INTEREST 
The  Indiana  Language  Program  has  several  publications  available.   Single  copies  are 
available  free;  prices  for  more  than  1  copy  are  available  upon  request.   The  publi- 
cations are:   Translating  Foreign  Language  into  Careers  (vocational  opportunities 
for  language  students);  Visual  Aids  Handbook  for  Foreign  Language  Teachers  (designed 
to  help  teachers  in  the  construction  of  their  own  visual  aids) ;  Language  Laboratory 
Techniques.   These  publications  can  be  requested  from  the  American  Council  on  the 
Teaching  of  Foreign  Languages,  62  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York,  N.Y.  10011. 

The  following  publications  are  available  from  the  MLA-ACTFL  Materials  Center: 
Vocational  Opportunities  for  FL  Students  by  Gilbert  Kettlekamp,  U.I.  Prof,  of  Second- 
ary &  Continuing  Education  ^Language  uses  in  business  and  industry,  government, 
teaching,  and  other  vocations),  no.  B31,  $.75;  Listening  Comprehension  by  Wilga  M. 
Rivers,  no.  D230,  $.25;  two  ERIC  Focus  Reports,  no.  10--Summer  Foreign  Language  Camps 
for  School  Students  by  G.  K.  Haukebo,  and  no.  12 — Songs  in  the  Foreign  Language 
Classroom  by  Olivia  Munoz,  $.25  each.   These  can  be  ordered  by  number  and  title  from 
the  Materials  Center,  MLA-ACTFL,  62  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York,  N.Y.  10011.   (The  Materials 
Center  charges  a  $.50  handling  free  on  all  orders  under  $5.) 

The  1970  catalogues  of  materials  in  French,  Spanish,  German,  and  Italian  are 
available  free  from  Goldsmith's  Music  Shop,  Inc.,  I;01  w»  l+2nd  St.,  New  York,  N.Y. 
IOO36.   The  catalogues  list  records,  texts,  slides,  filmstrips,  posters,  maps,  and 
paperbacks.   Please  specify  the  language  when  requesting  a  catalogue. 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES  --  by  Prof.  Barbara  Smalley 

PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Rocco  Montano  has  recently  published  an  article  entitled  "From  Italian  Humanism 
to  Shakespeare:   Humanistic  Positions,"  Italian  Quarterly  XIII:50  (Fall  1969),  3-32. 
His  article  entitled  "Crocean  Influence  and  Historicism  in  Italy, "  which  first 
appeared  in  Comparative  Literature  Studies  in  1961|»  has  been  included  in  the  recently 
published  volume,  Comparative  Literature:   Matter  and  Method,  ed.  A.  Owen  Aldridge 
(Urbana,  1969). 

LECTURES 
Prof.  Herbert  Knust  of  the  Comparative  Literature  Program  and  the  Dept.  of  Germanic 
delivered  a  paper  at  the  recent  MLA  meetings  in  Denver  to  the  Comparative  Literature 
Group  7  (Franco-German  Literary  Relations).   His  subject  was  "Camus'  Le  Malentendu 


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and  Doderer's  Zwei  Ltigen. " 

SUMMER  SESSION  CURRICULUM 
During  the  1970  Summer  Session  Prof.  Hans  Galinsky,  Visiting  Professor  from  the  Univa 
of  Mainz,  will  teach  2  sections  of  Comparative  Literature  [|.52  (Seminar  in  Literary 
Relations )--one  entitled  "Problems  in  Relations:   German  and  American  Literatures  in 
the  20th  Century"  (9:00-10:00  TuWTh),  and  the  other,  "The  Translator  as  Literary 
Artist  and  Intermediary:   19th  and  20th  Century  American  Poetry  and  its  German  Ren- 
derings" (11:00-12:00  TuWTh). 

Profo  Francois  Jost,  Chairman  of  the  Comparative  Literature  Program  at  the  U.I., 
will  teach  Comparative  Literature  1^.62  (Seminar  in  Literary  Themes  and  Types)  "Con- 
cepts of  Thematics  with  Special  Reference  to  18th  Century  Authors  (English,  French, 
German)"  on  Mondays  from  4:00-6:00. 

FRENCH  NOTES  --by  Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel 

FRENCH  NEWSPEAK 
The  following  item,  from  a  recent  magazine,  may  bring  you  up  to  date  and  help  close 
part  of  the  linguistic  generation  gap  in  French: 

Cet  hiver,  si  votre  fils  ou  votre  petit  frere  utilise  un  de  ces  mots  dans  la 
conversation,  sachez  au  moins  de  quoi  il  s'agit.   Voici,  glanes  dans  les  lycles 
parisiens,  ces  hauts  lieux  de  l'alchimie  verbale,  la  traduction  argotique  des  mote 
de  notre  langage  courant. 

Les  soullers :   les  bulldozers,  les  bulls,  le3  galoches,  les  peniches  (a  cause 
des  semelles  epaisses  revenues  a  la  mode).   Avoir  une  contravention:   se  faire  pa- 
pillionner  (influence  de  l'actualite  litteraire  ) .   La  p  i  s  c 1 ne :   la  jave  (a  cause  de 
l'eau  de  javel).   Le  mou choir :   le  tire-moelle  (sans  commentaire ) .   En  avoir  assez : 
en  avoir  plein  les  spartaites  (ras  le  bol  est  demode  )0   La  tete:   la  baignoire  Telle 
peut  etre  vide  ou  pleine  d'eau). 

La  moto :   la  meule.   Le  velo :   le  Spad  (comme  1' avion  de  191i+.)«   Etre  relaxe ; 
etre  cool  ["influence  du  jazz  americain).   Le  lit:   la  chapelle  blanche  (re tour  au 
paganisme).   Les  parents :   les  Gaulois,  les  Charlemagne.   Une  voiture:   une  caisse, 
une  bolte  a  misere,  un  tombeau  a  roulettes. 

Une  s ur bourn;  un  tam-tam,  un  agite-grolles  (sans  doute  a  cause  de  1' agit-prop ) 0 
De  1' argent :  l'oignon,  des  louis,  des  eurodollars  (on  suit  l'actualite  financiere). 
L1 autobus :  le  tire-fesse  (nette  democratisation  des  sports  d'hiver).  Le  metro:  le 
tube  (car  nos  lyceens  connaissent  Londres  aussi  bien  que  Billancourt ) .  Le  coiffeur : 
le  rase-moumoutte  (a  cause  du  postiche  de  la  grande  soeur ) .  La  television:  la 
boJte  a  mater  (derivl  de  la  langue  verte  ou  un  mateur  est  un  voyeur) ,  la  soupe  (d'ou 
l'expression:   "Est-ce  que  la  soupe  est  bonne  ce  soir?l,)0 

LE  CENACLE  AND  FILMS 
The  Dec.  1|  meeting  of  Le  Cenacle  at  Prof.  Stanley  E.  Gray's  house  dealt  with  the 
"explication  de  texte"  game,  whereby  staff  and  students  bring  anonymous  literary 
texts  to  be  identified  by  stylistic  characteristics.   The  film  L ' homme  au  crane  rase 
by  the  Belgian  Andre1  Delvaux  was  screened  by  members  of  the  department,  along  with 
the  Renoir  classics,  Une  partie  de  campagne  and  Les  Bas-fonds. 

FRENCH  DEPT.  TO  OFFER  CULTURAL  PROGRAMS  OVER  WILL-FM 
The  Dept.  of  French  at  Urbana- Champaign  will  offer  programs  in  various  aspects  of 
French  culture  and  civilization  over  Radio  Station  WILL-FM  beginning  in  March  1970 
(Thursdays,  7:00-7:l;5  p.m.).   Speaking  for  the  Dept.'s  Radio  Committee  (Messrs. 
DeLey,  Griffith,  Laprevotte,  Ouvrier,  Velan),  Prof.  Robert  J.  Nelson  stresses  that 
the  programs  are  not  "language  classes,"  but  are  aimed  at  listeners  able  to  follow 
normal  French  speech.   Programs  will  concern  themselves  with  as  many  French-speaking 
countries  and  cultures  as  possible,  particularly  with  those  aspects  normally  not 
accessible  in  "course  work."  The  Committee  is  thus  eager  to  learn  from  prospective 
listeners  both  formats  and  contents  which  would  be  of  special  interest  to  them. 
Those  interested  should  write  to  Prof.  Nelson,  Dept.  of  French,  2ljij.  Lincoln  Hall, 
U.I.,  Urbana,  111.  61801,  well  in  advance  of  the  1st  program,  March  5„ 


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SUMMER  STUDIES  IN  FRENCH  AT  PAU 
The  Univ.  of  Mass.  is  sponsoring  French  studies  at  the  undergraduate  and  graduate 
level  in  Pau,  France,  from  July  9-Aug.  20.   The  $700  cost  includes  round-trip  air 
fare  from  Boston,  tuition,  textbooks,  room  and  board  in  Pau.   Further  information  is 
available  from:   French  Studies  at  Pau,  Dept.  of  Romance  Languages,  Univ.  of  Mass., 
Amherst,  Mass.  01C02.   The  application  deadline  is  Feb.  15. 

TALKS  AND  RELATED  ACTIVITIES 
Prof.  C.  A.  Knudson  spoke  on  "The  Saracen  Princess  in  the  Old  French  Epic"  at  the 
Dec.  10  meeting  of  the  U.I.  Mediaeval  Club.   In  the  past  month,  Miss  Susanna  Strick- 
land and  Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel  led  film  post-mortems  after  the  showings  of  La  Guerre 
est  Flnie  and  La  Strada.   Prof.  Jahiel  also  spoke  at  the  Colloquium  of  Graduate 
Students  in  Comparative  Literature  on  Dec.  18  on  "Film  Criticism  and  How  to  Get  It." 

Attending  the  MLA  meeting  in  Denver  were  Profs.  Bruce  Mainous,  L.  B.  Price, 
Vincent  Bowen,  and  Edwin  Jahiel.   Prof.  Price  was  the  Secretary  of  the  Proust  Re- 
search Association  meeting  and  was  elected  President  for  the  coming  year.   Prof. 
Jahiel  was  chairman  and  discussion  leader  for  the  seminar  on  film  study  in  liberal 
artso 

AATF  CHICAGO  CHAPTER 
The  latest  AATF  Chicago  Chapter  Newsletter  includes  a  number  of  interesting  announce- 
ments, some  of  which  are  mentioned  here  briefly  again.   First,  M.  Digras,  Cultural 
Attache  for  the  Midwest  (in  Chicago)  has  a  useful  collection  of  records  and  other 
realia  which  are  available  to  teachers,  on  loan,  upon  request.   Second,  M.  Digras 
may  also  be  contacted  for  membership  (15  Francs)  in  the  recently  formed  "Association 
Francaise  des  Professeurs  de  frangais, "  which  membership  includes  1|  numbers  of  the 
magazine  "Le  Franqais  d' au jourd'hui. "   Third,  the  program  "French  Abroad,"  organized 
in  Quimper  by  the  Univ.  of  Rennes  and  the  Council  for  Study  Abroad  has  been  enthusi- 
astically reported  on.  For  information,  write  Mr.  Paul  Whiting,  Lake  Forest  High 
School,  Lake  Forest,  111.  600[j.5,  or  Prof.  Paul  T.  Griffith,  Dept.  of  French,  2I4I4. 
Lincoln  Hall,  U.I.,  Urbana,  111.  61801. 

FROM  LE  CANARD  EMCHAINE:   BECKETT 
Si  l'on  n'a  pas  retrouve  tout  de  suite  Beckett  disparu,  on  a  pu  retrouver  aussitot 
le  fil  de  son  oeuvre.  grace  a  ce  commentaire  sur  le  nouveau  Prix  Nobel  publie  dans 
Le  Monde  par  Mme  Hllene  Cixhous. 

"SI  le  reel  objectif  (paysages,  objets,  personnages)  n'est  pas  absent,  II  n'est 
percu  que  pour  etre  aussitot  confondu  avec  la  parole  qui  l'interroge,  sauf  dans  le 
cas  des  ob jets-symboles,  dont  l'inventaire  est  reduit  (caillou,  fauteuil,  perche, 
chapeau) 0 

"Cast  en  partie  a  cause  de  la  cloture  de  l'lcriture  sur  elle-meme,  qui  accen- 
tue  le  "poids"  d'une  idllogie  du  rien  ("peser  l'absence  dans  une  balance. . .met tre  le 
rien  en  mots..."),  que  le  succes  de  Beckett  s'est  propage  lentement  a  travers  le 
monde. . 0 

"...On  pourrait  presque  definir  cet  opera,  mis  en  scene  par  un  sujet  qui  se 
pourchssse,  comme  une  seule  question  qui  se  demande  qui  la  pose  et  ou,  question  con- 
stituante,  a  force  d'etre  repetee,  de  sa  propre  reponse,  qui,  se  distant,  s'annule, 
question  demiurgique,  creatrice  d'une  5ntendue  verbale  qui  se  pousse  de  phrase  en 
phrase,  etc." 

Eh  bien,  maintenant,  tout  est  clair. 

GERMANIC  NOTES  --  by  Roy  Allen 

NEW  FACULTY 
prof.  Christine  Oertel  Sjogren  of  Oregon  State  Univ.  will  be  Visiting  Prof,  of  German 
in  the  department  in  the  spring  term.   Prof.  SjSgren  will  conduct  a  seminar  on 
Stifter. 

FACULTY  PUBLICATIONS 
In  the  series  Texte  des  spaten  Mittelalters  und  der  f ruhe n  Neuzeit ,  which  is  edited 
by  Hugo  Moser,  Ernst  A.  Phillippson  (Prof.  Emeritus,  U.I.)  and  Karl  Stackmann, 
another  "American"  contribution  has  recently  appeared.   The  new  volume,  (Heft  23) 


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Per  Mtinchener  Psalter  des  II4.0  Jahrhunderts,  was  edited  by  Prof.  Albert  L.  Lloyd  of 
the  Univ.  of  Penn. ,  who  will  prepare  3  more  texts  for  the  series  as  well. 

FRUCHTBRINGENDE  GESELLSCHAFT 
On  Dec.  11  at  7:00  p.m.  in  the  Union  Prof.  James  Marchand  was  the  guest  speaker 
before  the  "Fruchtbringende  Gesellschaf t . "   Prof.  Marchand's  talk  was  entitled 
"Parzival's  Guilt:   The  First  Visit  to  the  Grail  Castle." 

NEW  MA'S 
The  following  students  were  recipients  of  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  in  German  in 
June,  1969:   Theodore  Etherington,  Katherine  Hilden,  Monika  Lentze,  and  Richard  Lipp- 
man.  Students  who  received  the  same  degree  in  German  in  Aug.  of  that  year  were: 
Ruth  Field,  Rudolf  Hofmeister,  Hilda  Markowski,  and  David  Mikleton. 

PHI  BETA  KAPPA 
The  following  German  majors  at  the  U.I.  have  been  elected  this  semester  to  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  honorary  society  for  high  scholastic  achievement:   Leonie  Marx  and  Carol 
Michalak. 

GERMAN  CLUB 
On  Nov.  20,  1969,  the  German  Club  sponsored  an  evening  of  authentic  German  folk  dan- 
cing for  faculty  and  students  in  FAR  at  7:30  P»m.   The  annual  Christmas  party  of  the 
club  was  held  on  Dec.  5  at  8:00  p.m.  in  Latzer  Hall  (YMCA).   On  Dec.  16  the  German 
Club  presented  a  showing  of  the  German  film  Per  gute  Soldat  Schweik  at  8:00  p.m.  in 
100  Gregory  Hall. 

CONCRETE  POETRY  PROGRAM 
The  Indiana  Univ.  Memorial  Union  Board  and  the  Student  Advisory  Board  of  the  Dept, 
of  Comparative  Literature  at  Indiana  Univ.  will  sponsor  a  month-long  program  in  the 
Union  of  Indiana  Univ.  centering  around  concrete  poetry  and  including  a  visual  ex- 
hibition from  the  collection  of  Mary  Ellen  Solt,  taped  readings  and  weekly  lectures 
in  the  fields  of  concrete  poetry,  concrete  music,  and  graphic  arts.   The  program  will 
open  on  Feb.  Ij.  with  a  lecture  given  by  Prof.  Vagn  Steen,  currently  Visiting  Prof,  in 
the  German  Dept.  at  the  U.I.   Other  speakers  in  the  following  weeks  will  be  Emmet 
Williams  and  Yanis  Zinakis. 

WHAT  BOOKS  SHOULD  BE  IN  A  GERMAN  SECTION  OF  A  GOOD  LIBRARY? 
In  response  to  a  request  from  numerous  institutions,  both  high  schools  and  colleges, 
as  to  what  volumes  in  the  area  of  German  language  and  literature  should  be  included 
in  a  basic  collection  in  their  libraries,  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of 
German  is  offering  an  alphabetical  list.   This  listing  is  based  on  the  cataloguing 
of  the  so-called  "Lehrerhandbibliothek"  compiled  and  presented  to  the  National  Office 
of  the  AATG  by  the  Goethe-Institut.   The  listing  is  by  author  and  title  and  is  fur- 
ther subdivided  into  such  categories  as  reference  works,  grammars,  drama,  texts  for 
"Nacherz&hlen"  and  for  "Diktate,"  collections,  readers,  and  interpretations.   The 
list  is  available  upon  request  from  the  National  Office.   The  National  Office  is  also 
interested  in  receiving  further  recommendations  from  all  members  concerning  additions 
to  such  a  collection. 

"DEUTSCHE  BIBLI0THEK" 
In  accordance  with  a  new  federal  law,  the  German  Federal  Government  has  taken  over 
financial  responsibility  for  the  "Deutsche  Bibliothek, "  a  unique  library  which  ac- 
quires and  makes  available  to  the  public  every  book  published  in  Germany.  The  lib- 
rary, located  in  a  new  12-story  building  completed  just  last  year  in  Frankfurt  a.M0, 
is  the  Federal  Republic  of  Germany's  successor  to  the  "Deutsche  Bucherei"  which 
opened  in  Leipzig  in  1912  as  the  central  "library  of  record"  of  the  German  Reich. 
The  new  institution  will  collect,  catalogue,  and  store  all  new  publications  appear- 
ing in  Germany  and  will  regularly  issue  indices  or  bibliographies  of  all  new  publi- 
cations.  The  library  does  not  lend  out  its  volumes,  but  makes  them  available  at  its 
main  office  in  Frankfurt. 

A  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  FOR  ALL  CHILDREN 
A  recent  decision  taken  by  the  ministers  of  education  at  a  conference  in  Bonn  makes 


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it  mandatory  for  all  children  In  the  Federal  Republic  of  Germany  to  begin  learning 
at  least  1  foreign  language  upon  reaching  the  age  of  10.   Most  school  districts  up 
to  this  time  had  made  the  teaching  of  foreign  languages  compulsory  only  in  the  rre- 
university  schools  known  as  "Gymnasium"  and  "Realschule. "   The  decision  by  the  Bona 
government  follows  a  recommendation  of  a  conference  of  European  ministers  of  educa 
tion. 

KAFKA  EXHIBITION 
A  comprehensive  exhibition  of  letters  and  first  editions  of  books  by  Franz  Kafka  is 
currently  being  shown  by  the  Leo  Baeck  Institute  of  New  York.   The  exhibition,  which 
also  includes  photographs  of  the  Prague  author,  was  put  together  by  the  Goethe-Insti- 
tut  of  Munich  and  the  Berlin  Art  Academy.   Letters  from  Kafka  to  Martin  Buber  are  on 
loan  from  Jerusalem  and  Kafka  memorabilia  are  provided  by  Schocken  Books,  Inc.,  New 
Yorko 

SLAVIC  MOTES  --  by  Prof.  Michael  Curran 

FROM  CZECHOSLOVAKIA 
Prof.  Frank  Gladney,  who  is  spending  his  sabbatical  in  Prague,  writes:   "On  Thanks- 
giving I  spoke  to  the  Russian  &  Ukrainian  Dept.  at  Charles  Univ.  on  '0  novom  genera- 
tivnom  podxode  k  probleme  padezhnyx  otnoshenij' — my  attempt  to  explain  Charles  Fill- 
more's ' The  Case  for  Case'  and  to  suggest  how  it  would  apply  to  Russian.   The  dis- 
cussion was  rather  spirited.   I  encountered  a  good  deal  of  intelligent  scepticism  on 
the  question  of  how  specific  problems  would  be  handled.   A  coworker  of  Petr  Spall's 
approached  me  and  said  he  would  enjoy  talking  to  me  since  his  group  is  currently 
working  on  Fillmore's  ideas." 

AATSEEL 
At  the  New  Orleans  meeting  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  Slavic  &  East 
European  Languages  this  past  Nov.  Prof.  Clayton  Dawson  was  reelected  President . 

MLA 
Among  the  speakers  at  this  year's  meeting  of  the  Modern  Language  Association  were 
Horace  Lunt,  Tadeusz  Gasinski,  Zbignlew  Folejewski,  Simon  Karlinsky,  Jan  Kott,  Jerzy 
Krzyzanowski,  Richard  Schechner,  Adam  Tarn,  and  Andrzej  Wirth. 

FULBRIGHT-HAYS  AWARDS 
In  early  Dec.  Prof.  Dawson  was  Invited  to  Washington,  D. C,  to  serve  as  reader  and 
consultant  on  a  Fulbright-Hays  panel.   Applicants  were  both  pre-  and  post-doctoral 
and  were  hoping  to  spend  between  6  and  12  months  in  the  Soviet  Union  or  Eastern 
Europe.   Approximately  100  were  reviewed  for  only  l|lj.  awards0 

SPANISH,  ITALIAN,  &  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  --  by  Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jr. 

PROF.  LERNER  COSDITS  DON  QUIXOTE 
The  Editorial  Universitaria  de  Buenos  Aires  recently  published  a  new  edition  of  Don 
Quixote.   The  prologue  was  written  by  Prof.  Marcos  A.  Morfnigo.   The  edition,  text, 
notes,  and  indices  were  prepared  by  Sra.  Celina  S.  de  Cortazar  of  the  Univ.  of  Buenos 
Aires  and  Assistant  Prof.  Isalas  Lerner  of  this  department. 

AATSP  NATIONAL  EXAM 
Members  of  the  Downstate  Chapter  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  Spanisn  & 
Portuguese  should  order  text  materials  for  the  AATSP  National  Exam  by  Feb.  1  from  Dr. 
James  E.  McKinney,  Contest  Chairman,  Dept.  of  Foreign  Languages,  Western  111.  Univ., 
Macomb,  111.  6l[|.5$.   Please  remember  that  only  current  members  of  both  the  National 
AATSP  and  the  Downstate  Chapter  are  eligible  to  participate  in  this  contest.   Dues 
($8  regular,  $l±   student,  plus  $1  Downstate  Chapter  dues)  can  be  sent  to  Mrs.  Gladys 
Leal,  Champaign  Central  High  School,  610  W.  University,  Champaign,  111.  61820. 

PUBLICATION  OF  INTEREST 
A  pamphlet,  "Why  Elect  Spanish,"  by  Randall  Sipes,  has  been  issued  by  the  Western 


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Illo  Univ.  Bulletin  aa  Vol.  XLVII,  no.  1,  and  is  available  by  writing  the  Division 
of  Public  Services,  Western  111.  Univ.,  900  W.  Adams  St.,  Macomb,  111.  6II4.55.  The 
1st  copy  ia  free;  additional  copies  are  $.10  each. 

SCHOLARSHIPS  IN  ITALIAN 
The  Columbia  Association  grants  scholarships  not  only  to  college  students  who  plan 
to  become  teachers  of  Italian  but  also  to  high  school  students  who  study  Italian, 
Further  information  is  available  from  the  Columbia  Association,  IOI4.7  78th  St., 
Brooklyn,  N.Y.  11228. 

SUMMER  SESSIONS  IN  PORTUGAL 
Two  Portuguese  institutions,  the  Univ.  of  Lisbon  and  the  Univ.  of  Coimbra,  will 
offer  summer  sessions  in  July-Aug.  for  foreign  students  of  the  Portuguese  language, 
history,  and  literature.   Further  Information  may  be  obtained  from  the  Secretario  do 
Curso  de  Ferias,  Faculdade  de  Letras,  of  the  respective  universities. 

SIPGSA 
The  Spanish,  Italian,  &  Portuguese  Graduate  Students  Association  was  organized  last 
spring  semester  to  foster  greater  liason  not  only  between  the  graduate  students  and 
the  faculty  of  this  department  but  also  between  this  group  and  similar  graduate 
groups  in  other  departments.   The  group  is  governed  by  a  committee  comprised  of  1 
representative  from  each  discipline  in  the  department.   The  committee  for  1969-70 
consists  of  Mr.  Gerald  Dreller  (Portuguese),  Mr.  Onorantino  Marrocco  (Italian),  Mr. 
Stephen  J.  Summerhill  (Hispanic  literature),  and  Mr.  Ronald  R.  Young  (Spanish  lin- 
guistics).  Miss  Felicia  G.  Sworsky  was  appointed  SIPGSA  Secretary  by  the  committee 0 

With  the  cooperation  of  the  faculty  members  involved,  SIPGSA  has  appointed 
graduate  students  to  serve  on  various  departmental  committees.   SIPGSA  sponsored  a 
departmental  Hallowe'en  party  on  Friday,  Oct.  31,  In  the  University  Club  under  the 
organization  of  Graduate  Assistants  Carolyn  J.  Balkema  and  Reynardo  L.  JimSnez- 
Sanchez0   Future  SIPGSA  plans  include  a  graduate  meeting  at  the  beginning  of  the 
spring  semester,  as  well  as  a  picnic  later  in  the  spring,, 

MLA  CONVENTION 
The  Modern  Language  Association  Convention,  held  in  Denver,  Colo.,  on  Dec.  26-30, 
saw  participation  by  various  members  of  the  department.   Prof.  Anthony  M.  Fasquar- 
iello,  head  of  the  department,  served  as  the  Chairman  of  Spanish  $  (Modern  Feninsular 
Literature)  and  as  the  Chairman  of  the  Spanish  5>  Advisory  %  Nominating  Committee. 
Prof.  V'illiam  H.  Shoemaker  was  the  Chairman  of  Spanish  I4.  (18th  &  19th  Century  Penin- 
sular Literature).   Prof.  Merlin  H.  Forster  was  the  Secretary  of  Spanish  7  (Modern 
Spanish-American  Literature)  and  served  on  the  Bibliography  Committee  for  Spanish 
6-7.   Profo  Luis  Leal  was  the  Secretary  of  Spanish  6  (Early  Spanish-American  Litera- 
ture), and  participated  in  a  seminar  on  Gabriel  Garcia  Marquez,  the  Colombian  novel- 
ist.  Prof.  Robert  E.  Lott  served  on  the  Spanish  5  Advisory  &  Nominating  Committee. 
Assistant  Prof.  Thomas  C.  Meehan  took  part  in  a  colloquium  whose  topic  was  "Aliena- 
tion in  Ernesto  Sabato's  Sobre  heroes  v_  tunbas. "   Instructor  Martha  Paley  de  Frances- 
cato  read  a  paper,  "Las  figuras  del  calidoscopio  de  Julio  Cortazar." 

Various  departmental  doctoral  alumni  also  participated.   Dr.  Evelyn  Uhrhan  Ir- 
ving attended  in  her  capacities  as  President  of  the  National  Association  of  Language 
Laboratory  Directors.   Dr.  Daniel  R,  Re«dy  (Univ.  of  Ky. )  was  nominated  as  1970 
Secretary  of  Spanish  6. 

Dr.  John  W.  Kronik,  formerly  of  this  department  and  now  at  Cornell  Univ.,  read 
a  paper  at  the  Spanish  \\   meeting  on  "Clarln  and  Gald6s:  A  Literary  Relationship  in 
Review. " 

FACULTY  PUBLICATIONS 
Assistant  Prof.  Thomas  C.  Meehan  has  published  an  article  "El  desdoblamiento  interior 
en  Dona  Ines  de  Azorin, "  Cuadernos  Hispanoamericanos,  vol.  LXXIX,  no.  237  (septiembre 
1969T7"6mjT6~68. 

Instructor  Martha  Paley  de  Francescato  recently  published  "Teoria  y  realizacicn 
del  esperpento  en  Martes  de  Carnaval, "  Cuadernos  Hi sp ano amer i c ano s ,  vol.  LXXIX,  no. 
236  (agosto  1969),  UH3-J+95T 


FACULTY  NOTES 
Prof.  Robert  E.  Lott  will  be  on  leave  Feb.  1-Sept.  1,  1970,  and  will  be  working  on  a 
book  about  Juan  Valera,  the  Spanish  novelist,,   Prof.  Lott's  research  will  take  him 
and  Mrs.  Lott  to  Spain  for  the  summer  months. 

Associate  Prof.  Hugo  W.  Cowes  has  been  promoted  to  Full  Standing  in  the  Graduate 
College  and  is  now  eligible  to  direct  doctoral  dissertations. 

SPANISH  CLUB 
The  Clrculo  Literario  Espanol  organized  a  group  of  carolers  who  visited  the  homes  of 
various  departmental  faculty  members  on  Monday  evening,  Dec.  15,  to  serenade  with 
carols  in  Spanish,  Italian,  Portuguese,  and  Catalan.   In  addition,  the  Circulo 
sponsored  its  annual  Christmas  party  on  Tuesday,  Dec.  16,  in  the  Illini  Union. 

MESA  REDONDA 
The  Mesa  Redonda  met  on  Friday,  Dec  19,  in  the  home  of  Prof.  William  H.  Shoemaker,, 
The  topic  of  discussion,  "Psicologia  y  literatura, "  was  introduced  by  Graduate 
Assistant  James  Mahargo 

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level.   His  contention  is  that  there  would  be  greater  social  experiences  and  an  in- 
crease in  cultural  background  for  young  people  possessed  of  such  proficiencies. 

"The  State  Organization  of  High  School  Spanish  Clubs  will  hold  its  1st  meeting 
March  1|   at  the  U.I...   Write  to  Miss  Dorothy  Dodd  of  Quincy  or  Mrs.  Margaret  Imig 
of  Bloomington.   It  will  be  an  all-day  meeting  from  9:00  a.m.  to  5:00  p.m." 

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THE  UNIVERSITY  OP  ILLINOIS  MODERN  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  NEWSLETTER 


February,  1970       Director:   Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello 
Vol.  XXIII,  No.  5  Editor:   Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jr. 

PEN  PALS;   MAIL  CALL  FOR  LANGUAGE  LEARNING 
Teachers  have  long  realized  the  value  of  pen  pals  in  foreign  countries  for  their 
students  as  a  supplementary  teaching  tool  for  languages,  history,  geography,  current 
affairs,  and  other  related  fields.   In  recent  years,  foreign  language  teachers  have 
come  to  use  pen  pals  as  an  effective  means  for  their  students  to  put  into  actual 
practice  the  language  skills  which  they  Learn  in  their  classrooms. 

As  a  service  to  those  teachers  who  are  either  interested  in  forming  pen  pal 
relationships  as  a  class  project  or  who  have  individual  students  who  have  expressed 
an  interest  in  obtaining  foreign  language  pen  pals,  the  Newsletter  is  publishing  an 
up-to-date  list  of  various  U.S.  pen  pal  organizations  and  the  services  which  they 
are  prepared  to  provide.   Some  groups  handle  specific  languages  and  areas,  while 
others  provide  world-wide  service.   The  organizations  listed  are  equipped  to  handle 
both  individual  and  group  matchings,  except  where  otherwise  noted. 

The  costs  vary  from  gratis  to  $1  per  name  requested.   A  self -addressed,  stamped 
envelope  should  accompany  each  order.   An  applicant  for  a  pen  pal  should  list  his 
name,  address,  age,  sex,  hobbies  or  interests,  sex  of  pen  pal  desired,  and  the  for- 
eign language  in  which  he  is  prepared  to  write.   Some  students  are  ready  and  able  to 
write  a  simple  letter  in  the  foreign  language  after  the  first  year  of  high  school 
instruction;  others  might  want  to  wait  until  after  the  second  year  before  trying  to 
maintain  a  correspondence  in  the  foreign  language.   The  individual  teacher  is  in  the 
best  position  to  determine  when  his  students  are  ready  for  foreign  language  pen  pals. 
Many  of  the  groups  listed  below  do  not  make  pairings  in  non-English-speaking  count- 
ries for  applicants  under  13  years  of  age,  since  many  foreign  students  and  most  Amer- 
ican students  do  not  begin  studying  a  second  language  until  after  this  age. 

After  receiving  the  name  of  a  pen  pal,  the  student  should  send  a  letter  describ- 
ing himself,  his  family,  his  interests,  his  area  of  the  U.S.,  and  other  items  of  gen- 
eral interest  to  his  correspondent.   Air  mail  should  be  used  in  all  cases,  since  sur- 
face mail  out  of  the  country  tends  to  be  slow.   A  surface  mail  letter  may  take  from 
3  weeks  (to  England)  to  3  months  (to  Asia).   An  air  mail  letter  will  reach  any  part 
of  the  world  in  10  days  or  less.   The  current  air  mail  postage  rates  are:   Canada  & 
Mexico  $.10  per  ounce  (same  as  in  U.S.);  the  CarPibean,  Central  &  South  America  $.15 
per  half-ounce;  Europe  &  North  Africa  $.20  per  half -ounce;  rest  of  Africa,  Asia, 
Australia  &  New  Zealand  $.25  per  half-ounce.   Air  letters  costing  $.13  each  are 
available  at  the  post  office,  and  they  come  highly  recommended.   An  air  letter  sheet 
folds  into  its  own  envelope  after  the  message  is  written  inside,  and  can  be  mailed 
anywhere  in  the  world  by  air  mail  for  just  $.13.   No  enclosures  are  permitted. 

Ten  pen-pal  organizations  are  listed  below.   Each  organization  provided  the 
information  as  listed  by  completing  a  questionnaire  which  had  been  submitted  by  the 
Newsletter.   Please  do  not  forget  to  enclose  your  self -addressed,  stamped  envelope 
when  contacting  one  of  these  organizations. 

FRENCH  (FRANCE) 

BUREAU  DE  CORRESPONDENCE  SCOLAIRE,  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  French 
(Prof.  F.  W.  Nachtmann,  National  Executive  Secretary),  59  E.  Armory  Ave.,  Champaign, 
111.  61320;  ages  10  and  above;  $.25  per  student.   The  Bureau  does  not  handle  individ- 
ual matchings;  all  requests  must  be  submitted  by  the  teacher.   The  Bureau  will  also 
try  to  match  U.S.  French  teachers  with  a  counterpart  in  France,  upon  request. 

PORTUGUESE  (BRAZIL) 

LUS0- BRAZILIAN  CLUB  (Mr.  Jos5  Ricardo,  Advisor),  116  Derby  Hall,  Ohio  State 
Univ.,  151|  N.  Oval  Dr.,  Columbus,  Ohio  I4.321O;  no  charge. 

SPANISH  (SPANISH  AMERICA) 

0FICINA  NACI0NAL  DE  C0RRESP0NDENCIA  ESC0LAR  (Dr.  Carey  S.  Crantford,  Director), 
American  Association  of  Teachers  of  Spanish  &  Portuguese,  Furman  Univ.,  Greenville, 
S.C.  29613;  ages  12-21|;  $.25  per  name. 

WORLD-WIDE 

AMBASSADORS  OF  FRIENDSHIP  (Col.  Frank  Dunbaugh,  President),  I4.3OO  Lennox  Dr., 
Miami,  Fla.  33133;  ages  13-18;  no  charge.   This  organization  does  not  handle  individ- 
ual pairings;  all  requests  must  be  submitted  by  a  secondary  school  teacher. 


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THE  LEAGUE   OP  FRIENDSHIP    (Mrs.    Dorothea   Snack,    Executive    Secretary),    P.O.    Box 
509,    Mount   Vernon,    Ohio  IjJOfJO;   ages   12-25;    $.35  per   name. 

LETTERS  ABROAD,  209  E.  56th  St.,  New  York,  N.Y.  10022;  ages  15  to  over  50;  $1 
for  those  18  and  older,  $.50  for  those  under  18. 

PEOPLE  TO  PEOPLE  INTERNATIONAL,  P.O.  Box  1201,  Kansas  City,  Mo.  61|llj.l,  does  not 
handle  individual  matchings.   Instead,  it  offers  a  school-and-classroom  service  in 
which  an  American  class  is  paired  with  a  similar  class  in  a  foreign  country.   The 
service  charge  is  $.25  per  student  or  $5  per  class,  whichever  is  less.   Interested 
teachers  should  request  a  "Classroom  Partner"  registration  form  from  this  group. 

PEN  PALS  PROJECT  OP  THE  INTERNATIONAL  FRIENDSHIP  LEAGUE  (Miss  Edna  MacDonough, 
Executive  Director),  I4.O  Mount  Vernon  St.,  Boston,  Mass.  02108;  ages  8  through  adult- 
hood; $1  for  the  1st  pen-pal,  and  $1  for  each  additional  for  those  19  and  older,  $.5) 
for  each  additional  for  those  under  19. 

STUDENT  LETTER  EXCHANGE  (Mr.  R.  C.  Mishek,  General  Manager),  R.F.D.  1|,  Waseca, 
Minn.  56093;  ages  10-19;  $.1;0  per  name,  or  $.35  apiece  on  orders  of  10  names  or  more. 

WORLD  PEN  PALS,  Univ.  of  Minn.,  2001  Riverside  Ave.,  Minneapolis,  Minn.  5Sk°k; 
ages  12-20;  $.35  per  name.   (For  group  or  class  orders,  the  individual  names  and 
addresses  of  the  students  need  not  be  sent;  the  teacher  should  merely  send  the  number 
of  boys  and  their  ages,  the  number  of  girls  and  their  ages,  plus  $.35  per  name.) 
This  group  also  has  a  teacher-to-teacher  program  for  American  teachers  wishing  to 
correspond  with  their  foreign  equivalents.   An  American  teacher  should  send  his  name, 
address,  approximate  age,  subjects  and  grade  levels  taught,  plus  $.35;  please  allow 
2-3  months  for  a  proper  matching  of  a  foreign  teacher. 

FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  ARTICULATION  CONFERENCE 
The  next  School-University  Foreign  Language  Articulation  Conference  will  be  held  on 
the  U.I.  Urbana  campus  on  Oct.  28-29,  1971*   The  representatives  of  the  U.I.  foreign 
language  departments  have  decided  not  to  schedule  a  conference  for  the  fall  of  1970* 

CENTRAL  STATES  CONFERENCE  ON  THE  TEACHING  OF  FOREIGN  LANGUAGES 
The  2nd  annual  meeting  of  the  Central  States  Conference  on  the  Teaching  of  Foreign 
Languages  will  be  held  April  2-1;  at  Stouffer's  Riverfront  Inn,  St.  Louis,  Mo.   The 
theme  will  be  "The  70's:   Focus  for  Change."  Further  information  can  be  obtained  by 
contacting  Mr.  Anthony  Gradisnik,  Secretary-Treasurer,  P.O.  Drawer  10K,  Milwaukee, 
Wise.  53201. 

UNIV.  OF  KY.  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  CONFERENCE 
The  Univ.  of  Ky.'s  23rd  annual  Foreign  Language  Conference  will  be  held  April  23-25 
in  Lexington,  Ky.   In  addition  to  papers  in  the  sections  on  French,  German,  Spanish, 
Portuguese,  Italian,  Scandinavian,  Hebrew,  Classics,  Linguistics,  Medieval  Studies, 
and  Comparative  Literature,  there  will  be  several  special  programs  including  the  l±th 
annual  seminar  in  Programmed  Language  Instruction,  a  symposium  in  Literature  &  Revol- 
ution, and  a  colloquium  on  Afro-Carribean  Studies.   Meetings  of  t he  Malraux  Society 
and  the  National  Association  of  Language  Laboratory  Directors  will  be  held  in  con- 
junction with  the  conference.   Further  information  can  be  obtained  by  contacting 
Prof.  Theodore  Mueller,  Conference  Director,  Univ.  of  Ky.,  Lexington,  Ky.  lj.0506. 

LINGUISTICS  NEWSLETTER 
The  U.I.  Dept.  of  Linguistics  has  inaugurated  a  Newsletter  which  will  be  published 
triannually  in  Nov.,  March,  and  June.   The  Newsletter  Editorial  Board  for  1969-70 
consists  of  Instructors  Hans  H.  Hock  and  Herbert  F.  Stahlke.   Requests  for  sub- 
scriptions and  for  copies  of  the  Nov.  1969  issue  should  be  sent  to:   Newsletter, 
Dept.  of  Linguistics,  309  Davenport  Hall,  U.I.,  Urbana,  111.  61801. 

AUGUSTANA  COLLEGE  1970  SUMMER  PROGRAMS 
Augustana  College  will  sponsor  summer  programs  in  Strasbourg,  France,  and  Passau, 
Germany,  from  June  15-Aug.  %1.      The  programs  are  open  to  students  who  have  completed 
1  year  of  college  French  or  German  or  equivalent.   The  cost  of  $995  includes  tuition, 
room,  and  board  at  the  Univ.  of  Strasbourg  or  the  Goethe-Institut ,  a  3-week  study- 
travel  tour,  transatlantic  transportation,  and  insurance.   Further  information  may  be 
obtained  from  Prof.  Erwin  Weber,  Administrator,  1970  Summer  Programs  in  France  & 
Germany,  Augustana  College,  Rock  Island,  111.  61201.   A  similar  Augustana  program  in 
Spain  was  announced  in  the  Dec.  1969  Newsletter,  p.  9. 


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MAC  MURRAY  1970  SUMMER  ABROAD 
MacMurray  College  will  sponsor  summer  programs  in  Mexico  and  Germany.   The  Mexico 
program  at  the  Univ.  of  the  Americas,  Mexico  City,  will  have  2  sessions,  June  15- 
July  22  for  $555  and  July  23-Aug.  21  for  $333.   These  costs  include  tuition,  fees, 
room,  board,  and  insurance.   Transportation  to  and  from  Mexico  is  not  Included.   The 
Germany  program  at  Schiller  College  near  Stuttgart,  June  19-Aug.  6,  costs  $850.   This 
includes  transportation  between  New  York  and  Stuttgart,  tuition,  room,  board,  and 
various  cultural  activities.   Both  programs  are  open  to  college  students  and  high 
school  graduating  seniors  who  are  enrolled  In  college  for  1970-71.   Further  infor- 
mation can  be  obtained  from  MacMurray  1970  Summer  Abroad,  MacMurray  College,  Jack- 
sonville, 111.  62650. 

MacMurray' s  program  in  France  has  not  be  scheduled  for  this  summer,  due  to 
previous  commitments  by  its  director.   Students  of  French  are  referred  to  the  Insti- 
tute of  European  Studies,  35  E.  Wacker  Dr.,  Chicago,  111.  60601,  for  information  on 
its  programs  in  Nantes  and  Paris. 

PROF.  JAM  EL  ON  SABBATICAL 
With  this  issue,  we  bid  a  temporary  farewell  to  Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel,  the  Editor  of 
French  Notes,  who  will  be  on  sabbatical  until  Sept.  1970.   We  also  welcome  Prof.  Lar- 
kin  B.  Price  as  the  French  Notes  Editor  during  the  spring  semester  of  1970.   Any 
items  of  interest  to  readers  of  French  Notes  should  be  addressed  either  to  Prof. 
Price  or  to  the  Newsletter  Editor.   Any  urgent  or  personal  messages  to  Prof.  Jahiel 
may  be  sent  to  the  Department  of  French,  U.I.,  Urbana,  111.  61801;  the  envelopes 
should  be  clearly  marked  PLEASE  FORWARD,  as  most  of  Prof.  Jahiel ' s  mail  will  be  held 
until  his  return. 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES  --  by  Prof.  Barbara  Smalley 

LECTURES 
During  Feb.  1970  Prof.  A.  Owen  Aldridge  delivered  lectures  at  3  German  universities: 
on  Feb.  I4.  at  the  Johannes  Gutenberg -Univ. ,  Mainz;  on  Feb.  5  at  WestfSlische  Wilhelms- 
Univ.,  Mtinster;  and  on  Feb.  6  at  the  Free  Univ.  of  Berlin.   The  subject  at  Mainz  was 
"The  Influence  of  Thomas  Paine  in  South  America,"  and  his  topic  in  Mdnster  and  Berlin 
was  "Biography  and  Realism." 

APPOINTMENT 
Mr.  Christopher  Kertesz,  at  present  engaged  in  writing  his  doctoral  dissertation  In 
Comparative  Literature  at  the  U.I.,  has  accepted  the  position  of  Lecturer  In  Italian 
&  Comparative  Literature  at  Brandeis  Univ.,  beginning  in  the  fall  of  1970. 

VISITING  LECTURER 
Prof.  Ulrich  Weisstein  of  Indiana  Univ.  will  deliver  a  lecture  entitled  "Surrealism 
and  the  Novel"  on  Feb.  25  at  l+tOO  p.m.  in  100  Gregory  Hall. 

FRENCH  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Larkin  B.  Price 

AATF  NATIONAL  CONTEST 
Materials  for  the  35th  annual  National  French  Contest  should  be  ordered  from  the  con- 
test chairman  of  the  local  AATF  chapter  (Downstate  Chapter:   Prof.  Robert  L.  Roussey, 
Dept.  of  Foreign  Languages,  111.  State  Univ.,  Normal,  111.  61761;  Chicago  Chapter: 
Sister  Jean  Murray,  Rosary  College,  River  Forest,  111.  60305)0   This  contest,  open  to 
all  students  enrolled  in  French  in  junior  and  senior  high  schools  in  public,  private, 
and  parochial  schools,  has  had  between  50,000-90,000  entrants  each  year.   Among  the 
awards  are  college  scholarships,  all-expense  paid  trip  to  France,  bonds,  cash,  medalq 
books,  and  magazine  subscriptions. 

PIERRE  DELATTRE  MEMORIAL  SCHOLARSHIP  FUND 
One  of  our  most  respected  teachers  and  scholars  of  French,  Pierre  Delattre,  died  un- 
expectedly last  summer,  and  friends  and  teachers  who  knew  him  or  his  work  may  contri- 
bute to  a  scholarship  fund  for  students  in  French  and  Linguistics  which  the  Univ.  of 
Calif,  at  Santa  Barbara  is  establishing  in  his  memory.   The  fund  will  not  only  help 


needy  and  qualified  students  to  pursue  studies  in  languages,  but  fittingly  honor  a 
man  who  has  done  so  much  over  the  past  30  years  to  encourage  and  improve  language 
teaching  in  America.   Contributions  may  be  made  payable  to  The  Delattre  Memorial 
Scholarship  Fund  and  sent  to  Miss  Mary  Pacquette,  Dept.  of  French  k   Italian,  Univ. 
of  Calif,  at  Santa  Barbara,  Santa  Barbara,  Calif.  93106. 

FACULTY  PUBLICATIONS 
Paul  Barette  and  Monique  Fol  (Boston  College)  recently  published  Un  Certain  Style  ou 
un  style  certain?  Introduction  k  l'6tude  du  style  francais  (New  York:  Oxford  Univ, 
Press,  1969).  A~revised  edition  of  Le  Fran pais  non  sans  peine,  First  French  (Scott, 
Foresman  &  Co.,  1970),  by  Mr.  Barette  and  Theodore  Braun  (Univ.  of  Wise. -Milwaukee ), 
has  also  appeared. 

Prof.  Robert  J.  Nelson's  latest  book,  Immanence  and  Tr ans c e ndenc e ;   The  Theatre 
of  Jean  Rotrou  (1609-1650) ,  has  just  been  published  by  Ohio  State  Univ.  Press.  . 
Recently,  the  Univ.  of  Penn.  Press  also  issued  a  new  edition  of  Prof.  Nelson's  Cor- 
neille:   His  Heroes  and  Their  Worlds,  while  Prentice-Hall  has  just  issued  a  hard- 
back edition  of  Mr.  Nelson's  Corneille  and  Racine:  Parallels  and  Contrasts ,  a  volume 
of  critiques  by  several  hands  edited  by  Mr.  Nelson  as  part  of  the  series  Confron- 
tations" of  which  he  is  general  editor. 

A  recent  text  by  Prof.  F.  W.  Nachtmann,  Exercises  in  French  Phonetics  (Scott, 
Foresman  &  Co.,  1970),  is  now  available. 

NORTHEAST  CONFERENCE  ON  THE  TEACHING  OF  FOREIGN  LANGUAGES 
Two  reports  of  The  Reports  of  the  Working  Committees,  1970  Northeast  Conference  on 
the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Languages,  are  in  large  part  the  work  of  2  U.I.  colleagues: 
Prof.  Robert  J.  Nelson  of  the  Dept.  of  French  and  Prof.  Leon  A.  Jakobovits  of  the 
Center  for  Comparative  Psycholinguistics.   Mr.  Jakobovits  provided  the  questionnaire 
that  constitutes  the  bulk  of  Report  I,  while  he  and  Prof.  Nelson  serve  as  co-editors 
of  Report  II,  "Motivation  in  Foreign  Language  Learning."  They  also  served  as  authors 
of  substantial  sections  of  the  Report,  Mr.  Jakobovits  dealing  with  "Motivation  and 
Learner  Factors,"  and  Mr.  Nelson  writing  the  Introduction,  the  Conclusion,  and  those 
sections  of  the  Report  dealing  specifically  with  college-and-university  in  relation 
to  the  overall  theme  of  "Motivation  and  the  'New'  Student."  The  3rd  report  deals 
with  "Foreign  Languages  for  All  Children, "  being  essentially  a  discussion  of  motiva- 
tion problems  for  the  economically  and  social  disadvantaged.   All  3  reports  will  be 
discussed  at  each  of  this  year's  Northeast  General  Meetings:   Boston  (Statler-Hilton) 
March  19-21,  and  Washington,  D.C.  (Hilton)  April  30-May  2.   It  is  hoped  that  many 
colleagues  will  attend  at  least  1  of  the  meetings  to  participate  in  the  discussion  of 
these  reports. 

JOINT  COURSES  TO  STUDY  "THINGS  FRENCH" 
The  French  Dept.  recently  contacted  other  departments  on  the  campus  in  an  attempt  to 
generate  interest  in  the  development  of  joint  courses  to  explore  bicultural  concepts. 
Over  20  faculty  members  from  such  departments  as  musicology,  history,  political  sci- 
ence, and  journalism  responded.   An  informal  meeting  will  soon  be  held  to  discuss 
proposals  and  work  out  plans  for  new  courses. 

Prof.  Robert  J.  Nelson,  in  charge  of  this  development  for  the  Dept.  of  French, 
says  that  the  approach  to  joint  courses  should  be  distinctly  pluralistic.   "We  hope 
to  create  a  bicultural  concept  in  both  content  and  methods,  keeping  our  eyes  on 
things  French  as  well  as  on  those  cultures  which  have  both  affected  and  been  affected 
by  France, "  he  stated.   "In  a  more  formal  way,  we  are  also  interested  in  studying  our 
own  traditional  subjects  of  French  language  and  literature  in  broader  contexts,  es- 
pecially in  the  light  of  modern  developments  in  other  fields  of  knowledge." 

Prof.  Nelson  stresses  that  the  programs  the  department  has  in  mind  are  not  lim- 
ited to  the  traditional  areas  of  linguistic  research  and  literary  scholarship. 

INFORMAL  CONFERENCE  ROOM 
We  hope  that  visitors  to  the  French  Office,  22\\.   Lincoln  Hall,  from  throughout  the 
state  will  have  a  few  minutes  to  relax  and  meet  students  and  faculty  in  this  new  fa- 
cility.  This  room  houses  our  new  radio  equipment,  and  will  permit  faculty,  staff, 
and  students  to  meet  informally  to  listen  to  the  radio,  discuss,  or  just  talk.   The 
department  radio,  a  Drake  R-i^B,  picks  up  with  great  clarity  France-Inter  broadcasts 
(news,  popular  songs,  interviews,  major  political  speeches,  etc.,  received  daily, 


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8:00  a.m. -1:00  p.m.  at  21.6  megacycles  and  from  noon  until  late  afternoon  at  15.12 
megacycles).  Reference  and  leisure  reading  materials  are  available  to  all  for  use 
in  the  room.   A  coffee  maker,  and  cookies  in  recent  days,  add  to  the  attraction. 

PROUST  CENTENNIAL  CELEBRATION 
Flans  are  under  way  for  a  Proust  Centennial  Celebration  at  the  Urbana  campus,  prob- 
ably early  in  May  1971.   Although  details  are  still  incomplete,  there  will  be  a  large 
exhibit,  including  some  of  the  Proust  manuscripts  collected  by  Prof.  Philip  Kolb. 
Several  invited  scholars  are  expected  to  read  papers  at  the  centenary  meetings,  in- 
cluding a  lecturer  to  be  sent  by  the  French  Cultural  Attach^.   The  Dept .  of  French 
cordially  invites  all  Proustians  to  attend  this  celebration  of  Proust's  birth. 

FRENCH  DEPT.  ENROLLMENT 
Prof.  Stanley  Shinall,  Executive  Secretary  of  the  Dept.  of  French,  reported  the  fol- 
lowing enrollment  totals  at  the  end  of  the  2nd  semester  registration  period:   begin- 
ning and  intermediate  (100-level)  courses,  1097;  advanced  language  (200-level),  39$; 
advanced  literature  (200-level),  21+3 5  300-level  courses,  112  (72  in  language  courses); 
graduate  reading-knowledge  courses  (l4.OO-i4.Ol),  13^5  graduate  literature  ([4.00-level ), 
128;  with  39  graduate  students  registered  for  individual  work,  for  a  grand  total 
enrollment  of  2II4.8.   At  the  undergraduate  level,  the  number  of  students  in  advanced 
courses  (750)  is  rapidly  approaching  the  number  of  those  in  the  beginning  stages  of 
learning  the  language  (1097). 

ICI,  RADIO  URBANA  PR0GRAMMATI0N 
As  reported  in  the  last  Newsletter,  the  Dept.  of  French  will  offer  cultural  programs 
over  WILL-FM,  Thursdays,  7 :00-7: 45  p.m.   The  programs  begin  with  a  5-roinute  news  re- 
port and  announcements  of  interest  to  the  French  community  around  Urbana,  followed  by 
the  principal  discussion,  which  will  have  as  theme  "France  and  French- Spe aking  Coun- 
tries." Prof.  Robert  J.  Nelson  will  present  the  first  program  March  5:   "Les  Commu- 
naut£s  francaises:   Vue  d' ensemble. "  Following  programs  include:   March  12,  "La 
France:   Jeunesse  et  Education"  (R.  J.  Nelson  &  A.  Ouvrier);  March  19,  "La  France: 
Politique  et  economic" (R.  J.  Nelson  &  G.  Laprevotte);  March  26,  "La  France:   Voix 
franchises  d' au jourd'hui"  (R.  J.  Nelson  &  G.  Savlgnon) ;  April  2;   "Musique  francaise 
(d'orchestre ) '•  (Soulima  Stravinsky);  April  9,  "La  Suisse:   Vue  d'ensemble"  (Yves  Ve- 
lan);  April  16,  "Le  Canada"  (R.  J.  Nelson  &  J.  Beaudry);  April  23,  "La  Belgique"  (R. 
J.  Nelson  &  Georges  Honhon);  and  April  30,  "Autres  pays  d'origine  francaise:   Afrique 
etc."  (H.  DeLey,  R.  J.  Nelson,  &  P.  Emoungu). 

GERMANIC  NOTES  --  by  Roy  Allen 

NEW  FACULTY 
The  German  Dept.  is  very  happy  and  honored  to  have  as  Guest  Professor  for  this  spring 
term  Prof.  Christine  Oertel  SjBgren  from  Ore.  State  Univ.   Prof.  Sjogren  came  to  the 
U.S.  from  Chemnitz,  Germany,  at  a  very  early  age  and  was  educated  in  schools  and  col- 
leges in  this  country.   She  attended  Reed  College,  Ore.  State  Univ.,  and  Mills  Col- 
lege, receiving  her  B.A.  degree  from  the  latter  institution  in  19I(.5.   In  1950  she  ob- 
tained the  Ph.D.  degree  from  Johns  Hopkins  Univ.   Prof.  SjSgren  is  a  member  of  Phi 
Beta  Kappa  and  of  the  Hofmannsthal-Gesellschaf t.   She  has  taught  at  the  Univ.  of  Kan. 
(1949-51),  Portland  State  College  (1955-56  &  1957-59),  and  since  I960  at  Ore.  State 
Univ.   In  teaching  she  has  concentrated  on  courses  in  20th-century  German  Literature, 
the  Age  of  Goethe,  Goethe's  Faust,  and  the  German  Novelle.   Her  speciality  is  Adal- 
bert Stifter,  on  whom  she  has  published  a  number  of  articles  in  leading  journals  of 
German  literary  scholarship  in  this  country  and  on  whom  she  is  giving  a  seminar  this 
term  at  the  U.I.   Prof.  Sjogren  is  also  the  mother  of  6  children,  an  accomplished  mu- 
sician, and  is  very  active  in  community  affairs  in  Corvallis. 

RETURNING  FACULTY  AND  GRADUATE  STUDENTS 
Prof.  Herbert  Knust,  who  was  on  a  part-time  research  leave  for  the  fall  term,  and 
Prof.  Irmengard  Rauch,  who  was  on  a  full-time  research  leave  for  the  same  period, 
have  returned  to  full-time  teaching  duties  in  the  department  this  semester.   Prof. 
James  McGlathery  has  also  resumed  teaching  duties  this  semester,  after  spending  last 
term  on  sick  leave. 


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Two  graduate  students  have  resumed  study  in  the  department  this  semester.   Mr. 
Thomas  Rauter  spent  2  months  in  the  fall  in  GSttingen  and  Copenhagen  doing  research 
on  his  doctoral  dissertation  which  he  is  writing  under  Prof.  Philip  Mitchell.   Mr. 
Graeme  Tytler  was  in  England  during  the  fall  term. 

NEW  COURSES 
The  department  has  instituted  [|.  new  courses  this  spring  semester.   The  1st  of  these, 
German  107-108,  is  a  year  course  giving  a  total  of  6  hours  of  credit  and  may  be  sub- 
stituted for  German  10l|  to  satisfy  the  graduation  requirement  in  the  College  of  Lib- 
eral Arts  &  Sciences.   German  107-108  involves  readings  of  German  literary  t exts  with 
class  discussions  conducted  entirely  in  English.   The  prerequisite  for  this  course  is 
German  103o   German  111,  a  i;-hour  course,  is  also  being  initiated  this  semester  as  a 
substitute  for  German  IOI4.  to  satisfy  the  graduation  requirement.   This  course  empha- 
sizes, however,  spoken  German;  it  also  has  German  103  as  a  prerequisite.   Finally,  as 
an  alternative  for  German  103,  the  department  has  opened  this  term  German  123,  & 
course  giving  if  hours  of  credit.   German  123,  like  German  107-108,  stresses  reading 
and  comprehension  of  German  narrative  prose.   This  course  differs  from  103  in  that 
the  analysis  of  grammar  and  criticism  of  the  literary  readings  is  conducted  largely 
in  English. 

FRUCHTBRINGENDE  GSSELLSCHAFT 
On  Feb.  19  the  Fruchtbringende  Gesellschaft  sponsored  a  Fasching  program  in  the  Union 
at  8:30  p.m.   The  guest  speaker  of  the  evening  was  "Prinz"  Roland  Folter  who  de- 
lighted guests  with  a  talk  entitled  "Der  Verfasser  von  Goethes  (?)  Werken:   Eine  fol- 
genschwere  germanistische  Enthttllung. " 

FACULTY  PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Marianne  Burkhard  has  selected  the  texts  and  illustrations  of  paintings  by 
Gottfried  Keller  for  the  recently  published  edition  Gottfried  Keller  -  Vom  Maler  zum 
Dichter  (35.Ztfricher  Druck  der  Offizin  Gebrtider  Fretz  AG,  ZUrich,  1969").   Prof.  Burk- 
hard also  wrote  the  introduction  for  the  volume.   Prof.  John  Frey  published  the  arti- 
cle "Blick  und  Auge  in  Thomas  Manns  ErzShlkunst"  in  vol.  XIII  (1969)  of  Jahrbuch  der 
deutschen  Schillergesellschaf t .   Prof.  Herbert  Knust's  1967  monograph  Wagner ,  the 
King  and  "The  Waste  Land"  was~"recently  given  a  very  positive  review  by  Prof.  lack 
Stein  of  Harvard  Univ.  in  the  Nov.  1969  issue  of  The  German  Quarterly.   Prof.  Knust's 
article  "Literature  in  the  Foreign  Language  Classroom?"  appeared  in  the  Dec.  1969 
issue  of  the  111.  Journal  of  Education.   Prof 0  James  Marchand  contributed  the  section 
on  Goethe  to  the  Kurzer  Grundriss  der  germanischen  Philologie  (Walter  de  Gruyter  & 
Co.,  Berlin,  1969~H  a  publication  which  is  intended  to  replace  the  old  Pauls  Grund- 
riss issued  by  the  same  company. 

FACULTY  NOTES 
Prof.  Marchand  attended  the  Modern  Language  Association  meeting  in  Denver  last  Dec. 
in  order  to  report  on  the  Computer  Studies  in  the  Older  Germanic  Languages  at  German 
I.   At  the  same  section  of  the  conference  Prof.  Marchand  was  chosen  to  report  annual- 
ly on  "The  Present  State  of  German  I  Studies"  (bibliography  for  the  previous  year, 
research  in  progress).   This  yearly  report  will  give  German  I  a  clearinghouse  for  in- 
formation comparable  to  the  0E  bibliography  compiled  each  year  by  Prof.  Frederick 
Robinson.   Prof.  Marchand  has  also  just  accepted  a  nomination  to  become  a  member  of 
the  Wissenschaf tlicher  Rat  of  the  Institut  fu*r  deutsche  Sprache  in  Mannheim,  Germany. 

GERMAN  HOUSE 
The  German  House,  opened  last  term  through  the  efforts  of  a  group  of  resourceful  stu- 
dents as  an  independent,  co-ed,  and  co-op  dormitory,  is  prospering  again  this  semes- 
ter with  8  male  and  6  female  residents.   The  House  is  sponsored  by  the  German  Dept. 
which  has  assigned  a  Teaching  Assistant,  Miss  Jane  Thompson,  to  the  House.   The  stu- 
dents who  "reside  in  the  House  receive  academic  credit  in  German  through  course  199. 
Last  semester,  amongst  other  activities,  the  German  House  sponsored  a  reading  of  con- 
temporary German  and  Austrian  poetry  by  Miss  Renate  Aschober  and  Mr.  Peter  Pabisch 
as  well  as  a  program  on  "Concrete  Poetry, "  conducted  by  the  Danish  poet  Vagn  Steen, 
Visiting  Professor  in  the  department  last  term.   Recently,  on  Friday,  Feb.  13,  the 
German  House  in  conjunction  with  the  German  Club  held  a  Fasching  party.   The  House 
plans  another  very  active  semester  this  spring  and  programs  will  be  announced  in  the 


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Newsletter  as  they  are  scheduled. 

SLAVIC  NOTES  --by  Prof.  Michael  Curran 

NEW  199 
The  Center  for  Advanced  Study  is  offering  a  199  course  in  which  all  their  research 
fellows  will  participate.   Prof.  Richard  Sheldon  will  be  available  for  consultation 
on  his  specialty,  Viktor  Shklovsky. 

PLAY  BALL 
Two-page  sheets  of  Russian  baseball  and  basketball  terminology  can  be  obtained  by 
writing  to  Prof.  S.  P.  Hill,  Dept.  of  Slavic  Languages  &  Literatures,  260  Lincoln 
Hall,  U.I.,  Urbana,  111.  61801.   Teachers  might  capitalize  on  general  sports  interest 
by  discussing  such  topics  in  class  or  even  attract  some  of  their  school's  athletes  to 
take  Russian  for  the  first  time.   Basketball  is  played  in  the  U.S.S.R.  and  has  an 
existing  terminology,  but  the  baseball  terms  had  to  be  borrowed  from  the  old  Russian 
game  of  lapta  or  invented  from  standard  Russian  roots,  prefixes  and  suffixes. 

PROP.  SPENCER  DIES 
Members  of  all  the  foreign  language  departments  were  deeply  saddened  to  learn  of  the 
death  of  Prof.  Richard  E.  Spencer  on  Jan.  21|.   Head  of  the  U.I.'s  Educational  Mea- 
surement &  Research  Division,  Prof.  Spencer  will  be  remembered  as  the  man  who  provi- 
ded us  all  with  so  much  concrete  assistance  and  friendly  advice  in  our  problems  of 
placement  and  proficiency  testing,  course  evaluation,  and  standardized  exams.   He  had 
been  at  the  U.I.  since  1961+.,  after  earning  his  B.A.  at  Hobart  College  (1950)  and  his 
Ph.D.  at  the  U.I.  (1957). 

Only  \\2   when  he  lost  his  corageous,  long-term  struggle  against  a  form  of  blood 
cancer,  Prof.  Spencer  left  behind  his  widow  and  7  young  children.   A  memorial  fund  is 
being  planned  in  his  honor,  intended  to  aid  the  education  of  the  Spencer  children. 
For  further  information  contact  Prof.  Lawrence  Aleamoni,  1802  Bellamy  Dr.,  Champaign, 
111.  61820. 

5TH  GRADE  RUSSIAN  COURSE 
Mr.  Nicholas  P.  Brill  writes  from  Bloomington,  111.:   "Today  I  have  30  students  re- 
ceiving instruction  in  Russian  in  the  5th  grade... I  give  them  20  minutes  of  instruc- 
tion \\   days  a  week... I  use  the  natural  method  of  learning  a  language  which  is  hear- 
ing and  repeating  what  is  heard.   Visual  instruction  is  also  used,  for  every  dia- 
logue used  is  printed  on  a  sheet  of  paper.   The  results  are  most  rewarding. . .Parti- 
cipating brings  the  students  great  joy... and  each  student  has  a  feeling  of  success 
when  asked  to  lead  the  class  in  a  new  dialogue." 

SPANISH,  ITALIAN,  &  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  --  by  Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jro 

S.I.U.  STUDY  TRIP  TO  SPAIN 
Southern  111.  Univ.  will  sponsor  a  summer  study  trip  to  Spain  from  June  23-Aug.  25, 
The  program  is  open  to  Spanish  students  of  all  levels.   The  fee  of  approximately 
$850  will  include  transportation  between  Carbondale,  St.  Louis,  Paris,  and  Madrid, 
room,  board,  a  tour  of  Spain,  and  tuition  at  the  Univ.  of  Madrid.   Further  informa- 
tion is  available  from  the  Dept.  of  Foreign  Languages --Spanish  Section,  Southern  111. 
Univ.,  Carbondale,  111.  62901. 

PH.D.  LANGUAGE  REQUIREMENT 
The  requirement  for  Ph.D.  candidates  in  this  department  of  a  reading  knowledge  of  2 
foreign  languages  has  been  revised.   Candidates  are  now  required  to  demonstrate  a 
reading  knowledge  of  French  and  at  least  1  other  language  outside  the  major  field. 
The  other  language  and  the  degree  of  proficiency  in  each  language  are  to  be  deter- 
mined by  the  thesis  advisor  and  the  candidate. 

FEBRUARY  GRADUATION 
The  department  awarded  2  doctoral  degrees  in  Feb.  to  Mr.  Richard  Barry  Klein  (now  at 
the  College  of  the  Holy  Cross,  Worcester,  Mass.)  and  Mr.  Isaias  Lerner  (U.I.). 


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NEW  COURSES 
The  department  has  inaugurated  a  new  series  of  courses  as  options  for  Spanish  lOlj.. 
Spanish  107-108  is  a  2-semester  course  series  which  can  be  substituted  for  IOI4..   Each 
course  consists  of  readings  in  Spanish  with  class  discussion  conducted  in  English. 
Spanish  107  covers  readings  in  Spanish  literature,  and  108  Spanish  American  litera- 
ture.  Spanish  111  may  likewise  be  substituted  for  lOlj.;  it  is  a  conversational 
course  with  practice  in  spoken  Spanish. 

SPANISH  CLUB 
The  Cfrculo  Literario  EspafSol  sponsored  its  first  activity  of  the  spring  semester  on 
Thursday  evening,  Feb.  19,  in  the  Illini  Union.   Prof.  Luis  Leal  gave  a  brief  lecture 
on  the  Argentine  writer  Jorge  Luis  Borges  as  an  introduction  to  the  film,  "The  Inner 
World  of  Jorge  Luis  Borges." 

FACULTY  PUBLICATIONS 
The  Modern  Language  Association  has  announced  the  forthcoming  publication  of  Modern 
Portuguese  by  Random  House-Alfred  A.  Knopf  during  the  spring  of  1970.   The  project 
director  for  this  textbook  was  Prof.  Fred  P.  Ellison,  formerly  of  this  department  and 
now  at  the  Univ.  of  Texas  in  Austin.   For  further  information  on  Modern  Portuguese, 
contact  Mr.  Kenneth  W.  Mildenberger,  M.L.A.,  62  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York,  N.Y.  10011. 

Dr.  Gary  Eugene  A.  Scavnicky,  a  doctoral  alumnus  of  this  department  now  at  Wayne 
State  Univ.,  Detroit,  Mich.,  has  published  an  article,  "Start  a  Language  Club  and 
Make  It  Livel"  in  Quinto  Lingo,  vol.  VIII,  no.  2  (Feb.  1970),  8-12.   Dr.  Scavnicky 
served  as  graduate  advisor  to  this  department's  Circulo  Literario  Espafiol  for  3  years 
and  as  faculty  advisor  to  the  Univ.  of  Wise.  Spanish  Club  for  1  year. 

Dr.  Mario  J.  Valdls,  a  doctoral  alumnus  of  this  department  now  at  the  Univ.  of 
Toronto,  has  edited  a  textbook  edition  of  Miguel  de  Unamuno's  Niebla,  recently  pub- 
lished by  Prentice-Hall. 

FACULTY  NOTES 
Prof.  &  Mrs.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello  were  the  hosts  at  a  reception  in  honor  of  Prof. 
William  H.  Shoemaker  on  Friday  evening,  Dec.  26,  at  the  Brown  Palace  Hotel,  Denver, 
Colo.,  during  the  Modern  Language  Association  convention.   The  reception  was  attended 
by  former  students  and  colleagues  of  Prof.  Shoemaker. 

Prof.  J.  H.  D.  Allen,  Associate  Prof.  W.  Curtis  Blaylock,  and  Visiting  Assistant 
Prof.  Dieter  Wanner  attended  the  Linguistic  Society  of  America  winter  meeting  in  San 
Francisco,  Calif.,  during  Dec.  28-30. 

Prof.  Blaylock  will  be  on  leave  Feb.  1-Sept.  1  to  do  research  on  historical 
Spanish  morphology.   He  and  his  family  will  travel  to  Spain,  Portugal,  and  France 
during  the  summer  months. 

§§§§§§§ 

20  YEARS   AGO  IN  THE  NEWSLETTER 
From  the   Newsletter,    Feb.   1950:      "On  Saturday,    March  11,    the    State   Organization  of 
High  School  and   College   Spanish  clubs   will  hold   its   1st  meeting  at   the   U.I....As  most 
of  you  know,    the   change   of   date   from  March  Ij.  to  March  11   is   because   of  the   coal 
shortage.      All   Saturday  meetings    in  university  buildings  proper   have   been  canceled. 
You  will   be   notified  at  once   If  any  further  changes   are   necessary." 

MATHEMATICALLY  SPEAKING 
"For  a  fee   of   $1;00  a  month,    you   can  dial  2831   in  Cologne,    Germany,    and  get   a   talking 
computor   which  will  ask  you    (in  English)   what   your   language   is — it   speaks   5.      Then   it 
will   work  out   any  of   the  math  problems   that   have  been   causing  you   concern  and  give 
you   the   answer   In  the  proper   language  right   over   the   phone.      If   the   caller   doesn't 
know  any  of   the  machine's   5  languages,    it  will  patiently  teach  him  one." 

From   QUINTO  LINGO,    July   1969 

The   University  of   Illinois   Modern  Foreign  Language    Newsletter    is   published    jointly  by 
the  modern  language   departments   of  the  U.I.   under  the   direction  of   the   Head  of  the 
Dept.    of   Spanish,    Italian,    &  Portuguese.      Editorial  offices   are   located   in  251   Illini 
Tower,    Champaign,    telephone    (217)    333-3536.      The   Newsletter   is   available   without 
charge   to   all   interested  persons   in  Illinois   and  other   areas.      All   communications   by 
mail   should  be   addressed  to:      The   Editor,    MFL  Newsletter,    221;  Lincoln  Hall,    Urbana, 
111.    61801.    


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March,  1970 

Vol.  XXIII,  No.  6 


THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS  MODERN  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  NEWSLETTER 


Director:   Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello 
Editor:   Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jr. 


Frtfhliche  Ostern 
Felices   Pascuas 
Joyeuses  Paques 
Buona  Pas qua 
Feliz  Pascoa 
XpiicTOC  BocKpec 

BoHCTMHy 


ILLINOIS  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  ATTITUDE  QUESTIONNAIRE 
The  Illinois  Foreign  Language  Attitude  Questionnaire  was  composed  by  Dr.  Leon  A.  Ja- 
kobovits,  associate  professor  of  psychology  and  co-director  of  the  Center  for  Compa- 
rative Psycholinguistics  at  the  U.I.   It  was  designed  to  show  a  foreign  language 
teacher  how  his  students  feel  about  foreign  language  study,  to  help  him  change  as- 
pects of  the  instruction  process  as  desirable,  and  to  help  correct  erroneous  ideas, 
unrealistic  expectations,  or  negative  attitudes  which  his  students  may  have. 

The  questionnaire  contains  2  sections,  one  for  students  who  are  presently  study- 
ing or  have  studied  a  foreign  language  in  school,  and  the  other  for  students  who  have 
never  had  a  foreign  language  course.   The  2  sections  are  parallel  in  form  and  con- 
tent, and  each  part  contains  7  sets  of  questions. 

The  1st  set  elicits  information  about  the  student's  ethnic  linguistic  back- 
ground.  In  some  cases,  the  ethnicity  of  a  student's  family  may  be  a  disturbing 
source  of  estrangement,  whereas  some  students'  ethnic  background  may  be  a  source  of 
pride  which  will  intensify  the  interest  in  that  language. 

The  2nd  set  of  questions  deal  with  information  about  the  choice  of  foreign  lan- 
guage being  studied.   The  parents'  attitude  might  exert  significant  influence  here. 
The  student  may  not  state  his  "real"  reasons  in  his  answers  here;  however,  the  rea- 
sons which  he  claims  (his  "rationalizations")  will  perhaps  be  most  salient  in  his 
mind  at  the  time  of  testing  and  will  therefore  influence  his  current  efforts. 

The  3rd  set  deals  with  the  language  skills  that  a  student  is  most  interested  in. 
The  purpose  of  this  set  (and  also  the  following  set)  is  to  illuminate  disagreements 
between  the  teacher's  ideas  of  the  language  goals  and  those  of  the  students.   If  the 
students'  expectations  are  unjustified,  frank  discussion  may  lead  to  a  more  mature 
attitude.   If  the  students  have  justifiable  expectations,  feasable  changes  can  be 
instituted. 

The  l^th  set  affords  direct  feedback  from  the  student  concerning  specific  aspects 
of  the  instructional  process.   Since  most  students  evaluate  their  teachers  and  their 
schools,  it  is  better  to  face  their  feelings  realistically  rather  than  to  suppress 
them.   Even  where  resolution  of  such  complaints  is  not  possible,  the  overt  expression 
of  such  feelings  is  psychologically  beneficial  in  reducing  their  destructive  effects. 
Suppression,  on  the  other  hand,  drives  these  feelings  underground  without  resolving 
them. 

The  5th  set  of  questions  shows  the  interest  in  foreign  language  study  and  the 
degree  of  personal  involvement  in  it,  not  only  from  sources  of  direct  motivation  but 
also  from  factors  which  are  indirectly  but  importantly  related  to  motivation. 

The  6th  set  handles  anomie  (cultural  disorientation  and  isolation)  as  related  to 
language  study.   The  presence  of  anomie  indicates  that  the  student  is  experiencing 
feelings  of  doubt  and  conflict,  and  it  can  be  a  source  of  resistance  to  progress  in 
the  foreign  language  study,   If  the  anomie  is  successfully  resolved,  it  may  be  the 
source  of  positive  motivational  drive  since  it  indicates  that  the  student  is 
"involved." 

The  last  set  seeks  the  student's  opinions  on  foreign  languages  in  general  and 


this  questionnaire  in  particular;  this  information  may  be  helpful  in  constructing 
additional  questions  for  future  use  in  the  questionnaire. 

The  Illinois  Foreign  Language  Attitude  Questionnaire  was  undertaken  by  Prof. 
Jakobovits  upon  request  of  Committee  1  of  the  1970  Northeast  Conference  on  the  Teach- 
ing of  Foreign  Languages.   The  questionnaire  will  be  presented  to  Committee  1  by 
Prof.  Jakobovits  at  the  Conference's  general  meetings  in  Boston,  Mass.,  on  March  19- 
21,  and  in  Washington,  D.C.,  on  April  30-May  2. 

The  questionnaire  will  be  made  available  to  foreign  language  teachers  through 
various  means.   It  will  be  included  in  a  book  by  Prof.  Jakobovits  entitled  For e ign 
Language  Learning ;   A  Psycholinguis tic  Overview  of  the  Issues,  to  be  published  in 
April  by  Newbury  House  Publishers,  68  Middle  Rd.,  Rowley,  Mass.  01969.   It  will  also 
be  published  in  the  Northeast  Conference  Report  1970.  which  will  be  available  after 
the  meetings  through  the  ACTFL  Materials  Center,  62  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York,  N.Y.  10011. 
In  addition,  the  Conference  hopes  to  make  copies  of  the  questionnaire  available  in 
quantity  after  the  meetings.   Further  information  on  ordering  copies  of  the  question- 
naire can  be  sent  to  Mr.  Robert  P.  Serafino,  Northeast  Conference  Committee  I,  P.O. 
Box  3316,  New  Haven,  Conn.  O6525. 

PUBLICATIONS  OF  INTEREST  BY  PROF.  JAKOBOVITS 
Prof.  Leon  A.  Jakobovits,  the  author  of  the  Illinois  Foreign  Language  Attitude  Ques- 
tionnaire, is  also  the  author  of  a  number  of  articles  which  might  be  of  interest  to 
foreign  language  teachers.   These  articles  include:   "Introduction  to  Foundations  of 
Foreign  Language  Teaching  and  Learning:   Psychological  Aspects,"  in  The  Teaching  of 
German;   Problems  and  Methods,  edited  by  Sberhard  Reichmann  (Philadelphia-)  1970) ; 
"Motivation  and  Foreign  Language  Learning:   Part  A,  Motivation  and  Learning  Factors," 
Report  to  the  1970  Northeast  Conference  on  the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Languages ;  "A 
Function  Approach  to  the  Assessment  of  Language  Skills,"  Journal  of  English  as  a  Se- 
cond Language,  vol.  IV  (1969),  63-76;  "Research  Findings  and  Foreign  Language  Re- 
quirements in  Colleges  and  Universities,"  Foreign  Language  Annals,  vol.  II  (1969), 
i^3&— i+56 ;  "Second  Language  Learning  and  Transfer  Theory:   A  Theoretical  Assessment," 
Language  Learning,  vol.  XIX  (1969),  55-86;  "Dimensionality  of  Compound- Coordinate 
Filingualism,  "  Language  Learning ,  Special  Issue  3  (Aug.  1968),  29-1+9;  "Implications 
of  Recent  Psycholinguis tic  Developments  for  the  Teaching  of  a  Second  Language,"  Lan- 
guage Learning,  vol.  XVIII  (1968),  89-109;  and  "Comparative  Psycholinguistics  in  the 
Study  of  Cultures,"  International  Journal  of  Psychology,  vol.  I  (1966),  15-37* 

Prof.  Jakobovits  has  a  limited  number  of  copies  of  these  articles  which  he  will 
send  to  those  teachers  who  do  not  have  access  to  the  books  or  journals  listed  above. 
When  making  a  request,  please  specify  the  title  of  the  article  desired.   All  requests 
should  be  sent  to:   Prof.  Leon  A.  Jakobovits,  Center  for  Comparative  Psycholinguis- 
tics, 1207  W.  Oregon  St.,  Urbana,  111.  61801. 

RICHARD  E.  SPENCER  MEMORIAL  FUND 
The  tragic  death  of  Prof.  Richard  E.  Spencer  of  the  U.I.  Measurement  &  Research  Div, 
was  reported  in  the  Slavic  Notes  of  the  Feb.  1970  Newsletter,  p.  7.   All  friends  and 
colleagues  of  Prof.  Spencer,  as  well  as  others  who  might  want  to  make  a  gesture  of 
assistance  in  the  education  of  his  8  children  (ranging  in  ages  from  7-18),  will  be 
interested  to  learn  that  a  trust  fund  has  now  been  opened  for  that  purpose.   Anyone 
wishing  to  contribute  may  make  out  checks  to  the  Richard  E.  Spencer  Memorial  Fund, 
and  send  them  to  Prof.  Lawrence  Aleamoni,  Measurement  &  Research  Office,  507  E. 
Daniel  St.,  Champaign,  111.  61820,  by  U.S.  or  campus  mail. 

SECONDARY- COMMUNITY  COLLEGE- UNIVERSITY  ARTICULATION  CONFERENCE 
The  Secondary-Community  College-University  Articulation  Conference  will  be  held  at 
the  Holiday  Inn  in  Sterling,  111.,  on  Wednesday,  April  22.   The  theme  will  be  "The 
Problem  of  Foreign  Language  Articulation  Between  3  Levels  of  Educational  Institu- 
tions." The  conference  is  being  sponsored  by  Sauk  Valley  College.   Those  wishing 
more  information  may  contact  Mr.  Mack  Warren,  Director  of  Admissions,  Sauk  Valley 
College,  R.R.  1,  Dixon,  111.  60121. 

PUBLICATIONS  OF  INTEREST 
The  publishers  of  Quinto  Lingo  have  inaugurated  a  bi-monthly  magazine  called  Yiddish 
Lingo  which  will  carry  articles  in  both  Yiddish  and  English.   The  magazine  will  fea- 
ture  items  on  Yiddish  culture,  linguistics,  cooking,  poetry,  as  well  as  Yiddish  books 


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and  theatre.      A  1-year   subscription   (6  issues)    is   available   for   $1+  from  Yiddish 
Lingo,    Rodale  Press,    Eramaus,    Perm.    180J+9. 

A  catalogue   of  filmstrips,   posters,    and  other   teaching   aids   for  teachers   of 
French,    German,    and   Spanish  is   available   free  upon  request   to   Gessler  Publishing   Co., 
Inc.,    131   E.    23rd  St.,    New  York,    N.Y.   10010.      All  materials   in  this   catalogue   can 
be  purchased  through   NDEA  and   ESEA  funds. 

LANGUAGE  LABORATORY   TELEPHONE   SERVICE 
The   U.I.    Language   Laboratory  is   again  offering   a  series  of  telephone    tapes  for   lab 
practice.      The   tapes  are   scheduled  to  follow  the    sequence  of  material   studied  in  the 
U.I.   foreign  language   courses.      These    telephone   tapes   are   not  meant   to  replace   stu- 
dent  practice   in  the   language  lab   itself,    but  rather   to    supplement    it. 

The   telephone   numbers   for  French  for   the   spring   semester   are:      French  101,    333- 
3780/1    (2  lines);   French  102,    333- 6090/1/2/3/]+    ($  lines);   French  103,    333-63O6/7    (2 
lines);   French  101;,    333-378i|.  and   333-6309    (2  lines);    and  French  211,    333-3782/3    (2 
lines).      The   telephone  numbers   for   German  are:      German  101,    333-6301;/ 5    (2  lines);   and 
German  102,    333-690$/ 6/ 7/8/9    (5  lines). 

The  telephone  number  for  Latin  is  333-63OI  (Latin  102  on  Monday,  Wednesday,  and 
Friday;  Latin  306  on  Tuesday,  Thursday,  Saturday,  and  Sunday),  The  telephone  number 
for   Russian  102   is   333-63O8,    and  for  Russian   101;  333-6303, 

The    telephone  number  for    Spanish  is   333-6302    (Spanish  101  on  Tuesday  and  Thurs- 
day;   Spanish  102  on  Monday,    Wednesday,    and   Friday;    Spanish   102  starred   section  on 
Saturday  and   Sunday).      Tapes  for   English  as   a  Foreign  Language   are   available   by 
dialing   333-3788. 

If   the    service   does  not   appear   to   be   functioning  properly,   please   call   the   Lan- 
guage  Lab   at   333-2J23  or   333-1719   and  report   the  malfunction.      The   language   lab   at- 
tendant  can  determine   if  the  fault    is   with   the   Language   Lab   equipment   or   with  the 
telephone   company.      The   telephone   company  should  not   be   called, 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES   —   by  Prof.    Barbara   Smalley 

FACULTY  PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.    Rocco  Montano  has  published  the  following   articles   in  Umanesimo,    vol.    II,    no. 
3    (Sept.    1968):      "Marxist    Criticism:      Lucaks,    Gramsci,    Merleau-Ponty,      p.   1-16;    "Gal- 
ileo  e   la  scienza  cattolica  della  natura,  "  p.    35-1+9;    and    "La  critica  di   Giovanni   Get- 
to,"  p.    50-51;. 

PROF.    MONTANO   ON  LEAVE 
Prof.   Rocco  Montano   is  presently  in  Italy  completing  his   2nd  volume  of   a  3-volume 
Storia  della  Letteratura   Italiana.      This   absence   from  his   campus   duties  was  made 
possible   through  a  grant  from  the   Center  for   Advanced  Studies.      Prof,   Montano  will 
resume   his  campus  activities  next    Sept, 

VISITING  LECTURER 
Prof.    Elio   Gianturco  delivered  a  lecture   entitled   "The    Impact   of   Machiavelli' s 
Thought  on  Bacon,    Montesquieu,    and  Tocqueville"  on  Tuesday,   March  17,    at   8:00  p.m.    in 
Room  D,    Law  Building, 

NEW  READING  LISTS   IN   COMPARATIVE   LITERATURE 
Students  pursuing   the   master's   degree   and   the   doctorate   in  Comparative   Literature   are 
now  requested   to  acquaint   themselves  with  a  number  of   significant   books   of   criticism. 
The   list  for  the  M.A.    includes,    among   other  works,    Auerbach' s  Mime 3 i 3 ,    Northrop 
Frye's   Anatomy  of   Criticism,    and  Wellek   and  Warren's   Theory  of   Literature.      A  longer 
list    for    students  pursuing   the  Ph.D.    includes:      Aristotle,    Poetics ;   Maud   Bodkin,    Ar- 
chetypal Patterns    in  Poetry;    Cassirer,    The  Myth  of   State ;    Leon  Edel,    The   Psycholo- 
gical   Novel;    Freud,    A  General   Introduction  to   Psychoanalysis ;    Jung,    Psychology   of   the 
Unconscious ;    Suzanne   Langer,    Feeling   and  Form;    Lovejoy.    The   Great   Chain  of   Being; 
Valery,    The   Art   of   Poetry;    Ian  Watt,    The    Rise   of   the   Novel.      Both  lists   are    available 
in  mimeograph  form  at   the    Comparative   Literature   office,    l+Ol  Lincoln  Hall, 


FRENCH  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Larkin  B.  Price 

TRAVELING  SCHOLARS  OF  THE  FRENCH  DEPT. 
Our  colleague,  Mrs.  Anna-Maria  Sagi,  visited  Knox  College  Feb.  2-[\..      The  first  2  days 
she  participated  in  informal  coffee  talks,  conducted  one  day  in  Spanish,  the  other 
day  in  French.   While  at  Knox  College,  Mrs.  Sagi  also  presented  a  lecture-recital  of 
her  poetry. 

Prof.  Bruce  Mainous  was  at  Denison  Univ.  Feb.  3-I4.  to  sit  on  their  panel  of  com- 
prehensive examinations  for  graduating  French  majors. 

Prof.  Herbert  DeLey,  Jr.,  invited  to  speak  at  the  Colloquium  on  ij.  Centuries  of 
the  French  Novel  held  at  the  Univ.  of  Conn,  toward  the  end  of  Feb.,  gave  a  lecture 
entitled  "'Dans  un  roman  frivole  aisSment  tout  s'excuse':   The  Evolution  of  the  17th 
Century  Novel." 

Prof.  Robert  J.  Nelson  spoke  at  Tulane  Univ.  Feb.  26  on  "Racine:   The  Redisco- 
very of  a  Tragic  Form."  Mr.  Nelson  also  visited  a  number  of  undergraduate  and  grad- 
uate classes  at  Tulane  and  met  with  students  and  faculty  to  discuss  current  problems 
and  prospects  in  the  profession. 

Between  semesters,  Prof.  Gabriel  Savignon,  Director  of  the  Illinois-Iowa  Year 
Abroad,  spent  several  days  at  Rouen,  France,  visiting  with  the  group  of  33  students 
and  their  resident  director,  Pierre  Weisz.   Prof.  Savignon  reports  that  the  morale  is 
high,  for  the  students,  in  general,  like  Rouen  and  enjoy  living  with  French  families. 
He  says  they  find  their  courses  very  satisfactory,  and  the  proximity  of  Paris  a 
chance  for  week-end  diversion. 

LECTURES  AND  RECITAL 
Prof.  Vincent  E.  Bowen,  U.I.  French  Dept.,  presented  before  the  Journal  Club  on  Feb. 
23  a  lecture  on  "Theme  and  Structure  in  Diderot's  Short  Stories." 

On  March  2,  Prof.  Judd  Hubert,  formerly  a  member  of  the  Dept.  of  French  at  the 
U.I.,  now  professor  of  French  at  the  Univ.  of  Calif,  at  Irvine,  gave  a  lecture  on 
"Les  Premiers  Tableaux  parisiens  (poemes  'perdus'  de  Baudelaire)." 

The  Graduate  Program  in  Comparative  Literature  and  the  Dept.  of  French  presented 
on  Feb.  16  a  poetic  recital  by  Jean  Bar:  "Pour  rire  et  pour  pleurer.  " 

TUTORING  FOR  SEOP  STUDENTS 
The  Dept.  of  French  is  providing  official  tutoring  services  for  students  in  the  Spe- 
cial Educational  Opportunities  Program  (SEOP),  with  advanced  undergraduates  who  have 
studied  in  France  available  20  hours  a  week  to  help  those  who  wish  to  work  with  them. 

DEPARTMENTAL  PLANNING  COMMITTEE 
Prof.  Bruce  H.  Mainous,  head  of  the  Dept.  of  French,  has  announced  the  formation  of  a 
Departmental  Planning  Committee  at  the  request  of  Dean  R.  W.  Rogers  of  the  College  of 
Liberal  Arts  &  Sciences.   Prof.  Mainous  appointed  Prof.  Robert  J.  Nelson  as  chairman 
of  this  committee,  with  Prof.  Herbert  DeLey  as  vice-chairman,  and  Prof.  Keith  Myers, 
director  of  the  Language  Laboratory,  as  a  3r<i  member.   Faculty  representatives  elec- 
ted are:   Prof.  Stanley  Gray,  Prof.  Emile  Talbot,  and  Prof.  Stanley  Shi nail.   Gradu- 
are  students  elected  1  M.A.,  1  M.A.T.,  and  1  Ph.D.  candidate.   Two  undergraduate  stu- 
dents complete  the  composition  of  the  committee.   In  the  words  of  Prof.  Mainous,  "the 
charge  of  this  committee  is  to  develop  institutions  and  programs  in  and  connected 
with  the  Dept.  of  French,  the  changing  nature  of  the  university,  and  the  developing 
responsibilities  of  education  as  projected  for  the  new  decade.   Prof.  Nelson,  in 
accepting  the  chairmanship,  stated:  "Practically  and  in  principle,  the  Planning  Com- 
mittee should  deal  with  the  underlying  philosophy  of  education  for  all  of  our  acti- 
vities as  a  major  department  in  a  great  university.   It  is  my  hope  that  the  committee 
will  not  become  a  forum  for  reviving  pet  projects,  fallen  by  the  wayside,  or  pet 
peeves,  fallen  by  the  wayside  or  not.   The  committee  should  look  to  the  past  as  it 
does  to  the  present!   as  a  springboard  to  the  future.   It  should  plan,  not  restate  or 
recast. " 

CENACLE  MEETING 
Going  to  prove  that  sooner  or  later  everything  reaches  Urbana,  the  CSnacle  met  Feb. 
17  at  the  home  of  Mr.  &  Mrs.  Ron  Gordon  to  discuss  McLuhanism.   Prof.  Stanley  Gray 
mediated  the  lively  discussion,  which  was  hampered,  according  to  one  professor,  by 
the  fact  that  only  a  few  of  those  present  had  read  the  books  under  discussion. 


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U.I.  PRESS  PUBLICATION 
Announced  for  some  time,  The  Religion  of  Art  in  Proust,  by  Prof,  Barbara  J.  Rucknall, 
who  left  the  Urbana  Dept.  of  French  last  fall  to  teach  in  Canada,  is  now  available 
as  vol.  LX  in  "Illinois  Studies  in  Language  and  Literature." 

NEW  COURSES 
Enrichment  of  the  Master  of  Arts  in  the  Teaching  of  French  program  is  progressing  re- 
gularly, with  a  new  course,  French  144-3.  being  given  this  semester  by  Prof.  Claude 
Viens,  at  the  request  of  M.A.T.  candidates.   French  i_|_33  is  a  flexible  course  limited 
only  by  the  concentration  of  its  material  in  French,  and  may  be  activated  by  student 
request  or  faculty  proposal.   Prof,  Viens  is  trying  to  shape  the  course  this  semester 
around  the  need  his  students  have  expressed  for  a  general  literary  history  of  the 
20th  Century.   Topics  for  the  14i3  course  are  expected  to  vary,  and  may  include  any 
valid  subject  not  appropriately  treated  in  any  of  our  century  "Studies"  courses. 

A  special  section  of  French  I4.9I  (Individual  Topics)  is  pooling  the  individual 
projects  of  some  20  M.A.T.  candidates  into  a  special  seminar  course  dealing  specif- 
ically with  methodological  approaches  and  their  current  application  in  language  pro- 
grams . 

Two  new  courses  specifically  designed  for  the  M.A.T.  program  are  French  ij.03  and 
[(.Oi).,  a  2-semester  sequence  in  which  French  history,  culture,  and  master  works  are  to 
be  studied  with  a  special  view  to  their  presentation  in  foreign  language  programs  in 
secondary  schools  and  junior  colleges. 

FUTURE  EVENTS 
Mr.  Wilbourne  Bowles,  teacher  of  French  at  Proviso  East  High  School,  Maywood,  and 
head  of  the  foreign  language  department  for  both  Proviso  East  and  Proviso  West,  will 
come  to  the  U.I.  on  Saturday,  March  21,  as  a  consultant  for  our  French  Teacher  Edu- 
cation majors,  to  talk  about  the  problems  of  social  and  racial  mixture  in  the  urban 
high  schools.   Mr.  Bowies'  appearance  here  in  this  connection  is  a  feature  in  Profo 
Stanley  Shinall's  program  of  enrichment  for  the  French  Teacher  Education  students, 
both  undergraduate  and  graduate,  and  is  in  line  with  the  recognition  of  the  depart- 
ment's responsibilities  to  answer  changing  educational  needs. 

On  April  18  the  Downstate  Chapter  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of 
French  will  meet  at  the  Paradise  Inn  (Route  i|$  south)  in  Champaign.   Prof.  Brigitta 
Kuhn,  president  of  the  chapter,  is  finalizing  program  details  and  announcements  will 
be  mailed  in  the  near  future.   At  this  writing,  the  program  promises  to  be  a  good 
one— we  hope  to  see  a  lot  of  our  colleagues  there. 

Two  coming  Journal  Club  lectures  for  which  further  details  are  not  yet  available 
are:   Robert  Shackleton  on  April  8  and  Mortimer  Guiney  on  April  13. 

S.I.U.  STUDY  PROGRAM  IN  FRANCE 
Southern  111.  Univ.  will  sponsor  a  summer  study  trip  to  France  from  June  23-Aug.  2£. 
Total  cost  per  person,  round-trip  from  St.  Louis,  for  the  all-inclusive  study  tour 
abroad  is  expected  to  be  about  $995.   In  addition  to  formal  courses  in  Paris,  there 
will  be  numerous  tours  and  excursions,  reaching  even  to  Belgium  and  Switzerland. 
Further  information  is  available  from  Prof.  James  A.  Kilker,  Dept.  of  Foreign  Lan- 
guages, Southern  111.  Univ.,  Carbondale,  111.  62901. 

GERMANIC  NOTES  --  by  Roy  Allen 

RECIPIENTS  OF  GRANTS  FOR  STUDY  ABROAD 
Miss  Virginia  Coombs  and  Mr.  Jay  Rosellini,  graduate  students  and  teaching  assistants 
in  the  department,  are  the  recipients  of  $25>00  grants  from  the  Germanistic  Society  of 
America  for  study  in  Germany  for  the  academic  year  1970-71.   These  grants  have  been 
provided  by  a  committee  of  German- Americans  in  New  York  who  have  raised  funds  for  a 
scholarship  program  "aimed  at  furthering  German-American  cultural  relations  and  Im- 
proving the  professional  competence  of  future  teachers  of  German  language,  philosophy 
and  history."   The  grants  cover  tuition,  maintenance,  and  travel,  and  are  adminis- 
tered by  the  Institute  of  International  Education  which  also  administers  Fulbrights. 

NEW  PH.D.'S 
During  the  present  semester  Mr.  Heribert  Breidenbach  and  Mr.  David  Wilson  were  grant- 


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ftd   the    degree   of   Ph.D.    in   German  by    the   U.I.      Mr.    Breidenback   completed   the   doctoral 
dissertation  under   Prof 0    Henri    Stegemeier   on   the    topic   Per   Bmblematiker    Jeremias 
Drexel    S.J.    (158I-I638 ) ;   Mit   einer   EinfUhrung    in  die    Jesuitenemblematik  und   einer 
Bibliof-raphie    der    Jesuitenbtlcher.      Mr.    Wilson  wrote  his    dissertation  under   Prof. 
John  Frey   on  Rhetorical    Imagery   in   the   Narrative   Prose   Works    of    Robert   Musil. 

GERMAN  HOUSE 
The    German  House,    located   at    108    S.    Gregory   St.    in  Urbana,    held   an   open  house   on 
March  15>  from  2:00-1^:00  in   the  afternoon.      A   variety  of  programs   were  presented   to 
visiting  guests   by  members   of   the    House.      Refreshments   were    also    served. 

MUNICH'S   LIBRARY  FOR   YOUNG  PEOPLE'S   LITERATURE 
The    International   Youth  Library  of  Munich  is   celebrating   is   20th  anniversary   as   a 
world   center  for   young  people's   literature.      The   library   was  founded   in  191+9   with   the 
help   of   Erich  KSstner,   himself  the  author  of   several  books   for   young   readers,    and 
Carl   Zuckmayer.      The  library   is    jointly  supported  by   the  Federal    Government   and  the 
Bavarian   State   and  Munich   City  Governments.      It   houses  over   100,000  books    in  $0  lan- 
guages  and   boasts   copies   of   an   estimated  l/3rd  of   the    world's   literature   for   child- 
ren.     In  the  last    decade   the   library  has   to   an   increasing   degree   come   to   be   an  inter- 
national  center  for  meetings    and   discussions    involving  persons    variously   connected 
with  the   publishing   or   with  the    selection  of   books   for    juveniles   or    children.      The 
Foreign   Office   in  Bonn  also  provides   funds   for   study  trips   to    the   library  in  Munich 
for   foreigners   who   have  an  interest   in  young  people's  literature. 

GERMAN  UNIVERSITY   TELEVISION 
Beginning   in  1971  the  Federal  Republic   of   Germany  will   sponsor  on  a  regular  basis 
academic    instruction  through  a    "television  university."      This   new  program,    which  is 
now   in  the  final   stages   of  planning   and  experimentation,    is   directed  by  Prof.    Holmar 
von  Ditfurth,    professor   of  medicine   in   Heidelberg   and   already  widely  known  for  popu- 
lar  television  specials   on  various   sciences.      This    "university   of   the  air"   is    de- 
signed  to   benefit    all    interested  persons,    such  as    the   housewife,  who   wish  to   broaden 
his   or   her   intellectual   horizons.      The   student   who  enrolls   for   the   courses   will  be 
provided   with   texts   and   tests   for   use   in  his   private   home   to  help   him   to  benefit  froir 
the   instruction.      The   examinations   will   be    corrected  by   electronic  computor   and  re- 
turned  to   the   student   within  3   days. 

THE  1970    BAYREUTH  FESTIVAL 
The   performance    schedule   for    the    1970   Bayreuth  Wagner  Festival  was  recently   announ- 
ced;   29  performances   of   Wagner   operas   will   be  given  at    Bayreuth  between   July  21j.-Aug. 
27   this   year.      The  festival  will   open  this   year  with  a  production  of   Tristan  und 
Isolde   which  will   be  performed  a   total   of    3   times    during   the    festival.      Die   Meister- 
singer    von  Ntirnberg  will  be   given  7  times,      Die  f liegende   Hollander    6   times,    and   Par- 
sifal will  be  presented  I),  times.      The  k-part   opera  Der  Ring  dea   Niebelungen  will  be 
performed  on  8   separate   dates:      July  2o,    27,    29,    31.    as   well   as   Aug.    13,14,    16,    18. 
A  more   detailed  program  and  a  list    of  prices   of   tickets   can   be   obtained   by  writing    to 
Die   Bayreuther  Festspiele,    Kartenbtfro,    8580   Bayreuth  2,    Postfach  21i|8,    Germany,, 

WESTFALISCHE  K0NT0REI 
The    "Westf alische   Kontorei,"a  German  choral    group   consisteing  of   approximately  30 
singers   and   8   instrumentalists  under   the   direction  of  Mr.   Wilhelm  Ehmann,    will  per- 
form at    the    U.I.    on  April   7.      The   group   will    appear    at   8:00  p.m.    in  the    Great   Hall   of 
the   Krannert    Center  for   the  Performing  Arts.      The  performance   will  be    a  Baroque  pro- 
gram,   including   pieces   by   Bach,    Schtttz,    and   Gabrieli.      Tickets   are  priced   at    $1.5>0 
for   students   and   $2.50  for   the  general  public.      A  special  group   rate   is   available   for 
groups   of  20  persons   or  more   at   $1.50  each;   interested  parties   should   contact   the 
Krannert    Center,    S.    Goodwin  St.,    Urbana,    111.    61801,    in  advance   of   the   performance,, 

SLAVIC  NOTES   --by  Prof.    Michael    Curran 

COMING   EVENTS 
The   midwest   premiere   of   a  new  Russian  color   film  fersion  of    Shostakovich's    Lady  Mac- 
beth  of   Mtsensk   Country    (Katerina   Izmailova)    has   been   scheduled  by  the    Russian   Club 


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for  Thursday,  April  9,  in  the  U.I.  Auditorium.  Baaed  on  Leskov's  50-page  short  sto- 
ry, written  in  the  1860's,  of  the  merchant's  wife  who  becomes  an  adulteress  and  goes 
on  to  commit  1|  murders,  the  film  stars  Galina  Vishnevskaya  of  the  Bolshoi  Theatre. 

At  the  time  this  issue  went  to  press,  the  Slavic  Dept.  was  negotiating  to  bring 
a  noted  guest  lecturer  to  campus.   Prof.  Harold  Segel  of  Columbia  Univ.,  a  specialist 
in  lSth-Century  literature  and  drama,  was  extended  an  invitation  to  lecture  on  March 
19. 

RUSSIAN  FILMS 
Prof.  Steven  Hill's  new  course,  Russian  199B,  has  shown  a  number  of  films  over  the 
past  few  weeks,  among  them  Urok  zizni,  Kompozitor  Glinka  and  the  2nd  series  of  Mak- 
sim Gorki's  Trilogy,  V  1 jud jax.   The  films  will  continue  to  be  shown  Tuesday  after- 
noons at  [j.:00  in  366  Lincoln  Hall.   All  are  invited. 

PROF.  DAWSON  JOINS  NEW  COMMITTEE 
Prof.  Clayton  L.  Dawson  has  been  asked  to  serve  on  the  Inaugural  Selection  Committee 
of  the  new  Center  for  20th-century  Studies  at  the  Univ.  of  Wise. -Milwaukee.   The  Cen- 
ter said  the  Inaugural  Selection  Committee  is  designed  to  provide  faculty  and  admin- 
istrators with  "the  .judgment  of  views  from  outside  the  university  on  the  value  and 
needs  of  the  center." 

ROUNDTABLE 
On  March  3»  Prof.  John  C.  Garvey,  professor  of  music,  artist-in-residence,  and  dir- 
ector of  the  U.I.  Jazz  Band,  discussed  "Experiences  in  the  Soviet  Union  with  the  Jazz 
Band." 

PUBLICATIONS 
Z.  Hippius'  religious  diary,  with  an  introduction  and  notes  by  Prof.  T.  Pachmuss, 
appeared  in  the  Jan.,  Feb.,  and  March  issues  of  La  Renaissance  (1970),  Paris. 

GUIDELINES  FOR  COMPETENCE  IN  RUSSIAN 
Guidelines  for  French,  German,  and  Spanish  have  been  prepared  and  discussed  by  a 
statewide  group  of  high  school  teachers  and  college  professors  in  a  meeting  in  Bloom- 
ington  in  April  1969.   The  materials  prepared  for  these  languages  will  serve  as  the 
basis  for  Russian  guidelines,  which  will  later  be  sent  to  several  high  school  teach- 
ers of  Russian  for  consideration  and  comments. 

CREDIT  FOR  HIGH  SCHOOL  RUSSIAN 
We  bring  the  following  exerpt  from  the  Report  of  the  Foreign  Language  Committee: 
"Students  may  earn  credit  in  any  foreign  language  course  where  they  are  placed  by  the 
appropriate  placement  examination,  regardless  of  the  number  of  years  they  have  stu- 
died the  language  in  high  school." 

SLAVIC  SOFTBALL 
The  Slavic  Dept.  softball  team,  led  by  veteran  players  Alex  Vorobiov,  Roger  Phillips, 
Stephen  Hathaway,  and  several  others,  is  getting  ready  for  its  11th  season  of  facul- 
ty intramural  competition.   Scorekeeper  Steven  Hill  hopes  to  see  the  squad  renew  its 
old  rivalries  with  the  other  language  and  humanities  departments,  and  to  carry  on 
conversations  as  much  as  possible  in  Russian  --  which  should  not  only  be  good  lan- 
guage practice,  but  might  even  confuse  the  enemyl 

SPANISH,  ITALIAN,  &  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  --  by  Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jr. 

AATSP 
The  annual  meeting  of  the  Downstate  Chapter  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers 
of  Spanish  &  Portuguese  will  be  held  on  Saturday,  April  18,  at  111.  Wesleyan  Univ., 
Bloomington.   Registration  and  coffee  hour  will  be  at  8:30  a.m.  in  the  Memorial  Union 
Bldg.  (South  Entrance).   Featured  on  the  program  will  be  Associate  Prof.  Hugo  W. 
Cowes  of  the  U.I.  who  will  speak  on  "Ideas  de  la  novela  en  Unamuno, "  and  Mr.  Albert 
Turner  of  Evanston  Township  High  School  who  will  speak  on  the  Advanced  Placement  Pro- 
gram in  Spanish.   Luncheon  will  be  served  at  12:30  p.m.  and  will  cost  $2.$0.   Those 
wishing  to  attend  the  luncheon  should  send  their  reservations  and  checks  to  Mrs. 


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Gladys  Leal,  20?  W.  Iowa  St.,  Urbana,  111.  61801. 

PUBLICATIONS  OF  INTEREST 
The  Internews  Co.  has  a  series  in  which  a  subscriber  receives  26  Spanish  and  Portu- 
guese newspapers  for  1  year  for  $10;  23  of  the  Spanish  newspapers  come  fro  20  coun- 
tries in  Spanish  America,  plus  Spain,  Morocco,  and  the  Philippines,  and  3  of  the  Por- 
tuguese newspapers  come  from  Brazil  and  Portugal.   A  lower  rate  is  available  for 
class  or  multiple  subscriptions.   Inquiries  and  subscription  requests  can  be  sent  to; 
Internews  Co.,  Box  3138,  Aspen,  Colo.  81611. 

COLLOQUIUM  FOR  PROF.  SHOEMAKER 
The  department  is  sponsoring  a  Colloquium  to  Honor  Prof.  William  H.  Shoemaker,  who 
resigned  as  head  of  the  department  in  Sept.  1969  and  who  will  retire  from  his  pro- 
fessorial duties  in  Sept0  1970.   The  colloquium  will  be  held  on  Friday,  April  17, 
from  3:00-5:00  p.m.  in  the  U.I.  Law  Auditorium.   The  list  of  scholars  invited  to 
speak  at  this  colloquium  includes  Messrs.  Joaquin  Casalduero,  Joseph  Schraibman,  and 
Vernon  Chamberlin.   The  departmental  committee  in  charge  of  the  colloquium  consists 
of  Prof.  Joseph  S.  Flores,  chairman;  Assistant  Prof.  Thomas  C.  Meehan,  secretary;  and 
Prof.  Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo  and  Assistant  Prof.  David  R.  Hershberg. 

The  colloquium  committee  has  authorized  the  publication  of  a  volume  of  Prof. 
Shoemaker's  articles  and  essays  by  Editorial  Castalia. 

NEW  RESEARCH  PROGRAM 
The  U.I.  Center  for  Latin  American  Studies,  in  cooperation  with  the  U.I.  Office  of 
International  Programs  and  the  Center  for  International  Comparative  Studies,  has  an- 
nounced the  inauguration  of  a  3-year  humanities  research  program  on  "Native  versus 
Foreign  Influences  in  Latin  American  Artistic  and  Intellectual  Expression:   The 
Search  for  Identity  in  the  20th  Century."  Five  individual  projects  will  relate  lit- 
erature, philosophy,  and  music  to  this  common  theme.   Four  of  the  project  members  are 
from  this  department:   Prof.  Merlin  H.  Forster,  "Vanguardism  in  Latin  American  Liter- 
ature (1929-1914.5) ";  Prof.  Luis  Leal,  "Influences  on  Contemporary  Mexican  Literature"; 
Assistant  Prof.  Anoar  Aiex,  "Brazilian  Thought  during  Modernism  (1922-1945)";  and 
Assistant  Prof.  Thomas  C.  Meehan,  "Impressionism  &  Expressionism  in  the  Chilean  Nov- 
elist, Jenaro  Prieto  (1889-191|6) . "  The  5th  project  member,  from  the  U.I.  School  of 
Music,  is  Prof.  Gerard  Behague  whose  topic  is  "Recent  Changes  in  Afro-Brazilian  Cult 
Music."  Prof,  Forster  is  the  general  coordinator  of  the  program. 

Prior  to  going  to  the  field  for  research,  the  5  participants  will  take  part  in 
an  integrating  colloquium  later  this  spring  semester. 

In  addition  to  the  5  participants,  several  graduate  students  carrying  on  doctor- 
al dissertation  investigations  overseas  in  subjects  related  to  the  program  will  hold 
research  assistantships  in  this  program  and  will  participate  in  the  colloquium,, 

1970  SUMMER  SESSION 
The  department  will  offer  a  variety  of  courses  during  the  1970  Summer  Session,  June 
22-Aug.  15.   Spanish  courses  for  undergraduates  include  Spanish  101,  102,  103,  101;, 
211,  212,  213,  21L|.,  an<3  221.   Courses  for  advanced  undergraduates  and  graduates  are 
Spanish  307  (Spanish- American  Literature  to  1888),  309  (Medieval  Spanish  Literature), 
31[(.  (Spanish  Drama  &  Poetry  of  the  Golden  Age),  331  (La  Cultura  Hispanica:   Espafia), 
351  (Phonetics),  352  (Syntax),  and  382  (Language  Laboratory  Techniques).   Courses  for 
graduates  include  Spanish  1^.00  (Beginning  Spanish  for  Graduate  Students),  I4.I7  (Renais- 
sance &  Baroque  Drama  in  Spain),  J4.I9  (Cervantes),  k21  (Modern  Spanish  Novel  &  Essay), 
!±31  (Spanish-American  Poetry:   Middle  America),  I4.3B  (Spanish- American  Essay),  [j.54 
(Old  Spanish),  J4.9I  (Special  Topics),  and  1+99  (Thesis  Research). 

Graduate  courses  in  Italian  consist  of  Italian  I4.OO  (Beginning  Italian  for  Grad- 
uate Students),  J4.9I  (Special  Topics),  and  1^.99  (Thesis  Research). 

Graduate  courses  in  Portuguese  include  Portuguese  1|07  (Studies  in  Brazilian  Lit- 
erature), [(.91  (Special  Topics),  and  lj.99  (Thesis  Research). 

Those  desiring  the  complete  Summer  Session  timetable  and  information  about  ad- 
mittance should  write:  Director  of  Admissions  &  Records,  U.I.,  100a  Administration 
Bldg.,  Urbana,  111.  61801. 

NEW  TEACHING  ASSISTANTS 
The  department  welcomes  3  new  teaching  assistants  this  semester.   New  assistants  in 


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Spanish  are  Mr.  Luis  Crist6bal  Vera  (B.A.  U.I.)  and  Mr.  George  Anthony  Yudice  (B.A. 
Hunter  College,  New  York).   The  new  assistant  in  Italian  is  Mr.  Marco  Troiano  (Dott- 
orato,  Univ.  of  Bari,  Italy). 

In  addition,  a  tuition-and-f ee  waiver  for  the  spring  semester  has  been  awarded 
to  Mr.  Harold  Lee  Koch  (B.A.  U.I.). 

MESA  REDONDA 
The  Mesa  Redonda  met  on  Friday  afternoon,  Feb.  20,  in  the  Illini  Union.   Graduate 
Fellow  Lia  Schwartz  de  Lerner  led  a  discussion  on  the  topic  of  her  doctoral  disserta- 
tion, "Creaciones  lingtHsticas  en  la  proaa  satirica  de  Quevedo." 

FACULTY  NOTES 
Prof.  Joseph  S.  Flores,  along  with  Prof.  Bruce  Mainous,  head  of  the  U.I.  Dept.  of 
French,  attended  the  meeting  of  the  111.  Foreign  Language  Teachers  Association's 
Executive  &  Advisory  Board  at  the  Sheraton-Blackstone  Hotel,  Chicago,  on  Saturday, 
March  li;. 

Prof.  Robert  E.  Lott  has  been  awarded  a  $1500  grant  by  the  American  Philosophi- 
cal Society  of  Philadelphia  to  enable  him  to  work  on  his  Juan  Valera  project  during 
the  summer  of  1970. 

FACULTY  PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Luis  Leal,  with  Prof.  Frank  N.  Dauster  of  Rutgers  Univ.,  has  edited  an  antho- 
logy for  undergraduate  study  courses,  Literatura  de  Hispanoamerlca,  to  be  published 
this  month  by  Harcourt,  Brace  &  World. 

Prof.  Robert  E.  Lott  has  2  reviews  in  Books  Abroad,  vol.  XLIII,  no.  Ij.  (Autumn 
1969):   Jos5  F.  Montesinos'  Gald6s,  vol.  I,  on  p.  563 »  and  Antonio  Regalado  Garcia' s 
51  siervo  y_  e_l  senor :   La  dialictica  agonica  de  Miguel  de  Unamuno,  on  p.  570-71o 

Prof.  Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo  in  collaboration  withToseph  Laurenti  has  published 
an  article,  "Notas  para  una  bibliografla  critica  del  pr6logo  en  la  literatura  espaft- 
ola, "  Annali-Sezione  Romanza,  vol.  XII,  no.  1  (1970),  81+-91+. 

After  accepting  his  edition  of  Juan  de  Zavaleta' s  Err ores  celebrados ,  Clasicos 
Castellanos  has  commissioned  Assistant  Prof.  David  R.  Hershberg  to  edit  an  edition 
of  Zavaleta' s  Dia  de  fiesta. 

§§§§§§§§ 

TWENTY  YEARS   AGO    IN  THE   NEWSLETTER 
From  the    Newsletter,    March  1950:       "The   U.I.    chapter  of    Sigma   Delta  Pi,    national    Span- 
ish honorary   society,    is   presenting   Don   Quixote   de    la  Mane  ha ,    a  million-dollar   screen 
version  of    Cervantes'    immortal   classic   at   the   University   Auditorium  on  Monday    and 
Tuesday,    May  8   and   9... In  the   title   role   is   Rafael    Rivelles,    prominent   Madrid    stage 
and  screen  actor.      Juan   Calvo  plays   the  part   of    the    faithful    Sancho   Panza.      Spanish 
dialogue   is   translated  by   adequate   English  titles." 

CHACUN-A- S0N-G0UT   DEPARTMENT 
The   Dec.    1969   Newsletter   of    the   Wash.    Foreign  Language   Program  reports   that   the   Tre- 
teau   de  Paris'    production  of   Jean  Anouilh' s   Antigone    (which  played   at    the   U.I.   Kran- 
nert    Center   last    Nov.    5)    had   its   booking   cancelled  by   a  theatre   in  Seattle,    because 
the   theatre   had   decided  to   stage   the   musical  Hair    instead. 

BUT   THERE  MUST   BE   AN  EASIER   WAYl 
The    Sept.    1969  Mo.    Foreign   Language    Newsletter    ( "Show -Me    News   &  Views")    quotes    Victor 
Borge,    claiming    to  have   learned   Japanese   by  playing  records    while    he   slept.      Said   Mr. 
Borge,    "It  worked,    and  now   I   speak  perfect    Japanese,    but   only  when   I   am  asleep." 

The   University   of    Illinois   Modern   Foreign   Language    Newsletter    is  published    jointly  by 
the  modern  language   departments   of  the   U.I.   under   the   direction  of   the   Head  of   the 
Dept.    of   Spanish,    Italian,    &  Portuguese.      Editorial  offices   are   located  in  251   Illini 
Tower,    Champaign,    telephone    (217)    333-3536.      The   Newsletter   is   available   without 
charge   to   all    interested  persons    in  Illinois   and   other   areas.      All   communications    by 
mail   should  be    addressed   to:      The   Editor,    MFL  Newsletter,    221+  Lincoln   Hall,    Urbana, 
111.    61801. 


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THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS  MODERN  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  NEWSLETTER 


April,  1970 

Vol.  XXIII,  No.  7 


Director:   Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello 
Editor:   Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jr. 


LATIN  COMES  ALIVE I 


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DUM  SUPERLEGATUS   IN  VIA  AMBULAT,  VIDET 
MULTAS  ARBORES  QUAE  IN  VIA  JACENT. 


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SUPERLEGATUS   ET   URSUS 


Dr.    Richard   Scanlan,    U.I.  professor   of    Classics    and  of   Secondary   Education,    has    cre- 
ated a  new  5-year   comprehensive   classics   curriculum  for  high   school  students   which 
puts   life    into   that    "dead"   language,    Latin.      "Students   somehow  got   the    idea   that   no 
Roman  ever   smiled  or  had  any  fun,      said  Prof.    Scanlan,    explaining  his  use   of  humor 
and  popular   elements   in  the   new  series. 

The   program  uses   a  multi-sensory   approach   to    teaching    Latin.      The   students 
speak,    hear,    see,    and  act   out    the   language.      The   lst-year  program's    visual   aids   in- 
clude  comic   strips;   a  frequent  protagonist   is    Superlegatus    (shown  above),    a   Roman 
soldier   of   Superman  proportions.      Superlegatus    is    a  marked   departure   from   the   usual 
Caesar-Cicero-Vergil   sequence    of   teaching   Latin.      "We   try   to   get   the   kids    involved 
and    interested   in   the    story  line    so   that   they  care   about   what's  happening    to    the 
characters,"   stated  Prof.    Scanlan.      The   lst-year  program  covers  all   the   grammar   that 
is  generally  covered   in  2  years   in  other  programs. 

The   2nd-year  program  likewise    departs   from   Caesar's   writings;    it    is    instead 
based  on    themes   that    young  people    today   find  relevant    and   exciting:      war,    imperial- 
ism,   the   class    struggle   of  minority  groups    in  ancient   Rome,    religion,    philosophy,    and 
love.      The   3rd-year  program  considers  the   rise  and  fall  of   the  Roman  Empire,    with   the 
students   encouraged   to    draw  comparisons   between   ancient    Rome   and  modern  government. 

The   Uth-year  program  studies   epic   poetry:      Vergil's   Aeneid  as    well  as  Latin 
translations   of    such  diverse   works   as   Dante's   Divine    Comedy   and  Mary  Renault's    The 
King   Must    Die   and   The    Bull   from  the    Sea.      The    5th-year   program  concentrates   on  lyric 
poetry,    not   only   ancient   but    Latin  translations   of   such  modern  poets   as    Emily   Dickin- 
son,   A.    E.    Housman,    and  e.    e.    cummings,    who   are   strongly   in  the    classical    tradition. 

A   similar  program  for    Greek   is    currently   being  planned. 

The   Latin  program  was   originally  planned   for   University   High   School,    Urbana,    but 
is   now  being  tried  out   in  more   than  I4.50   schools   in  the  U.S.    and   Canada.      It   is  being 
funded  by    the  U.S.    Office    of    Education,    and    will    eventually  be   available  in  published 
form.      Materials    for   the   first   2   years   of   the   Latin  program  are    currently  available 
at   cost   in  offset  form;   inquiries   should  be  directed  to  Prof.   Richard   Scanlan,    Dept. 
of   the   Classics,    361  Lincoln  Hall,    U.I.,   Urbana,    111.    61801. 

TOO   MANY  PH.D.'S 
Ph.D.    candidates   and  recipients   who   attended   the   Modern  Language  Association   Conven- 
tion in  Denver,    Colo.,    in  Dec.    1969   discovered    that   they  outnumber   the    jobs   availably 
Doctoral   candidates   in  English  and  foreign   languages   are  finding  themselves   in  the 
worst    job  market   since   World  War   II.      The    situation  is   such  not   only  in  the  languages 


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but  also  in  the  other  humanities  and  the  natural  and  social  sciences.   In  1968  uni- 
versity hirings  fell  by  over  50%   in  all  curricula.   Since  World  War  II,  the  universi. 
ties  have  been  overproducing  Ph.D.»s  so  that  today  they  are  a  glut  on  the  market. 

This  is  reflected  in  the  number  of  recruiters  at  recent  MLA  conventions.  In 
196$  there  were  739  recruiters;  then  in  1968  the  figure  dropped  to  558;  this  past 
convention  had  only  268. 

The  MLA  is  encouraging  the  universities  to  apply  more  rigid  controls  to  their 
doctoral  programs.   In  addition,  doctoral  job-seekers  are  being  asked  to  consider 
the  junior  colleges.   The  number  of  junior  colleges  continues  to  increase,  from 
around  [(.00  just  8  years  ago  to  over  1000  today.   The  drawback  is  that  few  junior  col- 
leges feel  that  they  can  afford  Ph.D.  faculties.   The  Ph.D. 's  themselves  are  likewise 
reluctant  to  approach  the  junior  colleges,  where  they  would  more  likely  have  to  teacr 
elementary  grammar  courses  rather  than  the  advanced  literature  and  linguistics 
courses  for  which  their  doctoral  degrees  have  prepared  them. 

QTTINTO  LINGO  1969  ESSAY  CONTEST 
The  March  1970  issue  of  Quinto  Lingo  Magazine  contains  the  winning  essay  in  the  mag- 
azine's 1969  Essay  Contest,  as  well  as  the  essays  of  the  I4.  runners-up  and  excerpts 
from  10  Honorable  Mention  essays.   The  contest  attracted  over  300  essays  on  the  topic 
"Personal  Involvement  With  Language  Learning."  Quinto  Lingo  will  send  a  free  copy  of 
the  March  issue  upon  request;  those  wishing  a  sample  copy  should  write  to  Mr.  Charles 
Gerras,  Executive  Editor,  Quinto  Lingo,  Rodale  Press,  Inc.,  33  East  Minor  St., 
Emmaus,  Perm.  1801^9. 

PUBLICATIONS  OF  INTEREST 
The  handbook  Undergraduate  Study  Abroad;   U.S.  College- Sponsored  Programs  lists  U.S. 
institutions  which  sponsor  foreign  study  programs  in  various  countries.   Copies  at 
$2.75  each  are  available  from  the  Institute  of  International  Education,  309  United 
Nations  Plaza,  New  York,  N.Y.  10017. 

PLES  teachers  (Foreign  Languages  in  the  Elementary  Schools )  will  be  interested 
in  a  report,  1969  FLES  Evaluation:   Language  Skills  and  Pupil  Attitudes  in  Fairfield 
Conn.  Public  Schools,  which  describes  the  results  of  an  investigation  of  foreign  Ian- 
guage  skills  achieved  by  this  program.   A  copy  of  the  report  is  available  by  writing 
Mr.  Kenneth  A.  Lester,  Foreign  Language  Consultant,  Conn.  State  Dept.  of  Education, 
Box  2219,  Hartford,  Conn.  06115,  and  asking  for  Bulletin  106. 

The  Announcement  of  Selected  Teaching  Materials  for  Teachers  of  Latin  and  Greek 
lists  games,  pamphlets,  books,  posters,  and  other  teaching  aids.   It  is  available 
from  the  American  Classical  League  Service  Bureau,  Miami  Univ.,  Oxford,  Ohio  lj.5056. 
The  ACL  Service  Bureau  also  offers  a  19"x25"  chart  called  "Latin  is  the  Basis  of 
Spanish,  Italian,  tic   French"  with  columns  of  related  words  in  these  l±   languages,  for 
$.50  each. 

A  catalogue  of  practice  materials  for  beginners  in  Latin  is  available  from  the 
Education  Publishing  Service,  301  Vassar  St.,  Cambridge,  Mass.  02139» 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES  --by  Prof.  Barbara  Smalley 

PUBLICATION 
Prof.  A.  0.  Aldridge  has  published  "Chateaubriand,  the  Idea  of  Liberty,  and  Latin 
America"  in  Proceedings  of  the  Commemor a t i o n  of  the  Bicentenary  of  the  Birth  of  Cha- 
teaubriandj  1968  (Geneva,  1970"),  201-213. 

DOCTORAL  DEGREE 
Dr.  Noah  Marcell  has  recently  been  awarded  the  Ph.D.  degree  in  Comparative  Litera- 
ture at  the  U.I.   The  topic  of  his  dissertation  was  The  Impact  and  Influences  of  Rus- 
sian Literature  upon  German  VJr iters  in  the  XVIII  and  the  Beginning  of  the  XIX  Cen- 
turies. 

VISITING  LECTURER 
Robert  Shackleton  of  Oxford  Univ.  presented  a  lecture  entitled  "Traditional  Elements 
in  the  Enlightenment,"  on  Wednesday  evening,  April  8,  in  180  Bevier  Hall.   His  talk 
was  sponsored  by  the  Journal  Club  of  the  French  Dept.  and  also  by  the  Comparative 
Literature  Program. 


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FRENCH  NOTES   --   by  Prof.    Larkin  B.   Price 

TRAVELING   SCHOLARS   OP   THE  FRENCH    DSPT. 
Prof.    Herbert    DeLey   attended  the    Conference   on  17th   Century  French   Literature   at  the 
Univ.    of    Va.,    Charlottesville,    March  19-21.      One    afternoon  Prof.    DeLey,    Felix  R. 
Freudraann    (Univ.    of    Conn.),    and   James   Doolittle    (Rochester)   moderated   a    Symposium  on 
the  17th   Century  Memo ire. 

Prof.    Robert   J.    Nelson  was    in  Boston  for   the   Northeast    Conference   on  the   Teach- 
ing  of   Foreign  Languages   March  19-21    (see   Feb.    Newsletter).      Prof.    Stanley  Shinall 
and   an  M.A.T.    candidate,    Sharon  Drazner,    accompanied  him, 

NEW  PH.D.'S 
VJithin  recent   weeks   Mrs.    Diane    Butturff   and  Mr.    Guy   Trail   completed  final   require- 
ments  for   the  degree   of   Ph.D.    in  French.      Mrs.    Butturff   wrote   her   dissertation, 
"L' Ambigu   de    vers   et    de  prose ";      Definition  of   a  17th   Century   Genre,    under   the   dir- 
ection of   Prof.    Judd   Hubert.      Prof.    Stanley   Gray  directed  Mr.    Trail' s   work  on  Mal- 
raux:      The    Commerce   of  Philosophy   and   Art. 

PUBLICATIONS    OF    INTEREST 
The   French  American   Cultural    Services   &  Educational   Aids    (FACSEA)   offers   catalogues 
of    their   films,    records,    slides,    tapes,    brochures,    and  other  teaching  aids    to    teach- 
ers  of   French  who   write   FACSEA,    972  Fifth   Ave.,    New  York,    N.Y.    10021, 

The  monthly  bilingual    (in  French  and   English)    Montreal    ' 70   includes    information 
on  all  of    Canada,    not    just   Montreal.      A  subscription   is   available  free   by  writing 
M.    Jean   Drapeau,    Mayor   of  Montreal,    Montreal,    P.Q. ,    Canada, 

The  Canadian  Consulate  General  offers  free  loans  of  French  films  for  non-commer- 
cial use  to  teachers  of  French,  A  list  of  available  films  can  be  obtained  by  writing 
the    Canadian   Consulate,    500   Boylston   St.,    Boston,    Mass.    02116, 

FUTURE  EVENTS 
Reminder:      On  April  18   the    Downstate    Chapter   of   the   American  Association  of   Teachers 
of   French  will  meet   at   the   Paradise    Inn    (Route  1^5  south)   in  Champaign, 

The    Central    Renaissance    Conference   will  meet    on  the   Urbana  campus   April  16-18, 
Among   papers    to   be   read  are   2   on  French   subjects,    one   of   them  presented  by  Prof, 
Donald   Stone    (Harvard), 

The    Conference   on  African  Languages    &  Linguistics   will  be   held    April  2\\-2$  on 
the   U.I.    Urbana  campus.      For   further   information,    write   Mrs.    J.    L.    Wilcock,    Dept.    of 
Linguistics,    3O9L  Davenport   Hall,    U.I,,    Urbana,    111.    61801. 

UNIVERSITY   OF   KENTUCKY  FOREIGN   LANGUAGE   CONFERENCE 
The   23rd   annual   meeting   of   the    Univ.    of   Ky.    Foreign   Language    Conference,    April  23-25, 
promises    to  be   very  rich,    with  several   special    sections    for    those    interested   in 
French   literature    and   language.      A  glimpse   at    some   of  what   will  happen: 

April  .21j.,    9:00   a.m.      Colloquium  on  Afro-Carribean    Studies    (papers   by   Jacques    Ze- 
phir,    Albert   Valdman,    and    Jos6   Ferrer-Canales ) .    Special   Section:      "Literature   &  Revo- 
lution—the  Writer    and   Society,"   with  papers   by   Bettina   L.    Knapp    (Racine),    Pierre    de 
Saint    Victor    (Rousseau),    Richard    Switzer    (Chateaubriand),    Philip    Walker    (Zola),    Marc 
Hanrez    (A.    France),    Smraett   Parker    (Camus),    and   John  D.    Erickson   (Sartre),      French  I: 
papers    by  Mark   S.    Whitney    (Ronsard),    Hugh  M.    Davidson    (Montaigne    ^c  Pascal),    Richard 
L.    Frautschi    (Diderot    h   Computer),    and   Douglas   W.    Alden    (Leon   Blum  &  Rolland ) . 

April   2\\.,    2:00-2:30  p.m.      Symposium  on  Michel   Butor,    Novelist    h  Critic    (papers 
by  Leon  S.    Roudiez   and   Jack  Kolbert,    then  Butor   for  1  hour   on   "Creation  &  Criticism. *[ 

April  25,    9:00  a.m.      Special   Section:      "Young  Malraux    (1920-1932)"  with  papers 
by   Herbert    S.    Gersham,    Brian  T.    Fitch,    Francis   P.    Tafoya,    Paul  A.    Fortier,    C.    Denis 
Boak,    and   Jean   Carduner.      French  II:      papers   by  Roy  E.    Leake,    Jr.    (Montaigne), 
Claude    Abraham    (Corneille),    Karl   D.    Uitti    (Novel),    and  Edith  Kern    (Irony:      Sartre, 
Camus,    Beckett), 

For  more    information,    write   to   Foreign   Language    Conference,    673   Office   Tower, 
Univ.    of  Ky.,    Lexington,    Ky.    I4.O5O6. 

INNOVATIONS    IN  TIE   B.A.T.    CURRICULUM 
A  new  feature    of   our    B.A.T.    French  Methods    course    is    French  199M,    1   hour   credit, 
Micro-Teaching.      Proposed  by  Prof.    Stanley  Shinall  last   Nov.,    the   course   consists   of 


video   taping-    students    in  peer   teaching    situations    for  professional    critiquing.      Mr. 
Kandera,    our   methods    teacher,    reports   an   enthusiastic    response    from  participants. 
Although  micro-teaching   has    been   done    on   a    volunteer    basis  previously,    this   is    the 
first    time    videotaping   of   micro-teaching    experiences   has   been   integrated   into    the 
total   scheme    of    our  professional   methods    courses.      This    semester  our  practice   teach- 
ing   senior   B.A.T.'s    are   enough   in  number   to   merit    a   special  foreign  language   methods 
course    in   the    College    of    Education    (Ed.    2I4.I).      Next   fall    there   will   be   enough  for   2 
sections    of    Secondary   Education  2I4.I,    282,    and   199M. 

Another   innovation  of   the   French   R.A.T.    track   is    French   199P,    1  hour  credit. 
Sixteen   students   responding   to   an    interest    query   are   registered  for   para-teaching 
experiences    with  assignments   made   by  Prof.    Shinall   and  with   the    direction  of  Miss 
Patricia  Eager   of   Urbana  High,    Mrs.    Kathleen  Kusmanoff   of   Urbana   Junior    High,    and 
Mrs.    Anne    Sanders   of   Leal    School.      These    16  registrants   will    take   part   in  local   FL 
programs   in  activities  ranging  from  tutoring  to   actual   classroom  experience.      A  plan- 
ning meeting    of   the    critic    teachers,    other   Urbana   French    staff,    and   the   registrants 
took  place   March   17.      We   will  be  performing   a   service    to   the    local    schools,    the  par- 
ticipants   will  gain  a   valuable   overview  of   the   local  FL  curriculum  and   insight    into 
the  problems    and  rewards   of   the  profession  on  the    local  levei. 

1970    SUMMER   SESSION 
The   Dept.    of   French  will  offer    the   following  courses   during    the    1970    Summer   Session, 
June   22-Aug.    15.      Courses  for  undergraduates    include   French  101,    102,    103,    10i|,    201. 
202,    211,    212,    and   211l.      For   advanced  undergraduates,    there   are   French  311    (Diction), 
313    (Phonetics).    3II4.    (Syntax),    335    (French   Civilization  I),    and   382    (Language   Labora- 
tory Techniques).      Courses   for    graduates  are   French  lj.00   and  I4.OI    (Beginning   French  for 
Graduate    Students),    J4.25    (Explication  de    textes   I),    J4J4.I    (Studies    in  20th   Century 
French  Literature    I),    L|i|9    (Introduction    to    Old   French   Language    &  Literature),    473 
(Seminar    in   18th   Century   French  Literature),    I4.9I    (Individual   Topics),    and  1^99    (Thesis 
Research). 

Those    desiring    the    complete    Summer    Session   timetable    and  information  about   ad- 
mittance  should   write:      Director  of   Admissions    &  Records,    100a  Administration  Bldg., 
U.I.,    Urbana,    111.    61801. 

NEW  FRENCH  FILM  PROGRAM 
The   French   Dept.    is  presenting    this    semester   a  program  of    7   classic    French  films, 
ranging  from  Rene1    Clair    to   Jean-Luc    Godard,    to   be    shown   to   French  students    only. 
Certain  classes   will  use   some   of   the   films    as   material   for   classroom  discussion. 

COOPERATIVE   PROGRAMS  V/ITH   OTHER   DEPARTMENTS 
Planning   for    "things    French"  programs  passed  to   another   stage   with  a  2-hour   meeting 
at   the    French   House   March  6,    bringing   together    those    interested    in   the   programs   from 
other   departments    and    about    10  professors    of   the   Dept.    of   French.      Of   the    some    30 
professors   who   expressed   interest,    the   following   were    able   to   attend:      Jean   Ann  Beck- 
mann    (representing  R.    Sutton,    History),    G.    Behague    (Music),    S.    Cairns    (Mathematics), 
E.    F.    and   Adele   a  Douglass    (Radio-Television),    P.    Fehl    (Art),    C.    Jeanrenaud    (Recre- 
ation),   A.    Kaufman    (English),    H.    Kellman    (Musicology) ,    E.    Lewis    (Political    Science), 
J.    McKay    (History),    J.    Molina    (Agronomy),    J.    Newman    (Classics),    and  A.    Ringer    (Music). 

Among   conclusions   reached  at   this   meeting    is   the   necessity  to    include   all   French 
speaking   countries   and  regions,    and    the    need  to    create   in  other   departments  groups    to 
give   formal    courses,    lectures,    and   direct   research.      It   was   decided   that   teams    in  the 
different   departments,    to  be    composed   of   no  more    than   3  members   who   have    competence 
in  no  more   than  1  domain,    could  best   organize   these   courses   involving  French  culture 
for    students   from  outside   their   departments. 

An  effort    is   going    to   be  made   to   offer    some    of    these   courses   this    coming   year, 
with   another   meeting    of    the   group    scheduled   before   the   end   of    the   semester   to   com- 
plete  preliminary  plans. 

GERMANIC  NOTES   --   by  Roy   Allen 

LONG-PANGE  PLANNING   AT    THE   U.I. 
The    German   Dept.    is  participating    in  a    study  beinp   conducted  presently  by   the    Cham- 
paign-Urbana  campus   of  the   U.I.    involving   long-range  planning  on  the   future   of   the 


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university.   This  study  is  on  both  an  idealistic  as  well  as  practical  level  and  in- 
volves questions  which  range  from  such  broader  issues  as  the  basic  function  of  the 
derartment  now  and  in  the  foreseeable  future  to  more  specific  problems,  such  as  the 
issue  of  the  number  of  graduate  students  which  an  ideal  German  Dept.  should  comprise. 
The  German  Dept.  is  currently  at  the  stage  of  preparing  a  questionnaire  which  is  to 
be  used  as  the  basis  for  the  discussion  of  the  future  of  the  department.   Prof.  Phil- 
ip M,  Mitchell,  Acting  Chairman  of  the  department,  is  requesting  that  interested  per- 
sons, both  from  within  and  without  the  department,  submit  those  questions  which  they 
fell  need  answering  most  urgently.   The  questions  submitted  will  constitute  the  ques- 
tionnaire.  Persons  interested  in  contributing  or  responding  to  the  questionnaire 
should  contact  Mr.  Klaus  Hanson,  who  has  been  appointed  to  collect  the  data,  at  371 
Lincoln  Hall,  U.I.,  Urbana,  111.  61801. 

DELTA  PHI  ALPHA 
The  annual  initiation  ceremonies  of  Delta  Phi  Alpha,  the  National  Honorary  German 
fraternity,  will  be  held  on  Monday,  May  25,  at  8:00  p.m.  in  the  Faculty  Lounge  of  the 
Illini  Union.   The  ceremonies  will  include  the  initiation  of  the  new  members  into  the 
fraternity  and  the  annual  awarding  of  the  Mirai_Jehle-Prize  and  the  Werner-! 'arx- Award. 
The  German  Choir,  under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Homer  Rudolf,  will  also  perform. 

GERMAN  HOUSE 
The  "Spring  Grand  Opening"  of  the  German  House,  originally  scheduled  for  March  15, 
was  postponed  to  Sunday,  April  12.   The  "open  house  took  place  from  2:00-i|.:00  p.m. 
The  program  included  entertainment  by  residents  of  the  house  (skits,  vocal  and  in- 
strumental performances)  and  refreshments.   The  German  House  is  located  at  108  S. 
Gregory  St.,  Urbana,  on  the  U.I.  campus.   Questions  concerning  the  house  can  be 
directed  to  the  house  through  either  of  2  telephone  numbers:   3J4.I4.— 2328  or  3i|l;-1977« 
The  coordinator  of  the  German  House  is  Miss  Jane  Thompson. 

TELEPHONE  LANGUAGE  TAPES 
The  German  language  tape  recordings,  normally  heard  in  the  language  laboratory  at  the 
U.I.  by  students  enrolled  in  the  2nd-year  intermediate  German  course,  103-1014.,  can 
now  be  heard  over  the  telephone  by  all  interested  persons.   By  dialing  333-63O6  on 
Mondays  and  Tuesdays  the  tapes  can  be  heard  of  the  German  stories  which  are  listened 
to  each  Monday  by  students  in  the  laboratory.   By  calling  either  333-379U  or  333-63OS 
it  is  possible  to  hear  on  Sundays  the  tapes  involving  German  poetry  from  the  rrevious 
Thursday  session  of  the  laboratory  and  to  hear  on  Mondays  and  Tuesdays  the  tapes  of 
German  stories  which  are  heard  by  students  in  the  laboratory  on  Monday  of  the  same 
week.   Of  particular  value  are  the  tapes  involving  the  poetry  which  include  interpre- 
tations of  the  poems  selected  for  reading. 

PUBLICATIONS  OF  INTEREST  TO  TEACHERS  OF  GERMAN 
The  weekly  Bulletin  of  the  German  Information  Center  deals  with  German  political  and 
cultural  affairs  and  appears  in  English.   Complimentary  subscriptions  to  this  Bulle- 
tin can  be  obtained  by  writing  to  the  German  Information  Center,  I4.IO  Park  Ave.,  New 
York,  N.Y.  10022. 

A  brochure  entitled  Berichte  aus  Berlin  (in  German)  which  describes  contemporary 
life  in  the  divided  city  is  available  free  of  charge  to  teachers  who  write  to  the 
NCSA/AATG  Service  Center,  339  Walnut  St.,  Philadelphia,  Perm.  19106. 

BRECHT  SYMPOSIUM 
In  celebration  of  the  founding  of  the  International  Brecht  Society  and  the  Brecht 
Yearbook,  a  special  Brecht  Symposium  will  be  held  in  Milwaukee,  Wise.,  from  April  16- 
18.   The  program  will  include  such  major  authorities  on  Brecht  as  Eric  Bentley,  Lee 
Baxandall,  Leroy  Shaw,  Mordecai  Gorelik,  Walter  Hinck,  Andrzej  Wirth,  Jost  Hermand, 
and  Reinhold  Grimm.   On  each  evening  of  the  Symposium  there  will  be  a  special  per- 
formance of  Brecht' s  short  play  The  Measures  Taken.   A  student  from  the  Dept.  of  Ger- 
man and  Comparative  Literature  at  the  U.I.  will  be  selected  to  participate  in  a  group 
discussion  with  Eric  Bentley  on  problems  of  translating  Brecht  into  English.   Anyone 
interested  in  more  detailed  information  and  registration  materials  for  the  Symposium 
should  write  to  John  B.  Fuegi,  Dept.  of  Comparative  Literature,  Univ.  of  Wise,  Mil- 
waukee, Wise.  53201. 


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SLAVIC  NOTES  --by  Prof.  Michael  Curran 

CONFERENCES 
The  AAASS  held  its  3rd  national  conference  on  March  26-28  at  Columbus,  Ohio.   .Among 
the  participants  were  Donald  Panger  of  Harvard  Univ.,  Victor  Erlich  of  Yale  Univ., 
Rufus  Mathewson  of  Columbia  Univ.,  and  Sir  Isaiah  Berlin,  Wolf son  College,  Oxford 
Univ.,  England.   Ralph  Fisher  of  the  Russian  and  East  European  Center  at  the  U.I. 
took  part  in  a  panel  discussion  on  Slavic  Studies  at  the  Liberal  Arts  College. 

Prof.  Richard  Sheldon  of  Dartmouth  College,  who  is  spending  the  year  at  the  U.I. 
Center  for  Advanced  Study,  will  speak  at  the  23rd  Univ.  of  Ky.  Foreign  Language  Con- 
ference in  Lexington,  Ky.   His  topic  is  "Factual  Fiction:   Viktor  Shklovsky's  Novels 
of  the  Twenties."  Prof.  Sheldon  has  published  a  translation  of  Shklovsky's  Sentimen- 
tal Journey  and  is  now  working  on  Shklovsky's  writing  of  the  thirties. 

GUEST  SPEAKER 
Andrzej  Wirth,  professor  at  Stanford  and  formerly  drama  editor  and  critic  in  Warsaw, 
will  speak  at  the  U.I.  on  April  15.   At  J|:00  p.m.  in  the  General  Lounge  of  the  Union 
he  will  speak  on  "Mrozek,  or  Absurd  Theatre  as  Theatre  of  Commitment."  At  8:00  p.m. 
in  125  Burrill  Hall  he  will  speak  on  "The  Crisis  of  the  Existential  Hero  in  Drama." 

PUBLICATIONS 
Temira  Pachmuss'  book  Zinaida  Hipp jus:   An  Intellectual  Profile  will  be  published 
soon  by  the  Southern  111.  Univ.  Press.   The  book  "makes  an  important  contribution  to 
the  study  of  Russian  literature  and  cultural  movements.   Against  the  background  of 
late  19th  century  literary  and  intellectual  life,  Miss  Pachmuss  explores  the  cultural 
ferment  out  of  which  Russian  Symbolism  emerged.   It  was  in  this  sphere,  she  shows, 
that  Hippius  found  personal  identity,  and  of  which  she  became  an  exponent,  exempli- 
fying in  her  own  work  that  bond  between  religion,  poetry,  and  mystical  sensuality 
that  characterized  Russian  literature  in  those  years." 

DEGREES  AWARDED 
The  Slavic  Dept.  awarded  Master's  Degrees  to  the  following  students  this  month: 
Marie  Gies,  Nolen  Provenzano,  and  Sally  Spaulding.   Mr.  James  Nelson  passed  his  pre- 
liminary exams  leading  to  the  doctoral  degree. 

SPANISH,  ITALIAN,  &  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  --  by  Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jr. 

PORTUGUESE  FELLOWSHIPS 
Phi  Lambda  Beta  (Portuguese  National  Honor  Fraternity)  and  the  Gulbenkian  Foundation, 
Inc.,  offer  undergraduate  fellowships  to  high  school  students  who  graduate  with  at 
least  1  year  of  Portuguese  or  equivalent.   Further  information  is  available  from  Dr. 
Norwood  Andrews,  Jr.,  Executive  Secretary,  Phi  Lambda  Beta,  P.0o  Box  1581,  Station  B, 
Vanderbilt  Univ.,  Nashville,  Term.  37203. 

SPANISH  CLUB  TO  PRESENT  PLAY 
The  Circulo  Literario  Espafiol  will  present  its  production  of  Los  invasores  by  the 
contemporary  Chilean  playwright,  Egon  Wolff.   The  play  will  be  produced  in  Spanish 
with  participation  by  U.I.  undergraduate  and  graduate  students.   The  productions  will 
be  presented  on  2  consecutive  evenings,  Wednesday  and  Thursday,  May  6-7  at  7:30  p.m. 
in  Lincoln  Hall  Theatre.   General  admission  is  $1,  with  a  special  group  rate  of  $.75 
apiece  for  groups  of  more  than  15  persons.   For  information  and  tickets,  please  write 
to  Mr.  D.  Orrantia,  Advisor,  Circulo  Literario  Espartol,  221;  Lincoln  Hall,  U.I.,  Ur- 
bane, 111.  61801. 

H0MENAJE  A  M.  A.  M0RINIG0 
The  department  will  sponsor  a  special  Homena je  al  profesor  Marcos  A. ' Morlnigo  on  the 
occasion  of  his  retirement  in  Sept.  1970»   The  Homena je  will  be  heTd  Thursday  and 
Friday,  May  11^.-15,  in  the  Law  Auditorium.  Prof.  Joseph  H.  Silverman  (Univ.  of  Calif, 
at  Santa  Cruz)  and  Prof.  Luis  Leal  (U.I.)  will  speak  at  8:00  p.m.  on  May  II4..   Prof. 
Benito  Brancaforte  (Univ.  of  Wise.)  will  speak  at  10:00  a.m.  on  May  15,  along  with 
the  reading  of  papers  submitted  by  Raquel  M.  Alfie  and  Celina  S.  de  Cortazar,  former 
students  of  Prof.  Morinigo  now  teaching  at  the  Univ.  of  Buenos  Aires.   Prof.  Luis  A. 


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Murillo  (Univ.  of  Calif,  at  Berkeley),  Prof.  Winston  A.  Reynolds  (Univ.  of  Calif,  at 
Santa  Barbara),  and  Prof.  Isalas  Lerner  (U.I.)  will  speak  at  2:00  p.m.  on  May  15. 
The  program  will  close  with  a  speech  by  Prof.  Raimundo  Lida  (Harvard  Univ.)  at  8:00 
p.m.  on  May  1$. 

The  departmental  committee  in  charge  of  the  Homena je  consists  of  Associate  Prof. 
Hugo  W.  Cowes  as  chairman,  Prof.  Luis  Leal,  Prof.  Angelina  R.  Pietrangeli,  and  Assis- 
tant Prof.  Isalas  Lerner. 

NEW  COURSES 
Several  new  courses  have  been  proposed  to  augment  the  present  undergraduate  major 
programs  in  Spanish,  Spanish- Secondary  education,  Italian,  and  Portuguese.   The  new 
courses  proposed  for  Spanish  include  Spanish  200  (Literary  Analysis),  209  (Spanish 
Language  I:   Phonology  and  Verb  System);  210  (Spanish  Language  II:  Morphology  &  Syn- 
tax), 214.0  (Spanish  Literature:  Medieval -G-olden  Age),  and  299  (Senior  Seminar). 

The  new  courses  proposed  for  Italian  are  Italian  209  (Grammar,  Syntax,  and  Pho- 
netics), 221  (Introduction  to  Italian  Literature  I),  222  (Introduction  to  Italian 
Literature  II),  and  33I  (Italian  Culture). 

The  new  courses  proposed  for  Portuguese  consist  of  Portuguese  209  (Portuguese 
Grammar  &  Phonetics),  212  (Composition  &  Conversation  II),  221  (Introduction  to  Port- 
uguese Literature),  and  222  (Introduction  to  Brazilian  Literature). 

These  new  courses  were  proposed  by  a  committee  chaired  by  Assistant  Prof.  David 
R.  Hershberg  and  including  Prof.  Joseph  S.  Flores,  Prof.  Merlin  H.  Porster,  plus  2 
graduate  students,  Miss  Janet  R.  Pitch  and  Mr.  Ronald  R.  Young,  and  2  undergraduate 
students,  Mr.  Roger  Stein  and  Miss  Eileen  Zeitz. 

NEW  FACULTY 
The  department  will  soon  welcome  Dr.  Richard  Preto-Rodas  as  associate  professor  of 
Portuguese  and  Spanish.   Dr.  Preto-Rodas  will  teach  2  courses  in  the  1970  Summer 
Session:   Portuguese  I4.O7  (Studies  in  Brazilian  Literature)  and  I4.9I  (Special  Topics). 

Sr.  Enrique  Lafourcade,  the  well-known  Chilean  novelist  presently  a  visiting 
distinguished  professor  at  the  Univ.  of  Utah,  will  be  a  visiting  professor  in  this 
department  during  the  1970  Summer  Session.   He  will  teach  Spanish  307  (Spanish-Amer- 
ican Literature  to  1888)  and  14.314.  (Spanish- American  Novel:   South  America). 

"THE  TRANSIENT" 
The  Spanish,  Italian,  &  Portuguese  Graduate  Student  Association  has  inaugurated  the 
publication  of  "The  Transient"  as  its  official  newsheet.  "The  Transient"  will  be 
issued  on  alternate  weeks  under  the  editorship  of  Graduate  Students  Stephen  J.  Sum- 
merhill  and  Carolina  Dfaz.  "The  Transient"  is  designed  to  disseminate  departmental 
information,  to  publicize  coming  departmental  events,  and  to  allow  the  department's 
graduate  students  a  media  of  expression  for  their  opinions. 

FACULTY  NOTES 
Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello,  head  of  the  department,  will  speak  on  "The  Theatre  of 
Alfonso  Sastre"  at  a  Symposium  on  the  Spanish  Theatre  to  be  held  at  the  Univ.  of  N.C. 
on  April  30-May  2.   The  Spanish  playwright  Antonio  Buero  Valle jo  will  be  the  honored 
guest  of  the  Symposium. 

Prof.  Joseph  S.  Flores  will  take  part  in  the  Secondary- Community  College-Univer- 
sity Articulation  Conference  in  Sterling,  111.,  on  Wednesday,  April  22,      The  confer- 
ence is  sponsored  by  Sauk  Valley  College,  Dixon,  111.   Prof.  Flores  will  serve  on  a 
panel  on  which  he  will  present  the  university  point  of  view  on  the  theme:   "The  Prob- 
lem of  Foreign  Language  Articulation  Between  3  Levels  of  Educational  Institutions." 

Prof.  Luis  Leal  took  part  in  a  Symposium  on  the  New  Latin  American  Novel  at  the 
Univ.  of  Syracuse  on  April  8,  along  with  the  Argentine  critic  Raul  Castagnino  and  the 
Cuban  novelist  Lino  Novas  Calvo. 

Prof.  Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo  has  been  appointed  an  associate  in  the  Center  for 
Advanced  Studies  for  the  second  semester  1970-71. 

Visiting  Assistant  Prof.  Dieter  Wanner  spoke  on  "The  Dialect  and  Standard  Lan- 
guage in  Northern  Italy"  at  the  Univ.  of  Wash,  on  March  16.   Prof.  Wanner  has  recent- 
ly been  awarded  a  U.I.  Faculty  Summer  Fellowship  to  work  on  the  topic  "Phonological 
Investigation  of  Italian  Syllable  Structure." 

Dr.  Virginia  Burbridge,  a  doctoral  alumna  of  this  department  and  currently  an 
assistant  professor  of  Spanish  at  Xavier  Univ.,  Cincinnati,  will  present  a  paper  on 


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Rodolfo  Usigli   at   the  April  meeting   of   the   Southwestern   Council  of  Latin  American 
Studies   at   the   Univ.    of   Houston. 

FACULTY  PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.    Merlin  H.    Forster's   book,    L_a  muerte   en  la_  poesia  mexicana;    Antologia   tematica, 
has    been  published  by   Editorial   Di6genes,    Mexico, 

Prof.    Luis   Leal's   edition  of   Juan  Rulfo's   Pedro   Paramo  will   be  published   in 
April  by   Appleton-Century. 

Recent  book  reviews  by  Assistant   Prof.    Thomas    C.   Meehan  include   Los  prados   de  la 
consciencia.    a  book  of    short    stories    and   novelettes   by    the  Uruguayan  writer    Carlos 
Martinez   Moreno,    in  Books   Abroad    (Feb.    1970),    and  Perspectivas    interamericanas : 
Literatura  y_  libertad  by  Robert   G.   Mead,    Jr.,    in  Hispanfifila    (otoflo   1969). 

Instructor   Maria  Elena  Bravo   de  Maharg's  review  of   Pedro    Limferrer's   La  muerte 
en  Beverly   Hills   appeared   in  A  la  luz :      Revista   de  poesia  hispanica  de   la  Univ.    de 
Calif,    (otofio  1969),    J+8-^0. 

Prof.    Benito   Brancaforte,    formerly   of   this    department   and  now  at   the   Univ.   of 
Wise,    has  published   an  article    "Croce   on  Lope   and    Calder6n:      The    Application  of   an 
Aesthetic  Theory"   in  Symposium   (Summer  1969),    plus   a  book  review  of   John  Esten  Kel- 
ler's  Alfonso  X  el   Sabio   in  Hispan6fila,    no.    35    (1969). 

PUBLICATION   OF   INTEREST 
The   Italian   Culture   Council,    Inc.,   has  recently  published  a  directory, , Italian  in  the 
Colleges   and  Universities  of   the  U.S.      The   guide   lists   370  U.S.    institutions   which 
offer    Italian;    around  370  offer  undergraduate   study,    over   5°   offer   M.A.    and/or  Ph.D. 
programs,    and   there   are   85  study  abroad  programs   in  Italy.      For  further  information, 
contact   Miss   Elvira  Adorno,    Executive   Director,    Italian   Culture    Council,    Inc.,    111+0 
Edgewood  Parkway,    Union  City,    N.J.    O7O83. 

§§§§§§§§ 
20  YEARS  AGO  IN  THE   NEWSLETTER 
From  the   Newsletter,    April  1950:      "...The   111.    State  High  School   Conference  on  World 
Language   Teaching   [was   held]    at   the   U.I.   on  April  21   and  22... Mr.    Virgil   Gillenwater, 
Counselor   on  Teacher   Education  at    the   U.I.,    spoke   on  the    language   situation  in  111. 
...[stressing]    'the  predominance   of  Latin  as   the   one   foreign  language  being   offered 
in  111.    high   schools. '.. .In  spite   of   the   overwhelming  popularity  of   Latin  as   a  high 
school  offering,    we   are   training  fewer   new  teachers  for   it   than  in  any  other   lan- 
guage with   the   exception  of   German." 

CANDID    COMMENTS 
Foreign  language   students   in  the    Savannah- Chatham  County    (Ga.)    School   System  were 
requested  to   submit   their   opinions  on  their  foreign   language   teachers.      The    follow- 
ing  excerpts,    exactly  as   written,    are  from  the   Ga.    Foreign  Language   Beacon    (Spring, 
1969): 

"Man,    my  teacher   is   goodl      It's   one    thing  to   TALK  about   a  petit   dejeuner,    but 
when  she   brought   in   some   brioche   and   sweet  butter,    I  went   to   Paris." 

"Happiness    is  a  French   teacher  with  a  bad  ear." 

"An  age   limit   should  be  put   on  language   teachers,    for    instance   no  one   over  1+0 
should    teach    (just   an   example)." 

"Young  ones    (teachers)    just   out   of   college   can  be    the    worst,    sometimes.      They 
try   to   act   like   they  are   a  professor." 

"One   funny  thing   about   my   Spanish  class   is   when  the   teacher   listens   to    Spanish 
records,   man   that   turns   him  on.      (I  worry  about   him  sometimes.)" 

"All  my   teachers    say   that  French  flows   like    a  brook,    so    soft   and   smooth,    but  my 
grades   are   really  drowning   mel" 

The   University  of    Illinois   Modern   Foreign   Language   Newsletter   is  published    jointly   by 
the  modern  language  departments   of   the   U.I.   under   the   direction  of    the    Head  of   the 
Dept.    of    Spanish,    Italian,    &  Portuguese.      Editorial   offices   are   located   in  251   Illini 
Tower,    Champaign,    telephone    (217)    333-3536.      The   Newsletter   is   available  without 
charge   to  all   interested  persons   in  Illinois    and   other   areas.      All   communications   by 
mail   should  be   addressed  to:      The   Editor,    MFL  Newsletter,    221+  Lincoln  Hall,    Urbana, 
111.    61801. 


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THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS  MODERN  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  NEWSLETTER 


May,  1970  Director:  Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello 

Vol.  XXIII,  No.  8  Editor:   Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jr. 

PROF.  WILLIAM  H.  SHOEMAKER 
On  Sept.  1,  1970,  the  13-year  tenure  of  Prof.  William  H.  Shoemaker  at  the  U.I.  Cham- 
paign-Jrbana  campus  will  come  to  an  end.   Prof.  Shoemaker  load  resigned  the  headship 
of  the  Dept.  of  Spanish,  Italian,  &  Portuguese  in  Sept.  1969,  and  has  spent  his  last 
year  at  the  U.I.  as  an  Associate  Member  in  the  Center  for  Advanced  Studies. 

As  head  of  his  department,  Prof.  Shoemaker  was  also  the  Director  of  the  U.I. 
Modern  Foreign  Language  Newsletter.   The  Newsletter  had  been  founded  during  the  acad- 
emic year  19U7-U8  by  the  late  Prof.  John  Van  Home,  head  of  the  Dept.  of  Spanish  & 
Italian.   Prof.  Shoemaker  became  the  Newsletter  Director  during  its  11th  year  of  op- 
eration.  From  1957-69,  under  his  able  and  inspiring  direction,  the  Newsletter  grew 
from  a  small  publication,  mailed  monthly  to  a  short  list  of  less  than  1000  foreign 
language  teachers  mainly  in  111.,  to  a  large  and  popular  periodical  whose  monthly 
circulation  figure  of  36OO  included  readers  not  only  in  111.,  but  in  all  the  other 
states  (except  Alaska)  and  3  foreign  countries.   It  was  Prof.  Shoemaker  who,  in  1969, 
together  with  Prof.  Anthony  M,  Pasquariello,  his  successor  as  department  head  and 
Newsletter  Director,  achieved  the  transition  of  the  Newsletter  from  a  mimeographed 
bulletin  to  a  newsletter  published  professionally  by  use  of  the  offset  photographic 
method.   When  Prof.  Shoemaker  became  Newsletter  Director,  his  publication  was  cospon- 
sored  by  3  departments:   Spanish  &  Italian,  French,  and  German.   Prof.  Shoemaker  was 
instrumental  in  bringing  2  other  language  departments  into  the  Newsletter  sphere  of 
sponsorship:   Russian  in  1959  (the  year  it  became  a  separate  U.I.  language  depart- 
ment) and  the  Graduate  Program  in  Comparative  Literature  in  1968.   In  addition  to 
directing  the  Newsletter,  Prof.  Shoemaker  frequently  contributed  items  and  articles 
of  interest  which  were  published  under  his  byline.   Prof.  Shoemaker's  name  became  so 
synonymous  with  the  Newsletter  that,  after  his  resignation  as  department  head  last 
Sept.,  a  letter  was  received  by  his  department  from  a  language  teacher  in  Chicago 
who  was  concerned  that  there  would  be  no  more  Newsletter  since  Prof.  Shoemaker  had 
resigned. 

This  Newsletter,  however,  is  not  Prof.  Shoemaker's  only  contribution  to  the 
field  of  foreign  languages.   His  entire  adult  life  has  been  one  of  devotion  to  his 
chosen  profession  of  language  teaching  and  research.   His  excellence  in  his  field  is 
mirrored  by  his  accomplishments  and  awards.   His  scholastic  depth  and  energy  are  a 
source  of  awe  and  inspiration  not  only  to  his  many  students  who  have  studied  under 
him  but  also  to  his  professional  colleagues  who  have  worked  with  him.   The  brief  bio- 
graphy which  follows  can  catch  but  the  highlights  of  his  long  and  illustrious  career. 

William  H.  Shoemaker  was  born  in  Norristown,  Penn.   He  studied  at  Princeton 
Univ.,  where  he  received  his  A.B.  in  192lj.,  his  M.A.  in  1928,  and  his  Ph.D.  in  193U* 
Prior  to  receiving  his  doctorate,  he  taught  at  Lake  Forest  Academy  in  111.  and  also 
at  Princeton.   In  1938  he  became  Chairman  of  the  Dept.  of  Romance  Languages  &  Litera- 
tures at  the  Univ.  of  Kan.   He  held  this  position  until  1957,  when  he  assumed  the 
headship  of  the  Dept.  of  Spanish  &  Italian  at  the  U.I.   Prof.  Shoemaker  served  as  the 
President  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  Spanish  &  Portuguese  in  1950. 
In  1959  he  was  decorated  as  a  Commander  in  Spain's  Order  of  Civil  Merit,  and  last 
month  was  invested  as  an  Honorary  Member  of  the  Institute  of  Hispanic  Culture.   He 
has  served  on  the  editorial  boards  of  such  periodicals  as  Symposium,  Hispan6f ila, 
and  Anale s  Galdosianas,  and  his  scholarly  articles  and  books  (many  on  the  Spanish 
novelist  Benito  PSrez  Gald6s)  are  too  numerous  to  mention.   Prof.  Shoemaker  has  dir- 
ected 2^   doctoral  dissertations,  with  I4.  more  in  progress.   Upon  his  retirement  from 
the  U.I.,  he  and  Mrs.  Shoemaker  will  make  their  home  in  Columbia,  Mo.,  where  Prof. 
Shoemaker  will  continue  to  teach  at  the  Univ.  of  Mo. 

To  Prof.  William  H.  Shoemaker  this  issue  of  the  U.I.  Modern  Foreign  Language 
Newsletter  is  fondly  and  respectfully  dedicated. 

1970  ACTFL  ANNUAL  MEETING 
The  1970  American  Council  on  the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Languages  annual  meeting  has 
baen  scheduled  for  Nov.  26-29  at  the  Biltmore  Hotel,  Los  Angeles,  Calif.,  to  be  held 
in  cobperation  with  the  Modern  ?c   Classical  Language  Association  of  Southern  Calif. 


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PUBLI CATIONS    OP    INTEREST 
Volume    I   of   The    Britannic a   Review  of   Foreign  Language   Education,    edited  by  Dr.    Emma 
Birkmaier,    was  recently  published  by  Encyclopaedia  Britannica,    Inc.      The  1+14.8-page 
volume    sells   for    $12. $0.      The  material    it   contains   makes   it   an   indispensible   tool 
for   all  teachers,    administrators,   department   heads,    board  of  education  members,    and 
others   concerned  with  the    teaching   of  foreign  languages.      The   volume   analyzes  foreign 
language   education  at   the   elementary,    secondary,    and c  ollege  level.      Volume    I   is 
divided   into  2   sections,    "Context   and   Organization  of   Foreign  Language  Learning "  and 
"Theory  and  Practice   of  Foreign   Language   Teaching   and   Learning."     This   volume   and 
the    yearly   volumes  which   will  follow  belong   in  every  high   school,    college,    and  univ- 
ersity library. 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES   --  by  Prof.    Barbara   Smalley 

PUBLI CATI ON 
Prof.    Rocco  Montano's    "Schema  di  una  storia   della  poesia  di   Dante   II"  appeared  re- 
cently  in   Convivium,    vol.   XXXVII,    no.   ij.   (1969),    385-1+13. 

MEETINGS 
Profs.   A.    0.    Aldridge,    Francois   Jost,    and   Herbert   Knust  participated  last  month  in 
the   23rd  Univ.    of  Ky.   Foreign  Language    Conference   held  at   Lexington,    Ky.      Prof.    Knust 
was    Chairman  for  a   section  of   German  literature,    and   Prof.    Jost   delivered  a  paper 
entitled   "Problems   in   Thematics:      Toward   Some   Definitions." 

On  April  16-17  Prof.  Herbert  Knust  of  the  Comparative  Literature  Program  and  1+ 
U.I.  students,  Renate  Aschober  (German),  Terri  Hori  (Comparative  Literature),  Adele 
Palmberg  (Comparative  Literature),  and  Andrew  Weeks  (German),  attended  the  Milwaukee 
Symposium  in  20th-century  Studies.  The  meetings  were  devoted  this  year  to  "Bertolt 
Brecht — 1970."  Prof.  Eric  Bentley  conducted  a  seminar  in  which  his  translations  of 
Brecht's  works  were  discussed;  Mr.  Hori  and  Mr.  Weeks  participated  in  this  seminar0 
All  5  also  attended  lectures  by  Profs.  Jost  Hermand,  Leroy  Shaw,  and  Walter  Hinck,  as 
well  as   a  performance  of   Brecht's   The  Measures   Taken. 

During  April  16-17,    the   Comparative   Literature   Program  and  the   Graduate   School 
held   the  J+th  Annual    Conference  on  Comparative   Literature  at   the   Univ0    of    Southern 
Calif,   at   Los   Angeles.      The    conference  concentrated  on   "Black  Literature,"   and  topics 
discussed   included   "Concepts   of   the   Black  Aesthetic   in  Contemporary  Black  Literature" 
and    "Black   Thunder:      The   Negro   Renaissance  in  American  Literature. 

On  April  16-18  Prof.   A.    0.    Aldridge   attended  a  meeting  of  the   American   Society 
for   18th-century   Studies  held  at   Case   Western  Reserve  Univ.    in  Cleveland,    Ohio. 
During   the    course   of  the  meeting  Prof.    Aldridge  was   elected  to   the   Advisory   Board  of 
the    Society. 

VISITING  LECTURER 
On  Monday,    April  27,   Prof.    Lilian  Furst   of   the  Univ.   of  Manchester,    England,   deliv- 
ered  a  lecture  under   the  auspices   of   the    Comparative  Literature  Program  at    the   U0I. 
The   subject   of   the   lecture  was    "The  Relationship  of   French  Romanticism  to  the    German 
Storm  and    Stress." 

THESIS   DEFENSE 
On  April  28  Mr.    Graeme   Tytler   successfully  completed  his   thesis   defense.      His   disser- 
tation deals  with    "Character   Description  and  Physiognomy  in  the   European   Novel    (1800- 
1860)    in  Relation  to   J.    C.    Lavater's   Physiognomische   Fragmente." 

LECTURE 
Prof.   A.    0.    Aldridge   delivered  a  lecture   on  April  10  at   Indiana  Univ.,    Bloomington, 
under   the    auspices   of   the    Indiana  Program  of   Comparative   Literature.      The   topic   of 
his  lecture   was    "Biography   and   Realism." 

FRENCH  NOTES   --  by  Prof.    Larkin  B.    Price 

IN  MEM0RIAM 
We   are  grieved  to   learn  of  the   death  of   Prof.    Jean  Misrahi  of   Brown  Univ.    on  April 


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10.      Mr.    Misrahi  was   visiting  professor  in  this   department  for   the   year   1967-68, 
teaching    the   courses   in  Old  French  language   and   literature. 

TRAVELING    SCHOLARS    OP   THE  FRENCH   DEPT. 
Prof.    C.    A.    Knudson   attended  the   annual  meeting  of   the  Mediaeval   Academy  of   America 
in   Cambridge,    Mass.,    April   17-18. 

At  the   April   17  meeting  of   the    Chicago   Chapter  of   the   American   Association  of 
Teachers   of  French,    Prof.    Robert   J.    Nelson  gave   what  he   calls   "une    'anti-conference' 
au   sujet   des    'dix  articles   de  foi'    dans   l'enseignement   des   langues  etrangeres." 

Prof.    Francis   Nachtmann  was   one   of  the  panel  members   to  discuss    "Current    Trends 
and  Practices   in  Articulation  and   Transfer  of   Foreign  Language  at  the    State  Univer- 
sities  in  111."   at   the    Secondary-Community   College -University   Articulation  Conference 
organized  by   Sauk   Valley   Junior   College   and  held   in  Sterling,    111.,    April  22. 

Toward  the  end  of  April,  Prof.  Stanley  Shinall  served  as  a  member  of  the  North 
Central  Association's  Accreditation  Committee  to  evaluate  the  foreign  language  pro- 
grams  in  the    Champaign-Urbana  schools. 

The   Northeast   Conference  on  the   Teaching  of  Foreign   Languages    (announced  in  the 
Feb.    Newsletter)   was  held  at   the  beginning   of  May.      Profs.    Bruce  Mainous   and  Robert 
J.    Nelson,    Mrs.    Samia   Spencer,    and  Mr.   Paul   Griffith  attended  from  the  French  Dept. 

Prof.   Larkin  B.   Price  was    in  Lexington,    Ky.,    April  23-25  for  the   annual  Univ. 
of   Ky.   Foreign  Language   Conference. 

AATF   MEETING  AT   URBANA 
A  meeting   closer   to  home,    the   Downstate   111.    Chapter  of   the   American  Association  of 
Teachers   of  French   (Prof.    Brigitta  Kuhn  of   111.    State  Univ.,   President)   was  held  Ap- 
ril  18   at   the   Paradise    Inn  just   outside   Champaign. 

Mr.    Vytas   Gaigalas,    111.    State   Univ.,    gave   a  paper   on   Camus;   Mr.    Regis   Ferran, 
Southern  111.   Univ.,    discussed  the  relation  of    theatre   and  government   in  France;   Mr„ 
Alan  Ouvrier   and  other  French   students   at  Urbana  gave  another  presentation  of  their 
radio  program  on  French  youth  and  education;   and  Prof.   Alphonse   Roche,    visiting  pro- 
fessor at   111.    State  Univ.    this   semester,    talked  about    "Les   Enquetes   littlraires. " 

Elected  President   for   the   coming   year  was   Prof.   Frank   Gunderson,    Southern  111. 
Univ.,    with  Prof.   Robert   J.    Nelson,    U.I.   Urbana,    as   Vice-President,    and  Mr.    Geoffrey 
A.    Hughes,    Rloomington  High   School,    Secretary-Treasurer, 

PUBLICATIONS    OF   INTEREST 
Word  has   been  received  from  the   City  of   Montreal   that  publication  of  the  magazine 
Montreal    i 70    (mentioned   in  the  April  Newsletter,   p.    3)   has  been  interrupted  due    to 
significant   increases   in  the    Canadian  postage  rates.      The   City  Printer  has   available 
a  limited  number   of  back  issues  which  can  be    sent  upon  request  by  contacting  M.   Paul 
Cholette,    L'Imprimeur   de   la   Ville,    Chambre   1,    Hotel  de   Ville,    275  Est   Rue    Notre-Dame, 
Montreal,    P.Q. ,    Canada. 

The   1st    issue,    No.    21,    of   French  XX  Bibliography    (1885  to  the  present)   Bince   the 
change   in  sponsorship   and  title  from  French   VII,    is  now  available.      Prof.    Stanley 
Gray  has   served  for    several   years   as   Correspondent   for  this   bibliography,    as  has   also 
Prof.    Larkin  B.   Price,    who  with  this    latest   issue   enters  the    Advisory   Committee. 

In   "Le    Coin  du  pedagogue,"  French  Review,    April   1970,    Prof.   Fred  Jenkins   is   quo- 
ted at   length  on  the   subject  of  reflexive   verbs. 

A  review  by  Prof.  Larkin  B.  Price  of  the  2nd  edition  of  Germaine  Brae's  Marcel 
Proust   and  Deliverance  from  Time    appeared  in  the  March  1970  issue   of  French  Review. 

FRENCH   HONORARY   FRATERNITY 
This  year's  Pi   Delta  Phi   initiation  and  banquet  took  place  on  May  13   in   the   Illini 
Union. 

CSNACLE  MEETING 
The   Cenacle  met   at  the   home   of  Mr.   &  Mrs.   Robert   Bartle   April  29.      Profs.    Barbara 
Bowen,    Yves   Velan,    and  Mrs.   Ron  Gordon  each  gave   a  brief  explication  de   texte   of 
Sponde's   3rd  sonnet   on  death,    followed  by  general   discussion  of   the  poem. 

POETRY   CONTEST 
The   annual  poetry  contest,    organized  this    year  by  Mr.   Paul  T.   Griffith,    was   held  May 
5.      Students  were   divided   into   I4.  categories   according   to  background,    with  1st,    2nd, 


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and   3rd  prizes  for  each  group   furnished  by  the   office  of   the   French  cultural   attached 

FRENCH  DEPT.    PLAY 
Georges   Feydeau's  comedy,    Feu  la  mere   de  madame ,    is   now  in  rehearsal  under   the   direc- 
tion of   Alan  Ouvrier,    who  has  brought  together  a   cast   composed  principally  of  under- 
graduates.     The  production  date,   uncertain  at   the  moment,   will  be   sometime   after  May 
15. 

FRENCH   JOURNAL   CLUB  LECTURES 
Prof.    Robert   Shackleton,    Bodley's   Librarian.    Oxford  Univ.,    gave  a  lecture  April   8, 
"Traditional  Elements   in  the  Enlightenment,      sponsored  by   the  Journal   Club  of  the 
Dept.    of  French  and  the   Program  in  Comparative  Literature. 

On  April   13  Prof.   Mortimer   Guiney  of  the   Univ.    of   Conn,   gave   a  paper  on   "Reverdy 
et   les   arts  plastiques. " 

A  lecture   on   "Structuralisme,    critique  et   litterature"  by  Prof.    Jean  Paris  of 
Johns  Hopkins  Univ.   was  presented  May  ij.. 

FRENCH   FILMS    SERIES 
Films    which  have   been  presented  for  the   benefit   of   students   and   staff  are  La  Grande 
Illusion    (Renoir),    Le   Bourgeois   Gentilhomme    (ComSdie  franchise),    A  nous  la~Tibert6 
(Clair),   Le   Sang  d»un  poe'te    CCocteau),    Jule's   et   Jim   (Truffaut),    and   Vivre   sa  vie 
(Godard). 

"THINGS   FRENCH"  PROGRESS 
The  developing   Institut  d' Etudes  Franchises  de  L'Universitl  d« Illinois   £.  Urbana  or- 
ganized by  Prof.   Robert  J.   Nelson  offers   several   courses  outside  the  French  Dept.    di- 
rectly related  to  French  and  French-speaking  cultures:     Architecture  3H|-    (French  Ar- 
chitecture  1^00-1800)|   English  295   (Moliere   and   the   English  Restoration  Comedy  of 
Manners),    A.   Kaufman;  History  271    (French  Colonization  of  North  America  1500-1778), 
Natalia  Belting;   History  3IO    (The   Development  of  Modern  Europe:      French  Revolution 
and   Napoleon,    1789-1815),    J.    B.    Sirich;   Linguistics   316    (The   Structure  of  the   French 
Language),    F.    Jenkins;  Music  169    (French  Diction),    Clark;  Political  Science   336    (Gov- 
ernment  and  Politics   in  Western   Continental  Europe--2/3rds   of   coursd   devoted  to 
French  government),    E.    G.   Lewis, 

There   are  also   a  number  of  general  related  courses:      Language,    Culture,    and    So- 
ciety   (Anthropology  370,    Communications   370,    Linguistics   370);   Economic    Development 
of   Tropical   Africa    (Agricultural   Economics   351+  and   Economics   351]-);    and   History   and 
Philosophy  of  Education  303   (Comparative  Education). 

For  graduate  students,  the  following  courses  are  offered:  Communications/Radio 
TV  I4.77  (World  Broadcasting),  Douglass;  and  Political  Science/Communications  1+77  (In- 
ternational  Communications),    Osgood,    Schiller,    Merritt. 

Courses  within  the  French  Dept.  of  interest  to  non-French  majors  are:     French 
255/Humanities  25$  (Introduction  to   French  Literature  in  Translation,    I),    B.   Bowen; 
and  French  335    (French  Civilization,    I),    Mainous. 

ICI  RADIO  URBANA    (WILL-FM) 
Due   to  the    success   of   the   French  programs   presented  by  the   French  Dept.   and  WILL-FM, 
it   is   hoped  the  project   can  be   continued  next  year.      However,    it   appears   that  the   1st 
programs  cannot   be  given  before  near   the  end  of  the   1st    semester,    which  will  give 
ample  time  for   anyone   interested  to   convey  their  impressions   of  this   semester's 
broadcasts   and   suggestions   for  future  programs  to  Prof.    Robert   J.    Nelson,    Dept.   of 
French,    21|i|  Lincoln  Hall,    U.I.,   Urbana,    111.    61801,    who  welcomes   such  comments. 

GERMANIC  NOTES  —  by  Roy  Allen 

SUMMER  COURSES  IN  GERMAN  1970 
The  German  Dept.  will  offer  a  broad  selection  of  courses  in  the  Summer  Session  of 
1970.   On  the  100-level,  German  199  (Undergraduate  Open  Seminar)  will  be  open  to  en- 
rollment, in  addition  to  the  full  Elementary/Intermediate  sequence,  German  101-lOlj., 
On  the  200-level,  courses  for  advanced  undergraduates,  there  will  be  2  sections 
offered  of  German  210  (Masterpieces;  Profs.  Haile  and  Figge)  and  1  section  each  of 
German  211  (Conversation  &  Writing  I;  Prof.  Figge),  212  (Conversation  &  Writing  II; 


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Prof.  Hoist),  2$3  (20th-century  German  Drama;  Prof.  Schwalbe),  and  291  (Senior  Thesis 
&  Honors  Course  I).   Three  courses  will  be  available  for  credit  for  advanced  under- 
graduates and  graduates:   German  311  (Goethe;  Prof.  Haile),  332  (Schiller;  Prof. 
Frey),  382  (Language  Laboratory  Techniques;  Prof.  Nachtmann).   On  the  graduate  level, 
in  addition  to  the  series  in  basic  German  for  graduate  students  (i|00-lj.01),  the  de- 
partment is  offering  German  ij.53  (Seminar  in  Literary  Relations;  Visiting  Prof.  Hans 
Galinsky),  I4.93  (Research  in  Special  Topics),  and  1+99  (Thesis  Research).   Two  c  ourses 
will  be  taught  in  Germanic:   Germanic  199  (Undergraduate  Open  Seminar)  and  3&7  (In- 
troduction to  Germanic  Linguistics;  Prof.  Marchand;  credit  for  advanced  undergradu- 
ates and  graduates). 

KY.  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  CONFERENCE 
The  23rd  Univ.  of  Ky.  Foreign  Language  Conference  took  place  in  Lexington  on  April 
23-25.   The  German  Dept .  of  the  U.I.  was  represented  at  the  meeting  by  Profs.  Mari- 
anne Burkhard,  Herbert  Knust,  Ruth  Lorbe,  James  Marchand,  Irmengard  Rauch,  and  Chris- 
tine Sjogren.   Prof.  Burkhard  spoke  at  German  II  on  "Raum  und  Zeit  im  Werk  C.  F. 
Meyers."  Prof.  Knust  was  Chairman  of  the  German  I  section.   At  Linguistics  II,  Profo 
Marchand  presented  a  paper  on  "Semantic  Change  and  the  Figures  of  Speech"  and  Prof. 
Rauch  gave  a  talk  on  "Old  Germanic  Consonants." 

LECTURES  AT  THE  U.I. 
The  Dept.  of  German  and  the  Program  in  Comparative  Literature  sponsored  a  lecture  on 
April  21  at  8:00  p.m.  in  the  Law  Building  by  Prof.  Walter  Hinck  of  the  Univ.  of  Col- 
ogne, Germany.   Prof.  Hinck,  who  is  most  noted  for  his  work  on  the  poet-dramatist, 
"ertolt  Brecht,  presented  a  survey  of  recent  German  drama,  entitled  "Von  Brecht  bis 
Handke :   Zum  deutschen  Theater  des  ' wissenschaf tlichen  Zeitalters. ' " 

Prof.  Herbert  Knust  of  the  German  Dept.  addressed  the  Honor  Society  Phi  Kappa 
Fhi  on  May  5  in  the  Illini  Union.   The  topic  of  his  talk  was  "On  Literary  Fishing." 

FELLOWSHIPS  FOR  1970-71 
Fellowships  for  the  academic  year  1970-71  have  been  granted  to  the  following  majors 
in  the  German  Dept.:  Ronald  Edge  (University  Fellowship),  Vivian  Greene  (Graduate 
College  Fellowship),  Wayne  Harbert  (University  Fellowship),  Rudolph  Hofmeister  (Univ- 
ersity Dissertation  Fellowship),  Leonie  Marx  (University  Fellowship),  Walter  Pasulka 
(NDEA  Title  IV  Fellowship),  Rosemary  Hoffmann  Scholl  (University  Fellowship),  Juliana 
Wempen  (111.  College  Fellowship).   Tuition  &  Fee  Waivers  were  awarded  Dwight  Smith 
and  Linda  Truesdale  for  1970-71.   Summer  Teaching  Fellows  will  be  this  year  Rudolph 
Hofmeister,  Uwe  Klinger,  Peter  Pabisch,  and  Jay  Rosellinie 

NEW  TEACHING  POSTS  OF  DEPARTING  GRADUATE  STUDENTS 
Several  graduate  students  in  the  German  Dept.  who  will  have  concluded  their  graduate 
studies  at  the  U.I.  at  the  end  of  this  term,  with  the  exceptions  in  some  instances  of 
the  completion  of  the  dissertation,  have  accepted  full-time  teaching  positions  to  be- 
gin in  the  fall  semester  of  1970.   Mr.  Lowell  Bangerter  has  taken  an  assistant  pro- 
fessorship at  the  Univ.  of  Wyo.  at  Laramie  and  Mr.  Dean  Castle  a  position  of  the  same 
rank  at  the  Univ.  of  Texas  at  El  Paso.   Mr.  Harold  Felty  will  be  an  instructor  at 
Southern  111.  Univ.  at  Carbondale  and  Mr.  Paul  Garcia  will  begin  teaching  as  assis- 
tant professor  at  Kenyon  College  in  Gamier,  Ohio,  in  the  fall.   Mr.  Klaus  Hanson  will 
teach  in  Germany  as  assistant  professor  at  Schiller  College  in  Kleiningersheim.   Mr. 
Uwe  Klinger  has  accepted  a  post  of  instructor  at  Wesleyan  Univ.  in  Middletown,  Conn,, 
Instructorships  have  also  been  accepted  by  Mr.  Terrence  McCormick  at  the  Univ.  of 
Conn,  at  Storrs  and  by  Mr.  Marvin  Meinz  at  North  Central  College  in  Naperville,  111. 
Mr.  Thomas  Smith  is  going  as  assistant  professor  to  Lindenwood  Colleges  of  St. 
Charles,  Mo. 

GERMAN  CHOIR 
The  German  Choir,  which  is  under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Homer  Rudolf,  presented  its 
spring  concert  at  8:00  p.m.  on  April  27  at  the  University  Place  Christian  Church. 
The  choir  performed  selections  by  Lemlin,  Lasso,  Schtftz,  Schumann,  and  Lau.   The 
German  Choir  is  sponsored  by  the  U.I.  German  Club, 

GERMAN  HOUSE 
The  German  House,  which  is  located  at  108  S.  Gregory  St.  in  Urbana,  will  continue  to 


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be  very  active  in  the  next  academic  year,  1970-71»   Persons  interested  in  contacting 
the  House  are  requested  to  call  (217)  3^4-U-— 2328. 

SLAVIC  NOTES  --by  Prof.  Michael  Curran 

DOBRO  SLOVO 
On  Friday,  May  22,    at  6:30  p.m.  in  the  Illini  Union,  the  Dobro  Slovo,  National  Slavic 
Honor  Society,  Zeta  Chapter  of  the  U.I,,  nominated  15  new  members  (8  undergraduates 
and  7  graduates)  for  initiation  into  the  society.  The  students  are  selected  on  the 
basis  of  their  academic  excellence  in  the  Slavic  Dept .   Graduate  students  receive  a 
year's  subscription  to  SEE J.  and  undergraduates,  a  book.   The  faculty  advisor  for  the 
Society  is  Prof.  Kurt  Klein. 

NEWS  PROM  ABROAD 
Prof.  Prank  Y.  Gladney  (known  to  Intourist  officials  as  "avtoturist  Prenk  Gledni") 
gave  a  talk  on  April  7  at  the  Russian  Language  Institute  in  Moscow  (Structural  Lin- 
guistics Section)  on  the  topic  "The  Generative  Approach  to  Problems  of  Case  Govern- 
ment in  the  Work  of  Charles  J.  Fillmore,  Doklad  vstregali  burnye  aplodismenty. " 

PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Temira  Pachmuss  has  published  the  following  reviews:   The  Notebooks  for  "The 
Possessed",  edited  with  an  introduction  by  Edward  Wasiolek,  translated  by  Victor  Ter- 
ras  (Chicago,  Univ.  of  Chicago  Press,  1968)  in  The  Russian  Review  (Jan.  1970),  vol. 
XXIX,  no.  1,  p.  109;  and  "Carin  TschBpl,  VjaXeslav  Ivanov:   Dictung  and  Dichtungs- 
theorie"  Slavistische  Beltrage,  30  (Mtlnchen,  Otto  Sagner,  1968)  in  SEEJ  (Spring  1970) 
vol.  XIV,  no.  1,  72-73.   Prof.  Pachmuss  also  published  the  article  "Introduction  to 
Zinaida  Hippius'  Unpublished  Diaries  and  Annotations  of  Their  Texts,"  American  Phil- 
osophical Society  Year  Book  1969  (Philadelphia,  1970),  63I-632. 

GRADUATE  STUDENT  NEWS 
Roger  Phillips  has  accepted  an  assistant  professorship  at  the  Univ.  of  Wise,  in  Mil- 
waukee where  he  will  teach  1st-  and  2nd-year  Russian  and  a  survey  course  of  Russian 
literature.  Richard  Chappie  was  awarded  a  Dissertation  Fellowship  for  1970-71.   Ben 
Fairfax  was  awarded  a  3-year  Title  IV  to  begin  1970-71.  Peter  Sutter  was  awarded  a 
1-year  University  Grant  for  1970-71.   The  following  students  have  been  offered  a  1- 
year  Title  VI  Fellowship:   James  Price,  Gary  Davis,  Marie  Gies,  and  Kathryn  Brailer, 
Alternate  Title  VT  awardees  include  John  Calderonello,  Rita  Dobransky,  Mardelle  Eide, 
Martin  Mijalski,  Catherine  Romaniec,  and  Barbara  von  Baumgarten.   James  Nelson  and 
his  wife  Rosemary  have  been  awarded  a  Fulbright-Hays  Grant  and  accepted  by  IREX  for 
a  year  of  study  in  the  U.S.S.R.  at  Moscow  Univ, 

FACULTY  NEWS 
Three  teachers  in  the  Slavic  Dept.  have  received  Undergraduate  Instructional  Awards 
for  the  summer  of  1970;  they  are  Profs.  Rasio  Dunatov,  Kurt  Klein,  and  Gera  Miller. 
At  the  end  of  the  summer  reports  on  their  respective  projects  will  be  submitted  and 
a  committee  will  decide  which  projects  will  receive  special  awards  of  $1000. 

GUEST  SPEAKER 
Mr.  Louis  Iribarne,  presently  of  the  Univ.  of  Texas,  gave  a  guest  lecture  at  the  U.I, 
on  May  8.   The  topic  was  "Babel'  and  Bruno  Szulc. " 

SPANISH,  ITALIAN,  &  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  --  by  Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jr. 

AATSP 
The  Downstate  111.  Chapter  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  Spanish  &  Port- 
uguese held  its  annual  meeting  on  April  18  at  111.  Weslayan  Univ.,  Bloomington.   Over 
iS   members  and  guests  attended.   Elected  for  the  coming  year  were  Miss  Lydia  Holm 
(ill.  Wesleyan)  President;  Mr.  Jack  E.  Clinton  (Limestone  High  School,  Bartonville) 
Vice-President;  Mr.  Enoch  M.  Anderson  (Paris,  111.)  Corresponding  Secretary;  and  Mrs, 
Luis  Leal  (Urbana,  111.)  Recording  Secretary-Treasurer.   Dr.  James  E.  McKinney  (West- 
ern 111.  Univ.,  Macomb)  will  continue  as  Spanish  Contest  Chairman, 


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PROP.  MORINIGO  RETIRING 
Prof.  Marcos  A.  Morinigo  vd.Il  retire  from  the  U.I,  effective  Sept.  1,  1970.   His  loss 
will  be  greatly  felt  by  his  students  and  colleagues.   He  combined  his  many-faceted 
talents  for  scholarly  research  and  inspiring  teaching  with  a  subtle  but  infectious 
sense  of  humor  which  has  endeared  him  to  students  and  colleagues  on  2  continents. 

Prof.  Morinigo,  native  of  Asunci6n,  Paraguay,  and  citizen  of  Argentina,  received 
his  doctorate  from  the  Univ.  of  Buenos  Aires  in  19I+5*   He  taught  at  the  Univ.  of  Tu- 
cumin,  Argentina,  1938-lj.6;  the  Univ.  of  Southern  Calif.  1947-50  and  1953-57;  the  Uni\t 
of  Caracas,  Venezuela,  1950-52;  the  Univ.  of  Fla.  1952-53;  the  Univ.  of  Buenos  Aires 
1957-62  (where  he  was  Dean  of  the  Facultad  de  Pilosofia  y  Letras  1957-60);  and  the 
U.I.  1962-70.   He  has  served  as  Director  of  the  Instituto  de  Pilologia  Hispanica 
(Univ.  of  Buenos  Aires).   He  is  a  Corresponding  Member  of  the  Real  Academia  Espafiola 
de  la  Lengua,  and  a  member  of  the  Academia  Nacional  de  Historia  Argentina  and  of  the 
Consejo  Nacional  de  Investigaciones  Cientificas  y  Tecnicas  (Buenos  Aires).   He  has 
served  as  Editor  of  the  Revista  de  Filologia  and  as  Associate  Editor  of  the  Nueva 
Revista  de  Filologia  Hispanica.   He  held  a  Guggenheim  Fellowship  in  1947-48.   After 
his  retirement,  he  and  Mrs.  Morinigo  will  return  to  Buenos  Aires  to  live.   The  best 
wisnes  of  their  many  friends  and  colleagues  will  follow  them  in  grateful  appreciation 
for  Prof.  Morinigo* s  services  to  the  academic  community, 

EVENING  COURSE  NEXT  FALL 
Prof.  Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo' s  Spanish  418  course  (Seminar  on  Renaissance  &  Baroque 
Literature)  will  meet  during  this  fall  semester  on  Tuesday  evenings,  7:00-9:00,  in 
269  Lincoln  Hall.   The  topic  will  be  Calder6n  de  la  Barca.   High-school  teachers  and 
others  in  the  Champ aign-Urb ana  interested  in  taking  this  course  are  invited  to  regis- 
ter.  Registration  information  is  available  from  the  Director  of  Admissions  &  Records 
U.I.,  100a  Administration  Bldg.,  Urbana,  111.  61801. 

JUNIOR  YEAR  ABROAD 
The  U.I.  and  the  Univ.  of  Mich,  are  drawing  up  plans  for  a  Junior  Year  Abroad  Program 
in  Spanish  to  begin  in  Sept.  1971  and  to  be  held  at  the  Univ.  of  Barcelona,  Spain. 
Further  announcements  will  be  made  as  the  plans  are  finalized.   The  Junior  Year 
Abroad  Committee  from  this  department  consists  of  Prof.  Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo  (chair- 
man), Instructor  Maria  Elena  Bravo  de  Maharg  (secretary),  Prof.  J.  H.  D.  Allen,  and 
Instructor  Luis  Oyarzun. 

LATIN  AMERICAN  RESEARCH  PROGRAM 
The  Humanities  Research  Program  on  "Native  versus  Foreign  Influences  in  Latin  Ameri- 
can Artistic  and  Intellectual  Expression:   The  Search  for  Identity  in  the  20th  Cent- 
ury" (announced  in  the  March  Newsletter,  p.  8)  was  inaugurated  on  April  30  and  May  7 
with  a  series  of  discussions.   The  5  participants  (Prof.  Merlin  H.  Forster,  Prof. 
Luis  Leal,  Assistant  Prof.  Anoar  Aiex,  and  Assistant  Prof.  Thomas  C.  Meehan,  plus 
Prof.  Gerard  Behague  of  the  School  of  Music)  presented  their  projects  at  these  meet- 
ings.  Prof.  Anibal  Sanchez-Reulet  (U.C.L.A. )  also  took  part  in  these  meetings. 

Pour  graduate  students  have  been  awarded  research  assistantships  to  help  several 
of  the  participants  in  their  areas  of  interest.   During  this  summer,  Mr.  Gerald  Drol- 
ler will  work  with  Prof.  Aiex  in  Brazil,  Miss  Kirsten  Nigro  with  Prof.  Meehan  in 
Chile,  and  Mr.  Dagoberto  Orrantia  with  Prof.  Leal  in  Mexico.   Miss  Susan  Kingston 
will  help  Prof.  Forster  with  research  in  various  South  American  cities  during  the 
coming  academic  year. 

SYMPOSIUM  ON  BENITO  PEREZ  GALD0S 
A  Symposium  on  Benito  Plrez  Gald6s  in  honor  of  retiring  Prof.  William  H.  Shoemaker 
was  held  on  Friday  afternoon,  April  17.   Following  welcoming  remarks  by  Dean  Robert 
W.  Rogers  of  the  College  of  Liberal  Arts  &  Sciences  and  introductory  remarks  by  de- 
partment head  Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello,  3  papers  were  presented.   Prof.  Vernon 
A.  Chamberlin  (Univ.  of  Kan.),  a  former  doctoral  candidate  under  Prof.  Shoemaker, 
presented  "The  Significance  and  Artistry  of  the  Sound  Effects  in  Gald6s '  Dofla  Per- 
fecta."  Prof.  Joseph  Schraibman  (Washington  Univ.,  St.  Louis),  another  former  doctor- 
al candidate,  spoke  on  "El  ecumenismo  de  Gald6s."  Prof.  Joaquin  Casalduero  (Univ.  of 
Calif,  at  La  Jolla )  presented  "Novel  y  historia  en  Galdos."  In  addition,  Prof.  Shoe- 
maker was  presented  with  the  first  published  copy  of  a  volume  of  his  articles  and 
essays  issued  by  the  Editorial  Castalia. 


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HOMENAJE  AL  PROF.    MORINIGO 
The   Homenaje   al  Prof.   Marco3   A.    Morinigo   was   held  May  ll±-l$  in  the  Law  Auditorium, 
At   8:00  p.m.   on  Thursday,    May- Ti;,    department   head  Prof.   Anthony  M,   Pasquariello  pro- 
vided welcoming  remarks,    and  Prof.   Luis   Leal  presented  the  homenaje ,    with  an  address 
by  Prof.    Joseph  H.    Silverman    (Univ.   of    Calif,    at   Santa   Cruz)   on   "Some    Aspects   of   Lit- 
erature  and   Life   in  the   Golden  Age   of   Spain."     At   10:00  a.m.   Friday,    May  15,    2  papers 
sent   to   the   homenaje   by  former   students   of  Prof.   Morinigo   now  at   the   Univ.   of   Buenos 
Aires  were  read.      They  were    "Santa   Susana   en  el   teatro   de    Cairasco   de  Figueroa"  by 
Raquel  M.   de   Alfie,    and   "La  denuncia  mentirosa  en  La  gitanilla  y  en  Ortensio  Lando" 
by  Celina   S.    de   Cortazar.      Prof.    Benito   Brancaforte    (Univ.   of  Wise.)   then   spoke   on 
"El  magico  prodlgioso  and   St.    Augustine's    Confessions. "     The  2:00  p.m.   Friday  session 
saw  participation  by  Assistant   Prof.    Isaias   Lerner    fU.I.)   on   "Notas  para  el   Entremgs 
del  retablo   de  las  maravillas, "  Prof.   Luis   A.   Murillo    (Univ.   of   Calif,    at   Berkeley) 
on   "Don   Quijote,    nuevo   caballero, "   and  Prof.    Winston  A.    Reynolds    (Univ.    of   Calif,    at 
Santa  Barbara)   on   "Capitulos   del   Carlo  Famoso  por    Zapata  que    se   le   olvidaron  a  Medina, 
tocantes   al  descubrimiento  y  conquista  del   Nuevo  Mundo."     The   homenaje   ended  after 
the    8:00  p.m.    Friday   session  with  Prof.    Raimundo   Lida    (Harvard  Univ.)    speaking  on 
"Guerra  y  paz   en  un  siglo  de   oro." 

SPANISH   CLUB  PLAY 
The   Circulo   Literario   Espafiol  presented  a  full-length  play,    Los    invasores.    by  the 
Chilean  playwright,    Egon  Wolff,    on  May  6-7   in  the   Lincoln  Hall  Theatre.      The    cast   con. 
sis ted  of   Graduate   Students   Terry   Collier,    Elliot    Delman,    and  Dagoberto   Orrantia,    and 
Undergraduate   Students   Janet   Beaudway,    Rachel   Gaynor,    Juan  Marrero,    Arthur  Muirhead, 
Martha  Muirhead,    and   Rosina   Santana.      Assistant   Prof.    David   R.    Hershberg's   son  Eric 
and   Instructor   Martha  Paley  de   Francescato' s   daughter  had  children's  roles.      The  play 
was   directed  by  Elliot   Delman  with  Mrs.   Maria   del   Rosario   Cowes   as  voice  coach.      The 
backstage  crew  consisted  of    Graduate    Students   Carolina  Diaz,    Juan  Espadas,    Karen  Free, 
man,    Guillermo  Rojas,    and   George   Yudice,    and  Undergraduate   Students   Alice   Baeder, 
Mark  Bedford,    and   Charles   DeCoster,    and   2  graduate  wives,    Mrs.    Jacqueline  P.    Orrantia 
and  Mrs.    Lorelei  Yudice.      In  addition,    several   graduate   students  presented  a  1-act 
entremSs,    "El   vie  jo  celoso"  by  Miguel  de    Cervantes,    on  the    same  nights   in  honor  of 
retiring   Prof.   Marcos   A.   Morinigo.      The   cast   included  Graduate   Students   Carolyn  Balk* 
ma,    Theda  Herz,    Susan  Kingston,    Harold  Lee   Koch,    Kirsten  Nigro,    Dagoberto   Orrantia, 
Felicia   Sworsky,    Ronald   Young,    and  George  YiSdice.      The   entremls   was   directed  by  Mrs, 
Maria   del  Rosario   Cowes,    with   Juan  Espadas   and   Theda  Herz   on  the   backstage  crew, 

23RD  UNIV.    OF   KY.    FOREIGN  LANGUAGE   CONFERENCE 
The   23rd  Univ.   of  Ky.   Foreign   Language   conference,   held  in  Lexington,    Ky.,    on  April 
23-25,    attracted  participation  by  a  number   of   this   department's   faculty.      Prof.   J,   H, 
D.    Allen  spoke   on   "Stress  Levels   in  Old   Spanish"  at   Linguistics   III,    and   served  as 
Chairman  both  of  Linguistics    I   and  of  Portuguese   &  Brazilian  Literature.      Associate 
Prof.    Spurgeon  W.    Baldwin  read  a  paper    "Imagery   in  the   Libro   de   Alexandre"  at   Medie- 
val  III.      Associate  Prof.   W.    Curtis    Blaylock  spoke   on   "Phonological   Attrition  in  Ibe- 
ro-Romance"  at   Linguistics   III. 

Several   doctoral   alumni   of   this    department    also  participated.      Dr.    Sandra  M.    Cy- 
pess    (Duke   Univ.)   presented  a  paper    "Machado   de   Assis   vs.    Bras   Cubas :      An  Aspect   of 
Narrative  Perspective"  at   the   Portuguese  &  Brazilian   Literature   Section.      Dr.   Daniel 
R.    Reedy    (Univ.   of  Ky, )   was   Section  Organizer  for    the   Portuguese   &  Brazilian  Litera- 
ture  Section  and  for   the    Colloquium  on  Afro-Caribbean  Studies.      Dr.    Joseph  Schraibman 
(Washington  Univ,,    St.    Louis)    spoke   on   "Luis   Martin  Santos   y  Tiempo  de   silencio;   exe- 
gesis  de   mitos  hispanicos"  at   Spanish   II,    and  he   took  part    in  a   Symposium  on  the   Con- 
temporary  Spanish  Novel.      Dr.    George  W.    Woodyard    (Univ,   of   Kan.)   read  a  paper    "A  Me- 
taphor for   Repression:      2  Plays   about    the    Inquisition"  at   the   Portuguese   &  Brazilian 
Literature  Section, 

MESA  RED0NDA 
The   Mesa  Redonda  met   on  Friday  afternoon,    April  10,    in  the   Illini  Union.      Associate 
Prof.   W.    Curtis   Blaylock  and   Visiting   Assistant   Prof.   Dieter  Wanner   introduced  the 
topic,    "La  literatura  y  el   establecimiento  de   normas   lingttisticas. " 

The  Mesa  Redonda  will  hold   its   last  meeting  of  the   academic  year   on  Friday 
afternoon,    May  22,    at   the   home   of   Assistant  Prof,    Thomas   C.   Meehan, 


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PROM  THE  EDITOR 
This   issue   brings   to   a  close   the    Newsletter's   23rd  academic  year  of  publication. 
For  your   editor,    the    year  has   been  interesting   and  exciting   as  we  changed  our   format 
and  method   of  publication,    while   renewing  the   Newsletter's  purpose   of  publishing 
items   of  a  professional   and  pedagogical   nature  while   serving  as   the   instrument   of 
liason  between  the  U.I.    and  the   high  school   language   teachers. 

This   is   also  my  last    issue   as   editor.      I  have  accepted  a  2-year   appointment   as 
Assistant    Advertising  Director   of  The   Buenos   Air e s  Herald,    the  English-language   daily 
newspaper  of   Argentina's   capital;    I  will  use   this   opportunity  to   do   field   work  on  my 
doctoral  dissertation.      The   editor  for  1970-71  will  be   Miss  Felicia   G.    Sworsky. 

At   this   time,    I   should  like    to   acknowledge   the  contributions  of  my  co-editors: 
Mr.   Roy  Allen    (Germanic),    Assistant   Prof.   Michael    Curran   (Slavic),    Prof.   Edwin   Jahiel 
(French — Semester   I),    Assistant   Prof.    Larkin  B.   Price    (French--Semester   II),    and   Ass- 
istant  Prof.    Barbara  Smalley    (Comparative  Literature).      The   sections  which   they   edit- 
ed reflected   varied  items  of   interest   for   the   teachers  of  those   areas.      In  addition, 
I  should  like  to  acknowledge   the   suggestions    and  information  which  were  given  me  for 
items   and  articles   in  the   Newsletter's   General   Section  by  the   following:      Prof.    J.   H, 
D.    Allen   (Spanish,    Italian,    &  Portuguese ),    Prof.    Clayton  L.    Dawson   (Head,    Slavic    Lan- 
guages  &  Literatures),    Associate  Prof.    Steven  P.   Hill    (Slavic),    Associate  Prof.   Leon 
A.    Jakobovits    (Co-Director,    Center  for   Comparative   Psycholinguistics ),    Prof.    Gilbert 
C.    Kettelkamp    (School  of   Education),    Associate   Prof.   M.   Keith  Myers    (Coordinator, 
Language   Laboratory),   Prof.   F.   W.    Nachtmann    (Executive   Secretary,    AATF),    and   Associ- 
ate  Prof.    Richard  T.    Scanlan    (Classics).      I   should   like    to    thank  the   Newsletter    Dir- 
ector and  my  department    head,    Prof.    Anthony  M.   Pasquariello,    for    his   help   and   sugges- 
tions,   as   well   as   the    Spanish  Dept.   secretaries,    Mesdames  Marilee   Aldana,    Maria   Eu- 
genia  Corona,    Doris   Koubek,    Teresa  Molina,   and  Judy  Penley,   for   their   cooperation. 
I   should  also  like    to   thank   the   former   Newsletter   Director,    Prof.    William  H.    Shoe- 
maker,   and    the   former   departmental    secretary,    Dr.    Judith    Zelenka  Rojas,    for    their 
help   and   advice   at  the  beginning   of  my  editorial   tenure.      My  thanks   also  go   to  Mrs. 
Irene   Lofton,    Supervisor   of   Duplication   at  the  U.I.    Stenographic    Bureau,    for    her    con- 
tinued  help    in  arranging   the   Newsletter's    quick    and   efficient   publication.      As   com- 
poser  of    Spanish,    Italian,    &  Portuguese   Notes,    I    give  my    thanks    to    the  members  of   my 
department   for   their  many  contributions,    and   also  to   Mrs.    Luis    Leal   for  her   AATSP 
contributions. 

As  can  be  seen,  it  takes  many  people  in  many  areas  to  publish  this  Newsletter. 
I  sincerely  appreciate  the  cooperation  which  they  have  shown  me;  it  has  made  my  job 
easier,    and   what   could  have  been   a  task  has  become    a   labor    of   love0 

Publication  of   the    Newsletter  under  Miss    Sworsky  will   resume   with  the    Oct.    issue. 
Since   Miss    Sworsky' s   duties    do  not   begin  officially  until  the    inauguration  of   the 
next    academic   year,    all  mail   sent   to    the   Newsletter   during    the   summer  will  be  held 
for  her.      A  form  follows  for   those   changing   their  mailing  addresses   this    summer. 

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October,  1970        Director:   Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello 
Vol.  XXIV,  No.  1  Editor:   Felicia  G.  Sworsky 

Dear  Colleagues: 

On  behalf  of  all  foreign  language  and  literature  programs  at  this  university, 
I  take  pleasure  in  sending  greetings  to  our  colleagues  throughout  the  state  and 
beyond.   Our  welcome  goes  to  the  new  editor  of  the  Newsletter,  Miss  Felicia  Sworsky, 
our  gratitude  to  the  contributors  who  keep  us  informed  about  the  noteworthy  news  in 
the  various  departments,  and  our  best  wishes  and  encouragement  to  all  old  and  new 
members  of  our  profession  which  has  become  the  scapegoat  of  a  general  dilemma  in 
modern  education:   estrangement. 

It  has  been  evident  for  quite  some  time  that  increasing  specialization  in  the 
sciences  has  not  been  very  beneficial  to  the  concept  of  general  education,  but, 
often  enough,  has  produced  skills  in  a  vacuum,  has  lessened  integration  of  general 
knowledge  and  experience,  and  ha3  led  to  dissatisfaction  or  pragmatism.   The  study 
of  languages  and  literatures,  long  considered  an  antidote  against  that  trend,  has 
itself  become  affected  by  it;  and  when  estrangement  meets  the  foreign,  alienation 
becomes  especially  deep-rooted. 

In  the  nationwide  endeavors  to  make  the  study  of  foreign  languages  and  liter- 
atures more  meaningful,  one  attempt  has  been  to  naturalize  the  foreign  by  offering 
the  subjects  in  English  translation;  another  aims  at  a  greater  integration  of  skills 
and  context;  another  at  more  varieties  of  instruction  from  which  to  choose.   Here  at 
Urban*,  all  of  these  attempts  are  reflected  in  the  new  course  offerings  of  the 
various  departments.   Indeed,  educational  possibilities  are  greater  than  ever  before. 
Almost  all  the  foreign  language  programs,  including  Classics  and  Asian  Studies,  are 
exploring  computer-assisted  instruction;  short  wave  radios  receive  and  relay  foreign 
news  daily  for  immediate  information;  local  radio  and  television  are  cooperating  in 
efforts  to  broadcast  interviews,  films  and  plays;  new  study  abroad  programs  are  un- 
der way;  the  progress  on  the  Foreign  Language  Building  (to  be  completed  in  1971) 
fills  us  with  the  expectation  of  new  teaching  and  learning  facilities.   Yet,  whether 
any  or  all  of  these  endeavors  will  significantly  change  the  general  attitude  towards 
the  study  of  foreign  languages  is  difficult  to  predict.   While  students  have  availed 
themselves  of  the  new  choices  in  language  instruction,  they  have,  on  the  whole,  not 
yet  shown  a  particularly  strong  trend  in  any  of  the  new  directions.   And  there  is  no 
guarantee,  that,  for  all  the  new  ideas,  the  impetus,  the  changes,  the  varieties, 
more  liveliness  and  increased  competence  in  foreign  language  teaching,  the  deadening 
question  will  not  come  up  again:   "Of  what  practical  use  is  all  this  to  me,  if  I  do 
not  want  to  become  a  foreign  language  teacher,  an  ambassador,  a  journalist 
abroad.  .  .?" 

This  pragmatic  question  is  symptomatic  of  the  dilemma  in  general  education  to- 
day, the  dilemma  of  pragmatism  and  fragmentation,  and  it  is  unlikely  that  even  the 
best  program  in  foreign  language  studies  can,  by  itself,  provide  satisfying  answers; 
nor,  indeed,  should  one  expect  the  language  programs  alone  to  give  the  answers. 
The  answers  must  come  from  a  new  educational  outlook  not  limited  to  relating  one 
particular  discipline  to  a  particular  professional  goal,  but  intent  on  coordinating 
and  integrating  the  various  disciplines  of  learning  and  understanding,  including 
the  study  of  foreign  languages,  without  which  higher  education  would  be  lower  edu- 
cation. 

Past  trends  in  teaching  and  learning  have  emphasized  too  much  the  immediate 
practical  application  and  usefulness  of  factual  knowledge  for  limited  ends.   Even 
the  fallacious  'Sputnik'  argument  and  the  well-meaning  'National  Defense'  support 
of  foreign  language  study  have  provided  spontaneous  practical  motives  rather  than 
general  humanistic  goals.   It  is  high  time  that  we  re-orient  ourselves  towards 
placing  much  greater  value  on  the  understanding  and  resulting-  attitudes  gained  from 
comparing  different  ways  of  thinking  --  and  it  is  here  that  the  sti  dy  of  languages 


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(let  ua  drop  the  "foreign")  has  its  incomparable  contribution  to  make.   In  a  world 
in  which  'practical'  achievements  have  largely  failed  humanistic  thinking  and  in 
which  an  ever  increasing  population  explosion  creates  an  unprecedented  urgency  of 
individual  communication,  one  can  hardly  afford  to  miss  that  chance. 

But  this  chance  calls  for  united  efforts,  efforts  that  go  beyond  individual 
departments,  beyond  individual  schools,  and,  indeed,  beyond  the  academic  community 
alone.   It  seems,  however,  that  more  than  ever  before,  the  early  stages  of  educa- 
tion, especially  high  schools,  would  have  to  play  an  increased  role  in  preparing 
a  more  open-minded  way  of  thinking  to  which  education  means  more  than  just  pro- 
fessional training. 

Herbert  Knust,  Chairman 

Program  in  Comparative  Literature 

CENTRAL  STATES  CONFERENCE 
For  those  who  wish  to  make  advance  plans,  next  year's  Central  States  Conference  on 
the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Languages  will  be  held  in  Detroit  on  April  15-17  at  the 
Sheraton-Cadillac  Hotel.   The  theme  for  the  conference  will  be  "Creativity  in  the 
Foreign  Language  Classroom".   Reservations  should  be  made  well  in  advance. 

IFLTA  MEETING 
The  Illinois  Foreign  Language  Teachers  Association  will  hold  its  annual  meeting  on 
Nov.  6  and  7  at  the  St.  Nicholas  Hotel  in  Springfield.   The  evening  of  Nov.  6  will 
be  devoted  to  sessions  of  the  AAT's  and  the  Illinois  Classical  Conference. 

ACTFL:   NATIONAL  CONVENTION 
The  l|th  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Council  on  the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Languages 
will  be  held  Nov.  26-29  at  the  Biltmore  Hotel  in  Los  Angeles  in  cooperation  with  the 
Modern  and  Classical  Language  Association  of  Southern  California  (MCLASC).   Sessions 
will  be  offered  for  language  teachers  at  all  levels  of  instruction,  the  following 
being  of  special  interest:   "Individualized  Instruction:   What  is  it?";  "Computer 
Assisted  Instruction:   How  to  Use  It";  "ACTFL  on  the  Firing  Line:   Why  Study  Foreign 
Languages";  "FLs  in  2-Year  Colleges";  "High  School  Teachers  of  PLs :   Special  Needs". 

FOREIGN  STUDY  LEAGUE 
Opening  of  a  new  world  headquarters  for  the  Foreign  Study  League  was  announced  by 
Dr.  Robert  DeBry,  president  of  the  League.   The  Foreign  Study  League  is  the  world's 
largest  international  school  system  and  conducts  a  wide  range  of  travel-study  pro- 
grams in  Europe,  West  Africa,  and  the  Orient.   The  new  headquarters  (State  Street  at 
33rd  South,  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah  8I4.II5)  "ill  house  a  U.S.  staff  of  150  curriculum 
end  travel  specialists.   Additional  League  personnel  are  maintained  permanently  in 
the  principal  cities  of  Europe. 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES  --  by  Prof.  Barbara  Smalley 

NEW  CHAIRMAN 
Prof.  Francois  Jost  has  asked  to  be  relieved  as  of  this  fall  of  his  administrative 
duties  as  Chairman  of  the  Comparative  Literature  Program  so  that  he  can  devote  his 
full  time  to  teaching  and  to  his  scholarly  studies.   Prof.  Jost  came  to  UI  in  the 
fall,  1965.   The  Comparative  Literature  Program  has  grown  and  flourished  in  the  5 
years  it  has  enjoyed  his  guidance.   He  will  continue  among  us  as  teacher  and  scholar 
and  will,  we  hope,  continue  to  allow  us  to  profit  from  his  great  erudition,  his  un- 
excelled familiarity  with  current  comparative  literature  programs  and  studies,  both 
national  and  international,  and  his  genial  wisdom. 

We  are  indeed  fortunate  to  be  able  to  announce  that  Prof.  Herbert  Knust  has 
accepted  the  Chairmanship.   Prof.  Knust,  a  scholar  in  the  field  of  modern  literature 
and  especially  the  modern  drama,  has  for  the  last  5  years  been  a  member  of  the 
Comparative  Literature  Program  and  the  German  Dept.  at  UI.   Among  his  recent  publi- 
cations are:   "What's  the  Matter  with  One-eyed  Riley?"   in  Comparative  Literature, 
fall,  1965;  Wagner,  The  King  and  the  Wasteland,  Pa.  State  Univ.,  1967;  "Sweeney 


Among  the  Birds  and  Brutes,"  Arcadia,  1967;  and  "Moderne  Variationen  dea  Jedermann- 
Spiels,"  in  Helen  Adolf  Festschrift,  Ungar,  1968. 

PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Rocco  Montano,  who  was  a  member  of  the  Center  for  Advanced  Studies  at  III  during 
the  2nd  semester  of  1969-70,  has  now  resumed  teaching.   This  semester  he  is  offering 
2  courses:   "The  System  of  Tragedy  from  Aeschylus  to  Shakespeare,"  for  the  Comjara- 
tive  Literature  Frogram,  and  "Modern  and  Contemporary  Italian  Lyric  Poetry, "  for  the 
Dept.  of  Spanish,  Italian  and  Portuguese. 

During  the  2nd  semester  of  last  year,  Prof.  Montano  published  the  1st  2  vols, 
of  hi3  extended  History  of  Italian  Literature,  entitled:   L0  SFIRITO  E  LE  LSTTERE: 
Disegno  Storlco  della  Letteratura  Italiana.   Marzorati,  one  of  the  leading  Italian 
houses,  is  the  publisher.   Vol.  I  (350p. )  deals  with  Italian  literature  from  the 
Middle  Ages  to  the  end  of  the  15th  century;  Vol.  II  deals  with  Italian  literature 
from  the  16th  century  to  the  end  of  the  l^th;  Vol.  Ill  will  be  published  within  the 
year.   This  ambitious  study  offers  a  completely  new  perspective  on  Italian  literature 
and  is  intended  to  serve  as  a  basic  resource  for  criticism  of  Italian  authors. 

MEETINGS 
Profs,  A.  Owen  Aldridge,  Francois  Jost  and  Herbert  Knust  attended  the  6th  Congress 
of  the  International  Comparative  Literature  Association  at  Bordeaux,  France,  from 
Aug.  31  to  Sept.  5.   The  Congress  included  some  350  scholars  from  over  30  countries. 
Both  Prof.  Aldridge  and  Prof.  Jost  delivered  papers:   Prof.  Aldridge  dealt  with 
"The  Vogue  of  Thomas  Paine, "  and  Frof .  Jost  treated  "The  Sonnet  in  its  International 
Context."  At  the  business  meeting  which  concluded  the  Congress,  Prof.  Aldridge  was 
elected  to  the  Advisory  Board  of  the  Association. 

Mr.  Aldridge  was  later  the  gue3t  of  the  Ente  Nazionale  Giovanni  Boccaccio  for  1 
week  during  the  International  Congress  on  Boccaccio  in  Anglo-Saxon  Culture  at  Cer- 
taldo,  Italy,  from  Sept.  13-19.   He  presided  over  1  of  the  sessions  and  also  deli- 
vered a  paper,  "The  First  American  Interpretation  of  Boccaccio." 

Prof.  Jost  met  with  Friedrich  Durrenmatt  in  Switzerland  in  order  to  discuss 
possible  arrangements  for  Mr.  Durrenmatt' s  visit  to  the  UI  in  fall,  1971  in  the 
event  that  one  of  his  new  plays,  Play  Strindberg,  is  to  be  performed  at  that  time. 
Plans  for  a  Fall  1971  Synr  osium  on  the  Drama  are  now  being  worked  out  by  the  Com- 
parative Literature  Frogram  in  collaboration  with  the  Gorman  Dept.,  the  Dept.  of 
Theater,  and  the  Director  of  the  "rannert  Center  for  the  Performing  Arts. 

LECTURE 
Prof.  Reinhold  Grimm  from  the  U.  of  Wis.  will  deliver  a  lecture  entitled  "Spiel  und 
Wirklichkeit  in  Einigen  Revolutionsdramen"  on  Monday,  Oct.  26,  R  p.m.,  Room  A,  Law 
Building.   The  lecture  is  sponsored  by  the  Graduate  Frogram  in  Comparat lve  Litera- 
ture and  the  Dept.  of  Germanic  Languages  and  Literatures. 

FRENCH  NOTES  --  by  Frof.  Edwin  Jahiel 

The  activities  and  news  of  the  French  Dept.  have  become  so  extraordinarily  numerous 
that  only  a  fraction  can  be  reported  in  this  monthly  section.   If  we  were  to  include 
everyt  ing,  we  would  have  to  issue  a  fat  report  each  time;  if  we  were  to  mention 
also  activities  outside  the  Dept.,  but  within  the  UI  and  relevant  to  the  life  of  our 
Dept.,  we  would  probably  need  2  fat  monthly  reports.   This  fantastic  ferment,  some- 
times exhilarating,  often  exciting,  always  exhausting,  seems  to  be  the  advantage  as 
well  as  the  price  of  the  large  dynamic  university.   In  these  pages,  we  can  only 
sketch  out  selected  news,  and  -  readers,  please  take  note  -  most  of  these  Items  have 
to  be  contributed  or  suggested  by  the  people  involved.   This  means  that,  if  for  any 
reason,  Mrs.  X,  Mr.  Y,  or  group  Z  in  our  Dept.  do  not  contribute  their  activities 
(and  it  happens  all  the  time),  chances  are  that  they  will  not  be  reported,  or  that 
they  will  be  mentioned  only  briefly.   So,  bearing  this  in  mind,  here's  a  small  part 
of  what  is  going  on: 


LE  TRETEAU  DE  PARIS  HERE  ON  NOV.  2 
This  is  the  first  and  most  urgent  item  in  this  Newsletter.   The  Treteau  de  Paris 
again  comes  to  this  campus  with  a  play  that  is  an  absolute  must.   First  performed  in 
192+5  (with  Gerard  Philipe),  though  begun  in  1938,  revised  by  the  author  in  1958,  2 
years  before  his  death,  Caligula  stands  today  as  a  play  even  more  contemporary  than 
it  was  when  first  produced.   The  themes  of  youth  and  refusal,  of  revolutionary  in- 
volvement, of  a  passion  for  absolutes,  of  evil  at  the  service  of  an  imaginary  free- 
dom, of  the  search  for  the  impossible,  all  these  and  many  others  are  as  alive  and 
pertinent  to  1970  as  many  a  new  avant-garde  play  --  more,  in  fact,  because  Camus  had 
talent,  and,  in  this  play,  put  all  of  his  considerable  know-how  of  the  stage. 

Texts  of  Caligula  may  be  obtained  ($1  ea.,  postpaid,  taxpaid)  from  Follett's 
Bookstore,  Green  and  Wright,  Champaign,  111.  61820.   Please  note  —  and  this  is  im- 
portant --  that  the  text  of  the  play  is  in  unusually  easy  and  simple  French,  and  that 
the  play  can  be  read  quite  quickly. 

The  performance  will  be  at  the  Krannert  Center's  Festival  Theatre,  Nov.  2,  at 
8  p.m.  -  out  by  approx.  10: 1+5  p.m.   We  were  able  to  hold  ticket  prices  to  last  year's 
level,  i.e.  considerably  under  the  prices  of  equivalent  events  -  and  we  will  extend 
the  reduced  student  prices  to  all  students,  not  just  UI  students.   Prices:   $3*25, 
3.00,  2.75  for  the  general  public,  and  $2.75,  2.50,  2.2$   for  students.   Tickets  will 
go  on  sale  at  the  Krannert  Center  Box  Office  as  well  as  the  Illini  Union  Box  Office 
(both  Urbana,  111.  61801)  approx.  10  days  before  the  event.   We  suggest  you  send 
mail  orders  as  soon  as  you  read  these  lines,  enclosing  a  stamped,  self-addressed 
envelope.   You  may  also  request,  along  with  your  tickets,  some  heralds,  that  is, 
small  posters  (very  eye-catching)  with  comments  by  Camus  himself  on  his  play  on  the 
reverse  side.   The  requests  for  heralds  should  accompany  the  mail  orders  (do  not  ask 
rae  or  the  French  Dept.  for  either)  and  will  be  filled  promptly.   Don't  miss  Caligulai 

PROFESSOR  EMERITUS  PAUL  E.  JACOB 
We  have  been  grieved  to  learn  of  the  death  of  Prof.  Emeritus  Paul  E.  Jacob  on  Sun., 
Aug.  9  while  he  was  on  vacation  in  Diana  Marina,  Italy.   Professor  and  Mrs.  Jacob 
had  been  living  in  Neuchatel,  Switzerland  where  Mrs.  Jacob  will  continue  to  live. 
By  coincidence,  Prof.  Joe  Allen  of  the  Dept.  of  Spanish,  Italian  and  Portuguese  was 
in  Berne  at  the  time  and  called  the  Jacob  home  with  the  intention  of  going  to  Neu- 
chatel to  see  them,  and  learned  that  the  funeral  arrangements  were  being  made.   Prof. 
Allen  had  flowers  sent  in  the  name  of  the  former  colleagues  of  Prof.  Jacob  and  the 
members  of  the  Dept.   Our  thanks  to  Prof.  Allen  for  this  thoughtful  action. 

CHANGE  OF  ADDRESS 
Prof.  Ruth  Rains  is  no  longer  with  the  Dept.,  having  accepted  a  position  at  the  U. 
of  Wichita.   Prof.  Paul  Barrette  has  also  left,  for  the  U.  of  Tenn.,  where  he  joins 
2  former  members  of  this  Dept.,  Prof.  Jean  Ehrard  and  Prof,  (now  Dr.,  from  UI ) 
Mustapha  Kemal  Benouis.   Our  best  wishes  and  congratulations  to  all. 

STAFF  NEWS 
Of  the  approx.  100  senior  and  junior  members  of  the  teaching  staff,  there  are  31  new 
assistants  this  year.   About  half  of  them  are  French  or  native  speakers  of  French 
and,  with  their  non-French  colleagues,  constitute  a  fine  crew  of  teachers.   All  new 
assistants  underwent  an  orientation  session,  and  the  efforts  of  Profs.  Griffith, 
Shinall  and  Talbot  -  who  were  in  charge  of  the  orientation  -  are  already  paying 
handsome  dividends  in  the  classroom. 

Of  the  young  old-timers  here,  Mrs.  Savignon,  Mrs.  Bellocq  and  Mrs.  Gordon  were 
promoted  to  Instructor,  and  Mrs.  Shinall  to  Visiting  Assistant  Prof.  New  people  are 
Mr.  Philippe  Leroux,  from  France  via  the  U.  of  Chicago,  and  Mrs.  Brigitte  Wanner, 
from  Switzerland,  both  Instructors.   There  are  also  \   new  Fellows  and  a  number  of 
research  assistants. 

Profs.  Jenkins,  Guy  and  Noelle  Laprevotte,  and  Frice  are  on  sabbatical  leave  of 
absence.   Prof.  DeLey  also  will  be  away  the  second  semester. 

Prof.  Larkin  Price  was  promoted  to  Associate  Prof.  -  and  this  is  a  good  oppor- 
tunity for  me  to  thank  him  for  the  excellent  job  he  did  while  replacing  rae  as  French 
Editor  of  this  Newsletter  in  the  Spring  Term,  1970. 

As  for  Prof.  Jahiel,  he  is  back  from  his  7  month  sabbatical  abroad,  where  he 
did  research  on  the  cinema  and  theatre  in  England  and  France,  was  the  guest  of  the 


French  Ministry  of  Foreign  Affairs  as  well  as  of  several  film  festivals:   Oberhausen 
(Germany),  Cannes  (France),  San  Sebastian  (Spain),  Pula  (Yugoslavia),  and  where  he 
found  himself  to  be  the  American  Universities  representative. 

THE  JOURNAL  CLUB 
Prof.  Yves  Velan,  in  charge  of  the  Journal  Club,  has  announced  the  following  lectures 
a  partial  list  only:   Oct.  5>  1970  -  Frank  Bowman  (U.  of  Pa.),  "Le  Frobleme  du  beau 
a  l'lpoque  romantique"  followed,  on  Oct.  6,  by  a  presentation  of  Eclaircie,  a  poem 
from  "Contemplations "$  Dec.  3  -  Carlos  Lynes  (U.  of  Pa.),  "Production  litteraire  et 
thSorie  romanesque  chez  Philippe  Sollers";  Feb.  1,  1971  -  Seth  Wolitz  (U.  of  Cal., 
Berkeley),  "AimeuSaire  et  le  probleiue  de  la  nigritude",  followed  by  3  days  of  dis- 
cussions and  seminars  on  the  subject;  Mar.  (date  unknown),  1971  -  Roger  Kempf  (Ecole 
Polytechnique  Flderale,  Zurich),  "Diderot  et  le  roman";  Apr.  5  -  Robert  J.  Nelson 
(UI),  "Lecteurs  de  Pascal". 

ILLINOIS  AND  IOWA  YEAR  ABROAD  PROGRAM:   FRANCE 
The  Dept.  of  French  of  UI  will  again  sponsor  a  year  abroad  program  in  France  for 
1971-72,  constituting  the  equivalent  of  an  academic  year  in  residence  on  the  Urbana- 
Champaign  campus. 

The  Program  consists  of  5  weeks  of  language  review  and  cultural  orientation  at 
the  U.  of  Grenoble,  followed  by  8  months  at  the  U.  of  Rouen,  90  m.  NW  of  Paris.   Ac- 
companied by  a  prof,  of  French  representing  the  home  university  who  acts  as  local 
director  of  the  Frogram  and  advisor,  the  students  selected  to  participate  take 
courses  in  French  language,  literature,  history,  geography,  art,  political  institu- 
tions and  other  subjects  of  particular  interest  to  each  participant.   All  courses 
are  taught  by  French  profs.   Some  of  the  courses  are  common  to  both  French  and  Amer- 
ican students.   Upon  successful  completion  of  the  Program,  the  equivalent  of  at  least 
30  semester  hours  is  granted  each  participant  whose  performance  Is  recorded  in  his 
official  U.  record. 

The  Program  is  open  to  sophomores,  juniors  and  seniors  who  are  In  good  scholas- 
tic standing  and  are  qualified  in  their  study  of  French.   Majors  in  French  language, 
literature,  and  in  the  teaching  of  French  are  strongly  urged  to  take  advantage  of 
this  Program.   Students  from  other  schools  also  may  apply.   If  accepted,  tney  will, 
however,  have  to  transfer  to  UI,  Urbana-Champaign,  for  the  duration  of  their  year 
In  France. 

Transatlantic  transp ortation  is  provided,  as  well  as  transportation  within 
France,  cultural  activities,  special  lectures,  living  accomodations  and  meals.   In 
both  Grenoble  and  Rouen,  participants  live  in  French  homes;  individual  housing  ar- 
rangements can  also  be  made.   The  total  cost,  including  transportation  New  York- 
Faris-New  York  and  Paris-Grenoble-Rouen,  living  expenses,  books,  excursions  and 
tuition  and  fees,  are  comparable  to  the  average  expenses  for  an  academic  year  on  the 
Urbana-Champaign  campus.   Fellowships,  tuition  and  fee  waivers,  loans  are  all  appli- 
cable to  the  Program. 

The  deadline  for  submitting  applications  Is  Feb.  15,  1971.   Descriptions  of  and 
applications  for  the  Program  are  available  from  the  Chairman  of  the  Program,  Prof. 
G.  Savignon,  225  Lincoln  Hall,  or  through  the  Dept.  of  French,  2\\\\   Lincoln  Hall. 

MISCELLANEOUS  ACTI VITIES 
The  French  House  is  now  under  the  direction  of  Miss  Geloin  and  Miss  Naab,  and  spon- 
sors a  weekly  coffee  hour  each  Tuesday,  I;-5:30  p.m. 

The  F'rench  Luncheon  trtkes  \  lace  each  Thursday  at  noon,  Illlni  Tower,  close  to 
Lincoln  Hall.   All  interested  people  are  cordially  invited  to  meet  staff  and  students 
both  at  the  Coffee  Hour  and  the  French  Luncheon. 

The  Coffee  Room,  inside  the  Main  Office  of  the  Dept.,  is  also  an  increasingly 
popular  meeting  place,  partly  thanks  to  its  short-wave  set  and  its  French-language 
programs.   The  initiative  for  all  this  belongs  to  Frof.  "Telson. 

Prof.  Nachtmann  Is  again  forming  a  Dept.  Choral  Society,  which  he  directs.   All 
interested  persons  should  contact  him. 

Frof.  Barbara  Bowen  is  again  forming  the  Clnacle,  the  informal  discussion  group 
(literary  and  cultural  subjects)  which  meets  regularly  in  private  homes. 

Profs.  Jahiel  and  kelson  were  invited  by  the  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruc- 
ti  n  of  the  State  of  111.  to  conduct  workshops  on  the  Teaching  of  Culture  in  the  FL 


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Classroom,  at  Mattoon  (Oct.  3)  and  Danville  (Oct.  17)  respectively. 

FRENCH  FILMS  ON  CAMFUS 
The  number  of  important,  American  or  Foreign,  classic  or  current  films  shown  on  cam- 
pus is  staggering,  there's  no  other  word  for  it.   This  is  well  in  keeping  with  the 
equally  staggering  number  of  cultural  events  at  the  University  -  the  Krannert  Center 
alone  had  150  events  in  its  1st  yearl   French  theatre  is  still  one  great  gap  in  our 
offerings  as  far  as  we're  concerned,  hence  the  importance  of  Caligula.   But  French 
films  abound,  and  whether  in  the  classroom  (Fr  i|?8),  in  the  series  of  films  shown 
free  to  French  students  by  the  Dept.,  or  in  other  types  of  showings,  one  could  have 
seen  or  can  soon  see  such  items  as:   Renoir's  rare  Toni  ('3U)»  RenlClair's  Les  Deux 
Timides,  or  A  Nous  la  Llbertl,  Bufiuel  &  Dali's  Un  Chi en  Andalou,  Chabrol's  Les 
Cousins.  Carne's  Hotel  du  Nord  and  Le3  Enf ants  clu  Paradis,  Godard's  Alphavllle , 
Masculin-F^mlnin,  and  A  Bout  de  Souffle,  Camus'  Orf eu  Negro ,  Robbe-Crillet ' s  L' Homme 
qui  ment,  Resnais'  Hiroshima  mon  Amour,  Nult  et  Broulllard,  and  La  Guerre  est  Flnie, 
Demy's  Lola,  a  filmed  performance  of  Les  Femmes  Savantes,  Clement's  Les  Jeux  Inter- 
dits.  Truffaut's  Jules  et  Jim  and  Les  U00  coups,  the  French-produced  Thanos  and 
De spina  (Papatakis)  and  Mister  Freedom  (Wm.  Klein),  the  Senegalese  Mandabi  (Ousmsne 
Sembene),  Malle ' s  Les  Amants ,  and  many  more. 

Chroniques  de  France  deserves  a  special  mention.   This  is  a  30  min.  program 
which  the  French  Consulate  in  Chicago  will  make  available  free  to  any  school  that 
wishes  to  join  the  circuit.   Judging  from  the  first  sample  shown  here,  the  series  is 
very  promising.   Our  program  (no.  56)  included  essays  on  the  sculptor  Clsar,  with 
his  own  running  commentary,  on  Alain-Fournier,  on  Aix-en-Provence,  and  on  Kiki  Caroo. 
Very  well  done,  imaginative  and  beautiful  color  photography  and  editing,  clear  French 
narration.   A  far  cry  from  fatigued  newsreels,  old-fashioned  "educational"  films,  or 
sledge-hammer  publicity  and  propaganda. 

GERMAN  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Roy  Allen 

NEW  FACULTY 
The  German  Dept.  is  very  happy  to  welcome  to  its  staff  this  fall  four  new  permanent 
members.   Mr.  Vincent  Dell'Orto  comes  to  the  Dept.  from  Johns  Hopkins  U.   He  received 
the  A.B.  degree  in  German  from  St.  Peter's  College  in  1966,  having  spent  his  junior 
year  at  the  U.  of  Tubingen  (I96I4.-65).   Mr.  Dell'Orto  then  went  on  to  Johns  Hopkins 
where  he  obtained  the  M.A.  degree  In  '67  and  also,  from  '6?-' 69,  held  the  position 
of  Junior  Instructor  in  German.   He  is  currently  working  towards  the  completion  of  a 
doctoral  dissertation  for  Johns  Hopkins  on  the  author  Carl  Julius  Weber  (I767-I832). 

Mr.  William  Henderson,  who  will  instruct  at  UI  in  both  German  and  Scandinavian 
courses,  did  graduate  work  at  Cornell  University.   He  graduated  from  Vanderbilt  U. 
in  '  6I4.  with  the  B.A.  in  German,  having  spent  the  year  '62- '63  at  the  U.  of  Munich. 
From  1966  to  1967,  Mr.  Henderson  was  again  abroad,  studying  at  the  U.  of  Louvsin  in 
Belgium.   At  Cornell,  he  acquired  teaching  experience  as  a  Teaching  Asst.  in  German 
and  is  at  present  writing  a  doctoral  dissertation  for  that  institution  on  a  topic  in 
the  area  of  Germanic  philology. 

Mr.  Lathrop  Johnson,  having  just  recently  returned  from  a  year  of  study  in 
Germany  on  a  DAAD  Fellowship,  also  joins  the  Dept.  as  a  graduate  of  Johns  Hopkins  U. 
Mr.  Johnson  was  granted  the  A.B.  in  German  by  Princeton  U.  in  1966  and  then,  from 
1966  to  1970,  attended  Johns  Hopkins;  there  he  received  the  M.A.  in  German  in  '67. 
At  the  latter  institution  he  was  a  Junior  Instructor  in  German  from  1967-69.   Mr. 
Johnson  is  now  writing  his  doctoral  dissertation  on  "The  Poetry  of  Gottlieb  Siegmund 
Corvinus. " 

From  Indiana  U.  comes  Miss  Dagmar  Stern.   She  was  graduated  from  Douglass  Colleg 
with  the  A.B.  in  1965  and  then  from  Indiana  U.  with  the  M.A.  in  1968.   During  the 
period  1966-70,  Miss  Stern  taught  courses  in  German  at  Indiana  U.  as  a  Teaching 
Associate.   At  the  same  institution  she  was  also  the  recipient  of  a  Doctoral  Grant- 
in-Aid.   Miss  Stern  Is  currently  working  on  a  doctoral  dissertation  for  Indiana  U.  on 
the  poetry  of  Hilde  Domin. 

FALL  EiTOOLLMENT 
The  total  enrollment  in  German  for  this  fall  semester  represents,  overall,  a  drop 


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down  from  the  total  for  the  same  j  eriod  in  1969:   1798  to  171^1.   However,  a  sizable 
increase  at  a  significant  level,  in  the  101  course,  is  probably  more  indicative  of 
the  future:   101  was  up  this  fall  to  1|62  from  last  year's  \\0%   students.   There  was, 
in  addition,  a  slight  rise  in  enrollment  in  the  second  semester  course,  102,  from 
1969's  192  to  a  total  this  year  of  196.   German  103  and  101;  registered  decreases, 
with  103  enrolling  296  (1969:363)  and  IOI4.  enrolling  160  students  (1969:133).   Yet, 
the  200  level  courses  rose  sharply  in  enrollment,  totalling  232  students  (1969:129). 
Finally,  on  the  graduate  level,  the  I4OO  series,  exclusive  of  lj.OO/lj.01,  showed  a  total 
of  78,  as  opposed  to  107  students  in  the  fall  of  1969.   I4.OO/4OI  (Elementary  Reading 
German  for  Graduate  Students)  together  enrolled  116  students  (1969:114.6). 

RECEPTION  FOR  NEW  GRADUATE  STUDENTS 
The  reception  for  new  graduate  students  in  the  German  Dept.  was  held  this  year  in 
combination  with  an  introduction  to  graduate  study  in  German  on  Oct.  11  at  the 
Allerton  House  in  Allerton  Park.   The  reception  and  introduction  involved  the  dis- 
cussion of  I4.  major  topics  related  to  graduate  study  in  German,  each  of  which  was 
introduced  prior  to  the  discussion  by  a  member  of  the  Dept.   The  topics  treated  were: 
a)  What  relationship  can  the  prospective  career  of  the  graduate  student  be  expected 
to  have  to  his  university  and  to  the  community  at  large?  (introduced  by  Professor 
Marchand)  -  b)  What  sort  of  scholarly  work  can  the  new  graduate  student  expect  to  be 
prepared  for  and  of  what  importance  is  it?  (introduced  by  Prof.  Mitchell)  -  c)  What 
role  does  teaching  and  preparation  for  teaching  rlay  in  our  graduate  program?   (in- 
troduced by  Frof.  Knust)  -  d)  What  provisions  exist  for  planning  the  individual  pro- 
gram and  how  effective  are  they?  (introduced  by  Mr.  Felty,  graduate  student).   The 
reception  and  introduction  commenced  at  Q:00  a.m.  and  concluded  in  the  late  after- 
noon; breakfast  and  lunch  were  served. 

GERMAN  HOUSE 
The  German  House,  described  bu  its  directress  Miss  Jane  Thompson,  as  a  "living- 
language-experience,  "  has  begun  its  second  consecutive  year  of  operation  this  fall 
here  at  the  UI.   The  House,  an  Independent  Housing  Unit  located  at  103  S.  Gregory 
Street,  Urbana  61801  (tel.  3UU-2328),  presently  lodges  llj.  undergraduate  students,  in 
addition  to  Miss  Thompson  who  is  a  graduate  student  and  Teaching  Asst.  assigned  to 
the  House  by  the  German  Dept.   The  residents  of  the  House  organize  all  meals,  do  all 
of  the  work  in  the  House  and  provide  as  well  the  financing  of  the  House  on  a  co- 
operative basis.   The  German  House  especially  encourages  the  speaking  of  German  in 
the  informal  setting  of  day-to-day  living  and  also  sponsors  programs  involving  the 
German  language  and  literature  and  culture  for  its  own  members  and  the  UI  community 
at  large. 

SLAVIC  NOTES  --  by  Frof.  Kenneth  Brostrora 

SUMMER  VACATION  NOTES 
During  the  course  of  a  research  trip  to  Europe  this  summer  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Russian  and  East  European  Center  of  the  UI,  Miss  Temira  Pachmuss  interviewed  several 
Russian  writers  and  scholars,  including  V.A.  Bacherac,  V.V.  Weidle,  (who  presently 
teaches  at  Princeton),  F.E.  Kavalevsky,  Ju.K.  Terapians,  S.A.  Zhaba,  L.A.  Grinberg, 
G.V.  Adamovich,  and  N.E.  Andreyev.   She  traveled  to  Munich,  Bad  Wiessee,  Paris, 
Nice,  Monaco,  Monte  Carlo,  and  Cambridge,  England,  and  also  worked  at  the  libraries 
of  the  U.  of  Helsinki  and  the  British  Museum  where  she  concerned  herself  with  the 
literary  and  religious  life  of  the  Russian  intelligentsia  at  the  turn  of  the  century. 
Miss  Pachmuss  also  has  been  appointed  editor  of  the  Collected  Works  of  Zinaida 
Hippius  to  be  published  by  the  Wilhelra  Fink  Verlag,  Munich. 

Prof.  Michael  Curran  traveled  this  summer  to  U.C.L.A.  where  he  taught  in  the 
summer  Slavic  Institute. 

NEW  FACULTY 
The  Slavic  Dept.  is  happy  to  welcome  Mr.  Louis  Iribarne  to  the  UI.   Mr.  Iribarne  did 
his  undergraduate  work  at  Notre  Dams,  received  his  M.A.  from  Stanford,  studied  for 
one  year  at  the  U.  of  Warsaw,  and  is  currently  finishing  his  doctoral  dissertation 
on  the  life  and  works  of  Witold  Gombrowicz.   He  is  an  active  translator  from  Polish 


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and  is  particularly  interested  in  avant-garde  drama  as  well  as  in  contemporary 
Polish  and  Russian  literature. 

DISSERTATION  DEFENSES 
Mr.  Herbert  Coats  and  Mr.  Roger  Phillips  successfully  defended  their  doctoral  dis- 
sertations on  Sept.  25.   Mr.  Coats  entitled  his  dissertation,  Word  Stress  in  Modern 
Russian;  he  is  currently  teaching  at  the  U.  of  Washington.   Mr.  Phillips'  disserta- 
tion topic  was  Dostoevsky' s  Underground  Narrator:   A  Study  in  the  Psychology  and 
Structure  of  Contradiction;  he  is  now  teaching  at  the  U.  of  Wisconsin  at  Milwaukee. 

VISITING  SPEAKERS 
On  Sept.  21).,  Prof.  Theodore  Lightner  of  the  U.  of  Texas  delivered  a  lecture  entitled 
"On  lax  i  and  u  in  Modern  Russian." 

The  noted  Czech  linguist  and  literary  scholar  Frantisek  V.  Mares  read  a  lecture 
on  Oct.  6  entitled  wSt.  Cyril's  Concept  of  Old  Slavic  Culture." 

Several  other  scholars  are  scheduled  to  speak  here  later  in  the  Pall  semester 
at  times  to  be  announced,  promising  the  Slavic  faculty,  students  and  other  interested 
persons  a  number  of  profitable  encounters. 

CONFERENCES 
The  Illinois  ICTFL  and  AATSEEL  Conference  will  take  place  on  Nov.  6-7  at  the  St. 
Nicholas  Hotel  in  Springfield,  111.   The  foreign  language  sections  will  meet  on  Nov. 
6.   The  following  members  of  the  Slavic  Dept.  are  presently  scheduled  to  speak: 
Prof.  Kurt  Klein,  "Preparing  a  Syllabus  for  a  Course  in  Russian  Civilization;" 
Mr.  Henry  Zalucky,  "Russian  Abbreviations;"  and  Mr.  Kenneth  Brostrom,  "The  Image  of 
Christ  in  Mayakovsky." 

PUBLICATIONS 
Miss  Temira  Pachmuss  published  the  following  articles  during  the  summer  of  1970: 
"Zinaida  Hippius:   The  Brown  Note-Book,"  La  Renaissance  (Paris),  No.  221,  pp.  25-39; 
"Zinaida  Hippius:   The  Choice?"  ibid.,  No.  222,  pp.  50-77;  "Zinaida  Hippius:   Expla- 
nations and  Questions,"  ibid. ,  No.  223,  PP»  73-81;.   Miss  Pachmuss  is  also  currently 
preparing  an  edition  of  Hippius'  poetry  for  the  Wilhelm  Fink  Verlag  and  a  book  in 
English  translation,  Selected  Works  of  Zinaida  Hippius,  for  the  UI  Press. 

SUMMER  ABROAD  PROGRAM 
The  Slavic  Dept.  has  decided  to  abandon  tentative  plans  for  a  study-tour  to  the 
Soviet  Union  during  the  summer  of  1971  due  to  a  series  of  complex  difficulties.   Con- 
sequently, students  interested  in  such  programs  are  urged  to  contact  the  Council  on 
International  Educational  Exchange,  777  United  Nations  Plaza,  New  York,  N.Y.  for 
further  information. 

MISCELLANEOUS  NOTES 
A  series  of  Russian  films,  sponsored  by  the  Russian  Club,  will  again  be  shown  at 
Intervals  in  the  UI  Auditorium  at  8:00  p.m.   The  next  film  will  be  "My  Name  is  Ivan," 
to  be  shown  on  Oct,  22, 

On  Oct.  13,  at  8:00  p.m.  in  the  Faculty  Lounge,  Illlni  Union,  the  Russian  and 
East  European  Center  Round  Table  will  present  a  panel  discussion,  "Job  Opportunities 
for  Russian  and  E.  European  Language,  Literature  and  Area  Majors."  Participants 
will  be  Profs.  Fisher  (history),  Dawson  (language  and  lit.,  U.  level),  Klein  (lang- 
uage, high  school  level),  and  Miller  (library  science). 

A  new  Czech  film,  "The  Joke,"  is  to  be  shown  on  Oct.  28  (UI  Auditorium)  and 
Nov.  1  (Lincoln  Hall  Theater)  at  8:00  p.m.  both  evenings. 

SPANISH,  ITALIAN  AND  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  --  by  Felicia  G.  Sworsky 

AATSP 
The  downstate  chapter  of  the  AATSP  will  hold  its  fall  meeting  in  conjunction  with 
the  Illinois  Foreign  Language  Teachers  Association  meeting  Fri.  evening,  Nov.  6,  at 
the  St.  Nicholas  Hotel  in  Springfield.   The  program  will  feature  Dr.  Jose  L.  Martin 


Associate  Prof,  of  Spanish  at  Illinois  State  University,  whose  topic  will  be 
"Tendencias  actuales  de  la  narrativa  hispanoamericana",  and  Miss  Eloise  Metzger, 
Pekin  Community  HS,  whose  presentation  is  entitled,  "A  Teacher  Photographs  Spain". 
Membership  dues  for  the  organization  are  to  be  sent  to  Mrs.  Gladys  Leal,  207  W.  Iowa 
St.,  Urbana,  111.  61801.   National  dues  are  $8  and  Chapter  dues  remain  at  $1,   Stu- 
dent dues  are  $!{.  (National)  and  $1  (Chapter).   Payment  of  national  dues  entitles 
members  to  receive  Hispania.   Officers  for  1970  are:   President,  Dr.  Lydla  Holm, 
Vice-President,  Mr.  Jack  Clinton,  Sec. -Treasurer,  Mrs.  Gladys  Leal,  and  Corresponding 
Sec.,  Mr.  E.M.  Anderson. 

NEW  FACULTY 
The  department  welcomes  several  new  faculty  members  this  year:   Asst.  Profs.   Martha 
Paley  Francescato,  Richard  Preto-Rodas,  and  Mario  Saltarelli. 

Prof.  Francescato  is  a  native  of  Argentina  and  studied  at  the  Instituto  Superior 
del  Profesorado  in  Buenos  Aires,  receiving  her  degree  in  1956,  before  coming  to  the 
United  States.   In  1959,  she  received  her  masters  degree  in  English  from  the  UI,  and 
then  returned  to  Argentina  for  $   years,  during  which  time  she  taught  there.   On  her 
return  here  in  I96I4.,  Mrs.  Francescato  joined  this  department,  working  for  her  Ph.D. 
which  she  received  this  year  in  June.   Her  major  field  of  interest  in  Hispanic-Amer- 
ican literature,  having  written  her  dissertation  on  Cortazar  and  the  "bestiarios". 

Prof.  Preto-Rodas,  a  native  lew  Yorker,  studied  at  Fairfield  U.  as  an  under- 
graduate, receiving  a  bachelors  degree  In  English.   He  then  attended  Boston  College 
where  he  obtained  a  masters  degree  In  Philosophy  before  opting  for  languages  (Portu- 
guese and  Spanish),  the  study  of  which  he  pursued  at  the  U.  of  Michigan,  Ann  Arbor, 
first  as  a  graduate  student  and  teaching  fellow  and  then  as  an  Instructor.   He  re- 
ceived both  his  masters  and  his  doctoral  degrees  from  Michigan.   His  dissertation 
treated  a  Renaissance,  Luso-Spanish  figure,  Francisco  Rodriguez  Lobo.   For  the  last 
I4.  years,  Prof.  Preto-Rodas  has  been  Asst.  Prof,  of  Spanish  and  Portuguese  at  the  U. 
of  Florida,  Gainesville.   His  work  and  interests  have  recently  centered  on  colonial 
and  contemporary  Luso-Brazilian  literature,  but  he  also  keeps  up  his  interest  in  the 
Spanisn  Siglo  de  Oro  period. 

Prof.   Saltarelli  is  a  home  son,  returned  to  the  UI  after  \\   years  at  Cornell  U. 
where  he  was  Asst.  Prof,  of  Linguistics  in  the  Division  of  Modern  Languages.   He 
studied  here  as  an  undergraduate,  receiving  his  bachelors  degree  in  Spanish  in  1961. 
Continuing  his  studies  here,  but  In  Linguistics,  he  received  his  masters  degree  in 
1962  and  his  doctoral  degree  in  1966.   His  dissertation  topic  was  "A  Phonology  of 
Italian  in  a  Generative  Grammar"  (see  PUBLICATIONS).   Prof.  Saltarelli" s  duties  this 
year  include  the  supervision  of  the  Spanish  101-102  courses. 

SUMMER  DOINGS 
This  past  summer  the  department  was  most  happy  to  welcome  as  Visiting  Professor,  the 
Chilean  novelist  Enrico  Lafourcade.   He  taught  a  graduate  level  course  on  the  Span- 
ish American  Novel  and,  being  a  novelist  himself,  was  able  to  give  his  students  a 
different  point  of  view  or  approach  to  the  novel:   that  of  the  writer. 

Over  the  summer,  the  department  was  sad  to  say  good-bye  to  2  old  friends:   Frof. 
William  H.  Shoemaker  and  Prof.  Marcos  A.  Morfnigo  both  retired  and  left  the  UI  cam- 
pus.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Shoemaker  have  gone  to  the  U.  of  Missouri  at  Columbia  where  he 
will  teach  and  continue  his  scholarly  research.   Dr.  and  Mrs.  Morfnigo  have  returned 
to  Buenos  Aires  (Arenales  1677  -  5° ) •   He  has  no  plans  at  present  to  resume  teaching, 
but  will  enjoy  a  well-deserved  leisure  in  which  to  further  his  research  Interests. 

Professor  and  Mrs.  Anoar  Aiex  spent  their  summer  in  Brazil,  mostly  in  Sao  Paolo, 
where  Frof.  Aiex  worked  on  a  research  project  having  to  do  with  "Modernism  and  Bra- 
zilian Thought".   He  was  assisted  for  part  of  the  time  by  Grad.  Student  and  Tchng. 
Asst.  Gerald  Dreller  (now  Instructor  in  Spanish,  Italian  and  Portuguese  at  the  UI, 
Chicago  Circle).   Prof.  Aiex  also  delivered  a  lecture  on  "Necesidade  e  liberdade 
segundo  Hume"  at  the  Faculdade  de  Fllosofia,  Ciencias  e  Letras  de  Marilia. 

In  the  month  of  June,  Prof.  David  R.  Hershberg  attended  the  Conference  of  the 
California  Historical  Society. 

ON  LEAVE 
On  leave  for  this  fall  semester  is  Professor  Hugo  Cowes.   He  and  Mrs.  Cowes  returned 
to  Argentina  (Buenos  Aires),  where  he  will  teach  at  the  U.  of  Buenos  Aires. 


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DEGREES  GRANTED 
The  department  awarded  5  doctoral  and  9  masters  degrees  in  June.   The  doctoral  reci- 
pients in  Spanish  were:   Mr.  Modesto  Mario  Diaz  (now  at  Purdue  U.),  Mr.  Marvin  Alan 
DLugo  (now  at  SUNY,  Buffalo),  Mrs.  Martha  Paley  Francescato  (now  at  UI,  Urbana),  and 
Mr.  Guillermo  Rojas  (now  at  U.  of  Cal.,  Davis).   Mr.  David  Paul  Laws  (now  at  U.  of 
Florida,  Gainesville)  received  his  degree  in  Portuguese. 

The  masters  recipients  (with  their  undergraduate  institutions)  were:  Mrs.  Alice 
Long  Anderson  (U.  of  Iowa),  Mr.  Victor  Jules  Bonadeo  (UI),  Miss  Suzanne  Brotman  (UI), 
Mrs.  Maria  Carmen  Cruz  (Havana  U.,  Havana,  Cuba),  Mr.  Reynaldo  Luis  Jimenez -Sanchez 
(UI),  Miss  Candace  Jean  Mott  (UI),  Miss  Michiko  Nonoyama  (Tokyo  U.  of  Foreign  Studies 
Mrs.  Zoila  Garcia  Romero  (Villanovas  U.,  Havana,  Cuba),  and  Sister  Marguerite  Wendell 
(Alverno  College). 

In  August,  the  department  awarded  1|  masters  degrees  in  Spanish  and  2  in  Spanish 
Education.   The  recipients  in  Spanish  were:   Mr.  Armando  Arraengol  (UI),  Mr.  Juan  de 
la  Cruz  Espadas  (UI),  Miss  Denise  Margaret  Nuccio  (UI,  Chgo.  Circle),  and  Miss 
Gresilda  Anne  Tilley  (UI).   The  recipients  in  Spanish  Education  were  Mrs.  Cheryl  Bisk 
Gordon  (UI),  and  Mr.  RatSl  Enrique  Mendigutia. 

PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello  has  published  an  article,  "The  Evolution  of  the  Loa  in 
in  Spanish  America, "  in  the  Latin  American  Theatre  Review,  vol.  3»  no.  2,  1970, 
PP.  5-19. 

Prof.  Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo' s  articles  include  "Notas  bibliogrfif icas  sobre  el 
prologo  en  la  literature  grecolatina"  in  Estudios  ClAsicos,  XIII,  1969,  no.  57*  PP« 
109-116,  in  collaboration  with  J.L.  Laurent i ;  "Funcion  de  la  f6rmula  'no  se  que'  en 
textos  literarios  espaSoles"  in  Act as  del  XI  Congreso  International  de  Lingulstica  y_ 
Filologla  Romanica,  Madrid,  1969,  vol.  I|,  pp.  2161-2181;  and  "Funcifin  del  'vulgo'  en 
la  preceptiva  dramatica  de  la  Edad  de  Oro"  in  the  Revista  de  Filologla  Espanola.  L, 
1967  [1970],  pp.  123-14.3,  in  collaboration  with  F.  Sanchez  Escribano. 

Prof.  David  R.  Hershberg  has  written  "Porcia  in  Golden  Age  Literature:   Echoes 
of  a  Classical  Theme,"  which  appears  in  Neophilologus,  LIV  (1970),  pp.  22-30. 

Prof.  Anoar  Aiex,  in  collaboration  with  Massaud  Moises,  has  written  a  book  to 
come  out  soon  for  Cultrix  Editora:   A  cultura  braslleira  atraves  dos  textos. 

Prof.  Mario  Saltarelli's  publications  include  A  Phonology  of  Italian  in  a  Gen- 
erative Grammar.  Mouton:   The  Hague,  1970;  La  Grammatlca  Generative  Trasf omazionale , 
Sansoni:   Firenze,  1970;  "Italian  and  Spanish  Plural  Formation, "  Language"  vol.  l±b, 
no.  1,  1970;  and  "Fonologia  e  morfologia  algherese,"  in  the  Acchivio  glotologico 
italiano.  1970. 

YEAR  ABROAD  PROGRAM 
The  Dept.  of  Spanish,  Italian  and  Portuguese  of  the  UI  and  the  Dept.  of  Romance 
Languages  of  the  U.  of  Michigan  have  agreed  (pending  final  administrative  approval 
of  noth  universities)  to  sponsor  a  joint  year  abroad  program  in  Spain,  beginning 
Sept.  of  1971.   It  will  consist  of  a  month  of  orientation  in  Madrid  (organized  in 
cooperation  with  the  Instituto  de  Cultura  Hispanica)  and  8  months  at  the  U.  of  Bar- 
celona.  Room  and  board,  one  way  transatlantic  transportation,  cultural  trips  and 
special  lectures  are  included  in  the  organized  program.   A  full-time  member  of  the 
faculty  of  the  UI  or  the  U.  Mich,  will  serve  as  resident  Director  assisted  by  2  gra- 
duate administrative  assistants. 

The  program  is  designed  primarily  for  Spanish  majors  (both  Teacher  Education  & 
General)  -  sophomores,  juniors  (especially)  and  seniors  -  from  UI  and  U.  Mich,  (stu- 
dents of  particularly  high  quality  from  other  universities  could  also  be  considered 
for  acceptance). 

The  prerequisites  in  Spanish  are:   1)  the  completion  of  Span  221  (Span  Drama  & 
Poetry  of  20th  Century)  and  Span  222    (Span-Am  Prose  of  the  20th  Cent);  2)  Span  211 
and  212  (Intermediate  Composition  &  Conversation,  I,  II);  3)  completion  of  Span  331 
(Cultura  Hispanica:   EspaSa)  is  recommended;  l|)  a  I4..0  average  in  courses  in  Spanish 
and  at  least  an  overall  of  3*5  average. 

The  UI  and  U.Mich,  together  underwrite  the  educational  and  administrative  as- 
pects of  the  program.  The  total  cost  to  the  student  is  comparable  to  expenses  in- 
curred during  the  academic  year  in  Urbana  or  Ann  Arbor.   Also,  scholarships  and 


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loans  now  available  for  use  in  the  normal  year  of  residence  on  the  campus  may  be  ap- 
plied to  the  year  abroad.   In  addition,  it  is  hoped  that  a  limited  number  of  special 
awards  for  needy  students  may  be  available  through  university  or  outside  sources. 
Applications  for  scholarships,  loans  or  grants  will  need  to  be  arranged  for  indivi- 
dually through  the  regular  campus  agents.   During  the  time  of  his  participation,  a 
student  must  be  enrolled  at  the  UI  or  U.Mich.   Upon  successful  completion  of  the 
year's  study,  at  least  30  credit  hours  will  be  applied  to  the  student's  record  at  the 
UI  or  U.Mich. 

The  deadline  for  applications  will  probably  be  Feb.  15,  1971  and  applicants  will 
be  notified  of  admission  about  Mar.  1$.   All  interested  students  should  leave  their 
names  and  addresses  with  Prof.  Joseph  S.  Plores,  219  Lincoln  Hall,  phone  333-1739, 
Chairman  at  the  UI  of  the  Year  Abroad  Program  in  Spain.   Profs.  Alberto  Porqueras- 
Mayo  and  David  R.  Hershberg  are  the  other  members  of  the  UI  YAP  at  Urbana,  and  Prof. 
Isidoro  Lucas  represents  the  Chicago  Circle  campus. 

SPANISH  CLUB 
The  Circulo  Literario  Espanol,  under  the  direction  of  Grad.  Asst.  George  Yudice  as 
advisor,  is  now  sponsoring  a  fall  film  festival  for  its  members.   The  first  showings 
were  Un  chien  andalou  (Bunuel  &  Dalf )  and  Hand  in  the  Trap  (L.  Torre  Nilsson)  on 
Sept.  2I|,  and  Posada  (about  the  Mexican  artist)  and  Viridiana  (Bunuel)  on  Oct.  8. 
Still  to  be  shown  this  semester  are:   Oct.  22  -  Lincoln  Hall  Theatre  -  Nine  Days  to 
Picasso  and  Hou s e  of  the  Angel  (L.  Torre  Nilsson);  Nov.  5  -   112  Gregory  Hall  - 
Gitans  d' Espagne  (about  Spanish  gypsies)  and  El  Lazarillo  de  Tormes  (C&sar  Ardavfn); 
Nov.  T9  -  112  Gregory  Hall  -  Las  Hurdas  and  Simon  of  the  Desert  (both  Bunuel) ;  and 
Dec.  3  -  Lincoln  Hall  Theatre  -  Goya  and  Yanco  (Servando  Gonzalez) .   Anyone  can 
join  the  Spanish  Club.   Dues  are  $0 . 50  bimonthly  and  all  activities  sponsored  by  the 
Spanish  Club  are  free  to  its  members  (films,  concerts,  lectures,  plays,  etc.).   For 
information  contact  Mr.  Yudice,  220  Lincoln  Hall,  333-3391. 

In  addition,  the  c£rculo  has  resumed  its  Tertulias,  which  all  Spanish  speakers 
are  invited  to  attend.   They  are  held  from  3:00-1^:30  p.m.  every  Friday  afternoon 
while  the  UI  is  in  session,  in  the  Federal  Room  of  the  Illini  Union  Snack  Bar.   It 
was  at  the  Sept.  25  tertulia  that  Prof.  Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo  gave  a  talk  and  slide 
presentation  on  "Barcelona:   Its  Artistic  and  Cultural  Value  . 

SPANISH  LUNCHEONS 
The  department-sponsored  Spanish  luncheons  have  again  resumed  at  the  cafeteria  of  the 
Illini  Tower  Residence  Hall  every  Wednesday  while  the  UI  is  in  session  from  12:00  - 
1:00  p.m.   All  speakers  of  Spanish  are  invited  to  attend. 


The  University  of  Illinois  Modern  Foreign  Language  Newsletter  is  published  jointly 
by  the  modern  language  departments  of  the  U.I.,  under  the  direction  of  the  Head  of 
the  Dept.  of  Spanish,  Italian  and  Portuguese.   Editorial  offices  are  located  in 
Apt.  9,  506  S.  Matthews,  Urbana,  telephone  (217)  333-3536.   The  Newsletter  is  avail- 
able without  charge  to  all  interested  persons  in  Illinois  and  other  areas.   All 
communications  by  mail  should  be  addressed  to:   The  Editor,  MFL  Newsletter,  22l\. 
Lincoln  Hall,  Urbana,  111.  61301. 


THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS  MODERN  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  NEWSLETTER 

November,  1970       Director:   Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello 
Vol.  XXIV,  No.  2  Editor:   Felicia  G.  Sworsky 

THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS  LANGUAGE  LIBRARIES 
With  the  completion  of  the  Undergraduate  Library,  the  Commerce  Library  has  been  re- 
located in  its  quarters  on  the  first  floor  of  the  General  Library  Building,  and  the 
Special  Languages  Library  has  been  transferred  to  Room  22$.   Basic  materials  from 
the  South  Asian  and  Middle  East  collection,  previously  located  in  the  Library  base- 
ment, and  the  Slavic  and  East  European  collection,  which  was  scattered  in  the  gene- 
ral stacks,  the  Modern  Language  Library  and  other  departmental  libraries,  are  now 
located  in  Room  225.   The  Far  Eastern  Library,  formerly  on  the  first  floor  of  the 
Library,  now  occupies  the  room  adjacent  to  the  relocation  site  on  the  second  floor 
and  also  shares  the  facilities  of  the  new  Special  Languages  Library. 

The  Special  Languages  Library  developed  from  the  Slavic  Division  of  the  Acqui- 
sition Department  which  originated  in  I960.   In  I96I4.,  cataloguers  for  the  Slavic, 
South  Asian  and  the  Far  Eastern  areas  were  added.   Today,  the  Special  Languages  De- 
partment encompasses  3  different  language  areas:   1)  the  Slavic  and  East  European 
area,  including  Slavic,  the  Baltic  languages,  Hungarian,  Rumanian  and  Albanian; 
2)  the  South  Asian  and  Middle  Eastern  area,  dealing  principally  with  the  Indie  lan- 
guages, Arabic  and  Persian;  and  3)  the  Far  Eastern  division  for  Japanese,  Korean  and 
Chinese  studies. 

The  new  library  offers  a  reading  room  area  with  more  than  30  stations,  refe- 
rence tables,  collections  of  bibliographies  and  dictionaries,  and  other  basic  works, 
including  classic  authors  and  histories  of  literature  in  the  various  languages.   One 
of  the  main  advantages  of  such  a  centralized  library  will  be  that  of  collecting  all 
the  major  newspapers  and  periodicals  in  the  3  language  areas,  thus  being  better  able 
to  support  the  current  teaching  and  research  carried  on  by  members  of  the  UI  Slavic 
Dept.,  the  Russian  and  East  European  Center  and  the  Center  for  Asian  Studies. 

The  Slavic  area  of  this  library  boasts  a  collection  which  ranks  fourth  in  size 
among  American  universities  (following  those  of  Harvard,  Columbia  and  Berkeley)  with 
160,000  volumes  (80,000  vols,  in  Russian,  17,000  vols,  in  Czech  and  Slovak,  and 
11;, 000  vols,  in  Polish)  and  1,300  periodical  titles.   The  Slavic  Reading  Room  is  one 
almost  unique  feature  of  the  library.   At  present,  there  are  only  3  other  such  rooms 
in  the  country:   at  Indiana  Univ.,  the  Library  of  Congress  and  the  New  York  Public 
Library,  Slavonic  Division. 

With  the  transfer  of  Its  Slavic  holdings  to  the  Special  Languages  Library,  the 
UI  Modern  Language  Library  is  once  again  the  Germanic  and  Romance  Language  Library 
in  fact,  if  not  in  name.   It  is  located  in  Room  I4.25  on  the  fourth  floor  of  the  south 
wing  of  the  General  Library  Building.   It  consists  of  a  main  reading  room  with  a 
seating  capacity  of  32  people,  two  reserve  book  rooms  which  seat  20  students,  and  a 
work  room  for  the  librarian  and  his  assistants. 

The  library  serves,  primarily,  faculty  members  and  advanced  students  of  the 
French,  German  and  Spanish,  Italian  and  Portuguese  departments.   It  is  also  used 
frequently  by  others  who  are  interested  in  the  foreign  language  collection  shelved 
there.   A  recent  count  showed  that  an  average  of  1°0  people  studied  there  daily. 

The  bulk  of  the  UI's  extensive  holdings  in  foreign  languages,  which  its  Library 
possesses,  is  shelved  in  the  central  stacks  which  are  administered  by  the  Circula- 
tion Department.   The  Modern  Language  Library  is  largely  a  reference  and  reserve 
book  library  which  has  a  permanent  collection  of  some  1[(.,000  volumes.   This  perma- 
nent collection  includes  bibliographies,  dictionaries,  encyclopedias,  bound  periodi- 
cals, sets  of  collected  works,  linguistic  atlases,  complete  editions  of  authors 
whose  works  are  most  in  demand,  and  many  literary  histories.   During  a  regular  ses- 
sion, there  are  almost  3,000  volumes  on  reserve  for  various  classes.   Theoretically, 
only  reserves  for  the  306-  and  l|00-level  courses  are  kept  here,  but  there  are  usu- 
ally reserves  for  a  few  200-level  courses  which  are  of  special  interest  to  the  pa- 
trons of  this  departmental  library.   Many  of  these  reserve  books  are  borrowed  from 
the  holdings  in  the  central  stacks. 

In  addition  to  the  works  already  mentioned,  the  Modern  Language  Library  has  the 
last  2  current  issues  of  300  periodicals  and  the  last  $  issues  of  28  newspapers. 
Back  issues  of  the  periodicals  are,  for  the  most  part,  kept  in  the  Circulation  Dept. 


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and  back  issues  of  the  newspapers  may  be  secured  in  the  Newspaper  Library  in  the 
basement.   There  are,  also,  about  500  foreign  language  records  which  faculty  and 
graduate  students  may  borrow.   During  the  course  of  the  year,  some  600  new  books  are 
exhibited  in  book  racks  which  are  kept  at  the  end  of  the  long  tables  in  the  main 
room.   There  is  a  permanent  display  of  pamphlets  and  books  on  travel,  study  and  work 
abroad.   There  is  a  small  collection  of  contemporary  titles  for  recreational  reading. 
In  some  cases,  the  same  lending  regulations  prevail  there  as  in  the  Circulation  Dept. 
of  the  General  Library. 

Having  replaced  Miss  Florence  Harding,  Mr.  Carl  Parmenter  is  now  in  charge  of 
the  Modern  Language  Library.   Watch  for  his  bulletins  in  our  succeeding  issues. 

INTERNATIONAL  EDUCATIONAL  EXCHANGE  BIBLIOGRAPHY  PUBLISHED 
The  Institute  of  International  Education  announces  publication  of  International  Edu- 
cational Exchange,  a  comprehensive  bibliography  of  writings  in  the  area  of  inter- 
national education,  by  Richard  E.  Spencer  and  Ruth  Awe.   Almost  [j.,000  titles  of 
books,  articles,  research  reports  (including  doctoral  dissertations  and  masters' 
theses),  pamphlets,  and  government  documents  are  organized  into  5  chapters:   "Inter- 
national Exchange  of  Students,  Teachers,  a  nd  Specialists";  "Educational  Curriculum"; 
"General  Works  on  International  Educational  and  Cultural  Exchange";  "Cross-cultural 
and  Psychological  Studies  Relevant  to  Educational  Exchange";  and  "Bibliographies." 
While  most  of  the  entries  concern  exchange  between  the  United  States  and  other  coun- 
tries, there  are  also  listings  on  exchange  among  other  countries. 

The  Institute  of  International  Education  (HE)  is  a  leading  nonprofit  agency  in 
the  field  of  educational  and  cultural  exchange.   Through  its  New  York  Headquarters, 
7  U.S.  Regional  Offices,  Overseas  Offices  on  four  continents,  and  representatives  in 
26  countries,  HE  carries  on  exchange  programs  between  the  U.S.  and  more  than  110 
other  countries.   The  Institute  also  provides  an  extensive  information  and  publica- 
tions program  as  well  as  consultative  services  on  educational  and  cultural  exchange. 

Copies  of  International  Educational  Exchange  may  be  ordered  from  the  Publica- 
tions Division,  Institute  of  International  Education,  809  United  Nations  Plaza,  N.Y. 
N.Y.  10017  for  $6.00  per  copy. 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Barbara  Smalley 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  STUDIES 
Comparative  Literature  Studies,  which  is  a  journal  sponsored  by  the  Program  of  Com- 
parative Literature  and  published  by  the  University  of  Illinois  Press,  has  nearly 
doubled  its  subscriptions  during  the  last  three  years.   Paradoxically,  it  has  many 
subscribers  at  such  institutions  as  the  Univ.  of  Southern  111.,  Kent  State,  Indiana 
Univ.,  and  the  Univ.  of  Wis.,  but  very  few  in  the  Champaign-Urbana  area.   The  present 
communication  is  an  invitation  for  colleagues  and  students  to  subscribe  in  order  to 
change  this  situation. 

Recent  issues  of  Comparative  Literature  Studies  have  carried  articles  and  re- 
views by  Etiemble,  Francois  Jost,  Leonard  Unger,  Ronald  Hilton,  Oskar  Seidlen,  Luis 
Leal,  and  Leo  Weinstein.   Coming  issues  will  feature  contributions  by  Ulrich  Weis- 
stein,  Glauco  Cambon,  Bruce  Morrissette,  Helmut  Hatzfeld,  Robert  Clements,  and 
Herbert  Dieckmann.   For  a  limited  time,  special  rates  are  available,  ten  percent 
lower  than  the  usual  —  a  yearly  subscription  of  four  issues  for  $6.75  instead  of 
the  regular  price  of  $7<>50.   Please  send  your  check  directly  to  the  University  of 
Illinois  Press  or  to  the  Editor,  1+01  Lincoln  Hall,  Urbana,  Illinois  61801. 

MEETINGS 
Professor  A.0.  Aldridge  delivered  a  paper  on  "Thomas  Paine  and  the  Revolutionary 
Movement  in  South  America"  at  the  Midwestern  Regional  Meeting  of  the  American  Soci- 
ety for  Eighteenth-Century  Studies,  held  at  Rockford  College,  Rockford,  111.,  Oct. 
23-2i|„   During  the  following  week,  Mr.  Aldridge  represented  the  Advisory  Board  of 
the  National  Society  at  the  East  Central  Regional  Meeting  held  at  Morgantown,  West 
Virginia,  October  31  and  November  1. 

FRENCH  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel 

LECTURE 
Prof.  F.W.  Nachtmann  gave  a  lecture  with  slides  to  the  Medieval  Club,  on  Oct.  19, 


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on  "The  Village  of  St.  William  of  the  Desert  and  the  William  Cycle." 

GENACLE 
The  Clnacle  (student-staff  discussion  group)  met  on  Monday,  Oct.  12,  to  discuss 
"Comment  enseigner  la  litterature? "   The  debate  was  a  particularly  lively  one,  and 
students  were  obviously  grateful  for  the  opportunity  to  air  their  opinions  --  and 
grievances . 

NEW  POST 
The  Department  has  created  the  new  post  of  Educational  Technological  Assistant,  in 
view  of  the  growing  use  and  importance  of  radio,  TV,  films,  tapes,  etc.,  in  all 
levels  of  our  curricula.   In  this  connection,  Prof.  Nelson  persuaded  officials  of 
ORTP  to  add  certain  programs  of  "Prance  Culture"  and  "France  Musique"  to  its  daily 
SW  broadcasts:   21:00  h  to  21+: 00  h  GMT  (Illinois  time,  15:00  h-l8:00  h)  is  the  time 
to  listen.   Mr.  Alain  Brasseur  is  the  first  person  to  hold  this  post. 

FRENCH  TELEPHONE  LINES,  NEWS  FROM  FRANCE,  POEMS  BY  PHONE 
Telephone  programs  for  the  following  courses  may  be  dialed,  numbers  in  parentheses: 
French  101  (333-3780/81);  Fr  102  (333-6090-91);  Fr  IO3/IOI4.  (333-3781;,  333-6309)  with 
103  on  Tues.,  Thurs.,  Sat.,  and  IOI4.  on  Mon.,  Weds.,  Fri. 

A  program  of  French  poems,  generally  read  whole,  then  with  pauses,  by  major 
French  actors,  may  be  listened  to  on  333-3782/83.   The  poems,  which  are  part  of 
French  113,  211,  212,  and  217  courses,  can  be  enjoyed  by  all  levels  of  listeners. 
They  change  each  Monday  morning,  and  mimeographed  texts  for  the  entire  series  for 
this  term  (series  A)  may  be  picked  up  at  the  French  Department,  or  sent  to  you  by  re- 
quest (write  the  Secretary  of  the  Dept.  Mrs.  Hatchel,  2I4I4.  Lincoln  Hall)  in  any  quan- 
tity desired. 

Daily  broadcasts  from  France  can  be  heard  here  by  dialing  333-6301.   These  come 
from  a  daily  recording  of  news  broadcast  from  France  on  short-wave.   Because  of  the 
difference  in  time  between  Urbana  and  Paris  (among  other  differences),  what  we  get 
here  is  the  evening  news  of  France  -  lasting  about  7  minutes,  and  covering  a  variety 
of  topics:   international,  French  news,  sports  and  entertainment.   Whenever  recep- 
tion is  too  poor  for  taping,  and  from  late  Saturday  to  Monday  morning,  those  dialing 
will  hear  a  program  of  French  poetry  or  a  discussion  on  a  topic  of  lasting  interest. 

For  recommendations,  observations,  suggestions,  please  contact  Prof.  R.  Nelson, 
2I4I4  Lincoln  Hall,  Urbana,  Illinois  61801,  or  call  him  at  333-0552,  8:30a.m.  -  noon, 
Mon.  through  Fri. 

FLY  TO  PARIS 
Flights  to  Paris,  summer  1971,  have  been  announced  by  the  Alliance  Franchise,  ^199 
to  $214.8,  New  York  -  Paris  -  New  York.   For  information,  please  contact  your  Alliance 
officer. 

BBC  SERIES 
"Civilisation:   a  Fersonal  View"  is  the  title  of  the  BBC  Series  (13  programs  of  52 
minutes  each)  of  films  made  with  the  help  of  art  historian  Sir  Kenneth  Clark,  who 
also  does  the  narration.   The  Krannert  Museum  in  Urbana  is  running  several  shows  a 
week,  for  a  total  of  13  weeks.   The  success  of  this  series  in  the  USA  is  quite  jus- 
tified, for  the  programs  are  a  pleasure  to  see  and  hear,  a  mine  of  information  at 
the  non-specialist's  level,  and  above  all,  done  with  great  sincerity  and  warmth. 
They  are  highly  recommended  to  teachers  and  students  at  all  levels  and  in  all  areas 
of  civilisation  and  culture,  whether  these  words  are  taken  in  their  literary-artistic 
connotation  or  their  anthropological-ethnological  sense.   The  series  is  very  expen- 
sive to  rent  and  already  heavily  booked  -  so  that  our  suggestion  is  to  be  aware  of 
"Civilisation"  and  to  take  advantage  of  any  scheduling  by  nearby  institutions.   The 
Urbana  showings  at  the  Krannert  Museum  (not  the  Center)  are  free,  and  on:   Tues.  and 
Thurs.  at  2:30pm,  and  Saturday  at  9:30  and  10:1; 5am,  Sunday  at  2:30  and  3:U5pm« 
Frograms  change  weekly,  starting  Sundays. 

EXPANSION  OF  FRENCH  STUDIES  AT  UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS 
In  May  1970,  Robert  J.  Nelson,  Prof,  of  French  and  Chairman  of  the  Departmental  Plan- 
ning Committee,  traveled  extensively  in  Europe,  to  examine  existing  and  possible 


foreign-study  programs  of  the  University  abroad.   Prof.  Nelson  visited  England, 
Prance  and  Switzerland.   In  an  extensive  report  of  his  visits,  submitted  June  12, 
1970,  Prof.  Nelson  recommended  the  expansion  of  French  Studies  through  the  inclusion 
of  new  curricular  areas  in  the  offerings  of  the  Dept.  of  French:   history  of  France 
and  French-speaking  countries  of  the  world,  history  of  art  and  music  in  francophone 
countries,  "sciences  humaines."   Rejecting  the  notion  that  such  studies  are  merely 
"ancillary"  to  the  traditional  areas  of  language  and  literature,  Prof,  kelson  recom- 
mended that  the  University  hold  a  "feasibility  conference"  in  early  December  1970  to 
study  the  means  of  meeting  this  widely  felt  need  for   xpansion  of  French  Studies. 
The  recommendation  received  the  support  of  the  Departmental  Advisory  Committee.   As 
a  result,  Dean  Robert  W.  Rogers  (CLA&S)  and  Prof.  George  Brinegar  (Director,  Program 
of  International  Studies,  U-I-U)  have  provided  funds  for  the  Conference  proposed  by 
Frof .  Nelson.   American,  French,  Swiss  and  English  scholars  in  several  curricular 
areas  have  agreed  to  join  UI  colleagues  from  French  and  other  interested  departments 
in  this  effort:   M.  Michel  Afsa,  Secretaire  g£nlral,  Universite'de  Rouen;  M.  Jean 
Biron,  Le  Directeur  Administratif ,  Ecole  Nationale  SupeVieure  des  Beaux-Arts,  Ver- 
sailles; Prof.  Donald  Charlton,  Chairman,  Dept.  of  French,  University  of  Warwick, 
M.  Frank  Jotterand,  Directeure  de  la  "Gazette  Litte"raire";  M.  Edgar  Tripet,  Profes- 
seur  d'Histoire,  le  Gymnase  de  la  Chaux-de-Fonds,  Neuchatel;  and  Prof.  Laurence  Wylde 
C.  Douglas  Dillon  Frof.  of  the  Civilization  of  France,  Harvard  University. 

Dean  Rogers  has  asked  Prof.  Nelson  to  serve  as  Director  of  the  Conference,  and 
Yves  Velan,  Professor  of  French  (U-I-U),  to  serve  as  Associate  Director  of  this  most 
promising  effort. 

The  Conference  will  be  held  at  the  Urbana  Campus,  Dec.  2-8,  1970.   The  first 
days  will  be  devoted  to  small  committee  sessions  on  specific  curricular  areas,  look- 
ing to  the  implementation  of  new  programs  in  French  and  other  Departments  at  the  UI 
in  the  near  future.   The  remaining  days  will  be  devoted  to  "open  sessions,"  with 
talks  by  each  of  the  distinguished  foreign  visitors  on  problems  and  prospects  in  the 
development  of  an  expanded  French  curriculum. 

A  limited  number  of  visitors  from  other  campuses  (in-state  and  out-of-state) 
may  attend  the  "open  sessions"  (Dec.  5-8).   Those  interested  should  make  arrangements 
with  Prof.  Nelson,  23I  Lincoln  Hall,  UI,  Urbana,  111.  61801  (tel.  217/333-0552 ) . 

The  principles  underlying  Prof.  Nelson's  recommendation  for  expanded  French 
Studies  can  be  found  in  his  recently  published  article,  "A  Modern  Curriculum  for 
French  Studies, "  in  ggench  Language  Education:   The  Teaching  of  Culture  in  the  Class- 
room, ed.  Charles  Jay  and  Pat  Castle  (Springfield,  111.  i   The  Office  of  the  Super- 
intendant  of  Public  Instruction,  1970),  6I4-7U.   A  French  version  of  this  article 
will  also  be  available  in  a  forthcoming  number  of  La  Revue  de  1' AUPELF, ( the  quarter- 
ly publication  of  the  Association  des  UniversitSs  Partiellement  ou  Entierement  de 
Langue  Franchise). 

We  are  happy  to  announce  that  there  is  now  a  departmental  committee  of  the  pro- 
jected Institute  for  French  Studies  at  the  Ul-Urbana:   Profs.  R.J.  Nelson,  Director, 
Y.  Velan,  Assoc.  Director,  G.  Savignon,  Seccy.   These  colleagues  are  now  preparing 
the  program  for  the  forthcoming  December  conference  on  the  project.   The  Committee 
welcomes  suggestions  and  advice  from  all. 

AATF  MEMBERSHIP  DRIVE 
The  Downstate  Illinois  Chapter  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  French 
hopes  to  increase  its  services  to  members  and  all  those  interested  in  "La  Frangitl." 
Prof.  Frank  Gunderson,  Chapter  President,  has  thus  asked  Frof.  R.J.  Nelson  of  the  UI 
to  serve  as  Chairman  of  a  Membership  and  recruitment  Committee  for  the  Chapter 0 
Prof.  Nelson  has  asked  several  colleagues,  at  all  levels  of  education,  within  the 
Chapter's  geographical  limits,  to  join  him  in  an  effort  to  publicize  the  Chapter's 
activities  and  to  urge  all  teachers  of  French,  as  well  as  advanced  students  in 
French  teacher  preparation  programs,  to  become  members  of  the  Chapter,,   Prof.  Nelson 
has  divided  the  downstate  area  into  7  major  "Provinces"  and  each  of  these  into  sub- 
sections or  "Cantons,"  made  up  of  a  few  counties.   The  Provincial  Chairman  will  ask 
French  teachers  in  these  cantons  to  form  "Cantonal  Committees"  to  recruit  new  mem- 
bers and  to  provide  settings  in  which  all  members  can  find  occasions  to  maintain 
their  own  love  and  interest  in  French  Language  and  Culture. 

The  character  and  extent  of  Chapter  activities  (workshops,  summer  camps,  etc.) 
was  the  topic  of  a  discussion,  chaired  by  Prof.  Nelson,  at  the  Fall  meeting  of  the 


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Chapter,  Nov.  6,  1970  (Springfield:   St.  Nicholas  Hotel). 

Prospective  members  should  remember  to  join  the  AATF  through  the  DOWNSTATE 
CHAPTER  TREASURER,  Mr.  Geoffrey  A.  Hughes,  1239  Mount  Vernon  Drive,  Blooraington,  111. 
61701.   Joining  the  local  Chapter  permits  it  to  retain  a  portion  of  the  annual  dues 
for  Chapter  activities. 

GERMANIC  NOTES  --   by  Prof.  Roy  Allen 

NEW  TEACHING  ASSISTANTS 
The  German  Dept.  is  most  happy  to  welcome  a  number  of  new  Teaching  Assistants  to  its 
staff  this  fall.   Most  of  these  new  Assistants  have  had  some  previous  teaching  ex- 
perience and  most  have  also  spent  some  time  studying  or  travelling  in  Germany.   They 
are:   Gudrun  Babicki  (B.A.,  M.A.  Wayne  State  Univ.),  Thomas  Birney  (B.A.  Adelphi  U., 
M.A.  U.  of  Washington),  Roger  Crockett  (B.A.,  Wake  Forest  U.^,  Wayne  Culberson  (B.A. 
Allegheny  College,  M.A.,  Middlebury  College),  Jtirgen  Dttllein  (U.  of  Wtirzburg,  U.  of 
Salamanca,  M.A0,  SUNY  at  Albany),  Ronald  Edge  (B.A.,  Birmingham- Southern  College), 
Clara  Evans  (B.A.,  Eastern  Baptist  College),  Karl  Pink  (B.A.,  Wartburg  College,  M.A. 
U.  of  Arizona),  Barbara  Greim  (B.A.,  MacMurray  College).  Constance  Hippie  (B.A., 
Carnegie  Mellon  U.),  George  Johnson  (B.A.,  U.  of  Kansas),  Tom  Kilton  (B.A.,  Bradley 
U.,  M.A.,  Tufts  U.),  Paul  Lundgren  (B.A.,  Thiel  College),  Nelson  McMillan  (B.A., 
Morehouse  College,  M.A.,  U.I.),  Paul  Schaefer  (B.A.  St.  Olaf  College),  Gisela  Seve- 
rino  (B.A.,  UI ) ,  Marilyn  Shepard  (B.A.  Central  Methodist  College),  Fritz  Thiele  (B.A 
Southern  111.  Univ.),  Charles  Weeks  (B.A.  UI),  Larry  Williams  (B.A.  UI ) . 

ALLERTON  CONFERENCE 
At  the  Allerton  Conference  held  by  the  Department  on  Oct.  11  (cf.  report  in  last 
month's  issue  of  the  Newsletter) ,  a  series  of  statements  were  drawn  up  at  the  con- 
cluding session  of  the  meeting  which  constituted  a  consensus  of  those  present  on  the 
"sense  of  the  meeting."   These  statements  were  phrased  in  the  form  of  Ij.  recommenda- 
tions for  future  action:   1.  The  Advisory  of  the  Department  is  asked  to  look  into 
the  possible  demand  for  an  alternate  doctoral  program,  emphasizing  teaching  (rather 
than  the  current  research-oriented  Ph.D.);  2.  The  Dept.  of  Germanic  Languages  and 
Literatures  of  the  UI  or  the  Chairmen  of  the  German  Depts.  of  the  "Big  Ten"  universi- 
ties should  consider  sponsoring  a  conference  on  the  taxonomy  of  educational  objec- 
tives in  German,  with  panelists  who  are  especially  qualified  to  speak  on  the  subject; 
3.  The  faculty  of  the  Department  is  asked  to  explore  the  possibility  of  graduate 
student  involvement  or  participation  in  advanced  teaching;  and  U.  The  Meeting  favors 
extension  of  the  present  apprenticeship  programs  in  teaching. 

PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Elmer  Antonsen's  article  "Toward  a  New  Runic  Grammar"  appeared  this  year  in 
the  Nordic  Languages  and  Modern  Linguistics,  ed.  Hreinn  Benediktsson  (Reykjavik, 
1970")  (Proceedings  of  the  International  Conference  of  Nordic  and  General  Linguistics, 
University  of  Iceland,  Reykjavik,  July  6-11,  1969).   A  s^udy  of  Droste-Htflshoff ' s 
Judenbuche  by  Prof.  James  McGlathery  entitled  "Fear  of  Perdition  in  Droste-HUlshoff fc 
Judenbuche"  was  published  in  Lebendlge  Form.  Interpret at lone n  zur  deutschen  Liter- 
atur.  Festschrift  ftlr  Heinrich  E.K.  Henel,  ed.  Jeffrey  L.  Sammons  and  Ernst  Sc Mirer 
(MUnchen,  1970 ) .   Prof"^  James  Marchand  contributed  the  chapter  "Der  phonemische 
Stellenwert  des  ahd.  e"  to  the  volume  Vorschla'ge  fttr  eine  strukturale  Grammatik  des 
Deutschen,  which  was  published  this  year  by  the  Wissenschaf tliche  Buchgesellschaf t, 
Darmstadt.   Prof.  Marchand  has  also  signed  a  contract  with  the  Mouton  Publishing 
Company  to  write  a  history  of  Gothic  study,  which  is  scheduled  to  come  out  in  the 
fall  of  next  year.   Prof.  Rudolf  Schier  has  written  a  full  length  study  on  the  lang- 
uage of  Georg   Trakl  (Die  Sprache  Georg  Trakls)  which  was  just  recently  published  by 
the  Carl  Winter  UniversitStsverlag.   Mr.  Uwe  Klinger,  a  graduate  student  in  the  de- 
partment, has  completed  an  article  on  "Gottsched  und  Die  Belustlgungen  des  Verstan- 
des  und  des  Wltzes"  which  will  be  Included  in  the  Lessing  Yearbook  for  197L 

FACULTY  LECTURES 
The  featured  speaker  at  the  initial  meeting  this  year  of  the  Fruchtbrinrende  Gesell- 
schaft  on  Oct.  8  was  Prof.  Clayton  Gray.   Prof.  Gray  spoke  on  "The  Origin  and  Func- 
tion of  Light  Imagery  in  the  Verse  of  Heinrich  von  Morungen:   The  Radiance  of  the 
Courtly  Lady  as  Scintillating  Temptation  tothe  Courtly  Man."  The  meeting  was  held 


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at  7:30  pm  in  the  Faculty  Lounge  of  the  Illini  Union.   On  Nov.  5,  also  at  7:30  in 
the  Faculty  Lounge,  Prof.  Harry  Haile  addressed  himself  at  the  second  meeting  of  the 
FG  to  the  topic  ^Goethe's  Love  Life." 

On  Oct.  J4.,  Prof.  James  Marchand  spoke  before  the  Hillel  group  on  campus  on  the 
subject  "Early  Yiddish  and  Hebrew-German  Language  and  Literature."  Prof.  Marchand 
gave  a  second  talk  on  the  16th  of  last  month  at  a  meeting  of  the  Southeastern  Con- 
ference on  Linguistics  which  was  held  in  Atlanta,  Ga.   His  topic  there  was  "Towards 
a  Taxonomy  of  Semantic  Theories."  Prof.  Marchand  also  addressed  the  Midwestern 
Modern  Language  Association  meeting  in  Milwaukee  on  Oct.  31  on  "Tristan's  Schwert- 
leide." 

GERMAN  HOUSE 
On  November  15,  from  3:00pm  to  7:00pm,  the  German  House  sponsored  a  "Variete'  mit 
Jause"  which  featured  a  formal  program  of  skits,  live  music  and  readings  at  U:30. 
Throughout  the  afternoon  there  were  also  displays,  demonstrations  relating  to  German 
culture,  showings  of  paintings,  slides  photographs,  wood  carvings  and  old  maps. 
Tours  of  the  House  were  also  conducted  during  the  afternoon  and  a  Bratwurst  supper 
buffet  was  served. 

Every  Wednesday  evening,  the  House  invites  as  dinner  guest  a  member  of  the 
Department  faculty  who  conducts  a  discussion  following  the  meal  on  some  aspect  of 
German  life  and  culture  or  on  a  topic  of  current  interest.   Recent  guests  and  their 
topics  for  discussion  were:   Sept.  30:   Prof.  Marianne  Burkhard  -  "Zwei  Feste  in  der 
Schweize;"   Oct.  7:   Prof.  Lathrop  Johnson  -  "Studentenleben  in  Deutschland; "   Oct. 
11|:   Prof.  Clayton  Gray  -  "Muss  die  moderne  Musik  so  laut  sein;"   Oct.  28:   Prof.  U. 
Henry  Gerlach  -  "(Touristen)  Reisen  in  Deutschland;"   Nov.  Ij.:   Prof.  Henri  Stege- 
meier  -  "Deutsche  Kunst." 

Coming  Event  --   On  Dec.  3,  the  German  House  will  present  a  "Sankt-Nokolaus- 
Abend",  which  will  feature  poetry  readings  by  Miss  Renate  Aschober. 

SLAVIC  NOTES  —  by  Kenneth  Brostrom 

ENROLLMENTS 
A  comparison  of  10th  day  enrollment  figures  for  the  Fall  semesters  of  1969  and  1970 
indicates  that  an  approximate  decrease  of  6%   in  students  entered  in  Slavic  Dept. 
courses  has  occurred.   In  absolute  figures,  total  enrollments  on  the  10th  day  of  the 
Fall  semester,  1969,  were  610  as  compared  with  571  during  the  present  term.   Enroll- 
ments in  lst-year  Russian  language  courses  have  remained  relatively  stable,  with  de- 
creases occurring  in  2nd-year  courses;  this  undoubtedly  reflects  the  continuing  im- 
pact of  the  revisions  in  language  requirements.   Enrollments  in  300-  and  i|00-level 
courses  are  also  down,  from  195  in  1969  to  I67  presently.   The  number  of  students 
entered  in  courses  dealing  with  literature  in  translation  has  increased  about  ll\.%m 

A AT SEEL 
In  a  recent  mail  ballot,  the  Board  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  Slavic 
and  East  European  Languages  confirmed  the  appointment   of  Prof.  Frank  Y0  Gladney  as 
Editor  of  the  Slavic  and  East  European  Journal,  effective  with  Vol.  15  (1971 )• 

LECTURES 
On  Monday.  Oct.  26,  Prof.  Thomas  Winner,  Chairman  of  the  Russian  Dept.  of  Brown  U., 
delivered  2  lectures  on  the  Urbana  campus.   In  the  afternoon  session,  he  discussed 
Chekhov's  use  of  setting  in  his  prose,  and  that  evening,  he  read  a  lecture  entitled 
"The  Prague  Spring:   Czech  Literature  under  Dubcek. "   Both  lectures  were  intriguing 
commentaries  upon  topics  of  general  interest  to  Slavic  students  and  faculty. 

On  Monday,  Nov.  2,  Prof.  Zbigniew  Folijewski  of  the  Dept.  of  Comparative  Liter- 
ature of  the  University  of  British  Columbia,  delivered  a  public  lecture  in  the 
Illini  Union  entitled  "The  Brothers  Karamazov:   Horror  Story  or  Optimistic  Tragedy?" 
On  the  following  day,  he  discussed  the  topic  "Some  Trends  in  Modern  Polish  Litera- 
ture." Prof.  Folijewski,  an  internationally  recognized  scholar  with  eclectic  inte- 
rests, was  sponsored  jointly  by  the  Slavic  and  Comparative  Literature  Depts. 

On  Dec.  3,  Prof.  Michael  Holquist  of  Yale  University  will  deliver  a  public 
lecture  on  the  topic  "Utopian  Philosophy  in  Relation  to  Russian  Literature."   Frof. 
Holquist  is  a  man  of  wide-ranging  interests  and  impressive  intellect,  whose  comments 


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will  be  of  great  value  to  all  students  of  Russian  literature. 

On  Dec.  10,  Prof.  Daniel  C.  Gerould  will  discuss  the  Polish  writer  Witkiewicz; 
a  short  Folish  film  dealing  with  the  life  and  art  of  this  writer  will  accompany  this 
lecture.   Prof.  Gerould  is  a  practicing  playwright,  a  translator  of  Polish  and 
Russian  drama,  former  Chairman  of  the  Dept.  of  World  Literature  at  San  Francisco 
State  College  and  currently  a  visitor  in  the  theater  program  at  the  Graduate  Center, 
City  College  of  New  York. 

MISCELLANY 
On  Oct.  28,  the  young  Soviet  pianist  Nicolai  Petrov  presented  a  concert  at  the  UI 
which  was  very  well  received.   Members  of  the  Slavic  and  Music  depts.  had  the  spe- 
cial pleasure  of  meeting  Mr.  Petrov  later  at  a  reception  held  in  the  home  of  Dr. 
Clayton  Dawson. 

On  Nov.  I4.  and  Nov.  8,  a  new  Hungarian  film,  "Winter  Wind,  "  was  shown  in  the 
Lincoln  Hall  Auditorium  at  8:00pm. 

On  Nov.  10,  the  Russian  and  East  European  Round  Table  presented  a  discussion  by 
Prof.  Jan  Gorecki  on  the  topic,  "The  Communist  Family  Pattern,"  in  the  Illini  Union 
Faculty  Lounge  at  8:00pm. 

From  Nov.  18th  through  the  22nd,  the  University  Theater  presented  Chekhov's 
drama,  Uncle  Vanya. 

On  Dec.  9  and  Deo.  13,  a  new  Czech  film,  "The  Most  Beautiful  Age,"  will  be 
shown  (in  the  Auditorium  on  the  9th  and  in  Lincoln  Hall  Theater  on  the  13th). 

On  Dec.  10,  at  8:00pm,  the  film  version  of  Tugenev's  short  story  "Mumu"  will  be 
shown  in  the  University  Auditorium. 

On  Dec.  11  and  12,  a  new  Russian- Hungarian  jointly  produced  film,  "Red  and 
White,"  will  be  shown  at  8:00  pm  in  112  Gregory  Hall. 

SPANISH,  ITALIAN  AND  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  —  by  Felicia  G.  Sworsky 

TO  ERR  IS  HUMAN... 
And  your  editor  is  human  if  nothing  else,  and,  therfore,  erred.   I  take  this  oppor- 
tunity to  correct  some  misinformation  printed  in  the  previous  issue:   Mr.  Richard 
Preto-Rodas  and  Mr.  Mario  Saltarelli  come  to  this  Department  with  the  rank  of  Asso- 
ciate Professor,  and  Mr.  Saltarelli' s  article  in  Language  is  entitled  "Spanish  Plu- 
ral Formation:   Apocope  or  Epenthesis?"   Sorry  about  thatl 

AATSP 
"We  are  all  well  aware  of  the  feeling  of  indifference  toward  the  study  of  foreign 
languages  that  exists  today  among  students  and  administrators.   Some  universities 
and  professional  schools  are  even  dropping  their  language  requirement,  and  it  would 
be  naive  to  suppose  that  this  would  not  have  repercussions  on  the  secondary  level. 
The  need  for  professional  unity  is  more  urgent  now  than  ever,  and  we  need  to  prove 
that  foreign  languages  are  relevant  and  valid  in  today's  changing  world." 

The  AATSP  is  your  National  Professional  Organization.  It  was  founded  in  1917 
for  the  purpose  of  fostering  the  study  of  the  Spanish  and  Portuguese  languages  and 
literatures  through  the  promotion  of  friendly  relations  among  its  members,  by  the 
publication  and  presentation  of  articles  and  papers  at  its  meetings  and  through 
Hi span! a  (the  official  journal  of  the  Association),  by  the  dissemination  of  perti- 
nent information  and  materials,  and  through  many  other  ways  constantly  being  added 
to  the  many  activities  sponsored  by  the  Association.  So,  why  not  become  a  member? 
Contact  Mrs.  Gladys  Leal,  207  W.  Iowa,  Urbana,  111.  61801. 

The  Downstate  Chapter  of  AATSP  wishes  to  set  up  area  testing  centers  for  the 
AATSP  National  Examinations.   The  test  will  be  administered  between  Mar.  20  and  Apr. 
3,  1971.   The  test  administration  time  Is  75  minutes  and  requires  laboratory  listen- 
ing facilities.   Schools  that  are  willing  to  set  up  area  testing  centers  should  so 
advise  James  E.  McKinney,  Downstate  Illinois  AATSP  Contest  Chairman,  Western  Illinois 
Univ.,  Macomb,  111.  6lL).55«   As  usual,  schools  with  facilities  may  administer  their 
tests  locally. 

All  testing  materials  for  the  Downstate  area  should  be  ordered  from  Mr.  McKin- 
ney.  The  deadline  for  ordering  is  February  1,  1971. 


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UI  GRADUATE  STUDY  -  FELLOWSHIPS  AND  ASSISTANTSHIPS  1971-1972 
Financial  Assistance  at  the  UI  takes  several  different  forms:   1.  University  Fellow- 
ships -  These  require  no  services  and  carry  tax-free  stipends,  in  addition  to  tuition 
and  fee  exemption.   They  pay  1)  $2,1;00  for  the  9  month,  2  semester  academic  year,  or 
2)  $2,900  for  the  full  year  of  2  semesters  and  the  preceding  or  following  summer 
session  (8wks.).   Successful  applicants  will  be  invited  to  choose  between  1)  and  2), 
and,  if  2)  between  the  2  summer  sessions.   2.  NDEA  Title  IV  Fellowships  -  Additional 
awards  are  expected  for  1971-72.   Normally  the  award  is  for  a  3-year  period.   Sti- 
pends for  each  two  semester  tenure,  with  an  optional  $1;00  stipend  for  summer  study, 
are:   $2,000  the  1st  year;  $2,200  the  2nd  year;  $2, 1+00  the  3rd  year;  plus  $1+00  annu- 
ally for  each  dependent.   All  fellows  are  exempt  from  payment  of  tuition  and  fees. 
3.   Teaching  Assistantships  -  A  limited  number  of  awards  are  made  for  1/3  time,  1/2 
time,  and,  exceptionally,  2/3  time  teaching,  and  carry  minimum  salaries  of  $1,933> 
$2,900  and  $3,867  respectively,  plus  tuition  and  fee  exemption.   This  exemption  also 
applies  to  the  following  summer  session  if  the  appointee  chooses  to  enroll. 
/j.  Scholarships  -  Carry  tuition  and  fee  waiver.   For  further  information  and  appli- 
cation forms,  write  to  Prof.  J,H.D.  Allen,  Co-ordinator  of  Graduate  Programs,  Dept. 
of  Spanish,  Italian  and  Portuguese,  221  Lincoln  Hall,  UI,  Urbana,  111.  61801. 

SIGMA  DELTA  PI 
Sigma  Delta  Pi  is  the  national  Spanish  Honor  Society.   The  officers  of  the  Lambda 
Chapter  here  at  the  UI  are:   President  -  Arturo  Jurado  of  San  Miguel  Allende,  Guana- 
juato, Mexico;  Vice-President  -  Berardo  Vald6s  of  Urbana,  111.;  Treasurer  and  Super- 
vising Director  -  Harriet  Carter  of  Miami,  Fla, ;  and  Entertainment  Chairman  -  Elliott 
Delman  of  Chicago,  111.   Professor  Angelina  Pietrangeli  is  faculty  advisor  to  the 
society. 

At  its  last  meeting,  Lambda  welcomed  2  new  honorary  members  -  Mrs.  Dorothy  M. 
Fasquariello,  wife  of  Dr.  A.  M.  Pasquariello,  Head,  Dept.  of  Spanish,  Italian  and 
Fotuguese,  and  Prof.  Dieter  Wanner  -  and  1;6  active  members:   Gresilda  Tilley,  Victor 
Bonadeo,  Maria  Carmen  Cruz,  Shirley  Mason,  Dagoberto  Orrantia,  Krystal  Rheinwald, 
Myrna  Goldman,  Barbara  McDaniel,  Elaine  Kowalski,  Katherine  Feiger,  Mary  Louise  Wiley 
Jacqueline  Bradfor,  Susan  Wallenstein,  Janet  Beaudway,  Patricia  Kearney,  Dorothy 
Gingerich,  Sherry  Gehrke,  Marna  Berman,  Alice  Bennett,  Helen  Shapiro,  Diane  Hansen, 
Judy  Edgar,  Nancy  Sixsmith,  Marjorie  Anders,  Mary  Brauer,  Phyllis  Czyzewski,  Diane 
Wallace,  Deborah  Kolditz  Vera,  Minda  Karon,  Judith  Minner,  Patricia  Sperling,  Janis 
Schectman,  Juan  Espadas,  Adelfo  Aldana,  Armando  Armengol,  Reynaldo  Jimlnez,  Zoila 
Romero,  Georgia  Ference,  Harriet  Carter,  Theda  Herz,  Susan  Kingston,  Miriam  Cox, 
Nancy  Sokol,  Mary  Anne  Marrocco,  Carolyn  Balkema  and  Ernest  Merrill. 

FACULTY  NOTES 
Congratulations  are  in  order  for  David  R.  Hershberg:   he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
Associate  Professor  in  Spanish  and  Italian. 

Publications  by  our  faculty  include  an  article  by  Prof.  Henry  R.  Kahane,  in  col- 
laboration with  Renee  Kahane,  on  "Romeo,  the  Pilgrim"  in  Bollettino  dell'Atlante 
Linguistico  Mediterraneo,  no.  10-12,  pp.  [(.29-U31.  which  offers  an  explanation  of  the 
much  discussed  term  through  the  Byzantine  religious  movement  of  iconoclam,  in  the 
ninth  century,  and  also,  a  review  by  Prof.  Kahane  of  R.  Hall's  Bibliografia  della 
linguistica  italiana:  primo  supplemento  decennale,  Florence,  1969,  in  Language 

14.6(1970),  pp.  712-713. 

New  additions  to  the  Department  faculty  include  Instructor  Ronald  R.  Young:   he 
made  the  great  leap  forward  that  we  all  long  to  make  and  he's  no  longer  a  mere 
graduate  student.   Mr.  Young  received  his  B.A.  in  1966  from  Wisconsin  State  Univ.  at 
Eau  Claire  and  his  M.A.  in  I967  from  UI.   He  has  traveled  extensively  in  Mexico  and 
is  at  present  working  on  his  thesis  in  Linguistics,  his  topic  dealing  with  the  dia- 
lect of  AltoLucero  in  Mexico.   In  addition  to  his  teaching  responsibilities,  Mr. 
Young's  duties  include  the  supervision  of  the  Spanish  103  and  101|  courses.   His  wife 
Rinda  is  a  graduate  student  in  the  department  and  is  also  working  on  her  thesis. 

Three  part-time  instructors  swell  the  ranks  of  those  who  are  escaping  student 
status:   Mrs.  Lia  Schwarz  Lerner  received  her  Licenciado  and  M.  A.  in  Buenos  Aires, 
the  latter  from  the  University  of  Buenos  Aires  in  1965.   Her  husband  Izafas  is  an 
Assistant  Professor  in  the  Department.   Steven  Meshon  received  his  B.A.  from  Perm 


THE  UNIVERSITY  CF  ILLINOIS  MODERN  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  NEWSLETTER 

December,  1970      Director:  Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasouariello 
Vol.  XXIV,  No.  3  Editor:  Felicia  G.  Svorsky 

ILLINOIS  GOES  IT  ALONE! 
The  University  of  Illinois,  Urbana -Champaign,  will  sponsor  a  year  abroad  program  in  Spain  which  con- 
stitutes the  eouivalent  of  a  year  in  residence  on  our  campus. 

The  program  is  designed  primarily  for  students  majoring  in  Spanish  or  the  teaching  of  Spanish. 
It  is  planned  for  students  in  their  Junior  year,  though  seniors  and  perhaps  even  well  qualified  so- 
phomores will  certainly  be  considered  for  admission.  Also,  students  majoring  in  other  areas  (such 
as  other  foreign  languages,  history,  English,  political  sciences,  etc.)  may  apply  provided  their 
work  in  these  fields  could  be  enhanced  by  a  year  in  a  program  devoted  largely  to  literature  and  lang- 
uage studies.  Students  of  particularly  high  Quality  from  other  universities  may  also  be  considered 
for  acceptance. 

The  group  will  be  limited  to  30  participants.  The  minimum  curricular  reouirements  for  partici- 
pation are  as  follows:  1)  the  completion  of  a  fourth  semester  course  in  Spanish  (Spanish  104  at  UI) 
or  the  eouivalent;  2)  intermediate  level  work  in  conversation  and  coaposition  and  an  intermediate 
level  course  in  the  reading  of  Spanish  literary  texts  would  be  desirable  but  not  necessary;  3)  stu- 
dents should  show  a  k.O   average  in  their  courses  in  Spanish  and  at  least  an  overall  3.50  average  in 
order  to  be  considered.  Wherever  possible,  a  student  should  have  completed  the  general  education 
reouirements  prior  to  departure,  although  it  may  be  possible  to  earn  some  hours  abroad  toward  the 
fulfillment  of  these  requirements.  This  matter  will  need  to  be  worked  out  carefully  with  each  stu- 
dent prior  to  his  deaprture. 

The  total  cost  of  the  program  to  each  student  is  comparable  to  the  average  expenses  incurred 
during  the  academic  year  on  campus  at  Urbana -Champaign.  Scholarships  and  loans  now  available  for 
use  in  the  normal  year  of  residence  on  campus  may  be  applied  to  the  year  abroad  program.  In  addition, 
it  is  hoped  that  a  limited  number  of  special  awards  for  needy  students  may  be  available  through  uni- 
versity or  outside  sources.  Applications  for  scholarships,  loans,  or  grants  must  be  arranged  for 
individually  through  the  regular  campus  agents.  Students  will  be  able  to  hold  regular  student  in- 
surance during  the  year  abroad,  and  will  be  asked  to  submit  certification  of  good  health  as  a  part 
of  the  application  for  participation. 

Students  will  attend  courses  in  Spain  during  the  9  month  period  eouivalent  to  2  semesters  at  the 
01,  Urbana -Champaign  campus.  The  month  of  September  will  be  spent  in  a  preliminary  orientation 
session  in  Madrid  and  the  following  8  months  (Oct.  through  May)  in  special  classes  at  the  University 
of  Barcelona.  Upon  successful  completion  of  the  year's  study,  30  semester  credit  hours  will  be 
applied  to  the  student's  record  at  the  UI. 

In  order  to  introduce  the  students  to  the  cultural  life  of  the  Spanish  capital,  Madrid  has  been 
chosen  as  the  site  for  a  month-long  orientation  period.  This  preliminary  session  will  be  handled  by 
the  Instituto  de  Cultura  Hispfinica.  an  institution  of  the  Spanish  government  dedicated  to  the  promo- 
tion of  cultural  relations  with  other  countries.  Classes  will  take  place  in  the  Instituto  located 
on  the  campus  of  the  University  of  Madrid.  The  students  will  live  and  take  their  meals  in  dormito- 
ries located  on  the  campus,  with  direct  access  to  the  extensive  sports  facilities  of  the  University. 
In  addition,  the  Instituto  has  its  own  excellent  library  which  is  within  walking  distance  of  the 
dormitory  facilities.  The  Instituto  also  has  its  own  travel  agency  which  will  be  in  charge  of  cultu- 
ral trips  taken  during  Sept.  to  points  of  interest  near  Madrid.  Students  wull  have  intensive  classes 
in  the  Spanish  language  and  organized  discussions  with  students  from  the  University  of  Madrid.  In 
addition,  several  special  lectures  by  figures  such  as  the  members  of  the  Spanish  Academy,  professors 
of  the  U.  of  Madrid,  leading  Spanish  playwrights,  and  contemporary  writers  will  be  offered.  After 
:ompleting  this  period  of  orientation,  the  students  will  be  transported  by  chartered  bus  to  Barcelona 
rt.th  stops  at  important  sites  along  the  way  (Zaragoza,  Lerida,  etc.). 

Barcelona  is  a  major  European  city  with  a  stimulating  cultural  life  and  an  outstanding  universi- 
ty. The  intellectual  life  of  Barcelona  compares  favorably  to  that  of  Madrid,  and  even  exceeds  that 
of  the  capital  in  some  respects.  For  example,  one  of  the  outstanding  opera  houses  in  Europe  is  lo- 
cated in  Barcelona. 

The  academic  program  consists  of  5  pre-arranged,  mandatory  courses  each  semester.  The  courses 
will  be  given  by  professors  of  the  University  of  Barcelona  who  have  been  contracted,  and  who  will 
receive  some  guidance  from  the  director  re:  the  capabilities  and  expectations  of  American  undergra- 
duates. It  will  be  possible,  however,  for  certain  very  well  prepared  students  to  make  an  election 
from  the  University  of  Barcelona's  offerings  in  substitution  for  a  course  planned  by  the  program. 

The  plans  for  housing  call  for  half  of  the  30  students  to  be  lodged  in  "colegios  mayores"  or 
Spanish  student  dormitories,  and  half  in  private  homes.  Students  assigned  to  dormitories  will  live 


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either  alone  or  with  a  Spanish  roommate,  but  not  with  another  American. 

The  first  director  of  the  Illinois  Year  Abroad  Program  in  Spain  will  be  Prof.  Alberto  Poroueras- 
Mayo,  Professor  of  Spanish  at  the  University  of  Illinois  who  holds  the  Doctorate  in  Philosophy  from 
the  University  of  Madrid. 

The  application  deadline  is  February  1,  1971.  The  candidates  selected  by  a  local  screening 
committee  will  be  notified  in  March.  Application  forms  are  available  from  the  Spanish  Department 
Office,  224-  Lincoln  Hall,  or  from  Prof.  Joseph  S.  Flores,  Bhairman  of  the  Illinois  Year  Abroad  Pro- 
gram in  Spain,  219  Lincoln  Hall,  University  of  Illinois,  Urbana,  Illinois  61801,  telephone  (217) 
333-1739. 

LIBRARY  NOTES  —  by  Carl  Parmenter 

Having  completed  my  "first  100  days"  in  the  Modern  Language  Library,  I  have  had  heightened  even  more 
my  deep  respect  and  admiration  for  Florence  Harding,  my  predecessor.  How  did  she  ever  manage  to  do 
everything  she  did,  and  so  well,  too!  Even  with  my  years  of  experience  in  ^25  as  an  undergraduate 
student  assistant,  I  have  been  constantly  astounded  and  often  confounded  by  the  intricacies  and 
volume  of  the  librarian's  responsibilities.  Most  rewarding,  by  far,  has  been  the  opportunity  afford- 
ed me  to  renew  old  acquaintances  and  establish  new  ones  from  among  the  faculty  and  students  of  the 
Germanic  and  Romance  departments.  Their  patience  with  the  neophyte  has  been  most  gratefully  appre- 
ciated. 

Despite  the  suggestion  of  some  that  kZ5   need  be  given  a  whole  new  look,  and  the  admonition  of 
others  that  it  must  not,  I  have  found  little  time  to  make  any  major  alterations.  The  "New  Book 
Shelves",  formerly  gracing  the  ends  of  the  study  tables,  are  now  to  be  found  next  to  the  main  card 
catalog  in  kZ5   in  order  to  afford  more  space,  both  to  study  tables  as  well  as  to  the  new  book  col- 
lection. 

There  has  been  a  continual  enlarging  of  the  collection  with  additions  in  all  fields  of  interest. 
One  of  my  favorites  has  been  the  new  Reader's  Encyclopedia  of  World  Drama,  kept,  unfortunately,  on 
Closed  Reserve  whence  it  may  be  borrowed,  for  room  use,  by  inouiring  at  the  control  desk.  Another 
notable  addition  has  been  effected  through  transfer  from  the  English  library,  a  legitimate  trans- 
action graciously  permitted  by  Eva  Faye  Benton,  so  as  to  twart  my  larcenous  intents:  the  Forum  for 
Modern  language  Studies  now  blesses  our  periodical  shelves. 

The  above  mention  of  the  Closed  Reserve  section  is  a  sore  point,  one  which  is  as  unsatisfactory 
to  me  and  my  staff  as  it  is  to  the  patron  of  ^25.  Man£  items  are  shelved,  of  necessity,  in  my  office 
(^25  C)  to  insure  their  availability  to  all  who  need  to  use  them.  At  present,  I  am  not  aware  that 
the  same  high  degree  of  pilferage  exists  now  which  characterized  the  Modern  Language  Library  of  the 
last  few  years,  but  items  still  disappear.  If  a  system  can  be  worked  out  for  tighter  security  -  as 
misanthropic  as  that  term  sounds  -  I  should  like  to  get  these  items  out  where  all  will  be  able  to 
browse  through  and  use  them. 

Finally,  in  the  present  dilemma  of  budgetary  matters,  the  proposal  has  been  made  to  keep  the 
Modern  Language  Library  closed  more  hours  each  week  in  order  to  best  utilize  student  wage  funds. 
Checks  of  room  usage  have  indicated  that  there  are  certain  periods  each  week  during  which  the  Library 
is  sparsely  used.  Since  the  Modern  Language  Library  is  open  more  hours  each  week  than  any  other 
library  on  the  'tth  floor  of  the  Main  Library,  the  suggestion  was  made  to  cut  back  our  schedule  to  be 
consistent  with  the  hours  of  those  other  libraries.  I  oppose  vehemently  the  closing  of  the  Library 
on  Sunday  evening.  However,  I  can  rationalize  opening  at  9:00  am  instead  of  8:00  am,  Monday  through 
Saturday,  and  being  closed  on  Friday  evening.  In  the  former  instance,  reserve  bookswould  then  be 
due  at  10:00  am  (instead  of  9:00  am)  and,  in  the  latter  instance,  reserve  books  would  circulate 
overnight  at  ^4-: 00  pm  on  Friday  afternoon,  to  be  due  at  10:00  am  Sat.  morning. 

In  the  matter  of  these  hours  for  second  semester  as  well  as  in  all  other  matters  pertinent  to 
the  Modern  language  Library,  I  would  appreciate  any  feed-back,  either  pro  or  con,  which  you  as  a 
reader  of  the  MFLN  would  care  to  offer,  preferably  in  person,  but  at  least  in  writing. 

NOTE  TO  GRADUATE  STUDENTS  PREPARING  DISSERTATIONS  (AS  WELL  AS  OTHER  RESEARCHERS):   Please  let 
me  know  the  topic  of  your  dissertation  so  I  might  watch  for  new  articles  and  other  publications  of 
interest  to  you.  Also,  please  advise  me  of  serious  lacunae  in  our  holdings.  Many  times  these  missing 
items  are  not  brought  to  my  attention.  I  rely  upon  you  scholars  in  the  field  to  keep  me  au  courant 
of  such  weaknesses. 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES  -  by  Prof.  Barbara  Smalley 

PUBLICATIONS 
Professor  Rocco  Montano  has  recently  published  "The  Aesthetics  of  Homer:  A  Footnote  to  the  Work  of 
Carlo  Diano,"  in  FIL0S0FIA:  H  (Estate-Autunno,  1970),  pp.  1^9-162. 


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IECTURES 
In  November,  Prof.  Francois  Jost  lectured  at  the  University  of  Colorado  (Boulder)  under  the  auspices 
of  the  Comparative  Literature  Program  and  the  French  Department  of  that  university.  His  subject  was 
"The  French  Sonnet  in  its  European  Context."  Also  in  November,  Prof.  Jost  delivered  a  lecture  at 
the  University  of  Kansas  (Lawrence)  under  the  auspices  of  the  French  Department  there. 

Professor  Rocco  Montano  is  currently  delivering  a  series  of  lectures  at  the  UI  under  the  aus- 
pices of  the  Program  in  Comparative  Literature  and  the  Department  of  Spanish,  Italian  and  Portuguese. 
The  general  subject  of  these  lectures  is  "From  Renaissance  Aristotelianism  to  Shakespeare."  The 
first  two  were  delivered  early  in  December  in  Lincoln  Hall.  They  were  entitled  "The  Development  of 
the  Elizabethan  System  of  Tragedy"  and  "Protestantism  and  Literature."  The  last  lecture,  "Concerning 
the  Failure  of  the  House  of  Intellect,"  will  be  presented  on  Thursday,  February  11,  1971,  7:30  pm, 
in  Room  194  Lincoln  Hall. 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  STUDIES 
Forthcoming  in  the  next  issue  of  Comparative  Literature  Studies.  December  1970,  are  the  following 
articles:  Helmut  Hatzfeld,  "Literary  Mannerism  and  Barooue  in  Spain  and  France";  E.  R.  Gregory,  Jr., 
"Du  Bartas,  Sydney,  and  Spenser";  Lee  Fontanella, "Parnassian  Precept  and  a  New  Way  of  Seeing  Casal's 
Museo  ideal";  RenSe  Riese  Hubert,  "Andre  Masson  and  His  Critics";  and  a  Review  Article,  "Interpret- 
ing Symbolist  Poetry,"  by  Haskell  M.  Block. 

FRENCH  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel 

FOLLOW  UP  REPORT  ON  INSTITUTE  OF  FRENCH  STUDIES 
The  Departmental  Committee  on  the  proposed  Institute  of  French  Studies  at  the  Ul-Urbana  wishes  to 
thank  all  colleagues  in  the  Dept.  of  French  and  other  departments  for  their  interest  and  support 
during  the  just-concluded  Institute  on  the  proposal  (Dec.  2-9).  Staff  and  consultants  worked  with 
remarkable  harmony  and  purpose fulness  to  elaborate  a  number  of  interesting  proposals  on  both  curri- 
cula and  organization.  It  is  hoped  that  we  will  have  a  formal  report-cum-proposal  early  in  the  new 
semester  for  consideration  by  the  Department  and  other  appropriate  agencies  of  the  University.  Here 
to  report  briefly  on  the  results,  the  private  sessions  were  divided  into  2  major  subcommittees,  with 
a  view  to  creating  programs  in  French  plus  various  options.  As  those  who  attended  the  public  ses- 
sions know,  the  final  recommendations  took  the  form  of  French  plus  the  following  options  (from  B.A. 
and  B.A.T.  through  M.A.,  M.A.T.  and  Ph.D.):  Arts  and  Ideas,  History  and  Ideas,  Social  Sciences.  It 
is  also  hoped  that  with  appropriate  advice,  we  will  be  able  to  elaborate  an  option  dealing  with 
French-speaking  nations  of  "the  third  world."  Options  were  worked  out  in  great  detail,  including 
specific  course  recommendations  in  current  catalogues  in  the  College  of  Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences, 
the  Graduate  College,  the  School  of  Architecture,  the  College  of  Fine  and  Applied  Arts,  the  School 
of  Music  and  other  educational  units  of  the  University. 

The  Departmental  Committee  is  grateful  for  the  remarkable  performance  of  its  visiting  consult- 
ants: M.  Jean-Pierre  Biron,  M.  Jean  Cavadini,  Prof.  Donald  Charlton,  K.  Jean  Donnard,  M,  Franck 
Jotterand,  K.  Normand  Leroux,  M.  Edgar  Tripet,  and  Prof.  Laurence  Wylie.  The  Committee  also  wishes 
to  express  here  its  profound  thanks  to  those  administrators  whose  imaginative  initiative  has  enabled 
the  French  Department  at  UI  to  be  in  the  forefront  of  this  truly  new  direction  in  French  studies: 
Robert  W.  Rogers,  Dean,  CIA&S;  George  K.  Brine;-ar,  Director,  International  Programs;  Bruce  H.  Mainous, 
Head,  Department  of  French. 

(The  members  of  the  Committee  are  Robert  J.  Nelson,  Director;  Yves  Velan,  Assoc.  Director; 
Gabriel  Savignon,  Seccy.  General}  Herbert  De  Ley,  Assoc.  Member;  Stanley  Gray,  Assoc.  Member;  and 
John  Moles,  Student  Associate.) 

AATF  CONTEST 
The  36th  annual  National  French  Contest  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  French  will  take 
place  either  on  April  1,  2,  or  J,   under  the  directorship  of  Mr.  Sidney  L.  Teitelbaum.  Teachers 
interested  in  entering  students  are  requested  to  contact  now  your  chairman:  for  the  Chicago  area, 
Sister  Jean  Murray,  Rosary  College,  River  Forest,  111.  60305;  for  the  Downstate  area,  Robert  Roussey, 
Dept.  of  Foreign  Languages,  Illinois  State  University,  Normal,  HI.  61701,  so  that  all  information 
may  be  sent  to  you  in  due  time.  Again  this  year,  wonderful  prizes  will  be  awarded  on  the  National, 
Regional  and  Local  levels.  Read  the  article  "The  Contest"  in  the  December  issue  of  THE  FRENCH  REVIEW. 

CENACLE 
The  CSnacle  has  met  twice,  November  and  December  1970,  to  discuss  "Pourouoi  le  Mouveau  Roman?"  and 
to  play  the  game  of  literary  identifications. 


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THEATRE  GROUP 
The  French  Dept.'s  theatre  group,  "Les  Baladins,"  gave  a  doublebill  of  one-acters  on  7  December: 
Courteline's  Les  Boulingrin  and  J.  P.  Aron's  world  premiere  of  Fleurets  Kouchetgs.  a  new  Absurdist 
play.  The  casts,  supervised  by  Alain  Ouvrier,  consisted  of  Alain  Ouvrier,  Sylvie  Boudet,  Patrick 
Choffrut  and  Melissa  Dadant  (for  the  Courteline),  and  of  Claude  Covo,  Alain  Ouvrier,  Patrick  Aurenche 
Patrick  Choffrut,  Ilona  Leki  and  Robert  Frye  (for  the  Aron).  The  group's  hard  and  dedicated  work 
resulted  in  such  a  fine,  intelligent  performance,  that  one  can  already  see  it  as  the  seed  of  future 
productions  which  will  entertain  as  well  as  train  students  and  staff  in  the  understanding  of  the 
theatre  which  comes  only  through  actual  physical  invilvement  with  it.  There  is  already  a  great 
tradition  of  this  in  British  universities:  many  of  the  top  theatre  people  (writers,  actors,  direc- 
tors, decorators,  etc.J_  in  the  U.K.  had  University  starts,  and  some  of  the  major  contemporary  suc- 
cesses (e.g.  Rosencrantz  and  Guildenstern...)  were  plays  snatched  by  established  London  theatres 
from  their  unpretentious  campus  cradles. 

PLATO 
The  PLATO  computer  lab  staff,  under  Prof.  Keith  Myers  and  his  second-in-command,  Roby  Ariew,  gave 
the  department  a  well-planned,  personalized  set  of  demonstrations  in  November,  and  impressed  several 
uninitiated  people  with  the  present  capabilities  and  the  potentials  of  good  computer-using  instruc- 
tion in  an  area  ranging  from  language  teaching  at  the  elementary  level  to  advanced  stylisties  and 
sophisticated  literary  research. 

FRENCH  HOUSE 
Under  the  very  able  direction  of  Misses  Ghislaine  Ge'loin  and  Lisa  Naab,  the  French  House  has  been 
very  active  this  year:  they  have  had  their  regular  weekly  coffee-hour,  meetings,  parties  (Halloween, 
Christmas,  etc.),  other  activities  which  make  it  the  focal  point  of  the  younger  French  and  French- 
speaking  population  on  campus.  This  is  particularly  important  of  late  given  the  sudden  increase  of 
students  from  France,  both  assistants  in  French  and  French  people  in  other  fields.  By  now,  it  is 
clear  that  FL  Houses  do  indeed  benefit  very  much  those  living  in  them  and  their  campuses  in  general: 
other  Departments  are  at  present  establishing  such  houses. 

GERMAN  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Roy  Allen 

FACULTY  LECTURES 
The  third  meeting  this  fall  of  the  Fruchtbringende  Gesellschaft  featured  a  talk  by  Prof.  Hans  Bekker- 
Nielsen  of  the  U.  of  Odense,  Denmark.  Prof.  Bekker-Nielsen's  topic  was  "Old  Norse  Literature  and 
Western  Civilization."  The  meeting  took  place  on  December  10  at  7:30  pm  in  the  Faculty  Lounge  of  the 
Illini  Union. 

Prof.  Elmer  Antonsen  of  the  German  Dept.  spoke  before  the  Medieval  Club  on  December  Ik   at  8:00  pii 
in  the  Faculty  Lounge  of  the  Union,  His  talk  was  entitled  "Bogs,  Bodies  and  Beechstaves:  Nordic 
Runic  Inscriptions." 

The  German  Dept.  was  represented  at  the  annual  AATG  convention,  held  in  Los  Angeles  on  Nov.  27 
and  28,  by  Professors  Marianne  Burkhard,  Herbert  Knust  and  Ruth  Lorbe.  Prof.  Knust  presented  a 
paper  at  the  meeting  on  Bertold  Brecht:  "Erst  komrat  das  Fressen,  dann  kommt  die  Moral." 

FACULTY  PUBLICATIONS 
A  lengthy  review  by  Prof.  Lorbe  on  the  volume  Twentieth  Century  German  Literature  (Introduction  to 
German  Literature  TV),  edited  by  August  Closs  (New  York,  1969)  has  just  appeared  in  JEGP  (LXLX,  1970; 
PP.  502-506). 

SPRING  COURSES 
Dutch  will  be  the  topic  of  Germanic  199.  the  undergraduate  open  seminar,  in  the  Spring  semester, 
1971.  The  course  will  be  taught  by  Prof.  Juw  fon  Wearinga,  and  can  involve  either  instruction  in 
beginning  Dutch  language  or  a  more  advanced  course  on  Modern  Dutch  literature. 

GERMAN  CLUB 
The  German  b  Club  of  the  UI  was  conceived  as  a  student  social  organization,  primarily  for  the  purpose 
of  giving  students  on  all  levels  of  study  the  opportunity  to  practice  the  speaking  of  the  German 
language  outside  the  classroom  situation.  This  year  the  Club  has  sponsored  and  will  be  sponsoring 
in  the  coming  months  a  variety  of  activities  for  the  benefit  of  students,  including  the  Oktoberfest, 
the  Fasching  celebration,  film  amd  slide  showings,  poetry  readings,  the  annual  V.'eihnachtsfeier  and 
many  others.  On  November  12,  the  Club  sponsored  a  taped  presentation  of  the  German  radio  play 
("Horspiel")  Das  Schiff  Esperanza  by  Fred  von  Hoerschelmann.  On  December  3,  a  St.  Nicholas  celebra- 


tion  was  held,  and  on  December  11,  the  annual  Weihnachtsfeier,  At  the  December  1?  meeting  of  the 
Club,  Prof.  Henri  Stegemeier  k  gave  a  showing  of  color  slides  on  the  German  Christmas. 

In  the  Spring  semester,  1971,  plans  are  being  drawn  up  for  a  number  of  interesting  activities, 
including  amongst  others  the  presentation  of  a  short,  one-act  German  play.  So  far  definite  plans 
have  been  made  for  the  showing  of  2  German  films:  on  February  11,  1971,  Bertolt  Brecht's  Threepenny- 
Opera  and  on  March  11,  1971,  Franz  Werfel's  Me  and  the  Colonel. 

The  German  Club  is  sponsored  by  three  members  of  the  UI  faculty:  Professors  Dagmar  Stern  and 
■William  Henderson  of  the  German  Department  and  Professor  Charles  Daigh  of  the  College  of  Education. 
For  further  information  on  the  Club  and  its  activities,  please  contact  the  Club's  president,  William 
Freyman,  through  the  German  Department  Office  (375  Lincoln  Hall)  or  by  phone:  332-5259. 

ISU  SUMMER  PROGRAM  IN  GERMANY 
Illinois  State  University,  Normal,  is  sponsoring  a  2  month  program  of  German  study  in  Grafing  (near 
Munich)  from  July  3  -  August  29  in  the  summer  of  1971.  The  course  is  open  to  the  public  and  will 
offer  up  to  8  credits  in  German.  The  total  cost  of  the  program  is  $950  and  includes  round-trip  air 
fare  from  Chicago,  roam  and  board,  and  several  field  trips,  probably  to  the  Bavarian  Alps  and  castles, 
Munich,  Salzburg,  Vienna,  Berlin,  the  Rhine  and  Bonn.  Courses  will  be  offered  at  all  levels.  High 
school  and  college  students  or  teachers  and  other  interested  persons  are  invited  to  apply  to:  Bodo 
Fritzen,  Director,  ISU  Program  in  Germany,  Department  of  Foreign  Languages,  Illinois  State  University, 
Normal,  Illinois  61761. 

GERMAN  ART  OF  THE  19th  CENTURY  TO  VISIT  CHICAGO 
The  largest  exhibition  of  19th  century  German  painting  ever  to  be  shown  outside  of  Germany  opened 
this  fall  on  October  1^  at  the  Yale  University  Art  Gallery  in  New  Haven,  Conn.  Included  in  the  showing 
are  a  total  of  106  works  on  loan  from  16  museums  in  West  Germany,  from  the  Federal  Republic  of  Ger- 
nany  collections  and  from  four  private  collections.  All  major  styles  and  types  of  painting  from  the 
19th  century  are  represented  in  the  exhibition,  including  the  German  Romantics,  the  Nazarene  school, 
the  post-Nazarene  painters  working  in  Rome  and  the  realist  and  naturalist  painters  from  the  period. 
The  works  of  kO   painters  in  all  are  being  shown,  amongst  which  are  paintings  by  Caspar  David  Friedrlch 
Philipp  Otto  Runge,  Peter  von  Cornelius,  Adolf  von  Menzel,  Hans  von  MarSes,  Arnold  Bocklin,  Wilhelm 
Leibl,  Hans  Thoma,  Max  Leibermann  and  Lovis  Corinth.  The  show  will  also  be  at  the  Cleveland  Museum 
of  Art  from  December  9  -  January  2k,   and  at  the  Chicago  Art  Institute  from  February  12  -  March  28. 

3IAVIC  NOTES  —  by  Kenneth  Brostrom 

PAPERS 
On  December  3,  Prof.  Michael  Holouist  of  Yale  University  delivered  2  excellent  papers  on  the  Urhana 
campus,  dealing  with  topics  of  general  interest  to  specialists  in  Russian  literature.  The  papers 
were  entitled  "Stylistic  Ties  between  Gogol  and  Chekhov"  and  "Dostoevsky's  Notes  From  Underground: 
Plot  and  Counterplot."  Prof.  Holquist  was  an  outstanding  student  in  the  UI  Slavic  Department  before 
completing  his  Ph.D.  at  Yale. 

On  Dec.  10,  Prof.  Daniel  C,  Gerould  discussed  the  Polish  writer  Witkiewicz,  accompanying  his 
commentary  with  a  Polish  film  on  the  life  and  works  of  this  artist.  Prof.  Gerould  is  presently  a 
visitor  in  the  theater  program  at  the  Graduate  Center,  City  College  of  Mew  York. 

The  presentations  of  these  2  scholars  conclude  what  has  been  a  very  active  and  profitable  Fall 
semester  program  in  public  lectures,  and  we  look  forward  to  similar  opportunities  in  the  future. 

Several  members  of  the  Soavic  faculty  have  delivered  or  will  deliver  papers  in  the  near  future 
at  various  conferences  and  conventions:   Prof.  Rasio  Dunatov  read  a  paper,  "Paradigmatic  Accentual 
Alternations  in  Serbo-Croatian,"  in  the  linguistics  sections  of  the  national  convention  of  AATSEEL, 
held  in  New  York  City,  Dec.  28-30. 

Prof.  Kurt  Klein  delivered  a  paper  to  the  Southern  AATSEEL  convention  held  in  Memphis,  Tenn., 
Oct.  29,  on  the  topic  "Some  Suggestions  for  a  Course  in  Russian  Civilization."  In  this  connection, 
we  wish  to  extend  our  congratulations  to  Prof.  Klein  for  winning  one  of  the  four  Undergraduate  in- 
structional awards  presented  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  meritorious  projects  completed  during  the 
summer  of  1970.  Prof.  Klein  prepared  a  syllabus  for  a  new  course  in  Russian  civilization  which  will 
be  offered  at  the  UI.  This  course  will  fill  a  distinct  gap  in  Russian  studies  here  and  is  to  be 
highly  recommended  to  students  interested  in  Russian  culture.  In  addition  to  a  comprehensive  set  of 
lectures  and  carefully  selected  readings,  the  course  will  utilize  visual  aids  and  benefit  from  lec- 
tures by  visiting  specialists  in  various  disciplines. 

Prof.  Steven  P.  Hill  also  read  a  paper  at  the  Bi-State  Slavic  Conference  held  at  the  U.  of  Kansas 
(Lawrence).  His  topic  was  "Russian  Drama  at  the  end  of  the  60's." 


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At  the  AATSEEL  section  of  the  Illinois  FLTA  convention,  held  in  Springfield  on  Nov.  6-7,  Prof.  Kurt 
Klein,  Mr.  Henry  Zalucky  and  Mr.  Kenneth  Brostrom  delivered  the  papers  whose  titles  were  reported 
previously  in  the  October  issue  of  the  Newsletter. 

EXAMINATIONS 
Our  congratulations  to  Miss  Nina  Awsienko,  Miss  Susan  Baker  and  Mr.  Kenneth  Olson  for  their  succes- 
sful performance  in  the  doctoral  preliminary  examinations  and  to  Miss  Dorothy  Fry  for  passing  the 
examination  for  the  Master's  degree. 

RUSSIAN  AND  EAST  EUROPEAN  CENTER 
The  Center  recently  established  a  Publications  Committee  which  will  consider  any  proposals  for  pub- 
lications originating  among  staff  members  working  within  the  Russian  and  E  st  European  area.  The 
Committee  consists  of  F.  Gladney  (Slavic),  R.  F.  Miller  (Pol.  Sci.),  B.  Uroff  (History),  and  Keith 
Hitchins  (History,  Chairman).  A  number  of  publications  by  Center  members  and  associates  will  be  of 
interest:  Robert  F.  Miller,  100,000  Tractors:  the  MTS  snd  the  development  of  Controls  in  Agricul- 
ture. Cambridge:  Harvard  University  Press,  1970.  Keith  A.  Hitchins,  ed.,  Rumanian  Studies.  Vol.  I. 
E.  J.  Brill,  1970.  Alexander  Vucinich,  Science  in  Russian  Culture.  Stanford  University  Press,  1970. 
Jan  Gorecki,  Divorce  in  Poland:  a  Contribution  to  the  Sociology  of  Law.  Mouton,  1970.  James  Millar 
and  Corinne  Guntzel,  "The  Economics  and  Politics  «f  Collectivization  Reconsidered,"  Explorations  in 
Economic  History.  Vol.  VHI,  No.  1,  Fall  1970. 

PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Steven  P.  Hill  has  published  an  annotated  compilation  in  conjunction  with  Prof.  John  Dunkel- 
berger  under  the  title  "Russian  Drama  since  Chekhov:  a  Bibliography  of  English  Translations,  1900- 
1969."  It  appeared  in  the  journal  Theatre  Documentation  (U.  of  Kansas) .Winter  *69  -  Spring  '70, 
pp.  85-108. 

A  newsletter  published  by  the  Slavic  Bibliographic  and  Documentation  Center  of  the  Association 
of  Research  Libraries  has  recently  begun  to  appear  (2  numbers  have  been  issued  to  date).  The  News- 
letter contains  valuable  information  for  researchers  in  the  Slavic  area.  Inouiries  may  be  addressed 
to  the  Center,  1527  New  Hampshire  Avenue,  N.W.,  Washington  D.C.  20036. 

AA.TSEEL 
In  the  business  meeting  in  Springfield  on  Nov.  6-7,  it  was  decided  that  AATSEEL  members  once  again 
will  comprise  a  Slavic  section  at  the  Illinois  FLTA  meeting  in  Chicago  next  year,  Nov.  5-6.  If 
necessary,  there  will  also  be  a  meeting  of  the  Illinois  AATSEEL  during  the  Russian  high  school  con- 
test in  May,  1971.  There  will  again  be  a  Russian  section  in  the  Illinois  School-University  Foreign 
Language  Articulation  Conference  on  the  Urbana  campus,  Oct.  28-29,  1971. 

FILM 
The  new  Soviet  film  version  of  War  and  Peace  in  2  parts,  with  dubbed-in  English  dialogue,  was  shown 
in  the  UI  Auditorium  as  follows:  Part  I  on  Jan.  6-7  at  8:00  pm  and  Part  II  on  Jan.  13-l4  at  8:00  pm. 
This  film  is  remarkable  in  many  ways,  not  the  least  of  which  is  the  almost  eerie  exactitude  with 
which  the  actors  duplicate  the  described  appearance  and  mannerisms  of  the  characters  in  the  novel. 

SPANISH,  ITALIAN  AND  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  —  by  Felicia  G.  Sworsky 

PUBLIC  lECTURE 
The  Department  of  Spanish,  Italian  and  Portuguese  and  the  Center  for  Latin  American  Studies  jointly 
presented  a  lecture  on  December  10  by  Dr.  Risieri  Frondizi,  Visiting  Professor,  Southern  Illinois 
University.  Dr.  Frondizi  spoke  on  the  topic  "La  unidad  cultural  latinoamericana." 

COPACABANA 
In  conjunction  with  the  annual  International  Fair,  IU3A  and  LASA  (Latin  American  Students'  Assn.) 
presented  Copacabana,  two  nights  (Dec.  k  &   5)  of  Latin  American  music,  song  and  dance.  Congratu- 
lations to  all  for  a  job  truly  well  done. 

FACULTY  NEWS 
Professor  Luis  Leal  spoke  recently  at  Indiana  University  (Bloomington)  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Spanish  Department  there.  His  topic  was  "Imagen  de  la  nueva  novela  hispanoamericana.  Prof.  Leal's 
publications  include  a  review  of  Ocampo  de  Gomez '  Diccionario  de  escritores  mexicanos  in  Revista 
Iberoamericana .  72  (1970),  pp.  520  -  523,  and  four  articles:   "Ruben  Dario  en  Mexico"  in  Specialia. 
2  (1970),  Southern  Illinois  University;  "Ia  cat da  de  Alfonso  Reyes",  illustrated  by  the  Mexican 
artist  Elvira  Gascon,  in  the  Boletln  Capilla  Algonsina.  Mexico,  15  (1970),  pp.  22-25;  "La  Coleccion 
de  poeslas  mexicanas  atribuida  a  JosS  Luis  Mora"  in  the  Boletln  BibliogrSfico  de  la  Secretarta  de 


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Hacienda  y  CrSdlto  Publico.  XVI,  1*40  (1970),  pp.  4-7;  and  "Situacion  de  Amado  Nervo"  in  the  Revista 
Tberoaroericana.  72  (1970),  pp.  485-494. 

Associate  Professor  Richard  Preto-Rodas1  review  of  John  Keller's  book  Alfonso  el  Sabio  (Twayne 
Series)  appeared  in  the  most  recent  issue  of  SAM LA.  journal  of  the  South  Atlantic  Modern  Language 
Association.  Prof.  Preto-Rodas  has  also  published  a  monograph  with  the  University  of  Florida  Press: 
Negri tude  as  a  Theme  in  the  Poetry  of  the  Portuguese-speaking  World . 

Associate  Professor  Mario  Saltarelli's  recent  publications  include  Focus  on  Focus:   Proposi- 
tional  Generative  Grammar,  Papers  for  R.  B.  Lees.  PIL  monograph  no.  1,  1970.;  On  the  Nature  of 
Lexical  Readings,  Actes  Du  Xe  Congres  International  Pes  Linguists.  Bucarest,  1970.;  and  Fonologia 
Generativa  dell'Algherese,  Actele  Celui  De-Al  XII -Lea  Congres  International  De  Lingvistica  Si 
Filologie  Romanica .  Bucarest,  1970. 

Professor  Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo  has  published  an  article  on  Nuestros  filologos.  El  Prof.  F. 
Sfcichez  Escribano  in  the  Bole tin  de  Filologla  Espagola.  nos.  32-33  (1969)  [19701  ,  pp.  3-11. 

Assistant  Professor  Martha  Francescato  reviewed  Ultimo  Round  by  Julio  CorlJzar  for  the  Revista 
Iberoamericana .  No.  72  ( julio-septiembre,  1970),  pp.  532-534. 

DEPARTMENTAL  RADIO:  WSIP 
The  Department  of  Spanish,  Italian  and  Portuguese  of  the  UI  has  set  up  a  short  wave  receiving  station 
with  offices  in  3^1  Lincoln  Hall.  The  functions  of  this  receiving  station  are  many,  including  the 
provision  of  resource  material  for  class-room  use. 

As  of  December  11,  Monday,  and  continuing  each  Monday  of  every  regular  school  week,  there  is 
available  in  room  381  fifteen  to  twenty  minute  taped  cassettes  of  foreign  news,  lectures,  music,  etc. 
broadcasts.  These  tapes  will  be  in  Spanish,  Portuguese  and  hopefully  Italian,  although  Italian  modes 
are  not  functioning  very  well  at  station  WSIP.  (Any  constructive  help  anyone  may  offer  to  aid  in 
the  acouisition  of  Italian  programming  will  be  greatly  appreciated.) 

These  tapes  may  be  borrowed  for  hourly  intervals  and  used  constructively  in  such  courses  as 
conversation  courses,  culture  courses,  etc.  Arrangements  for  cassette  playback  machines  should  be 
pre-arranged  in  Room  224  Lincoln  Hall. 

If  individuals  would  like  to  do  their  own  recording,  or  arrange  for  special  programs,  arrange- 
ments can  be  made  by  contacting  the  station  manager,  Mr.  Ronald  Young. 

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THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS  MODERN  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  NEWSLETTER 

January  -  February,  1971    Director:  Dr.  A.  M.  Pasouariello 
Vol.  XXIV,  Nos.  4  -  5  Editor:  Felicia  G.  Sworsky 

ELLA  CORNELIA  KLEIN  (nee  May),  1920  -  1971 
We  know  that  all  the  friends  and  colleagues  of  Professor  Kurt  Klein  around  the  State  of  Illi- 
nois will  want  to  join  the  Slavic  Department  in  expressing  their  deepest  sympathy  to  him  and 
to  his  family  upon  the  death  of  his  wife,  Ella,  on  January  28,  1971. 

As  a  young  woman,  Ella  chose  to  remain  in  the  city  of  Izmail  to  finish  the  lycee  when 
her  parents  migrated  west  from  their  native  Bessarabia  after  it  passed  from  Rumanian  to  Soviet 
hands  following  the  German-Soviet  pact  of  1939.  She  spent  the  early  ^0's  in  Bucharest,  teach- 
ing privately  and  working  with  children,  and  after  the  war,  she  rejoined  her  parents  in  Styria, 
Austria.  During  the  brief  Soviet  occupation  of  that  area,  she  worked  as  an  interpreter.  A 
resourceful  young  woman  fluent  in  a  half-dozen  languages,  she  always  enjoyed  working  with 
people  and  was  able  to  relate  to  them  in  a  wide  variety  of  circumstances.  But  family  bonds 
were  always  more  strongly  felt  than  the  pull  of  success  in  a  personal  career.  Working  as  a 
secretary  for  the  British  occupational  forces,  she  helped  support  her  young  family  and  put 
her  husband  through  school. 

In  1950,  when  news  of  her  father's  death  reached  her  in  Lawrence,  Kansas,  Ella  brought 
her  mother  to  the  United  States  and  devoted  much  of  the  last  twenty  years  to  caring  for  her. 
And  when  she  came  here  to  the  UI  at  the  end  of  the  50' s,  she  brought  not  only  warmth  but  depth 
to  our  Slavic  program.  As  wife  of  the  Acting  Head  of  the  Department  in  1963-6*4-,  she  is  re- 
membered as  a  very  gracious  hostess.  Since  that  time,  she  participated  enthusiastically  in 
various  Slavic  Department  activities  and  made  herself  increasingly  indispensable  to  the  Special 
Languages  Division  of  the  Library.  Her  broad  knowledge  of  European  languages  was  coupled  with 
an  acute  intuitive  grasp  of  the  form  of  foreign  catalogue  entries,  in  addition  to  which  she 
also  took  a  number  of  courses  in  Library  Science.  Her  co-workers  found  her  invariably  cheer- 
ful and  easy  to  work  with. 

On  her  way  to  the  Library  on  the  morning  of  January  22nd,  Mrs.  Klein  was  tragically 
struck  down  by  an  automobile.  She  died  in  a  coma  six  days  later.  She  leaves  her  husband,  our 
colleague  Professor  Kurt  Klein,  two  sons,  her  mother,  and  a  brother. 

A  memorial  fund  has  been  established  with  the  U  of  I  Foundation,  and  friends  wishing  to 
make  a  memorial  contribution  may  send  checks  to  the  Foundation.  Accumulated  funds  will  be  used 
for  library  acauisitions  in  the  Slavic  area. 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES  --  by  Barbara  Smalley 

MEETINGS 
During  the  convention  of  the  Modern  Language  Association  of  America  held  in  New  York  City 
during  December  26-29,  Professor  A.  Owen  Aldridge  served  as  Chairman  of  the  meeting,  "Editor, 
Sub-editor  and  Contributor."  Prof.  Aldridge  also  participated  in  the  meeting  of  the  American 
Comparative  Literature  Association  and  represented  Comparative  Literature  Studies  at  the 
meeting  of  the  Editors  of  Learned  Journals. 

Professor  Herbert  Knust  also  attended  the  MIA  convention  in  New  York  and  participated  in 
the  Comparative  Literature  meeting  in  which  the  current  situation  and  future  development  of 
Comparative  Literature  were  discussed.  Prof.  Knust  also  participated  in  the  annual  Brecht 
seminar  held  during  the  convention. 

LECTURES 
Professor  Rocco  Montano  delivered  a  lecture  entitled  "Concerning  the  Failure  of  the  House  of 
Intellect"  on  Thursday  evening,  February  11,  197lt  at  7:30  p.m.,  in  room  1$&  Lincoln  Hall. 


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Professor  A.  Owen  Aldridge  lectured  at  three  English  universities  during  the  first  week  of 
February.  At  the  University  of  Manchester,  he  spoke  on  "The  Literary  Quarrel  of  the  Ancients 
and  the  Moderns  in  the  Enlightenment."  At  the  University  of  Leeds,  his  topic  was  "Writing 
the  Biography  of  Voltaire",  and  at  the  University  of  Lancaster,  Prof.  Aldridge's  lecture  was 
concerned  with  "The  Concept  of  Primltivism  during  the  Eighteenth  Century." 

PUBLICATIONS 
Professor  Rocco  Montano  has  recently  published  the  following  articles:  "Cultura  e  Societa  in 
America"  in  Umanesimo:  II,  4  (dated  1968,  published  1970)  pp.  9-24;  "Delia  Valle  e  il  teatro 
del  Seicento"  in  Umanesiomo:  II,  4  (dated  1968,  published  1970)  pp.  39-48;  and  "From  Italian 
Humanism  to  Shakespeare:  Protestantism  and  Literature"  also  in  Umanesimo:  II,  4  (dated  1968, 
published  1970)  pp.  ^9-70. 

A  fourth  article,  "Dante  and  Virgil",  will  appear  in  the  next  issue  of  Yale  Review. 

The  work  Lc_  Spirito  e_  le  Lettere:  Pi  segno  Storlco  della  Letteratura  Italiana,  (Marzorati. 
Milano),  by  Prof.  Montano—  the  first  two  volumes  of  which  have  recently  appeared  -  contains  as 
a  forward  a  discussion  of  the  problem  of  history  of  literature  and  provides  a  rigorously 
philosophical  answer  to  that  problem.  Montano' s  work  also  includes  chapters  on  the  most  im- 
portant aspects  of  other  European  literatures  -  Le_  Roman  de  la  Rose .  Villon.  Chaucer.  Thomas 
More.  Martin  Luther.  Shakespeare.  Cervantes.  Comeille .  Moliere .  The  Enlightenment  -  which  are 
linked  to  the  development  of  Italian  literature.  Such  procedural  method  is  intended  to  avoid 
and  escape  the  grave  limitations  caused  by  a  study  of  literature  carried  on  on  pure  national- 
istic bases  and  to  promote  the  study  of  literature  as  a  unified  European  movement. 

FRENCH  NOTES  —  by  Edwin  Jahiel 

PROFESSIONAL  ACTIVITIES 
At  the  recent  Modern  Language  Association  convention  in  New  York  City,  Prof.  R.  J.  Nelson 
read  a  paper,  "Lectures  de  Pascal",  which  is  to  be  later  repeated  for  the  French  Journal  Club 
in  Urbana. 

Prof.  Jahiel  organized  and  led  the  discussion  of  the  Seminar  on  Film  Study  in  the  Liberal 
Arts.  Several  colleagues  attended  either  the  MIA  meeting  or  the  AATF  meeting  in  New  Orleans. 
It  is  unfortunate  that  the  two  now  conflict  (also  with  AATSP).  This  results  in  general  im- 
poverishment and  in  increasing  difficulty  for  meeting  colleagues,  finding  jobs,  etc.  It  is  all 
the  more  astonishing  as  the  general  trend  today  is  towards  inter-disciplinary  contacts. 
Granted  that  there  is  far  too  much  going  on  at  MIA  and  that  the  MIA-AATF  combination  would  be 
an  unmanageable  hydra,  the  only  logical  approach  is  to  hold  separate  meetings  at  various  times, 
and  to  exclude  the  post-Christmas  dates  in  all  cases.  Other  professional  groups  do,  why  can't 
languages?  Another  solution  would  be  the  upgrading  and  reinforcement  of  regional  MIA  and 
AATF  congresses  (shorter  and  chaaper  trips,  less  mental  fatigue)  and  the  setting  aside  of  MIA 
for  broader  subjects. 

Prof.  Kolb  is  the  editor  and  anno ta tor  of  the  first  volume  of  the  Correspondance  GSnSrale 
de  Marcel  Proust,  which  has  just  been  published  by  Plon,  in  Paris. 

Mrs.  Sandra  Savignon  and  Mr.  Paul  Griffith  will  be  the  Department  representatives  on  the 
Committee  for  the  School-University  FL  Articulation  Conference  to  be  held  next  fall  on  this 
campus. 

FIIMS 
The  Department  has  presented  to  its  students  this  term  a  number  of  French  films:  Camp's  "les 
Enfants  du  Paradis",  "Les  Femmes  Savantes",  Demy's  "lola"  and  Renoir's  "La  Regie  du  Jeu."  In 
addition,  students  and  guests  in  Mr.  Jahiel's  seminar  on  French  Cinema  have,  seen:  Clair's  "A 
nous  la  Liberte"";  "Les  Deux  Timides";  Came's  "Le  Quai  des  Brumes";  "Hotel  du  Nord";  Renoir's 
"Boudu  sauvS  des  eaux";  "Toni";  "Une  Partie  de  campagne";  "Le  Carrosse  d'or";  "La  Grande  Illu- 
sion"; Bresson's  "Un  CondamnS  a  mort  s'est  SchappS",  "Proces  de  Jeanne  d'Arc";  Resnais'  "Nuit 
et  Brouillard",  "Hiroshima  mon  amour",  "L'Annee  derniere  a  Marientiad";  Godard's  "Alphaville", 
"Masculin-FSminin",  "Vivre  sa  vie";  Truffaut's  "Baisers  Vole's",  "L'Enfant  sauvage",  "Jules  et 
Jim";  Camus'  Orfeu  Negro";  Marker's  "La  JetSe";  Robbe-Grillet's  "L'Homme  qui  ment";  Chabrol's 
"Les  Cousins";  Etaix's  "Yo-Yo"  and  shorts  by  Borowycz  and  Enrico.  Some  of  these  films  were 
seen  with  the  co-operation  of  English  courses  or  campus  film  groups. 


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TELEVISION 
If  international  mail  service  remains  reliable  within  the  next  several  weeks,  we  will  be  able 
to  show  over  Channel  12  (WILL-TV)  a  number  of  television  documentaries  borrowed  from  various 
foreign  countries.  This  arrangement  stems  from  a  proposal  made  by  Prof.  R.  J.  Nelson  after 
his  trip  abroad  last  spring  on  behalf  of  the  Department  and  the  University. 

While  in  Paris,  Prof.  Nelson  approached  M.  Lucien  Renaud,  an  officer  of  ORTF-TV,  about 
the  possibility  of  borrowing  a  certain  number  of  taped  TV  programs  recently  shown  in  France. 
M.  Renaud  was  auite  open  to  the  idea  but  requested  time  to  investigate  it  further  with  his  own 
colleagues. 

Upon  returning  from  Europe,  Mr.  Nelson  approached  not  only  colleagues  within  the  French 
Dept.  (S.  Gray  and  E.  Jahiel),  but  also  a  number  from  other  departments  (R.  Figge  in  German, 
J.  Flores  in  Spanish,  Stephen  Hill  in  Russian)  about  the  possibility  of  expanding  the  concept 
to  include  possible  broadcasts  of  TV  materials  from  other  foreign  language  sources.  These 
colleagues  were  auite  open  to  the  idea,  and  during  the  last  six  months  of  1970,  they  constitu- 
ted themselves  a  committee  to  explore  the  idea  with  Mr.  Robert  Boston,  Asst.  Manager  of  WILL-TV. 

The  Committee  is  happy  to  announce  now  that  Mr.  Boston  has  agreed  to  offer  us  a  bloc  of 
time  in  the  late  spring  for  the  showing  of  whatever  materials  we  can  obtain  from  various 
foreign  sources. 

Only  just  before  Christmas,  Mr.  Nelson  received  a  favorable  reply  to  his  request  from 
ORTF-TV.  M.  Renaud* s  associate,  MMe.  Maryse  Perrin,  sent  Prof.  Nelson  a  list  of  documentaries 
on  various  topics  from  which  he  might  select  those  of  most  interest  to  the  French-speaking 
community  in  the  viewing  area  of  WILT  .-TV.  After  consulting  with  Prof.  Jahiel,  a  well-known 
specialist  in  "things  filmic,"  Prof.  Nelson  asked  Mme.  Perrin  for  6  programs.  Should  the  tapes 
arrive  on  time,  we  will  be  able  to  begin  the  series  on  Tuesday,  March  23,  at  9:00  p.m. 

In  the  first  program,  Prof.  Nelson  will  introduce  the  series  and  then  turn  over  the 
French  portion  of  it  to  Prof.  Jahiel.  It  is  hoped  that  cost  and  production  factors  will  permit 
not  only  the  showing  of  materials  borrowed  from  ORTF-TV  but  also  a  short  discussion  period  led 
by  Prof.  Jahiel  and  French-speaking  guests  whom  he  will  invite  from  the  local  community  of 
students,  faculty  and  others.  Once  the  French  series  is  over,  we  trust  that  our  colleagues  in 
the  other  languages  will  have  found  material  for  broadcast  at  that  time. 

We  are  aware  that  some  people  interested  in  the  forthcoming  series  may  not  own  TV  sets. 
This  factor  concerns  the  Committee,  especially  in  the  case  of  students  in  the  various  languages 
involved.  We  therefore  reouest  that  all  teachers  announce  the  possibility  of  the  forthcoming 
series  to  their  classes  and  reouest  that  all  students  without  access  to  a  TV  set  who  wish  to 
see  the  program  reply  to  Prof.  Nelson  no  later  than  March  15.  We  will  then  prepare  a  list  of 
places  on  campus  where  the  series  can  be  seen. 

We  remind  you  to  stress  that  for  this  year  much  depends  on  the  international  mails.  It 
is  possible  that  there  will  be  too  long  a  delay  between  our  request  for  films  in  mid-January 
and  the  actual  reception  of  them  in  time  for  broadcast  beginning  in  the  time  period  assigned 
by  Mr.  Boston.  Nevertheless,  the  replies  from  students  and  your  own  expressions  of  interest 
will  be  helpful  to  the  committee  in  the  planning  for  such  a  series  in  the  years  to  come.  All 
such  replies  should  be  sent  to  Prof.  Robert  J.  Nelson,  244  Lincoln  Hall  or  231  Lincoln  Hall. 

NEW  COURSES 
The  following  new  French  courses  have  just  been  approved  by  the  Chancellor:  French  100.  Prepa- 
ratory French.  An  introduction  to  the  nature  of  language  and  its  relation  to  the  study  of 
French,  the  values  of  foreign  language  study,  the  methods  of  foreign  language  study,  as  well  as 
an  introduction  to  French  language  and  culture.  3  hours.  Effective  date:  February,  1971. 
French  295.  Major  Tutorial.  A  tutorial  taken  by  the  student  in  the  course  of  3  of  his  last  k 
semesters  of  undergraduate  study.  Students  will  read  the  works  on  a  departmental  reading  list 
with  the  guidance  of  a  tutor,  repeating  enrollment  for  a  total  of  3  hours  of  credit,  normally 
at  the  rate  f  of  1  hour  per  semester.  Prerequisite:  French  201,  211  and  213  or  their  eouiva- 
lent;  a  declared  major  in  French  and  junior  standing.  1  to  2  hours.  Date:  September,  1971. 

In  addition,  there  will  be  in  the  spring  of  1971  a  new  French  199  course  specifically 
tailored  to  the  needs  of  the  large  contingent  p  of  Architecture  students  from  the  UI  going  to 
Versailles.  This  is  an  intensive  8  hour  per  week  Introduction  to  French  and  to  French  Civili- 
zation. 


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GERKAN  NOTES  —  by  Roy  Allen 

ENROLLMENT  FOR  THE  SPRING  TERM 
The  enrollment  in  German  for  the  spring  semester  1971  represents  a  substantial  increase  over 
last  year's  total  at  this  time:  1971  -  1642  and  1970  -  1512.  The  greatest  increase  was  real- 
ized in  the  101-104  sequence  where  a  total  of  952  students  registered,  as  opposed  to  863  for 
last  spring.  Rises  in  enrollment  also  occurred  in  the  200-level  courses  (for  Advanced  Under- 
graduates) in  which  249  students  registered  (1970  -  I83),  and  in  the  300-level  courses  (for 
Advanced  Undergraduates  and  Graduates)  in  which  a  total  of  127  students  registered  (1970  -  102). 
The  only  decreases  were  recorded  in  the  400-level  courses  (Graduate  Students)  where  71  students 
enrolled  (1970  -  111),  and  in  the  400/401  sequence  (Beginning  and  Reading  German  for  Graduates) 
where  114  students  enrolled  (1970  -  132). 

FACULTY  ACTIVITIES  AND  PUBLICATIONS 
The  Department  has  the  pleasure  to  announce  that  Prof.  Jeffrey  Sammons  of  Yale  University  will 
visit  the  Dept.  at  the  UI  in  March.  Prof.  Sammons  taught  at  Brown  University  from  1961  to  1964 
before  moving  on  to  Yale  where  he  is  currently  Chairman  of  the  German  Department.  He  is  the 
author  of  articles  on  such  figures  of  German  literature  as  Goethe,  Heine,  Platen,  Freytag,  and 
of  the  books  The  Nachtwachen  von  Bonaventurai  A  Structural  Interpretation  (1962)  and  Angelus 
Silesius  (I967).  During  his  visit  at  the  UI,  Prof.  Sammons  will  meet  with  graduate  students 
of  the  department  to  discuss  "The  Problems  and  Prospects  of  Graduate  Study  in  German"  and  will 
also  be  a  guest  in  2  graduate  courses  being  offered  this  spring. 

Prof.  Elmer  Antonsen  of  this  department  has  been  elected  secretary  of  Section  German  I 
(Germanic  Philology)  of  the  MIA  convention  which  will  meet  in  New  York  in  the  winter  of  1971. 
Just  recently,  Prof.  Antonsen's  article  "Old  High  German  and  the  Laws  of  Final  Syllables" 
appeared  in  Studies  in  Linguistics. 

Prof.  James  K~rchand  spent  the  first  week  of  November  last  term  at  the  U.  of  Florida  in 
Gainesville  where  he  gave  5  lectures  on  linguistics  and  linguistic  theory.  At  the  MTA  the  fol- 
lowing month,  he  presented  a  report  on  "Computer  Aided  Research  in  the  Older  Germanic  Languages." 
At  that  same  conference  in  the  German  I  meeting,  it  was  decided  that  Prof.  Marchand  would  edit 
a  yearly  Newsletter  and  would  function  as  a  clearing-house  for  information  on  the  activities 
of  the  members  of  German  I,  particularly  work  in  progress  and  dissertations.  Numerous  reviews 
by  Prof.  Marchand  have  appeared  in  the  last  few  months  in  the  Journal  of  English  and  Germanic 
Philology. 

FRUCHTBRINGENDE  GESELLSCHAFT 
The  first  speaker  of  the  spring  series  of  the  German  Department  research  group,  the  Fruchtbrin- 
gende  Gesellschaft,  will  be  Prof.  Lathrop  Johnson  of  the  Department.  Prof.  Johnson  will  speak 
on  "A  Forgotten  Fairy  Tale  of  Herman  Hesse:  An  Analysis  of  'Iris*."  The  meeting  will  be  held 
in  the  General  Lounge  of  the  Illini  Union  on  March  10,  1971  (Wednesday*)  at  7:30  p.m. 

GERMAN  IANGUAGE  TELEPHONE  TAPES 
As  in  previous  semesters,  the  students  enrolled  in  the  101-104  seouence  in  German  will  be  able 
to  hear  the  language  tapes  which  accompany  these  courses  in  both  the  Language  Laboratory  and 
over  the  telephone.  For  German  101,  the  number  this  semester  is  333-6306  and  is  open  to  calls 
day  or  night  Tuesdays  and  Thursdays  through  Sundays.  The  telephone  service  for  German  102  is 
every  day  and  every  night  of  the  week  at  333-6304.  At  333-6306,  students  who  are  enrolled  in 
German  103  can  hear  all  day  Monday  the  stories  from  the  Laboratory  program  for  that  day  and  all 
day  Wednesday  the  grammar  exercises  from  the  Laboratory  tapes  for  that  same  day.  The  number 
for  German  104  is  333-6308:  Monday  through  Thursday  morning  stories  from  the  Laboratiry  pro- 
gram will  be  played,  and  Thursday  through  Monday  morning  the  poetry  tapes  from  the  Laboratory 
program.  The  latter  tapes  involve  very  detailed  and  informative  interpretations  of  selected 
poetry  prepared  by  Prof.  Ruth  Lorbe  of  this  Department. 

GERMAN  CLUB 
The  German  Club  on  the  UI  campus  sponsored  a  showing  on  February  11  of  the  classic  film  of 
pre-war  German  cinema,  G.  W.  Pabst's  1931  production  of  Brecht-^eill's  Die  Dreigroschenoper . 

On  March  11,  the  Club  will  sponsor  the  showing  of  another  film:  Me  and  the  Colonel,  a 
1958  American  production  of  the  play  Jacobowsky  und  der  Oberst  by  Franz  Werfel.  The  film  stars 
Danny  Kaye  as  Jacobowsky  and  Curt  Jurgens  as  the  Colonel.  The  film  will  begin  at  8:00  p.m.  in 
Gregory  Hall  and  tickets  will  cost  $1.00  ($0.50  for  Club  Members).  For  additional  information, 
please  contact  Mr.  Bill  Freyman  at  (21?)  332-5259. 


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UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS  STUDY  ABROAD  PROGRAM  IN  AUSTRIA 

(The  following  prospectus  was  prepared  by  Prof.  Rudolf  Schier, 
Director  of  the  Program) 
The  Department  of  Germanic  Languages  and  Literatures  proposes  to  sponsor  a  2  semester  study- 
program  based  at  the  Padagogische  Akademie  in  Baden,  15  miles  south  of  Vienna.  The  Akademie 
trains  future  Austrian  teachers  in  a  2  year  course;  it  has  approximately  300  students  and  18 
full-time  faculty  members.  Officials  in  the  Austrian  Ministry  of  Education  very  graciously 
have  agreed  to  admit  up  to  30  students  from  the  UI,  who  will  have  to  pay  no  tuition  or  fees 
and  will  be  able  to  live  in  government  subsidized  housing. 

At  the  Akademie,  American  notions  of  class  size  have  been  taken  as  a  model:  aside  from 
a  small  number  of  lectures  attended  by  about  a  quarter  of  the  student  body,  the  work  is  done 
in  small  seminars,  averaging  20  students.  UI  students  will  attend  regularly  scheduled  classes, 
taught  by  Austrian  professors,  along  with  Austrian  students.  A  faculty  member  from  the  Dept. 
of  Germanic  Languages  and  Literatures  will  accompany  our  students  to  advise  them  and  to  evalu- 
ate their  work;  he  will  teach  3  courses  open  to  both  American  and  Austrian  students.  A  gradu- 
ate administrative  assistant  wiU  also  accompany  the  group. 

Students  from  the  UI  will  do  at  least  half  their  work  by  taking  courses  in  language, 
literature,  education  and  civilization  at  the  Akademie.  Several  courses  will  benefit  from  the 
fact  that  the  students  at  Baden  are  preparing  to  be  teachers.  In  composition  courses,  for 
example,  each  American  student  will  form  a  team  with  an  Austrian  student  who  will  correct  and 
discuss  the  essays  with  him.  The  other  half  of  the  work  will  consist  of  electives  taken  either 
at  the  Akademie  or  at  another  institution  of  higher  learning  in  Vienna  (the  University,  the 
Academy  for  Music  and  the  Performing  Arts,  the  Academy  for  Architecture,  Sculpture  and  Painting, 
the  Academy  for  Applied  Arts,  the  Business  School,  the  School  of  Agriculture).  Upon  success- 
ful completion  of  the  program,  32  hours  of  residence  credit  will  be  applied  to  the  student's 
record  at  the  UI. 

Dean  J.  Marlowe  Slater,  in  consultation  with  the  executive  officers  of  the  departments 
involved,  has  approved  an  option  that  will  allow  students  in  the  Curriculum  Preparatory  to  the 
Teaching  of  German  to  satisfy  several  College  of  Education  reauirements  by  taking  eouivalent 
courses  at  the  Akademie.  The  program  is  currently  being  discussed  with  representatives  from 
the  College  of  Fine  and  Applied  Arts  and  the  College  of  Commerce  and  Business  Administration 
to  work  out  the  details  of  an  arrangement  whereby  students  in  these  colleges  will  be  able  to 
participate  in  the  program  and  receive  approximately  16  hours  of  credit  for  work  in  language 
and  civilization  done  in  Baden  and  16  hours  of  work  for  work  done  at  an  appropriate  institution 
in  Vienna, 

Unless  he  desires  a  single  room,  each  American  student  will  be  housed  with  an  Austrian 
roommate  in  the  new  dormitory  at  the  Akademie.  For  weekends  and  vacations,  a  program  will  be 
set  up  whereby  Austrian  students  will  invite  home  with  them  all  American  students  interested 
in  accepting  such  an  invitation.  Transatlantic  charter  flights  sponsored  by  the  Council  on 
International  Educational  Exchange  are  expected  to  be  available  to  the  group.  The  amount 
needed  to  pay  for  room  and  board  at  the  Urbana-^hampaign  campus  normally  will  cover  the  cost 
of  both  transatlantic  travel  and  room  and  board  in  Baden.  Students  will  also  pay  regular  UI 
tuition  and  off -campus  fees.  Fellowships,  loans  and  tuition  and  fee  waivers  will  be  applicable 
to  the  program. 

In  order  to  be  eligible  for  the  program,  a  student  must  be  regularly  enrolled  -  during 
the  academic  year  of  his  participation  -  at  the  UI,  Urbana-Champaign.  Arrangements  will  be 
made  to  permit  a  limited  number  of  students  from  other  institutions  to  transfer  to  the  UI  after 
having  been  accepted  into  the  program.  While  enrolled,  the  student  will  be  considered  a  resi- 
dent at  the  UI;  there  will  be  no  difficulty  in  fulfilling  any  residency  reauirements.  Students 
applying  for  the  program  should  be  able  to  demonstrate  German  language  proficiency  at  the  211- 
212  level  (202  level  for  students  at  the  Chicago  Circle  campus).  Normally,  participating 
undergraduates  will  be  expected  to  have  a  3.75  overall  average  and  a  4.0  in  German. 

Graduate  students  wishing  to  participate  in  the  program  should  apply  to  the  program  co- 
ordinator personally.  Undergraduate  students  should  use  the  official  application  blank  and 
follow  this  procedure:  1)  the  deadline  for  submitting  applications  is  Feb.  13;  2)  the  applicant 
should  submit,  together  with  his  application,  an  official  transcript  of  his  grades  through  the 
summer  school  (or  summer  quarter)  of  the  year  preceding  the  year  for  whioh  he  is  applying; 


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3)  as  soon  as  it  becomes  available  to  him,  the  applicant  should  also  submit  the  grade  report 
for  the  fall  semester  or  auarter  of  the  year  preceding  the  year  for  which  he  is  applying;  k) 
the  applicant  should  ask  2  of  his  university  instructors  to  send  brief  letters  of  recommenda- 
tion to  the  co-ordinator  of  the  study  program  and  at  least  one  of  these  letters  should  be 
from  a  faculty  member  in  the  Department  of  Germanic  Languages  and  Literatures  at  the  UI,  if 
the  applicant  has  taken  any  courses  there;  5$  dthe  applicant  should  secure  the  signature  of 
his  parent  or  guardian  on  the  statement  at  the  end  of  the  application  blank. 

For  an  application  form  and  any  further  information  on  the  study  program,  contact  the 
Program  Director,  Prof.  Rudolf  Schier,  Department  of  German,  375  Lincoln  Hall,  University  of 
Illinois,  Urbana,  Illinois  61801. 

SLAVIC  NOTES  —  by  Kenneth  Brostrom 

PUBLICATIONS 
A  recently  completed  book  by  Kiss  Temira  Pachmuss,  Zinaida  Hippius:  An  Intellectual  Profile . 
is  scheduled  for  publication  on  March  29  by  Southern  Illinois  University  Press.  This  book, 
dealing  with  one  of  the  major  feminine  figures  in  Russian  cultural  life  during  this  century, 
will  be  of  particular  interest  to  scholars,  especially  due  to  the  fact  that  Miss  Pachmuss  was 
able  to  draw  upon  the  entire  corpus  of  Hippius1  work,  including  auantities  of  unpublished 
material  —  poetry,  correspondence  and  memoirs. 

RUSSIAN  AND  EAST  EUROPEAN  CENTER 
The  Center  is  now  sponsoring  a  new  publication  entitled  Studies  in  East  European  Social  His- 
tory. Its  aim  is  to  stimulate  research  in  Central  and  Southeastern  European  area  dealing  with 
the  general  Question  of  social  development.  Articles  in  Frnch  and  German  as  well  as  English 
will  be  accepted.  Prof.  Keith  Hitchins  of  the  Department  of  History  is  editor  of  the  Studies. 

Professor  John  McKay  ,  also  of  the  Department  of  History,  is  currently  in  Paris  after 
a  month  spent  in  Moscow  where  he  was  working  with  materials  relating  to  the  nuestion  of  elec- 
trification in  urban  transport  prior  to  the  Revolution. 

SLAVIC  DEPARTMENT  NEWS  ITEMS 
Miss  Temira  Pachmuss  has  been  invited  to  deliver  a  paper  entitled  "The  Influence  of  Dostoevsky's 
Themes  on  Contemporary  World  Literature"  at  the  University  of  Windsor,  Canada,  on  March  12. 
Miss  Pachmuss  was  also  recently  elected  to  faculty  membership  in  the  scholastic  honorary  so- 
ciety, Phi  Kappa  Phi,  in  recognition  of  her  scholarly  contributions  to  the  field  of  Russian 
literature . 

Unreported  earlier  is  the  fact  that  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Nelson  are  presently  in  Moscow 
on  a  Fulbright-Hays  award.  Mr.  Nelson  is  studying  Russian  phonology  under  the  direction  of 
the  well-known  Soviet  phonologist,  R.  I.  Avanesov. 

Enrollments  in  the  Slavic  Department  classes  on  the  first  day  of  instruction  of  the 
spring  term  are  up  slightly  from  this  time  last  year. 

MISCELLANY 
The  following  is  a  list  of  up-coming  events  of  interest  to  people  concerned  with  Slavic 
studies:  Feb.  25  -  Lecture:  "Minority  Groups  in  the  Soviet  Armed  Forces"  by  Richard  E,  Moore 

(a  grad  student  in  History  who  interviewed  the  Soviet  defectors)  — 

275  IUlni  Union,  8:00  p.m. 
Feb.  28  -  Televised  opera,  Queen  of  Spades.  Chaikovsky's  adaptation  of  Pushkin's 

tale  -  in  English  -  Channel  12  in  Champaign-Urbana  at  9:00  p.m. 
Mar.  h   -  Lecture:  "Parts  of  Speech  in  18th  and  19th  Century  Linguistics"  by  Prof. 

Edward  Stankiewicz  (U.  of  Chicago)  —  103  Mumford  Hall  at  *l:00  p.m. 
Mar.  k     -  Lecture:  "Rhyming  Formulae  in  Serbo-Croatian  Epic  Poetry"  by  Prof.  Edward 

Stankiewicz  —  213  Gregory  Hall  at  8:00  p.m. 
Mar.  5  -  Music  and  Dance:  "Siberian  Singers  and  Dancers  from  Omsk"  (now  touring 

the  United  States)  —  Assembly  Hall  at  8:00  p.m. 
Mar.  18  -  Film:  "The  Terror  of  the  VII",  the  first  Soviet  horror  film,  based  on 

Nikolai  Gogol's  Ukrainian  short  story  (made  in  1968,  in  color)  ~ 

UI  Auditorium  at  8:00  p.m. 


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SPAKISH,  ITALIAN  AND  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  —  by  Felicia  G.  Sworsky 

MEETINGS 
During  the  Christmas  vacation  period,  two  meetings  of  professional  interest  were  held  3tC00 
miles  apart  on  the  West  and  East  Coasts.  The  first  of  these  was  the  AAfSP  convention  in  San 
Francisco,  attended  by  Professors  Ajithony  M.  Pasouariello,  Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo,  David  R. 
Hershberg,  and  Instructor  Ronald  R.  Young.  And  congratulations  are  in  order  for  Professor 
Fasouariello:  he  was  elected  Vice-President  of  the  Association  and  accepted  his  office  at  the 
meeting  in  San  Francisco.  Good  luck  to  him  and  best  wishes  for  a  good  year. 

The  second  meeting  was  the  Modern  Language  Association  convention  in  New  York  City. 
Those  faculty  members  attending  were  Professors  Henry  R.  Kahane,  Luis  Leal,  Robert  E.  Lott, 
Kerlin  Forster,  Thomas  C.  Keehan,  S.  W.  Baldwin,  Isaias  Lerner  (and  Mrs.  Lerner),  and  Richard 
Preto-Rodas.  Many  of  the  graduate  students  in  the  Department  also  went  to  New  York  in  their 
search  for  positions  for  the  coming  year,  and  their  thanks  to  all  the  professors  there  for 
their  help  and  advice  4re  most  iincerely  tendered  here.  Professor  Leal  seemed  to  be  one  of  t 
the  busier  people  at  the  convention,  one  of  his  major  preoccupations  being  the  Seminar  on  the 
Latin  American  Short  Story.  Professor  Kahane  read  a  paper  in  the  Linguistics  section,  and 
Professor  Porn ueras -Mayo  was  elected  to  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  Spanish  II  section, 
Golden  Age. 

PUBLICATIONS 
At  long  last,  the  University  of  Illinois  Press  has  released  Prof.  Robert  E.  Lott's  book, 
Language  and  Learning  in  Pepita  Jiminez . 

Prof.  Henry  R.  Kahane,  in  collaboration  with  RenSe  Kahane,  has  recently  published 
"Wolfram's  Gekrinzte  ritter  -  a  Provenzalism?"  in  MenSndez  Pidal  Memorial:  Romance  Philology, 
24:1,  pp.  #+-86. 

Asst.  Prof.  Martha  P.  de  Francesaato's  review  of  "'Casa  tomada'  por  Julio  Cortazar  en 
traduccion  al  disefio  grfifico  por  Juan  Fresfin"  has  just  appeared  in  Revista  Iberoamericana , 
Vol.  XXXVI,  No.  73  (octubre-diciembre  1970),  pp.  670-671. 

SPANISH,  ITALIAN  AND  PORTUGUESE:   THE  CAREER 
Elementary,  secondary,  and  some  junior  college  teaching  positions  are  open  to  Spanish  teacher- 
training  majors  as  well  as  many  of  the  possible  careers  open  to  language  majors  in  general. 
Spanish  is  the  third  most  widely  spoken  language  in  the  world;  conseouently,  it  is  one  of  the 
most  widely  taught  languages  in  American  schools.  The  demand  for  Spanish  teachers  is  good  at 
all  levels  with  average  salaries  ranging  from  $6,000  to  $12,000  depending  on  degrees  obtained 
and  experience.  Similarly,  Italian  and  Portuguese  majors  who  obtain  doctorates  will  find  a 
moderate  demand  for  college-level  teaching. 

Most  of  the  same  types  of  careers  are  open  to  Spanish,  Italian  and  Portuguese  majors  as 
to  other  language  majors  in  such  areas  as  business,  industry,  government  and  diplomatic  service, 
sales,  journalism  and  translating.  Because  of  the  United  States'  close  association  with  South 
and  Central  America,  both  economically  and  diplomatically,  Spanish  and  Portuguese  majors  will 
find  more  job  openings  in  government  agencies  and  private  industries  than  will  many  language 
majors.  In  addition,  many  students  may  find  careers  with  social  agencies  working  in  the  Span- 
ish-speaking poverty  areas  of  North  America.  Students  seeking  specialized  careers  may  find 
advanced  training  in  such  areas  as  library  science,  law,  economics,  business  administration, 
finance  or  social  work  particularly  useful.  Demand  for  graduates  with  such  combined  skills 
is  high  and  salaries  range  from  $6,000  for  a  secretarial  job  to  $2*+, 000  for  a  top  governmental 
job. 

THE  MODERN  LANGUAGE  JOURNAL:   NOTHING  TO  JOIN' 
There's  really  nothing  to  join.  Just  topics  of  interest  to  all  professional  foreign  language 
teachers...  It's  ouite  probably  the  biggest  bargain  ever  in  the  field  of  foreign  languages: 
only  $5.00  for  8  (not  a  mere  4)  issues  a  year.  Send  your  $5.00  today  to  the  Modern  Language 
Journal,  13149  Cannes  Drive,  St.  Louis,  Missouri  63141. 


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YEAR  ABROAD  PROGRAM 
The  University  of  Illinois  Year  Abroad  Program  in  Spain  has  composed  a  tentative  program  of 
courses.  The  academic  program  consists  of  five  courses,  pre-arranged,  and  without  choice, 
each  semester;  the  courses  will  be  given  by  professors  of  the  University  of  Barcelona  who 
have  been  contracted  to  teach  a  specified  number  of  hours,  with  responsibilities  of  testing, 
consulting  and  grading,  and  who  will  receive  some  guidance  from  the  Director  of  the  program 
on  the  capabilities  and  expectations  of  American  undergraduates.  Our  students  will  not  be 
following  courses  of  the  regular  University  of  Barcelona  offerings,  nor  will  they  share 
directly  the  classroom  experiences  of  their  Spanish  counterparts.  The  planners  feel  this  is 
a  necessary  compromise  in  light  of  the  following  gains:  minimum  adjustment  problems  to  a 
curriculum  in  a  European  university;  the  ability  of  the  director  to  guide  the  instruction 
there  towards  fullest  integration  into  the  University  of  Illinois  undergraduate  accredita- 
tion and  course  seauences;  the  ability  to  plan  a  student's  courses  ahead  of  time.  It  will 
be  possible,  however,  for  certain  very  well  prepared  students  to  make  an  election  from  the 
University  of  Barcelona's  regular  offerings  in  substitution  for  a  course  planned  by  the  pro- 
gram. 

The  first  semester's  reouired  five  courses  will  be:  Advanced  Syntax  and  Composition, 
Survey  of  Spanish  Literature  until  the  XVTIth  Century,  History  of  Spanish  Institutions, 
.^ovel  of  the  20th  Century,  Spanish  Art;  while  those  of  the  second  semester  will  be:  Advanced 
Syntax  and  Composition,  Survey  of  Spanish  Literature  from  the  XVIIIth  through  the  XXth  Centu- 
ries, Contemporary  Theatre,  Don  Quijote,  Spanish  Music,  and  Catalan,  which  is  voluntary. 

Some  very  well-prepared  students  may  substitute  one  of  the  courses  listed  below,  each 
semester,  for  one  of  the  courses  in  the  prescribed  seauences  listed  above.  These  courses  are 
usually  offered  each  year  for  the  regulat  University  of  Barcelona  students:  Survey  of  Spanish 
History,  Spanish  and  World  Geography,  Fundamentals  of  Philosophy,  Spanish  Grammar,  General 
Linguistics. 

The  estimated  cost  for  each  student  participating  in  the  program  is  as  follows: 

1.  Transportation  (one-way  New  York-Madrid-Barcelona $125 

The  amount  of  $125  one-way  is  for  transportation  on  an  Instituto  de  Cultura  charter 
flight  to  Madrid  plus  transportation  from  Madrid  to  BArcelona.  The  return  trip  is  to  be 
arranged  by  the  student.  Reduced  fares  are  available  through  the  Instituto,  and  the  stu- 
dent is  to  be  informed  that  this  will  add  about  $125  to  his  total  costs.  This  method  of 
handling  plane  fares  and  return  reservations  is  very  jm   practical  because  not  all  students 
return  at  the  same  time  or  from  the  same  place. 

2.  Housing  and  Meals $1,000 

The  cost  of  housing  and  meals  is  for  the  entire  nine  months,  one  in  Madrid  and  aight  in 
Barcelona. 

3 .  Excursions  $100 

These  will  be  integrated  with  the  instructional  program  so  as  to  take  advantage  of  the 
local  setting  and  give  real  meaning  to  the  whole  concept  of  study  abroad. 

k.     Contingency  Fund $75 

To  be  used  to  pay  for  any  emergencies  which  may  occur. 
Total  costs,  then,  amount  to  $1,300,  in  addition  to  which  the  student  will  pay  resident  or 
non-resident  tuition,  return  trip  fare,  and  incidental  expenses  such  as  laundry,  books,  in- 
surance, etc.  Each  student  will  pay  the  $1,300  plus  tuition  and  fees  to  the  University  of 
Illinois.  It  makes  disbursements  to  the  director's  account  in  Barcelona.  The  student  will 
not  pay  into  the  program  the  estimated  $125  for  his  return  air  fare,  but  he  will  be  informed 
that  it  is  his  responsibility  to  make  his  own  arrangements.  The  director  will  help  students 
with  arrangements  with  the  Instituto  de  Cultura,  if  they  so  desire. 

The  University  of  Illinois  Modern  Foreign  Language  Newsletter  is  published  jointly  by  the 
modern  language  departments  of  the  UI,  under  the  direction  of  the  Head  of  the  Department  of 
Spanish,  Italian  and  Portuguese.  Editorial  Offices  are  located  in  Apt.  9,  506  S.  Matthews, 
Urbana,  111.,  telephone  (217)  333-3536.  The  Newsletter  is  available  without  charge  to  all 
interested  persons  in  Illinois  and  other  areas.  All  communications  by  mail  should  be  addres- 
sed to:  The  Editor,  Modern  Foreign  Language  Newsletter,  Z2M-   Lincoln  Hall,  Urbana,  111.  61801. 


MODERN  tANGUAGfc 
LIBRARY 

THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS  MODERN  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  NEWSLETTER 

March,  1971  Director:   Prof.  A.  M.  Pasouariello 

Vol.  XXIV,  No.  6  Editor:  Felicia  G.  Sworsky 

STATEMENT  ON  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  INSTRUCTION 

Cur  technological  advances  make  it  imperative  that  we  learn  to  communicate  successfully  with 
peoples  of  other  lands  —  and  through  their  native  languages.  The  society  of  tomorrow  will 
be  a  multilingual  society,  and  our  children  must  be  prepared  to  meet  the  challenges  of  that 
society.  Therefore,  California's  public  school  children  should  be  encouraged  to  study  a  for- 
eign language  over  a  long  enough  period  of  time  so  that  they  develop  proficiency  in  that  lan- 
guage. School  districts  must  establish  well -articulated,  sequentially  developed  foreign  lan- 
guage programs  that  will  enable  children  to  achieve  this  desired  mastery  of  language.  The 
responsibilities  of  all  agencies  of  public  education  as  they  relate  to  foreign  language  in- 
struction in  California  should  be  the  same  as  they  are  for  other  subjects  in  the  curriculum. 
The  same  careful  attention  must  be  given  to  the  quality  of  foreign  language  instruction  that 
is  given  to  all  other  areas  of  instruction.  It  is  time  that  foreign  languages  take  their 
rightful  place  among  the  various  disciplines  within  the  curriculum.  The  feeling  that  foreign 
language  instruction  is  an  esoteric  frill  or  that  instruction  in  foreign  language  should  be 
provided  only  for  an  elite  few  can  no  longer  be  tolerated. 

Py  enacting  legislation  in  the  area  of  foreign  language*,  the  California  legislature 
showed  public  awareness  of  the  importance  of  foreign  language  teaching  in  our  public  schools. 
In  terms  of  the  legislation  passed,  administrators  and  school  boards  might  be  asked  these 
questions :  How  have  you  encouraged  the  establishment  of  programs  in  the  elementary  grades? 
'.That   types  of  foreign  language  courses  are  you  offering  at  the  7th  and  8th  grade  levels? 
Are  you  adhering  to  the  spirit  as  well  as  the  letter  of  the  law?  Are   you  including  in  your 
program  planning  accountability  of  student  performance?  Careful  consideration  must  be  given 
3  prerequisites  to  good  instruction:   (1)  competent  teachers;  (2)  appropriate  materials;  and 
(3)  provision  for  continuity  of  the  program. 

California  is  in  an  excellent  position  to  produce  a  bilingual  citizenry  because  of  her 
large  population  of  minority  groups  with  foreign  language  backgrounds:  Chinese,  Filipino, 
Italian,  Japanese,  Portuguese,  and  Spanish  to  name  a  few.  However,  bilingual  educational 
opportunities  should  be  afforded  all  children.  Those  whose  native  language  is  other  than 
English  should  be  provided  instruction  to  maintain  and  improve  their  native  language  proficiency 
at  the  same  time  that  they  are  given  instruction  in  English,  and  English-speaking  students 
should  be  given  the  opportunity  to  become  bilingual,  for  instruction  in  a  foreign  language  is 
imperative  for  them,  too. 

The  choice  of  the  language  or  languages  to  be  taught  is  at  the  discretion  of  the  school 
district.  In  making  such  decisions,  however,  it  is  well  to  consider  the  language  background 
of  the  persons  in  a  given  community.  Opportunities  to  enrich  the  school  environment  and  to 
utilize  appropriate  community  resources  should  not  be  overlooked  in  foreign  language  teaching 
and  learning.  Consideration  should  be  given  to  the  initiation  of  programs  in  the  so-called 
"exotic"  languages  of  the  world,  such  as  Arabic,  Hebrew,  and  Hindi.  Some  districts  might 
wish  to  explore  the  feasibility  of  establishing  a  program  in  the  language  of  one  of  the  emer- 
ging African  nations. 

Only  by  a  sound  program  of  foreign  language  instruction  with  insight  in  cultures,  can  we 
eliminate  the  intellectual  provincialism  of  American  life  and  move  from  a  predominately  mono- 
lingual to  a  multilingual  society. 

by    Wilson  Riles, 

California  State  Superintendent 
of  Public  Instruction 
♦Education  Code.  Section  8552,  states,  "It  is  the  intent  and  purpose  of  the  Legislature  to 
encourage  the  establishment  of  programs  of  instruction  in  foreign  language  with  instruction 
beginning  as  early  as  feasible  for  each  school  district."  Section  8571  makes  clear  the  Legis- 
lature^ intent  re:  upper  grades:   "The  adopted  course  of  study  for  grades  7  through  12  shall 
offer  courses  in  ...(c)  Foreign  language  or  languages,  beginning  not  later  than  grade  7,  de- 
signed to  develop  a  facility  for  understanding,  speaking,  reading  and  writing  the  particular 
language." 


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AAT GROUPS 

a  member  of  your  -4AT group?  Support  the  national  and  state  associations  dedicated 

language  you  are  teaching. 

S:  The  Classical  Association  of  the  Middle  West  and  South  -  $3.00  per  year 
Professional  Journal:  The  Classical  Journal 
Secretary-Treasurer:   Dr.  Galen  0.  Rowe 

c/o  The  Association 
University  of  Iowa 
Iowa  City,  Iowa  52240 
The  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  French  (AATF)  -  $8.00  per  year 


Professional  Journal: 
Secretary-Treasurer: 


The  French  Review 


Dr.  Francis  W.  Nachtmann 

c/o  AATF 

59  East  Armory  Avenue 

Champaign,  Illinois  61820 
GERMAN :    The  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  German  (AATG) 
Professional  Journal:  The  German  Quarterly 
Secretary-Treasurer:   Dr.  Theodore  G,  Gish 

c/o  AATG 

University  of  Houston 

Houston,  Texas  77004 
ITALIAN:   The  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  Italian  (AA.TI) 
Professional  Journal:  Italia 
Secretary-Treasurer:   Dr.  Joseph  Laggini 

c/o  AATI 

Rutgers  University 

New  Brunswick,  N.J.  08903 
RUSSIAN:   The  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  Slavic  and  East  European  Languages  (AAT5EEL) 
Professional  Journal:  Slavic  and  Eastern  European  Review 
Secretary-Treasurer:   Dr.  Irwin  Weil 

c/o  AATSEEL 

Northwestern  University 

Evanston,  Illinois  60201 
SPANISH:   The  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  Spanish  and  Portuguese  (AAT3P)  -  $8.00  year 
Professional  Journal:  Hispania 
Secretary-Treasurer:   Dr.  Eugene  Savaiano 

c/o  AATSP 

Wichita  State  University 

Wichita,  Kansas  67208 

PAN  AMERICAN  COUNCIL  OF  CHICAGO 
In  honor  of  Pan  American  Week,  the  Chicago  Pan  American  Council  will  present  the  20th  Anniver- 
sary Film  Festival  on  Saturday,  April  17.  The  program  will  include  35  rom  films  from  Spain, 
Portugal,  Mexico  and  South  America,  to  be  shown  from  2:00  to  11:00  pm  in  Thome  Hall,  Superior 
and  Lake  Shore  Drive.  A  contribution  to  the  Pan  American  Scholarship  Fund  will  enable  one  to 
see  all  of  these  films.  Series  tickets  at  4.00  each  will  be  available  at  the  box  office  and 
also  by  mail  from  the  Pan  American  Council,  Box  1233»  Chicago,  111.  60690, 

TRANSLATORS  AND  INTERPRETERS 
Certificate  programs  in  translation  and  interpretation  are  available  at  the  Monterey  Institute 
of  Foreign  Studies,  P.e.  Box  1973,  Monterey,  California  93940.  Dr.  Elizabeth  Trahan  is  the 
Chairman  of  the  Department. 


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CCMING  UP  SOON 
1 pril  15  -  17     Central  States  Conference  on  the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Languages 
Detroit,  Michigan  (Sheraton-Cadillac  Hotel) 

•^pril  22  -  2k  Kentucky  Foreign  Language  Conference 

Lexington,  Kentucky  (U,  of  Kentucky) 

April  23  -  2h  Conference  on  Phonology 

Urbana,  Illinois  (University  of  Illinois) 

LANGUAGE  VILLAGES 
The  Concordia  College  (Moorhead,  Minn.)  International  Language  Villages  have  become  well  known 
throughout  the  United  States  for  their  excellent  language  instruction  as  well  as  for  the  rua- 
lity  of  the  camping  program. 

Last  year  more  than  1,000  youngsters  from  35  states  and  Canada  between  the  ages  of  9  and 
1?  applied  for  and  received  special  "passports"  to  attend  language  villages  in  Spanish,  French, 
Norwegian,  Russian  and  German.  During  the  summerof  1970,  15  camp  sessions  were  held  in  5  lo- 
cations on  the  shores  of  beautiful  Minnesota  lakes  and  at  a  dude  ranch  in  Montana.  The  1971 
program  offers  20  different  sessions  in  5  languages  at  5  locations  in  Minnesota  and  Montana. 

The  village  concept  immerses  the  campers  in  a  foreign  language  and  cultural  environment 
much  like  that  which  they  would  encounter  abroad,  making  learning  both  easy  and  enjoyable. 
To  add  to  the  realism  of  this  international  village  environment,  the  campers  are  issued  special 
passports  upon  acceptance  as  campers.  When  they  arrive  at  the  camp,  their  "new  country," 
they  must  go  through  "customs"  and  convert  their  money  into  the  currency  of  the  new  country 
before  doing  business  at  the  canteen  which  deals  in  imported  candy,  gifts  and  souvenirs. 

Until  the  campers  leave  their  new-found  country,  they  are  surrounded  by  the  sights  and 
sounds  of  the  culture.  After  the  first  day,  campers  are  encouraged  to  use  the  foreign  lan- 
guage in  their  ■  various  activities  including  swimming,  music,  crafts,  folk  dancing,  art,  drama, 
riding  and  other  activities  usually  associated  with  camping. 

Vernon  P.  Mauri tsen,  director  of  the  program,  sees  the  entire  camp  "as  an  extension  of 
the  classroom  where  the  foreign  language  is  spoken  in  all  activities."  Even  the  menus  come  in 
the  new  language.  "Culture  is  communication,"  says  Mauri tsen.  For  further  information,  con- 
tact him  c/o  International  Language  Villages,  Concordia  College,  Moorhead  Minnesota. 

LIBRARY  NOTES  —  by  Carl  Parmenter 

STAFF 
The  Modern  Language  Library  can  no  longer  avail  itself  of  the  excellent  services  of  Mrs.  ^usan 
Ffister,  the  graduate  assistant  formerly  assigned  to  this  department.  Mrs.  Ffister,  known  es- 
pecially to  those  who  worked  with  the  building  collection  here  at  UI,  graduated  in  February 
and  has  been  appointed  to  a  full-time  academic  position  in  the  Education  and  Social  Sciences 
Library.  All  those  who  have  known  and  worked  with  Mrs.  Pfister  (known  to  other,  older  associ- 
ates as  Susan  Selby  during  her  undergraduate,  student  assistant  days  in  ^25)  will  appreciate 
what  a  loss  this  is. 

Mrs.  Elsa  Roy,  a  new  graduate  student  in  Library  Science,  has  been  appointed  to  the  vaca- 
ted assistantshio.  Mrs.  Roy  came  to  the  United  States  in  1959.   Her  late  husband,  Sharat  K.  Roj 
was  the  chief  curator  of  the  Department  of  Geology  at  the  Field  Museum  in  Chicago.  A  native  of 
Switzerland,  Mrs.  Roy  had  traveled  extensively  before  moving  to  Chicago.   The  then  came  to  UI   ' 
and  has  earned,  since  then,  both  a  B.A.  in  Anthropology  and  an  M.S.  in  Geography  here,   because 
of  her  language  background  and  her  long  personal  acquaintance  with  UI,  Elsa  should  prove  a  most 
welcome  as  well  as  a  most  interesting  addition  to  our  staff. 

HOURS 
The  new  hours  for  the  Modern  Language  Library  have  not,  apparently,  inconvenienced  so  great  a 
number  of  individuals  as  was  originally  feared  —  at  least,  not  after  the  first  time,   embold- 
ened by  this  success  (?),  I  have  revised  our  vacation  schedule  for  the  spring  vacation  period, 
but  —  wonder  of  wonders  ~  towards  an  increase  in  hours  open  rather  than  a  decrease.   >ince, 
unlike  librarians,  students  and  faculty  look  forward  to  vacation  periods  with  an  eye  to  having 


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large  blocks  of  time  free  for  reading  and  research,  and  since  so  many  people  have  complained 

that  they  can  pet  little  done  when  we  open  for  2  hours  in  the  morning  and  another  2  hours  in     ^;It\ 

the  afternoon,  the  following  schedule  will  be  in  effect: 

Saturday,  April  3  9: CO  am  -  12  noon 

Saturday,  April  10  closed 

Sunday,  April  4   closed 

Sunday,  April  11  closed 

Monday  -  Friday,  April  5-9 9:00  am  -  12  noon;  1:00  pm  -  4:00  pm 

Hopefully,  the  use  of  the  library  during  this  period  will  warrant  the  departure  from  the  time- 
honored  schedule  mentioned  above , 

COLLECTION 
The  "Easy  Reading,"  "Grammar"  and  "Conversation"  books  are  no  longer  maintained  as  separate 
collections.  Ey  shifting  items  within  our  book  stacks,  space  was  found  to  shelve  the  majority 
of  these  works  in  ordinary  call-number  sequence.  The  area  along  the  inner  corridor  where  those 
collections  were  shelved  since  September  now  houses  the  "Browsing"  collection.  The  old  "Erow- 
sing"  area  will  allow  us  to  expand  our  Bibliography  section  as  well  as  to  allot  another  case  to 
the  New  Book  Shelves.  Work  is  likewise  progressing  in  the  evolution  of  the  General  Reserve  in- 
to a  Reference  collection.  This  transition  should  be  effected  by  the  end  of  the  summer  session 

A  new  review  worthy  of  note  has  finally  reached  our  shelves.  Poetinue ;  revue  de  thSorie 
et  d' analyse  littSraires  appeared  in  1970;  the  first  four  issues  are  now  here  and  may  be  used 
in  the  Modern  language  Library  during  library  hours.  We  shall  not  send  the  volume  to  be  bound 
until  June  so  that  all  may  have  a  chance  to  use  it.  Call  number:   809.05/POET. 

h   new  permanent  collection  of  cinema  materials  is  being  gathered  under  the  guidance  of 
Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel  of  the  French  Department.  To  begin  with,  many  of  the  materials  will  be  those 
in  French  since  these  are  not  being  used  in  other  cinema  courses  and,  as  a  conseauence,  are  a- 
vailable  to  us.  It  is  hoped  that  materials  in  other  languages  will  be  added  as  soon  as  copies 
can  be  obtained.  To  insure  the  maintenance  of  this  collection,  shelves  have  been  made  available 
in  my  office,  425-C,  to  house  these  materials.  The  same  restricted  entry  to  this  area  will  be 
maintained,  although,  hopefully,  we  can  soon  work  out  some  arrangement  which  would  allow  for 
browsing  among  these  books. 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES  —  by  Barbara  Smalley 

PUBLICATIONS 
The  University  of  Illinois  Press  has  just  published  The  Ibero-American  Enlightenment .  edited 
by  A.  Owen  Aldridge.  This  collection  of  fourteen  essays  in  the  history  of  ideas  grew  out  of  a 
conference  held  on  the  Urbana  campus  in  May,  1969.  Other  University  of  Illinois  faculty  mem- 
bers who  have  contributed  in  addition  to  the  editor  are  Luis  Leal  and  Isalas  Lerner.  The  book 
has  been  selected  by  the  MIA  for  its  Scholar's  Library. 

FRENCH  NOTES  —  by  Edwin  Jahiel 

DEPARTMENTAL  ACTIVITIES 
The  Cenacle's  February  18  meeting,  at  Mrs.  Huguette  Cohen's  house,  and  as  usual  arranged  and 
led  by  Prof.  Barbara  Bowen,  dealt  with  "L'Ancien  roman." 

Prof.  R.  J.  Nelson  gave  a  lecture  on  19  February  at  the  UI  Chicago  Circle  campus  on 
"Dreams  of  Glory,  Dreams  of  Repose:   French  Literature  of  the  Seventeenth  Century." 

The  now  established  program  whereby  French  newscasts  are  recorded  by  the  Department's 
short-wave  radio  (Mr.  Brasseur  in  charge)  and  placed  daily  on  tapes  accessible  to  the  general 
public  via  a  telephone  call  (333-6301)  is  proving  most  popular.  Last  semester,  the  number  was 
called  8,000  times.  Some  instructors  are  combining  this  service  with  a  transcript  of  some  news 
which  their  students  can  use  as  a 'score 'while  liste  ning  to  the  telephone. 

Prof.  F.  W,  Nachtmann  seems  to  have  found  time  from  his  double  AATF  and  French  Dept.  duties 
to  organize  a  French  Choral  Group  open  to  students  and  faculty  alike.  He  is  assisted  by  Miss 
Glenda  Brown.  Their  first  concert  will  be  announced  in  these  pages. 

Mme.  Colette  StourdzS,  the  Executive  Secretary  of  the  FSdSration  Internationale  des  Pro- 
fesseurs  de  Francais  (FIPF)  visited  this  campus  on  February  24-25,  specifically  the  headnuarters 
of  the  AATF  which  is  the  largest  of  the  30  national  organizations  of  teachers  of  French  affili- 
ated with  the  FIPF.  Mme.  StourdzS  is  also  the  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Association  Francaise 
des  Professeurs  and  a  member  of  the  staff  of  the  Centre  des  Etudes  Pedagogioues  at  Sevres. 

Two  colleagues  are  on  the  program  of  the  forthcoming  (April  22-24)  Kentucky  Foreign  Lan- 


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guage  Conference:   Prof.  Barbara  Bowen  on  "  'Nothing'  in  French  Renaissance  Literature"  (that's 
right')  and  Prof.  Vincent  Bowen  on  "Techniques  of  Fiction  in  Some  of  Diderot's  Non-Fictional 
Writings." 

French  at  Illinois  is  the  name  of  a  new  fund  established  with  the  co-operation  of  the  UI 
Foundation.  Contributions  can  be  made  to  this  fund  to  enable  the  French  Department  to  further 
its  extra-curricular  programs,  and  for  such  purposes  as  fellowships  and  grants  to  deserving 
students.  Contributions  are  tax  deductible,  and  will  be  gratefully  received  and  put  to  good 
use. 

STAFF  PUBLICATIONS 
Professor  Yves  Velan  is  the  author  of  the  novel  <Je  which  had  received  the  Prix  FSneon  as  well 
as  the  Prix  de  Mai.  Je  has  now  been  republished  in  the  new  collection  "Le  Livre  du  Mois"  as 
their  November  1970  selection.  In  addition,  in  the  current  issue  of  "Tri-Ouarterly  Review" 
(winter  1971,  pp.  328-343),  there  appears  an  excerpt  from  the  novel  accompanied  by  a  new, 
hitherto  unpublished  introduction  by  the  author  himself.  Both  the  introduction  and  the  selec- 
tion were  translated  by  Prof.  Stanley  Gray  of  our  Department. 

In  "La  Revue  de  l'Aupelf"  for  Autumn  1970,  there  appears  "Un  Programme  moderne  d'ltudes 
francaises"  by  our  colleague  Prof.  R.  J.  Nelson.  This  is  a  French  version  of  the  article  in 
English:   "A  Modern  Curriculum  in  French  Studies"  in  French  Language  Education:  The  Teaching 
of  Culture  in  the  Classroom,  ed.  Charles  Jay  and  Pat  Castle  (Springfield:  Department  of  Public 
Instruction  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  1971),  PP.  64-74. 

NEW  COURSES 
The  Department  is  constantly  upgrading  and  improving  its  offerings.  Three  courses  may  be  of 
special  interest  to  our  readers,   (1)  French  199  for  students  in  Architecture,  which  is  designed 
for  the  50  or  so  students  from  the  UI  who  will  spend  a  year  abroad,  at  Versailles  in  particular 
and  generally  in  France.  The  new  course  is  intensive,  consisting  of  several   sections  each 
meeting  8  hours  a  week  and  taught  by  a  selected  staff  of  experienced  native  speakers.  In  addi- 
tion, another  2  hour  period  is  reserved  for  cultural  events,  French  feature  films,  slide  pro- 
grams, etc.  The  students  use  a  main  textbook  (by  Mainous),  the  combination  workbook  and  lab 
manual  by  Mainous  &  Nolan,  the  latest  Harris  and  Leveoue  Reader;  they  also  use  the  Language 
Laboratory  in  3  ways:  they  can  do  the  exercises  of  the  Lab  manual  via  telephone  (around  the 
clock),  they  can  reouest  on  another  telephone  line  a  wide  variety  of  taped  materials,  or  they 
can  use  any  of  the  programs  in  person,  at  the  Lab. 

(2)  French  218,  "Conversation  Dirigee,"  was  created  by  student  reauest  as  an  extension  to 
the  hitherto  most  advanced  oral  course,  the  intensive  (8  hrs.  weekly)  French  217.  218  is  an 
elective  for  French  majors,  and  not  as  intensive  as  217,  but  it  will  give  many  a  major,  espe- 
cially those  about  to  do  their  student  practice-teaching  stint,  additional  fluency,  accuracy, 
and  familiarity  with  things  French  as  well  as  a  greater  sense  of  security  when  they  are  facing 
their  very  first  students. 

(3)  French  446,  a  graduate  course  on  Research  Methods,  has  been  completely  revised  under 
the  co-ordination  of  Prof.  R.  J.  Nelson.  Henceforth  students  will  work  under  the  guidance  of 
various  scholars  in  the  Department  with  each  teacher  presenting  approaches  to  research  in  his 
own  area.  This  semester  the  students  will  work  with  4  teachers,  one  per  month:   Professors 
Vincent  Bowen,  P.  Kolb,  R.  J.  Nelson,  and  C.  A.  Knudson. 

BUREAU  DE  CORRES PON DANCE  SCO  LA  IRE 
The  Bureau  de  Correspondance  Scolaire,  which  operates  from  the  headquarters  of  the  AATF  and 
every  year  distributes  thousands  of  names  of  French  and  American  students  seeking  correspondents, 
reports  that  it  has  on  hand  a  surplus  of  names  of  younger  French  boys  and  older  French  girls 
and  would  welcome  more  orders  in  these  categories.  The  French  beys  are  age  13  and  want  to 
write  to  boys.  The  girls  are  ages  18-20;  some  want  to  write  to  American  girls,  others  to  Ame- 
rican boys. 

The  Bureau  has  also  recently  received  from  the  Congo  the  names  of  African  boys,  ages  20- 
22,  who  wish  to  correspond  in  French  with  Americans.  It  has  likewise  the  names  of  some  stu- 
dents of  highschool  age  in  Togoland,  Africa,  who  want  American  correspondents.  Reouests  for 
further  information  and  for  the  necessary  order  forms  should  be  addressed  to  Prof.  F.  W. 
Nachtmann,  Director,  Bureau  de  Correspondance  Scolaire,  AATF,  59  E,  Armory  Avenue,  Champaign, 
111.  61820. 


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PROUST  CENTENNIAL  COMMEMORATION  ON  THE  URBaKA  CAMPUS 
We  are  listing  the  program,  albeit  preliminary,  in  order  to  give  sufficient  advance  notice 
to  our  readers:  Wednesday,  May  5  -  4;  00  pm  -  Proust  and  Giotto,  by  J.  Theodore  Johnson,  Jr. 

(lecture  illustrated  with  slides) 
8:00  pm  -  Illiers  or  Ver  Meer?,  by  Germaine  ErSe 
(lecture  illustrated  with  slides) 
Thursday,  May  6  -  if-: 00  pm  -  Proust  and  Music,  by  J.  K.  Cocking 

(lecture  illustrated  with  taped  music) 
8:00  pm  -  Lecture  on  Proust,  by  Michel  Raimond 
(in  French) 
Friday,  May  7    -  2:00  pm  -  Showing  of  films  and  slides 

(provided  by  the  French  Embassy) 
4:00  pm  -  Lecture  on  Proust,  by  R.  A.  Sayce 
8:00  pm  -  Panel  discussion  on  Proust  Studies 
(Moderator  is  Henri  Peyre) 
All  the  above  events  are  scheduled  in  Bevier  Hall.  In  the  University  Library  Rare  Eook  Room: 
an  Exhibition  of  Proust  manuscripts  and  first  editions,  etc.  and  on  the  Main  Floor,  North-South, 
an  Exhibition  of  photographs,  posters,  etc.,  courtesy  of  the  French  Embassy.  Also,  in  Krannert 
Museum  there  will  be  an  Exposition  on  "la  Belle  Epoaue." 

For  a  definitive  program  with  details  of  the  meeting,  please  write  to  Mr.  Elmer  F.  Edwards, 
116-B  Illini  Hall,  Champaign,  Illinois  61820. 

AATF 
The  Spring  meeting  of  the  Downstate  Chapter  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  French 
will  take  place  Saturday,  April  24,  1971t  at  the  Ramada  Inn,  Peoria.  The  morning  session  will 
be  devoted  to  2  panel  discussions  on  (1)  Para-curricular  support  of  training  in  French  language 
and  Culture  and  (2)  M.A.  or  M.A.T,  and  other  Graduate  Programs  as  preparations  for  careers  in 
teaching  French.  The  afternoon  sessions  will  be  devoted  to  a  talk  on  a  literary  topic  by  Dr. 
Marie  Southworth  of  Eastern  Illinois  University.  Those  interested  in  further  details  should 
contact  Chapter  President  Frank  Gunderson  at  Southern  Illinois  University,  Carbondale. 

The  Keadouarters  of  the  AATF,  located  here  on  the  UI  campus,  runs  the  only  Placement  Bu- 
reau in  the  country  exclusively  for  teachers  of  French.  The  Bureau  reports  that  it  is  carrying 
just  as  many  vacancies  as  last  year,  but  that  the  number  of  candidates  is  increased  by  about 
50$,  listings  tend  to  be  chiefly  from  university  and  colleges  and  private  secondary  schools. 
The  Bureau  would  welcome  more  vacancy  listings  from  the  French  Departments  of  junior  colleges 
and  public  high  schools.  There  is  no  charge  to  institutions  for  this  service. 

Teachers  registering  with  the  Placement  Bureau  pay  $7.50  if  they  wish  only  the  monthly 
listing  of  vacancies,  $15.00  if  they  wish  the  Eureau  also  to  forward  dossiers  for  them.  Re- 
gistrants must  be  members  of  AATF  or  must  join  when  registering.  Any  teacher  desiring  infor- 
mation, or  any  institution  wishing  to  list  an  opening  for  a  French  teacher,  should  write  to 
Prof.  F.  W.  Nachtmann,  Director,  Placement  Bureau  AATF,  59  E.  Armory,  Champaign,  111.  61820. 

WELCOME  TO  PROF.  RIVERS 
Vie  have  the  honor  of  announcing  that  Dr.  Wilga  Rivers  has  become  a  member  of  the  faculty  of  the 
Department  of  French  in  February  with  the  rank  of  Professor.  Dr.  Rivers  is  well  known  in  the 
fields  of  language  teaching  methodology,  applied  linguistics,  and  in  the  teaching  of  English 
to  speakers  of  other  languages.  A  native  of  Australia,  she  has  her  E.  A.  and  K.A,  from  the 
University  of  Melbourne,  the  Licence  "es  Lettres  from  the  Universities  of  lille  and  Montpellier, 
and  the  Ph.D.  in  Education  from  the  UI.  She  has  taught  at  the  lycSe  de  Jeunes  Filles  at  Douai, 
the  Ecole  Kormale  des  Institutrices  at  Montpellier,  in  secondary  schools  in  Australia  and  Eng- 
land, and  at  Northern  Illinois  U.  She  was  most  recently  on  the  faculty  of  Monash  University 
in  Australia  and  a  Visiting  Professor  at  Columbia  University  Teachers  College.  Dr.  Rivers  is 
the  author  of  the  widely  known  book,  The  Psychologist  and  the  Foreign  Language  Teacher  (U,  of 
Chicago  Press,  1964)  which  had  its  7th  printing  in  1970  and  which  has  been  translated  into 
various  languages.  Her  second  book,  Teaching  Foreign  Language  Skills  (U.  of  Chicago  Press, 
1968)  is  now  in  its  3rd  printing  and  was  selected  by  the  Pi  Lambda  Theta  Educational  Honorary 
Society  as  among  the  outstanding  education  books  published  in  1968.  She  is  the  author  of  nu- 
merous articles  and  has  given  many  talks  before  such  groups  such  as  the  UNESCO  Seminar  on 
Bilingualism  in  Canada,  the  International  Congress  of  Applied  Linguistics  in  Cambridge,  England, 


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the  Georgetown  Roundtable  on  Linguistics  and  language  Study,  and  has  given  seminars  at  various 
universities  in  the  United  States,  England,  the  Phillippines,  Canada,  Australia  and  New  Zea- 
land. In  January  of  this  year,  just  before  beginning  her  duties  at  the  UI,  Dr.  Rivers  traveled 
to  Bangkok,  Thailand,  at  the  invitation  of  the  Rockefeller  Foundation  and  the  University  of 
Fittsburgh,  to  evaluate  their  program  in  the  teaching  of  English  as  a  second  language.  Cn 
Parch  6,  she  spoke  at  the  National  Convention  of  TESOL  (Teaching  of  English  to  Speakers  of 
Other  Languages)  in  New  Orleans,  At  the  UI,  Dr.  Rivers  will  be  the  co-ordinator  for  elemen- 
tary and  intermediate  language  instruction,  and  will  play  an  important  part  in  the  teacher 
education  and  language  teaching  programs  of  the  French  Department  at  both  the  undergraduate 
and  graduate  levels.  We  are  pleased  to  welcome  Dr.  Rivers  to  our  campus,  and  happy  to  announce 
that  she  will  participate  in  the  School  and  University  Foreign  Language  Articulation  Conference 
here  next  Fall. 

GERMANIC  NOTES  —  by  Roy  Allen 

NEW  COURSES  IN  THE  FALL 
Beginning  in  tho  Fall,  1971,  the  German  Department  will  offer  several  new  courses  on  a  repular 
basis  on  the  10C-,  200-  and  300-levels.  In  addition  to  the  traditional  sections  of  1C2  and 
1C3  (Beginning  and  Intermediate  German),  special  sections  will  be  open  each  semester  to  the 
student's  option  which  will  emphasize  readings  in  non-fiction  taken  from  the  writings  of  such 
authors  es  Sigmund  Freud,  Friedrich  Nietzsche  and  Karl  Marx.  German  202.  Society  in  the 
Novel  is  the  title  of  a  new  course  of  readings  in  translation  which  will  include,  for  example, 
Giinter  Grass1  Tin  Drum.  Thomas  Mann's  Doctor  Faustus  and  Herman  Hesse's  Steppenwolf .   Two  more 
courses  involving  readings  in  translation  will  also  be  inaugurated  in  the  Fall:  203.  Goethe's 
Fictional  and  Scientific  Writings;  204.  Medieval  Literature  (Nibelungenlied.  Parzival.  Tristan 
und  Isolde,  etc.).  35L.  German  Abroad  I  will  provide  credit  for  the  first  semester  of  the 
new  study  program  in  Austria  (cf.  last  issue  of  Newsletter). 

PROFESSIONAL  ACTIVITIES  OF  THE  FACULTY 
A  full-length  study  of  the  songs  and  rhymes  of  German  children  by  Prof.  Ruth  Lorbe  has  just 
been  published  by  the  Verlag  Julius  Eeltz  (Weinheim,  Berlin,  Basel).   The  volume  is  entitled 
Die  elt  des  Kinderliedes.   Dargestellt  an  Liedern  und  Reimen  aus  Numberg. 

Prof.  Ernst  Philippson's  "Habilitationsschrift"  Germnaisches  Heidentum  bei  den  Angelsachsen 
was  originally  published  in  1929  as  volume  k   of  the  Koine r  Anglistische  Arbeiten.   It  has  been 
selected  for  reprinting  by  the  Johnson  Reprint  Corporation  of  New  York. 

Prof.  Irmengard  Rauch  recently  spoke  before  the  Linguistics  Club  of  the  University  of 
Illinois.  The  subject  of  her  talk  was  "Evolution  in  the  Germanic  Verb." 

FRUCHTBRLNGENDE  GESELLSCHAFT 
Cn  Wednesday,  March  10,  the  festured  speaker  at  the  first  gathering  of  the  Fruchbringende  Ge- 
sellschaft  was  Professor  Lathrop  Johnson.   Prof.  Johnson  spoke  on  "A  Forgotten  Fairy  Tale  of 
Hermann  Kesse:  An  Analysis  of  'Iris'"] 

The  next  meeting  of  the  research  group  will  take  place  on  April  15  at  7:00  pni  in  the 
Faculty  Lounge  of  the  Illini  Union.  The  featured  speaker  will  be  Professor  Herbert  Knust, 
who  will  talk  on  "Brechts  Dialektik  vom  Fressen  und  der  Moral." 

AATG  SPRING  MEETING 
Professor  U.  Henry  Gerlach  of  the  Department  reports:   "The  American  Association  of  Teachers 
of  German,  "outhern  Illinois  Chapter,  will  hold  its  annual  Spring  meeting  on  Saturday,  fay  S, 
1971,  in  the  Illini  Union  on  the  campus  of  the  UI  at  Urbana -Champaign.  All  chapter  members 
as  well  as  interested  guests  are  invited  to  attend.  The  program  was  planned  with  a  line  from 
Faust  in  mind:   '  .er  vielse  bringt,  wird  manchem  etwas  bringen--*.   It  provides  balance  be- 
tween literature,  linguistics,  and  teaching  methodology,  varies  in  format  from  presentation 
of  papers  to  a  film  showing  to  panel  and  group  discussions,  and  draws  on  men  and  women,  secon- 
dary school  and  college  teachers  as  participants.  The  chapter  officers  believe  it  is  the  Und 
of  program,  which  at  its  conclusion  will  permit  the  continuation  of  the  above  nuote,  i.e.  'Und 
jeder  geht  zufrieden  aus  dem  Haus.'   Details  will  soon  be  mailed  to  chapter  members.  Others 
may  write  to  the  German  Department,  University  of  Illinois,  Urbana,  Illinois  61801. 


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TEACHING  OPPORTUNITIES  IK  AUSTRIA 
As  reported  recently  in  the  Newsletter,  the  Department  sponsors  a  2   semester  study  pro pram  in 
Austria,  based  at  the  Pedagogische  Akademie  in  Eaden,  a  suburb  of  Vienna.  In  addition  to 
serving  undergraduates,  the  program  also  includes  a  limited  number  of  assistantships  for  can- 
didates for  the  Faster  of  Arts  in  the  Teaching  of  German  and  for  other  graduate  students  in- 
terested in  giving  their  preparation  a  pedagogical  component.  Participating  students  enroll 
in  German  351  and  352.   Students  can  as  well  attend  lectures  at  the  University  of  Vienna. 

Besides  these  study  opportunities,  the  Austrian  authorities  have  made  available  to  UI 
graduates  and  graduate  students  positions  in  the  teaching  of  English  for  one  academic  year  at 
secondary  schools  in  Niederosterreich  (the  province  surrounding  Vienna).  The  salary  for 
these  positions  is  approximately  $160,00  per  month  (after  taxes)  and  the  teaching  load  is  a- 
bout  20  hours  per  week.  All  of  the  appointments  include  medical  insurance  benefits  also. 

Special  low-cost  travel  arrangements  are  available  for  both  the  study  group  and  the  teach-  ^mt& 
ing  program.  A  faculty  member  from  the  Department  will  be  in  residence  at  Eaden  to  teach,  to 
advise  students,  to  evaluate  student  work  and  to  act  as  liaison  with  the  Austrian  authorities.    orjC8  \ 
Both  programs  are  open  only  to  students  who  have  completed  at  least  one  year  of  residence  on 
the  Urbana -Champaign  campus.   For  the  academic  year  1971-72,  in  spite  of  the  short  notice,  11 
applications  have  already  been  received  for  the  teaching  appointments.  Onipi 

Detailed  information  is  available  at  the  Department  Office,  371  Lincoln  Hall,  Urbana,  111.   'Dearjj 
61801  or  from  Professor  Rudolf  Schier  in  271  Lincoln  Hall,  Urbana,  111,  61801.  j>oor ; 

SLAVIC  NOTES  —  by  Kenneth  Brostrom 

PAPERS 
On  March  4,  Professor  Edward  Stankievich,  an  internationally  known  Slavic  scholar  from  the 
University  of  Chicago,  delivered  2  lectures  at  the  UI.  They  were  entitled:   "Parts  of  Speech 
in  18th  and  19th  Century  Linguistics"  and  "Rhyming  Formulas  in  Serbo-Croatian  Epic  Poetry." 

Professor  C.  Harold  Bedford  of  the  University  of  Toronto  spoke  here  on  March  15,  focusing 
his  attention  upon  the  writer  and  publicist  Kerezhkovsky  in  a  lecture,  "Christ  and  Anti- 
Christ:   the  Historical  Trilogy  of  Kerezhkovsky." 

Gerald  Darring,  a  graduate  student  in  the  Slavic  Department,  has  been  invited  to  read  a 
paper  at  the  Northeastern  Slavic  Conference  to  be  held  at  Sir  George  Williams  University,  in 
Montreal,  Kay  6-9.  His  topic  will  be  "Kickiewicz:   Prophet  of  the  New  World," 

RUSSIAN  AND  EAST  EUROPEAN  CENTER 
A  number  of  publications  by  Center  members  and  associates  have  appeared  recently  and  will  be 
of  interest:   J.  R.  Millar,  editor,  The  Soviet  Rural  Community:  A_  Symposium  with  the  intro-     ^ 


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duction  by  Prof.  Millar,  University  of  Illinois   Press,   1970. 
Jan  Gorecki,    "Industrial  Accident  Compensation  in  Eastern  Europe:     An  Empirical 

Inquiry,"  Stanford  Law  Review.   Vol.   23,   No.   2,    Jan.   1971. 
Gerald  Darring  (grad  student  in  5lavicJ_,    "Structural  Unity  in  Forefather's  Eve. 

Part  III,"  Zagadnienia  vodza.jow  literackich.   No.   27,    Lodz,    Poland. 
Professor  John  P.  McKay  of  the  History  Department  won  the  Herbert  B.  Adams 

prize  of  the  American  Historical  Association  for  his  book.    Pioneers  for 
Profit:      Foreign  Entre preneur ship  and  Russian  Industrialize tion,   1855  - 
1953.     The  award  is  granted  for  the  best  book  on  European  history  published 
in  even-numbered  years. 

CONFERENCES 
A   number  of  conferences  in  the  area  of  Slavic  Studies  will  be  held  in  the  near  future  besides 
the  NE  Slavic  Conference   noted  above: 

March  25  -  27  The  AAA3S  Annual  Meeting,    in  conjunction  with  the  Western  Slavic 

Association,    in  Denver,   Colorado.     Contact  Stephen  Fischer-Galati, 
Dept.   of  History,   University  of  Colorado. 
April  15  -  17  The  Central  States   Conference   on  the   Teaching  of  Foreign   Languages 

in  Detroit  Michigan  at  the  Sheraton-Cadillac  Hotel.  The  theme  will 
be  "Creativity  in  the  Foreign  Language  Classroom."  Contact  Anthony 
Gradisnik,   Milwaukee   Public   Schools,    P.O.   Drawer  10K,   Milwaukee,  '..'is 


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The  Second  Congress  of  Scholars  and  Scientists  sponsored  by  the 
Polish  Institute  of  Arts  and  Sciences  in  America  in  co-operation 
with  the  Institute  on  East  Central  Europe  of  Columbia  University, 
at  Columbia  University.  The  theme  will  be  "Poland  in  Vorld  Civi- 
lization, 1918  -  1970."  Contact  Jan  Librach,  Executive  Director, 
Polish  Institute  of  Arts  and  Sciences  in  America,  59  East  66th  St. 
New  York,  M.Y. 
The  KA.SEES  Annual  Meeting  at  Vestfield  College,  London,  England, 


SLAVIC  SOFTEALL 
The  Slavic  Department's  softball  team,  in  its  13th  season,  is  looking  forward  to  renewing  old 
rivalries  with  the  Spanish,  German  and  English  department  teams,  as  well  as  with  the  other 
humanities  departments  in  LAS.  All  staff  members  in  those  departments,  from  full  professors 
to  part-time  research  assistants,  are  invited  to  participate  and  get  some  outdoor  exercise 
once  a  week.  For  details,  contact  Professor  S.  P.  Hill,  260  Lincoln  Hall. 

COMING  EVENTS 
Cn  April  1,  Professor  James  Bailey,  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin,  will  present  a  lecture 
bearing  the  title,  "Trochaic  Bylinas  of  Riabynin  as  Collected  by  Hilferding,"  at  4:00  pm,  in 
Room  D,  d  the  Law  Building. 

March  31  Balanchine  ballet,  "Sylvia,"  at  8:00  pm,  Festival  Theatre,  Krannert 

April  1  Balanchine  ballet,  "Themes  &  Variations,"  8:00  pm,  Krannert  Center 

April  16  -  17       Czech  film,  "Closely  V.'atched  Trains,"  at  Midnight,  Lincoln  Hall 

Theatre 
April  22  Russian  film,  "The  Fate  of  Man,"  from  Sholokov's  famous  story  about 

World  War  II,  8:00  pm.  University  of  Illinois  Auditorium 
April  22  Rumanian-French  film,  "Codine,"  8:00  pm,  University  Auditorium 

SPANISH,  ITALIAN  ANID  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  —  by  Felicia  G.  Sworsky 

AATSP 
The  Downstate  Chapter  of  AATSP  will  hold  its  annual  meeting  on  Saturday,  April  17,  at  Illinois 
State  University,  Normal. 

Professor  Anthony  M.  Pas«uariello,  Head,  Department  of  Spanish,  Italian  and  Portuguese, 
UI,  will  speak  on  "El  dilema  existencial  en  Escuadra  hacia  la  muerte  de  Alfonso  Sastre." 
Professor  D.  Lincoln  Canfield  of  Southern  Illinois  University,  Carbondale,  will  speak  on  "La 
cultura  es  comunicacion."  Mrs.  Tamara  LaVille,  Foreign  Language  Consultant  of  Area  A  in  Chi- 
cago, will  give  an  illustrated  lecture  on  "The  Use  of  Motivational  Single  Concept  Films  in  the 
Foreign  Language  Classroom."  Registration  and  Coffee  is  at  8:30,  with  the  meeting  beginning 
at  9:00,  in  Room  401,  Stevenson  Hall.  Luncheon  is  at  12:30  in  the  Student  Union  Building.  It 
is  $3.00  and  reservations  are  to  be  sent  to  Mrs.  Luis  Leal,  207  W.  Iowa  St.,  Urbana,  111.  61801 
by  April  12. 

LECTURES,  PAPERS 
On  January  22,  Professor  Luis  Leal  attended  the  XV  Congreso  del  Lnstituto  de  Literature  Ibero- 
americana  in  Tucson,  Arizona  as  the  official  representative  of  the  UI.  There  he  delivered  a 
paper  entitled  "La  literatura  raexicana  del  siglo  diecinueve:  en  busca  de  una  expresion." 

On  Thursday,  March  18,  at  8:00  pm  in  the  General  Lounge  of  the  Illini  Union,  Professor 
Enrioue  Pezzoni  delivered  a  lecture:   "Transgresion  y  normalizacion  en  la  narrative  argentina 
actual." 

Cn  Friday,  March  26,  at  8:00  pm  in  the  General  Lounge  of  the  Illini  Union,  Professor 
Enrinue  Anderson-Imbert,  now  at  Harvard,  delivered  an  extremely  interesting  lecture  on  "El 
persona je  en  la  novela  y  el  teatro." 

CONGRATULATIONS 
Dr.  Robert  Lott  has  been  sppointed  an  Associate  in  the  Center  for  Advanced  Study  for  the 
spring  semester  1972  in  order  to  continue  his  intensive  work  on  Juan  Valera.  This  appointment 
honors  the  Department  and  also  recognizes  officially  Dr.  Lett's  exceptional  contribution  to 
the  University  as  a  teacher  and  a  scholar.  He  is  to  be  warmly  congratulated. 

Dean  Alpert  has  announced  tfaat  Dr.  Martha  Francescato  has  been  selected  as  a  Faculty 
Fellow  for  the  summer  of  1971.  Our  congratulations  to  her. 


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FUBLICATIONS 
Among  Professor  Luis  Leal's  recent  publications  are  included  the  following:   two  books, 
Kariano  Azuela.  Twayne's  World  Authors  Series,  no.  119  and  Historia  del  cuento  hispanoameri- 
cano.   2nd  edition  (Aumentada  y  revisada);  and  three  articles,  "Felix  Varela  and  Liberal 
Thought,"  The  Ibero-A merican  Enlightenment,  ed.  A.  0.  Aldridge,  University  of  Ullinois  Press, 
1971,  PP.  234-242;  "La  Vision  de  AnChuac  de  Alfonso  Reyes:   tema  y  estructura,"  El  ensayo  y_ 
la  crltica  en  Iberoamerica.  University  of  Toronto,  1970,  pp.  49-53;  and  "La  Feria  de  Juan 
JosS  Arreola:   tema  y  estructura,"  Nueva  Narrativa  Hispanoamericana,  I,  1  (enero,  1971),  y 

pp.  41-48. 

Frofessor  Spurgeon  Baldwin  and  Thomas  Montgomery's  edition  of  Escorial  Bible  E6,  the 
oldest  Castilian  translation  of  the  Vulgate  has  been  printed  and  presented  to  the  Real  Academia 
Espanbla.  The  authors  are  hardly  able  to  wait  to  see  their  copies  of  the  book,  work  on  which 
was  begun  in  1962. 

Professor  Richard  Preto-Rodas1  article  "Anchieta  and  Vieira,  Sermon  as  Drama  and  Drama 
as  Sermon"  has  appearedin  the  most  recent  issue  of  the  Luso-Brazilian  Review,  Vol.  VII  (Winter, 

1970-71). 

"The  Diccionario  of  Antonio  de  Alcedo  as  a  Source  of  Enlightened  Ideas"  is  the  title  of 
an  article  by  Professor  Isalas  Lerner,  which  appears  in  The  Ibero-A merican  Enlightenment .  ed. 
A.  C.  Aldridge,  UI  Press,  1971,  on  pages  71-93. 

MESA.  REDONDA 
I'esa  Redonda,  the  round  table  discussion  group,  met  last  on  Friday  afternoon,  March  12,  in  the 
home  of  Professor  Luis  Leal,  The  topic  for  discussion,  "Cervantes  y  la  nueva  novela"  was  pre- 
sented by  Prof.  Isaias  Lerner. 

UI  PERSONALITY 
Harriet  Carter,  a  graduate  student  and  teaching  assistant  in  the  Department  has  been  listed 
in  the  1970  edition  of  "Personalities  of  the  South."  This  places  her  among  5,000  leaders  from 
15  southern  states  included  in  the  biographical  reference  book. 

In  addition  to  having  her  biographylisted  as  described,  Miss  Carter  obtained  another 
honor  in  January  of  this  year,  when  she  was  invited  to  become  a  member  of  the  International 
Platform  Association,  an  organization  whose  membership  includes  many  of  the  nation's  celebri- 
ties:  President  Richard  Nixon,  Lowell  Thomas,  David  Brinkley,  Rex  Harrison,  Art  Linkletter 
and  Victor  Borge.  Congratulations,  Harriet! 

SUMMER  CATALAN  PROGRAM 
The  University  of  North  Carolina  will  sponsor  a  program  of  medieval  studies  in  Catalonia, 
2-18  August,  1971,  in  Sant  Joan  de  les  Abadesses  in  the  Pyrenees.  For  further  information, 
write  Frederick  W.  Vogler,  Dept.  of  Romance  Languages,  University  of  North  Carolina,  Chapel 
Hill,  N.  Carolina  27514. 


The  University  of  Illinois  Modern  Foreign  Language  Newsletter  is  published  jointly  by  the 
modern  language  departments  of  the  UI  under  the  direction  of  the  Head  of  the  Department  of 
Spanish,  Italian  and  Portuguese.  Editorial  offices  are  located  in  Apt.  9,  506  S.  Matthews, 
Urbana,  telephone  (217)  333-3536.  The  Newsletter  is  available  without  charge  to  all  inter- 
ested persons  in  Illinois  and  other  areas.  All  communications  by  mail  should  be  addressed 
to:  The  Editor,  MFL  Newsletter,  224  Lincoln  Hall,  Urbana,  Illinois  61301. 


THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  NEWSLETTER 


October,  1971 
Vol.  XXV,  No.  1 


Director:   Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello 
Editor:   Alice  Long  Anderson 


ILLINOIS  YEAR-ABROAD  PROGRAM  IN  SPAIN 
We  are  pleased  to  report  the  first  in  a  series  of  innovations  aimed  at  improving  the 
curricular  experience  of  undergraduate  students  of  Spanish  on  the  Urbana-Champaign 
and  Chicago  Circle  campuses.   The  Illinois  Year-Abroad  Program  in  Spain  was  inaug- 
urated in  Madrid  on  September  8  by  Dr.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello,  Head  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Spanish,  Italian  and  Portuguese  at  Urbana,  in  the  main  reception  room  of  the 
Instituto  de  Cultura  Hispanica.   In  addition  to  the  33  students  selected  for  the 
first  year — 20  from  the  Urbana  campus  and  13  from  the  Chicago  Circle — Dr.  Ram<5n  Bela, 
Director  of  the  American  section  of  the  Instituto,  Dr.  Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo,  first 
resident  Director  of  the  program,  faculty  members  and  staff  of  the  Instituto,  and 
newspaper  and  radio  reporters  were  also  present  to  commemorate  the  event.   Dr. 
Pasquariello's  inaugural  remarks  were  followed  by  Dr.  Ram<5n  Bela's  warm,  official 
greeting.   The  ceremony  closed  quite  informally  with  several  pleasant  offerings  of 
typical  Spanish  refreshments  and  "tapas"  which  were,  in  fact,  the  students'  first 
introduction  to  new  tastes  and  customs. 

This  cordial  reception,  prepared  by  the  Instituto  staff,  launched  a  program 
which  was  almost  two  years  in  the  making  and  which  might  not  have  been  possible 
without  the  cooperation  of  Dr.  Brian  Dutton,  Head  of  the  Department  of  Spanish, 
Italian  and  Portuguese  at  the  Chicago  Circle  Campus.   This  is  the  first,  comprehen- 
sive, cooperative  program  between  any  of  the  Foreign  Language  Departments  on  both 
campuses,  and  very  soon  we  hope  to  negotiate  a  full  partnership  association  with  the 
Chicago  Circle  Department  and  aim  for  a  total  of  forty  student  participants. 

The  program  will  consist  of  three  weeks  of  orientation  in  Madrid  arranged  by 
the  Instituto,  including  intensive  language  study,  tours  to  nearby  places  of  interest 
and  informal  talks  by  such  prominent  Spanish  scholars  and  creative  writers  as  Dr. 
Rafael  Lapesa  and  Spain's  great  dramatist  Antonio  Buero  Vallejo.   The  group  will 
then  move  on  to  the  University  of  Barcelona  where  they  will  study  for  eight  months 
a  great  variety  of  courses  in  language,  arts,  literature  and  social  sciences  taught 
by  faculty  members  of  the  University  of  Barcelona.  They  will  earn  a  total  of  30 
credit  hours,  the  equivalent  of  two  semesters  of  course  work  at  the  Urbana  campus, 
or  three  quarters  at  the  Chicago  Circle  campus.   Most  of  the  students  will  live  in 
private  homes.  A  special  feature  of  the  program  is  the  integration  of  class  work 
with  lecture-tours  to  places  mentioned  in  texts,  as  well  as  to  museums,  plays  and 
concerts,  and  informal  visits  with  novelists,  musicians,  dramatists  and  scholars. 
The  students  will  not  only  be  reading  or  talking  about  customs  and  cultural  differ- 
ences but  also  living  them  as  part  of  their  daily  routine. 

Dr.  Joseph  Flores  is  the  resident  Chairman  of  the  program  on  the  Urbana  campus. 
If  you  desire  further  information,  write  directly  to  him  #Dept.  of  Spanish,  ^1500 
Foreign  Language  Building,  Urbana,  II.  61801. 

NEW  EDITORIAL  POLICIES 
On  behalf  of  all  foreign  language  and  literature  programs  at  the  University,  I  take 
pleasure  as  Editor  of  the  Newsletter  in  sending  greetings  to  our  colleagues  through- 
out the  state  and  beyond.   Our  welcome  goes  as  well  to  the  Classics  Department  at 
the  UI  who  will  be  joining  us  for  the  first  time  in  the  Newsletter.   We  have  there- 
fore changed  our  name  to  the  U.I.  Foreign  Language  Newsletter,  dropping  the  pre- 
vious "Modern." 

As  many  of  you  are  probably  aware,  the  U.I.  along  with  many  other  schools  is 
presently  facing  severe  budget  cuts.  These  cuts  are  being  felt  at  all  levels  and 
the  Newsletter  is  no  exception.   In  an  effort  to  reduce  costs  and  yet  convey  the 
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ber of  mailings  (our  main  expense)  along  with  a  moderate  increase  in  the  size  of 
each  issue.   There  will  now  be  four  issues  during  the  school  year,  two  per  semester. 
The  other  issues  will  be  in  December,  February  and  early  April.   So  that  we  may 
continue  to  issue  the  Newsletter  free  of  charge  to  all  interested  persons,  we  will 
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NEW  ADDRESS 
With  the  completion  of  the  Foreign  Language  Building  (FLB),  the  foreign  language  and 
literature  departments  are  finally  together  under  the  same  roof.   We  hope  this  move 
will  serve  to  further  increase  and  strengthen  the  cooperation  between  departments. 
The  editorial  offices  for  the  Newsletter  are  now  located  in  4119  FLB.   All  communi- 
cations by  mail  should  be  directed  to  4080  FLB  in  the  following  manner:   The  Editor, 
FL  Newsletter,  4080  FLB,  Urbana,  IL  61801. 

ACTFL  ANNUAL  MEETING 
The  Fifth  Annual  meeting  of  the  American  Council  on  the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Languages 
will  be  held  November  25-28,  1971  at  the  Conrad  Hilton  Hotel  in  Chicago.  The  theme 
is  "Pluralism  in  Foreign  Language  Education:   Opportunities  and  Innovations."  The 
featured  speakers  will  be  Edward  T.  Hall,  Northwestern  Univ.  specialist  in  para- 
linguistics and  author  of  The  Silent  Language ;  and  Jerzy  Kosinski,  Yale  University, 
author  of  Being  There  and  Steps.  Also  part  of  the  meeting  will  be  workshops,  as 
well  as  sessions  for  teachers  of  all  languages  and  at  all  levels  of  instruction.   In 
addition  there  will  be  two  pre-convention  workshops  on  November  22-24-,  1971,  of 
major  interest  to  long-range  planning  and  course  supervisors.  The  registration  fee 
for  the  annual  meeting  is  $6.00  for  members  of  ACTFL  and  $12.00  for  non-members  in 
a  combined  package  of  membership  dues  and  registration  fee.  The  fee  for  the  pre- 
Convention  workshops,  including  workpapers,  is  $30.00. 

For  further  information,  write  or  call  Inge  Savelsberg,  ACTFL  Annual  Meeting 
Manager,  62  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  10011;  Telephone  (212)  691-3210. 

ACTFL  PRESIDENCY 
Professor  Scanlan  of  the  Classics  Department  is  a  candidate  for  the  presidency  of 
ACTFL.   He  is  hoping  for  your  support. 

FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  ARTICULATION  CONFERENCE 
The  fourth  School-University  Foreign  Language  Articulation  Conference  will  be  held 
in  the  late  afternoon  and  evening  of  Thursday,  October  28  and  during  the  day  of 
October  29,  1971  in  the  Illini  Union  Building  of  the  U.I.  The  theme  of  theCon- 
ference  will  be  "Foreign  Languages  in  a  Time  of  Change."  For  the  first  time  rep- 
resentatives of  the  public  junior  colleges  will  be  invited  to  participate,  in  view 
of  their  growing  numbers  and  increasing  importance  in  our  educational  system.  On 
the  agenda  are  teacher  interviews  with  former  high  school  students,  classroom  visita- 
tions and  dinner  with  Prof.  Wilga  Rivers,  U.I.  Dept.  of  French  as  keynote  speaker. 

THE  CLASSICS  NOTES  ~  by  Prof.  H.  Michael  Dunn 

FACULTY  NEWS 
Awards  -  Professor  John  J.  Bateman  received  a  travel  grant  from  the  American  Council 
of  Learned  Societies  to  attend  the  First  International  Congress  of  Neo-Latin  Studies 
held  in  August  at  Louvain,  Belgium.   His  contribution  to  the  Congress  was  entitled 
"The  Text  of  Erasmus'  De  recta  Latini  Graeclque  sermonis  pronuntlatione  dlalogus. " 

Professor  Howard  Jacobson  has  received  a  Fellowship  for  Younger  Humanists  from 
the  National  Endowment  for  the  Humanities.   His  is  the  only  such  arard  this  year  to 
a  member  of  the  faculty  of  our  University.   Prof.  Jacobson  is  on  leave  this  semester 
working  on  his  book,  Ovid's  Heroldes . 

Three  members  of  the  faculty  received  Summer  Faculty  Fellowships:  Prof.  Howard 
Marblestone  for  work  on  a  translation  of  Philostratus '  Herolcus,  with  introduction 
and  notes;  Prof.  Vernon  Robbins,  who  is  working  on  his  manuscript  of  "The  Christo- 
logical  Structure  of  the  Gospel  of  St.  Mark";  and  Professor  Daniel  Taylor,  who  is 
preparing  an  edition,  translation  and  commentary  of  Varro's  De  Lingua  Latina  (Bk  10). 


SUMMER  SESSION 
Professors  David  Bright  and  Michael  Dunn  spent  the  summer  on  oampus,  Prof.  Bright 
teaching  courses  in  Latin  and  Greek  literature  and  Prof.  Dunn  handling  the  admin- 
istrative work  of  the  Department.   In  addition  Prof.  Dunn  assisted  Dean  Hinely  in 
the  advising  of  incoming  freshmen. 

In  June,  with  the  assistance  of  Professors  Bright,  Dunn,  Taylor,  and  Bekiaris 
(visiting  from  the  Univ.  of  Minnesota),  Prof.  Scanlan  held  a  highly  successful  High 
School  Latin  Conference.   Thirty-five  visiting  students  attended  this  five-day 
session. 

From  July  k-2k   Prof.  Scanlan  directed  the  first  Conference  on  the  Classical 
Humanities  ever  held  in  this  country.  Twenty-five  teachers,  selected  from  several 
hundred  applicants,  took  part  in  a  vigorous  program  here  at  the  University.   Lectures 
and  discussion  on  literature,  ancient  art  and  archaeology  were  conducted  by  Prof. 
Kevin  Herbert  of  Washington  Univ.   Each  afternoon  Prof.  Scanlan  conducted  a  Practicum 
based  on  the  morning  presentations.  Colloquia  on  various  topics  were  conducted  by 
visiting  speakers  twice  weekly.   The  Conference  was  made  possible  by  a  grant  from  the 
National  Endowment  for  the  Humanities.   Attending  the  Conference  from  Illinois  were 
Henry  Charles  of  New  Trier  and  Mrs.  Shirly  Robeson  of  Chicago. 

Prof.  Taylor  attended  the  American  Classical  League  Institute  at  Oxford,  Ohio, 
reading  a  paper  "Mures,  lmmo  Homines :   Rationalism  in  Language  Learning." 

Prof.  Miroslav  Marcovich  participated  in  the  Congress  in  August,  presenting  the 
paper  "The  Davidiad  of  M.  Marulus  (1^50-1524)."   He  also  participated  in  the  Sixth 
International  Conference  on  Patristic  Studies  held  in  September  at  Oxford,  where  he 
read  a  paper  "Hippolytus,  Elenchos. " 

ARCHAEOLOGY 
Prof.  Hubert  Allen  had  a  highly  successful  summer  as  director  of  the  excavations  at 
Morgantina  Sicily.  The  1971  session  has  been  the  occasion  of  the  discovery  of  a 
decorated  public  bath  of  the  Hellenistic  period  and  an  adjacent  sanctuary.   The  16- 
year  project,  a  Joint  endeavor  of  the  U.I.  and  Princeton  Univ.,  has  been  brought 
nearer  to  completion  with  the  presentation  of  the  final  plans  for  the  site  museum. 
Prof.  Allen  will  report  details  of  his  findings  at  the  first  meeting  of  the  local 
chapter  of  the  Archaeological  Institute  on  Tuesday,  Oct.  19,  at  8:00  pm  in  180  Bev.H. 

HONORED 
Prof.  Scanlan  has  been  appointed  a  member  of  the  National  Humanities  Faculty,  an 
organization  offering  consulting  services  for  the  purpose  of  assisting  high  school 
and  junior  high  school  teachers  and  administrators  in  developing  courses,  curriculum 
and  teaching  strategies.   The  program  is  sponsored  by  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  the  American 
Council  on  Education,  and  the  American  Council  of  Learned  Societies. 

Congratulations  to  Dr.  Ray  DenAdel  on  the  successful  defense  of  his  dissertation 
The  Latin  Vocabulary  of  Non-articulate  Sound.   Ray  was  hooded  in  June. 

The  Advisor,  a  publication  devoted  to  student  assessment  of  courses  and  instruc- 
tors, in  the  introduction  of  this  year's  edition  remarks  that  the  instruction  in 
elementary  courses  in  Latin  and  Greek  is  "uniformly  excellent."   This  may  be  in  part 
responsible  for  increased  enrollments  in  the  Dept.  of  the  Classics  (up  more  than  30% 
over  last  fall's  figures).  The  doubling  of  enrollments  in  the  Classical  Civilization 
program  (presently  460  vs.  233  at  this  time  last  fall)  contributed  to  the  general 
increase. 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Barbara  Smalley 

PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Rocco  Montano  has  published  the  third  and  fourth  volumes  of  his  four-volume 
history  of  Italian  literature  from  the  Middle  Ages  to  Pavese,  which  is  entitled 
Lo  spirlto  e  le  lettere  (Milano:  Marzorati).   The  third  volume  (526  pages)  deals 
with  literature  and  thought  from  Rousseau  and  Kant  to  Oriani ;  the  fourth  volume  (^56 
pages)  deals  with  literature  and  thought  from  Croce  to  Structuralism.   The  volumes 
deal  importantly  with  the  development  of  aesthetic  ideals  and  European  literary  and 
philosophical  movements. 


Prof.  Montano  has  published  an  article  "Dante  and  Virgil"  in  the  Yale  Review, 
Summer  issue,  1971.   He  has  also  published  five  articles  in  the  June  issue  of 
Umane s 1 mo .   The  articles  are  entitled:  "Cultura  e  Societa  in  America";  "Delia  Valle 
e  il  teatro  del  Seicento";  "From  Italian  Humanism  to  Shakespeare.  Protestantism  and 
Literature";  "Sulla  storia  della  letteratura  Obiezioni  a  G.  Petronio";  and  "The 
Defeat  of  Intellectualism. " 

Prof.  Herbert  Knust  has  recently  published  an  essay,  "Camus'  Le  Malentendu  and 
Doderer's  Zwei  Lugen, "  in  Archlv  fur  das  Studium  der  neueren  Sprachen  und  Literature n, 
Heft  208/1,  2 3-34 •   This  represents  an  expanded  form  of  an  address  delivered  by  Prof. 
Knust  at  the  1969  Convention  of  the  Modern  Language  Association. 

LECTURES 
At  the  Conference  of  the  American  Comparative  Literature  Association  held  at  Yale  on 
April  2-4,  Prof.  Francois  Jost  was  elected  a  member  of  the  board.   During  the  month 
of  April  Prof.  Jost  also  gave  lectures  and  had  professionas  discussions  with  col- 
leagues at  the  Hungarian  Academy  of  Sciences  in  Budapest,  at  the  University  of  Cluj, 
Romania,  and  at  the  Academy  of  Sciences  of  Czechoslovakia  in  Prague.   On  April  24  he 
attended  the  meeting  of  the  American  Society  for  Eighteenth-Century  Studies  at  the 
University  of  Maryland  and  there  delivered  a  paper  entitled  "Ludwig  Tieck:   French 
and  English  Sources  of  his  William  Lovell  (1795-96)." 

Professor  A.  Owen  Aldridge  attended  the  meetings  of  the  American  Society  for 
Eighteenth-Century  Studies  at  the  University  of  Maryland  on  April  22-24.   He  served 
as  Chairman  of  the  Comparative  Literature  Section.  On  April  30  and  May  1  Prof. 
Aldridge  participated  in  a  symposium  on  the  picaresque  novel  held  at  Syracuse  Univ. 
and  delivered  an  address  on  the  subject  "The  English  Picaresque,  Myth  or  Reality?" 

During  June  and  July  Prof.  Aldridge  delivered  a  series  of  ten  lectures  in  var- 
ious universities  in  Seoul,  Korea;  Chonju,  Korea;  Kwangju,  Korea;  and  Taipei,  Taiwan. 
The  titles  of  the  lectures  were  the  following:   "The  Intellectual  Background  of  the 
American  Revolution";  "Benjamin  Franklin  and  Nature's  God";  "Comparative  Literature: 
Matter  and  Method";  "Voltaire  and  the  Cult  of  China";  "Comparative  Literature  East 
and  West:   An  Appraisal  of  the  Tamkang  Conference." 

During  August  Prof.  Aldridge  delivered  lectures  in  Manila,  the  Philippines,  at 
the  Univ.  of  the  Philippines  and  also  at  De  La  Salle  College.  His  topic  was  "The 
Theory  and  Practice  of  Comparative  Literature." 

On  August  30  Prof.  Aldridge  delivered  a  lecture  entitled  "Feijoo  y  el  problema 
del  color  etifipico"  at  the  meeting  of  the  Asociaci6n  Internacional  de  Hispanistas,  IV 
Congreso,  which  was  held  in  Salamanca,  Spain. 

On  June  7  Prof.  Rocco  Montano  gave  a  lecture  at  the  Instituto  Universitario 
Orientale  in  Naples,  Italy.   His  topic  was  "Barocco  e  Classicisrao  nel  teatro  francese 
del  Seicento." 

On  September  22  Prof.  Hans  Galinsky  of  the  Univ.  of  Mainz,  Germany,  delivered  a 
lecture  at  the  U.I.  on  "The  Uses  of  American  English  in  Modern  German  Drama  and 
Poetry:   Bert  Brecht,  Gottfried  Benn,  and  Ingeborg  Bachmann."  Prof.  Galinsky's 
lecture  was  sponsored  by  the  Comparative  Literature  Program. 

FRENCH  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel 

LE  TRETEAU  DE  PARIS  HERE  ON  NOV.  1 
In  just  one  month,  on  November  1,  the  Tre*teau  de  Paris  will  produce  on  this  campus 
Moliere's  Le  bourgeois  gentllhomme.   The  Tre"teau  is  in  its  thirteenth  season  of  tour- 
ing U.S.  campuses.   It  has  by  now  become  a  tradition  and  a  major  annual  event  of  much 
artistic,  cultural  and  theatrical  interest.  The  Tre"teau  is  sponsored  by  the  French 
Ministry  of  Foreign  Affairs,  and,  as  you  probably  know,  the  French  Government's 
finlckiness  when  it  comes  to  cultural  exports  plus  the  Tre*teau's  brilliant  record 
since  1958,  constitute  a  guarantee  of  very  high  standards  of  quality. 

The  Tre"teau  has  brought  productions  on  this  campus  each  year.  This  will  be 
their  third  production  in  the  superb  Krannert  Center  for  the  Performing  Arts  which, 
for  its  architecture,  comfort  and  acoustics,  is  rated  by  experts  above  other  such 
centers  in  the  country. 


Le  bourgeois  gentilhomme  will  be  performed  in  French  by  the  ComeMiens  des 
Champs-Elyse'es  in  a  new  production  directed  by  Maurice  Jacquemont,  with  texts  by 
La  Fontaine,  set  to  music  by  Claude  Arrieu,  choreography  by  Jacques  Giraud,  sets  and 
costumes  by  Jose"  Quiroga,  musical  direction  by  Steven  Rosenberg,  and  a  splendid  cast. 
This  production  will  perform  the  additional  tour-de-force  of  presenting  the  play  in 
its  original  form  of  a  come*dle-ballet  with  the  sixteen  members  of  the  cast  appearing 
also  as  the  musicians  and  dancers  for  the  interludes  and  the  ballet. 

The  performance  starts  at  8  pm  and  will  last  approximately  two  hours.  The  text 
may  be  obtained  by  mail  for  75  cents  net  from  Follett's  Bookstore,  Champaign,  II. 
61820.   Tickets:  $3.25,  3.00,2.75  and  for  students  2.75,  2.50,  2.25  on  sale  at 
Krannert  Center,  Urbana,  111.  61801.   Please  enclose  self-addressed,  stamped  envelope 

Le  bourgeois  gentllhomme  is  a  particularly  happy  choice:  it  is  a  major  play,  a 
classical  "musical,"  a  spectacle,  and  tremendous  fun  all  around.   It  is  also  easy  to 
follow,  not  only  for  those  students  who  only  know  a  little  French  but  for  theater- 
goers who  know  no  French. 

On  a  more  serious  note,  you  all  know  that  the  U.I.  is  in  the  middle  of  a 
financial  crisis:   our  only  guarantee  for  the  reappearance  of  the  Tre"teau  or  other 
French  Cultural  manifestations  on  this  campus  will  be  a  full  house  on  November  1, 
so  that  we  can  minimize  our  deficit.   In  any  event,  please  order  early,  as  we  have 
always  sold  out  whenever  the  Tre*teau  has  played  at  the  Krannert. 

Teachers  ordering  tickets  for  groups  of  students  at  the  student  rate  may  in- 
clude their  own  ticket  at  the  same  rate. 

STAFF  NEWS 
We  are  pleased  to  announce  that  Prof.  Pierre  Weisz,  formerly  of  Scripp3  College  and 
director  of  the  Illinois  and  Iowa  Year-Abroad  Program  in  1969-70  and  1970-71,  has 
joined  the  French  faculty  at  Urbana.   Prof.  Herbert  De  Ley  after  a  semester's  sabbat- 
ical leave,  spent  mostly  in  London,  is  directing  the  current  Illinois  Year-Abroad 
Program  in  Grenoble  and  Rouen. 

The  change  of  name  in  the  year-abroad  program,  now  the  Illinois  Year-Abroad  Pro- 
gram in  France,  is  due  to  the  withdrawal  of  the  University  of  Iowa's  sponsorship 
because  of  financial  difficulties. 

The  Dept.  of  French  takes  pleasure  in  announcing  the  promotions  from  instructor 
to  assistant  professor  of  Mr.  Peter  Varkonyi  and  of  Mrs.  Sandra  Savignon  and  the 
change  of  appointment  of  Mrs.  Luisa  Velan-Chini  from  lecturer  to  assistant  prof. 

Prof.  Yves  Velan  is  on  appointment  as  an  associate  member  of  the  Center  for 
Advanced  Study  for  the  current  semester. 

New  teaching  assistants  are:  Marilyn  Bareiter  (UI),  Laure  Blanchard  (Sorbonne), 
Barbara  Bova  (UI),  Charles  Broadhurst  (Duke  Univ.),  Danielle  Butel  (Univ.  of  Rouen), 
Brigitte  Couchaux  (Univ.  of  Rouen),  Thierry  Delalande  (Univ.  of  Grenoble)  Lorel 
Ellsworth  (UI),  Catherine  Feilloley  (Univ.  of  Rouen),  Nancy  Lust  (UI),  Gwendolyn 
Payne  (UI),  and  Inge  Rembe  (UI). 

New  fellows  are:  Eva  Haupt  (Univ.  of  Fla.),  Deborah  Hightsue  (Ball  State  Univ.), 
Christina  Kajkowski  (UI  Circle),  Daniel  Rivas  (Maust  Coll.),  James  Watterson  (UI). 

Others  are  new  tuition  and  fee  waivers:  Michele  Foster  (111.  St.  Univ.), 
Stephen  Foster  (111.  St.  Univ.),  and  Akiki  Mochida  (Univ.  of  Tokyo);  new  research 
assistant  is  Paulette  Pelc  (UI). 

Prof.  Wllga  Rivers  gave  a  lecture  to  the  orientation  session  for  assistants 
organized  by  the  Foreign  Language  Departments  of  Indiana  Univ.  in  the  last  week  of 
August  on  "Talking  off  the  Tops  of  their  Heads."   She  also  addressed  the  Latin 
Teachers'  Workshop  at  Brock  Univ.,  Ontario,  in  September  and  will  be  speaking  to  the 
Vermilion  County  teachers  at  Danville  and  the  Penn.  and  Ariz.  Foreign  Language 
Teachers  fall  meetings  in  October. 

A  National  Conference  on  foreign  languages  in  Undergraduate  Education  will  be 
held  on  the  Urbana  campus  in  two  stages,  March  1972  and  March  1973.   The  ADFL  Bulle- 
tin (9/7D  states  that  "...the  proposal  originated  among  members  of  the  foreign 
language  departments  at  the  University  of  Illinois  at  Urbana,  under  the  leadership 
of  Prof.  Wilga  M.  Rivers,  of  the  Dept.  of  French."   We  will  keep  our  readers  in- 
formed. Among  Prof.  Rivers'  activities  in  recent  times  we  also  mention  that  she 
gave  the  keynote  address  at  the  International  Meeting  of  Ontario  and  N.Y.  State 


foreign  language  teachers;  that  she  wrote  a  Position  paper  and  directed  a  Committee 
Report  for  the  Stanford  Conference  on  Individualization  of  Instruction;  she  acted 
as  Consultant  in  Washington,  D.C.  for  the  re-exaraination  of  teaching  programs  of  the 
Defense  Language  Institutes;  she  gave  a  paper  at  the  National  Conference  of  TES  at 
New  Orleans;  gave  a  seminar  and  a  public  lecture  for  the  Linguistics  Dept.  at  the 
Univ.  of  Pittsburgh;  spoke  to  the  language  instructors  at  Lackland  AFB's  English 
Language  Center  in  San  Antonio,  and  also  spoke  at  the  October  MLT  meetings  in 
Ariz,  and  Penn. 

Among  the  innovations  in  French  course  offerings  this  term  is  French  199  "La 
Litt£rature  Ne*gro-Francophone"  taight  by  Mr.  Paul  Emoungu. 

THE  FRENCH  LUNCH 
The  weekly  French  luncheon  has  changed  locations  to  the  University  Club,  1201  W. 
Oregon  St.,  Urbana,  one  block  east  of  the  Foreign  Language  Building.   We  still  meet 
Thursdays  at  noon  as  in  the  past.  A  special  room  is  at  our  disposal  in  the  Univ. 
Club.  All  are  cordially  invited  to  attend. 

THE  CENACLE 
The  Ce*nacle  is  a  student-staff  discussion  group  which  meets  once  a  month  to  discuss 
a  topic  related  to  French  literature.  For  the  first  meeting  of  the  academic  year 
the  topic  was:   "Qu'est-ee  que  le  conte?"  and  the  discussion  was  led  by  Mr.  Bowen. 

GERMANIC  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Roy  Allen 

The  German  Dept.  is  most  happy  to  welcome  three  new  additions  to  the  faculty  this 
fall.  Mr.  Rainer  Sell,  a  native  of  Sprottau,  Germany,  will  be  familiar  to  some 
friends  and  to  many  former  students  of  the  Department  from  his  last  stay  here  three 
years  ago.   Mr.  Sell  has  studied  at  three  European  universities:   Univ.  of  Kiel 
(1958-59,  1960-61,  1962-6*0,  the  Univ.  of  Tubingen  (1959-60)  and  the  Univ.  of  London 
(1961-62).   At  the  University  of  Kiel  he  completed  the  "Staatsexamen"  in  May,  1965, 
and  in  May,  1970  the  degree  of  Dr.phil.  with  a  doctoral  dissertation  on  the  topic 
"Representation  and  Function  of  Death  in  the  Works  of  Thornton  Wilder:   A  Study  with 
Special  Emphasis  on  Our  Town. "  Throughout  Mr.  Sell's  university  studies  he  was  a 
recipient  of  the  "Studienstif tung  des  deutschen  Volkes"  (1958-196*0 ,  and  for  the 
academic  year  1965-66  he  was  also  an  Exchange  Scholar  at  Brown  Univ.  and  the  recip- 
ient of  a  Fulbright  Travel  Grant.   Mr.  Sell's  teaching  experience  has  been  varied: 
he  has  taught  German  at  Brown  Univ.  (Teaching  Asst.,  1965-66),  at  the  UI  (Instr., 
1966-68)  and  at  the  Middlebury  Summer  School  (Instr.,  Summer  1968).   Most  recently 
he  was  a  teacher  of  Latin  and  English  at  a  secondary  school  ( "Oberschule" )  in 
Hamburg,  Germany  (1968-71).   Mr.  Sell  joins  the  Department  with  the  rank  of  Asst  Prof 

Mr.  Karl-Heinz  Schoeps  (b.  Dinslaken,  Germany)  comes  to  the  Department  with  the 
rank  of  Instructor  from  the  Univ.  of  Wise,  Madison.  His  educational  background  is 
broad:   Univ.  of  Freiburg  (1956-57),  Univ.  of  Innsbruck  (1957-58),  Univ.  of  Bonn 
(1958-59,  1960-69),  Univ.  of  London  (1959-60),  Univ.  of  Kan.  at  Lawrence  (1962-64) 
and  the  Univ.  of  Wise.  (1967-71).  At  the  Univ.  of  Bonn  Mr.  Schoeps  completed  the 
"Staatsexamen"  in  1962;  and  in  1968,  while  teaching  at  a  "Gymnasium"  in  Wupperthal, 
Germany,  he  successfully  took  the  "Assessorenpriifung. "  At  the  University  of  Wise, 
he  obtained  the  M.A.  degree  in  1968.  Mr.  Schoeps  was  the  recipient  of  both  an  ex- 
change scholarship  for  study  at  the  Univ.  of  Kan.  and  of  a  Fulbright  Travel  Grant 
during  the  academic  year  1962-63.   At  the  Univ.  of  Wise,  he  was  a  University  Fellow 
(1968-69)  and  a  Knapp  Fellow  (1969-70).   Mr.  Schoeps1  teaching  experience  is  also 
varied:   he  has  taught  English  and  Physical  Education  at  "Gymnasiem"  in  the  Rhenish 
cities  of  Wipperfiirth  (1964-65)  and  Wuppertal  (196**—  67),  and  he  has  taught  German, 
first  as  a  Teaching  Asst.  at  the  Univ.  of  Kansas  (1963-6*0  and  most  recently,  with 
the  same  rank  at  the  Univ.  of  Wise.  (1967-69,  1970-71).  For  the  latter  institution 
Mr.  Schoeps  is  currently  in  the  final  stages  of  completing  his  doctoral  dissertation 
under  Prof.  Reinhold  Grimm  on  the  topic:   "Bertolt  Brecht  und  Bernard  Shaw:   Ein 
Vergleich. " 


Mr.  Rudolf  Hofmeister,  a  native  of  Regensberg,  Germany,  Is  a  former  UI  graduate 
student  who  joins  the  Department  for  the  current  academic  year  as  a  2/3-time  Instr. 
Mr.  Hofmeister' s  education  has  been  primarily  in  this  country:   he  studied  European 
Literature  and  Thought  and  German  at  the  Univ.  of  Iowa  (1963-67)  where  he  obtained 
the  B.A.  in  1967,  and  studied  German,  Linguistics,  and  History  at  the  UI  (1967-71) 
where  he  obtained  the  M.A.  degree  in  1969.   Mr.  Hofmeister  also  studied  for  one  semes- 
ter at  the  Univ.  of  Erlangen  in  the  spring  of  1967.   In  June  of  this  year  he  com- 
pleted his  doctoral  dissertation  under  Prof.  James  Marchand  here  on  the  topic  "Manu- 
script Evidence  for  Wolfram's  Parzival. "   Mr.  Hofmeister  was  the  recipient  of  a  UI 
Summer  Fellowship  in  1970,  and  during  the  academic  year  1970-71  he  was  a  UI  Disserta- 
tion Fellow.   During  his  years  of  graduate  study  here  Mr.  Hofmeister  also  gained 
teaching  experience  as  Teaching  Asst.  in  the  Department.   He  is  currently  continuing 
to  pursue  his  interest  in  the  study  of  the  Parzival  manuscripts. 

PROFESSIONAL  ACTIVITIES  OF  THE  FACULTY 
The  Department  will  be  represented  this  year  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Illinois 
Foreign  Language  Teachers'  Association  (IFLTA)  by  Prof.  U.  Henry  Gerlach.   The  meet- 
ing will  take  place  from  November  5-6  at  the  Sheraton-Blackstone  Hotel  in  Chicago. 
Prof.  Gerlach  will  read  a  paper  in  the  College  Section  on  "Language  without  Cul- 
ture...? or  !" 

Prof.  Ruth  Lorbe  held  an  orientation  program  on  campus  for  all  second-year 
Teaching  Assts.  in  the  Department  on  Sept.  7.   Miss  Lorbe  also  was  represented  re- 
cently in  the  Journal  of  English  and  Germanic  Philology  with  a  review  of  a  study  by 
Klaus  Weissenberger  of  Paul  Celan:   Die  Elegle  bei  Paul  Celan  (Francke  Verlag:  Bern 
und  Miinden,  1969). 

Prof.  Irmengard  Rauch's  paper  "Evolution  in  the  Germanic  Verb,"  which  she  read 
before  the  Linguistics  Club  on  campus  on  Feb.  22  of  this  year,  has  appeared  in  ab- 
stract in  the  Newsletter  of  the  UI  Dept.  of  Linguistics  (vol.  2,  no.  2).   Prof. 
Rauch's  book,  Approaches  in  Linguistic  Methodology  (The  Univ.  of  Wise.  Press:  Madison 
Milwaukee,  and  London,  1967),  which  she  co-edited  with  Charles  Scott,  was  recently 
reviewed  in  depth  in  Deutsche  Literaturzeitung  fur  Kritik  der  lnternatlonalen 
Wissenschaf t.   Miss  Rauch  is  also  the  author  of  The  Old  High  German  Dipthongization: 
A  Description  of  a  Phonemic  Change  (Mouton  &  Co.:  The  Hague  and  Paris,  1967),  which 
was  recently  reviewed  in  the  Dutch  journal  Leuvense  bl jdragen:  ti jdschrlft  voor 
moderne  philologie. 

GERMAN  CLUB 
The  German  Club  has  a  new  and  very  enthusiastic  faculty  advisor  this  year:   Prof. 
Rainer  Sell  (cf.  New  Faculty  above).   Together  with  the  current  President  of  the 
Club,  Mr.  Bill  Freyman,  Prof.  Sell  has  planned  a  very  full  schedule  of  activities 
for  this  fall  which  promise  an  entertaining  semester  for  members  of  the  Club.   The 
first,  organizational  meeting  of  the  Club  took  place  on  September  23;  this  was 
followed  the  next  week,  on  September  30,  by  the  annual  "Ok toberf est, "  featuring  music 
( "amerikanisch-modern"  and  "Bayrisch-traditionell" ) ,  dancing  and  refreshments.   On 
October  7  the  first  film  in  the  Club's  fall  film  series  was  shown:  Der  zerbrochene 
Krug.   Scheduled  for  the  next  few  months  are  also  Die  Buddenbrooks  Tpart  I,  Oct.  28, 
8:00,  112  Gregory  Hall;  part  II,  Nov.  k,    8:00,  112  Gregory  Hall)  and  a  film  on  the 
life  of  Beethoven  entitled  The  Magnificent  Rebel  (Dec.  16,  8:00,  Lincoln  Hall  Theatr) 
On  Dec.  9  the  annual  German  Club  Christmas  Party  will  be  held,  and  Dec.  10-11  the 
Club  will  participate  in  the  International  Fair  on  campus.   For  this  fall  the  Club 
also  plans  a  student  production  of  Friedrich  Durrenmatt's  Play  Strindberg  and  hopes 
to  organize  a  softball  team  as  well  as  to  open  a  cabaret.   Mr.  Sell  has  expressed 
special  interest  in  establishing  contact  with  other  German  Clubs  in  the  general 
vicinity  of  the  UI.  He  can  be  reached  by  phone  at  (217)  344-3610  or  by  mail  at 
906£  S.  Vine  St.,  Apt.  202,  Urbana,  IL  61801.   Mr.  Freyman  can  be  contacted  by  phone 
at  (217)  384-5920  or  by  mail  at  511  Illini  Tower,  409  E.  Chalmers  St.,  Champaign, 
IL  61820. 


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SLAVIC  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Frank  Gladney 

WE'VE  MOVED 
You  may  be  having  trouble  getting  in  touch  with  us  this  fall.  In  August  we  left 
Lincoln  Hall,  the  place  where  we  split  off  from  the  French  Department  and  grew  into 
a  graduate  department,  and  moved  across  the  Quad  to  the  new  Foreign  Language  Building 
Our  offices  stretch  along  the  northwest  corridor  of  the  third  floor.   If  you  dialed 
our  old  number  and  we  did  not  answer,  it  wasn't  that  we  were  out:   the  phone  company 
was  working  through  most  of  Sept.,  and  the  ringing  you  heard  was  only  in  the  wires. 
The  office  staff  is  all  new:   Mrs.  Sheila  Barnes  is  our  new  secretary,  being  helped 
in  the  a.m.  by  John  Dunkelberger  and  in  the  p.m.  by  Miss  Dorothea  Sir-Louis,  both  in 
Slavic.   Prof.  Rasio  Dunatov  is  gone  this  year.  He  was  last  seen  somewhere  between 
the  Dalmatian  coast,  where  he  is  gathering  data  for  his  sabbatical  year  research 
project  on  Serbo-Croatian,  and  Vienna,  where  he  has  settled  his  family  for  the  year. 
(Over  the  summer  he  directed  the  UI  Serbo-Croatian  program  in  Zagreb,  Yugoslavia.) 
Although  you  may  see  Prof.  Evelyn  Bristol,  she  too  is  officially  absent  on  sabbatical 
leave. 

NEW  FACES 
Among  the  new  graduate  teaching  assts.  in  the  Department  this  fall  are  several  who 
did  their  undergraduate  work  here:   Kenneth  hunt,  Paul  Smith,  and  Ferdinand  Woywod. 
TA*s  Eugene  Steingold  and  Svetlana  Tverdochlebov  studied  at  UI  Chicago  Circle.   Two 
new  lab  assistants  are  Philip  Cooper,  a  local  product,  and  Mrs.  Lavonne  McClure  from 
the  Univ.  of  Wise.   Nick  Samijlenko  from  the  Univ.  of  Chicago  is  a  research  asst. 
this  fall,  and  Miss  Christine  Bilynsky  from  Kutztown  State  College  will  have  that 
position  in  the  spring.   Miss  Ilene  Levine  from  the  Univ.  of  Mass.  is  here  on  a 
University  Fellowship,  and  the  following  have  NDEA  Fellowshfcs:   Miss  Esther  Barsky 
from  Temple  Univ.;  Stanton  Felton,  A  Portland  State  grad.  with  graduate  work  at  the 
Univ.  of  Wash.;  and  Mrs.  Eugenia  Greenfield  from  Ohio  Univ.,  who  is  back  in  school 
after  three  years  of  high  school  teaching — Title  VI;  David  Perlman  from  Lawrence 
Univ.  in  Wise. — Title  IV.   Arthur  P.  Aceto  did  his  earlier  work  at  SIU.   Returning 
students  who  are  teaching  for  the  first  time  are  Miss  Susan  Baker,  Mrs.  Marie  Gies, 
and  Mrs.  Olga  Yokoyama. 

UI  IN  LENINGRAD 
The  Slavic  Department  is  happy  to  announce  that  the  UI  at  Urbana-Champaign  has  been 
chosen  to  participate  in  the  semester  program  of  study  at  Leningrad  State  Univ., 
sponsored  by  the  Council  on  International  Educational  Exchange.   Students  interested 
in  spending  either  the  spring  1972  or  the  fall  1972-73  semester  at  LGU  may  obtain 
forms  and  information  sheets  in  3092  FLB.  Applicants  (grad  or  undergrad)  must  have 
completed  three  years  of  Russian  or  the  equivalent.   Approximate  cost  is  $2550  per 
semester,  with  some  financial  aid  based  on  need.  The  deadline  for  the  spring  semes- 
ter is  Oct.  30. 

SLAVIC  STUDENTS  ASSOCIATION 
Officers  for  the  current  year  are  Mrs.  Marie  Gies,  President;  William  McCombe,  Vice- 
President;  Mrs.  Barbara  vonBaumgarten,  Secretary;  and  Richard  Weathers,  Treasurer. 
The  SSA  has  instituted  an  advisory  program  for  new  students  in  the  Department  and 
one  for  new  TA's.   In  collaboration  with  Prof.  S.P.  Hill  they  have  compiled  a  hand- 
book entitled  "Graduate  Studies  in  Slavic  Languages  and  Literatures,"  available  from 
the  Dept.  office.   Another  project  of  the  SSA  is  publication  of  Slavic  Papers,  edited 
by  Mrs.  Gies  and  Gerald  Darring,  of  which  No.  7  was  issued  last  month  and  deals  with 
the  Soviet  poet  Osip  Mandel 'shtam.   The  SSA  held  a  highly  successful  beer  party  for 
students  and  staff  at  the  home  of  Miss  Birute  Lanys,  a  second-year  TA. 

SUMMER  NOTES 
Prof.  Temira  Pachmuss  attended  the  International  Dostoevski j  Symposium  in  Bad  Ems, 
Germany,  Aug.  31-Sept.  5,  and  presented  a  paper  entitled  "The  Influence  of  Dostoev- 
sky's  Themes  on  Contemporary  World  Literature."   While  there,  Miss  Pachmuss  became  a 
member  of  the  International  Dostoevsky  Society.   With  the  support  of  the  UI  Russian 
and  East  European  Center,  Prof.  Pachmuss  was  able  to  travel  to  Helsinki  for  further 
research  on  the  religious  and  socio-political  activities  of  Zinaida  Hippius.   In  Nice 
and  Paris  she  interviewed  the  Russian  emigre*  writers  Georgy  Adamovich  and  Sergey 


Zhaba  and  the  poet  T.  Velichkovskaya.   Miss  Pachmuss'  Zinaida  Hlppius :   An  Intellec- 
tual Profile  was  published  earlier  this  year  by  the  Southern  111.  Univ.  Press.   The 
Wilhelm  Fink  Verlag  in  Munich  recently  reproduced  Zinaida  Hippius '  literary  memoirs 
Zhiyye  litsa  (Living  Portraits)  with  an  introduction  by  Prof.  Pachmuss.   The  same 
publisher  is  bringing  out  the  collected  poetical  works  of  Zinaida  Hippius  in  two 
volumes,  edited  with  introduction  and  notes  by  Miss  Pachmuss. 

FILM 
"Welcome — Or,  No  Trespassing!"  a  1965  Russian  film,  some  of  the  sharpest  satire  yet 
from  the  USSR,  was  screened  in  the  Auditorium  on  Tuesday,  Oct.  19 

AATSEEL 
The  fall  meeting  of  the  Illinois  Chapter  of  AATSEEL  will  take  place  in  Chicago  Fri. 
evening,  Nov.  5,  in  conjunction  with  the  annual  IFLA  meeting.   Further  information  is 
available  from  the  Secretary  of  Illinois  AATSEEL,  Mr.  Steven  Stroud,  229  Lafayette, 
Wood  Dale,  IL60181. 

PH.D.  AWARDED 
Eldon  G.  Lytle,  now  at  the  Linguistics  Dept.  of  Brigham  Young  Univ.,  was  awarded  the 
Ph.D.  degree  earlier  this  month.   Dr.  Lytle' s  dissertation  is  entitled  "Structural 
Derivation  in  Russian." 

SPANISH,  ITALIAN  AND  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  —  by  Alice  L.  Anderson 

1972  AATSP  NATIONAL  SPANISH  CONTEST 
The  national  Spanish  contest  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  Spanish  and 
Portuguese  (AATSP)  is  approaching;  as  in  the  past,  contestants  will  be  Judged  on  the 
basis  of  written  as  well  as  oral  comprehension  examinations,  at  the  first  through 
fifth-year  levels.  The  test  will  be  administered  between  March  18  and  April  1,  1972. 
At  present  the  Downstate  Chapter  of  the  AATSP  is  looking  for  schools  that  would  be 
willing  to  set  up  area  testing  centers;  a  language  laboratory  or  good  tape  recorder 
is  required.  All  Illinois  teachers  are  eligible  to  enter  their  Spanish  students; 
however,  only  students  of  teachers  who  are  national  and  chapter  members  of  AATSP  are 
eligible  to  compete  for  awards. 

Specific  information  and  order  blanks  for  exams  will  be  mailed  to  all  current 
chapter  members.   Orders  must  be  received  by  February  1.  1972.   Non-members  wishing 
information,  as  well  as  schools  willing  to  set  up  area  testing  centers  should  write 
to:   James  E.  McKinney;  AATSP  Contest  Chairman;  Sallee  Hall  220;  Western  111.  Univ.; 
Macomb,  111.  614-55. 

Let's  show  our  unity  as  teachers  in  these  difficult  times  by  joining  AATSP. 
To  become  a  member  of  AATSP,  send  $9.00  ($8.00  National  dues,  $1.00  Chapter)  to: 
Dr.  Rodolfo  Vilarfi,  Treasurer;  University  High  School;  Illinois  State  University; 
Normal,  IL  61701. 

SUMMER  DOINGS 
Professor  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello,  Head  of  the  Department,  attended  and  participated 
in  the  annual  Convention  of  AEPE  (Asociacion  Europea  de  Profesores  de  Espanol)  in 
Oviedo,  Spain,  on  the  novel.   There  he  performed  in  a  dialogue  written  by  Francisco 
Ayala,  on  Aug.  16-20;  and  was  also  the  main  speaker  along  with  theater  critic  Ricardo 
Domenech  in  the  second  half  of  the  Convention,  held  in  Santiago  de  Compostela  (Aug. 
23-27)  and  devoted  to  the  contemporary  theater  in  Spain.   Prof.  Pasquariello  also 
attended  the  IV  Congreso  de  la  Asociaci<5n  Internacional  de  Hispanistas  held  in 
Salamanca,  Aug.  30-Sept.  k,    where  he  read  a  paper  entitled  "La  funcifin  de  la  mentira 
poe"tica  en  Tres  sombreros  de  copa  de  Miguel  Mihura." 

Prof.  Joseph  S.  Flores  attended  the  Congreso  Internacional  de  Hispanistas  on 
Aug.  29-Sept.  5  at  the  Univ.  of  Salamanca,  Spain,  in  which  city  he  also  met  with 
other  Illini  and  former  Illini:   the  Shoemakers  (now  at  the  Univ.  of  Mo.),  Dr. 
Morfnigo  (from  Argentina),  the  Ebersols  (now  at  the  Univ.  of  N.  Car.),  the  Porqueras- 
Mayo  (UI  Resident  Director  of  Year-Abroad  Program  at  Barcelona),  Dr.  Paul  Olson 
(Ph.D.,  UI),  and  Dr.  Owen  Aldridge  (Comparative  Literature,  UI ) .   He  was  in  Las 


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Palmas  de  la  Gran  Canaria,  as  well  as  being  in  Madrid  where  he  met  at  the  airport  the 
first  group  of  students  of  the  UI  Year-Abroad  Program  in  Spain.   In  addition,  prep- 
arations were  made  for  the  Program's  second  year  at  the  Univ.  of  Barcelona  in  '72-73. 

Prof.  M.H.  Forster,  recipient  of  a  Pulbright-Hayes  Research  Grant,  was  in  Chile, 
Argentina,  Uruguay,  Brazil,  and  Peru  during  Jan. -Aug.  1971# 

Prof.  Luis  Leal  taught  at  the  Middlebury  (Vt.)  Language  School  during  the  sum- 
mer session,  1971. 

Assoc.  Prof.  Richard  Preto-Rodas  travelled  to  Buenos  Aires,  Rio  de  Janeiro  and 
Bahia.   In  Buenos  Aires  he  visited  old  Departmental  friends  like  M.A.  Morfnigo  and 
Enrique  Pezzoni. 

Assoc.  Prof.  Mario  Saltarelli  spent  much  of  the  summer  in  Rome.   He  also  went 
to  the  Universite"  Laval  in  Quebec  for  the  XHIe  Congres  International  de  Linguis- 
tique  et  Philologie  Romane,  where  he  read  a  paper  entitled  "Le  Regole  Fonologiche 
nella  Classif icazione  delle  Lingue  Neolatine." 

Many  of  the  graduate  students  also  studied  overseas  during  the  summer.  Eva 
Abreu  took  a  summer  course  in  Portugal.   John  Aurand  was  at  the  Univ.  of  Lisboa. 
Francisco  Gadea-Oltra  completed  studies  for  his  law  degree  at  the  Univ.  of  Madrid, 
having  graduated  "summa  cum  laude."   He"ctor  Hernandez-Nieto  received  an  M.A.  in  the 
Classics  from  the  UI .   Kateri  O'Shea  attended  literature  courses  at  the  Universidad 
Nacional  Aut6noma  in  Mexico  City.   Mike  Waag  completed  Peace  Corps  Service  in  Ecua- 
dorian Oriente.  Eileen  Zeitz  travelled  to  South  America,  principally  Buenos  Aires 
and  Rio  de  Janeiro. 

FACULTY  NOTES 
Congratulations  to  Thomas  C.  Meehan:   he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Assoc.  Prof,  in 
Spanish.   Assoc.  Prof.  Meehan  teaches  in  the  area  of  Spanish  American  literature  and 
is  also  course  supervisor  for  Span.  211-214,  the  advanced  composition  and  conversa- 
tion classes. 

The  Department  welcomes  one  new  faculty  member  this  year,  Asst.  Prof.  Anthony 
Cassell.   Asst.  Prof.  Cassell  received  his  B.A.  from  the  Univ.  of  Toronto  and  his 
Ph.D.  in  1969  from  Johns  Hopkins  Univ.  in  Baltimore.   His  dissertation  was  entitled 
"II  Corbaccio  of  Boccaccio."   Asst.  Prof.  Cassell  teaches  the  Italian  language  and 
literature. 

Promoted  to  the  rank  of  instructor  are  Adriana  Aldridge  and  Don  Bevelander. 
Mrs.  Aldridge,  appointed  a  part-time  instr.,  is  teaching  Span.  400  and  Span.  215. 
She  is  also  working  on  her  dissertation,  "De  la  teorfa  a  la  prSctica  en  la  novela 
histfirica  hispanoamericana. "   Mr.  Bevelander,  a  full-time  instructor  who  now  directs 
Span.  103-104,  is  writing  his  thesis  Point  of  View  in  the  Fiction  of  Vargas  Llosa. 

PUBLICATIONS 
Professor  Merlin  H.  Forster  has  published  an  article,  "Vicente  Huidobrcte  Altazar:   A 
Re-evaluation,"  in  the  Kentucky  Romance  Quarterly.  XVII  (1970),  297-307. 

Prof.  Luis  Leal's  publications  include  Breve  historla  de  la  llteratura  hispano- 
americana. New  York:  Albert  A.  Knopf,  1971  (392  pp. ) ;  "The  Spanish  American  Novel 
and  Short  Story,"  in  Robert  Esquenazi-Mayo  and  Michael  C.  Meyer,  Latin  American 
Scholarship  since  World  War  II,  Lincoln:  Univ.  of  Neb.  Press  (197D,  227-245;  "The 
Nature  of  Latin  American  Literature,"  Topic  21  (Spring,  1971 ),  5-11 J  and  "Octavio 
Paz  y  la  literatura  nacional:  afinidades  y  oposiciones, "  Revlsta  Iberoamericana 
XXXVIII,  74  (Jan. -Mar.,  1971),  239-250. 

Assoc.  Prof.  Mario  Saltarelli  has  published  "Per  una  semantica  generativa  delle 
coordinate"  in  Grammatica  Trans formazlonale  Italiana,  Rome:  Bulzoni,  1971. 

Asst.  Prof.  Martha  Francescato,  with  the  aid  of  the  Faculty  Fellowship  awarded 
by  the  Graduate  College,  is  completing  work  on  the  Antologfa  de  Bestarios  Hispano- 
amerlcanos.  to  be  published  by  Editorial  Di6genes;  included  will  be  a  text  by  Julio 
CortSzar  written  especially  for  the  anthology. 

Miss  Michiko  Nonoyama,  graduate  teaching  assistant,  has  translated  into  Japanese 
several  works  of  Gracfa  Lorca  and  Buero  Vallejo. 

Mr.  Andre's  Avellaneda,  Univ.  Fellow  and  graduate  student  in  Spanish,  has  pub- 
lished an  article,  "Mito  y  negacifin  de  la  historia  en  Zona  Sagrada  de  Carlos  Fuentes," 
in  Cuadernos  Americanos  2  (1971),  239-248. 


11 

DISSERTATION  DEFENSE 
During  the  summer  Elizabeth  Q.  Espadas,  now  at  the  Univ.  of  Del.,  successfully 
defended  her  dissertation,  The  Language  of  Azorfn,  which  was  directed  by  Prof.  Robert 
E.  Lott.   Mrs.  Espadas  and  her  husband  Juan  then  visited  Mr.  Espadas'  family  in 
Ciudad  Real,  Spain. 

PHI  KAPPA  PHI 
The  UI  Chapter  of  Phi  Kappa  Phi,  graduate  honor  society,  initiated  the  following 
from  the  Department  in  1971:   Susan  Kingston  Flynn,  Theda  Herz,  William  Impens, 
Roberto  Severino,  and  Pamela  Strange. 

SIGMA  DELTA  PI 
The  local  chapter  of  the  Spanish  honorary  Sigma  Delta  Pi,  advised  by  Assoc.  Prof. 
Hugo  Cowes  and  under  the  direction  of  graduate  asst.  Luis  Vera,  has  elected  its  of- 
ficers:  Roger  Stein,  President  and  Almeda  Lahr,  Secretary. 

SPANISH  CLUB 
The  Spanish  Club  is  continuing  its  tradition  of  Tertulias,  which  all  Spanish  speakers 
are  invited  to  attend.   The  Tertulia  gives  intermediate  and  advanced  students  of 
Spanish  the  opportunity  to  practice  conversing  in  an  informal  atmosphere.  They  are 
being  held  every  other  Thursday  at  4:00  in  the  Thunderbird  Restaurant  on  Goodwin  St. 

In  addition,  the  Spanish  Club  is  planning  a  Christmas  Party,  which  will  take 
place  in  the  Illini  Union  on  Wednesday,  Dec.  15,  at  8  p.m.  The  party  is  for  stu- 
dents, faculty  and  their  families  (children  are  welcome). 

The  Soanish  Club  is  under  the  direction  of  graduate  asst.  Armando  Armengol;  for 
further  information  please  contact  him  in  4133  FLB. 

SPANISH  LUNCHEONS 
The  department-sponsored  Spanish  luncheons  have  again  resumed,  with  the  location 
changed  this  year  to  the  University  Club,  1201  W.  Oregon,  Urbana.   All  department 
members  are  invited  to  attend.   Advance  reservations  are  requested. 

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LATE  NOTICE  OF  PROPOSED  NATIONAL  FL  CONFERENCE 
Notice  has  just  been  received  of  a  proposed  National  Conference  on  the  Role  of  For- 
eign Languages,  Literatures,  and  Cultures  in  Undergraduate  Education.   The  project 
envisages  an  Exploratory  Conference  in  Urbana  from  March  22-24,  1972,  at  which  work- 
ing committees  of  cooperating  scholars  from  the  Midwest  C.I.C.  region  will  draw  up 
position  papers  for  a  March  1973  National  Conference. 

Scholars  in  public,  private,  junior,  or  senior  colleges  who  would  like  to  be 
involved  in  some  rigorous  thinking  and  hard  work  in  this  vital  area  of  foreign  lan- 
guage education  are  asked  to  write,  giving  information  about  themselves  and  their 
institutions,  the  languages  they  are  concerned  with,  and  forward  this  to  Prof.  Wilga 
M.  Rivers,  Dept.  of  French,  2090  FLB,  Urbana,  IL  61801,  who  will  send  them  further 
information.   Interested  scholars  are  asked  to  get  in  touch  immediately  since  work 
must  be  begun  within  the  next  month  in  the  various  sections. 

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THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  NEWSLETTER 

December,  1971       Director:   Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello 
Vol.  XXV,  No.  2  Editor:   Alice  Long  Anderson 

FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  ARTICULATION  CONFERENCE 
The  School-University  Foreign  Language  Articulation  Conference  was  held  Oct.  28-29, 
1971,  at  the  U.I.   This  was  the  fourth  conference  held  under  the  auspices  of  the  for- 
eign language  departments  of  the  U.I.   Letters  of  invitation  were  sent  to  all  high 
schools,  to  all  junior  colleges,  to  all  foreign  language  coordinators  working  for  the 
county  superintendents  of  public  instruction,  and  to  the  teaching  staff  of  all  for- 
eign language  departments  of  the  U.I.   There  were  220  people  (about  60  tess  than  in 
1969)  present  at  the  dinner  meeting,  at  which  the  main  speaker  was  Prof.  Wilga  Rivers 

Among  the  various  activities  were  the  teacher  interviews  with  former  high  school 
students.   The  demonstration  of  language  instruction  via  PLATO  was  well  attended.   It 
was  suggested,  however,  by  several  teachers  that  in  the  future  the  time  and  place  of 
the  demonstration  be  changed  in  order  to  increase  the  number  of  visitors.   The  tours 
of  the  newly  completed  Foreign  Language  Building  were  successful.   Four  graduate  stu- 
dents and  one  instructor  served  as  guides;  more  than  100  persons  visited  the  F.L.B. 
during  the  first  hour.   During  the  luncheon  meeting  Prof.  Lawrence  Aleamoni's  speech 
sought  to  answer  the  concerns  of  the  high  school  teachers  who  are  always  very  con- 
cerned about  how  their  students  are  doing  in  the  foreign  language  classes  at  the  uni- 
versity. 

At  this  conference  the  section  meetings  on  Friday  morning  and  afternoon  were 
planned  more  carefully  than  for  the  previous  conferences.   There  were  speakers  sched- 
uled for  the  morning  session,  while  in  the  afternoon  all  the  sections  discussed  in 
small  groups  a  series  of  questions  worked  out  by  Prof.  Wilga  Rivers.   The  teachers 
were  divided  into  small  discussion  groups  of  about  15  persons  with  a  discussion  lead- 
er.  This  experiment  turned  out  to  be  very  successful  and  stimulating,  in  that  the 
teachers  themselves  had  the  possibility  to  participate  actively  and  to  express  their 
opinions  on  matters  which  were  of  concern  to  them. 

A  special  feature  of  this  conference  was  the  presence  of  about  thirty-five  for- 
eign language  instructors  from  the  junior  colleges,  who  for  the  first  time  partici- 
pated in  the  conference.   After  the  conference  Prof.  Wilga  Rivers  and  several  faculty 
members  of  the  U.I.  had  a  meeting  with  thirty-one  faculty  representatives  from  the 
junior  colleges.   This  meeting  was  one  of  the  most  successful  parts  of  the  conference 
The  persons  present  participated  actively  in  the  discussion  of  the  points  presented 
to  them  by  Prof.  Rivers.   Three  basic  points  were  discussed  at  this  meeting:   inter- 
institutional  patterns  of  cooperation,  curricular  patterns  and  development,  and  tech- 
nology and  experimentation.   It  was  also  decided  to  hold  a  conference  of  the  foreign 
language  teachers  of  the  junior  colleges  in  association  with  the  Foreign  Language 
Depts.  at  the  U.I.,  at  Urbana  in  March,  1972. 

The  conference  committee  in  its  evaluation  session  following  the  conference 
agreed  that  the  Dept.  of  Spanish,  Italian,  and  Portuguese  would  be  in  charge  of  the 
next  articulation  conference  in  Oct.,  1973. 

A  THANK-YOU 
The  Editor  wishes  to  express  her  thanks  to  all  of  you  who  cooperated  in  returning 
the  mailing-list  coupon.   A  special  thanks  to  the  many  who  took  time  to  express  theii 
appreciation  for  the  FL  Newsletter.   Any  comments,  critical  or  otherwise,  are  always 
welcome — your  continuing  interest  is  the  "raison  d'etre"  for  the  Newsletter! 

CONFERENCE  ON  DIACHRONIC  ROMANCE  LINGUISTICS 
The  Dept.  of  Spanish,  Italian,  and  Portuguese,  in  collaboration  with  the  Depts.  of 
the  Classics,  French,  and  Linguistics,  and  the  Center  for  Latin  American  Studies  wil] 
hold  a  conference  dealing  with  historical  aspects  of  Romance  languages  in  a  transfor- 
mational view,  tentatively  scheduled  for  April  21-22,  1972.   Semantic,  syntactic, 
morphological,  and  phonological  questions  in  historical  perspective  will  be  presented 
For  further  information,  please  contact  Prof.  D.  Wanner,  ^080  FLB,  Urbana,  IL61801. 


MLA  ANNUAL  CONVENTION 
The  Annual  Convention  of  the  Modern  Language  Association  of  America  will  be  held  on 
December  26,  1971,  at  the  Conrad  Hilton  Hotel  in  Chicago.   Five  workshop  sessions 
will  be  held,  in  addition  to  papers.   Included  in  the  papers  will  be  one  by  U.I.  Prof. 
Wilga  M.  Rivers,  "The  Undergraduate  Program,  Continuiing  and  Terminal." 

TRANSLATORS'  WORKSHOP 
The  Translators'  Workshop  is  an  on-going  group  of  people  interested  in  translation, 
mainly  literary  rather  than  technical.  At  the  monthly  meetings  the  discussion  mainly 
centers  around  specific  problems  relative  to  translation,  such  as  types  of  aides  for 
translation,  the  economics  of  translation,  and  publishing.   It  is  hoped  in  the  future 
that  a  file  might  be  initiated  for  the  U.I.  with  a  listing  of  those  available  for 
translating  or  interpreting.  Please  direct  any  further  questions  regarding  meeting 
times,  etc.  to:   Prof.  William  McDonald,  Center  for  Asian  Studies,  1208  W.  California, 
Urbana,  IL.  61801;  (21?)  333-0451. 

THE  CLASSICS  NOTES  --  by  Prof.  H.  Michael  Dunn 

THE  AMERICAN  PHILOLOGICAL  ASSOCIATION 
This  year  the  annual  meetings  of  the  APA  will  be  held  in  Cincinnati,  Dec.  28-30,  at 
the  Netherland  Hilton  Hotel.   Prof.  John  J.  Bateman,  Head  of  the  Department,  is  the 
Secretary-Treasurer  and  serves  on  the  Program  Committee.  The  following  papers  will 
be  presented  by  members  of  the  Dept.: 

Prof.  John  Heller  -  "Classical  Poetry  in  the  Systema  Naturae  of  Linnaeus." 

Prof.  Howard  Marblestone  -  "Philostratus '  Heroicus :   'bizarre  but  insufficiently 
utilized...'"  (Prof.  Marcovich  will  preside  at  this  section  meeting). 

Prof.  Daniel  J.  Taylor  -  "Mures,  Immo  homines:   Rationalism  in  Language  Learn- 
ing . " 

Prof.  Luitpold  Wallach  -  "The  Textual  History  of  a  Greek  Ambrose  Text." 
Prof.  Taylor,  in  addition,  will  serve  as  Moderator  at  the  Seminar  on  Classical  Lin- 
buistics.   At  the  December  meeting  of  the  MLA  in  Chicago,  Andrew  Horton,  graduate 
teaching  assistant  in  the  Humanities  Program,  will  read  a  paper  on  "The  Poetry  of 
Angelos  Sikileanos,"  the  modern  Greek  poet. 

THE  ARCHAEOLOGICAL  INSTITUTE  OF  AMERICA 
This  year  at  the  annual  meetings  of  the  AIA  (held  jointly  with  the  APA)  Prof.  Hubert 
Lo  Allen,  the  Director  of  the  joint  excavations  of  the  U.I.  and  Princeton  Univ.  will 
present  his  report,  "Morgantina,  1971." 

On  Nov.  17,  Evelyn  L.  Smithson,  Assoc.  Prof,  of  Classics  at  SUNY  Buffalo,  gave  a 
lecture  "Athens  in  the  Dark  Age,"  under  the  auspices  of  the  UI  Dept.  of  the  Classics 
and  the  Central  II.  Society  of  the  AIA.  A  large  group  of  professional  scholars 
and  enthusiastic  amateirs  derived  much  information  and  enjoyment  from  Prof.  Smithson' s 
illustrated  talk  on  the  continuities  and  discontinuities  of  material  civilization  in 
Athens  between  the  end  of  the  Mycenaean  era  and  the  beginning  of  "Archaic  Classical" 
civilization. 

The  next  lecture  in  the  series  will  be  given  by  Prof.  Bernard  Bothmer  of  the 
Brooklyn  Museum  on  Feb.  15,  1972;  his  subject  will  be  "The  Landscape  and  Architec- 
ture of  Ancient  Egypt." 

WORKSHOPS  AND  CONFERENCES 
Profs.  Bateman,  Dunn,  and  Scanlan  represented  the  Department  at  the  ACTFL  meetings 
held  in  Chicago  over  the  Thanksgiving  recess. 

Prof.  Scanlan  has  so  far  this  fall  conducted  workshops  for  the  following  groups: 
The  Classical  Alliance  of  Western  New  York  in  Buffalo,  The  Minnesota  Classical  Con- 
ference in  St.  Paul,  and  Illinois  Latin  teachers  in  Decatur.   Attendance  at  the  var- 
ious sessions  was  high,  and  enrollment  reports  were  most  encouraging. 


Prof.  Scanlan  also  met  recently  in  New  York  City  with  the  Latin  Advanced  Place- 
ment Committee  of  the  College  Entrance  Examination  Board  to  discuss  changes  in  the 
National  Latin  Advanced  Placement  Program.  The  syllabus  and  examination  will  remain 
the  same  for  the  May  1972  administration,  but  the  following  year's  course  will  in- 
clude a  large  component  of  sight  translation.  The  committee  also  discussed  the  pos- 
sibilities for  an  Advanced  Placement  program  in  the  Classical  Humanities,  since  such 
courses  are  rapidly  developing  around  the  country. 

Many  teachers  from  the  state  attended  the  Foreign  Language  Articulation  Con- 
ference held  at  the  U.I.  on  Oct.  28-29.   Guest  speakers  at  the  afternoon  Latin  sec- 
tional meeting  included  Prof.  Arthur  Rupprecht,  President  of  the  111.  Classical  Con- 
ference, and  Prof.  George  Kerford,  a  visiting  professor  from  England  who  was  on  cam- 
pus to  deliver  colloquia  for  the  Depts.  of  the  Classics  and  Philosophy.   He  discussed 
the  state  of  the  Classics  in  Great  Britain.   The  morning  session,  conducted  by  Prof. 
Dunn,  concerned  itself  primarily  with  college  and  university  requirements  about  which 
much  confusion  had  arisen,  and  the  coordination  of  high  school  and  college/university 
programs  in  Latin.   Among  those  attending  were:   Mrs.  Ward  Dare,  Bement;  Mrs.  Mary 
Gould,  Bergan  (Peoria);  Mary  Jeanette  Munce,  Bloomington;  Lois  Bottenfield,  Champaign; 
Wilfrid  McWilliams,  Elgin;  Marjorie  Olson,  Elk  Grove;  Edward  Plichta,  Geneva;  Joseph 
Soltis,  Ottawa;  Henrietta  Davis,  Pekin;  Dorothy  Coyne,  Pontiac;  Helen  Lamont,  Univ. 
H.S.  (Urbana);  Mrs.  Messling,  Ursuline  Academy  (Springfield);  and  Arthur  Rupprecht, 
Wheaton  College. 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Barbara  Smalley 

PUBLICATIONS 
Professor  A.  Owen  Aldridge's  study,  "Prom  Sterne  to  Machado  de  Assis,"  was  recently 
published  in  A.H.  Cash  and  J.M.  Stedmond,  eds.,  The  Winged  Skull :   Bicentenary  Con- 
ference Papers  on  Lawrence  S te me  (Kent  State  Univ.  Press,  197D ,  pp.  170-185. 

LECTURES 
Prof.  Rocco  Montano  delivered  two  lectures  on  Nov.  19-20  at  Indiana  Univ.   His  topics 
were  "Italian  Aristotelism  and  Elizabethan  Drama"  and  "II  mancato  Risorgimento. "   His 
lectures  were  sponsored  by  the  Indiana  Univ.  Horizons  of  Knowledge  Committee  and  by 
the  Depts.  of  English,  French  and  Italian,  and  Comparative  Literature. 

Prof.  A.  Owen  Aldridge  gave  a  lecture,  "The  Ancients  and  Moderns,  "  at  the  Univ. 
of  Colo,  on  Nov.  8.   On  Nov.  10,  he  delivered  the  A.J.  Dickman  Memorial  Lecture  at 
the  Univ.  of  Wyoming.   His  address  there  was  entitled  "The  Literature  of  Primitivism 
in  the  Eighteenth  Century." 

MEETINGS 
On  Nov.  11,  Prof.  Francois  Jost  met  with  the  students  of  Comparative  Literature  in 
order  to  discuss  various  projects  and  goals  of  the  Program.   After  the  meeting  the 
students  gathered  at  the  Josts'  home  for  a  social  evening. 

VISITING  FACULTY 
Members  of  the  Comparative  Literature  Program  are  pleased  to  have  with  us  this  semes- 
ter Prof.  Manfred  Gsteiger,  who  is  conducting  a  course  on  Symbolism  in  the  Compara- 
tive Literature  Program. 

PH.D.  DEGREES 
Four  Comparative  Literature  students  were  awarded  Ph.D.  degrees  in  October  of  this 
year.   Names  and  dissertation  topics  are:   Agnes  Brandabur,  "The  Faust  Theme  and  the 
Descent  into  Hell";  Arthur  Flodstrom,  "Par  Lagerkvist  and  the  Cubist  Movement"; 
Thomas  Noel,  "The  Rise  and  Fall  of  a  Genre:   Theories  of  the  Fable  in  the  Eighteenth 
Century";  and  Arline  Thorn,  "The  Waif  as  a  Literary  Type  in  the  Nineteenth  Century 
Novel." 


FRENCH  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel 

LE  BOURGEOIS  GENTILHOMME 
The  Nov.  1,  1971,  production  of  Le  Bourgeois  Gentilhomme  (by  the  Tre*teau  de  Paris)  at 
the  Krannert  Center  of  the  U.I.,  Urbana,  was  again  a  success.   It  was  also  a  sell- 
out, as  in  past  years,  and  more  people  than  in  past  years  were  unable  to  purchase  a 
ticket.   Whether  or  not  two  performances  are  possible  in  the  future  is  a  moot  point 
and  not  to  be  decided  for  some  time.   In  1972  the  Tre"teau  will  probably  come  again  to 
this  campus,  approximately  at  the  same  time  of  year,  and  for  a  production  of  Le  Bar- 
bier  de  Seville  by  Beaumarchais.   Since  many  schools  within  a  wide  radius  bring  im- 
pressive contingents  of  students  to  Urbana  each  year,  we  would  like  to  know  whether 
the  out-of-town  audience  prefers  that  performances  start  at  7:30  rather  than  at  8:00. 
In  case  you  have  strong  feelings  one  way  or  another,  please  let  me  know  at  2090  FLB, 
Urbana,  IL.  61801.   Thank  you. 

STAFF  NEWS 
Prof.  Philip  Kolb  has  been  awarded  a  Senior  Fellowship  by  the  National  Endowment  for 
the  Humanities,  beginning  July  1,  1972. 

Prof.  F.W.  Nachtmann  recently  attended  in  New  York  the  biennial  meeting  of  the 
Fe'de'ration  Internationale  des  Organisations  de  Correspondances  et  d'Echanges  Sco- 
laires;  he  also  attended  another  series  of  meetings  in  New  York,  intended  to  coordi- 
nate more  closely  the  work  of  the  various  professional  language  organizations. 

Profs.  Sandra  Savignon,  Stanley  Shinall,  Wilga  Rivers,  Paul  Griffith,  Gabriel 
Savignon,  and  Robert  J.  Nelson,  all  of  the  Department,  were  involved  in  activities 
and  presentations  at  the  1971  FL  Articulation  Conference  at  the  U.I.,  Oct.  28-29. 

Prof.  Jahiel  read  a  paper  on  "Maupassant  and  Godard"  at  the  recent  MMLA  meeting 
in  Detroit,  and  participated  (for  the  U.I.)  in  the  Nov.  20  meeting  of  the  C.I.C.  Film 
Panel  at  O'Hare  (Chicago). 

Prof.  Nelson  is  the  Dept.'s  Job  Placement  Officer  and  all  communications  regard- 
ing positions  for  our  students  should  be  addressed  to  him. 

Several  staff  members  have  attended  other  meetings,  including  the  IFLTA  and  the 
AATF  of  Nov.  5  in  Chicago,  and  the  AATF  meeting  in  Washington  in  late  Nov.  Prof. 
Mainous,  Head  of  the  French  Dept.,  has  been  especially  active  in  professional  groups. 

Prof.  Sandra  Savignon  was  one  of  the  Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences  staff  members 
whom  seniors,  in  their  annual  questionnaire,  named  as  "the  most  stimulating  teacher 
they  had  had  in  their  entire  college  career." 

Prof.  F.W.  Nachtmann  has  organized  once  more  a  French  Choral  Group,  a  recital  of 
chich  is  forthcoming. 

The  Ce*nacle,  organized  by  Prof.  Barbara  Bowen,  had  for  its  second  subject  this 
term  "Que  veut  dire  le  mot  existentialisme  dans  son  sens  purement  litte"raire?"  and 
for  its  third  subject  the  explication  de  texte  game. 

Students  and  staff  have  organized  the  Cercle  Litte*raire  Ne*gro-Francophone  which 
has  had  its  first  lively  meeting  and  which  later  co-sponsored  Prof.  N'Dao's  lecture 
of  Nov.  22  (see  below). 

TALKS 
The  French  Journal  Club  has  sponsored  the  following  talks:   "Bipolarite"  du  Classi- 
cisme"  by  Prof.  R.J.  Nelson  on  Oct.  18;  "Un  Etudiant  stranger  a  Paris  en  1810: 
Uhland  et  les  Chansons  de  Geste"  by  Prof.  C.A.  Knudson  on  Nov.  15;  and  "La  Nouvelle 
Litte"rature"  (on  African  writers)  by  Prof.  Cheik  N'Dao  on  Nov.  22.   Prof.  N'Dao,  a 
playwright  and  poet  from  Senegal,  is  currently  a  Fullbright  Exchange  Professor  at 
Oaklnad  City  College,  Indiana;  in  addition  tc  his  talk,  he  participated  in  several 
meetings  and  classroom  or  informal  discussions. 

On  Oct.  27,  Madame  Heurgon-Des jardins,  who  directs  the  yearly  "Entretiens  de 
Cerisy-la-Salle, "  talked  about  the  "Entretiens  de  Pontigny"  which  her  father  Paul 
Paul  Des jardins  had  founded.   This  talk  was  sponsored  by  Prof.  L.  Burl  Price,  thanks 
to  his  gift  of  $150  to  the  "French  at  Illinois"  Fund  in  the  U.I.  Foundation. 


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THE  NATIONAL  FRENCH  CONTEST 
The  thirty-seventh  annual  National  French  Contest  (sponsored  by  the  American  Assoc. 
of  Teachers  of  French  (AATF))  will  be  held  March  23-25,  1972.   About  48,000  students 
competed  in  the  1971  contest;  a  greater  number  is  expected  this  year.   Pupils  of 
FLES  and  Secondary  Schools  are  invited  to  participate. 

To  enter  students,  teachers  can  contact  their  Chapter  Contest  Chairman  (listing 
of  names  can  be  found  in  the  Oct.  1971  French  Review). 

Practice  examination  sheets  (35  cents)  and  practice  tapes  ($3*50)  are  available 
for  each  level  (I  to  V)  for  1969,  1970,  and  1971. 

To  be  published  by  World  Press  Review  Co.  shortly  is  a  series  of  review  books  of 
NFC  examinations  presenting  a  Student  Edition  and  a  Teacher's  Edition  for  each  level 
U1.25  each);  for  information,  write  to:   Sidney  L.  Teitelbaum,  Box  86,  Plainview, 
N.Y.  11803. 

Teachers,  to  acquaint  themselves  with  the  contest,  should  read  the  article  "The 
Contest"  in  the  Dec.  1970  French  Review  by  Emma  J.  Blanch,  National  Publicity  Chmn. 

ATTENTION — in  1972,  a  new  level  examination  called  French  01  has  been  inaugu- 
rated, intended  for  students  grades  7-12  who  began  their  study  of  French  during  the 
current  school  year. 

National  winners  for  1971  Contest:   level  2A,  first  place,  Camilla  Kennedy, 
Chicago  (York  Comm.  High  School);  level  3A,  first  place,  James  McClure,  Chicago  (York 
Comm.  High  School);  level  5B,  third  place,  Adrienne  Lebailly,  New  Trier  Twp.  High 
School,  East  Chicago.   Regional  winners,  all  of  Chicago:   level  1A,  first  place, 
Louis  Svaldi ;  level  IB,  first  place,  Chris  Alimanestano;  level  2B,  first  olace,  Linda 
Jones;  level  UA,  first  place,  Debora  Bodeau;  level  4B,  first  place,  Amey  DeSoto. 
For  local  winners,  contact  State  Contest  Chairman:   Sr.  Jean  Murray,  Rosary  College, 
River  Forest,  IL.  60305. 

AATF  SUMMER  SCHOLARSHIPS 
Six  unrestricted  summer  scholarships  of  8750  each  will  be  granted  for  study  in  France 
during  the  summer  of  1972.   Applicants  must  be  elementary  or  secondary  scnool  teaches 
of  French  who  have  been  AATF  members  since  Jan.l,  1969,  who  are  currently  teaching 
and  plan  to  continue  teaching  during  1972-73*   Deadline  for  applying  is  Jan.l,  1972. 
Contact  the  National  Chairman,  Miss  Evelyn  Vandiver,  2246  Cumberland  Ave.,  Charlotte, 
N.C.  28203. 

S0CIETE  DES  PROFESSEURS  FRANCAIS  EN  AMERIQUE 
This  Society  offers  various  types  of  scholarships:   "Bourses  de  voyage  en  France"; 
"bourses  de  voyage  et  d'e"tudes  en  France";  "bourses  d'e'te'  pour  e"tudier  dans  la  pro- 
vince de  Quebec."   Space  being  limited,  we  cannot  give  details.   However,  the  Quebec 
grants  have  a  deadline  of  Nov.  25 — to  late  for  this  year;  the  others  have  a  Feb.  1 
deadline.   Travel  grants  are  for  Ph.D.  candidates  under  thirty-five;  travel  and  study 
grants  are  for  those  who  have  been  high  school  teachers  for  more  than  five  years. 
Write:  M.  J. P.  Cauvin,  at  the  Soc.  des  Profs.  Francais  en  Ame"rique,  1111  Lexington 
Ave.,  New  York  City  10021. 

GERMANIC  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Roy  Allen 

U.I.  STUDY  AND  TEACHING  PROGRAMS  IN  AUSTRIA 
The  Dept.  of  Germanic  Languages  and  Literatures  of  the  U.I.  now  sponsors  a  two- 
semester  study  program  based  at  the  Padagogische  Akademie  in  Baden,  just  15  miles 
south  of  Vienna.   The  Akademie  trains  future  Austrian  teachers  in  a  two-year  course; 
it  has  an  enrollment  of  approximately  300  students  and  18  full-time  faculty  members. 
Officials  in  the  Austrian  Ministry  of  Education  have  very  graciously  agreed  to  admit 
up  to  thirty  students  from  the  U.I.,  who  pay  no  tuition  or  fees  and  are  able  to  live 
in  government-subsidized  housing. 

At  the  Akademie,  American  notions  of  class  size  have  been  taken  as  a  model: 
aside  from  a  small  number  of  lectures  attended  by  about  a  quarter  of  the  student  body, 
the  course  work  is  done  in  small  seminars,  averaging  twenty  students.   U.I.  students 


will  attend  regularly-scheduled  classes,  taught  by  Austrian  professors,  along  with 
Austrian  students.   A  faculty  member  from  the  Dept.  at  the  U.I.  will  accompany  the 
American  students  to  advise  them  and  to  evaluate  their  work;  he  will  also  teach 
courses  open  to  both  American  and  Austrian  students.   A  graduate  administrative 
assistant  will  also  accompany  the  group. 

Students  from  the  U.I.  will  devote  at  least  half  their  work  to  courses  in  lan- 
guage, literature,  education,  and  civilization  at  the  Akademie.   Several  courses  will 
benefit  from  the  fact  that  the  students  in  Baden  are  preparing  to  become  teachers. 
The  remainder  of  the  work  in  Baden  will  consist  of  electives  taken  either  at  the 
Akademie  or  at  another  institution  of  higher  learning  in  Vienna  (the  Univ.  of  Vienna; 
the  Academy  for  Music  and  the  Performing  Arts;  the  Academy  for  Architecture,  Sculp- 
ture and  Painting;  the  Academy  for  Applied  Arts;  the  Business  School;  the  School  of 
Agriculture).  Upon  successful  completion  of  the  program  of  study,  32  hours  of  resi- 
dence credit  will  be  applied  to  the  student's  record  at  the  U.I. 

Students  in  the  Curriculum  Preparatory  to  the  Teaching  of  German  can  fulfill 
several  College  of  Education  requirements  in  Baden.  Qualified  students  in  colleges 
outside  the  Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences  are  encouraged  to  participate  and  develop,  with 
the  aid  of  their  advisers,  individual  programs  which  will  take  advantage  of  the  facil- 
ities and  opportunities  for  study  in  Vienna.  Transfer  students  are  eligible  for  ad- 
mission, but  must  be  enrolled  at  the  U.I.  during  the  time  of  their  participation. 

Unless  the  student  desires  a  single  room,  each  American  participant  in  the  pro- 
gram will  be  housed  with  an  Austrian  roommate  in  the  new  dormitory  at  the  Akademie. 
Special  low-cost  transatlantic  travel  arrangements  are  available.  The  cost  of  room 
and  board  at  the  U.I.  campus  in  Urbana-Champaign  will  normally  cover  not  only  the 
room  and  board  expenses  in  Baden,  but  also  the  cost  of  transatlantic  travel.   Stu- 
dents will  also  be  required  to  pay,  in  addition,  U.I.  tuition  and  off-campus  fees. 
Fellowships,  loans  and  tuition  and  fee  waivers  will  be  applicable  to  the  program. 

The  study  program  places  first  priority  on  teacher  education.  A  large  propor- 
tion of  the  participants  will  be  future  teachers  of  German;  the  Padagogische  Akadenfe 
is,  as  already  mentioned,  a  professional  school  for  teachers.  Students  in  other 
fields  will  find  it  convenient  to  participate  in  the  Baden  program,  but  work  in  other 
major  areas  must  be  pursued  either  by  independent  study  or  by  attendance  at  the 
institutions  in  Vienna. 

Positions  in  the  teaching  of  English  for  one  academic  year  at  secondary  schools 
in  the  province  surrounding  Vienna  have  also  been  made  available  by  the  Austrian 
government  to  U.I.  graduates  and  graduate  students.  The  salary  for  these  positions 
is  approximately  $lo0  per  month;  the  teaching  load  is  about  20  hours  per  week.  Spe- 
cial low-cost  transatlantic  travel  arrangements  are  available.  The  faculty  member 
from  the  Dept.  at  the  U.I.  who  will  accompany  the  study  group  to  Baden  will  provide 
the  liaison  between  the  American  teacher  and  the  Austrian  authorities. 

It  is  hoped  that  the  Austrian  Study  and  Teaching  Programs  will  eventually  be 
able  to  develop  exchange  arrangements  which  will  permit  Austrian  students  and  teach- 
ers to  do  advance  work  in  Illinois.  Such  arrangements  would  go  hand-in-hand  with 
increased  participation  by  American  graduate  students  in  the  study  program. 

Both  programs  are  administered  by  the  Head  of  the  Dept.  at  the  U.I.,  working 
with  the  Students  Abroad  Office  and  administratively  responsible  to  the  College  of 
Liberal  Arta  and  Sciences.   A  director  and  his  administrative  asst.  reside  in  Baden. 

More  detailed  information  about  both  programs  is  available  from  the  Dept.  of 
Germanic  Languages  and  Literatures,  3072  Foreign  Language  Bldg.,  U.I.,  Urbana,IL6l801 

PROFESSIONAL  ACTIVITIES  OF  THE  FACULTY 

Prof.  Elmer  Antonsen  lectured  recently  before  a  joint  meeting  of  the  Depts.  of 
Languages  and  Linguistics  of  the  Univ.  of  N.  Car.  in  Chapel  Hill.   The  title  of 
Prof.  Antonsen's  talk  was  "The  Linguistic  Analysis  of  Runic  Inscriptions."  The  meet- 
ing took  place  on  Nov.  8. 

Prof.  Irmengard  Rauch-Carr  has  written  a  study  addressed  to  the  question  "Were 
Verbs  in  fact  Noun  Subsidiaries?"   Prof.  Rauch-Carr' s  paper  on  this  topic  has  been 
selected  for  presentation  before  the  Eleventh  International  Congress  of  Linguists 
when  it  meets  in  Bologna,  Italy,  from  Aug.  28-Sept.  2,  1972. 


THE  GERMAN  CLUB 
A  very  entertaining  evening  of  folksongs,  ballads,  and  literary  chansons  was  spon- 
sored by  the  U.I.  German  Club  on  Friday  evening,  Nov.  19,  at  8:00  p.m.  in  Gregory 
Hall.   The  featured  performer  was  the  talented  European  chanteuse  Elena  Cardas,  who 
was  accompanied  by  the  Prague-born  musician  Ales  Andryszak. 

Miss  Cardas  specializes  in  the  songs  of  some  sixteen  languages,  paying  special 
attention  to  the  interpretation  of  the  texts,  since  they,  as  she  feels,  "express  a 
nation's  character  most  eloquently."   She  began  her  singing  career  entertaining  in 
the  "backyard  theaters"  of  Berlin  at  the  age  of  13;  she  has  since  done  broadcasts 
with  the  London  BBC,  Terhan  and  the  German  Television  Network.   At  her  evening  at  the 
U.I.,  Miss  Cardas  presented  songs  from  Prance,  Greece,  Spain,  Germany,  the  United 
States,  Russia,  England,  and  other  countries. 

SZENE  71  DOES  KAFKA  AT  U.I. 
Under  the  auspices  of  the  Goethe  Institute  of  Munich,  the  theater  ensemble  Szene  71 
performed  a  dramatic  adaptation  of  Franz  Kafka's  novel  Per  Prozess  in  the  Festival 
Theater  of  the  Krannert  Center  for  the  Performing  Arts  on  Friday  evening,  Oct.  15. 

Szene  71  is  made  up  of  a  professional  ensemble  of  actors  and  actresses  drawn 
from  the  municipal  theater  in  Schweinfurt,  Germany.   The  fine  cast  of  performers  is 
currently  making  a  tour  of  fifteen  American  cities  under  the  sponsorship  of  the 
Goethe  Institute. 

The  director  of  the  ensemble  is  the  noted  Oscar  Fritz  Schuh,  who,  since  the  be- 
ginning of  his  career  as  a  stage  director  in  Munich  in  1923,  has  directed  the  Hamburg 
State  Opera,  the  Vienna  State  Opera,  the  Salzburg  Festival  Theater  and  legitimate 
theaters  in  Berlin,  Cologne,  and  Hamburg. 

SLAVIC  NOTES  --  by  Prof.  Frank  Y.  Gladney 

The  U.I.  Foreign  Language  Articulation  Conference  on  Oct.  28-29  included  two  Russian 
section  meetings.   The  morning  meeting  on  Oct.  29  was  chaired  by  Prof.  Steven  P.  Hill 
and  hear  David  Gottshall  (College  of  DuPage)  speak  on  "Russian  in  the  Junior  College" 
and  Gregory  Perun  (U.I.  College  of  Education)  speak  on  "Humanizing  Foreigh  Language 
Teaching  and  Learning."   The  film  "Po  Sovetskomu  Soiuzu"  was  screened,  in  Russian 
without  subtitles.   The  afternoon  meeting  was  chaired  by  Steven  Stroud  (Maine  Twp. 
High  School  East,  Park  Ridge,  and  Gemini  Jr.  H.S.)  and  heard  papers  entitled  "Use  of 
Media  in  the  High  School  Classroom"  by  Trudy  Whyte  (Thornton  Fractional,  Lansing)  and 
"A  Russian  Program  that  is  Actually  Growing"  by  Mr.  Stroud. 

DRAMA  PRODUCTIONS 
The  Depot  in  Urbana  will  present  Slawomir  Mrozek's  Tango  on  Jan.  13-16.   It  is  being 
directed  by  William  McCombe,  a  graduate  student  in  the  Dept.,  and  the  part  of  Stomil 
is  being  played  by  Gary  Davis,  also  a  graduate  student.   Early  in  the  second  semester 
the  Russian  Club  and  the  Slavic  Students  Association  will  present  Daniel  Kharm's 
Elizabeth  Bam. 

LECTURE 
Prof.  Antoni  Maczak,  a  visiting  lecturer  in  history  from  Warsaw  Univ.,  gave  a  lecture 
on  December  14  on  "Poland's  Place  in  the  European  Economy,  l6th-l8th  Centuries:   an 
Essay  in  the  Comparative  Approach." 

VISITOR 
The  U.I.  campus  was  visited  before  Thanksgiving  by  Prof.  Alexe  Popescu,  the  Rumanian 
Deputy  Minister  of  Education,  who  was  exploring  the  possibilities  of  interuniversity 
exchange. 

RUSSIAN  CLUB 
The  Russian  Club  sponsored  a  booth  at  the  International  Fair,  Dec.  10-11,  organized 
by  Russian  Club  President,  Fred  Woywod.   It  offered  glimpses  of  Russian  life  and  cul- 
ture through  a  display  of  Russian  artifacts  contributed  by  members  of  the  Department. 


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Russian  students  have  been  meeting  at  the  Thunderbird  Restaurant  Friday  afternoons  at 
four  to  speak  Russian,  and  efforts  are  being  made  by  Birute  Lanys  to  revive  the 
Russian  Club  Tea  Hour  (Chashka  chaiu). 

STAFF  NOTES 
In  connection  with  the  U.I.'s  participation  in  the  Cooperative  Russian  Language  Pro- 
gram at  Leningrad  State  Univ.,  Prof.  Clayton  L.  Dawson  attended  a  meeting  at  the 
Council  on  International  Education  Exchange  in  New  York  City  on  Nov.  k   and  was 
elected  to  the  Steering  Committee.   Two  graduate  students  in  the  Department,  Dorthea 
Sir  Louis  and  Ben  Fairfax,  have  been  nominated  as  participants  in  the  spring  semester 
program  in  Leningrad. 

The  American  Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Slavic  Studies  held  a  Planning 
Conference  on  the  Future  of  Slavic  Studies  in  Columbus,  Ohio,  Oct.  29-30.   The  U.I. 
was  represented  by  Profs.  Dawson  and  Gladney,  and  by  Ralph  T.  Fisher  Jr.,  Director  of 
the  Russian  and  East  European  Center.   While  in  Columbus,  Prof.  Gladney  chaired  a 
meeting  of  AATSEEL's  Committee  on  Publications.   Prof.  Dawson  attended  a  meeting  of 
CIC  Slavic  Dept.  chairmen  at  O'Hare  Airport  on  Nov.  20. 

Prof.  Temira  Pachmuss  gave  a  lecture  on  "Russian  Literature  in  Exile"  and  one  on 
"The  Russian  Novel  and  Dostoevsky"  at  Principia  College  on  Nov.  11  and  18,  respec- 
tively. At  Rice  Univ.,  Houston,  on  Dec.  2  she  delivered  "Dostoevsky 's  Influence  on 
Contemporary  World  Literature"  and  "Russian  Literature  in  Exile."   She  is  scheduled 
to  present  "Zinaida  Hippius  as  an  Emigre*  Poet"  at  the  annual  AATSEEL  Conference  in 
Chicago,  Dec.  30*  Her  article  "Zinaida  Hippius:   0  Zhenskom"  appeared  in  the  October 
issue  of  Melbourne  Slavonic  Papers. 

Instr.  Maria  Zalucky  attended  the  Midwest  Modern  Language  Assoc,  meeting  in 
Detroit  Nov.  k-6   and  presented  "Some  Ethical  Problems  in  Solzhenitsyn1 s  Work"  (in 
Russian. 

Ph.D.  Candidate  Gerald  Darring's  Bibliography  of  Mayakovsky,  which  covers  all 
Russian  and  Soviet  criticism  of  the  Soviet  poet's  work  between  1912  and  1930,  will  be 
published  in  the  second  issue  of  Russian  Literature  Triquarterly. 

Instr.  Louis  Iribarne's  translation  of  Witold  Gombrowicz's  play  Operetta  was 
published  in  England  by  Caldar  &  Boyars  Ltd.  in  June,  and  will  be  published  in  the 
United  States  by  Grove  Press. 

SPANISH,  ITALIAN  AND  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  —  by  Alice  L.  Anderson 

U.I.  YEAR-ABROAD  PROGRAM  IN  SPAIN 
Applications  are  now  being  taken  for  the  U.I.  Year-Abroad  Program  in  Spain.   Anyone 
interested  should  write  to:  Prof.  J.  Flores,  Dept.  of  Spanish,  ^080  FLB,  Urbana, 
IL.  61801. 

FACULTY  PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Luis  Leal  has  just  published  a  Revised  Edition  of  Me*xico,  civilizaciones  v_  cul- 
turas  (Houghton  Mifflin  Co.),  originally  published  in  1955-   The  new  edition  contains 
a  new  chapter  on  the  chicano  movement.   He  has  also  published  an  article,  "Entre  la 
fantasfa  y  el  compromiso:   los  cuentos  de  Fernando  Alegrfa,"  Nueva  Narrativa  Hispano- 
americana  I,  2  (Sept.,  1971)  65-71. 

Prof.  Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo,  Resident  Director  of  the  Year-Abroad  Program  in 
Spain,  has  published  a  book  in  collaboration  with  Joseph  L.  Laurenti,  Ensayo  biblio- 
gr£f lco  del  prdlogo  en  la  literatura,  Consejo  Superior  de  Investigaciones  Cientificos 
(Madrid,  1971),  77  pp.   He  has  also  published  an  article,  "El  'New  Criticism',  de 
Ivor  Winters,"  in  Coloquios  de  Hlstoria  £  Estructura  de  la  Obra  Ljteraria.  C.S.I.C. 
(Madrid,  1971),  pp.  82-87. 

Assoc.  Prof.  Richard  A.  Preto-Rodas  has  published  a  book  Francisco  Rodrigues 
Lobo:   Dialogue  and  Courtly  Lore  in  Renaissance  Portugal.  Chapel  Hill,  1971.  (195  PP) 
(Number  109  in  the  U.  of  N.  Car.'s  Studies  in  the  Romance  Languages  and  Literatures.) 


Prof.  Emeritus  W.H .Shoemaker,  currently  visiting  at  the  U.  of  Mo.  (Columbia) 
has  published  three  articles:   "Gald<5s  escribe  sobre  el  Ateneo,"  in  La  Estafeta 
Literaria.  447  (July  1,  1970),  3-8;  "Benito  Pe'rez  Gald<5s,  1843-1920,"  in  Hispania. 
LIU,  4  (Dec,  1970),  1;  "'Los  Pepes'  of  Galdds  in  1868  and  1887:   Two  Stages  of  His 
Style,"  in  Hispania,  LIU,  4  (Dec,  1970),  887-398. 

Asst.  Prof.  Gary  Eugene  A.  Scavnicky  (U.I.  '69,  now  at  Wayne  State  Univ.,  Detroit) 
has  published  an  article,  "La  sufijaci<5n  y  la  formacidn  de  palabras  nuevas  espanolag" 
Revista  de  lingufstica  te6rica  y_  apllcada,  8(Dec,  1970),  89-94. 

LECTURES  AND  CONFERENCES 
Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello,  Head  of  the  Department,  presented  a  lecture,  "The 
Spanish  Short  Story  and  its  Potential  for  the  Secondary  and  College  Classroom,"  on 
Nov.  26  at  the  ACTFL  meeting  in  Chicago.   On  Dec.  6,  he  lectured  at  the  U.  of  Miami, 
Coral  Gables,  on  the  topic  "El  destino  de  tiranos  y  vfctimas  en  dos  obras  de  Alfonso 
Sastre:   Escuadra  hacia  la  muerte  y  La  mordaza. " 

Prof.  Luis  Leal  gave  a  lecture,  "El  realismo  magico  y  la  nueva  novela,"  at  the 
Symposium  on  the  New  Latin  American  Novel,  Univ.  of  Cincinnati,  on  Oct.  15.   He  also 
participated  as  a  discussant  at  the  MMLA  meeting  held  in  Detroit  on  Nov.  4-6. 

Assoc.  Prof.  David  Hershberg  participated  in  a  conference  on  "Justice  for  Fresh- 
men," sDonsored  by  the  American  Assoc  for  Higher  Education  (AAHE)  at  Bradley  Univ., 
Peoria,  on  Oct.  13.   He  also  attended  a  pre-convention  workshop  at  the  ACTFL  in  Chi- 
cago on  Nov.  22-24. 

Assoc  Prof.  Mario  Saltarelli  read  a  paper,  "Congruity  and  the  Comparative, "  at 
the  Mid-America  Linguistics  Conference,  U.  of  Mo.  (Columbia),  on  Nov.  12-13. 

Prof.  Emeritus  W.H.  Shoemaker  read  a  paper,  "Problemas  galdosianos  sin  resolverj 
at  the  IV  Congreso  of  the  Asociaci6n  Internacional  de  Hispanistas  in  Salamanca,  Spain, 
in  August.   In  April,  1971,  he  lectured  on  Spanish  literature  at  Tulane  Univ.  and  the 
Univ.  of  Ala.  and  the  Univ.  of  Ga.,  and  on  Nov.  5>  1971,  at  Washington  U.  (St.  Louis \ 

LECTURER  AVAILABLE 
Jose"  Ruibal,  Spanish  avante-garde  dramatist  in  residence  at  the  State  Univ.  of  N.Y. 
at  Binghamton,  is  available  for  lectures  from  Jan.l  through  the  end  of  March.   The 
world  Dremiere  of  the  English  version  of  his  play  "El  hombre  y  la  mosca"  was  per- 
formed at  SUNY  Binghamton  on  Nov.  5  and  reviewed  in  the  N.Y.  Times  on  Sun.,  Nov.  21 
or  Nov.  28.   Ruibal  has  already  lectured  at  many  universities  including  Harvard, 
Wellesley,  and  N.Y.  Univ.   He  is  a  very  exciting  dramatist  and  a  very  interesting 
speaker.   Invitations  for  Ruibal  to  lecture  can  be  sent  directly  to  Prof.  George  E. 
Wellworth,  Theater  Dept.,  SUNY,  Binghamton,  N.Y.  13901.   Write  immediately  to  ensure 
a  date  on  Ruibal 's  western  tour. 

REPORT  ON  ARTICULATION  CONFERENCE 
The  Spanish  section  meetings  of  the  Foreign  Language  Articulation  Conference  were 
held  on  Oct.  29.   The  morning  session  was  dedicated  to  reports  about  the  current 
state  of  affairs  with  respect  to  several  areas:   the  new  Year-Abroad  Program  in 
SDain;  the  placement  test,  requirements  and  substitutions  for  entering  students  (both 
presented  by  Prof.  Flores  who  also  acted  as  chairman);  accelerated  beginning  language 
instruction  and  the  use  of  PLATO  (Prof.  Saltarelli);  and  the  changes  in  the  Spanish 
Major  curriculum  effective  Fall,  1972  (Prof.  Hershberg). 

In  the  afternoon  session,  chaired  by  Mrs.  Kawasaki  (Chicago  AATSP),  smaller  dis- 
cussion groups  concentrated  on  proposed  questions  of  concern  to  high  school  and  jinior 
college  faculty.   With  respect  to  the  appropriate  scope  of  foreign  language  courses, 
the  consensus  was  that  language  in  itself  was  not  sufficient,  but  that  culture  as  wdl 
as  any  language/culture  related  topic  can  prove  valuable  for  stimulating  motivation 
on  the  part  of  students. 

A  number  of  specific  suggestions  were  made  in  answer  to  the  question  of  how  fu- 
ture teachers  could  be  prepared  better.   These  included  better  coordination  between 
the  University  and  the  master  teacher  in  the  student  teaching  program,  better  text- 
book use  and  more  information  about  adolescent  psychology. 

Finally,  as  to  the  evaluation  of  those  entering  the  teaching  profession,  it  was 
pointed  out  that  the  attitude  is  essential;  creativity  and  flexibility  are  essential. 


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NEW  COURSE 
The  Spanish  Dept.  will  offer  a  special  course  for  the  Spring  semester,  1972.   En- 
titled Span.  199:   Spanish  for  Near-Native  Speakers,  the  course  will  offer  a  rapid 
review  of  Spanish  grammar,  vocabulary,  and  pronunciation  for  students  whose  major 
contact  with  the  Spanish  language  has  not  been  in  the  classroom. 

DISSERTATION  DEFENSE 
Flora  Breidenbach,  now  in  San  Jose,  Calif.,  successfully  defended  her  dissertation  on 
May  29,  1971:  "Jose"  Lins  do  R€go:   Ciclo  da  cana  de  acficar  e  fogo  morto, "  directed  by 
Prof.  J.H.D.  Allen. 

SIGMA  DELTA  PI 
The  local  chapter  of  the  Spanish  honorary  society  Sigma  Delta  Pi,  advised  by  Assoc. 
Prof.  Hugo  Cowes  and  under  the  direction  of  Grad.  Teach.  Asst.  Luis  Vera,  initiated 
the  following  into  the  honorary  last  spring:   Honorary  members  Assoc.  Prof.  Richard 
Preto-Rodas  and  Asst.  Prof.  Enrique  Pezzoni;  student  initiates  include  Debbie  Berger, 
LuAnn  Boone,  Karen  Dean,  Filis  Franchi,  Jamie  Friedman,  Francisco  Gadea-Oltra,  Nancy 
Green,  Lena  Hamrick,  Donna  Hennenfent,  Kathy  Jarchow,  Almeda  Lahr,  Regina  MacDonald, 
Linda  Marshalla,  Sandra  Massey,  Jean  Maxheimer,  Kathleen  McDermott,  Myriam  Mendoza 
Shell,  Ronald  Messman,  Margaret  Nicholas,  William  Overman,  Katherine  Philippe,  Lois 
Rifkin,  Nancy  Schmedake,  Marilynn  Solof,  Linda  Sonna,  Roger  Stein,  Anita  Louise 
Summitt,  Luis  Vera  Cedena,  Nancy  Wallace,  Diane  Ward,  Penny  Sue  Weber,  Gail  Wolf. 


The  University  of  Illinois  Foreign  Language  Newsletter  is  published  jointly  by  the 
foreign  language  departments  of  the  U.I.,  under  the  direction  of  the  Head  of  the 
Dept.  of  Spanish,  Italian  &  Portuguese.  Editorial  offices  are  located  in  4-119  FLB, 
Urbana.  The  Newsletter  is  available  without  charge  to  all  interested  persons  in 
Illinois  and  other  areas.  All  communications  by  mail  should  be  addressed  to:  The 
Editor,  FL  Newsletter,  4080  FLB,  Urbana,  IL.  61801. 


THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  NEWSLETTER 

March,  1972         Director:   Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquarlello 
Vol.  XXV,  No.  3  Editor:   Alice  Long  Anderson 

PLATO 
PLATO,  Programmed  Logic  for  Automatic  Teaching  Operation,  is  a  computer-based  teach- 
ing system  which  provides  teachers  a  means  for  individualizing  student  instruction. 
The  unique  PLATO  system  has  been  developed  by  Prof.  Donald  L.  Bitzer,  director  of  the 
U.I.  Computer-Based  Education  Research  Laboratory,  with  the  first  terminal  in  opera- 
tion in  June,  i960. 

With  PLATO,  teacher,  computer,  and  students  interact  as  a  team.   The  teacher 
designs  the  instructional  material;  the  computer  presents  the  material  to  the  stu- 
dents, at  the  same  time  monitoring  and  evaluating  their  performance;  and  students 
interact  with  the  computer,  providing  information  on  lesson  effectiveness.   Each  stu- 
dent works  at  his  own  pace  on  material  which  can  provide  special  information  and  help 
when  problems  arise.   The  teacher  can  easily  revise  instructional  material  to  modern- 
ize or  improve  the  instruction.   PLATO  frees  the  teacher  for  special  work  with  stu- 
dents which  conventional  teaching  styles  do  not  usually  permit. 

The  equipment  for  a  current  PLATO  III  terminal  consists  of:   1)  a  keyset  (relat- 
ed to  the  typewriter  and  keypunch),  which  transmits  the  user's  input  (or  request)  to 
a  central  computer,  and  2)  a  video  display,  which  simultaneously  shows  computer- 
generated  graphic  information  and  computer-selected  photographic  slides  to  the  user. 
All  PLATO  III  terminals  are  controlled  by  a  single  Control  Data  Corp.  16C4-  computer. 
The  terminals  share  an  electronic  slide  projector,  and  each  has  a  television  screen 
which  provides  the  computer-generated  graphics.  Auxiliary  equipment,  controllable  by 
the  computer,  can  be  added  to  a  PLATO  III  terminal.   Film  projectors,  audio  systems, 
equipment  for  research  in  physics  and  psychology,  and  other  devices  have  been  used. 
PLATO  III  lesson  storage  is  located  on  magnetic  disks  allowing  rapid  random  access  to 
large  amounts  of  material  for  use  in  either  the  student  or  the  author  modes.  During 
student  operation,  the  lessons  are  stored  in  the  high-speed  computer  memory. 

PLATO  Is  a  versatile  teaching  system.   It  can  present  drill  and  practice  rou- 
tines, dictations,  tutorial  material,  problems  to  be  solved,  information  to  be  re- 
trieved, simulated  experiments,  and  computations.  A  wide  range  of  classroom  subjects 
have  been  taught  on  PLATO,  including  Biology,  Chemistry,  Computer  Science,  Demography, 
Foreign  Languages  (French,  Latin,  Russian,  Spanish,  Chinese,  Japanese),  Mathematics, 
Nursing,  Physics,  and  Veterinary  Medicine,  as  well  as  programs  for  election  statis- 
tics, psychological  experiments,  and  on-line  physics  experiments.  The  above  list  is 
not  complete,  but  serves  to  show  the  wide  range  uses  for  PLATO. 

A  typical  lesson  In  a  foreign  language  might  be  as  follows:   1)  a  presentation 
on  the  screen  of  material  to  be  taught;  2)  a  fully-randomized  drill  on  the  material; 
3)  a  review,  only  of  material  not  correctly  answered  in  first  trial;  k)    student 
either  goes  on  to  next  section  or  if  percentage  correct  is  low  (below  75-80$  gen- 
erally), he  is  given  remedial  exercises.  The  computer  "grades"  the  student  in  a  for- 
eign language  on  the  basis  of  misspellings,  wrong  words,  and  words  out-of-order.  A 
student  is  allowed  partial  credit  when  he  correctly  answers  a  question  which  he  miss- 
ed on  the  first  trial,  thus  giving  an  added  incentive  for  thorough  learning. 

The  PLATO  III  teaching  system  presently  consists  of  seventy-five  terminals. 
Thirty-six  are  located  at  the  U.I.  in  Urbana-Champaign.  Thirty-nine  terminals  are 
located  at  remote  sites,  including  one  in  Springfield,  ninety  miles  from  the  central 
controlling  computer  In  Urbana.  With  a  grant  from  the  National  Science  Foundation, 
plus  money  from  state,  local,  and  outside  agencies,  the  PLATO  IV  system  will  begin 
expansion  within  an  approximate  150-mlle  radius,  to  Include  other  remote  terminals, 
such  as  the  five  projected  for  Chicago,  three  in  elementary  schools  and  two  in 
community  colleges.   Present  plans  include  a  system  of  ^,000  consoles  hooked  by  tele- 
phone lines  to  a  central  computer  and  would  Include  programs  for  all  levels  of  in- 
struction. The  first  sixty,  assembled  by  Magnavox,  Inc.,  are  scheduled  to  be  placed 
on  the  U.I.  campus  for  the  fall  of  1972;  the  F.L.B.  basement  will  house  the  first 
units,  with  a  future  capability  of  250  stations.  The  other  remote  units  are  pro- 
jected to  be  in  place  around  197^. 


The  new  PLATO  IV  consoles  feature  two  devices  developed  at  the  U.I.:   a  plasma 
display  panel  to  replace  the  television  screen  and  a  random-access  audio  device, 
which  can  select  from  over  2,000  messages,  including  foreign  sentences  and  music. 
The  U.I.  has  also  developed  a  language  called  "TUTOR,"  which  permits  persons  with  no 
computer  experience  to  prepare  PLATO  lessons. 

Estimated  costs  for  the  new  system  are  35^-50^  per  student  per  terminal  hour. 
Please  direct  further  inquiries  regarding  PLATO  to:  Prof.  Donald  L.  Bitzer,  Computer- 
based  Education  Research  Laboratory,  252  Engineering  Research  Laboratory,  U.  of  111., 
Urbana,  111.  61801. 

PEN  PALS  AVAILABLE 
Prof.  Jose"  Ricardo  can  get  as  many  English-speaking  Brazilian  penfriends  for  your 
students  as  you  may  require,  free  of  charge.   For  the  proper  matching,  please  send 
him  the  list  of  interested  students,  with  the  following  information  (print,  please): 
name;  sex  and  age;  and  full  address  (with  zip  code).   This  program  is  good  for  all 
levels  from  the  seventh  through  the  twelfth  grade.   Letters  with  lists  or  individual 
names  should  be  mailed  to:   Prof.  Jose"  Ricardo;  1625  K  Street,  Suite  104,  N.W.; 
Washington,  D.C.  20006. 

CONFERENCE  ON  DIACHR0NIC  ROMANCE  LINGUISTICS 
On  April  21-22,  1972,  the  U.I.  at  Urbana-Champaign  will  host  a  Conference  on  Dia- 
chronic  Romance  Linguistics,  sponsored  by  the  Depts.  of  Spanish,  Italian,  and  Portu- 
guese; the  Classics;  French;  Linguistics;  and  by  the  Center  for  Latin  American 
Studies.   The  chairmen  are  Profs.  Mario  Saltarelli  and  Dieter  Wanner. 

The  tentative  program  includes  the  following  papers:   Prof.  Emer.  Henry  RKahane: 
The  Etymologist  as  a  Transformationalist;  James  W.  Harris  (M.I.T.):  A  Topic  on  Span- 
ish Phonology;  Robin  Lakoff  (Univ.  of  Mich,  and  Center  for  Advanced  Study  in  the  Be- 
havioral Sciences):  Contextual  Pitfalls  in  Translation;  or,  Facilis  Descensus  Averno; 
Sanford  A.  Schane  (Univ.  of  Calif.,  San  Diego):  A  Topic  on  French  Phonology;  and 
U.I.  Prof.  Georgia  M.  Green:  Tracing  the  Source  of  a  Lexical  Gap.   More  than  ten 
additional  papers  will  be  presented,  covering  syntax,  morphology,  phonology,  and 
semantics  in  such  areas  as  Latin,  French,  Spanish,  Italian,  and  Comparative  Romance. 

For  further  information,  write  to:   Conference  on  Diachronic  Romance  Linguistics, 
^Dept.  of  Spanish,  4080  F.L.B.,  U.  of  111.,  Urbana,  111.  61801.   The  final  program 
will  be  available  later  in  March. 

CENTRAL  STATES  CONFERENCE  IN  CHICAGO 
The  Central  States  Conference  on  the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Language  will  take  place 
this  year  at  the  Sheraton-Chicago  Hotel  in  Chicago  on  April  6-8,  under  the  chairman- 
ship of  Mrs.  Pat  Castle  of  the  Office  of  the  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction, 
Springfield.   The  theme  of  the  conference  is  "Student-Centered  Foreign  Language 
Programs . " 

U.I.  faculty  will  be  active  at  the  meeting.  Prof.  Wilga  Rivers  (French)  as  key- 
noter will  speak  on  "The  Foreign  Language  Teacher  and  the  Psychologist."   Prof. 
Sandra  Savignon  (French)  will  present  a  paper  on  "Communicative  Competence,"  and 
Prof.  Richard  Scanlan  (the  Classics)  will  speak  on  "The  Student  and  the  Computer." 
Prof.  Robert  Nelson  (French)  will  be  discussion  leader  for  a  session  on  "An  Inter- 
disciplinary Curriculum."   Profs.  Angelina  Pietrangeli  and  Henry  Gerlach  will  be  dis- 
cussion leaders  for  the  Italian  and  German  separate  language  sessions,  and  Prof.  Lee 
Hawkins  (Education)  will  be  the  moderator  of  a  panel  discussion  on  teacher  training. 

For  further  information,  the  registration  chairman  for  the  Conference  is  Mrs. 
Irene  Ruenne,  408  Ridge  Avenue,  Evanston,  111.  60202. 

ILL.  CONFERENCE  ON  FL  IN  JUNIOR  AND  COMMUNITY  COLLEGES 
In  the  October,  1971,  FL  Newsletter  the  Urbana  project  for  a  National  Conference  on 
the  Role  of  Foreign  Languages,  Literatures,  and  Cultures  in  Undergraduate  Education 
was  described.   As  the  project  evolved  it  seemed  appropriate  to  begin  where  the  prob- 
lems were  most  severe  and  urgent.   The  concept  of  the  Exploratory  Conference  was 
therefore  changed  to  give  immediate  attention  to  the  needs  of  the  junior  and  commu- 
nity colleges  which  in  Illinois  are  being  more  and  more  discussed  as  the  future  locus 
of  a  great  deal  of  the  early  undergraduate  education. 


The  state  was  divided  into  five  regions,  in  each  of  which  the  local  coordinators 
organized  working;  sessions  in  January,  1972,  to  pinpoint  problems,  propose  solutions, 
and  describe  innovations.   The  results  of  these  regional  groups  are  being  incorporat- 
ed into  working  papers  for  the  Conference,  to  be  held  March  23-2  5,  1972,  at  Urbana- 
Champaign,  111.   At  this  Conference  a  report  will  be  discussed  and  refined  on  the 
areas  of  curricular  and  teacher-training  needs,  possibilities  for  further  develop- 
ment of  cooperation  between  junior  and  senior  institutions,  the  use  of  technology 
(particularly,  in  Illinois,  the  PLATO  computer-assisted  instruction  system),  and 
promising  innovations  in  FL  education. 

The  Conference  will  be  co-hosted  by  the  U.I.  at  Urbana-Champaign  and  Parkland 
Community  College,  Champaign.   Working  on  preparation  of  the  conference  papers  are 
Profs.  Wilga  M.  Rivers,  Sandra  Savignon,  and  Richard  Scanlan  of  the  U.I.  and  Louise 
Allen  of  Parkland  College. 

Persons  interested  in  attending  this  working  conference  should  write  to  Vincent 
Dell'Orto,  Dept.  of  German,  U.  of  111.,  Urbana,  111.  61801,  for  information  on  regis- 
tration and  accommodations. 

MARGARET  VARNEY  VAN  HORNE  ( 1895-1971 ) 
Word  has  been  received  of  the  death  of  Margaret  Varney  Van  Home,  for  42  years  a 
resident  of  Urbana,  at  Northern  Virginia  Doctors  Hospital  on  November  16,  1971.   A 
memorial  service  was  held  on  December  2  at  the  Urbana  Unitarian  Universalist  Church. 

Mrs.  Van  Home,  a  native  of  Chelsea  Mass.,  and  a  Radcliffe  graduate  of  the  class 
of  1912,  was  married  in  1915  to  John  Van  Home,  who  preceded  her  in  death  in  1959. 
Prof.  Van  Home  was  for  many  years  Head  of  the  Dept.  of  Spanish,  Italian,  and  Portu- 
guese at  the  U.I.   Prof,  and  Mrs.  Van  Home  traveled  widely  in  Europe  and  in  Latin 
America;  they  spent  the  World  War  II  years  in  Madrid,  Spain,  where  Prof.  Van  Home 
was  the  cultural  attache"  with  the  United  States  embassy.   Mrs.  Van  Home  was  an 
active  member  of  several  local  organizations,  including  AAUW  and  the  Score  Club. 
Her  many  friends  will  remember  the  hospitality  of  her  home,  her  warm  interest  in 
civic  affairs,  and  her  understanding  of  the  academic  life. 

THE  CLASSICS  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  H.  Michael  Dunn 

THE  ARCHAEOLOGICAL  INSTITUTE  OP  AMERICA 
Prof.  Bernard  V.  Bothmer,  Curator  of  Ancient  Art,  The  Brooklyn  Museum,  presented  on 
February  15  the  lecture,  "The  Landscape  and  Architecture  of  Egypt."   The  next  lecture 
in  the  series,  "Ecuador  and  the  New  World  Neolithic,"  will  be  presented  by  Prof.  D.W. 
Lathrap  of  the  U.I.  Dept.  of  Anthropology  on  Tuesday,  March  14,  1972  at  8:00  p.m.  in 
180  Bevier  Hall.   There  is  no  admission  charge  for  the  AIA  lectures,  and  all  are 
cordially  invited  to  attend. 

ILL.  CLASSICAL  CONFERENCE 
Profs.  Scanlan  and  Dunn  represented  the  Department  at  the  annual  meetings  of  the  ICC, 
held  this  year  in  St.  Louis  on  Feb.  10-12.   They  presented,  respectively,  "The  Teach- 
ing of  the  Classical  Humanities11  and  "Epicureanism  and  Roman  Law."   Prof.  Scanlan 
has  been  elected  President-Elect  of  the  ICC  and  Prof.  Dunn  has  been  appointed  to  the 
Executive  Committee  as  Director  of  Public  Relations. 

MEDIEVAL  CLUB 
The  Medieval  Club  of  the  U.I.  met  on  Feb.  21.   Prof.  Wallach  presented  "The  Textual 
Criticism  of  a  Greek  Ambrose  Text."   This  paper  will  be  published  by  the  Harvard 
Theological  Review. 

FACULTY  NOTES 
Prof.  Hubert  L.  Allen  has  been  invited  to  contribute  an  article  to  the  volume  of 
Opuscula  Romana ,  the  periodical  of  the  Swedish  Institute  which  will  be  dedicated  to 
his  professor,  Erik  Sjoqvist,  who  first  brought  Morgantlna  to  the  attention  of 
Princeton  Univ.   Prof.  Allen  has  also  been  invited  to  present  a  paper  on  Morgantina 
at  the  Third  International  Congress  for  Sicilian  Studies,  to  be  held  in  April  at 
Palermo.   He  was  recently  appointed  to  the  National  Planning  Committee  of  the 
Archaeological  Institute  of  America. 


Prof.  Vernon  K.  Bobbins,  on  February  19  at  the  meeting  of  the  Chicago  Society 
for  Biblical  Research  held  at  De  Paul  Univ.,  delivered  a  paper  entitled  "Dynamels 
and  semela  in  the  Gospel  of  Mark." 

Prof.  Richard  T.  Scanlan,  as  a  member  of  The  National  Humanities  Faculty,  visit- 
ed in  January  with  teachers  and  curriculum  specialists  in  Philadelphia  in  order  to 
help  organize  the  new  program  in  Classical  Humanities.   It  is  hoped  that  some  of  the 
courses  in  the  program,  designed  for  senior  high  school  students,  will  begin  next 
fall. 

Prof.  Daniel  J.  Taylor  will  be  presenting  a  paper  entitled  "Varro's  Mathematical 
Models  of  Inflection"  at  the  Univ.  of  Kentucky  Foreign  Language  Conference.   He  will 
also  visit  the  Univ.  of  Mass.,  Amherst,  and  lecture  on  "Rationalism  and  Language 
Learning."   The  paper  has  been  accepted  for  publication  by  the  Classical  Outlook. 

A  volume  of  Studies  in  Honor  of  Professor  Luitpold  Wallach  with  the  subtitle 
Society-Culture-Literature,  edited  by  the  historian  Prof.  Karl  Bosl  of  the  Univ.  of 
Munich,  will  be  published  by  Karl  Hierseraann  of  Stuttgart.   Prof.  Wallach  has  been 
reelected  to  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  North  American  Patristic  Society,  which 
met  with  the  APA  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  in  December.   He  has  also  been  invited  to 
address  Ovidianum,  the  international  Ovid  society  at  its  meeting  in  the  fall  of  1972. 
The  meeting  will  be  held  at  Constanza,  Rumania,  the  ancient  Roman  city  of  Tomi  on  the 
Black  Sea  to  which  Ovid  had  been  exiled  by  the  Roman  Emperor  Augustus  and  where  he 
died. 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Barbara  Smalley 

LECTURES 
Prof.  A.  Owen  Aldridge  delivered  a  lecture  on  Nov.  2k   at  the  Univ.  of  Bristol,  Engl. 
His  topic  was  "Primitivism  in  Eighteenth-Century  Thought."   On  Feb.  2  Prof.  Aldridge 
gave  a  lecture  on  "New  Trends  in  Comparative  Literature:  the  Far  East  and  Eastern 
Europe"  at  the  Johannes  Gutenberg  Universitat  in  Mainz,  and  on  Feb  4  he  lectured  at 
the  Univ.  of  Miinster  on  "The  Quarrel  of  the  Ancients  and  Moderns  in  the  Eighteenth 
Century. " 

MEETINGS 
During  Nov.  17018  Prof.  Aldridge  was  in  Budapest,  Hungary,  for  meetings  of  the  Inter- 
national Comparative  Literature  Association.   He  attended  a  meeting  of  the  Advisory 
Board  of  this  association,  and  he  also  attended  a  meeting  of  the  Committee  of  the 
International  Association  for  the  Organization  of  a  Comparative  History  of  European 
Literature.   He  delivered  a  paper  on  "The  Concept  of  Classicism  as  Period  or  Move- 
ment," at  a  colloquium  on  literary  history  at  the  Hungarian  Academy  of  Sciences. 

During  the  MLA  meetings  in  Dec.  in  Chicago,  Prof.  Aldridge  presented  a  paper, 
"Mandeville  and  Voltaire,"  at  a  Seminar  on  Bernard  Mandeville. 

Andrew  Horton,  graduate  student  in  Comparative  Literature,  also  attended  the 
MLA  meetings.   At  a  Seminar  of  the  Modern  Greek  Studies  Association,  Mr.  Horton 
presented  a  paper  entitled,  "Nicos  Kazantzakis  and  Angelos  Sikelianos:   Visionary 
Poets." 

PUBLICATIONS 
Miss  Asela  C.  Rodrfguez-Seda,  who  has  just  passed  her  Ph.D.  preliminary  examination 
and  is  writing  her  dissertation  on  George  Bernard  Shaw  in  Spain  and  Latin  America, 
has  published  "Shaw  and  the  Hispanic  World:  A  Bibliography"  in  Modern  Drama,  XIV 
(Dec,  1971),  335-339. 

VISITING  FACULTY 
Prof.  Emile  Snyder  is  teaching  a  course  this  semester  on  Contemporary  Drama  in  the 
Comparative  Literature  Program. 


FRENCH  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel 

RECENT  PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Vincent  Bowen:   "Techniques  of  Fiction  in  Some  of  Diderot's  Non-Fictional  Writ- 
ings" in  Kentucky  Romance  Quarterly.  XXVII-3  (1971). 

Prof.  Yves  Velan:   "Roland  Barthes"  in  Modern  French  Criticism.  U.  of  Chicago 
Press,  1972,  edited  by  John  K.  Simon  (pp.  311-339). 

Cahlers  Marcel  Proust,  Nouvelle  Se'rle,  Textes  retrouve"s ,  by  Prof.  Philip  Kolb 
with  Prof.  Larkin  B.  Price.  Paris  (Gallimard),  1971. 

Prof.  Wilga  Rivers:   "From  the  Pyramid  to  the  Commune:   The  Evolution  of  the 
Foreign-Language  Department"  (Address  to  the  Association  of  Depts.  of  FL,  in  Chicago, 
Dec.  1971).   Also,  "Linguistic  and  Psychological  Factors  in  Speech  Perception  and 
their  Implications  for  Teaching  Materials"  a  reprint  from  The  Psychology  of  Second 
Language  Learning,  edited  by  Pirasleur  and  Quinn,  Cambridge  Univ.  Press,  1971. 

Entretlens  sur  Marcel  Proust,  collected  papers  of  a  Conference  of  the  Centre 
Culturel  International  de  Cerisy-la-Salle,  and  compiled  by  Prof.  Philip  Kolb  and 
Georges  Cattaui,  includes  a  paper  by  Prof.  Kolb. 

Prof.  R.J.  Nelson:   "Classicism:   The  Crisis  of  the  Baroque  in  French  Litera- 
ture" in  "Paths  to  Freedom,"  a  Memorial  Number  (in  honor  of  E.B.O.  Borgerhoff)  of 
Esprit  Createur,  XI,  2  (1971),  169-186. 

Prof.  R.  Nelson:   "Further  Remarks  on  Interdisciplinary  Programs"  in  ADFL 
Bulletin.   (A  reply  to  an  article  on  the  subject  by  Roger  Shattuck  in  ADFL  Bulletin 
of  Sept.  1971.) 

Prof.  R.  J.  Nelson:   a  new  hardcover  edition  of  Play  Within  a  Play:   The  Drama- 
tist's Conception  of  His  Art,  Shakespeare  to  Anouilh.  New  York  (Da  Capo  Press),  1971. 
(Originally  published  in  1958  by  Yale  Univ.  Press. ) 

Prof.  Fred  M.  Jenkins:   "The  Phonetic  Value  of  Mute  -e"  in  French  Review.  XLV, 
1,  82-87. 

"Histoire  d'une  prairie"  by  Jean  Cayrol,  reviewed  by  Prof.  Yves  Velan,  French 
Review.  XLV,  1. 

"Dialogue  sur  la  traduction:   a  propos  du  Tombeau  de  Rois"  by  Hubert  and  Scott, 
reviewed  by  Prof.  Emile  J.  Talbot,  French  Review,  XLV,  1. 

Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel:   "The  Cinematic  World  of  Antonis  Samarakis"  in  The 
Charioteer.  Samarakis  Number,  New  York,  1971,  12-23  of  the  introduction.   Also 
translations  of  "The  Blond  Cavalier,"  "The  River,"  "War  Story,"  "Ideas,  Inc."  and 
"The  Jungle,"  in  the  same  number. 

The  Proust  Anniversary  Issue  of  L'Esprlt  Cre~ateur  (Spring,  1971)  is  almost  a 
U.I.  number,  as  five  of  its  seven  articles  represent  work  done  in  Urbana  by:  P.  Kolb, 
H.  DeLey,  Randi  Marie  Birn,  Barbara  Bucknall,  and  Larkin  B.  Price. 

FILM  AT  MLA 
Although  the  Dec,  1971,  Modern  Language  Association  Convention  was  a  bit  depressing 
because  of  general  gloom  and  crisis  in  Academe,  this  correspondent,  given  his  double 
interest  in  traditional  literature  as  well  as  in  cinema,  was  particularly  gratified 
to  see  the  large  amount  of  film,  film  and  literature,  film  as  literature,  film  in 
language  teaching,  etc. etc.  meetings  at  this  conference.   There  were  at  least  twelve 
seminars,  symposia,  forums,  and  workshops  devoted  to  these  subjects,  plus  a  feature 
film  (Wanda)  showing — not  counting  the  presence  of  this  emerging  (in  Universities) 
form  in  countless  reports,  papers,  etc.  in  "straight"  literature  sections. 

FACULTY  NOTES 
Prof.  Philip  Kolb  was  a  principal  speaker  at  the  Clarement  College's  (California) 
commemoration  of  the  centenary  of  Marcel  Proust's  birth,  held  on  Nov.  12-14,  1971. 
He  spoke  of  Proust's  methods  of  composing  his  novel,  as  they  are  revealed  by  the 
author's  notebooks  in  the  Bibliotheque  Nationale.   Prof.  Kolb  also  participated  in  a 
round-table  discussion  on  the  Modernity  of  Proust 

Among  those  attending  the  sessions  were  two  of  Mr.  Kolb's  former  students, 
The"rese  Ballet  Lynn  and  James  Greenlee.   Mrs.  Lynn  recently  published  in  one  of  the 
Proust  numbers  of  "Europe"  an  article  taken  from  a  paper  she  did  in  Mr.  Kolb's 
Proust  seminar.   Mr.  Greenlee  spent  last  year  pursuing  his  research  on  a  sabbatical 
leave  with  his  family,  and  has  returned  to  Pasadena  where  he  is  teaching  at  CalTech. 


Prof.  Yves  Velan  recently  spent  one  month  in  Europe,  where  he  gave  a  talk  at  the 
Zurich  Polytechnicum  on  "Art  et  Non-Art." 

Prof.  Fred  M.  Jenkins  was  recently  appointed  to  the  ACTFL  Bibliography  Committee 
which  prepares  the  Annual  Bibliography  on  the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Language  that 
appears  in  the  Foreign  Language  Annals. 

Manfred  Gsteiger,  visiting  professor  in  Comp.  Lit.  for  the  first  semester  was 
the  December  speaker  of  the  Journal  Club.   He  spoke  on  "La  Litte"rature  Suisse 
d'expression  francaise." 

Prof.  Gabriel  Savignon  is  going  on  sabbatical  leave  and  has  relinquished  his 
Chairmanship  of  the  U.I.  Year-Abroad  Program.   For  the  spring  semester,  1972,  Prof. 
R.  J.  Nelson  is  the  new  Year-Abroad  Chairman. 

The  Ce"nacle'a  latest  meeting,  on  Feb.  8,  had  for  its  topic  "Le  probleme  du  mal 
dans  la  litte"rature. "  Discussion  was  led  by  Prof.  Yves  Velan. 

Prof.  F.W.  Nachtmann  was  a  member  of  the  accreditation  panel  of  the  North  Cen- 
tral Association,  held  in  Princeton  (111.),  Jan.  31-Feb.  2,  1972. 

A  program  devoted  to  Prof.  Velan* s  novel  Je  was  broadcast  recently  by  Radio 
Lausanne,  Radio  Geneve,  and  the  Paris  ORTF. 

Prof.  Wilga  Rivers  spoke  to  the  Journal  Club  on  Feb.  Ik   on  "The  Foreign  Language 
Teacher  and  the  Psychologist,  or,  Where  Do  We  Go  from  Here?"   Following  the  meeting, 
a  reception  was  held  for  Miss  Rivers. 

Prof.  Wilga  M.  Rivers  has  been  elected  to  the  MLA  Delegate  Assembly  as  Delegate- 
at-Large  for  Teacher  Education. 

NATIONAL  FLES  CONTEST 
The  French  National  FLES  Contest  (offered  to  students  grades  1-6)  will  be  held 
April  12-21,  1972,  as  part  of  the  thirty-seventh  annual  National  French  Contest 
sponsored  by  the  11,000  members  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  French. 
The  contest  features  a  speaking  test,  a  listening  comprehension  test,  and  a  reading 
comprehension  test,  to  be  administered  and  graded  by  teachers  who  will  send  the  top 
scoring  tests  to  the  National  Director,  Sidney  L.  Teitelbaum. 

If  interested,  please  write  to:   National  French  Contest;  FLES  Division;  Box  86; 
Plainview,  N.Y.  11803.  The  deadline  for  applications  is  March  20,  1972. 

"FRENCH  AT  ILLINOIS"  FUND 
The  U.I.  Foundation  is  a  non-profit  agency  of  the  U.I.   It  makes  possible  for  the 
University  to  accept  gifts  (contributions)  which  are  tax-deductible.  The  Dept.  of 
French  has  a  fund  in  this  foundation,  whose  title  is  "French  at  Illinois  Fund." 
Gifts  to  this  Fund  are  used  for  the  purchase  of  materials,  for  lectures,  for  financ- 
ing the  French  Poetry  Contest,  and  for  many  other  worthwhile  activities,  all  of  whicl' 
contribute  significantly  to  the  quality  of  the  French  programs  available  to  all  the 
citizens  of  the  State  of  Illinois.  The  major  advantage  of  this  Fund — other  of  course 
than  its  being  often  the  only  means  to  accomplish  certain  goals — is  its  flexibility, 
the  basic  simplicity  of  its  use,  as  opposed  to  the  Kafkaesque  complexities  that  Uni- 
versity red  tape  can  cause,  sometimes  even  for  the  expenditure  of  a  few  dollars! 

This  fund  has  been  fueled  mainly  through  gifts,  and  specifically  through  the 
generosity  of  Prof.  Larkin  B.  Price  (of  the  Urbana  campus  French  Dept.)  who  recently 
gave  $150,  and  that  of  Prof.  Bruce  H.  Mainous  (Head  of  the  Dept.)  who  has  been  turn- 
ing over  to  the  Fund  the  royalties  from  his  textbook,  Basic  French,  an  Oral  Approach. 

At  this  time  the  Fund  is  extremely  modest,  partly  because  the  public  knows 
little  about  it — but  although  small,  it  can  be  of  tremendous  service  to  all  those  whc 
are  affected  by  French  culture.   We  would  like  to  see  it  grow,  especially  in  these 
very  lean  fiscal  times  when  so  many  programs,  students,  teachers,  and  citizens  are 
hurt  by  our  unprecedented  budget  cuts.   Your  contribution,  be  it  of  $1   or  of  $100  or 
more  will  be  put  to  good  use  and  will  benefit  the  public.   If  this  appeal  is  success- 
ful, we  ought  to  get  a  large  number  of  gifts  and  should  be  able  to  report  soon  what 
exactly  is  being  done  with  these  funds. 

Through  this  Newsletter,  the  French  Dept.  will  begin  to  publish  the  names  of  all 
contributors,  and,  upon  their  request,  specify  the  amount  of  their  contribution. 
Or,  upon  request,  we  will  not  mention  your  name. 

Remember  that  your  gifts  are  tax -deductible.   They  should  be  made  out  to  "French 
at  Illinois"  Fund  (be  sure  to  specify  this),  %   U.I.  Foundation,  224  Illini  Union, 
Urbana,  111.  61801.   With  many  thanks. 


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GERMANIC  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Roy  F.  Allen 

An  article  by  Prof.  Marianne  Burkhard,  based  upon  a  talk  she  presented  at  a  meeting 
of  the  Fruchtbringende  Gesellschaft  of  the  Department,  has  just  appeared  in  print: 
"Bacchus  Biformis:  Zu  einem  Motiv  ira  Werk  Conrad  Ferdinand  Meyers"  (Neophllologus , 
Vol.  55,  No.  4,  418-432). 

Prof.  James  Marchand  presented  two  reports  at  the  German  I  meeting  at  the  MLA 
convention  in  Chicago  in  December;  the  first  report  was  on  "Computer-Aided  Analysis' 
and  the  second  on  "Work  in  Progress."   At  that  same  meeting,  Prof.  Marchand  circulat- 
ed copies  of  a  handout  on  "The  Recently  Discovered  Leaf  of  the  Codex  Argenteus."  Both 
Prof.  Marchand  and  Prof.  Ernst  Philippson  were  elected  at  the  Chicago  conference  to 
the  next  German  I  Executive  Committee  of  the  MLA.   At  a  recent  joint  session  of  the 
American  Historical  Association  and  the  Society  for  the  History  of  Science,  which  was 
held  in  New  York,  Prof.  Marchand  spoke  on  "The  Reception  of  Science  among  German  Men 
of  Letters  in  the  Second  Half  of  the  Eighteenth  Century";  the  same  talk  will  appear 
in  print  this  year  in  a  symposium  volume,  edited  by  Wilson  Scott  and  entitled  The 
Influence  of  Early  Enlightenment  Thought  upon  Classical  Science  and  Letters  (New  YorV 
Neale  Watson  Academic  Publications,  1972).   A  final  note  on  Prof.  Marchand' s  recent 
activities:   he  also  represented  the  Department  at  the  Nov.,  1971,  meeting  of  the 
MMLA  in  Detroit.   Here  he  both  commented  on  a  paper  give  by  Paul  Schach  en  "The  Norse 
Tristan-Saga"  and  gave  a  talk  himself  on  "The  Newly-Discovered  Leaf  of  the  Codex  Ar- 
genteus."  Prof.  Marchand  was  elected  Secretary  in  Detroit  of  the  German  I  section  of 
the  MMLA  convention  for  the  coming  year. 

It  was  reported  in  the  last  issue  of  the  Newsletter  that  Prof.  Irmengard  Rauch- 
Carr's  paper  "Were  Verbs  in  fact  Noun  Subsidiaries?"  has  been  selected  for  presenta- 
tion before  the  Eleventh  International  Congress  of  Linguists  at  its  meeting  in 
Bologna,  Italy,  Aug.  28-Sept.  2  of  this  year.   A  travel  grant  recently  awarded  Prof. 
Rauch-Carr  by  the  Linguistic  Society  of  America  and  the  National  Science  Foundation 
will  enable  her  to  attend  the  conference  and  present  her  paper  in  person.   Prof. 
Rauch-Carr  has  also  recently  been  granted  the  distinction  of  being  included  in  the 
forthcoming  Eighth  Edition  of  Who's  Who  of  American  Women.   Finally,  Prof.  Rauch-Carr 
wrote  an  in-depth  review  of  Gunnar  Bech's  study  Das  germanische  reduplizlerte 
Prateritum  which  has  just  been  published  in  Lingua  (Vol.  27,  367-381). 

UPCOMING  MEETING  OF  THE  AATG 
The  Southern  111.  Chapter  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  German  will  hold 
its  spring  meeting  this  year  on  Saturday,  May  13,  1972,  at  Western  111.  U.  at  Macomb. 
Prof.  Henry  Gerlach,  Vice  President  of  the  chapter,  cordially  invites  all  AATG  mem- 
bers and  other  interested  German  teachers  to  attend.   Programmes  of  the  meeting  will 
be  mailed  out  to  members. 

MISS  CANDACE  WIDMAR  WINS  NATIONAL  DELTA  PHI  ALPHA  AWARD 
A  senior  in  the  Teacher  Training  Program  of  the  Department,  Miss  Candace  Widmar,  has 
been  named  the  recipient  of  the  National  Delta  Phi  Alpha  Scholarship  for  the  academic 
year  1972-73.   This  scholarship,  which  includes  a  $400  cash  award,  simultaneously  be- 
stows upon  Miss  Widmar  the  additional  honor  of  being  made  the  nominee  sponsored  this 
year  by  Delta  Phi  Alpha  in  the  annual  DAAD  award  competition. 

GERMAN  CLUB  ACTIVITIES 
The  German  Club  of  the  U.I.,  which  sponsored  a  very  interesting  and  full  program  of 
activities  last  fall,  has  already  laid  the  foundation  for  a  similar  program  this 
spring.   At  the  outset  of  the  current  semester,  on  Feb.  12,  the  Club  presented  a  very 
successful  production  of  Friedrich  Diirrenmatt '  s  Play  Strlndberg.   The  performance, 
which  was  executed  in  German,  was  put  on  by  members  of  the  Theater  Group  of  the  Club. 
As  in  the  previous  fall,  the  Club  will  again  sponsor  this  spring  a  series  of  films 
relating  to  Germany  or  German  culture.  The  series  will  be  opened  on  March  6  with  a 
film  entitled  The  Germans  (in  English).   On  March  16  there  will  be  a  screening  of  one 
of  the  most  popular,  and  at  the  same  time  controversial,  films  to  come  out  of  Germany 
since  the  end  of  the  last  World  War:   Wir  Wunderklnder.   Made  in  1958  under  the  dire* 
tion  of  Kurt  Hoffmann  and  starring  Hansjorg  Felmy,  Robert  Graf,  Wera  Frydtberg, 
Johanna  von  Koczian,  Elisabeth  Flickenschildt,  Wolfgang  Neuss,  Liesl  Karlstadt,  et 


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al.,  Wlr  Wunderklnder  attempts  to  come  to  terms  with  some  of  the  prominent  aspects  of 
German  socio-political  history  in  the  twentieth  century.   The  film  has  been  shown  all 
over  the  world,  including  the  U.S.  (English- language  version:   Aren't  We  Wonderful) . 
The  March  16  showing  at  the  U.I.  will  be  in  German  and  will  be  of  special  interest  to 
present  and  past  students  of  German  104  in  the  Department,  which  reads,  as  one  of  two 
basic  texts  in  the  course,  the  edited  version  of  the  original  script  of  the  film 
(based  on  the  novel  of  Hugo  Hartung).  The  third  film  scheduled  thus  far  for  the 
spring  series  is  Pussball  70,  a  film  in  English  on  the  World  Soccer  Championships  in 
Mexico.   Besides  the  traditional  spring  picnic,  which  will  take  place  this  year  in 
May,  the  German  Club  is  also  sponsoring  a  series  of  semi-formal  gatherings,  in  order 
to  provide  a  frame  in  which  undergraduates,  graduates,  faculty  and  other  interested 
persons  can  meet  and  discuss  subjects  of  mutual  interest.  Talks  presented  on  speci- 
fic topics  by  featured  speakers  on  these  evenings  provide  a  basis  for  the  discussions 
which  follow.  The  gatherings  are  all  taking  place  at  the  German  House,  108  S.  Greg- 
ory in  Urbana,  commencing  at  8:00  p.m.  The  first  session  was  held  on  Feb.  1?  and 
centered  around  a  discussion  of  Play  Strindberg.  presented  that  same  month  by  the 
German  Club.   Future  sessions  are  now  planned  for  March  9,  23;  Apr.  13,  27;  May  11,2  5 
The  Theater  Group  cast  of  Play  Strindberg  is  willing  to  "go  on  the  road"  with  its 
production;  the  Club  advisor  (Rainer  Sell)  or  president  (Bill  Freyman)  would,  there- 
fore, like  to  hear  from  German  Departments  at  colleges  and  universities  throughout 
111.  and  neighboring  states  which  are  interested  in  taking  advantage  of  the  possibi- 
lity of  having  the  Diirrenmatt  play  performed  in  German  on  their  campuses.  The  pro- 
ceeds from  ticket  sales  would  have  to  defer  only  the  basic  travelling  expenses  of  the 
Theater  Group  and  the  royalty  fees  for  the  play,  the  latter  of  which  totaled  $15  for 
the  U.I.  performance  on  Feb.  12. 

FILMS  IN  GERMAN  FOR  BEGINNING  CLASSES 
In  place  of  one  of  the  usual  laboratory  periods  each  week  in  the  first-year  German 
classes  (101-102),  the  Department  is  showing  films  from  the  series  "Guten  Tag."  The 
content  of  the  films  is  reviewed  in  class  following  the  screenings  and  is  used  as  a 
basis  for  conversation  practice.  The  films  are  shown  from  8:00  a.m.  to  5:00  p.m.,  on 
the  hour  and  the  half  hour  throughout  the  day,  and  this  makes  it  possible  for  students 
enrolled  in  courses  within  the  Department  but  outside  the  101-102  series,  who  are 
interested  in  practice  in  aural  comprehension,  to  attend  as  well.  The  co-ordinators 
of  the  101-102  program,  Profs.  Vincent  Dell'Orto  and  Richard  Figge,  have  discovered 
that  the  students  in  the  program  have  in  general  welcomed  this  kind  of  change  from 
the  traditional  laboratory  session. 

SLAVIC  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Frank  Y.  Gladney 

KT0-NIBUD'  KHOCHET  ZHIT1  V  RUSSKOM  DOME? 
A  coed  co-op  Russian  House  is  being  organized.   It  will  cost  about  $50  per  month  for 
a  room  and  be  open  to  anyone  (graduate  or  undergrad)  who  will  have  completed  Russian 
104  by  the  fall.  For  further  information,  or  to  assist  in  the  project,  please  con- 
tact Pamela  Kirk,  URH  Wardall  410,  Urbana,  111.  61801  or  (217)  332-4366. 

LENINGRAD  STATE  UNIVERSITY 
March  15  is  the  deadline  for  application  to  the  U.I.  fall  semester  program  at  LGU  for 
advanced  undergraduates  (three  years  of  Russian)  and  beginning  graduate  students. 
The  program  is  sponsored  by  the  Council  on  International  Education  Exchange,  and  the 
Ford  Foundation  is  providing  good  support  for  part  or  all  of  the  $2600  cost.  Further 
information  and  application  forms  are  available  from  Prof.  Clayton  L.  Dawson,  3092 
FLB,  Urbana,  111.  61801,  or  (217)  333-0680.   Two  Slavic  Dept.  students  are  on  the  pro- 
gram in  Leningrad  this  semester,  Dorthea  Sir  Louis  and  Ben  Fairfax.   Two  other  Slavic 
Dept.  students,  Robert  Hagen  and  George  Hoyer-Booth,  are  serving  as  guides  in  a  USIA 
traveling  trade  exhibit  in  the  USSR  this  semester. 


NEW  COURSE 
An  innovation  in  the  Department  this  semester  is  a  course  entitled  "The  Jew  in  Slavic 
and  East  European  Literatures."   It  is  being  offered  by  Mr.  Eliot  Cohen  to  both 
undergraduates  (Slavic  199)  and  graduate  students  (Slavic  491).   The  reading,  in 
translations  from  Russian,  Yiddish,  Polish,  and  Ukranian,  deals  with  such  topics  as 
pogroms  and  false  messiahs,  minority  and  majority  cultures,  Haskalah  (Enlightenment), 
Hasidism,  assimilation,  and  revolution. 

FILMS  WANTED 
Prof.  S.P.  Hill  is  looking  for  used  copies  of  Russian  or  East  European  film  for  pur- 
chase, to  build  up  a  collection  that  can  be  used,  inter  alia,  next  fall  in  his  new 
course  on  Russian  and  East  European  Cinema  (Slavic  319).   He  has  already  made  a 
couple  of  rare  finds  and  is  on  the  track  of  two  or  three  more. 

FOLKLORE  DISCUSSION 
Graduate  student  William  McCombe  has  formed  a  folklore  discussion  group  to  which  he 
is  planning  to  invite  guest  speakers  specializing  in  various  folklores  of  the  world. 

ENROLLMENT  AND  CURRICULA  CHANGES 
The  Slavic  Dept.  enrollment  is  down  about  twenty  percent  compared  to  last  spring's 
figure.   The  culture  and  literature-in-translation  courses,  however,  are  holding 
their  own:   the  fall  ten-day  total  (82)  represented  a  thirty  percent  increase  over 
the  previous  fall,  and  the  spring  early  total  of  91  is  the  same  as  last  spring's. 

The  Slavic  faculty  at  its  Dec.  9  meeting  approved  the  following  changes  in  the 
graduate  degree  programs:   at  the  M.A.  level  two  courses  must  be  successfully  com- 
pleted in  the  nonmajor  field  (in  Russian  or  Slavic  linguistics  for  literature  majors, 
in  Russian  literature  for  linguistics  majors),  rather  than,  as  before,  certain  speci- 
fic courses.   If  the  two  nonmajor  courses  are  passed  with  a  grade  of  B  or  better,  no 
minor  examination  will  be  required.   There  are  no  longer  any  nonmajor  requirements 
beyond  the  M.A.  level,  except  for  the  following:   Ph.D.  candidates  in  Russian  litera- 
ture must  take  two  graduate-level  courses  in  another  Slavic  language  or  literature 
(in  the  original);  those  in  linguistics  must  take  at  least  three  courses  in  at  least 
two  other  Slavic  languages.   The  faculty  also  approved  in  principle  a  Polish  program 
extensive  enough  to  constitute  a  strong  minor. 

FACULTY  NOTES 
Russian  and  East  European  Center  Director  Ralph  T.  Fisher,  Jr.  is  on  leave  this  se- 
mester; in  his  absence  Prof.  Keith  A.  Hitchins  (History)  is  acting  director.   Prof. 
Robert  F.  Miller  (Political  Science)  is  on  a  Fulbright  in  Yugoslavia  this  year. 
Prof.  James  R.  Millar  (Economics),  accompanied  by  his  wife  Gera  of  the  Slavics  Dept., 
is  spending  his  sabbatical  leave  with  IREX  in  London  and  Zurich.   His  research  topic 
on  the  Soviet  economy  during  World  War  II  was  apparently  unacceptable  to  the  Soviet 
authorities,  but  the  Millars  hope  to  visit  the  Soviet  Union  at  least  briefly  later  in 
the  semester.   Prof.  Benjamin  Uroff  (History)  is  also  on  leave,  doing  research  in 
London. 

Miss  Ann  M.  Kleimola,  post-doctoral  fellow  at  the  Center  for  Advanced  Study,  is 
teaching  a  seminar  in  Muscovite  Russian  this  spring. 

Prof.  Peter  B.  Maggs  (Law)  is  on  leave  at  the  East-West  Center  in  Honolulu, 
researching  legal  regulation  of  the  Soviet  economy. 

Mr.  Gary  Wiggins,  who  joined  the  professional  staff  of  the  Slavic  Division  of 
the  Special  Languages  Dept.  las  fall  (coming  from  Indiana  U. )  is  publishing  in  the 
current  issue  of  the  U.I.  Graduate  School  of  Library  Science  Occasional  Papers  a 
paper  entitled  "English  Language  Reference  Sources  for  Questions  Relating  to  Soviet 
Science. " 

Prof.  Temira  Pachmuss  gave  a  paper  at  the  emigre"  literature  section  of  the 
annual  meeting  of  AATSEEL  in  Chicago  last  December.   The  title  was  "Ziniada  Hippius 
as  an  Emigre"  Poet." 


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ILLINOIS  AATSEEL  MEETING 
Mr.  Steven  R.  Stroud  (Maine  Twp.  H.S.  East,  Park  Ridge),  president  of  the  Illinois 
chapter  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  Slavic  and  East  European  Languages, 
has  announced  that  the  spring  meeting  will  he  held  April  29  at  Gemini  Jr.  H.S.  in 
Niles.   It  will  include  the  Illinois  High  School  Russian  Contest,  a  workshop  for 
teachers,  a  buffet  lunch  featuring  Russian  dishes,  and  Russian  films  and  entertain- 
ment. 

SPANISH,  ITALIAN,  AND  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  —  by  Alice  L.  Anderson 

PROF.  KAHANE  HONORED 
Prof.  Emeritus  Henry  R.  Kahane ,  internationally  known  for  his  work  in  linguistics 
and  the  cultural  heritage  of  the  West,  has  been  appointed  Acting  Director  of  the  U.I. 
Center  for  Advanced  Study.   In  1968  he  was  appointed  to  a  professorship  at  the  Centei; 
the  highest  recognition  the  University  can  bestow  upon  members  of  the  faculty.   He 
held  that  position  until  his  retirement  last  August.   It  might  be  added  that  Dr. 
Kahane' s  retirement  is  in  name  only,  as  he  can  be  seen  daily  at  the  Library  with  his 
wife  Rene*e,  together  doing  research  and  writing  articles. 

THIRTEENTH-CENTURY  NEW  TESTAMENT 
Assoc.  Prof.  Spurgeon  Baldwin  of  our  Department  has  published  in  collaboration  with 
Prof.  Thomas  Montgomery  of  Tulane  an  edition  of  a  thirteenth-century  New  Testament 
(El  Nuevo  Testamento  segun  el  manuscrito  escurialense  I-I-6;  desde  el  Evangelio  de 
San  Marcos  hasta  el  Apocalipsls  (BRAE,  Ane.lo  22)   Madrid,  1970.  64-7  pp.).   Their 
study  complements  Prof.  Montgomery's  1962  edition  of  the  Gospel  according  to  St. 
Matthew  in  the  same  series.  Aside  from  the  the  text  proper,  the  present  volume  con- 
tains an  extensive  prefatory  essay  by  Prof.  Baldwin  on  the  textual  history  of  the 
manuscript  and  a  concluding  section  by  Prof.  Montgomery  with  notes  on  orthographic 
variants,  morphological  peculiarities,  and  a  vocabulary  study.  This  welcome  edition 
contributes  to  our  knowledge  of  Vulgate  traditions,  translation  techniques,  and  the 
structure  of  literary  Castilian  in  the  Alfonsine  period. 

MEXICAN  AUTHOR  AT  U.I. 
The  young  Mexican  writer  Jose*  Emilio  Pacheco  is  in  residence  this  semester  in  the 
Dept.  of  Spanish,  Italian,  and  Portuguese.   He  is  very  highly  esteemed  for  his  crea- 
tive literature,  in  the  form  of  poetry,  novels,  and  short  stories,  as  well  as  for 
several  anthologies  and  works  of  criticism.   Mr.  Pacheco  is  giving  two  courses,  a 
graduate  course  on  modern  Spanish  American  literature  and  an  undergradute  course  on 
Latin  American  culture. 

NERUDA  SYMPOSIUM 
A  symposium  in  honor  of  Pablo  Neruda,  1971  Nobel  laureate,  will  be  held  at  the  U.I. 
on  May  3-'+,  1972.   Off-campus  participants  will  include  Fernando  Alegrfa  (Stanford), 
Leslie  Fielder  (SUNY-Buffalo) ,  Emir  Rodriguez  Monegal  (Yale),  and  the  program  will 
range  from  from  formal  lectures  to  films,  poetry  readings,  and  round-table  discus- 
sions.  Printed  announcements  will  be  available  by  the  end  of  March. 

BRAZILIAN  CRITIC  LECTURES 
Marfa  Luisa  Ramos,  noted  Brazilian  critic,  was  recently  at  the  U.I.  and  delivered  a 
lecture  on  the  evening  of  Feb.  2^,  1972. 

AATSP  MEETING 
The  Spring  meeting  of  the  Downstate  Chapter  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers 
of  Spanish  and  Portuguese  will  be  held  on  Sat.,  Apr.  22,  1972,  at  the  Limestone 
Community  High  School,  Bartonville  (Peoria),  111.  from  9:00-12:00  noon;  luncheon  will 
be  served  at  12:30.   Further  details  will  be  announced  when  they  are  available. 


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CIC  SUMMER  PROGRAM  IN  MEXICO 
The  Committee  on  Institutional  Cooperation  (CIC),  consisting  of  the  universities  of 
the  Big  Ten  plus  the  Univ.  of  Chicago,  offers  the  CIC  Summer  Program  in  Mexico.   The 
purpose  of  the  program  is  to  provide  qualified  undergraduates  with  an  opportunity  to 
enhance  their  facility  in  the  use  of  the  Spanish  language  and  to  enrich  their  special 
fields  of  concentration.   Participants  will  be  housed  with  Mexican  families. 

The  program,  to  be  held  at  the  Universidad  Ibero-Americana  from  June  19-Aug.  11, 
1972,  is  intended  primarily  for  students  whose  area  of  specialization  is  Spanish.   It 
is  open,  however,  to  undergraduate  students  from  other  disciplines  who  have  demon- 
strated ability  in  the  use  of  Spanish. 

The  Director  is  Prof.  James  Maharg,  a  recent  Ph.D.  from  the  U.I.  The  approximate 
cost  for  the  1972  Summer  Program  will  be  $625.   For  application  forms  and  further 
information,  students  should  write  to:   Prof.  James  Maharg,  Director;  CIC  Summer  Pro- 
gram in  Mexico;  Dept.  of  Romance  Languages;  Univ.  of  Mich.;  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.  48104. 

U.I.  YEAR-ABROAD  PROGRAM  IN  SPAIN 
The  U.I.,  Urbana-Champaign  and  Chicago  Circle,  will  again  sponsor  a  year-abroad  pro- 
gram in  Spain  which  constitutes  the  equivalent  of  a  year  in  residence  on  either  cam- 
pus.  The  program  is  designed  primarily  for  students  majoring  in  Spanish  or  the 
teaching  of  Spanish,  although  other  students  may  apply.   Minimum  requirements  are 
the  completion  of  a  fourth-semester  course  in  Spanish,  an  overall  3-5  grade  average, 
and  a  4.0  average  in  Spanish  courses. 

The  total  cost  of  the  program  to  each  student  is  comparable  to  the  average  ex- 
penses incurred  during  the  academic  year  on  campus  at  Urbana-Champaign.   Students 
will  attend  courses  in  Spain  during  the  nine-month  period  equivalent  to  two  semesters 
at  the  Urbana-Champaign  campus  or  three  quarters  at  the  Circle  campus.   Part  of 
September  will  be  spent  in  a  preliminary  orientation  session  in  Madrid,  handled  by 
the  Spanish  government's  Instituto  de  Cultura  Hlspanica,  and  the  following  eight 
months  (October  through  May)  in  special  classes  at  the  Univ.  of  Barcelona. 

The  application  deadline  is  March  15,  1972.  The  candidates  selected  by  a  local 
screening  committee  will  be  notified  in  April.   Application  forms  are  available  from 
the  Spanish  Dept.  Office,  4080  Foreign  Language  Bldg.  or  from  Prof.  Joseph  S.  Flores, 
Chairman  of  the  Illinois  Year-Abroad  Program  in  Spain,  4150C  F.L.B.,  Univ.  of  111., 
Urbana,  111.  61801,  telephone  (217)  333-1739,  and  from  the  Spanish  Dept.  Office, 
U.I.  Chicago  Circle  Campus,  Chicago,  111.  60680. 

RECENT  PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  M.H.  Forster  has  published  a  book:   Letras  de  Me"xico  (1937-1947)  :  Indice  Ano- 
tado.  Mexico:  Ed.  Ibero-Americana,  1971.  200  pp. 

Prof.  Luis  Leal  has  recently  published  a  book  and  two  articles.   His  book  is 
Cuentlstas  hispanoamericanos  del  slglo  velnte.  New  York:  Random  House,  1972.  243  pp. 
His  articles  include  "La  nueva  narrative  mexicana,"  Nueva  Narrativa  His panoame r i c ana, 
II,  1  (Jan.,  1972),  89-97;  and  "La  realidad  autdnoma  de  Conversacion  en  la  Catedral," 
Norte.  Hispanic  Journal  of  Amsterdam,  XII,  5-6  (Oct. -Dec,  197D,  122-125.  (Number 
dedicated  to  Mario  Vargas  Llosa). 

Asst.  Prof.  Dieter  Wanner  has  published  a  review  of  Strutture  sintattiche  del 
predlcato  in  itallano  by  Annarita  Puglielli  (Biblioteca  di  filologia  romanza,  15) , 
Bari :  Adriatica  Editrice,  1970,  which  appeared  in  Papers  in  Linguistics ,  IV,  2  (197U 
395_404. 

Grad.  Teaching  Asst.  Michiko  Nonoyama  completed  two  papers  in  a  seminar  given 
last  summer  by  Prof.  Anthony  Pasquariello,  Head  of  the  Dept.   Her  papers  have  been 
accepted  by  Hispandfila  for  publication:   "Personalidad  en  los  dramas  de  Unamuno  y 
de  Buero  Vallejo"  and  "Gulllermo  Tell  tlene  los  o.jos  trlstes ,  Ana'lisis  de  tema  y  de 
te'cnica. " 

Prof.  Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo  corrected  and  proof-read  an  article  for  Grad. 
Teaching  Asst.  Frank  H.  Nuessel,  Jr.  which  was  the  result  of  research  done  in  a 
seminar  on  Calder6n  taught  by  Prof.  Porqueras-Mayo.  The  article  is  "Observaciones 
sobre  el  verbo  'estStico'  o  la  cesura  dram5tica  de  Calderon,"  which  appeared  in 
Boletfn  de  Filologfa  Espanola,  XI,  38-89  (1971),  23-31.  Mr.  Nuessel  also  reviewer) 
Noble,  Fouad,  and  LaCasa,  Spanish — A  Basic  Course,  New  York:  Holt,  Rinehart  and 
Winston,  1971.   This  review  appeared  in  Mode rn  Language  Journal,  Feb.,  1972. 


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FACULTY  NOTES 
Prof.  M.H.  Forster  gave  a  paper  "Four  Contemporary  Mexican  Poets:   Montes  de  Oca, 
Zaid,  Pacheco,  Aridjis"  on  Feb.  10,  1972,  at  Indiana  Univ.,  Symposium  on  Contemporary 
Latin  American  Poetry. 

Prof.  Luis  Leal  will  read  a  paper  at  a  symposium  on  the  New  Latin  American  Novel 
to  be  held  at  Houston  Univ.  on  March  17-18.   He  also  read  a  paper,  "La  ensenanza  de 
la  literatura  hispanoamericana  en  los  Estados  Unidos"  at  the  AATSP  meeting  held  in 
Chicago  on  Dec.  29,  1971.   He  served  as  Discussion  Leader  at  Seminar  41,  Modern 
Language  Association  Convention  in  Chicago,  Dec.  28,  1971,  on  "New  Directions  on 
Spanish  American  Fiction."   Prof.  Leal  also  spoke  earlier  on  the  short  story  at  the 
ACTFL  meeting;  it  was  incorrectly  reported  in  the  Dec.  Newsletter  that  Prof.  Anthony 
Pasquariello  spoke  on  the  short  story. 

Prof.  Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo,  Resident  Director  of  the  U.I.  Year-Abroad  Program 
in  Spain,  read  a  paper  "La  verdad  universal  y  la  teorfa  drama"tica  del  Siglo  de  Oro" 
at  the  last  International  Congress  of  Hispanists,  which  took  place  in  Salamanca. 
Prof.  Porqueras-Mayo  was  also  chairman  of  one  session  at  the  Congress. 

Assoc.  Prof.  David  Hershberg  attended  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of 
Spanish  and  Portuguese  Convention  at  Chicago  in  December,  1971. 

Asst.  Profs.  Martha  Francescato  and  Anthony  Cassell  received  U.I.  Faculty 
Fellowships  for  Summer,  1972,  which  will  enable  them  to  continue  their  research. 


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THE  UNIVERSITY  OP  ILLINOIS  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  NEWSLETTER 

April,  1972         Director:   Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello 
Vol.  XXV,  No.  k  Editor:   Alice  Long  Anderson 

TWENTY-FIVE  YEARS  OF  FOREIGN  LANGUAGES 
This  issue  marks  the  close  of  the  twenty-fifth  year  of  publication  of  the  Foreign 
Language  Newsletter.   Change  has  been  the  only  constant  over  the  years.   Many  Insights 
into  education  and  the  languages  are  to  be  gained  by  an  overview  of  the  Newsletter 
through  the  years,  with  its  many  references  to  methodology,  professional  societies 
and  meetings,  and  growth  of  interest  in  foreign  languages. 

The  Foreign  Language  Newsletter  itself  has  been  subject  to  a  variety  of  changes 
in  its  twenty-five  years.   It  was  established  during  the  school  year  of  19^7-^8,  as  a 
result  of  a  questionnaire  sent  to  all  Illinois  foreign  language  teachers  by  the  late 
Dr.  John  Van  Home,  former  Head  of  the  Department  of  Spanish  and  Italian.   The  News- 
letter was  solely  authored  by  the  Dept.  of  Spanish  and  Italian  (later  Portuguese  was 
added  to  the  title)  until  the  addition  of  French  in  1955.   The  first  issue  as  the 
Modern  Foreign  Language  Newsletter  (including  German)  appeared  in  February,  1956. 
This  title  remained  until  last  fall,  1971,  when  the  Classics  Dept.  was  added,  thereby 
necessitating  the  deletion  of  the  word  "Modern,"  giving  the  present  name  Foreign 
Language  Newsletter.   The  Newsletter  was  originally  sent  to  all  high  school  teachers 
of  foreign  languages  in  Illinois.   Today  it  goes  to  a  large  percentage  of  the  teaches 
with  the  addition  of  interested  teachers  from  elementary  schools,  junior  colleges, 
and  universities,  as  well  as  alumni.   The  circulation  by  mail  is  about  1300,  includ- 
ing nearly  all  fifty  states  and  several  foreign  countries;  there  has  never  been  any 
charge  to  subscribers.   The  purpose  of  the  Newsletter  was  originally  stated  to  be  a 
medium  through  which  teachers  could  tell  what  they  were  doing  and  thereby  get  ideas 
from  each  other.  Earlier  issues  included  many  interesting  features,  such  as  summa- 
ries of  the  conclusions  of  professional  meetings,  articles  on  current  methodology, 
stories  of  world  Christmas  customs,  linguistic  topics  (such  as  the  explanation  of 
phonemes  and  allophones),  as  well  as  book  reviews  and  bibliography  for  teachers. 

Professional  societies  and  meetings  have  flourished  from  the  beginning.   The  MLA 
and  the  AAT's  have  strongly  influenced  trends  in  teaching.   Many  local  and  regional 
meetings  have  been  held  and  are  still  well  attended  by  area  language  teachers.   The 
Articulation  Conference  for  high  school  teachers  held  each  fall  since  19^8  is  another 
direct  result  of  Dr.  Van  Home's  original  questionnaire.   Early  efforts  made  at  the 
various  conferences  and  in  the  Newsletter  were  to  eliminate  the  word  "foreign"  (i.e., 
strange  or  peculiar)  and  substitute  it  with  "world"  languages.   Pan  American  Day  had 
an  important  role;  the  Newsletter  from  its  beginnings  showed  much  interest  in  print- 
ing what  the  individual  schools  and  teachers  did  to  celebrate  Pan  American  Day,  inclid 
ing  exhibits,  plays,  bazaars,  and  all-school  assemblies.   Started  in  1957  by  a  res- 
olution of  the  AAT's,  National  Foreign  Language  Week  was  to  be  observed  every  Febr., 
with  similar  attempts  to  heighten  public  awareness  of  the  role  of  foreign  languages. 
The  linguistic  organizations  as  well  were  concerned  with  the  development  of  foreign 
languages.   As  early  as  1952  the  Summer  Institute  of  the  Linguistic  Society  of  Ameiica 
(meeting  at  Indiana  U.)  spoke  of  an  increased  interest  in  the  "rarer"  languages,  such 
as  American  Indian  languages,  Sanskrit,  and  African  languages.   Times  have  changed, 
however,  as  the  1952  Newsletter  mentioned  various  talks,  of  which  "one  of  the  more 
interesting  of  these  dealt  with  reversed  speech  as  produced  on  a  tape  recorder. . .this 
is  an  efficient  means  of  studying  distinctions  of  sound."   Another  sign  of  the  times 
from  1950  was  when  a  meeting  date  was  changed  because  all  University  buildings  were 
shut  down  on  that  Saturday  due  to  the  coal  shortage. 

The  Newsletter  is  also  a  rich  source  of  insights  into  previous  language  teaching 
methods.   The  "spoken"  method  captured  much  interest  already  twenty-five  years  ago. 
Both  Array  methods  and  texts  were  used,  with  modifications;  it  was  considered  best  al- 
ways to  submerge  the  student  first  into  the  target  language,  by  listening  and  speak- 
ing, even  if  the  goal  was  only  reading  ability.   "Students  should  rarely  be  corrected 
and  should  be  encouraged  to  talk  to  themselves  in  the  language  as  they  walk  down  the 
street  or  sit  in  their  rooms."   Techniques  stressed  were  learning  dialogs  with  wide 


variety  in  classroom  procedure  and  emphasis  on  "oral-aural"  approach.   By  1951  there 
was  a  disenchantment  with  the  Army  method:   teaching;  a  specific  skill  to  highly  mo- 
tivated, select  groups.   Instead,  teachers  were  urged  to  use  the  "living  material"  of 
newspapers,  magazines,  etc.   Next  in  vogue  was  the  "pattern"  method  (also  called 
"mim-mem"),  fostered  by  the  descriptive  grammarians,  which  stressed  rote  learning  of 
the  most  common  patterns  of  speech,  repeated  until  automatic.   The  actual  teaching 
of  grammar  was  subordinated  to  pattern  practice,  and  translation  into  the  target  lan- 
guage was  largely  eliminated.   Nonetheless,  no  hope  was  felt  that  "regular"  and 
"oral"  methods  might  be  merged.   Presumably  this  (1952-55)  was  a  period  of  "experi- 
mentation, out  of  which  will  emerge  some  security  regarding  method.   This  is  a  prob- 
lem for  solution  in  the  future."   The  language  laboratory  was  early  named  as  one 
cause  of  the  most  successful  results  in  recent  foreign  language  teaching.   In  1950 
the  U.I.  Spanish  Dept.  got  a  new  laboratory,  consisting  of  four  soundproof  booths, 
each  equipped  with  a  record  player.   In  1952  the  AATSP  concluded  that  the  language 
lab  had  not  too  bright  a  future  for  the  high  school  because  individual  machines  and 
soundproof  rooms  were  usually  unavailable.   By  1959  the  U.I.  had  a  sixty-booth  lab 
equipped  with  tape  recorders  and  various  high  schools  had  similar,  though  smaller 
arrangements.   Television  was  also  a  medium  for  teaching,  with  various  experiments 
conducted  in  classroom  teaching  and  also  adult  education.   In  1961-62  the  U.I.  re- 
ceived $7  million  from  the  government  for  experimental  airborne  television  instruc- 
tion; converted  airliners  were  outfitted  with  television  transmitters  which  were  to 
increase  the  reception  area  to  150-200  miles  in  all  directions.   With  regard  to  the 
teachers  themselves,  teacher  training  was  stressed  more  and  more,  the  polemic  being 
whether  teacher  trainees  should  take  more  culture  courses  than  literature  courses. 
In  1951  a  "professional  semester"  was  set  up  to  include  six  weeks  of  practice  teach- 
ing.  Much  further  discussion  centered  around  introducing  foreign  languages  in  the 
elementary  schools  (FLES).   Foreign  languages  were  taught  a  century  ago  in  certain 
schools,  such  as  German  schools,  until  laws  were  passed  during  the  War  to  eliminate 
foreign  language  teaching  as  "dangerous"  to  the  national  security.   The  beginnings  of 
the  current  FLES  interest  are  rooted  in  UNESCO,  which  in  1949  advised  the  grade 
schools  to  undertake  the  teaching  of  foreign  languages  "for  broader  and  more  under- 
standing world  relationships."   FLES  was  slower  to  catch  on  in  Illinois  than  in 
states  such  as  Texas  with  large  ethnic  populations.   In  1951-53  only  one  school  sys- 
tem in  Illinois  (Alton)  was  known  to  be  involved.  By  the  end  of  1954  the  program 
had  mushroomed,  until  it  included  145,000  pupils  in  145  communities.   FLES  was  so 
popular  in  El  Paso,  Texas,  that  starting  in  1949  special  classes  were  given  to  par- 
ents who  wanted  to  learn  with  their  children. 

After  Sputnik  jolted  national  complacency  in  1957,  interest  burgeoned  in  foreign 
languages  and  in  science.   The  MLA  warned:   "Foreign  language  study  is  essential  to 
the  survival  of  our  nation."   The  Conant  report  on  secondary-school  teaching  under- 
scored weaknesses  and  made  positive  recommendations  in  foreign  language  teaching  and 
programs.   Federal  government  appropriations  {$6   million)  enabled  the  establishment 
of  NDEA  Institutes  during  1959-61,  which  a  very  substantial  number  of  Illinois  teach- 
ers  attended.   The  first  textbook  ever  created  by  the  MLA,  Modern  Spanish  (i960), 
was  based  on  the  "aural-oral"  approach.   In  the  early  '  50's  Latin  was  the  predom- 
inant foreign  language  in  the  high  schools.   A  1955  survey  showed  900  high  schools 
in  Illinois  (135  in  Chicago  alone);  Latin  was  taught  in  550  schools  (in  nearly  200, 
the  only  language  taught);  Spanish,  400  schools;  French,  240;  German,  90;  nearly 
200  of  the  900  offered  none  at  all.   Then  the  great  jolt  of  Sputnik  came  and  in- 
creased enrollment  was  reflected  in  the  figures:   in  one  year  (1958)  U.I.  Russian 
enrollment  increased  350£,  to  240  students;  in  1957  Russian  was  taught  in  16  high 
schools  in  the  U.S.,  140  in  1958  and  450  in  1959.   Calls  for  foreign  language  teach- 
ers from  the  U.I.  were  up:   275  calls  in  1957;  431  in  1959,  a  much  greater  demand 
than  the  number  available.   Interest  increased  in  college  placement  tests  and  in 
liaison  between  high  school  and  university.   The  lack  of  graduate  students  was  la- 
mented and  their  interest  in  teaching  assistantships  was  solicited.   An  attempt  to 
bring  the  libraries  up  to  the  standard  of  excellence  found  in  Europe  was  fostered  in 
1959,  known  as  the  Farmington  Plan.   This  cooperative  program  of  over  sixty  libraries 
designated  each  one  to  certain  areas;  the  U.I.  was  designated  for  most  of  the  prin- 
ciple languages  and  some  areas  of  engineering.   During  1962  alone  16,000  Slavic  lan- 
guage volumes  were  acquired. 


It  is  our  sincere  hope  that  the  recession  that  foreign  languages  are  experienc- 
ing in  some  places  today  will  be  short-lived,  as  mankind  once  again  recognizes  the 
need  to  communicate  face-to-face  with  our  brothers  the  world  over. 

LANGUAGE  REQUIREMENT  RETAINED 
The  college  foreign-language  requirement  was  retained,  by  an  overwhelming  vote  of 
225-118  of  the  Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences  faculty  (the  largest  college  within  the 
Urbana  campus)  on  March  23.   During  the  past  several  months  the  foreign  language  re- 
quirement had  been  under  attack  by  some  faculty  and  student  reformers,  and  the  test 
came  when  the  LAS  faculty  was  presented  with  a  recommendation  of  the  Policy  and 
Development  committee  to  eliminate  totally  the  college  level  foreign  language  re- 
quirement.  This  brought  a  vigorous  response  from  LAS  faculty  members  in  many  depart- 
ments who  believe  in  the  value  of  foreign  language  study,  and  who  pointed  out  that 
the  reformers  were  unable  to  offer  any  good  reason  for  eliminating  the  requirement. 
As  a  result  of  the  overwhelming  support  shown  for  the  foreign  language  requirement  in 
the  March  23  vote,  some  of  the  opponents  of  languages  admitted  defeat  and  expressed 
the  belief  that  the  LAS  college  will  maintain  a  foreign  language  requirement  for 
many  years  to  come. 

CONFERENCE  ON  DIACHRONIC  ROMANCE  LINGUISTICS 
A  very  unusual  event  took  place  at  the  U.I.  on  April  21  and  22.   This  was  the  first 
Conference  of  its  kind  ever  held  on  this  campus  or  anywhere  else  on  this  particular 
topic.   The  Conference  was  well-attended,  with  more  than  100  reg  istrants .   The 
sixteen  speakers  in  the  program  came  from  many  universities  located  in  all  areas  of 
the  United  States.   Dr.  Henry  R.  Kahane  (U.I.,  Professor  Emeritus)  spoke  eloquently 
on  "The  Etymologist  as  a  Transformationalist."   Eric  Hamp  (U.  of  Chicago)  discussed 
"Relatives  in  Albanian  and  Latin."   F.  B.  Agard  (Cornell  U. )  discussed  the  split  in 
Romance,  between  East-West,  Insular-Mainland,  etc.,  with  regard  to  phonological  chan® 
James  Harris  (M.I.T.)  elucidated  a  theory  of  "Third  Conjugation  Metaphony,"  to  explain 
vowel  raising  in  the  stem  of  Spanish  third-conjugation  verbs.   Jurgen  Klausenburger 
(U.  of  /lash.)   discussed  Latin  vowel  quantity  and  quality,  suggesting;  that  it  is  in 
reality  a  pseudo-problem;  he  claimed  that  in  Late  Latin  there  were  distinctions  of 
ooth  quality  and  quantity  and  that  by  the  time  of  the  Romance  languages  quality  be- 
came more  prevalent.   Carlos  Otero  (UCLA)  espoused  a  theory  to  explain  the  develop- 
ment of  the  unstressed  personal  pronouns  from  Old  Spanish  to  Modern  Spanish.  Sanford 
Schane  discussed  some  of  the  phonological  deletion  processes  from  Latin  to  French. 
Prof.  Schane  is  from  the  U.  of  Calif,  at  San  Diego.   Robin  Lakoff  (U.  of  Mich.)  dis- 
cussed "Contextual  Pitfalls  in  Translation,"  using  as  her  example  the  difficulty  of 
translating  from  the  Latin  of  Virgil's  Aeneid  to  English,  "Romanos,  rerum  dominus, 
gentemque  togatum"  (lit.,  "Romans,  dominators  of  things,  and  people  of  the  toga"). 
The  main  difficulties  lie  in  preservation  of  the  original  epic  style,  without  equiva- 
lent in  English,  and  in  the  translation  of  "toga"  which  carries  the  additional 
cultural  connotation  of  "free,  white,  voting  citizen."   Many  other  papers  were  pre- 
sented on  the  development  of  syntax,  semantics,  and  phonology  from  Latin  to  Romance  . 
In  the  Workshop  on  Current  Issues  moderated  by  Prof.  Emeritus  Henry  R.  Kahane,  dis- 
cussion centered  around  the  effectiveness  of  the  transformational  technique  and  what 
the  traditional  grammarians  had  to  offer. 

The  hope  was  expressed  that  a  similar  conference  could  be  held  each  year  at 
various  universities.   Much  of  the  success  of  this  Conference  is  due  to  the  hard  work 
of  the  Co-Directors  Mario  Saltarelli  and  Dieter  Wanner,  as  well  as  the  interdepart- 
mental committee,  and  the  organizing  committee  of  graduate  students.   This  Conference 
was  jointly  sponsored  by  the  Depts.  of  Spanish,  Italian  and  Portuguese,  the  Classics, 
French,  and  Linguistics  and  the  Latin  American  Studies  Program. 

SUMMER  PROGRAM  OF  U.  OF  WISC .-WHITEWATER 
The  Foreign  Language  Education  Center  of  the  Univ.  of  Wise,  at  Whitewater  offers  the 
following  programs  for  foreign  language  teachers  and  advanced  students  during  the 
summer  of  1972: 

1.  Individualized  Instruction  Workshop.   A  two-week  workshop  in  June  on  indivi- 
dualizing instruction  in  the  foreign  language  program  for  teachers  of  French,  Cerman 


and  Spanish.   The  workshop  will  focus  on  the  preparation  of  materials  which  each 
participant  can  put  to  use  in  the  classroom. 

2.  Culture  Workshop.   A  two-week  workshop  in  July  on  the  teaching  of  culture  in 
the  foreign  language  classroom  for  teachers  of  French,  German,  or  Spanish.   Native 
informants  will  help  participants  increase  their  familiarity  with  the  foreign  culture 
as  well  as  help  prepare  cultural  materials  for  classroom  use. 

3.  Summer  School  in  Mexico.  Universidad  Ibero-Americana,  Mexico  City  from  June 
14- July  28.   An  opportunity  to  live  with  a  Mexican  family  while  studying  the  lan- 
guage and  culture  of  Mexico. 

For  more  information,  please  write  to:   Dr.  Roland  Durette,  Director,  Foreign 
Language  Education  Center,  Univ.  of  Wise. -Whitewater,  Whitewater,  Wise.  53190. 

MMLA  MEETING 
The  1972  meeting  of  the  Midwest  Modern  Language  Association  will  be  held  Oct.  26-28 
in  St.  Louis,  Chase-Park  Plaza  Hotel,  with  the  University  of  Missouri-St.  Louis 
serving  as  host  institution.   Among  the  meeting's  activities  will  be  nine  special 
forums  dedicated  to  promoting  a  cross-sectional  colloquium  between  secondary,  junior 
college,  and  college  and  university  teachers  of  language  and  literature.  All  persons 
who  take  part  in  forum  and  section  programs  must  be  current  members  of  MMLA  or  must 
join  before  July  1,  1972.   Dues  and  other  inquiries  should  be  mailed  to  MMLA,  Eng.- 
Philo3ophy  Bldg.,  U.  of  Iowa,  Iowa  City,  Iowa  52240. 

ACTFL  MEETING 
The  1972  Joint  Annual  Meeting  of  the  American  Council  on  the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Lan- 
guages and  the  Southern  Conference  on  Language  Teaching  (SCOLT)  will  be  held  Nov. 
23-26  at  the  Regency  Hyatt  House  in  Atlanta,  Ga.   There  will  be  sessions  for  language 
teachers  at  all  levels  of  instruction  Several  affiliated  associations  will  hold  their 
annual  meetings  or  plan  sessions  at  the  ACTFL/SCOLT  conference.  There  will  be  over 
75  exhibits  of  textbooks  and  other  teaching  aids. 

Preceding  the  conference,  on  Nov.  20-22,  there  will  be  several  three-day  work- 
shops: 1.  Black  Literature  of  French  Expression;  2.  Student-Centered  Language  Pro- 
grams; J.  Bilingual  Education  Programs;  4.  Teaching  Culture,  Part  II;  5«  Behavioral 
Objectives,  Phase  III. 

If  you  wish  additional  information  at  this  time,  please  contact:  C.  Edward 
Scebold,  ACTFL,  62  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  10011. 

THE  CLASSICS  NOTES  ~  by  Prof.  H.  Michael  Dunn 

ARCHAEOLOGICAL  INSTITUTE  OF  AMERICA 
Prof.  D.  W.  Lathrap  of  the  U.I.  Dept.  of  Anthropology,  on  March  14,  presented 
"Ecuador  and  the  New  World  Neolithic."   The  final  lecture  of  the  year  under  the 
sponsorship  of  the  Central  Illinois  Society  of  the  AIA  has  been  presented  by  Ezat  0. 
Negahban,  the  Norton  Lecturer,  Head  of  the  Dept.  of  Archaeology,  Univ.  of  Tehran. 
His  topic — "Haft  Tepe,  an  Elamite  Capital,"  which  was  delivered  on  April  20. 

C0LL0QUIA 
Colloquia  were  delivered  by  Prof.  Nathan  Greenberg  of  Oberlin  College  on  March  20, 
"Epanastrophe  in  Latin  Poetry";  and  by  Prof.  Gilbert  Lawall  of  the  Univ.  of  Mass. 
on  April  3,  "Theocritus,  Tibullus  and  Thomas  Rosenmeyer:  Where  is  the  Pastoral?" 

CONFERENCES 
Prof.  Richard  T.  Scanlan  was  in  charge  of  one  of  the  general  sessions  at  the  Junior 
College  Conference  sponsored  by  the  U.I.  and  Parkland  College  on  March  23-25,  where 
he  presented  a  paper  "The  Applications  of  Technology  to  the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Lan- 
guages."  He  also  spoke  at  the  Central  States  Conference  in  Chicago  on  the  topic 
"The  Student  and  the  Computer." 


Prof.  Michael  Dunn  represented  the  Department  at  the  annual  meetings  of  the 
Classical  Association  of  the  Midwest  and  South  held  this  year  in  Durham,  "J.  C.  and 
he  also  attended  the  Central  States  Conference  on  the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Languages 
as  a  member  of  the  Advisory  Council. 

A  Conference  on  Diachronic  Romance  Linguistics  was  held  on  the  campus  Apr. 21-22. 
Five  of  the  sixteen  papers  presented  were  of  special  interest  to  students  of  the 
classical  languages. 

The  High  School  Latin  Conference  has  been  scheduled  for  this  summer,  June  18-24. 
Prof.  Scanlan  will  direct  the  Conference  with  assistance  from  other  members  of  the 
Department. 

SUMMER  SESSION 
The  following  courses  are  planned  for  the  summer  session,  June  16-August  12,  1972: 
Latin  102,  103,  and  104;  Classical  Civilization  111  (Mythology  of  Greece  and  Rome) 
and  112  (Greek  Drama  in  English  Translation);  Greek  382  (Lyric  Poetry)  and  Latin  381 
(Roman  Comedy);  Greek  491  and  Latin  491  (Directed  Reading). 

FACULTY  NOTES 
Prof.  Allen  has  been  Invited  to  present  a  paper  on  Morgantina  to  the  Third  Inter- 
national Convention  for  Studies  on  Ancient  Sicily.   His  paper,  "Per  una  definizione 
della  facies  preistorica  di  Morgantina:  l'eta  del  ferro,"  represents  a  synthesis  of 
the  stratigraphy  of  the  Iron  Age  levels  excavated  at  Morgantina  from  1955-1970,  and 
will  introduce  insights  into  the  chronology  of  the  pottery  and  the  history  of  central 
Sicily  from  ca.  850  to  500  BC .   Prof.  Allen  will  be  a  guest  of  the  Convention  and 
will  be  sponsored  by  the  American  Council  of  Learned  Societies. 

Prof.  Dunn  served  on  the  team  which  evaluated  Bloomington  High  School.   Their 
program  in  the  teaching  of  Foreign  Languages  was  reported  as  "exemplary." 

Prof.  Daniel  Taylor's  article  "Aspects  of  Negation  in  Classical  Greek"  appears 
in  the  most  recent  issue  of  Studies  in  the  Linguistic  Sciences.   His  review  of 
Naming-Const ructions  in  Indo-European  by  E.  Adelaide  Hahn  is  forthcoming  in  the 
Classical  Journal. 

Prof.  Wallach  has  been  invited  to  contribute  to  The  Epigram  and  the  History  of 
Literary  Criticism  to  be  dedicated  to  Prof.  James  Hutton  of  Cornell  Univ.  on  the 
occasion  of  his  retirement.  His  contribution  is  "An  Unpublished  Epigram  by  the 
Venerable  Bede  in  the  Library  of  the  U.I.,  Urbana."  He  also  has  contributed  a  long 
article  "The  Greek  and  Latin  Testimonia  in  Hadrian  I's  Synodica  of  785  (JE  2448):  A 
Diplomatic  Study"  to  Studies  in  Honor  of  Professor  Karl  Bosl  (of  the  Bavarian  Acad- 
emy of  Sciences  and  the  U.  of  Munich) . 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Barbara  Smalley 

MEETINGS 
Prof.  A.  Owen  Aldridge  served  as  chairman  of  the  comparative  literature  section  of 
the  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Society  of  Eighteenth-Century  Studies,  which  met 
at  UCLA  on  March  23-25.   At  this  meeting  Prof.  Aldridge  also  read  a  paper,  "Feijoo 
and  Theories  of  Skin  Color"  as  part  of  a  panel  on  racism  in  the  eighteenth  century. 

During  his  trip  to  California  Prof.  Aldridge  lectured  at  the  Univ.  of  Southern 
Calif,  on  "New  Trends  in  Comparative  Literature"  and  at  Long  Beach  State  College  on 
"Tradition  and  Innovation  in  Augustan  Literary  Criticism." 

On  April  8  Prof.  Aldridge  lectured  at  the  Ninth  Annual  New  York  Comparative 
Literature  Conference,  on  "The  Picaresque:   Underdogs  Then  and  Now." 

PUBLICATIONS 
In  the  April  1972  issue  of  the  Tamkang  Review,  A  Journal  Mainly  Devoted  to  Compara- 
tive Studies  between  Chinese  and  Foreign  Literatures,  Prof.  A.  Owen  Aldridge  has  an 
article  "Voltaire  and  the  Cult  of  China"  (Vol.  Ill,  pp.  25-49). 


FRENCH  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel 

FRENCH  PLAY  FOR  FALL  1972 

Le  Barbier  de  Seville  by  Beaumarchais  will  be  performed  (in  a  Tre'teau  de  Paris  pro- 
duction already  touring  the  U.S.  and  proving  very  successful)  on  Monday,  October  30, 
1972,  at  the  Krannert  Center  of  the  Urbana  campus.   There  is  a  possibility  that  there 
will  be  two  performances,  a  matinee  and  an  evening  one — but  most  probably  there  will 
be  only  one.   If  possible,  and  to  make  things  easier  for  out-of-town  spectators, 
curtain-time  will  be  at  7:30  rather  than  8.   But  all  these  details  (also  information 
on  tickets,  texts,  etc.)  will  be  finalized  later  on.   Hopefully,  the  first  Newsletter 
for  next  academic  year  will  contain  all  this  information;  however,  the  Newsletter 
mailing  process  is  slow.   May  we  suggest  that  those  who  are  interested  contact  me 
by  mail  early  next  fall  and  we  will  send  them  advance  notice,  assuming  we  have  it  by 
then.   It  seems  certain  that  inexpensive  editions  of  the  play  will  be  stocked  by 
Follett's  Bookstore  in  Champaign,  IL  61820,  so  that  you  can  get  your  quantity  orders 
in  as  soon  as  your  classes  start  again.  The  cost  will  be  around  95  cents. 

JOURNAL  CLUB 
Prof.  Henry  Kahane  of  the  U.I.  spoke  on  "Le  Francais  hors  de  France"  on  March  20. 

Prof.  Emile  Talbot  of  our  Department  spoke  on  April  10  on  "Stendhal,  the  Artist 
and  Society." 

Prof.  Emile  Snyder,  Visiting  Prof,  of  Comp.  Lit.  this  term,  spoke  on  March  21 
on  "From  Harlem  to  Senegal:   A  View  of  Modern  African  Literature." 

OTHER  TALKS  &  EVENTS 
Prof.  Michel  Fabre  of  the  Univ.  of  Paris  III  gave  a  lecture  on  March  10  on  "Richard 
Wright  in  France." 

William  McLean,  Visiting  Asst.  Prof,  at  the  Institute  of  Communications  Research, 
introduced  his  film  on  graffiti  (made  in  France),  "A  bas  les  murs  du  silence,"  on 
March  15. 

The  CSnacle's  subject  for  the  March  13  meeting  consisted  of  explications  de 
texte  of  MallarmS's  Les  Fleurs  by  Prof.  P.  Leroux,  Prof.  Y.  Velan  and  Miss  Carole 
Deering. 

Misses  Butel,  Couchaux,  and  Feilloley  led  a  discussion  on  "La  Cuisine  Francaise" 
on  March  22,  among  the  other  activities  of  the  Cercle  Francais. 

Brice  Ghanoui  of  the  Ivory  Coast  was  the  featured  speaker,  on  "Jeunesse  Afri- 
caine:   Quelle  direction?"  at  the  March  9  meeting  of  the  Cercle  litte"raire  ne"gro- 
f rancophone. 

OTHER  FACULTY  NEWS 
Prof.  Fernand  Marty  of  the  Univ.  of  Ottawa  (Canada)  will  join  the  staff  next  fall. 
Prof.  Marty's  work  will  be  mainly  in  the  field  of  FL  learning  and  teaching,  partic- 
ularly in  connection  with  PLATO. 

Guy  Laprevotte,  Sandra  Savignon,  and  Brigitte  Wanner  of  our  staff  have  received 
Faculty  Summer  Fellowships  (U.I.)  for  1972. 

Prof.  Snyder  of  Undiana  will  again  be  Visiting  Professor  here  next  fall  (  in 
French  and  Comp.  Lit.)  and  will  teach  a  graduate  course  on  the  Black  Literature  of 
French  Expression. 

Prof.  Philip  Kolb  was  recently  the  guest  of  the  French  Foreign  Ministe  in  Paris 
to  organize  the  lectures  which  he  will  give  in  France  and  elsewhere  next  year  during 
his  sabbatical. 

CONFERENCE 
The  first  Conference  on  Diachronic  Romance  Linguistics  was  held  at  the  U.I.  on  April 
21-22.   Three  papers  are  of  particular  interest  to  students  of  the  French  language: 
Casagrande,  "Diachronic  Fossilization  in  French  Syntax";  Scheme,  "Some  Synchronic 
Deletion  Processes  and  Their  Synchronic  Consequences  in  French";  and  Skousen,  "The 
Verbal  System  of  French." 


GERMANIC  NOTES  ~  by  Prof.  Roy  Allen 

PROFESSIONAL  ACTIVITIES  OF  THE  FACULTY 
A  singular  honor  was  recently  bestowed  upon  Prof.  Elmer  Antonsen  by  the  Federal 
Republic  of  Germany  when  he  was  invited  to  Join  six  other  American  linguists  on  a 
tour  of  a  number  of  West  German  universities.   The  following  is  Prof.  Antonsen 's 
rSsume"  of  his  very  interesting  trip: 

I  was  one  of  seven  American  linguists  invited  by  the  Foreign  Office  of  the 
Federal  Republic  of  Germany  to  tour  West  German  universities  from  February  28  to 
March  18  and  to  attend  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Institut  fur  deutsche  Sprache  in 
Mannheim  from  March  8-11  of  this  year.   Included  in  the  program  were  visits  to  the 
universities  in  Bonn,  Cologne,  Munich,  Marburg,  Saarbrucken  and  to  the  Freie  Univer- 
sit'at  and  the  Technische  Universitat  in  West  Berlin.   In  addition  to  meeting  with 
colleagues  at  these  universities,  the  Americans  were  received  by  representatives  of 
the  ministries  of  education  in  the  various  states  visited  and  by  officials  of  the 
universities  and  given  an  opportunity  to  learn  about  latest  developments  in  the  re- 
form of  higher  education  in  Germany,  which  has  undergone  a  severe  crisis  in  recent 
years.   It  was  particularly  interesting  to  learn  that  many  of  the  reforms  already 
initiated  or  in  the  planning  stage  tend  to  introduce  a  system  much  closer  to  that 
found  in  American  universities,  including  the  academic  and  administrative  structures 
and  specific  courses  of  study  with  more  frequent  examinations  and  a  time  limit  for 
the  completion  of  requirements.   In  addition  to  the  professionally-oriented  meetings 
and  receptions,  the  participants  in  the  tour  were  guests  of  the  Federal  and  state 
governments  at  numerous  concerts,  plays  and  opera  performances.  Other  members  of  the 
group  were  W.  P.  Lehmann  (Texas),  Herbert  Penzl  (California),  W.  Freeman  Twaddell 
(Brown),  Frans  van  Coetsem  (Cornell),  Emraon  Bach  (Texas),  and  Carroll  Reed  (Mass.). 

Prof.  Richard  Figge  was  the  Department's  official  representative  on  the 
Advisory  Council  of  the  1972  Northeast  Conference  on  the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Lan- 
guages.  The  conference  was  held  in  New  York  City  from  April  13-15. 

Profs.  U.  Henry  Gerlach,  Clayton  Gray,  Jr.  and  Karl-Heinz  Schoeps  have  been 
awarded  Summer  Faculty  Fellowships  by  the  Graduate  College  of  the  U.I. 

FRUCHTBRINGENDE  GESELLSCHAFT 
Mr.  Rudolf  Hofmeister,  a  Ph.D.  from  the  U.I.  and  an  Instructor  in  the  Department, 
was  the  featured  speaker  at  the  April  6  meeting  of  the  Fruchtbringende  Gesellschaf t. 
Mr.  Hofmeister  spoke  on  "The  Unique  Manuscript  in  Medieval  German  Literature." 

STUDENT  AWARDS 
Miss  Mariella  Lansford,  a  Ph.D.  candidate  in  the  Department,  has  recently  been  grant- 
ed a  Danish  Marshall  Award  by  the  George  C.  Marshall  Memorial  Fund  in  Denmark.   The 
award,  which  covers  all  expenses,  is  for  study  in  Denmark  for  ten  months  in  1972-73. 
Miss  Lansford  is  currently  completing  a  doctoral  dissertation  on  "The  Danish  Ballad 
in  Germany  in  the  Nineteenth  Century." 

Miss  Candace  Widmar,  a  senior  in  the  Teacher  Training  Program  of  the  Department, 
has  just  been  awarded  a  DAAD  (Deutscher  Akademischer  Austauschdienst )  Fellowship  for 
study  in  Germany  for  1972-73-   This  award  will  enable  Miss  Widmar  to  study  Modern 
German  Theater  at  the  Univ.  of  Munich. 

SPRING  MEETING  OF  THE  AATG 
The  Spring  meeting  of  the  Southern  Illinois  Chapter  of  the  AATG  will  be  held  this 
year  on  Saturday,  May  13,  1972  in  the  Union  Building  of  Western  111.  Univ.  at  Macomb. 
Prof.  U.  Henry  Gerlach,  who  is  the  Vice  President  of  the  chapter,  invites  all  AATG 
members  and  other  interested  German  teachers  to  attend.  The  program  of  the  meeting 
will  include  a  reception  (with  coffee  and  donuts :  8:30-9:30  a.m.),  a  business  meet- 
ing (9:30  a.m.)  and  a  lecture  with  discussion  by  Prof.  Lange,  Chairman  of  the  Dept. 
of  Germanic  Languages  and  Literatures  of  Princeton  Univ.,  on  the  topic  "Understanding 
Another  Culture"  (10:30-11  :^+5) .   Following  the  luncheon,  at  which  awards  will  be 
presented  to  the  winners  of  the  AATG  High  School  German  Contest  (12:00),  there  will 
be  a  performance  of  excerpts  from  Georg  Buchner's  play  Woyzeck  (1:30  p.m.)  and  a 


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special  presentation  (2:15-3:30).    Registration  fee,  including  the  cost  of  the 
luncheon,  is  $4.00.   Checks  for  the  registration  fee  should  be  mailed  to  the  local 
host  of  the  meeting:   Prof.  Luise  A.  Lenel,  Dept.  of  Foreign  Languages  and  Litera- 
tures, Western  111.  Univ.,  Macomb,  IL  61455. 

NEW  PROGRAM  OF  SUBSTITUTE  AND  SUPPLEMENTARY  GERMAN  LANGUAGE  COURSES 
Prof.  James  McGlathery,  the  Executive  Secretary  of  the  Department,  recently  issued 
a  report  on  a  new  program  of  German  language  courses  at  the  U.I.:   the  Department  has 
initiated  two  new  sequences  this  spring  on  the  second-,  third-  and  fourth-semester 
levels  of  language  study  (102-104)  which  may  be  taken  either  as  substitutes  for,  or 
as  supplements  to,  the  regular,  "four-skill"  sequence  of  German  102-104.   (At  present 
there  is  no  provision  for  choice  or  supplement  on  the  first-semester,  or  101,  level.) 
Any  of  the  sequences  leads  directly  toward  fulfillment  of  the  LAS  College's  foreign 
language  requirement.   The  student  may  even  chart  his  own  course  from  among  these 
courses,  since  the  LAS  requirement  basically  provides  only  that  the  student  complete 
a  four-hour,  fourth-semester  level  course  (or  the  equivalent).   One  of  the  two  new 
sequences  (German  112,  113,  114)  is  devoted  to  practice  in  speaking  German,  the 
other  (German  122,  123,  124)  to  practice  in  reading,  with  emphasis  on  non-fiction, 
especially  expository  prose.   Both  of  these  sequences  are  experimental  in  that  vocab- 
ulary, grammar,  and  translation  are  not  presented  or  drilled  but  only  touched  upon 
tangentially  in  class.   Instead,  games  and  exercises  which  provide  direct  practice  in 
talking  and  reading  have  been  developed.   The  guiding  thought  in  these  experiments  is 
to  take  quite  literally  the  principle  that  we  learn  to  do  by  doing  and  that  practice 
makes  perfect.  No  exercise  is  allowed  which  does  not  involve  spontaneous  speech  in 
the  speaking  sequence,  or  thoughtful  comprehension  in  the  reading  sequence. 

About  half  of  our  students  follow  the  regular,  four-skills  sequence  through  the 
fourth-semester  level.  Another  forty  percent  switch  to  the  reading  sequence  after 
one,  two,  or  three  semesters  in  the  regular  sequence.   (These  students  almost  always 
proceed  to  the  next  level  despite  the  change  of  sequence.)  About  ten  percent  current 
ly  elect  the  speaking  sequence,  but  this  figure  will  probably  increase  over  the  next 
two  years  at  the  expense  of  the  regular  sequence.  The  result  will  probably  be  a 
ratio  of  k0%   in  four-skills,  205?  in  speaking  and  40$  in  reading. 

Almost  all  of  our  students  use  the  speaking  and  reading  sequences  as  substi- 
tutes, not  as  supplements,  although  there  are  some  students  who  add  a  course  from 
another  sequence  in  order  to  gain  additional  practice  in  that  skill. 

The  Department  also  offers  one  two-hour  supplementary  course  in  each  of  the 
three  levels  beyond  the  first  semester.  A  student  who  has  had  one  semester  of  Ger- 
man may  take  a  two-hour  Introduction  to  German  Studies  (German  142).   After  two  se- 
mesters he  can  take  Practice  in  Conversation  (German  153)  and  after  three  semesters, 
Practice  in  Writing  (German  164).   In  the  first-semester  course  (German  101)  there 
is  a  weekly  lecture  on  German  language  and  culture.  Further  opportunity  for  study 
for  language  students  on  the  elementary  and  intermediate  level  is  provided  by  topics 
offered  under  German  199,  The  Undergraduate  Open  Seminar. 

SLAVIC  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Frank  Y.  Gladney 

The  Slavic  Dept.  has  nominated  eight  students  for  participation  in  the  fall  semester 
at  Leningrad  State  Univ.;  they  are  Birute  Lanys  and  Ilene  Levnie,  presently  graduate 
students  in  the  Department,  and  students  (one  each)  from  Beloit  College,  Grinnell 
Coll.,  Univ.  of  Chicago,  Univ.  of  Iowa,  Northwestern  Univ.,  and  Washington  Univ. 
The  program  is  sponsored  by  the  Council  on  International  Education  Exchange,  and 
Dr.  Dawson,  a  member  of  the  steering  committee,  will  be  in  New  York  this  month  par- 
ticipating in  the  work  of  the  selection  committee. 

Two  students  in  the  department  will  participate  in  the  program  over  the  summer. 
They  are  John  Calderonello  and  Svetlana  Tverdochlebov.   Their  participation  is  being 
supported  in  part  by  the  Russian  and  East  European  Center's  summer  scholarships  for 
intensive  language  study.   The  other  three  recipients  of  the  $250  scholarship  are 
Laura  Applebaum  (sociology),  William  C.  Howell  (comparative  education),  and  John  W. 
Chase  (Princeton  Univ.). 


Mark  Skwarnicki,  a  Polish  poet  participating  in  the  Univ.  of  Iowa  poetry  work- 
shop this  year,  visited  the  campus  April  18  and  took  part  in  an  informal  colloquium 
on  contemporary  Polish  poetry. 

PUBLICATIONS 
The  Wilhelm  Fink  Verlag  in  Munich  has  published  Z.  N.  Hippius:   Collected  Poetical 
Works.  1899-1945,  first  comprehensive  edition,  compiled,  annotated,  and  with  an 
introduction  by  Temira  Pachmuss,  Vol.  1:   1899-1918  (528  pp.),  Vol.  2:   1918-1945 
(580  pp.).   The  February,  1972,  Modern  Language  Journal  carries  Miss  Pachmuss'  re- 
view of  Richard  Peace,  Doestoevsky :   An  Examination  of  the  Ma j or  Novels.   Louis 
Iribarne's  30-page  article,  "Babel's  Red  Cavalry  as  a  Baroque  Novel,"  which  was  pre- 
sented as  a  lecture  here  in  spring,  1970,  has  been  accepted  for  publication  by 
Contemporary  Literature  (Univ.  of  Wise.  Press).   His  translations  from  Witold 
Gombrowicz  were  favorably  reviewed  in  a  recent  article  on  Gombrowicz  in  the  Times 
Literary  Supplement  (11  Feb.  1972).   His  translation  of  Leszek  Kolakowski's  essay, 
"An  Epistemology  of  the  Striptease,"  appeared  last  fall  in  Tri-Quarterly . 

The  spring  Slavic  and  East  European  Journal  includes  Evelyn  Bristol's  review  of 
Ostanovka  v  pus tyne ,  a  volume  of  verse  published  in  New  York  by  Soviet  poet  Iosif 
Brodsky,  and  Steven  P.  Hill's  review  of  the  British  edition  of  G.  0.  Vinokur's  The 
Russian  Language .   The  summer  issue  carries  a  review  of  Russian-English  technical 
dictionaries  by  Henry  Zalucky,  a  review  on  the  Croatian  language  by  Rasio  Dunatov, 
and  a  review  on  Dostoevsky  by  Miss  Pachmuss.   Clayton  L.  Dawson's  review  of  the 
Rudy-Youhn-Nebel  Russian:   A  Complete  Elementary  Course  appeared  in  the  December 
Slavic  Review. 

SUMMER  PLANS 
Summer  plans  for  most  department  members  are  still  fluid.   Miss  Pachmuss  will  con- 
tinue her  research  on  Russian  literature  in  emigration  (for  the  publication  of 
Zinaida  Hippius'  diaries  in  English  translation)  in  Stockholm  and  Paris  in  August 
and  September.  Frank  Gladney  will  be  organizing  a  small  research  team  to  work  on 
his  handbook  of  Polish,  on  a  contract  between  the  U.S.  Office  of  Education  and  U.I. 

SPANISH,  ITALIAN,  &  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  --  by  Alice  L.  Anderson 

U.I.  YEAR-ABROAD  PROGRAM  IN  SPAIN 
Screening  of  applicants  for  the  U.I.  year-abroad  program  in  Spain  has  begun.   There 
are  still  a  few  openings  for  qualified  students  from  other  institutions  in  Illinois. 
For  further  information  and  application,  please  contact  at  once:   Prof .  Joseph  Flores , 
4080  F.L.B.,  Urbana,  111.  61801. 

HILARI0  S.  SAENZ  (1896-1972) 
Word  has  been  received  of  the  death  of  Hilario  S.  Saenz,  retired  Spanish  professor 
from  the  Univ.  of  Nebraska  (Lincoln),  in  February,  1972.   Prof.  Saenz  was  born  in 
Spain  in  1896.  He  came  to  the  United  States  in  1916  and  entered  the  Univ.  of  Indiana, 
where  he  received  his  B.A.   He  received  his  M.A.  from  the  Univ.  of  Chicago  and  his 
Ph.D.  from  the  U.I.   He  joined  the  Univ.  of  Nebr.  staff  in  1931,  and  in  1945  became 
an  associate  professor  of  Spanish  language  and  literature;  in  1952  he  was  promoted  tc 
Professor.   His  retirement  came  in  1967.   Prof.  Saenz  was  a  member  of  the  MLA,  the 
AATSP,  the  American  Association  of  Univ.  Professors,  and  Phi  Sigma  Iota. 

REVISED  SUMMER  COURSES 
The  following  is  the  revised  summer  schedule  of  advanced  undergraduate  and  graduate 
courses  for  1972,  including  the  name  of  the  professor  and  the  time  to  be  given: 
Span.  305  (Romanticism  and  Realism),  Pasquariello,  3;  309  (Medieval  Literature), 
Baldwin,  2;  310  (Contemporary  Span. -Am.  Lit.),  Meehan,  12  noon;  314  (Golden  Age 
Poetry  &  Drama),  Hershberg,  9;  331  (Cultura  hispanica:  Spain),  Flores,  10;  351 
(Phonetics),  Allen,  8;  352  (Syntax),  Allen,  9;  428  (Studies  in  19th  Century  Lit.: 
"Costumbrismo  y  novela"),  Cowes,  2;  429  (Studies  in  G.A.  Lit.:  "La  Celestina  and  its 


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Continuations"),  Baldwin, 1;  430  (Studies  in  20th  Cent.  S.A.  Lit.:  "Fiction  of  Azuela 
&  Fuentes"),  Meehan,  11;  436  (Seminar  in  S.A.  Novel),  Leal,  2;  439  (S.A.  cuento) . 
Leal,  9. 

Also  included  in  the  summer  offerings  are:   Port.  40?  (Studies  in  Brazilian  Lit}, 
Aiex,  11;  Port.  Ill  (Elementary  Port.,  8  hrs.  credit),  staff,  8-10  &  1-3;  Ital.  400 
(Beginning;  Ital.  for  Graduate  Students),  8-10;  and  Span.  400  (Beginning  Span,  for 
Graduate  Students),  8-10. 

NEW  THIRD-  AND  FOURTH-SEMESTER  SPANISH  COURSES 
Mew  options  are  available  to  the  student  in  both  third-  and  fourth-semester  Spanish, 
whether  he  is  taking  the  course  as  a  requirement,  an  elective,  or  a  supplement  to 
other  Spanish  courses,  beginning  in  September,  1972. 

In  the  third  semester,  the  student  may  take  either  Spanish  123  (Reading  and 
Speaking  Spanish,  I),  with  readings  in  Spanish  of  literary  and  cultural  texts  with 
discussion  in  Spanish,  as  well  as  some  essential  grammar;  this  course,  along  with 
Span.  104  or  124  or  134  or  114,  fulfills  the  foreign  language  requirement.  Or  he  may 
take  Span.  103  as  his  other  third-semester  option.   Students  planning  to  enroll  in 
advanced  courses  in  Spanish  should  take  Span.  103 

Even  more  options  are  available  in  the  fourth-semester  of  Spanish.   A  continua- 
tion of  Span.  103  is  Span.  104,  which  should  be  taken  by  students  planning  to  enroll 
in  advanced  courses  in  Spanish.   For  those  taking  the  fourth-semester  as  a  require- 
ment or  as  a  supplement  to  other  Spanish  courses,  the  following  are  available: 
Span.  114,  124,  and  134.   Spanish  114  (Conversational  Spanish)  provides  practice  in 
conversation  in  Spanish  on  topics  of  current  interest,  with  brief  grammar  review  as 
necessary  to  improve  oral  skills.   Another  option  is  Span.  124  (Reading  and  Speaking 
Spanish,  II),  which  is  a  continuation  of  Span.  123.   The  final  option  available  is 
Span.  134  (Reading  Spanish),  which  consists  of  readings  in  Spanish  texts  with  dis- 
cussion in  English.  Any  of  these  courses  in  fourth-semester  Spanish  will  fulfill  the 
foreign  language  requirement;  however,  any  student  planning  to  take  advanced  Spanish 
courses  must  enroll  in  103-104. 

UMBERTO  SCO  LECTURE 
The  distinguished  critic  and  researcher  Umberto  Eco  delivered  a  lecture  on  April  7, 
"Approccio  semiotico  a  una  definizione  del  linguagecio  poetico."  Prof.  Eco  is  present- 
ly Visiting  Professor  at  Northwestern  Univ. 

FACULTY  NOTES 
Professor  Emeritus  Henry  R.  Kahane  has  been  appointed  to  the  Committee  on  Honorary 
Memberships  of  the  Linguistic  Society  of  America. 

Prof.  J.  H.  D.  Allen  delivered  a  paper  at  the  U.  of  Kentucky  Foreign  Language 
Conference,  April  27-29,  "Spanish  Reflexes  of  Latin  /s/." 

Prof.  Luis  Leal  read  a  paper,  "Contemporary  Mexican  Novel  and  Short  Story,"  at 
the  Conference  on  Contemporary  Latin  American  Literature  held  at  the  Univ.  of  Houston 
March  16-18.   Among  others  participating  were  Jorge  Luis  Borges,  Fernando  Alegrfa, 
Seymour  Menton,  and  Ben  Belitt.   Also  attending  were  Profs.  Olga  Martfnez  (111.  State), 
and  Warren  L.  Meinhardt  (Southern  111.  Univ.)  who  served  as  discussant  for  the  paper 
on  Argentine  literature. 

Prof.  Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo,  Resident  Director  for  the  U.I.  Year-Abroad  Program 
in  Spain,  has  been  appointed  "Secretario-Relator"  of  one  of  the  sessions  of  the 
Primer  Congreso  Internaclonal  sobre  el  Arcipreste  de  Hita,  to  be  held  in  Madrid 
June  21-24. 

Jose"  Emilio  Pacheco,  Visitins;  Prof,  at  the  U.I.  and  renowned  Mexican  author, 
participated  in  the  International  Poetry  Festival  in  Austin,  Texas,  February  26-27. 
He  also  gave  a  poetry  reading  and  participated  in  a  poetry  rap  with  students  of  the 
Dept.  of  Spanish,  Indiana  Univ.,  on  March  24-2  5. 

Assoc.  Prof.  Richard  Preto-Rodas  gave  a  lecture  on  April  13  at  Indiana  Univ. 
His  topic  was  "Rus  and  Urbs :  Two  Views  of  the  Negro  as  Seen  in  the  Poetry  of  Jorge 
de  Lima  and  0  Molegue  Rlcardo  of  Jose*  Lins  do  Rego."   This  lecture  formed  part  of  a 
symposium,  "The  Picaresque  of  Africa,"  sponsored  by  their  Latin  American  Program  in 
conjunction  with  the  Dept.  of  Spanish  and  Portuguese.   Prof.  Preto-Rodas  also  spoke 
to  the  Spanish  Club  at  the  U.I.  in  February:  "Dos  Culturas  de  Espaldas." 


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PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello,  Head  of  the  Department,  has  published  an  article, 
"Miguel  Mihura's  Tres  sombreros  de  copa:   A  Farce  to  Make  You  Sad,"  in  Symposium, 
XXVI,  1  (1972),  57^oT. 

Professor  Emeritus  Henry  R.  Kahane  with  Rene"e  Kahane  has  published  "Prom  Land- 
mark to  Toponym,"  in  Harrl  Meier  Testimonial,  Munich,  1971,  253-258.   Prof.  Kahane 
has  also  published  a  review  of  R.  Quilliot,  The  Sea  and  the  Prisons:   A  Commentary  on 
the  Life  and  Thought  of  Albert  Camus .  in  Books  Abroad,  46  (1972),  77. 

Among;  Prof.  Luis  Leal's  recent  publications  are  "Mito  y  realismo  social  en 
Miguel  Angel  Asturias,"  in  Helmy  F.  Giacoman  (ed.),  Homenaje  a  Miguel  Angel  Asturias 
(New  York:  Las  Americas,  1971  (1972)),  311-324;  and  "Entre  la  fantasia  y  el  compro- 
mise:  los  cuentos  de  Fernando  Alegrfa,"  in  Helmy  F.  Giacoman  (ed.),  Homenaje  a 
Fernando  Alegrfa  (New  York:  Las  Americas,  1972),  189-201. 

Visiting  Prof.  Jose"  Emilio  Pacheco  has  many  publications  to  his  credit.   Among 
the  more  recent  are  the  following  six:   " Lange rhaus , "  a  short  story,  Cuadernos 
Americanos.  Nov. -Dec,  1971;  "Homenaje  a  Nezahualc<5yotl,  ■  a  poem,  Diorama,  Jan.  6; 
"In  Memoriam  Francisco  Pina,"  an  article,  La  Cultura  en  Mexico.  Jan.  21;  "Respuesta 
a  Salvador  de  Madariaga,"  Excelsior.  Jan.  29;  "Parque  de  diversiones , "  a  short  story, 
in  Luis  Leal:  Cuentistas  Hispanoamericanos  del  Slglo  Velnte,  Random  House;  "Three 
Poems"  in  The  Penguin  Book  of  Latin  American  Verse,  edited  by  Enrique  Caracciolo. 

Prof.  Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo,  Resident  Director  of  the  U.I.  Year-Abroad  Program 
in  Spain,  has  published  (with  F.  S.  Escribano)  Preceptlva  dramdtlca  espanola  del 
renaclmiento  y  barroco,  Second  Edition,  revised  and  greatly  amplified,  Gredos 
(Madrid,  1972),  406  pp.   He  has  also  published  another  book,  Temas  y_  formas  de  la 
llteratura  espanola,  Gredos  (Madrid,  1972),  182  pp.   Prof.  Porqueras-Mayo  (with  F.S. 
Escribano)  has  also  published  "La  verdad  universal  y  la  teorfa  drama"tica  en  la  Edad 
de  Oro,"  in  Homena.le  a  W.  L.  Flchtar.  Castalia  (Madrid,  197D,  601-609. 

Asst.  Prof.  A.  Aiex  has  an  article  "Necessidade  e  Liberdade  segundo  Hume,"  which 
apoeared  in  Estudos  Hist(5ricos.  revista  da  Faculdade  de  Filosofia,  Clencias  e  Letras 
de  Marflia.  Number  8  (1969),  155-173. 

Mr.  Frank  H.  Nuessel,  Jr.,  graduate  teaching  assistant,  has  a  review  of  Hilario 
S.  Pena,  Rumbos  de  Espafia  (New  York:  Holt,  Rinehart  and  Winston,  197D  in  Modern 
Language  Journal,  Vol.  56,  4  (1972). 

Dear  Colleagues: 

The  next  issue  of  the  Newsletter  will  appear  in  October  1972.  Any  items  of  general 
interest  sent  to  the  Editor  before  September  15  will  be  included  in  the  first  issue. 
For  the  convenience  of  those  who  will  be  moving  during  the  summer,  a  change  of  ad- 
dress form  is  provided  below. 

I  would  like  to  take  this  opportunity  to  express  my  sincere  thanks  to  all  of  you  who 
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Frank  Y.  Gladney.   My  special  thanks  to  Prof.  Pasquariello  for  his  helpful  sugges- 
tions and  advice. 

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l\^jl^A#    November,  1972  Director:   Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello 

\^^W     Vol.  XXVI,  No.  1  Editor:   Alice  Long;  Anderson 

ON  THE  PROBLEM  OF  "DEFINITION" 
Increasing  importance  is  being  attached  to  the  establishment  of  criteria  for  eval- 
uating quantitatively  and  qualitatively  the  many  facets  of  the  academic  world. 
Academicians  are  being  asked  to  redefine  their  responsibilities  in  the  framework  of 
the  managerial  precepts  of  business  and  industry,  a  task  for  which  they  are  more 
often  than  not  ill-prepared  and  generally  otherwise  unsuited.   The  major  problem  lies 
in  the  need  to  distinguish  between  the  evaluation  of  performance  and  that  of  pro- 
ductivity— when  the  measure  of  productivity  loses  definition,  it  becomes  more  diffi- 
cult to  define  performance.   The  resulting  dilemma  has  produced  an  increasing  incom- 
patibility between  the  academic  responsibilities  of  educational  institutions  and  the 
supportive  nonacademic  functions  required  in  the  administration  of  the  institutions. 
Nowhere  is  the  rift  brought  into  sharper  focus  than  in  the  humanistic  disciplines, 
and  in  the  study  of  foreign  languages  in  particular — areas  which  inherently  defy 
general  definition  in  terms  of  "productivity"  and  "performance." 

There  are  areas  in  the  study  of  foreign  languages  which  can  be  evaluated  quan- 
titatively and  qualitatively.   Productivity  and  performance  can  be  measured,  for 
instance,  in  the  areas  of  syntax  and  vocabulary.   But  foreign  language  study  exceeds 
the  mechanical  limits  of  words,  phrases,  and  grammar,  and  accordingly  challenges 
systems  of  evaluation  limited  to  these  areas.   There  are  definable  limits  to  evalua- 
tion, and  these  limits  should  be  set  by  the  discipline,  not  by  the  inadequacies  of 
the  evaluation  or  measurement.   The  principle  applies  throughout  the  humanistic 
disciplines — they  tend  to  defy  standardized  procedures  of  evaluation. 

This  lack  of  definition  is  pointed  out  in  a  much  more  general  way  in  the  case  of 
students  encountering  the  college  curriculum.   Generally  speaking,  the  humanistic 
areas  of  high  school  curricula  have  been  confined  to  several  years  of  English  and 
probably  two  or  three  of  a  foreign  language.   The  student  and,  equally  as  important, 
the  guidance  counselor  upon  whom  the  student  depends  for  direction  have  generally 
not  associated  specific  studies  in  English  and  foreign  languages  with  the  term 
"humanities."   The  terms  sociology,  psychology,  biology  resound  with  the  ring  of 
relevance  and  convey  overtones  of  social  conscience  and  environmental  concern  of 
general  appeal.   Political  science  and  economics  suggest  ideologies  which  project  the 
glamour  of  conflict.   The  image  of  the  humanities  has  not  generally  been  projected  in 
these  lively  terms. 

Furthermore,  these  other  areas  tend  to  lend  themselves  to  a  form  of  categorical 
analysis  more  easily  than  the  humanities.   The  "either/or"  format  is  particularly 
suited — the  basis  for  evaluation  can  be  either  that  of  inspiring  research  of  long- 
term  benefit  or  that  of  providing  an  immediate  impact  on  the  human  environment,  or 
both.   Either  concept  does  not  defy  definition. 

There  is,  however,  a  significant  academic  area  where  such  an  analysis  falls 
short,  an  area  which  commands  a  marvelously  potent  force.   The  overwhelming  support 
last  spring  in  favor  of  retaining  the  foreign  language  requirement  represented 
considerably  more  than  a  struggle  for  headcount  on  the  part  of  isolated  interest 
groups  protecting  their  self-interests.   It  was  a  resounding  acknowledgement  by  near- 
ly two-thirds  of  the  faculty  of  the  College  of  Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences  supporting 
an  area  of  their  curriculum  which  although  defying  definition,  nevertheless  is  still 
of  fundamental  importance. 

NIXON'S  STAND  ON  FL  STUDY 
The  following  correspondence  between  Herbert  Lederer  (President  of  the  National 
Federation  of  Modern  Language  Teachers  Associations)  and  Richard  Nixon  indicates  the 
President's  position  on  the  value  of  foreign  language  study. 


NIXON  (CONT.) 
Dear  Dr.  Lederer: 

Before  any  more  time  passes,  I  want  to  thank  you  for  your  letter 
of  January  11,  in  which  you  rightly  point  out  the  important  role  that 
foreign  language  study  will  play  in  the  emerging  era  of  negotiations 
and  peaceful  international  relationships. 

At  the  conclusion  of  my  recent  visit  to  China  our  two  countries 
agreed  to  facilitate  trade  and  contact  between  our  citizens.   This  is 
an  encouraging  step  forward  in  our  search  for  peace,  and  it  is  symbolic 
of  the  exciting  future  which  lies  ahead  for  Americans,  and  especially 
for  our  young  people. 

The  youth  of  today  will  live  in  an  age  of  unparalleled  interna- 
tional exchange  and  cooperation,  and  those  who  have  studied  a  foreign 
language  will  be  better  prepared  to  help  this  nation  work  with  others 
to  build  a  better  future  for  mankind.   I  hope  you  will  convey  to  the 
language  teachers  in  your  Association  my  very  best  wishes  for  every 
success  in  their  valuable  efforts  to  help  America  realize  the  great 
opportunities  of  the  coming  era. 

With  my  best  wishes, 

Sincerely, 

(signed)  Richard  Nixon 

RESOLUTION  ON  FOREIGN  LANGUAGES 
At  a  time  when  overtures  are  being  made  for  international  understanding,  when  cul- 
tural, commercial  and  industrial  interdependence  is  growing  and  the  need  for  know- 
ledge of  foreign  languages  is  more  pressing  than  ever,  the  study  of  foreign  lan- 
guages in  American  schools  are  facing  an  uncertain  future. 

We  direct  your  attention  to  the  following  resolution,  adopted  by  the  Associa- 
tion of  Assistant  Principals  (Foreign  Languages),  and  urge  you  to  support  it.   Any- 
one who  agrees  with  their  thesis  can  help  immensely  by  sending  on  letterhead  a  short 
statement  supporting  the  teaching  of  foreign  languages  in  the  secondary  schools,  to: 
Association  of  Assistant  Principals;  Theodore  F.  Nuzzi,  President;  33-5^  171  Street; 
Flushing,  N.  Y.  11358.    The  draft  resolution  is  as  follows: 

WHEREAS  foreign  languages  are  an  important  tool  of  communication  in  the  modern 
world; 

WHEREAS,  in  view  of  the  cosmopolitan  nature  of  New  York  City,  foreign  languages 
are  of  special  significance  in  the  commerce  industry  and  social  and  health  services 
of  the  city; 

WHEREAS  every  child,  in  exercising  his  rights  and  responsibilities  as  a  citizen 
and  developing  his  potential  as  an  individual,  needs  the  cultural  insights  inherent 
in  foreign  language  study; 

WHEREAS  life  in  a  culturally  pluralistic  society  requires  greater  intercultural 
understanding; 

WHEREAS  foreign  languages  can  provide  the  individual  with  the  cultural  mobility 
and  adaptability  so  essential  to  living  and  working  in  the  modern  world;  and 

WHEREAS  foreign  languages  are  therefore  an  important  part  of  the  general  educa- 
tion of  every  child 

BE  IT  RESOLVED 

1.  That  a  minimum  of  two  years  of  foreign  language  study  with  alternative 
language  curricula  to  meet  different  student  needs  be  required  of  all  high 
school  students; 

2.  That  students  be  allowed  to  take  as  many  years  of  the  foreign  language 
sequence  as  their  abilities,  interests,  vocational  goals,  and  life  objec- 
tives indicate;  and 

3.  That  linguistically  talented  students  be  encouraged  to  study  a  second 
foreign  language. 


1972  ACTFL  CONVENTION 
The  '72  ACTFL/SCOLT  (Southern  Conference  On  Language  Teaching)  Joint  Annual  Meeting 
will  be  held  November  23-26,  1972,  at  the  Regency  Hyatt  House  in  Atlanta,  Georgia. 

The  theme  of  the  conference  will  be  "Let  Us  Talk  to  Each  Other  Now."   There 
will  be  sessions  for  language  teachers  at  all  levels  of  instruction.   Several  affili- 
ated associations  will  hold  their  annual  meetings  or  plan  sessions  at  the  ACTFL/SCOLT 
conference.   There  will  be  over  75  exhibits  of  textbooks  and  other  teaching  aids. 
This  year  the  banquet  is  scheduled  for  Saturday,  November  25,  1972. 

Preceding  the  conference  will  be  several  three-day  workshops  on  l)Black  Litera- 
ture of  French  Expression;  2)  Student-Centered  Language  Programs;  3)  Bilingual  Edu- 
cation Programs;  4)  Teaching  Culture,  Part  II;  5)  Behavioral  Objectives,  Phase  III. 
They  are  planned  for  Monday — Wednesday,  November  20-22,  1972.   For  additional  infor- 
mation write:   ACTFL/SCOLT  Joint  Meeting,  62  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York  10011. 

THIRD  SYMPOSIUM  ON  ROMANCE  LANGUAGES 
The  Third  Annual  Linguistic  Symposium  on  Romance  Languages  will  be  held  at  Indiana 
University  (Bloomington)  on  March  29-31,  1973.   This  Symposium  continues  the  tradi- 
tion begun  at  the  University  of  Florida  in  February,  1971,  and  continued  by  the 
Conference  on  Diachronic  Romance  Linguistics  at  the  U.I.  in  April,  1972. 

The  subject  matter  of  the  Symposium  is  limited  to  the  intersection  of  genera- 
tive grammar  and  the  Romance  languages.   Its  aim  is  to  bring  forth  novel  contribu- 
tions in  the  descriptions  of  Romance  languages,  to  draw  attention  to  phenomena  that 
might  be  of  importance  in  the  constant  re-examination  of  our  theoretical  views,  and 
to  suggest  formulation  of  more  adequate  methods  for  foreign  language  teaching. 

The  conference  will  include  several  sessions  for  the  presentation  and  discus- 
sion of  papers  grouped  in  closely  related  areas,  as  well  as  a  workshop  involving 
group  discussion.   It  is  planned  for  papers  to  be  distributed  in  advance  for  all 
participants  in  a  session,  so  that  they  will  be  especially  prepared  for  discussion 
in  that  area. 

The  topics  presented  will  deal  with  a  variety  of  linguistic  fields  such  as 
syntax,  semantics  and  applied  linguistics,  in  addition  to  phonology  and  morphology. 
Especially  encouraged  is  work  on  the  less  well-known  Romance  languages  and  Vulgar 
Latin,  as  well  as  the  major  standard  languages.   Good,  original  papers  are  sought, 
whether  from  established  scholars  or  from  graduate  students.   The  deadline  for 
receipt  of  abstracts  is  November  15« 

If  interested  in  receiving  further  information  about  the  Linguistic  Symposium 
on  Romance  Languages,  please  write  directly  to:   Third  Annual  Linguistic  Symposium 
on  Romance  Languages;  Department  of  Spanish  and  Portuguese;  Ballantine  Hall  8*44; 
Indiana  University;  Bloomington,  Indiana  ^7^01. 

FINAL  REPORT  OF  JUNIOR  COLLEGE  CONFERENCE 
A  Conference  on  Foreign  Languages  in  the  Two-year  College  took  place  March  23-25,  '7* 
at  the  U.I.  at  Urbana-Champaign,  with  joint  sponsorship  by  Parkland  Coll.,  Champaign. 

Major  topics  considered  by  the  fifty  participants  included  FL  curriculum  in  two- 
year  colleges,  teacher  training  for  such  institutions,  and  recent  technological  ad- 
vances appropriate  to  FL  teaching.   There  was  discussion  also  of  textbooks  and 
materials,  articulation  with  high  schools  and  with  senior  institutions,  non-tradi- 
tional courses  and  methods,  relationships  with  boards  of  governance  and  state  agen- 
cies, proficiency  and  placement  examinations,  and  the  non-teaching  functions  (in- 
cluding student  guidance  and  counseling)  of  the  two-year  instructor.   A  highlight  of 
the  Conference  was  a  demonstration  of  the  PLATO  computer-assisted  instructional  sys- 
tem developed  at  the  U.I. 

The  participants  represented  two-year  and  senior  institutions  from  throughout 
Illinois  and  from  several  other  states,  and  a  broad  span  of  language  offerings,  both 
credit  and  non-credit.  Earlier  preparatory  regional  conferences  had  brought  together 
representatives  of  most  111.  junior  and  senior  public  colleges  for  preliminary  talks. 

A  report  of  the  Conference,  Changing  Patterns  in  Foreign  Language  Programs .will 
be  published  by  Newbury  House,  Rowley,  Mass.  in  the  fall  of  1972.   Editors  are  Profs. 
Rivers,  Savignon  and  Scanlan  of  the  U.I.  and  Louise  Allen  of  Parkland.   Inquiries 
and  orders  ($5.00  postpaid)  for  the  report  should  be  addressed  to  Prof.  Vincent  J. 
Dell'Orto,  Germanic  Dept.,  3070  FLB,  U.I.,  Urbana,  IL  61801. 


THE  CLASSICS  MOTES  --  by  Prof.  H.  Michael  Dunn 

SUMMER  ACTIVITIES 
Profs.  Bright,  Dunn,  Naoumides,  and  Taylor  spent  the  summer  on  campus  teaching  in  the 
summer  session.   In  addition  to  handling  the  administration  of  departmental  affairs, 
Prof.  Dunn  again  assisted  Dean  Hinely,  advising  incoming  freshmen  in  the  foreign 
language  programs  and  humanities. 

Prof.  Marcovich  spent  the  summer  at  the  U.  of  Cambridge,  England,  in  research 
for  his  forthcoming  book  in  Comparative  Literature,  The  Tragedy  Medea  in  World 
Literature. 

The  1972  High  School  Latin  Conference  was  held  on  the  campus  from  June  18-24. 
Twenty-six  students  from  throughout  the  state  attended  classes  in  Latin  literature, 
beginning  Greek,  Classical  Civilization  and  Archaeology,  and  participated  in  such 
events  as  chariot  races,  Olympic  contests,  Greek  folk  dancing,  and  Plautine  comedy. 
Profs.  Bright,  Dunn,  and  Taylor  assisted  Helen  Lamont  from  University  H.S.  and  Byron 
Bekiares  from  Bloomington  H.S.  in  Minnesota.   The  program  was  directed  by  Prof. 
Scanlan  of  the  Department. 

FACULTY  ITEMS 
Prof.  Allen  was  guest  of  honor  at  the  annual  banquet  of  the  Rockford  chapter  of  the 
Archaeological  Institute  of  America  on  Sept.  26.   He  spoke  on  "Triumph  and  Tragedy 
in  Greek  Sicily:   The  Hellenization  of  Central  Sicily." 

Prof.  Bright  has  been  named  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  Central  111.  Society  of 
the  AIA  for  the  academic  year  1972-73. 

Prof.  Marcovich  is  currently  working  on  a  book  on  Homer  and  the  heroic  epic. 
He  has  been  invited  to  read  a  paper  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  North  American 
Patristic  Society  at  Philadelphia  in  December  and  a  paper  at  the  Second  International 
Congress  of  Neo-Latin  Studies  which  is  scheduled  for  August  in  Amsterdam. 

Last  year  the  position  of  Director  of  Graduate  Studies  was  established  in  the 
Department.   Prof.  Mark  Naoumides  is  the  first  appointee  to  this  position. 

Prof.  Scanlan  directed  a  workshop  in  Sept.  for  secondary  school  Latin  teachers 
in  Fredericksburg,  Virginia.   Over  100  Latin  teachers  were  present  and  approximately 
600  FL  teachers  from  schools  and  colleges  attended  the  annual  Virginia  FL  teachers' 
conference.   At  the  Statewide  Leadership  Conference  sponsored  by  the  111.  State  Dept. 
of  Public  Instruction  and  held  at  Mundelein  College  on  Oct.  14,  Prof.  Scanlan  spoke 
on  "The  Role  of  Foreign  Languages  in  the  Curriculum  Today."   He  also  presented  the 
Latin  programs  on  the  PLATO  computer-assisted  instruction  system  as  part  of  a  dem- 
onstration for  the  Head  of  the  National  Science  Foundation  in  Washington,  D.C.  on 
September  12. 

Prof.  Taylor  is  currently  reviewing  C.  M.  Bowra,  Homer,  for  the  Classical 
Outlook.   He  will  address  the  Cincinnati  Association  of  Teachers  of  the  Classics  at 
their  fall  dinner  meeting. 

Prof.  Robbins  attended  the  International  Congress  of  Learned  Societies  in  the 
Field  of  Religion  held  at  Los  Angeles  in  September. 

At  the  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Illinois  Foreign  Language  Teachers  Association, 
held  in  Peoria  on  Nov.  3-4,  Prof.  Scanlan  spoke  on  "Teaching  Culture  in  the  Foreign 
Language  Classroom."   In  conjunction  with  this  meeting,  Prof.  Dunn  addressed  the  ICC 
on  "The  Poetry  of  Love  and  the  Love  of  Poetry — Catullus  50  and  51 •" 

THE  ARCHAEOLOGICAL  INSTITUTE  OF  AMERICA 
The  most  extensive  lecture  program  ever  offered  by  the  Central  111.  Society  began  on 
Oct.  17  when  Prof.  Hubert  L.  Allen,  Director  of  the  Illinois-Princeton  Expedition  to 
Morgantina,  Sicily,  spoke  on  "Morgantina  Sea  Monsters,  Lions  and  'Baroque'  Sicilian 
Workshops."   The  next  presentation  at  Urbana  will  be  on  "Archaeology  in  Boiotia  with- 
out Excavation,"  on  Weds.,  Nov.  8  by  John  Fossey,  McGill  U.   The  public  is  invited. 

FALL  ENROLLMENTS 
The  Dept.  is  pleased  to  announce  a  26^  increase  in  enrollments  this  fall.   Continu- 
ing growth  in  the  program  in  Classical  Civilization  and  an  unusually  large  beginning 
Greek  class  are  largely  responsible  for  the  increased  enrollments. 


COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES  --  by  Prof.  Barbara  Smalley 

FACULTY  NOTES 
Prof.  Herbert  Knust,  who  returned  from  his  sabbatical  leave  this  fall,  has  resumed 
the  duties  of  Chairman  of  the  Program  in  Comparative  Literature  for  the  academic  year 
1972-73.   During  the  past  year  Prof.  Knust  worked  in  the  Archives  in  East  and  West 
Berlin,  doing  research  on  Bertolt  Brecht  and  completing  a  manuscript  for  a  book  on 
the  Schweyk  theme  to  be  published  by  the  Suhrkamp  Verlag  in  1973. 

Prof.  Francois  Jost,  who  is  on  sabbatical  leave  this  semester,  will  return  to 
the  U.I.  campus  by  the  beginning  of  the  spring  semester,  1973. 

PUBLICATIONS 
During  his  leave  last  year,  the  following  publications  by  Prof.  Herbert  Knust  appear- 
ed:  "Brechts  Fischzug. "  in  Brecht  heute — Brecht  Today.  Jahrbuch  der  Internatlonalen 
Brecht-Gesellschaf t,  (eds.,  Bentley,  Fuergi,  Grimm,  Hermand,  Hinck,  Spalek,  Weissteln), 
I  (1971),  98-109;  "Der  junge  Brecht  als  Exorzist,"  German  Quarterly.  XLV  (1972),  20- 
32,  (co-author:   Christine  Sahayda).   Among  Prof.  Knust's  recent  reviews  are  The 
Playwright  and  Historical  Change:   Dramatic  Strategies  in  Brecht.  Hauptmann.  Kaiser 
and  Wedekind,  by  Leroy  R.  Shaw.  JEGP,  LXX,  3  (July,  197lT,  513-516;  Stefan  George, 
by  Eckhard  Heftrich.   Frankfort/M.  1968,  in  Comparative  Literature  XXIV  ( 1972 ) ,184-6 . 

Prof.  A.  0.  Aldridge  has  recently  published  the  following  articles:   "Polly 
Baker  and  Boccaccio,"  in  Annali  dell 'Istituto  Universitario  Orientale,  Sezlone 
Romanza.  XIV  (Gennaio,  1972),  5-18;  "The  Modern  Spirit:   Kazantzakis  and  Some  of  His 
Contemporaries,"  in  Journal  of  Modern  Literature.  II  (No.  2,  1972),  303-313. 

Recent  publications  of  Prof.  Rocco  Montano  (while  he  was  on% leave  of  absence 
during  the  spring  semester  of  1971-72)  include  the  following:   "E  vero  che  per 
salvarsi  bisogna  perdersi?  Pavese  in  fuga";  "II  messaggio  e  la  lezione  dell'ultimo 
De  Sanctis";  "Per  i  Sei  personaggl  di  Pirandello";  and  "Solzenitsin:   un  vero 
scrittore  contro  il  sistema."   These  articles  appeared  in  the  January,  March,  and 
August,  1972  issues  of  II  Mattino. 

LECTURES,  PAPERS 
During  his  stay  in  Germany,  Prof.  Knust  delivered  a  lecture  at  the  Univ.  of  Cologn 
upon  "Kulinarisches  und  moralisches  Theater:   Zur  Bildersprache  Bertolt  Brechts." 
Profs.  A.  0.  Aldridge  and  Francois  Jost  attended  meetings  of  the  Twelfth  International 
Federation  for  Modern  Languages  and  Literatures,  which  were  held  at  Cambridge  Univ., 
England,  during  Aug.  20-26.   Prof.  Aldridge  delivered  a  paper  entitled  "The  Vampire 
Theme:   Dumas  pere  and  the  English  Stage";  Prof.  Jost  addressed  another  meeting,  upon 
"L'abbe*  Pre"vost,  traducteur  de  Richardson."   During  his  leave  of  absence  last  spring, 
Prof.  Montano  delivered  the  following  lectures:   "Possibilita  e  necessita  della 
storia  letteraria,"  March  23,  at  the  Istituto  Magistrale  Statale  di  Maratea;  "Per  uns 
nuova  storia  della  letteratura, "  April  15,  Galleria  del  Libro  Guida,  Napoli;  and  two 
lectures  on  the  theme,  "Ufficio  della  critica,"  May,  1972,  at  the  Univ.  of  Salerno. 

NEW  GRADUATE  STUDENTS 
Members  of  the  Comparative  Literature  Program  are  happy  to  welcome  the  new  graduate 
students  who  entered  the  Program  this  fall.   They  are  Robert  Guignon,  Jr.,  Judith 
Ann  Myers,  William  J.  Walker,  and  Clara  I.  Yu.   Prof,  and  Mrs.  Herbert  Knust  recentlj 
held  an  evening  party  at  their  home  for  graduate  students — both  new  and  those  pre- 
viously enrolled — and  faculty. 

SYMPOSIUM 
The  Comparative  Literature  Program  co-sponsored  a  Symposium  on  "Utopian  Social 
Thought  in  Literature  and  the  Social  Sciences"  during  Oct.  26-28.   Distinguished 
American  and  European  professors  spoke  on  a  series  of  topics: 

Irving  Horowitz,  Prof,  of  Sociology  (Rutgers,  The  State  Univ.),  "Future  Society 
of  the  Marxists";  Helmut  Klages,  Prof,  of  Sociology  (Technische  Universitat, Berlin) , 
"Models  for  a  Future  Society:  Literature  and  the  Sociologist";  Darko  R.  Suvin,  Prof. 
of  English  (McGill  Univ.),  "Wells'  Time  Machine  and  More's  Utopia  as  Structural 
Models  for  Science  Fiction";  Walter~HoTlerer,  Prof,  of  German  and  Comparative 


Literature  (U.I.).  "The  Prospects  of  Literature  in  Future  Society";  Peter  Demetz, 
Prof,  of  German  and  Comparative  Literature  (Yale  Univ.),  "Literary  Scholarship: 
Past  and  Future." 

The  addresses  were  followed  by  panel  discussions,  in  which  members  of  several 
departments  of  the  U.I.  participated.   The  proceedings  of  the  Symposium  will  be  pub- 
lished by  Comparative  Literature  Studies . 

FRENCH  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel 

HONORS 
We  have  the  honor  of  announcing  that  Prof.  Robert  J.  Nelson  was  awarded  the  Palmes 
Acade*miques  by  Mr.  Jean  Beaulieu,  Cultural  Attache*  at  Chicago,  on  Thurs.,  Sept.  28. 
Mr.  Beaulieu  delivered  a  lecture  the  same  evening  on  "Pe*guy,  la  France  et  le 
nationalisme"  at  the  Illini  Union.   The  award  ceremony,  after  the  lecture,  was  follow- 
ed by  a  reception. 

Prof.  Emile  Talbot  has  been  appointed  as  a  Fellow  in  the  Center  for  Advanced 
Study  for  the  second  semester,  1972-73,  to  continue  the  preparation  of  his  book  on 
Stendhal  and  Romanticism. 

STAFF  NEWS 
We  must  say  with  much  regret  that  for  the  first  time  in  many  years  we  are  opening 
the  fall  semester  without  the  presence  of  Profs.  Charles  A.  Knudson  and  Claude  P. 
Viens,  both  of  whom  retired  in  June.   We  are  proud  to  announce,  however,  that  Prof. 
Henry  Kahane  has  agreed  to  replace  Prof.  Knudson  for  one  year  to  teach  the  courses 
in  Old  French. 

It  is  also  with  much  regret  on  the  part  of  all  our  staff  that  our  friend  and 
super-secretary,  Harriett  Hatchel,  after  several  years  in  the  Dept.  of  French,  is 
leavins;  us  (but  staying  in  the  building)  to  work  for  the  new  Unit  on  FL  Research.   A 
special  celebration  and  Pause-Cafe"  was  held  for  Harriett  at  the  French  House.   We 
are,  however,  glad  that  Yvonne  Koster,  one  of  our  ace  teachers,  is  taking  over  Mrs. 
Hatchel 's  duties,  and  wish  both  of  them  the  best  of  luck. 

Joining  the  Dept.  of  French  this  year  is  Prof.  Fernand  Marty,  whose  main  work 
for  the  time  being  will  be  in  the  field  of  Compute r-Aided  Instruction  for  foreign 
languages,  particularly  in  relation  to  PLATO.   Prof.  Marty  comes  to  us  from  the  Univ. 
of  Ottawa,  Canada.   Mr.  Marty  will  also  help  to  develop  the  new  unit  for  foreign 
language  studies  and  research  established  by  the  College  of  Liberal  Arts  &  Sciences 
effective  this  fall,  under  the  direction  of  Prof.  B.  H.  Mainous. 

We  wish  to  welcome  back  to  the  staff  as  instructor  in  French  Madame  Anna-Maria 
Sagi,  who  spent  the  past  year  in  Spain.   Madame  Sagi  will  be  working  mainly  in  the 
advanced  oral  French  courses. 

Prof.  Emile  Snyder  of  Indiana  Univ.  is  offering  a  course  on  French  African 
Literature,  in  English,  with  readings  in  English  and  French,  dealing  with  the  historj 
and  themes  of  black  African  writers  from  the  inception  of  the  literature  to  present. 

Prof.  Frederic  M.  Jenkins  has  been  appointed  to  the  ACTFL  Bibliography  Committee, 
1972-75.   He  will  participate  in  the  preparation  of  the  ACTFL  Annual  Bibliography 
on  the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Languages. 

Being  welcomed  back  to  the  campus  this  fall  are  Profs.  Gabriel  Savignon  and 
Herbert  DeLey.   Prof.  Savignon  was  on  sabbatical  the  spring  of  1972.   Prof.  DeLey  was 
on  sabbatical  leave  the  second  semester  of  1971  and  in  1971-72  was  in  Grenoble  and 
Rouen  as  Director  of  the  Illinois  Year-Abroad  Program  in  France.   Away  on  sabbatical 
for  the  first  semester  is  Prof.  Francois  Jost,  in  Germany  and  Switzerland,  and  Prof. 
Philip  Kolb  is  in  France  for  the  full  year  on  sabbatical  to  continue  his  research 
and  publication  on  Proust.   Prof.  DeLey  remains  connected  with  the  Year-Abroad  Pro- 
gram as  departmental  director  of  the  program. 

Prof.  Wilga  Rivers  has  been  appointed  to  the  seven-member  Steering  Committee  for 
the  Modern  Language  Program  for  the  1970' s  (FLP-1970 's ) .   This  committee  is  charged 
with  developing  "a  detailed  analysis  of  critical  aspects  of  language  study  in  America 
during  the  1970's  with  proposed  strategies  for  depth  study  of  these  critical  issues ." 
The  Program  is  supported  by  the  Institute  of  International  Studies  in  the  U.S.  Office 


of  Education.   The  committee  began  its  work  in  New  York  on  Sept.  21-22.   While  in  the 
East  Prof.  Rivers  also  addressed  the  teaching  assistants  of  the  FL  departments  of 
Harvard  Univ.   Her  new  book,  Speaking  in  Many  Tongues,  will  be  available  from  Newbury 
House  Publishers,  Rowley,  Mass.,  in  November. 

How  Nice  to  See  You,  the  book  by  Roger  Kempf ,  was  reviewed  by  Prof.  Yves  Velan 
in  the  French  Review,  and  the  review  also  appeared  in  Zurcher  Zeitung  and  Les  Cahiers 
du  Ghemin  (Gallimard).   Also,  a  recent  poll  by  the  "Communaute*  des  programmes  radio- 
phoniques  de  langue  francaise,"  places  Je,  the  novel  by  Prof.  Velan,  in  the  list  of 
the  ten  best  books  1962-72  and  the  best  of  1959,  the  year  it  appeared. 

FRENCH  STUDENTS  AVAILABLE  FOR  VISITS 
Every  year  the  French  Dept.  welcomes  a  number  of  teaching  assistants  on  exchange  from 
France.   These  young  people  would  be  very  interested  to  visit  other  parts  of  Illinois 
and  see  American  life  on  farms,  in  small  towns  or  in  Chicago.   Any  teacher  of  French 
who  would  like  to  arrange  hospitality  for  a  French-speaking  student  should  contact 
Prof.  W.  Rivers,  Dept.  of  French,  FLB,  U.I.,  Urbana,  IL  61801.   Hospitality  at 
Thanksgiving  and  Christmas  would  be  particularly  welcomed. 

ACTIVITIES 
The  French  Dept.  has  diversified  its  elementary  and  intermediate  required  courses  in 
approach  and  content.   There  are  now  16  possible  course  choices  for  students,  of  whxh 
eight  are  at  the  fourth-semester  level.   High  school  teachers  and  counselors  who 
would  like  detailed  information  so  that  they  may  help  their  students  select  courses 
according  to  their  interests  and  level  of  attainment  are  invited  to  write  to  Prof. 
Wilga  Rivers,  French  Dept.,  FLB,  U.I.,  Urbana,  IL  61801  for  information  sheets. 

The  informal  staff-student  discussion  group,  Le_  Ce"nacle.  as  well  as  the  Cercle 
Litte"raire  Ne"gro-f rancophone  have  had  their  first  meetings,  respectively  on  n0u  va 
la  litte"rature?"  and  on  "Peau  Noire,  Masque  Blanc"  by  Frantz  Fanon.   The  organizers 
are  Prof.  Barbara  Bowen  and  Mr.  Patrick  Abanime.   Also,  the  French  Chorus  (director, 
Prof.  F.  W.  Nachtmann)  has  had  a  number  of  rehearsals. 

The  weekly  French  Luncheon  has  also  resumed,  Tuesdays  at  the  New  Faculty  Center. 
Everyone  is  welcome. 

The  list  of  French  films  shown  by  campus  organizations  is  lengthy.   Among  them, 
this  semester:   Pierrot  le  Fou,  L'Enfant  Sauvage,  Journal  d'un  Cure*  de  Campagne, 
Weekend,  Les  Oliviers  de  la  Justice,  Une  Femme  Douce,  l'Atalante,  Tirez  sur  le 
Pianiste,  La  Voie  Lacte*e,  La  Prise  de  pouvoir  de  Louis  XIV,  Masculin-Feminin,  Domicile 
Conjugal,  Le  Clan  des  Siciliens,  etc.,  etc. — not  to  mention  commercial  shows  and  the 
large  number  of  French  films  in  the  increasing  offerings  in  film  study.   And,  in 
theater,  Ionesco's  La  Lee on  and  La  Cantatrice  Chauve  as  well  as  Giraudoux's  Judith 
have  been  already  performed  locally  this  fall. 

The  play,  Le  Barbier  de  Seville,  was  presented  by  Le  Tr£teau  de  Paris  on  Monday, 
Oct.  30  at  the  Festival  Theatre  in  the  Krannert  Center  for  the  Performing  Arts.   A 
reception  at  the  home  of  Prof,  and  Mrs.  Waldbauer  followed  the  play. 

FRENCH  FIELD  TRIP  AT  THE  U.I. 
As  an  experiment  this  year,  a  tour  was  organized  of  several  points  of  interest  on  the 
Urbana  campus  by  the  Dept.  of  French,  the  Krannert  Center,  and  Student  Services  for 
approximately  150  high  school  students  and  their  teachers  who  came  to  see  the  French 
play,  some  of  them  from  quite  far. 

GERMANIC  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  David  Chisholm 

STAFF  NEWS 
The  German  Dept.  welcomes  two  new  additions  to  the  faculty  this  fall:   Mr.  Philip 
Grundlehner,  who  joins  the  dept.  with  the  rank  of  Asst.  Prof.,  studied  at  the  Univ. 
of  Pa.,  the  Univ.  of  Tubingen,  Tufts  Univ.,  and  Ohio  State  Univ.   He  received  aca- 
demic awards  at  all  four  universities,  including  a  dissertation  year  fellowship  at 
Ohio  State,  where  he  wrote  on  "The  Symbol  of  the  Bridge  in  German  Lyric  Poetry." 
During  the  academic  year  1971-72  Prof.  Grundlehner  taught  as  instructor  and  asst. 
prof,  of  German  at  Middlebury  College. 


Mr.  David  Ghisholm,  who  joins  the  dept.  with  the  rank  of  Visiting  Asst.  Prof., 
studied  at  Oberlin  College,  the  Univ.  of  Erlangen,  the  Univ.  of  Chicago,  and  Indiana 
Univ.   His  dissertation,  written  at  Indiana,  is  a  study  of  the  prosodic  structure  of 
Goethe's  Knittelvers.   During  1970-71  Prof.  Chisholm  taught  as  a  lecturer  at  Indiana 
Univ.,  and  in  1971-72  he  was  a  post-doctoral  fellow  and  lecturer  in  German  at  the 
Univ.  of  Cincinnati. 

Two  new  appointments  in  Scandinavian  have  been  made  for  the  fall  term:  Dr. 
Bj'ornar  Bergethon  as  Lecturer  in  Norwegian  and  Mrs.  Eva  Wetzel,  MA,  as  Asst,  Swedish. 

The  following  are  new  teaching  assistants  thie  year:   Priscilla  Drake  (UI), 
Gerald  Driskell  (Auburn  U.),  Rebecca  Dvorak  (Grinnell  Coll.),  Charlotte  El  Shabrawy 
(UI),  Margaret  Fisher  (Conn.  Coll.  for  Women),  Jane  Fry  (UI),  Dorothy  Martin  (  U.  of 
Mo.),  Miriam  Marx  (UI),  James  Rendel  (Wabash  Coll.),  Steven  Schaller  (UI),  Janet  van 
Valkenburg  (Southern  111.),  David  Krooks  (U.  of  Wise),  Edith  Graf  (see  below),  Franz 
Neubacher  (see  below),  and  Franz  Tades  (see  below). 

New  fellows  are  Virginia  Coombs,  J'urgen  Dollein,  Karl  Fink,  David  Krooks,  and 
Nelson  McMillan. 

The  German  Dept.  takes  pleasure  in  announcing  the  promotions  of  Assoc.  Profs. 
Ruth  Lorbe  and  Irmengard  Rauch  to  Prof.,  and  Instructors  Vincent  Dell'Orto  and  Karl- 
Heinz  Schoeps  to  Asst.  Prof. 

The  following  members  of  the  dept.  are  on  leave  for  1972-73:  Prof.  James 
McGlathery  (to  Austria  to  finish  a  book  on  E.T.A.  Hoffmann),  Prof.  Clayton  Gray  (to 
finish  a  book  on  the  Minnesang,  in  Urbana),  and  Prof.  Elmer  H.  Antonsen  (to  accept  a 
visiting  professorship  at  the  Univ.  of  N.  Carolina). 

AUSTRIA-ILLINOIS  EXCHANGE  PROGRAM 
The  German  Dept.  extends  a  very  cordial  welcome  to  six  Austrians  who  are  now  teaching 
and  studying  on  the  Urbana  campus:   Miss  Edith  Graf,  who  attended  the  Teachers  Train- 
ing College  in  Wiener  Neustadt  and  the  Padagogische  Akademie  in  Baden,  has  taught 
English,  German,  Physical  Education,  and  Handicrafts  in  Windhag  and  Pottendorf ;  Mr. 
Franz  Neubacher,  after  attending  the  Handelsakademie  in  Waidhofen/Ybbs  and  the  Pada- 
gogische Akademie  in  Krems,  taught  English  and  German  last  year  in  Randegg;  and  Mr. 
Franz  Tades  attended  the  Teachers  Training  College  at  Wiener  Neustadt  and  has  taught 
English,  Mathematics,  and  Physical  Education  in  Drosendorf.   All  three  are  teaching 
assts.  in  the  German  Dept.  for  1972-73*   Mr.  Alexander  Lichtmannegger,  Miss  Waltraud 
Primer,  and  Mr.  Wolfgang  Ziegler,  all  graduates  of  the  Padagogische  Akademie  in  Baden 
are  pursuing  graduate  studies  in  Urbana  this  year. 

Meanwhile  seven  111.  graduate  students  are  teaching  in  Lower  Austria  and  nine- 
teen undergraduates  (from  Urbana,  Chicago  Circle,  and  other  college  campuses)  are 
studying  in  Baden.   Seventeen  undergraduates  have  already  returned  from  the  Baden 
Study  Program  and  several  graduates  have  completed  their  year  with  the  teaching  pro- 
gram.  Further  efforts  are  being  made  to  provide  teaching  positions  for  Austrians  in 
the  public  school  system  and  to  attract  more  transfer  students  for  the  Study  Program. 
For  more  information  contact  the  Co-ordinator,  Austria-Illinois  Exchange  Programs, 
Dept.  of  German,  FLB,  Urbana,  IL  61801. 

STUDENT  ENROLLMENT  IN  GERMAN 
Prof.  Karl-Heinz  Schoeps,  Acting  Executive  Secretary  of  the  Dept.  for  1972-73,  reports 
that  total  student  enrollment  in  German  courses  offered  this  fall  is  higher  than  it 
was  a  year  ago.   Prof.  P.M.  Mitchell  reports  that  enrollment  in  Scandinavian  has  in- 
creased so  that  there  are  now  three  sections  of  Scandinavian  101. 

GERMAN  CLUB 
The  first  activity  of  the  German  Club  this  year  was  a  well-attended  presentation  on 
Oct.  12  of  the  cinematic  masterpiece  Olympia,  a  documentary  about  the  1936  games  in 
Berlin.   Pres.  Fred  Bennett  and  faculty  advisor  Rainer  Sell  have  planned  a  stimulat- 
ing program  of  activities  for  the  coming  year,  including  seven  outstanding  films, 
Christmas  and  Fasching  celebrations,  and  a  spring  picnic.   Regular  activities  of  the 
club  include  a  choir  which  presents  music  from  the  Middle  Ages  to  the  present,  and  a 
soccer  group  which  participates  in  the  Graduate  Soccer  Spring  Competition. 


EVENTS 
SYMPOSIUM:   The  German  Dept,  with  the  assistance  of  the  Dept.  of  Sociology,  organized 
a  symposium  on  Utopian  Social  Thought  in  Literature  and  the  Social  Sciences,  which 
took  place  Oct.  26-28  on  the  Urbana  campus.   The  following  speakers  participated  in 
the  program:  Prof.  Irving  Horowitz  (Rutgers),  Prof.  Helmut  Klages  (Technische  Univer- 
sitat,  Berlin),  Prof.  Darko  R.  Suvin  (McGill  Univ.),  Prof.  Walter  Hollerer  (Tech- 
nische Universitat,  Berlin  and  U.I.)  and  Prof.  Peter  Demetz  (Yale).  Each  lecture  was 
followed  by  a  discussion  period,  and  a  panel  discussion  concluded  the  program. 

AATG:   The  fall  meeting  of  the  AATG  Southern  111.  Chapter  was  held  on  Friday 
evening,  Nov.  3  at  the  Hotel  Pere  Marquette  in  Peoria.   On  the  program  were:   "Fun, 
Service  and  Learning — the  ILFSG"  by  Mr.  Maurice  D.  Kindle,  Mr.  Mark  Graham,  and  Mr. 
Joe  Bacica;  the  film  "Anywhere  You  Go"  by  the  national  AATG;  and  the  presentation 
"Effective  Hand-outs"  by  U.  Henry  Gerlach.   The  meeting  was  held  in  conjunction  with 
the  annual  convention  of  the  IFLTA,  attended  by  over  1,000  teachers. 

WOYZECK  by  Georg  Buchner  will  be  performed  in  German  by  the  traveling  ensemble 
"Die  Brucke"  on  Fri.,  Nov.  10  at  7  p.m.  in  the  theater  of  Lane  Technical  H.S.,  2501 
W.  Addison  St.  in  Chicago.   Tickets  at  $3  ($2  for  students)  can  be  secured  via  pre- 
payment and  self-addressed  envelope  from:   German  Consulate  General,  104  S.  Michigan 
Ave.,  Chicago  60603  or  the  German  Dept  of  the  U.  of  Chicago,  Northwestern  U.,  Roose- 
velt U.,  or  the  U.I.  Circle  Campus. 

PROFESSIONAL  ACTIVITIES  OF  THE  FACULTY 
Prof.  Irmengard  Rauch  gave  a  paper  in  July  "On  the  semantic  base  of  the  Germanic  den- 
tal preterite"  at  the  summer  meetings  of  the  Linguistic  Society  of  America  in  Chapel 
Hill,  N.C.   She  also  chaired  a  section  of  one  of  the  meetings.   Supported  by  an  LSA 
and  NSF  grant,  Prof.  Rauch  went  to  Bologna  in  August  to  present  before  the  Eleventh 
International  Congress  of  Linguistics  a  paper  entitled  "Were  Verbs  in  fact  Noun  Sub- 
sidiaries?" This  paper  is  in  the  Preprints  to  the  11th  Congress,  pp.  36I-367. 

On  Oct.  5  Prof.  Marianne  Burkhard  read  a  paper  at  the  182nd  meeting  of  the 
Fruchtbringende  Gesellschaf t  entitled  "Hofmannsthals  Reitergeschichte — ein  Gegenst'uck 
zum  Chandos-Brief . " 

Prof.  Herbert  Knust,  who  holds  a  joint  appointment  in  German  and  Comparative 
Literature  and  who  also  is  chairman  of  the  Program  in  Comparative  Literature,  has  re- 
turned from  sabbatical.   His  research  is  listed  in  the  Comparative  Literature  Notes. 

SPECIAL  HONORS 
Prof.  Emeritus  Alfred  Philippson  received  in  July  a  special  honor  from  the  Univ.  of 
Cologne  in  the  form  of  a  renewed  PhD.  degree.   The  occasion  was  the  fiftieth  anni- 
versary of  his  'Promotion.*   Prof.  Philippson's  dissertation,  Per  Marchentypus  von 
Konig  Drosselbart.  was  written  under  Friedrich  von  der  Leyen  in  1922  and  published  a 
year  later.  The  accompanying  letter  from  the  Dean  of  the  College  of  Philosophy  in- 
dicated that  this  award  was  given  for  the  first  time. 

For  his  role  in  developing  and  promoting  German-American  cultural  relations, 
Prof.  Henri  Stegemeier  has  received  the  Cross  of  the  Order  of  Merit  of  the  Federal 
Republic  of  Germany.   This  distinguished  service  medal,  known  as  the  Verdienstkreuz, 
erster  Klasse.  is  the  highest  honor  of  this  order.   The  award  was  conferred  in  Bonn 
by  President  Gustav  Heinimann,  and  the  medal  was  presented  to  Prof.  Stegemeier  in 
July  by  Hans  Rolf  Kiderlen,  the  German  consul  general  in  Chicago. 

SLAVIC  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Elliot  Cohen 

ENROLLMENTS 
Enrollments  this  year  have  climbed  back  to  1970  levels,  with  Russ  101  showing  a  50i 
increase  over  last  year,  plus  encouraging  enrollments  in  our  literature  courses 
taught  in  translation.   New  courses  include  a  survey  course  in  Polish  literature  in 
translation  taught  by  Prof.  Iribarne;  a  course  on  East  European  cinema  by  Prof.  Hill; 
and  a  course  now  being  planned  on  NABOKOV  (c.f.  below). 


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PROMOTION 
Congratulations  to  Kurt  Klein  who  has  been  promoted  to  full  professor.   Prof.  Klein 
teaches  Russian  language  and  linguistics,  and  is  in  charge  of  the  MAT  program. 

NEW  FACES 
New  in  the  office  are  Pamela  Reitz,  Sharon  Niraer,  Lee  Becker,  and  Marc  Sperling; 
among  graduate  students  are  Christine  Bethin,  Gloria  Kenski,  James  Levine,  Steven 
Nielsen,  Lily  Schoch,  Mary  Theis,  Jeffrey  Tyler,  Wayne  Uhle,  Constance  Waring,  and 
Nancy  Wood. 

SLAVIC  PAPERS 
Slavic  Papers,  an  original  enterprise  of  the  Dept.'s  graduate  students  has  celebrated 
its  longevity  by  devoting  its  18th  issue  to  a  Polish-Russian  symposium,  including  a 
paper  by  Maria  Zalucky  on  the  problem  of  power  and  personality  in  the  works  of 
Hickiewicz  and  Pushkin. 

INTERVIEWS  WITH  RUSSIAN  EMIGRE  WRITERS 
Interviews  with  Russian  emigre"  writers  were  conducted  this  past  summer  by  Prof. 
Temira  Pachmuss  on  her  research  trip  partially  financed  by  the  Russian  and  East 
European  Center  of  the  U.I.   Interviewed  were  Vladimir  Nabokob  in  Montreaux,  Switz. 
(this  interview  will  be  very  helpful  in  the  introduction  of  Prof  Pachmuss'  new  course 
to  be  given  in  English,  entitled  Vladimir  Nabokov),  the  poet  and  critic  Yury  Terapiano 
in  Paris,  and  the  prose  writer  Irina  Saburova  in  Munich. 

RUSSIAN  EDUCATIONAL  FILMS 
The  Slavic  Dept.  has  built  up  a  small  collection  of  16mm  documentary  short  films  with 
varying  degrees  of  language  and/or  cultural  interest.   Teachers  around  the  state  may 
borrow  them  free  for  classroom  use.   Requests  should  be  directed  to:  Secretary,  Dept. 
of  Slavic  Langs.,  FL3,  U.I.,  Urbana,  IL  61801.   -means  printed  script  available. 

Eastern  Europe  (15  min.,  1962,  in  English).  High-school  level  Dresentation  of 
the  geography  and  peoples  of  East  Europe.    *Marsianin  v  Moskve  (8mm,  k   min.,  1967). 
Color  animated  film  made  in  Britain  for  languas-e  teaching,  accompanied  by  Russian 
language  tape.    Moscow  and  Leningrad  (8mm,  10  min.,  i960).   Silent  travelogue. 
*Moskve  i  Leningrad  (13  min.~,    1963,  in  Russian).   From  the  Syracuse  series.   Slow 
speech,  intended  for  intermed.  students;  travelog  scenes  filmed  in  the  middle  1950' s. 
Pasternak  and  Dr.  Zhivago  (10  min.,  1964,  in  English).  Color  preview  of  the  Omar 
Sharif f  film,  with  some  glimpses  of  Pasternak  and  Russian  culture. 
*Po  Sovetskomu  Soiuzu  (1968,  10-min.  each,  spoken  in  fast  Russian).   A  newsreel 
series  suitable  for  advanced  students;  interesting  visuals.   Consists  of: 
*#5^:  Leningrad  and  the  Revolution,  Construction  project  boss,  Ballet  Theater  in  Perm 
*#55:  Lenin's  archives,  New  Belorussian  dump  trucks,  figure  skating  champs 
*#56:  Mrs.  Lenin,  Univ.  of  Tartu  (Estonia),  Vologda  lace-making 
*#57:  Lenin's  father  &  home  in  Simbirsk;  photographer  shoots  Sino-Soviet  border 

clashes;  Vasiliev,  Bolshoi  Ballet  soloist 
(#56  has  the  simplest  vocabulary,  with  #57  second;  but  all  are  difficult) 
*Poguliam  po  Moskve  and  *Poezdka  na  iug  (1968,  10  min.  each,  in  Russian).   Two 
British  films  of  the  Syracuse  type,  intended  for  students,  with  medium-speed  narra- 
tion.  Shows  teenagers  visiting  Moscow  and  Kiev,  respectively.   Polet  Vostoka-II 
(I963,  5  min.,  in  Russian).   Excerpt  from  actual  Soviet  TV  newsreel  of  one  of  the 
Soviet  space  shots,  with  Titov  in  orbit.  Language  difficult.    Russia  in  the  1930's 
(10  min.,  silent).  Old  pre-war  travelogue  whose  scenes  now  have  nostalgic  interest. 
Russian-Polish  Armistice  (1950's,  5  min.,  in  English).   Documentary  on  the  treaty 
negotiations  of  1920  after  the  brief  Soviet-Polish  clash. 

FACULTY  PUBLICATIONS 
Faculty  publications  include  Louis  Iribame's  article  "Revolution  in  the  Theatre  of 
Witkacy  and  Gombrowicz, "  and  an  excerpt  from  his  English-language  translation  of 
Witkiewicz's  Insatiability,  a  piece  called  "The  Little  Theatre  of  Quintofron 
Wieczorowicz, "  both  to  appear  in  the  winter  issue  of  Polish  Review;  and  just  publish- 
ed by  the  U.I.  Press  is  Prof.  Temira  Pachmuss'  book,  Selected  Works  of  Zinaida 
Hippius,  15  stories  translated  and  edited  by  Prof.  Pachmuss.   Her  recent  articles  wOL 
be  listed  in  the  next  Newsletter.   Prof.  Frank  Gladney  is  conducting  a  research  proj- 
ect on  the  Polish  handbook,  under  a  contract  between  the  U.I.  and  the  Office  01  tauo. 


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SPANISH,  ITALIAN  AND  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  —  by  Alice  L.  Anderson 

1973  AATSP  NATIONAL  SPANISH  CONTEST 
The  Downstate  Chapter  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  Spanish  and  Portu- 
guese wishes  to  set  up  area  testing  centers  for  the  AATSP  National  Examinations. 
The  test  will  be  administered  between  March  Zk   and  April  7,  1973.   The  test  admin- 
istration time  is  75  minutes  and  requires  laboratory  listening  facilities. 

Schools  that  are  willing  to  set  up  area  testing  centers  should  advise  James  E. 
McKinney,  Downstate  AATSP  Contest  Chairman,  Western  111.  Univ.,  Macomb,  IL  61455. 
As  usual,  schools  with  facilities  may  admimister  their  tests  locally. 

All  testing  materials  for  the  Downstate  area  should  be  ordered  from  Mr.  McKinney. 
The  deadline  for  ordering  is  February  1,  1973. 

SECOND-YEAR  SPANISH  FILMS  AND  LECTURES 
A  unique  opportunity  is  available  for  third-  and  fourth-semester  Spanish  students  to 
learn  about  Spanish  and  Spanish-American  culture  and  history.  On  Tuesdays,  every 
hour  on  the  hour  from  8-5  p.m.  (except  vacations),  a  film  or  lecture  is  given  in 
G13  F.L.B.   This  series  is  open  to  students,  faculty  and  visitors  to  the  U.I. 

WELCOME  HOME 
A  welcome  back  to  the  U.I.  is  extended  to  Prof.  Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo,  Earl  and 
Denise  Thompson,  and  Mr.  Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jr.   Prof.  Porqueras-Mayo  served  as 
Director  of  the  U.I.  Year-Abroad  Program  in  Spain  during  1971-72.   His  assistants 
were  Instructor  Earl  Thompson  and  graduate  student  Denise  Thompson;  Denise  now  holds 
an  assistantship  in  the  College  of  Education  as  field  supervisor  in  the  foreign  lan- 
guage section  of  the  student  teaching  program.   Mr.  Mowry,  teaching  assistant  in 
Spanish,  has  returned  from  Buenos  Aires,  Argentina,  where  he  did  dissertation  re- 
search and  wrote  feature  articles  and  drama  reviews  for  the  English-language  news- 
paper, the  Buenos  Aires  Herald.   Many  of  you  will  probably  recognize  him  as  a  past 
editor  of  this  Newsletter. 

FACULTY  NOTES 
Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello,  Head  of  the  Department,  has  been  honored  with  the 
invitation  to  be  listed  in  the  second  edition  of  Who's  Who  in  the  World.  Prof. 
Pasquariello  also  attended  and  participated  in  a  meeting  by  the  "National  Committee 
in  Support  of  Foreign  Languages,"  sponsored  by  all  the  AAT's  and  the  ACTFL  in 
Philadelphia  on  Sept.  29-30.   In  addition,  Prof.  Pasquariello  is  a  member  of  the 
National  Committee  to  Evaluate  Graduate  Programs  in  Spanish,  which  met  in  Wichita, 
Kansas  on  October  5-7 '• 

Prof.  J.  H.  D.  Allen  has  been  invited  as  foreign  language  consultant  to  the 
Thunderbird  Graduate  School  in  Glendale,  Arizona.  This  school  of  foreign  trade, 
which  grants  the  M.B.A.  degree,  each  winter  is  the  subject  of  a  symposium-seminar 
visit,  this  time  on  Jan.  7-19,  1973-   Prof.  Allen  will  look  in  on  classes  for  Ameri- 
can business  men  whose  position  requires  a  knowledge  of  a  foreign  language.   Prof. 
Allen  is  also  a  member  of  a  team  from  the  North  Central  Association  that  spent  Nov. 
7-10  on  a  visit  to  Fenton  H.S.  in  Bensenville.   In  addition,  Prof.  Allen  has  gone  to 
the  Univ.  of  Northern  la.  in  Cedar  Falls  to  evaluate  the  Spanish  program  there. 

Prof.  Merlin  H.  Forster  has  been  named  Director  of  the  Center  for  Latin  American 
Studies.  His  current  research  is  on  the  chronology  and  terminology  of  Latin  American 
vanguard is mo.  Graduate  student  and  fellow  Regina  Harrison  Macdonald  conducted  supple 
mentary  research  on  this  topic  in  Quito,  Ecuador  and  also  interviewed  authors  and 
critics  of  these  movements,  such  as  A.  P.  Diez  Canseco,  Jorge  Icaza,  B.  Carrion,  M.A. 
Aguirre  and  A. A.  Robelino. 

Prof.  Robert  E.  Lott  spent  five  months  in  Madrid,  working  on  a  new  book  on  Juan 
Valera,  as  Associate  Member  of  the  U.I.  Center  for  Advanced  Study.  Prof.  Lott  partic- 
ipated as  Secretary  of  the  Spanish  II  section  in  the  Midwest  Modern  Language  Associa- 
tion meeting,  held  in  St.  Louis  on  Oct.  26-28,  1972. 

Assoc.  Prof.  David  Hershberg  is  now  Chairman  of  the  U.I.  Year-Abroad  Program  in 
Spain. 

Assoc.  Prof.  Thomas  C.  Meehan  will  be  Chairman  of  the  Spanish  Section  7  of  the 
M.L.A.  Convention  in  New  York 


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Asst.  Prof.  Anoar  Aiex  received  a  grant  from  the  Center  for  Latin  American 
Studies  and  spent  six  weeks  in  Brazil  doing  research  on  Ensaistas  Brasileiros  do 
Periddo  Modernista. 

Asst.  Prof.  Anthony  K.  Cassell  received  a  summer  Faculty  Fellowship  and  spent 
two  months  in  Florence,  Italy  doins-  research. 

Javier  Martfnez-Palacio  has  been  appointed  visiting  lecturer  and  teaches  courses 
at  the  U.I.  in  19th  and  20th  century  Soanish  literature.   He  received  his  B.A.  from 
the  Univ.  of  Madrid  and  did  his  graduate  work  at  the  Univ.  of  Texas  at  Austin.   He 
is  the  author  of  several  books,  Historia  de  mi  pueblo  (fiction,  1962),  Castellano 
Interno  (poetry,  1963),  and  Romerfa  (poetry,  1963) ,  as  well  as  numerous  articles  in 
Insula  and  other  professional  journals. 

Mr.  Reynaldo  Jimenez  of  the  U.I.  has  been  appointed  full-time  Instructor  and  is 
currently  working  on  his  dissertation,  "Guillermo  Cabrera  Infante  y  Tres  Tristes 
Tigres." 

PUBLICATIONS 
Faculty  and  graduate  students  alike  have  spent  a  rewarding  summer  completing  many 
books  and  articles.   All  of  these  fine  publications  deserve  a  place  in  the  Newsletter; 
Since  space  is  limited  in  this  issue,  they  will  be  presented  in  the  December  number. 

LECTURES 
On  Oct.  24  Jorge  Icaza,  author  of  Huasipungo  (1934),  delivered  a  lecture  entitled, 
"De  Huasipungo  a  Atrapados. "   Huasipungo  is  a  novel  of  intense  social  criticism  and 
is  one  of  the  most  important  social  documents  of  our  times. 

Hugo  Arguelles,  Mexican  playwright  and  movie  script  writer,  directed  a  round- 
table  discussion  on  "Teatro  y  cine"  on  October  9. 

SPANISH  CLUB 
The  Spanish  Club  is  continuing  its  tradition  of  Tertulias,  which  all  Spanish  speakers 
are  invited  to  attend.   The  Tertulia  gives  intermediate  and  advanced  students  of 
Spanish  the  opportunity  to  practice  conversing  in  an  informal  atmosphere.   They  are 
being  held  every  other  Thursday  at  4:00. 

In  addition,  the  Spanish  Club  is  planning  a  Christmas  party,  which  will  take 
place  during  the  last  week  of  classes  before  Christmas,  with  music,  entertainment, 
and  refreshments. 

The  Spanish  Club  is  under  the  direction  of  Graduate  Assistant  Eva  Abreu;  for 
further  information  please  contact  her  in  4123  FLB. 


The  U.I.  Foreign  Language  Newsletter  is  published  jointly  by  the  Foreign  Language 
Departments  of  the  U.I.,  under  the  direction  of  the  Head  of  the  Department  of  Spanish, 
Italian,  and  Portuguese.  Editorial  offices  are  located  in  4119  FLB,  Urbana.   The 
Newsletter  is  available  without  charge  to  all  interested  persons  in  Illinois  and 
other  areas.   All  communications  by  mail  should  be  addressed  to  the  Editor,  FL  News- 
letter, 4080  FLB,  Urbana,  IL  61801. 


THE  UNIVERSITY  OP  ILLINOIS  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  NEWSLETTER 

March,  1973  Director:   Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello 

Vol.  XXVI,  No.  3  Editor:   Alice  Lone  Anderson 

STANDING  OVATION  FOR  PROFESSOR  PASQUARIELLO 
Professor  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello  received  a  standing  ovation  after  his  Presidential 
Address  which  he  delivered  at  the  banquet  closing  the  Fifty-fourth  Annual  Meeting  of 
the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  Spanish  and  Portuguese  held  in  New  York  City 
recently.   The  title  of  the  address,  "A  Cause  in  Search  of  Understanding  and  Leader- 
ship:  Bilingual  and  Bicultural  Education,"  is  almost  self-explanatory,  but  a  few 
pre-publication  excerpts  may  offer  some  insight  into  the  urgency  and  scope  of  Prof. 
Pasquariello' s  plea  for  massive  action  in  meeting  the  special  and  unique  educational 
needs  of  children  who  have  limited  English-speaking  ability  and  who  come  from  environ- 
ments other  than  English: 

"The  estimated  Spanish-speaking  population  in  the  United  States  numbers 
more  than  16,000,000.   About  2,000,000  of  their  children  are  studying  in 
our  elementary  schools.   These  are  not  foreigners  in  our  midst,  and 
Spanish  is  no  longer  a  'foreign'  language  in  this  country.   ...  It  is  a 
living  reality  of  the  American  scene  and  we  are  an  important  part  of 
that  reality  as  teachers  and  students  of  Spanish.   The  responsibility 
for  leadership  in  the  area  of  bilingual  teaching  is,  consequently,  thrust 
upon  us  whether  we  like  it  or  not. 

"A  new  chapter  in  American  education  will  be  written  when  we  abandon 
systematically  the  notion  that  Puerto  Ricans,  Cubans,  and  Chicanos  should 
forget  who  they  were,  and  when  we  recognize  and  respect  linguistic  and 
cultural  differences  for  what  they  are,  just  differences — not  aberrations — 
which  will  in  the  short  and  long  run  enrich  the  lives  of  a  multitude  of 
so-called  Americans  in  so  many  communities.   It  is  nice  to  package  every- 
thing neatly  with  fancy  trimmings  but  education  and  the  lives  of  young 
people  cannot  be  packaged  with  an  assembly-line  psychology. 

"There  are  so  many  ethnic  groups  today  in  all  of  the  States  of  this 
large  and  varied  country  which  have  lost  their  identity  in  all  except 
the  name  itself.   However  different  the  atmosphere  and  mood  of  our 
country  may  be  today,  I  still  fear  a  repetition  of  the  same  errors 
which  created  the  false  ideal  of  sameness  among  us.   This  must  not 
happen  and  it  will  not  happen  if  schools  and  community  programs  create 
an  environment  in  which  there  is  respect,  not  scorn,  for  young  people 
who  speak  a  language  which  is  different,  whose  values  are  different, 
whose  economic  status  is  different,  but  who  also  have  an  American  dream, 
an  American  dream  which  does  not  demand  loss  of  identity,  an  American 
dream  which  reinforces  rather  than  erodes  a  sense  of  pride  in  their 
heritage. 

"The  AATSP  has  piloted  many  worthwhile  causes  since  its  inception  more 
than  a  half  century  ago.   I  cannot  recall  any  cause,  however,  which 
will  touch  so  many  people,  and  will  arouse  the  social  conscience  of 
the  United  States  more  than  the  cause  to  which  I  have  addressed  myself 
on  this  occasion.   The  bilingual  and  bicultural  dilemma  may,  in  fact, 
be  the  last  great  cause  we  will  be  called  upon  to  sponsor  in  this  cen- 
tury.  But  let  us  not  wait  for  official  action  from  the  top  to  get  this 
grass-roots  action  started.   Official  proclamations  often  take  a  long 
time  to  compose  and  an  even  longer  time  to  implement.   Let  us  not  wait 


for  the  other  person  to  start  something.   I  am  asking  you,  therefore, 
all  of  you,  to  carry  this  message  home  with  you.   Start  organizing 
colloquiums  now;  get  as  many  people  involved  as  possible  inside  and 
outside  the  profession.  We  need  your  help  and  your  counsel  now. 
Let  us  hear  from  you." 

The  complete  Spanish  version  of  this  address  will  be  published  in  the  March,  1973 
issue  of  Hispania,  the  official  journal  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of 
Spanish  and  Portuguese. 

FESTIVAL  OP  NEW  FRENCH  FILMS 
A  festival  of  new  French  films  will  take  place  in  Urbana  on  May  1-3-   Ten  to  twelve 
1972-73  French- language,  subtitled  major  productions  will  be  shown,  ranging  from 
solid  entertainment  features  to  political  features  and  more  experimental  films. 
Further  details  appear  in  the  French  Notes  section  of  this  number. 

ILLINOIS  TEACHER  TRAINING  WORKSHOP 
The  Office  of  the  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  State  of  Illinois,  has  ex- 
tended an  invitation  to  all  foreign  language  educators  to  attend  the  Workshop  for  the 
Training  of  Teachers  in  Foreign  Language  Education  in  Illinois  for  the  70' s.   This 
workshop  will  be  held  at  the  U.I.,  Champaign- Urbana,  March  30-31,  1973,  and  is 
specially  designed  for  chairmen  of  the  departments  of  Foreign  Languages,  teachers  of 
methods  in  Foreign  Languages,  and  supervisors  of  Foreign  Language  student  teachers. 
The  purpose  of  the  meeting  is  to  coordinate  the  efforts  of  all  foreign  language 
teachers  in  the  colleges  and  universities  recognized  for  approved  programs  for 
teacher  certification  in  Illinois.   There  will  be  several  conferences  and  demonstra- 
tions with  time  allotted  for  discussion.   Included  is  teacher  training,  FLES,  use  of 
films,  and  individualized  instruction.   Preregistration  should  be  completed  at  once 
by  writing  to:   Sister  Marie  Celeste,  Director  of  Foreign  Languages,  Office  of  the 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  Springfield,  IL  62706.  The  registration  fee 
of  $2.00  is  payable  at  the  workshop. 

CENTRAL  STATES  CONFERENCE 
The  theme  of  the  Central  States  Conference  on  the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Languages  is 
"The  Foreign  Language  Teacher:   Present  and  Future  Tense."   The  Conference  will  take 
place  on  April  26-28  at  the  St.  Paul  Hilton  in  St.  Paul,  Minn.   The  keynote  speakers 
will  be  Edward  Allen,  "The  Teacher  as  a  Catalyst:   Motivation  in  the  Classroom"; 
Frank  Grittner,  "The  Teacher  as  a  Co-Learner:   Interest-Centered  Materials";  and 
Helen  Warriner,  "The  Teacher  as  a  Quality  Control:   Program  Options."   Registration 
and  hotel  reservation  information  can  be  obtained  from:   Anthony  Gradisnik,  Milwaukee 
Public  Schools,  P.O.  Drawer  10K,  Milwaukee  Wis.  53201;  (414)  475-8091. 

FORUM  ON  ARTICULATION 
In  an  attempt  to  identify  successful  or  promising  approaches  to  the  problem  of  artic- 
ulation among  high  school,  junior  college,  and  four-year  college  foreign  language 
programs,  the  Association  of  Departments  of  Foreign  Languages  (ADFL)  is  sponsoring  a 
forum  for  teachers  and  administrators  at  all  levels,  as  part  of  the  Central  States 
Conference  on  the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Languages,  April  26-28  at  the  St.  Paul  Hilton. 
Principal  speaker  at  the  Central  States/ADFL  forum  will  be  Dr.  Louise  H.  Allen, 
Chairman  of  the  Division  of  Communications  at  Parkland  College  in  Champaign,  111. 
To  provide  material  for  the  discussion,  individual  teachers  or  departments  that  have 
developed  or  are  in  the  process  of  developing  programs,  conferences,  or  other  solu- 
tions to  the  problems  of  articulation  are  invited  to  report  them  by  letter  or  post- 
card to  the  chairman  of  the  forum,  Mrs.  Rosemary  H.  Thomas,  Dept.  of  French,  Forest 
Park  Community  College,  56OO  Oakland  Ave.,  St.  Louis,  MO  63IIO.   Further  information 
may  be  obtained  from  Mrs.  Thomas  or  from  the  national  office  of  the  ADFL,  c/o  MLA, 
62  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  N.Y.  10011. 

ACTFL 
Membership  in  the  American  Council  on  the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Languages  is  open  to 
all  who  are  interested  in  the  teaching  of  foreign  languages.   Membership  includes 


four  issues  of  Foreign  Language  Annals,  four  issues  of  Accent  on  ACTFL.  invitation 
to  the  Annual  Meeting,  election  of  new  members  to  the  ACTFL  Executive  Council,  and 
professional  information  services.   Annual  dues  are:   Regular  Membership,  $10.00; 
Student  Membership,  $6.00.   Write  to  ACTFL,  62  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York,  N.Y.  10011 

Future  meetings  are  as  follows:   the  1973  ACTFL  Convention  in  Boston  on  Nov.  22- 
25;  in  1974  ACTFL  will  hold  the  Annual  Meeting  in  cooperation  with  the  American 
Association  of  Teachers  of  Spanish  and  Portuguese,  Nov.  28  -  Dec.  1,   197^  at  the 
Denver  Hilton;  and  the  1975  ACTFL  Meeting  will  be  held  in  New  York  City  on  Nov.  27- 
30  at  the  New  York  Hilton,  with  workshops  on  Nov.  24-26. 

U.I.  EARLY  CALENDAR 
The  U.I.  goes  on  the  early  calendar  starting  with  the  Fall  1973  semester.  The  1973 
summer  session  ends  on  Aug.  11;  registration  for  the  fall  term  begins  on  Aug.  22  and 
classes  commence  on  Aug.  27. 

LANGUAGE  BY  RADIO  NEWSLETTER 
A  newsletter  is  now  available  to  those  interested  in  language  by  radio.   The  second 
number  appeared  in  Jan.  1973  and  requested  more  interested  readers  to  be  on  its  mail- 
ing list.   It  is  free  of  charge,  except  for  postage.  To  receive  the  Newsletter,  send 
five  self-addressed  and  stamped  legal  size  envelopes  to:   Alan  Garfinkel,  Dept.  of 
Modern  Languages,  Purdue  Univ.,  West  Lafayette,  Ind.  47907.   International  reply 
coupons  or  loose  foreign  stamps  are  also  acceptable.   News  items,  short  articles, 
information,  opinions  and  most  anything  else  readers  may  care  to  send  for  inclusion 
in  the  newsletter  will  be  welcomed. 

COLLOQUIUM  FOR  LANGUAGE  PEDAGOGY 
The  Unit  for  Foreign  Language  Study  and  Research  has  announced  the  founding  of  the 
Colloquium  for  Language  Pedagogy,  under  the  chairmanship  of  James  W.  Marchand. 
Activities  of  the  Colloquium  will  be  coordinated  by  the  Unit  for  Foreign  Language 
Study  and  Research. 

The  Colloquium  was  inaugurated  on  Nov.  21  with  a  panel  discussion  on  the  Use  of 
PLATO  in  Language  Teaching.   Each  of  the  panelists  presented  some  of  the  results  of 
his  own  research  in  the  use  of  PLATO.   The  session  was  intended  to  inform  people 
interested  in  languages  and  language  teaching  of  the  capabilities  and  limitations  of 
PLATO.   A  second  panel  discussion  on  the  Teaching  of  Culture  and  Civilization  took 
place  on  Feb.  20. 

THE  CASE  FOR  FOREIGN  LANGUAGES 
In  the  Joint  National  Committee  for  Languages  set  up  by  the  various  AAT's  and  ACTFL 
last  September,  Illinois  was  one  of  the  four  states  chosen  for  special  experimenta- 
tion in  bringing  the  case  for  foreign  languages  before  the  public.   (See  German 
Quarterly.  Sept.  72,  p.  1;  Fr.  Review.  Oct.  72,  p.  97;  Hispania.  Oct.  72.1   Other 
states  chosen  were  Pennsylvania,  Connecticut,  and  Texas.   The  sub-committee  formed 
to  supervise  this  activity  consists  of  Edward  Scebold,  Executive  Secretary  of  ACTFL, 
F.  W.  Nachtmann,  U.I.,  Executive  Secretary  of  AATF,  and  Prof.  William  Harvey  of 
Commerce,  Texas.   The  intention  is  to  use  the  existing  structure  of  the  AAT  chapters, 
particularly  as  they  cooperate  through  the  state  foreign  language  association,  to 
communicate  with  the  public  through  the  media,  through  the  community  service  clubs, 
the  PTA's,  and  all  other  appropriate  groups.   Also,  it  is  recognized  that  high  school 
administrators  and  counselors  need  to  be  educated  to  the  value  of  foreign  language 
study,  and  so  it  is  hoped  to  bring  the  message  to  them  by  offering  first- rate  speak- 
ers and  panel  discussion  to  their  local  meetings.   Simultaneously  the  Joint  Committee 
expects  to  help  upgrade  language  teaching  by  assisting  with  teacher  training  and 
facilitating  placement  of  foreign  language  teachers.   Foreign  language  teachers  in 
Illinois  and  in  the  other  states  mentioned  who  would  like  to  participate  actively  in 
this  program  are  invited  to  make  contact  with  one  of  the  three  committee  members  men- 
tioned above  or  with  the  president  of  their  state  language  association.   In  Illinois 
the  President  of  the  IFLTA  is  Prof.  James  McKinney,  Western  111.  Univ.,  Macomb. 


SUMMER  LEARNING  OPPORTUNITIES 
Middlebury  College  (Vermont),  long  known  for  its  programs  in  advanced  language  study, 
will  offer  beginning  instruction  in  five  Western  foreign  languages  for  the  first 
time  next  summer.  Students  attending  the  intensive  seven-week  session  at  the  Vermont 
liberal  arts  college  may  study  French,  German,  Italian,  Russian  or  Spanish  in  the  nev* 
program.   Beginning  Portuguese  is  also  available  to  those  who  already  have  a  command 
of  Spanish.  Students  should  be  able  to  make  progress  equal  to  that  gained  through 
two  normal  year-long  college  courses. 

Eastern  Wash.  State  College  (Cheney)  offers  a  three-week  total  immersion  pro- 
gram for  foreign  language  teachers  from  June  18  to  July  6.  This  intensive  program 
offers  a  live-in  situation  in  language  dormitories  on  the  campus.   The  daily  weekday 
schedule  includes  regular  sessions  on  cultural  components  (sports,  eating  habits, 
social  graces,  fashions,  industry,  mass  media,  politics,  etc.),  geography  and  its 
impact  on  culture,  extracurricular  motivational  techniques,  conversation  and  oral 
drill,  phonetics  and  diction,  recreational  methods,  and  evening  social  activities. 

June  18-29  in  Seattle  are  the  dates  and  location  of  the  Second  Annual  Institute 
on  Individualizing  Foreign  Language  Instruction,  jointly  sponsored  by  the  Univ.  of 
Wash,  and  the  Bellevue  (WA)  Public  Schools.  Entitled  "Implementing  Individualized 
Instruction:  Strategies  for  Foreign  Language  Leaders,"  the  Institute  is  designed 
for  high  school  and  college  department  heads,  local  and  state  foreign  language  super- 
visors, teacher  trainers,  curriculum  developers,  consultants,  and  others  in  leader- 
ship positions  locally,  regionally,  or  nationally. 

The  School  of  Education  and  the  Office  of  Summer  Studies  of  Indiana  Univ.,  in 
cooperation  with  the  Office  of  the  Coordinator  for  School  Foreign  Languages,  announce 
an  intensive  summer  workshop  for  teachers  of  French,  German,  Latin,  and  Spanish. 
Dated  June  25-July  12  and  entitled  "Teaching  Culture:   An  Option  to  Individualized 
Instruction,"  the  workshop  will  offer  three  graduate  or  undergraduate  credits.   Its 
purpose  will  be  to  help  participants  become  more  familiar  with  the  foreign  culture 
as  well  as  help  prepare  cultural  materials  for  classroom  use.  Special  attention  will 
be  paid  to  the  use  of  individualized  instruction  as  a  vehicle  for  the  teaching  of 
culture.   Further  information  may  be  obtained  by  writing  Robert  C.  Lafayette,  Sec- 
ondary Education,  School  of  Education,  Ind.  Univ.,  Bloomington,  Ind.  ^7^01. 

Each  year,  for  six  weeks  of  the  summer,  Augustana  College  in  Rock  Island,  111., 
offers  to  college  students  in  the  U.S.  and  Canada  an  opportunity  to  study  in  Spain. 
In  addition  to  study  lead  by  native  Spanish  professors,  group  tours  are  scheduled  to 
places  of  cultural  and  historical  interest.   For  more  information,  contact  Dr.  A. 
Doreste,  Augustana  College,  Rock  Island,  IL  61201. 

The  historic  city  of  Soria,  Spain,  will  be  the  site  of  a  nine-week  study  travel 
program  for  high  school  students  next  summer.   The  program  is  being  offered  by  the 
Univ.  of  Northern  la.  extension  service  and  the  department  of  teaching.   High  school 
juniors  and  seniors  who  have  successfully  completed  at  least  two  years  of  high 
school  Spanish  may  apply.  Enrollment  is  limited  to  25  students.   For  more  informa- 
tion, write  to:   James  Price,  UNI  High  School  Students  Abroad:   Spanish-1973, 
Malcolm  Price  Laboratory  School,  Cedar  Falls,  IA  50613. 

THE  CLASSICS  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  H.  Michael  Dunn 

ILLINOIS  CLASSICAL  CONFERENCE 
The  department  was  well  represented  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  ICC  held  in  Chicago 
on  Feb.  8-10.  Profs.  Allen  and  Newman  delivered  papers;  Profs.  Dunn  and  Scanlan  are 
on  the  Executive  Board  as  Chairman  of  Public  Relations  and  President-elect,  respec- 
tively.  Prof.  Scanlan  also  attended  a  meeting  of  the  ACTFL  Executive  Council  in  New 
York.   The  Council  established  the  theme  and  format  for  this  year's  meeting,  which 
will  be  held  on  Nov.  22-25  in  Boston. 


ARCHAEOLOGICAL  INSTITUTE  OF  AMERICA 
The  U.I.  Dept.  of  History  and  the  Central  Illinois  Society  of  AIA  jointly  sponsored 
the  Norton  Lecture  "The  Destruction  of  Crete  ca.  1^50  B.C."   Prof.  Sinclair  Hood  of 
Oxford  Univ.  presented  the  lecture  on  Feb.  26. 

HUMANITIES 
Mr.  Andrew  Horton's  translations  of  poems  by  Yannis  Ritsos,  the  modern  Greek  poet, 
will  appear  in  the  spring  issue  of  the  Minnesota  Review. 

RELIGIOUS  STUDIES 
Prof.  Schoedel  has  been  invited  to  appear  in  a  program  entitled  "Wisdom  in  an  Age  of 
Anxiety,"  held  at  the  Univ.  of  Notre  Dame  this  spring.   His  presentation  on  March  3 
was  entitled  "Jewish  Wisdom  and  the  Formation  of  the  Christian  Ascetic." 

HONORED 
Prof.  Miroslav  Marcovich  has  been  initiated  into  the  Phi  Kappa  Phi  honor  society, 
111.  Chapter.   Prof.  Marcovich  has  also  been  appointed  to  a  seven-man  Advisory  Com- 
mittee on  the  Thesaurus  Linguae  Graecae  by  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  American 
Philological  Association. 

Prof.  Daniel  Taylor  has  been  appointed  to  the  advisory  board  of  Historiographia 
Linguistica.  the  new  international  journal  for  the  history  of  linguistics.   Prof. 
Taylor  has  also  been  appointed  a  summer  fellow  for  1973. 

OTHER  FACULTY  ACTIVITIES 
Prof.  Marcovich  has  been  invited  to  present  a  paper  on  the  poems  of  Franciscus 
Natalis  for  reading  at  the  Second  International  Congress  of  Neo-Latin  Studies  to  be 
held  in  Amsterdam  in  1973*   He  is  presently  working  on  two  major  contributions  for 
the  Pauly-Wossowa  RE  on  Empedocles  and  Anaxagoras. 

Prof.  Taylor  will  read  a  paper  "Verbs  of  'fearing'  in  Greek  and  Latin"  at  the 
Kentucky  Foreign  Language  Conference  in  April.   His  article  "Mures,  immo  homines — 
Rationalism  in  Language  Learning"  will  appear  in  the  fall  edition  of  Classical 
Outlook 

A  book  entitled  Changing  Patterns  in  FL  Programs  and  edited  by  Profs.  Rivers, 
Savignon,  and  Scanlan  of  the  U.I.  and  L.  H.  Allen  of  Parkland  College,  Champaign, 
has  recently  been  published  by  Newbury  House.   The  book  deals  with  teaching  of 
foreign  languages  in  junior  and  community  colleges. 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Barbara  Smalley 

MEETINGS 
Prof.  Francois  Jost  is  back  on  campus  this  spring  semester  after  a  sabbatical  leave 
for  the  first  semester.   Since  last  June  he  delivered  a  paper  at  the  Congress  of 
FILLM  in  Cambridge,  England,  and  lectured  at  the  Univ.  of  Mainz  and  also  at  Tubingen, 
Zurich,  and  Lausanne.   He  participated  in  the  meeting  of  the  German  Comparative  Lit- 
erature Association  in  Regensburg  in  July  1972,  and  also  in  the  meeting  of  the  French 
Comparative  Literature  Association  which  was  held  in  Strasbourg  in  October  1972. 

Prof.  Herbert  Knust  attended  the  MLA  convention  in  New  York  in  Dec.  and  partic- 
ipated in  the  Brecht  Seminar.   On  Feb.  21  he  delivered  a  lecture  at  the  Univ.  of 
Southern  Calif.   During  March  9-10  Prof.  Knust  will  chair  a  section  on  German  Theater 
and  also  deliver  a  paper  in  the  film  section  at  the  Univ.  of  Louisville  Conference 
on  Twentieth-Century  Literature. 

Prof.  A.  Owen  Aldridge  also  attended  the  annual  MLA  meetings  in  Dec.  and  while 
there  attended  meetings  of  Editors  of  Learned  Journals,  the  ACLA  Advisory  Board,  and 
the  Nominating  Committee  of  American  Literature  I. 

In  Jan.  Prof.  Aldridge  gave  a  lecture  at  the  Univ.  of  Tubingen,  Germany,  upon 
"Primitive  Themes  in  Eighteenth-Century  Literature." 


PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  A.  Owen  Aldridge  recently  published  "The  State  of  Nature:   an  Undiscovered 
Country  in  the  History  of  Ideas,"  in  Studies  in  Voltaire  and  the  Eighteenth  Century. 
Vol.  XCVIII,  7-26;  and  also  "Fenimore  Cooper  and  the  Picaresque  Tradition,"  in 
Nineteenth  Century  Fiction  (Dec.  1972),  Vol.  27  (No.  3),  283-29?. 

Prof.  Jost's  article,  "Li  tte"rature  corapare'e  et  litte'rature  universelle"  appeared 
this  fall  in  the  Danish  Comparative  Literature  Journal,  Orbis  Litterarum  (1972), 
XXVII,  13-27. 

FRENCH  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel 

FESTIVAL  OF  NEW  FRENCH  FILMS 
Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel,  as  Chairman  of  the  U.I.'s  Committee  on  Cinema  Studies,  and  as 
Prof,  of  French,  has  been  involved  in  lengthy  negotiations  with  the  U.I.  and  the 
French  Cultural  Services  of  New  York,  in  order  to  organize  a  Festival  of  New  French 
Films  in  LJrbana.   As  of  this  writing,  the  Festival  is  a  certainty  (except  for  trivia 
such  as  funds)  and  will  take  place  on  May  1,  2,  and  3,  1973.   It  is  possible  that  it 
may  even  start  a  day  earlier  (in  the  evening  of  April  30)  and  finish  as  late  as  the 
afternoon  of  May  4.   Ten  to  twelve  brand  new,  French-language,  subtitled,  unreleased 
(in  the  U.S.)  major  productions  of  1972-73  will  be  shown,  films  ranging  from  the 
solid  commercial-type  entertainment  feature  (dramas,  comedies,  etc.)  to  political 
features  and  more  experimental  films.   Some  three  or  four  film-makers  (perhaps  more) 
and/or  critics  from  France  will  accompany  the  films,  introduce  them,  discuss  them, 
and  be  available  for  classes  and  meetings.   This  is  a  major  cultural  event  which 
should  be  attended  by  any  cunephile  or  francophile  within  driving  distance.   The 
films  will  be  free  (most  probably)  or  there  may  be  a  very  low  charge  made.   The  de- 
tailed schedule  is  still  being  worked  on:   it  looks  as  though — depending  on  whether 
this  event  runs  3  or  4  or  5  days — there  will  be  3  to  4  features  shown  each  day, 
afternoon  and  evening,  at  the  U.I.  Auditorium.   All  films  are  brand  new  prints  in 
35mm.  As  we  are  short  of  help  and  my  phone  is  always  busy,  if  you  want  details, 
please  send  me  a  note  exactly  as  follows:   Prof.  E.  Jahiel,  French  Film  Festival, 
French  Dept.,  Univ.  of  111.,  Urbana,  IL  61801,  and  enclose  a  self-addressed,  stamped 
envelope.   You  will  hear  from  me  as  fast  as  the  program  is  finalized — which  may  be 
quite  late  in  April — but  you  can  keep  the  above  information  and  dates  in  mind  to  plan 
your  visit.  (Please  see  related  item  on  German  Film  Festival  in  German  Notes  below.) 

FRENCH  EXCHANGE  STUDENTS 
We  have  several  visiting  French  exchange  students  who  would  be  happy  to  visit  an 
American  high  school  and  talk  with  the  students.   Please  contact  Prof.  W.  Rivers. 

PEACE  CORPS 
At  a  recent  Pause-Cafe"  Miss  Le"ontine  Paul-Emile  showed  some  slides  on  the  Ivory 
Coast.   During  her  commentary,  she  mentioned  that  the  Peace  Corps  is  looking  for 
people  who  are  proficient  in  French  to  work  in  French-speaking  African  countries. 
At  present,  there  are  programs  in  the  following  fields:   teaching  (TESL  mainly), 
agriculture,  construction,  health.   Also,  teachers  in  the  Peace  Corps  have  the  ot>- 
tion  of  combining  their  work  experience  with  a  special  studies  program  leading  to 
the  M.A.  degree. 

AATF 
The  Executive  Council  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  French  convened  in 
extraordinary  session  on  the  Urbana  campus  on  March  2-k,    to  take  up  matters  which 
pressures  prevented  from  being  discussed  at  the  annual  convention,   flany  dis- 
tinguished scholars  are  members  of  the  council,  including  Pres.  D.W.  Alden  (iJniv.  of 
Va.),  Former  Pres.  Henry  Owens  (E.  Mich.  Univ.),  and  Executive  Secretary  Prof.  F.  W. 
Nachtmann  (U.I .  )  . 


MOLIERE  SUMMER  AT  URBANA 
The  U.I.  at  Urbana  will  offer  a  Summer  Session  program  of  particular  interest  to  stu- 
dents and  teachers  of  French.   1973  being  the  Moliere  Tricentenary,  the  theme  of 
Moliere  and  the  comic  will  be  emphasized. 

At  the  same  time,  a  choice  of  French  language  and  civilization  courses  will  be 
available  for  advanced  students  and  teachers  wishing  to  refresh  or  update  their  lin- 
guistic skills,  methodology,  or  knowledge  of  contemporary  France. 

Prof.  Gabriel  Savignon  will  give  attention  to  crucial  questions  of  today's 
France  in  French  336 — French  Civilization,  II;  he  will  also  teach  his  course  in 
"Stylistics. "   Prof.  Fernand  Marty,  in  his  first  year  with  us  after  teaching  prin- 
cipally at  Hollins  College  and  Middlebury,  will  give  "Linguistics  Applied  to  the 
Teaching  of  French";  Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel  will  offer  his  ever  updated  "Language  Lab- 
oratory Techniques"  with  full  attention  to  visuals  (film,  photography,  video-tape) 
as  well  as  the  latest  audio.   For  students  more  concerned  with  increasing  their  flu- 
ency in  the  spoken  language,  Mme .  Ana  Marfa  Sagi  will  teach  French  212-oral  French. 

To  honor  Moliere  in  this  tricentenary  observance,  the  theme  of  Moliere  and  the 
comic  will  be  approached  from  different  viewpoints  in  our  literary  offerings  and 
other  activities.   Prof.  Robert  J.  Nelson  will  give  a  course  in  "Transformations  of 
the  Comic — Moliere,  Marivaux,  Musset,  Ionesco."   Prof.  Francis  Nachtmann  will  give  a 
theater  workshop  course  to  include  the  study  and  practice  of  several  Moliere  works, 
with  short  productions  and  play-readings,  and  a  full-scale  production  of  one  of  the 
major  comedies.   Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel  in  his  course  on  the  French  cinema  will  include 
Moliere  and  the  comic  both  in  his  course  films  and  in  his  extracurricular  film  show- 
ings, which  together  will  afford  the  opportunity  to  see  several  French  films  weekly. 

For  those  looking  ahead  to  the  two-hundredth  birthday  of  the  U.S.,  when  the 
close  American  relationship  with  eighteenth-century  France  will  be  brought  to  the 
fore  (and  for  those  who  simply  want  to  study  Rousseau)  Prof.  Francois  Jost  will  offer 
the  seminar,  "J.  J.  Rousseau  and  his  time." 

Finally  the  opportunity  for  independent  study  for  credit  with  all  of  the  pro- 
fessors named  above  is  available,  and  with  Stanley  Shinall  (French  teacher  education), 
Pierre  tfeisz  (modern  French  novel),  Bruce  Mainous  (French  civilization).   For  stu- 
dents still  at  the  language  acquisition  stage,  the  usual  elementary  and  intermediate 
courses  will  be  given,  with  the  exception  of  French  102  (second  semester). 

For  more  information,  write  to  B.  H.  Mainous,  Head,  Dept.  of  French,  2090 
Foreign  Lang.  Bldg.,  U.I.,  Urbana,  IL  61801. 

STAFF  NEWS 
After  five  years  of  loyal  and  efficient  service  as  Executive  Secretary  of  the  French 
Dept.,  Prof.  Stanley  Shinall  has  resigned  in  order  to  pursue  more  Dersonal  teaching 
and  research.   We  thank  him  most  sincerely  and  wish  him  well  in  his  new  endeavors. 

We  also  congratulate  Prof.  Brigitte  banner  on  being  awarded  a  Summer  Fellowship 
for  1973,  to  work  on  themes  and  techniques  in  the  poetry  of  Rene"  Char. 

The  U.I.  Alumni  News  for  Feb.  1973  carries  a  full  and  interesting  article  on 
Prof.  Emeritus  Henry  Kahane  and  Dr.  Rene*e  Kahane .   Highly  recommended  reading. 

Prof.  Robert  J.  Nelson  will  be  lecturing  at  various  Midwest  universities  this 
semester:   on  Feb.  22  he  spoke  at  the  Univ.  of  Kansas  on  "Search  or  Research:   Con- 
temporary Problems  in  Graduate  Education  in  Foreign  Languages  and  Literatures";  on 
March  22,  he  will  lecture  at  the  Univ.  of  la.  in  a  special  program  on  the  Moliere 
Tri-Centenary,  on  "Moliere's  School  for  Wives,  O'Neill's  Desire  Under  the  Elms, 
Edward  Albee's  The  American  Dream:   Love  Postponed";  on  April  27,  he  will  read  a 
paper  at  the  Kentucky  Conference  on  "Beckett  and  Pascal:   Orders  and  Disorders." 
Prof.  Nelson's  paper  at  the  fall  meeting  of  the  MMLA,  "Foreign-Language  Study:  Bride 
or  Bridesmaid"  appears  in  the  March  1973  ADFL  Bulletin  and  his  review  article, 
"Accounts  of  Mutual  Acquaintances  to  a  Group  of  Friends:   The  Fiction  of  John 
Williams"  appears  in  the  March  1973  Denver  Quarterly. 

At  the  Nov.  ACTFL  Meeting  in  Atlanta,  Prof.  Wilga  Rivers  read  a  paoer:   "From 
linguistic  Competence  to  Communicative  Competence." 

Prof.  Pierre  ^eisz  read  a  paper  at  the  last  MLA's  section  on  17th  Cent.  Lit.  on 
"La  Princesse  de  Cleves:   l'envers  de  la  trage"die?" 


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The  Dec.  1972  meeting  of  the  Journal  Club  had  as  Its  topic  "La  Revolte  Linguis- 
tique,"  with  participation  by  the  audience  and  the  special  help  of  Prof.  Bernard, 
U.I.  Dept.  of  History,  and  Prof.  Velan. 

On  Jan.  10  Prof.  Barbara  Bowen  spoke  to  the  Gutenberg  Galaxy  (a  group  of  biblio- 
philes) on  her  collection  of  early  editions  of  P.  G.  Wodehouse. 

Showings  have  been  made  of  excellent  cultural  French  films  (of  a  refined, 
TV-essay  and  -news  type)  in  conjunction  with  all  Oral  French  Sections  as  well  as  some 
literature,  civilization,  etc.  courses.   A  report  will  be  made  in  the  Newsletter, 
probably  next  fall,  after  usage  and  evaluation. 

PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Wilga  M.  Rivers  has  published  Speaking  in  Many  Tongues :   Essays  in  Foreign- 
language  Teaching.  148  pp.;  and  Profs,  tfilga  M.  Rivers,  Louise  H.  Allen,  Sandra  J. 
Savignon,  and  Richard  T.  Scanlan,  eds.,  Changing  Patterns  in  Foreign  Language  Pro- 
grams .  Report  of  the  Illinois  Conference  on  Foreign  Languages  in  Junior  and  Commu- 
nity Colleges.  341  PP.   In  this  volume,  as  well  as  contributions  from  each  of  the  co- 
editors,  were  articles  by  Gabriel  Savignon,  Glenda  Brown,  Paul  Griffith  ( two  articles), 
Bernice  Melvin,  Paulette  Pelc,  and  Samia  Spencer  of  the  French  Dept.,  Richard  Figge 
and  James  McGlathery  of  the  German  Dept.,  and  Mary  Hussey  (ESL). 

Prof.  Sandra  J.  Savignon  has  published  "Teaching  for  Communicative  Competence: 
A  Research  Report,"  The  Audio-Visual  Language  Journal .  X,  iii  (Winter,  1972)  ;  and 
"A  l'Ecoute  de  France-Inter:   The  Use  of  Radio  in  a  Student-Centered  Oral  Franch 
Class,"  French  Review,  XLVI,  ii  (Dec.  1972). 

GERMANIC  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  David  Chisholm 

AUSTRIA-ILLINOIS  EXCHANGE  PROGRAM 
Ten  students  selected  for  the  Teaching  Program  in  Austria  will  be  making  preparations 
this  spring  for  their  assignments  for  1973-74.   They  will  teach  English  on  the  junior 
high  school  level  in  towns  in  Lower  Austria.  Twenty  undergraduate  students  have  beer 
selected  to  participate  in  next  year's  Study  Program  in  Austria.   In  Feb.  applicants 
from  the  Urbana  campus  had  an  opportunity  to  meet  with  Prof.  Rudolf  Schier,  Program 
Director  in  Baden, during  his  visit  here.   When  he  returns  to  Austria,  Prof.  Schier 
will  make  the  final  selection  of  those  students  and  teachers  who  will  join  us  in 
Urbana  next  year. 

STUDENT  ENROLLMENT  AND  BUDGETARY  RESTRICTIONS 
Spring  1973  enrollments  have  increased  considerably  at  both  the  200-  and  400-levels. 
Eighty-nine  students  are  now  enrolled  in  German  211-12,  as  compared  with  63  students 
in  Spring  1972.  Similarly,  enrollment  in  German  250-99  has  increased  from  60  to  83 
students.  This  represents  an  increase  in  the  number  of  German  majors.  Enrollment 
in  400-level  courses  shows  a  gain  of  32  students  over  last  Spring.   A  similar  trend 
appears  in  the  102-  and  103-level  courses:   enrollment  at  the  102-level  is  now  379 
students,  an  increase  of  27#.  This  notable  change  is  primarily  due  to  interest  in 
the  Reading  Track  (German  122-24)  which  introduces  students  to  outstanding  examples 
of  scientific,  Dhilosophical  and  historical  prose,  and  encourages  them  to  develop 
independent  reading  habits.  The  proportion  of  100- level  students  in  the  Reading 
Tract  has  increased  from  17#  in  Spring  1972  to  263  in  Spring  1973. 

Due  to  lack  of  adequate  funds,  the  German  DeDt.  was  forced  to  droo  both  an 
undergraduate  and  a  graduate  course  in  spite  of  enrollment  figures  above  the  limit 
at  which  a  course  is  normally  dropped. 

GERMAN  FILM  FESTIVAL 
Prof.  Richard  Figge  of  the  German  Dept.  and  Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel  of  the  French  Dept., 
who  are  co-teaching  again  a  course  (German  392)  on  the  German  Film,  are  planning 
a  Festival  of  the  New  (or  "Young")  German  Cinema  sometime  this  spring,  with  the 
cooperation  of  the  BRD's  Cultural  Services.   The  Festival  would  include  several  re- 
cent features  of  the  "New  Wave"  Renaissance  of  German  Cinema,  such  as  Abschled  von 


gestern.  Tatowierung,  Es,  Fata  Morgana,  Wie  Ich  eln  Neger  wurde.  Lenz.  etc.,  that  is, 
top-notch  films  which  were  included  in  major  film  festivals.   Please  note  again: 
this  is  a  plan  and  not  a  certainty;  dates  and  titles  are  yet  uncertain;  and  schedul- 
ing may  have  to  be  spread  over  several  weeks  rather  than  in  one  compact  package. 
There  will  probably  be  no  time  to  announce  this  again  in  this  Newsletter;  therefore, 
please,  if  interested,  send  a  letter  addressed  precisely  as  follows  to:   Prof.  R. 
Figge,  German  Film  Festival,  German  Dept.,  U.I.,  Urbana,  IL  61801,  and  enclose  a 
self-addressed,  stamped  envelope.   You  will  be  notified  of  the  program  as  soon  as  it 
materializes.   (Related  item  also  appears  in  French  Notes.) 

THE  LANGUAGE  LABORATORY 
A  unique  feature  of  the  language  laboratory  much  appreciated  by  students  is  the  2k- 
hour  telephone  service  which  enables  the  user  to  gain  access  to  instructional  tapes 
by  telephone  at  any  time  of  day  or  night.   The  German  Dept.  uses  the  language  lab- 
oratory not  only  for  language-learning  exercises,  but  also  as  an  aid  in  introducing 
students  to  German  literature;  in  German  10^,  for  example,  students  become  acquainted 
with  masterpieces  of  German  lyric  poetry  by  listening  to  interpretations  of  poems. 

GERMAN  CLUB 
On  Feb.  15  the  German  Club  held  a  "Generalversammlung"  to  discuss  plans  for  the 
Spring  Semester.   Students  showed  great  interest  in  Thurs. -night  gatherings  at  the 
German  House  and  expressed  a  desire  to  hear  talks  on  the  contemporary  political 
scene  as  viewed  from  Central  Europe.   The  following  events  have  been  scheduled: 
Feb.  22 — Film  The  Last  Ten  Days ;   March  2 — Fasching  Celebration;   March  22 — Film 
Paarungen;   April  26— Film  Good  Soldier  Schweik;   May  2*4- — Film  Berlin  Alexanderplatz ; 
End  of  May — Picnic. 

FflUCHTBRINGENDE  GESELLSCHAFT 
On  March  1  Prof.  John  Howard  read  a  paper  before  the  Fruchtbringende  Gesellschaft 
entitled  "Hebrew  German:  Early  Yiddish  Literature." 

AATG  SPRING  MEETING 
The  Southern  111.  Chapter  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  German  will  hold 
its  Spring  Meeting  on  Sat.,  May  5  at  Belleville  High  School  West  at  Belleville,  111. 
A  varied  program  is  expected  to  draw  together  a  sizable  group  of  college  and  high 
school  teachers  of  German.   During  the  business  meeting  the  group  will  elect  officers 
for  1973-75*   Please  plan  to  be  there.   Further  details  will  be  announced. 

ACTIVITIES  OF  THE  FACULTY 
Prof.  Richard  Figge  is  the  author  of  an  article  entitled  "Beginning  German:   Rethink- 
ing the  Problems,"  which  appears  in  Changing  Patterns  in  Foreign  Language  Programs , 
published  by  Newbury  House  Publishers. 

Prof.  Irmengard  Rauch's  review  of  Bernhard  Sowinski's  Grundlagen  des  Studiums 
der  Germanistik.  Vol.  I:   Sprachwissenschaft  appears  in  the  German  Quarterly  ^5 
TNov.  1972),  pp.  78*4-787. 

Prof.  Marianne  Burkhard  will  chair  a  German  section  of  the  Kentucky  Foreign 
Language  Conference  in  Lexington,  Kentucky,  April  26-28. 

SUMMER  FACULTY  FELLOWSHIPS 
Prof.  Vincent  Dell'Orto  has  received  an  award  for  a  study  on  German  Travel  Literature 
from  1770-1830. 

Prof.  Roland  Folter  received  an  award  to  work  on  a  bibliography  of  catalogues 
of  the  libraries  of  German  writiers  and  scholars. 

Prof.  Lathrop  Johnson  is  the  recipient  of  an  award  to  carry  out  a  systematic  re- 
assessment of  language  levels  in  the  poetry  of  the  German  gallant  period  (1695-1720). 


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SLAVIC  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Elliot  Cohen 

ON  SABBATICAL  THIS  SEMESTER 
On  sabbatical  this  semester  are  Chairman  of  the  Dept.,  Prof.  Clayton  Dawson,  who  will 
be  spending  the  spring  in  Vienna;  and  Prof.  Kurt  Klein  who  will  be  in  Innsbruck. 
Both  are  expected  to  return  around  Aug.  15.   If  necessary  they  can  be  contacted 
through  the  Slavic  Dept. 

ACTING  CHAIRMAN 
Acting  Chairman  of  the  Dept.  this  semester  is  Prof.  Rasio  Dunatov.   He  can  be  reached 
at  3092  Foreign  Lang.  Bldg.,  Urbana,  IL  61801  or  at  (217)  333-0680. 

VISITING  PROFESSOR  FROM  TEHERAN 
Visiting  Professor  from  Teheran  is  Prof.  Mehry  Ahy  who  is  the  head  of  the  Russian 
Dept.  in  Teheran  and  who  has  translated  several  works  of  Russian  literature  into 
Persian.   She  is  offering  one  course  in  the  Dept.  and  is  available  to  speak  with 
students  and  faculty. 

FACULTY  ACHIEVEMENT —THE  GRADUATE  HANDBOOK 
After  a  grueling  series  of  meetings  the  departmental  faculty  has  succeeded  in  revis- 
ing, editing,  and  compiling  a  new  handbook  for  graduate  students  listing  rules,  pro- 
cedures, and  relevant  information  pertaining  to  graduate  study  in  our  department. 
Copies  of  our  "new  bible"  are  available  in  the  Slavic  Office. 

FACULTY  NOTES 
New  Assoc.  Editor  of  the  Slavic  and  East  European  Journal  (edited  at  the  U.I.  by  Prof. 
Frank  Y.  Gladney)  is  Kenneth  Brostrom. 

Paper  on  Dostoevsky  and  the  Grotesque  written  by  Prof.  Pachmuss  was  read  at  the 
New  York  AATSEEL  conference.   Dunatov  chaired  the  Slavic  linguistics  section  at  the 
same  meeting. 

ALUMNI  NOTE 
An  authentic  Russian  evening  at  Bates  College  took  place  under  the  sponsorship  of  U. 
I.  grad  James  H.  Price.   A  dinner  featuring  an  all-Russian  menu  was  served  and  the 
singing  of  Russian  folk  songs  and  folk  dances  highlighted  the  evening.   (No  word  has 
been  received  about  Russian  beverages.) 

ENROLLMENT  FIGURES 
Enrollment  figures,  like  a  breeze  from  the  steppe,  are  reviving.   Enrollment  in 
Russian  101  in  both  fall  and  spring  semesters  was  almost  double  that  of  the  corres- 
ponding semesters  for  1971-72. 

GRADUATE  STUDENT  PUBLICATION 
Congratulations  to  Marie  Geis  on  the  appearance  of  her  review  of  a  translation  of  the 
Symbolist  novel  Kotik  Letaev  by  Belyj. 

SPANISH,  ITALIAN  AND  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  --  by  Alice  L.  Anderson 

CONFERENCE  ON  ITALIAN  LANGUAGE  AND  LITERATURE 
The  Eighth  Triennial  Congress  of  the  International  Association  for  the  Study  of 
Italian  Language  and  Literature  will  take  place  on  April  25-28,  1973  in  New  York  Citj 
at  New  York  Univ.  The  themes  of  the  panel  discussions  will  center  on  the  distinctive 
contributions  of  Italian  literature,  aesthetics,  and  linguistics  in  the  mid- twentieth 
century.  This  new  theme  is  in  contrast  to  the  former  emphasis  on  traditional  Italian 
authors. 

For  more  information,  write  to:   The  Administrative  Center  for  the  VIII  AISLLI 
Congress,  701  Main  Building,  New  York  University,  New  York,  N.Y.  10003. 


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BILINGUAL  TEACHER  AIDE  PROGRAM 
This  fall  a  new  education  program  for  teacher  aides  was  instituted  at  Sauk  Valley 
College  in  Dixon,  IL.   The  purpose  of  the  program  is  to  provide  students  with  a 
specialized  vocational  skill.   This  will  qualify  them  for  employment  in  the  elemen- 
tary schools  in  a  community  where  a  number  of  Spanish-speaking  children  are  enrolled. 
The  bilingual  teacher  aides  presently  enrolled  are  working  at  Wallace  School,  Sterling 
Illinois  in  the  Teacher  Aide  Practicum.   The  population  of  Mexican  surname  families 
in  Sterling  amounts  to  15$  of  the  entire  population.   A  corresponding  percentage  of 
children  are  entering  the  lower  grades,  unable  to  understand  the  procedures  and  in- 
struction in  an  English-speaking  learning  experience.   There  the  talents  and  assist- 
ance of  the  bilingual  teacher  aide  may  be  utilized  to  help  solve  the  communication 
barrier  presented  by  language  difference. 

To  the  core  courses  outlined  in  the  Human  Services  Curriculum,  the  Bilingual 
Aide  Program  adds  courses  which  will  assure  the  student's  proficiency  in  Spanish, 
where  both  conversational  and  reading  skills  are  emphasized.   A  knowledge  of  the  cul- 
ture of  their  ancestors'  country  is  also  incorporated  in  the  course  and  courses  aim- 
ing toward  the  mastery  of  English  communication  and  reading  ability  are  included. 
For  further  information,  contact  Mrs.  Kathryn  Lillyman  or  Noel  Adams  at  the  College. 

SUMMER  IN  LATIN  AMERICA 
Sangamon  State  Univ.  in  Springfield,  IL,  with  the  Latin  American  Studies  Dept.,  is 
sponsoring  a  summer  in  Latin  America.   Students  will  register  at  Sangamon  State  for 
classes;  after  the  intensive  classes  are  completed,  students  will  depart  for  Peru. 
The  group  will  tour  various  Latin  American  countries  and  complete  the  tour  in 
Ecuador.   Various  classes  will  also  be  given  during  the  tour. 

For  further  information,  please  contact  the  Latin  American  Studies  Dept., 
Sangamon  State  Univ.,  Springfield,  IL  62?03. 

THIRD  SYMPOSIUM  ON  ROMANCE  LANGUAGES 
The  Third  Annual  Linguistic  Symposium  on  Romance  Languages  will  be  held  at  Indiana 
Univ.  (Bloomington)  on  March  29-31*   This  Symposium  continues  the  tradition  begun 
at  the  Univ.  of  Fla.  in  Feb.,  1971,  and  continued  by  the  Conference  on  Diachronic 
Romance  Linguistics  at  the  U.I.,  in  April  1972.   The  subject  matter  of  the  Symposium 
is  limited  to  the  intersection  of  generative  grammar  and  the  Romance  languages. 

For  further  information,  please  contact:   Third  Annual  Linguistic  Symposium  on 
Romance  Languages;  Dept.  of  Spanish  and  Portuguese;  Ballantine  Hall  844;  Indiana 
Univ.;  Bloomington,  Indiana  47401. 

TEACHING  AIDS 
A  new  bi-monthly  publication  called  YELMO  is  being  published  in  Madrid  for  Spanish 
teachers  throughout  the  world.   It  contains  articles  and  features  in  methodology  and 
literature.   A  free  sample  copy  will  be  sent,  upon  request,  to  anyone  interested 
before  considering  subscription.   Write  to:   YELMO  La  Revista  del  Profesor  de 
Espanol,  Apartado  877,  Madrid,  Spain. 

Lincoln  Canfield  has  prepared  a  slide  presentation,  "Spanish  with  a  Flourish!", 
35  color  slides  with  a  script  and  taped  commentary  in  English  or  Spanish.   The  pres- 
entation is  concerned  with  the  meaning  and  use  of  some  of  the  gestures,  postures,  and 
facial  expressions  most  generally  used  among  Spanish-speaking  peoples.   AATSP  members 
may  obtain  this  presentation  on  rental  from:   Mrs.  Elizabeth  P.  Jones,  735  Litchfield, 
Wichita,  Kansas  67203.   The  rental  fee  is  32.00. 

Source  materials  are  available  from  the  U.S.  Department  of  Agriculture  consist- 
ing of  consumer  information  and  food  programs  written  in  Spanish.   Soon  to  be  avail- 
able will  be  Spanish  publications  on  subjects  such  as  food  stamps,  household  income, 
school  breakfast  program,  etc.   To  be  on  the  mailing  list  write  to  U.S.  Department 
of  Agriculture,  Agricultural  Marketing  Service,  Information  Division,  26  Federal 
Plaza,  New  York,  N.Y.  10007. 

FILM  LECTURE  SERIES 
A  feature-length  commercial  film,  Tropici.  was  the  first  presentation  of  the  Film 
Lecture  Series,  on  Feb.  15.   It  dealt  with  the  mass  migration  of  destitute  families 
from  the  impoverished  NE  Brazil  to  the  developing  industrial  centers. 


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PUBLICATIONS  AND  FACULTY  NOTES 
Prof.  Emeritus  Henry  Kahane  and  his  wife  Dr.  Rene"e  Kahane  are  featured  in  a  highly- 
interesting  article  in  the  U.I.  Alumni  News  for  Feb.,  1973. 

Prof.  Robert  E.  Lott  has  published  an  article,  "From  Irony  to  Empathy  and  Am- 
biguity in  Galdos's  Use  of  Free  Indirect  Style  in  Misericordia. "  in  Studies  in 
Honor  of  Tatiana  Fotitch  (Washington,  1972),  pp.  254-260. 

Prof.  Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo  will  present  a  paper  at  the  Da"maso  Alonso  Confer- 
ence on  March  16-18  at  the  Univ.  of  Oklahoma. 

On  Feb.  21  Assoc.  Prof.  Richard  A.  Preto-Rodas  gave  the  luncheon  address  at  the 
twenty-third  annual  Latin  American  Conference  at  the  Univ.  of  Florida.   The  topic  of 
the  Conference  this  year  was  Man  in  the  Amazon,  and  the  address  was  entitled 
"Amazonia:   Themes  and  Changing  Perspectives  as  Seen  in  Literature." 

Asst.  Prof.  Anthony  K.  Cassell  has  published  "II  Corbaccio  and  the  Secundus 
Tradition,"  in  Comparative  Literature.  1973. 

Asst.  Prof.  Martha  Francescato  participated  in  a  round-table  discussion  on  the 
Teaching  of  Culture  and  Civilization  on  Feb.  20.   This  was  the  second  panel  dis- 
cussion of  the  Colloquium  for  Language  Pedagogy.   She  has  also  been  appointed 
Associate  Member  of  the  graduate  faculty.   Prof.  Francescato  will  participate  in  the 
Kentucky  Foreign  Language  Conference  in  Lexington,  April  26-28  and  will  read  a  paper 
on  "Literature  and  the  Movies"  on  April  27. 

Asst.  Prof.  Dieter  Wanner  has  published  "The  Derivation  of  Inflectional  Para- 
digms in  Italian,"  in  Generative  Studies  in  Romance  Languages,  ed.  by  J.  Casagrande 
and  B.  Saciuk;  Rowley,  Mass.;  Newbury  House;  1973. 

Grad.  Asst.  Miss  Michiko  Nonoyama  has  published  "Vida  y  muerte  en  Bodas  de 
Sangre"  in  Arbor,  Dec.  1972,  5-13«   Congratulations  to  Miss  Nonoyama  for  having  been 
awarded  a  prize  of  publication  from  the  newspaper  Mainichi.  Tokyo  for  the  transla- 
tion of  Roteino  da  viagem  que  em  descobrimentodor  India  pelo  Cabo  da  Boa  Esperanca 
fez  Pom  Vasco  da  Gama  em  14-97  and  Carta  dirigida  al  Rey  por  Vasco  N~unez  de  Balboa 
desde  Santa  Marfa  del  Darien,  pidiendo  los  auxilios  necesarios  para  asegurar  la 
poblaci<5n  y_  adelantar  los  descubrimientos  en  aquellas  tierras . 

The  U.I.  Foreign  Language  Newsletter  is  published  jointly  by  the  Foreign  Language 
Departments  of  the  U.I.,  under  the  direction  of  the  Head  of  the  Department  of  Spanish, 
Italian,  and  Portuguese.   Editorial  offices  are  located  in  4119  FLB,  Urbana.   The 
Newsletter  is  available  without  charge  to  all  interested  persons  in  Illinois  and 
other  areas.   All  communications  by  mail  should  be  addressed  to  the  Editor,  FL  News- 
letter, 4080  FLB,  Urbana,  IL  61801. 


THE  UNIVERSITY  0^  ILLINOIS  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  NEWSLETTER 


May,  1973 

Vol.  XXVI,  No.  k 


Director:   Prof.  Anthony  H.  Pasquariello 
Editor:   Alice  Lone:  Anderson 


TO  BRIDGE  THE  GAP  BETWEEN  SCHOOL  AND  COMMUNITY 
Foreign  languages  are  frequently  regarded  by  the  schools  and  the  community  as  some- 
thing of  a  puzzle  and  the  value  of  foreign  language  study  is  often  underrated. 
Foreign  language  teachers  and  their  departments  can  do  much  to  improve  this  situation 
The  following  public  relations  test  provides  positive  suggestions  in  many  areas. 
Give  yourself  four  points  for  each  "yes"  answer;  if  your  score  is  less  than  72,  you 
know  that  there  is  much  work  to  be  done! 


1. 

2. 
3. 


The  FL  Teacher  and  Her  Class 
Are  you  firm,  but  fair? 
Are  you  sympathetic  and  understanding? 

Do  you  recognize  the  fact  that  not  every  student  is  gifted  in  all  aspects  of  the 
FL? 

4.  Is  there  a  warm,  comfortable  atmosphere  in  your  classroom? 

5.  Are  you  enthusiastic  about  the  subject  you  teach? 

6.  Is  your  enthusiasm  communicated  to  your  students? 

The  FL  Teacher  and  the  Parents  of  Her  Students 

7.  Do  your  students'  parents  have  an  opportunity  to  see  and  examine  their  children's 
work? 

8.  Do  you  phone  or  write  the  parents  when  there  is  a  problem  to  be  worked  out? 

9.  Do  you  make  appointments  to  see  parents  of  students  with  more  serious  problems? 

10.  Do  you  believe  in  the  eternal  triangle:   the  teacher,  the  student,  and  his 
parents? 

The  FL  Department  and  the  Guidance  Department 

11.  Does  the  FL  chairman  meet  frequently  with  guidance  counselors  and  grade  advisors 
to  clarify  course  offerings,  course  credits,  credits  from  junior  high  school, 
credit  for  native  ability? 

12.  Does  the  FL  chairman  make  known  to  the  guidance  department  the  many  careers  for 
which  a  knowledge  of  a  FL  is  most  beneficial? 

13.  Is  there  a  cooperative  relationship  between  FL  chairman  and  guidance  staff? 

The  FL  Department  and  the  Administration 

14.  Does  the  administration  know  of  the  exciting,  new  ideas  you  are  trying  in  your 
classes? 

15.  Are  new  career  openings  in  FLs  made  known  to  the  principal  and  his  assistants? 

16.  Does  the  FL  department  of  the  high  school  reach  out  to  the  feeder  schools  (or 
vice  versa)  in  an  effort  to  bring  about  a  smoother  transition  from  one  level  to 
the  next? 

The  FL  Department  and  the  PTA 

17.  Do  representatives  of  the  FL  department  occasionally  attend  PTA  meetings? 

18.  Has  a  member  of  the  FL  department  or  the  chairman  addressed  the  PTA  on  the  im- 
portance of  FLs  in  today's  world? 

19.  Have  parents  been  invited  to  workshops  in  each  of  the  languages  you  offer — 
workshops  which  provide  a  glimpse  into  how  languages  are  taught  today? 

20.  Have  you  invited  the  parents  to  be  students  in  the  language  laboratory  for  a 
brief  linguistic  experience? 

21.  Have  announcements  regarding  FLs  been  sent  for  inclusion  in  the  PTA  newsletter? 
(You  might  announce  new  courses,  trips,  exhibits,  programs,  carnivals,  jobs 
available  to  students,  etc.) 


The  FL  Department  and  the  Community 

22.  Have  you  reached  out  into  the  community  for  resource  people  to  enrich  your 
students'  experience? 

23.  Have  you  involved  your  students  in  research  into  the  many  career  opportunities 
available  requiring  a  knowledge  of  foreign  languages? 

2k.      Do  you  have  attractive  and  informative  bulletin  boards  and  showcases? 
25.   Has  the  department  held  PL  exhibits,  sponsored  FL  tables  at  lunch,  food  festi- 
vals, carnivals,  dramatic  presentations? 

The  above  was  presented  by  Pearl  M.  Warner  (Jamaica,  N.Y.)  at  the  New  York  State 
A.F.L.T.  Colloquium,  May  5,  1972  and  reprinted  from  the  Language  Association  Bulletin 
(N.Y.)  of  January,  1973. 

SUMMER  LEARNING  OPPORTUNITIES 
In  addition  to  the  summer  workshops  and  institutes  reported  last  time  in  the  March 
number  of  the  Newsletter,  announcements  have  been  received  of  further  opportunities: 

The  U.  of  Colo.  (Boulder)  modern  language  departments  are  offering  two  workshops 
The  Workshop  in  Promoting  Foreign  Languages,  July  17-28,  will  deal  with  a  number  of 
techniques  for  strengthening  the  position  of  foreign  language  study  in  our  schools 
and  communities  through  effective  professional  leadership.   The  Production  Workshop 
for  Language  Teachers,  July  17-Aug.  6,  consists  of  three  graduate  courses,  of  which 
teachers  may  take  one,  two  or  all  three:   Educational  Media  in  the  FL  Classroom, 
Testing  Foreign  Language  Skills,  and  Trends  in  Language  Teaching:   Performance  Ob- 
jectives and  Individualization.   These  courses  deal  with  current  developments  in 
instructional  theory  with  emphasis  on  the  construction  of  materials  for  classroom  use 
during  the  coming  year.   For  further  information  and  application:   Charles  W. 
Stansfield,  Foreign  Language  Institute,  McKenna  126,  U.  of  Colo.,  Boulder,  Colo. 
80302;  (303)  ^3-2211,  ext.  7308 

The  Foreign  Language  Education  Center  of  the  U.  of  Wisconsin-Whitewater  offers 
the  following  program  for  foreign  language  teachers  and  advanced  students  during  the 
summer  of  1973;   Individualized  Instruction  Workshop.   A  two-week  workshop  on  indi- 
vidualizing instruction  in  the  foreign  language  program  for  teachers  of  French,  Ger- 
man, or  Spanish,  from  June  19-29.   Two  graduate  or  undergraduate  credits.   The  work- 
shop will  focus  on  the  preparation  of  materials  each  participant  can  put  to  use  in 
the  classroom.   For  more  information/application,  please  write  to:   Dr.  Roland 
Durette,  Director,   Foreign  language  Education  Center,  Univ.  of  Wise. -Whitewater, 
Whitewater,  WI  53190. 

ACTFL  ANNUAL  MEETING 
The  seventh  annual  meeting  of  the  ACTFL  will  be  held  Nov.  22-25  at  the  Sheraton- 
Boston  (Mass.),  with  the  pre-conference  workshops  scheduled  for  Nov.  22-25.   The 
theme  of  this  year's  meeting  will  be  "Many  Goals — Many  Roles."   The  three  pre- 
conference  workshops  are  Teacher  Education,  Bilingual  Education,  and  Francophone 
Literature  in  the  French  Classroom.   Additional  information  may  be  obtained  from: 
ACTFL,  62  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  NY  10011;  (212)  691-3210. 

TEACHING  MATERIALS 
The  Foreign  Language  Association  of  Missouri  has  approved  for  distribution  some  games 
and  other  teaching  materials  created  by  its  members.   The  following  are  now  available: 

Proverb  Bingo  (in  French,  German,  or  Spanish).   Bingo  cards  are  printed  in 
English  on  one  side,  FL  on  reverse.   Teacher  calls  the  proverbs  in  either  of  the  two 
languages,  and  students  cover  the  corresponding  FL  nroverbs  that  they  find  on  their 
cards.   There  are  72  proverbs  in  each  game,  with  cards  for  2h   students.   Teacher 
cards  bear  equivalent  proverbs  on  their  reverse  sides;  student  cards  are  not  matched 
in  this  way. 

"Mono"  or  "Singe"  (in  Spanish  or  French) — to  learn  the  colors  and  numbers  to  10. 
As  player  earns  points,  his  monkey  climbs  a  tree  to  get  a  coconut.   Very  much  liked 
by  7-12  year  olds.   Five  players. 

Games  are  .$2.50  each,  postage  and  tax  included.   Please  order  from  Dr.  Reva 
Abelson,  7730  Cornell,  St.  Louis,  MO  63130. 


MANDATORY  BILINGUAL  EDUCATION 
The  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts  ruled  early  in  1972  that  any  city,  town,  or  school 
district  in  Massachusetts  having  20  or  more  children  with  limited  knowledge  of  Eng- 
lish must  provide  instruction  for  these  children  in  their  native  tongue. 

The  new  law,  which  became  effective  in  Sept.  1972,  is  the  first  of  its  kind  in 

the  United  States.   Educators  estimate  it  may  affect  as  many  as  100,000  children 

primarily  of  French,  Spanish,  Portuguese,  and  Polish  extraction.  In  the  Boston  area 
alone,  some  40,000  children  who  do  not  speak  English  do  not  attend  school,  and  it  is 
hoped  that  the  new  program  will  draw  these  students  into  the  schools. 

ERASING  THE  UGLY  AMERICAN 
Last  year  3  million  people  discovered  America,  the  country  that  speaks  only  American. 
This  is  the  number  of  non-English  speaking  visitors  to  America,  who  could  not  communi 
cate  with  taxi  drivers,  waitresses,  doctors,  store  clerks,  and  Americans  from  all 
walks  of  life. 

The  Bicentennial  Language  Incentive  Program  is  playing  a  dual  role  to  help  solve 
these  problems.  It's  teaching  kids  a  second  language.  The  program  is  voluntary.  It 
isn't  directly  related  with  their  school,  and  they're  given  unusual  incentives.  They 
get  paid.  They  travel.  They  earn  scholarships.  They  get  into  colleges  and  technics! 
schools.   And  then  they're  placed  in  bilingual-related  careers. 

The  Bicentennial  Language  Incentive  Program  is  a  non-profit,  tax  exempt  organi- 
zation that  is  federally  funded  by  the  U.S.  Department  of  Health,  Education  &  Welfare. 
Some  of  its  participating  multi-national  corporations  are  Air  Canada,  Air  France, 
Hertz,  MacAndrews  and  Forbes,  Marriott  and  Pan  American  Airlines. 

If  you  would  like  to  find  out  more  about  BLIP  and  how  you  can  get  involved, 
write  to:   Harry  Jay  Katz,  Executive  Director,  Bicentennial  Language  Incentive  Pro- 
gram, Camden,  N.J.  08101;  or  call  (609)5^1-2222  or  (215)564-2860. 

SIGN  OF  THE  TIMES 
To  help  save  the  U.I.  and  taxpayers  money,  Steven  P.  Hill  of  the  Slavic  Department 
reports  the  following  suggestion.   He  has  found  that  he  does  not  need  his  office 
telephone  and  has  thus  informed  the  University.   By  disconnecting  it,  he  has  helped 
the  U.I.  save  a  considerable  sum  for  the  academic  year.   Mr.  Hill  suggests  that  other 
faculty  members  consider  whether  they  might  do  likewise. 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES  ~  by  Prof.  Barbara  Smalley 

PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Herbert  Knust's  article,  "Brecht  braver  Schweyk,"  appeared  in  P  M  L  A,  Vol.  88 
(March  1973),  219-232. 

MEETINGS 
Prof.  A.  0.  Aldridge  gave  a  lecture  in  March  in  connection  with  Modern  Languages  Week 
at  the  University  of  Arkansas,  Fayetteville.   His  subject  was  "Aspects  of  Enlighten- 
ment. " 

In  April  Prof.  Aldridge  was  the  principal  speaker  and  consultant  at  the  Spring 
Comparative  Literature  Conference  at  the  U.  of  Tenn.,  Knoxville.   Prof.  Aldridge 
spoke  on  "Comparative  Literature  and  the  American  University." 

Mrs.  Danielle  Johnson  and  Prof.  Herbert  Knust  have  been  nominated  to  serve  as 
Midwest  Regional  Delegates  for  the  MLA  Delegate  Assembly. 

FORMER  STUDENT 
Miss  Lee  Hai-soon,  who  received  her  Master's  degree  in  Comparative  Literature  at  the 
U.I.  in  1968,  was  recently  examined  by  the  Ministry  of  Education  at  Taipei,  Taiwan 
and  awarded  the  Doctorate  of  Philosophy  degree.   A  Taiwan  newspaper  announces  that 
Miss  Lee  has  the  honor  of  being  the  first  woman  to  receive  her  Ph.D.  degree  in  Chinese 
literature  in  Taiwan.   Dr.  Lee  has  returned  to  her  native  Korea,  where  she  will  teach 
at  Seoul  National  University. 


THESES  DEFENSES 
Our  congratulations  to  Mrs.  Barbara  Makers  and  to  Mr.  Christopher  Kertesz  for  their 
completion  of  all  the  requirements  for  the  Ph.D.  degree,  including  the  defense  of 
their  thesis. 

THE  CLASSICS  NOTES  ~  by  Prof.  H.  Michael  Dunn 

LECTURES  AND  MEETINGS 
A  Colloquium  sponsored  by  the  Classics  Department  takes  place  on  Monday,  May  7  at 
4:00  p.m.  in  Room  209  of  the  Illini  Union.   Prof.  Otto  Skutsch,  Professor  Emeritus  of 
Latin  at  University  College,  London,  and  visiting  Mellon  Professor  of  Classics  at  the 
U.  of  Pittsburgh  will  speak  on  "Catullus,  Text  and  Transmission."   All  are  invited. 

The  next  lecture  of  the  Illinois  Chanter  of  the  Archaeological  Institute  of 
America  will  be  delivered  May  14  at  8:00  p.m.  in  180  Bevier  Hall.   Prof.  Ann  Perkins 
of  the  Dept.  of  Art  will  speak  on  the  subject  of  Monsters. 

The  annual  High  School  Latin  Conference  will  be  held  at  the  U.I.  from  June  24 
through  June  30.   Additional  information  and  application  forms  may  be  obtained  from 
Prof.  R.  T.  Scanlan,  4072  FLB,  U.I.,  Urbana,  IL  61801.   Students  from  hierh  schools 
throughout  the  state  attend  the  Conference. 

SUMMER  SESSION 
Among  the  offerings  for  the  summer  session  in  the  Department  of  the  Classics  will  be 
a  course  in  Caesar  and  Latin  Elegy,  an  independent  reading  course  in  Greek,  and 
courses  in  mythology  and  Roman  civilization. 

ANNUAL  LATIN  TOURNAMENT 
The  annual  Latin  Translation  Contest  was  held  at  the  U.I.  on  Sat.,  April  28.   Over 
100  students  who  were  finalists  in  the  tournament  wrote  papers  at  the  second,  third, 
and  fourth  year  levels.   Prof.  R.  T.  Scanlan  is  the  local  director. 

FACULTY  NOTES 
Prof.  Hubert  Allen  will  be  working  on  the  prehistory  of  Morgantina  during  the  summer. 
During  the  winter  Prof.  Allen  has  presented  lectures  on  various  aspects  of  the  Mor- 
gantina excavations,  of  which  he  is  Director,  at  the  Illinois  Classical  Conference, 
the  Department  of  Classical  Studies  at  the  U.  of  Ottawa,  the  Hartford  Conn.,  Provi- 
dence R.I.,  New  Haven,  and  Wesleyan  U.  Societies  of  the  AIA.   He  also  has  articles 
forthcoming  in  Opuscula  Romana  and  Kokalos . 

FRENCH  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel 

GUT  THOMAS  TRAIL  (1934-1973) 
Our  former  student,  colleague  and  friend,  Guy  Trail,  died  suddenly  in  Hattiesburg, 
Miss.,  on  March  19.   Guy  was  a  long-time  resident  of  Champaign,  and  a  native  Chicago- 
an.   He  held  his  AB,  MA,  and  Ph.D.  degrees  from  the  U.I.,  where  he  had  been  teaching 
assistant,  research  assistant,  and  instructor.   Between  studies,  Guy  Trail  served  as 
Army  translator  in  Germany,  radio  announcer,  producer,  and  writer  for  the  "Stars  and 
Stripes"  and  other  publications.   Guy  was  one  of  the  most  brilliant  students  this 
University  has  ever  known  (and  for  this  writer,  the  most  brilliant  ever).   The  honors 
he  had  received  (NDEA  Fellowships,  memberships  in  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  Phi  Kappa  Phi,  Pi 
Delta  Phi,  Phi  Eta  Sigma,  etc.)  were  but  a  small  recognition  of  his  enormous  talents. 
He  was  an  astoundingly  versatile,  learned,  and  gifted  person.   A  first-rate  poet  (one 
of  the  Young  Poets  of  Illinois  and  the  Port  Poets  of  Chicago),  he  had  published  much 
verse  as  well  as  scholarly  papers,  translations,  and  various  creative  works.   His 
command  of  English  was  phenomenal,  as  were  his  wit,  perception,  and  interests  in  many 
fields,  from  comparative  literature  to  television  techniques.   After  his  graduation 
from  the  U.I.  (with  a  remarkable  Ph.D.  thesis  on  Andre"  Malraux)  he  taught  at  I.S.U. 
(Normal,  IL)  and  then  went  to  the  U.  of  S.  Miss.   There,  as  professor  of  Foreign  Lan- 
guages and  Director  of  the  Curriculum  in  Comparative  Literature,  Guy  really  turned  on 


his  immense  pedagogical  powers:   he  set  up  a  multitude  of  programs,  taught  Russian, 
French,  Chinese,  hieroglyphics,  etc.,  collected  rare  items  for  the  library,  advised 
students,  published,  edited,  and  acted  as  administrator.   He  was  a  one-man  academic 
and  scholarly  revolution,  the  type  that  any  school  ought  to  have  now  and  then.   For 
those  of  us  who  knew  him  best,  his  tremendous  kindness,  his  acerbic  humor,  his  faith- 
fulness to  friends,  his  splendid  paradoxes,  and — without  exaggerating — his  genius, 
have  made  Guy's  death  what  is  so  often  called — yet  so  seldom  really  meant — a  truly 
irreparable  loss. 

STAFF  ACTIVITIES 
Prof.  Luisa  Velan-Chini  addressed  the  Journal  Club  of  the  Dept.  of  French  on  April  30 
on  MLes  problemes  du  roman  historique  conside're's  a  travers  le  cas  d' Alexandre  Dumas." 

Prof.  Jahiel  participated  recently  in  several  conferences,  including  that  of  the 
Society  for  Cinema  Studies  (held  at  the  U.  of  Maryland  and  in  Washington,  D.C.);  the 
C.I.C  Film  Panel  (Chicago),  etc. 

Teachers  of  undergraduate  courses  have  been  showing  films  in  conjunction  with 
assigned  readings:   Sartre's  Huis-Clos ;  Les  Jeux  sont  Faits ;  Madame  Bovary ;  etc. 

Prof.  Francois  Jost  addressed  the  Journal  Club  on  March  5,  on  the  subject  of 
"Baudelaire  et  l'art  du  sonnet,"  auspices  of  the  Dept.  of  French  and  the  Program  in 
Comparative  Literature. 

Prof.  Alphonse  Roche,  who  was  once  Visiting  Professor  here  and  is  now  at  the  U. 
of  Ariz.,  visited  us  recently,  sponsored  by  the  Unit  for  FL  Study  &  Research,  and 
presented  a  program  on  Modern  Provencal. 

Prof.  Barbara  Bowen  attended  the  Central  Renaissance  Conference  in  Lincoln,  Neb. 
April  12-14,  and  read  a  paper  entitled:  "Montaigne's  anti-Phaedrus :  Sur  des  vers  de 
Virgile  (Essais,  III,  v)."  Prof.  Bowen  will  be  giving  a  lecture  at  Chicago  Circle  in 
May,  on  "French  Renaissance  Words  and  Things,"  and  reading  a  paper  on  French  farce  at 
the  Congres  of  the  Association  Internationale  des  Etudes  Francaises  in  July  in  Paris. 

FESTIVAL  OF  THE  NEW  FRENCH  CINEMA 
As  announced  in  the  last  Newsletter,  the  Festival  took  place  May  1-k.      Films  shown 
were  Rak  by  la  Socie'te'  Dovidis,  Pic  et  Pic  et  Colegram  by  Rachel  Weinberg,  Papa  les 
Petits  Bateaux  by  Nelly  Kaplan,  Paulina  1880  by  Jean-Louis  Bertucelli  and  Remparts 
d' Argile  by  the  same  director,  Petit  k   Petit  made  in  Niger  and  Paris  by  Jean  Rouch, 
Le  Viager  by  Pierre  Tchernia,  La  Mandarine  by  Edouard  Molinaro,  and  others.   Film- 
makers were  also  present. 

TRETEAU  DE  PARIS,  FRENCH  PLAY  FOR  FALL  1973 
This  annual  event  has  been  fixed  for  Monday,  Oct.  29,  1973  at  the  Festival  Theatre  of 
the  Krannert  Center  for  the  Performing  Arts.   The  play  will  be  Moliere's  L'Avare.   A 
novelty:   for  the  first  time  there  will  be  two  performances,  a  matine"e  as  well  as  an 
evening  performance.   Times  will  be  announced  later,  as  well  as  prices.   We  will  also 
combine  this  event  with  a  field  trip  to  the  U.I.  by  interested  H.S.  students  and 
teachers,  as  our  recent  experiment  proved  a  success  (on  the  occasion  of  the  Fall  1972 
production  of  "Le  Barbier  de  Seville"  by  the  Tre*teau  Company  in  Urbana).   Details 
will  be  announced  in  the  next  Newsletter,  that  is,  the  first  (Fall)  Newsletter  for 
1973-74.   But,  just  in  case  the  Newsletter  reaches  you  too  late,  all  interested  par- 
ties are  invited  to  drop  a  line  (and  a  self-addressed  envelope)  to:   Prof.  E.  Jahiel, 
French  Dept.,  ATTN:   L'Avare,  2090  FLB,  U.I.,  Urbana,  IL  61801.   We  will  communicate 
with  you  in  due  time,  both  about  the  performances  and  about  the  field  trip.   Impor- 
tant Note :   teachers  who  want  to  prepare  their  classes  in  advance,  please  order  your 
texts  of  L ' Avare  from:   French  and  European  Publications,  Inc.,  610  Fifth  Avenue, 
New  York,  NY  10020,  addressing  your  order  to  the  attention  of  Mr.  E.  Molho.   The  text 
ought  to  cost  around  90-95  cents  but  check  first.   There  is  probably  also  an  LP  album 
of  the  play  available  from  them,  at  $7  or  so.  Again,  check. 


ATTENTION  TEACHERS  OP  FRENCH 
Films  for  French,  edited  by  Sandra  J.  Savignon  and  published  with  the  cooperation  of 
the  Visual  Aids  Service  of  the  U.I.  (April  1973)  is  an  evaluative  guide  to  over  a 
hundred  currently  available  educational  films.   For  a  free  copy,  write  Prof.  SavLgnon, 
Dept.  of  French,  2090  PLB,  U.I.,  Urbana,  IL  61801. 

THE  MOLIERE  SUMMER 
The  U.I.  at  Urbana  will  offer  a  Summer  Session  program  of  particular  interest  to  stu- 
dents and  teachers  of  French.   1973  being  the  Moliere  Tricentenary,  the  theme  of 
Moliere  and  the  comic  will  be  emphasized.   At  the  same  time,  a  choice  of  French  lan- 
guage and  civilization  courses  will  be  available  for  advanced  students  and  teachers 
wishing  to  refresh  or  update  their  linguistic  skills,  methodology,  or  knowledge  of 
contemporary  France. 

For  more  detailed  information,  consult  the  previous  (March)  number  of  this 
Newsletter  or  write  to  B.  H.  Mainous,  Head,  Dept.  of  French,  2090  FLB,  Urbana,  111. 
61801.   The  dates  are  from  June  14  to  August  11,  1973. 

FRENCH  WEEK-END  CAMP 
The  Downstate  Illinois  Chapter  of  the  AATF  held  its  second  week-end  French  camp  for 
high  school  and  college  April  6-8  at  the  Boy  Scout  camp  at  Mossville,  north  of  Peoria. 
The  camp  was  attended  by  45  high  school  and  college  students  from  the  central  and 
western  part  of  Illinois  and  from  downstate  as  far  as  Edwardsville  and  Collinsville. 
Mrs.  Penny  Pucelik,  vice-president  of  the  chapter  and  a  professor  at  Bradley  U.  in 
Peoria,  was  in  charge  of  the  weekend.   Six  teaching  assistants  from  the  U.I. -Urbana, 
most  of  them  French  natives,  served  as  counselors.   The  activities  included  singing, 
dramatic  sketches,  and  games.   The  Downstate  Chapter  assembled  at  the  camp  on  Sat. 
afternoon  for  its  usual  annual  spring  meeting. 

POETRY  CONTEST 
The  annual  Doetry  recitation  contest  was  held  at  the  Illini  Union  on  April  11  with  64 
participants  from  all  levels  of  undergraduate  French  courses.   Students  were  divided 
into  four  categories  according  to  linguistic  competence  and  were  required  to  give 
interpretive  readings  of  French  poetry  before  three  panels  of  judges  composed  of 
French  Dept.  faculty  members. 

This  year's  contest  was  renamed  "Concours  de  Poe*sie  Guy  Trail"  to  honor  the 
memory  of  a  former  graduate  student,  colleague  and  friend  of  the  Department  who  died 
suddenly  on  March  19  in  Hattiesburg,  Miss,  at  age  39.   Mr.  Trail  was  also  a  poet  of 
stature  whose  reputation  was  not  confined  to  this  area. 

Awards  for  the  contest,  donated  by  the  Office  of  the  French  Cultural  Attache*  in 
Chicago  and  several  members  of  the  Department,  were  renamed  as  "Guy  Trail  Prizes" 
with  special  book  plates  inserted  in  each  prize. 

The  winners  of  the  poetry  contest  are  as  follows:   (with  teacher  also  listed) 
First  Category:  1.  Mary  Staunton  (B.  Greenfeldt)   2.  Oksana  Akulov  (E.  Treible) 
3.  Barbara  Cassidy  (L.  Wierenga) — in  French  101-102;  Second  Category  (French  103-104- 
123-134-174)   1.  Jean  Castellani  (C.  &  D.  Johnson)  2.  Suzanne  Meyer  (K.  Davison) 
3.  Liz  Tobin  (K.  Davison)   4.  Veronica  Wallace  (  C.  &  D.  Johnson);  Third  Category 
(French  211-212-213-214-215)   1.   Margaret  Evangelista  (H.  Cohen)   2.  Janice  Whitfield 
(A.M.  Sagi)   3.  Nancy  Putz  (A.  Souillard)   4.  Alysa  Aron  (H.  Cohen)   5.  Steven 
McMurray  (A.M.  Sagi)  and  Larry  Welch  (H.  Cohen);  Fourth  Category  (French  217-218  & 
other  advanced  courses)   1.  Karen  Christiansen  (G.  Laprevotte)   2.   Ellen  Black  (Ch. 
Elkabas)   Honorable  Mention,  Cynthia  Lewis  (A.  Souillard/H.  Cohen). 

ILLINOIS  YEAR  ABROAD 
The  111.  Year-Abroad  Program,  hatched  five  years  aero  in  Rouen,  France,  will  spread  its 
wings  in  la  grande  ville  when  it  moves  to  Paris  for  the  1973-73  school  year. 

Courses  in  French  language,  literature,  and  civilization  will  be  offered  in  co- 
operation with  the  Cours  de  Civilisation  Francaise  of  the  Sorbonne  and  its  exception- 
ally distinguished  faculty.   In  addition,  students  will  be  able  to  take  part  or  all 
their  class  work  in  one  or  more  of  the  thirteen  Universities  de  Paris,  Ecole  du  Louvre, 
Institut  d'Etudes  Politiques,  etc. 


In  addition  to  the  demi-pension  or  breakfast-only  housing  in  French  families 
previously  announced,  the  session  in  Paris  makes  available  residence  hall  spaces  in 
which  U.I.  students  may  elect  to  live  with  French  students  as  roommates. 

Of  course,  the  Illinois  Year-Abroad  Program  in  Paris  offers  the  incomparable 
cultural  advantages  of  residence  in  Paris — museums,  concerts,  cafe's,  theatre,  and 
la  vie  parisienne. 

GERMANIC  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  David  Chisholm 

STAFF  NEWS 
Subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  Prof.  Elmer  Antonsen,  currently  a 
Visiting;  Professor  at  the  U.  of  N.  Car.,  will  return  to  the  U.I.  and  assume  headship 
of  the  German  department  beginning  in  the  summer  of  1973* 

Prof.  James  McGlathery  will  return  from  a  leave  of  absence  in  the  fall  of  1973. 

Prof.  Walter  H'ollerer  will  be  on  a  leave  of  absence  during  the  year  1973-74. 

Visiting  Asst.  Prof.  David  Chisholm  will  join  the  German  department  of  the  U. 
of  Arizona  at  Tucson  in  the  fall  of  1973. 

GERMAN  101  LECTURE  SERIES 
The  linguistics  lecture  series  for  German  101  was  introduced  in  1972-73  to  expose 
students  to  a  variety  of  lecturers  both  inside  and  outside  the  department.   Speakers 
have  included  Prof.  Emeritus  Henry  Kahane,  who  compared  linguistic  reconstruction  in 
Germanic  to  that  in  Romance,  and  Prof.  Howard  Maclay,  who  discussed  the  psycho- 
linguistics  of  language  learning.   Prof.  Irmengard  Rauch,  Prof.  Virginia  Coombs,  and 
Prof.  Edward  Anderson  delivered  lectures  designed  to  give  students  an  overview  of  the 
fundamentals  of  human  languages.  Lectures  for  the  German  101  culture  series  were  de- 
livered this  year  by  Profs.  Henri  Stegemeier,  Karl-Heinz  Schoeps,  Richard  Figee, 
Marianne  Burkhard,  Edith  Graf,  and  Franz  Tades. 

AWARDS 
Prof.  Clayton  Gray  has  received  a  fellowship  for  1973-74  from  the  National  Endowment 
for  the  Humanities  to  complete  a  book  on  Minne- Imagery  in  the  Works  of  Wolfram  von 
Eschenbach. 

Jan  Tunnicliff  has  received  a  Fulbright-Hays  grant  to  study  for  a  year  at  a 
German  university. 

Julie  Benthaus,  a  German  major  who  is  presently  a  student  teacher  at  Urbana  HJEL, 
has  received  a  Fulbright-Hays  grant  for  a  year's  study  at  the  U.  of  Kiel. 

EVENTS 
Deutsches  Seminar:   At  the  March  14  meeting  Prof.  Vincent  Dell'Orto  led  a  discussion 
on  the  topic  "Forms  of  German  Non-fiction  in  the  Eighteenth  Century. '|   At  the  next 
meeting  of  the  seminar,  which  took  place  on  April  24,  Prof.  Walter  Hbllerer  intro- 
duced and  lead  a  discussion  on  the  topic  "Problematik  literarischer  Eliten  im  Massen- 
zeitalter. " 

Fruchtbringende  Gesellschaft:   On  April  5  Prof.  David  Chisholm  read  a  paper  on 
"Meter  and  Language:   Two  Approaches  to  Versification."   On  May  3  Prof.  Clayton  Gray 
presented  a  paper  dealing  with  "Wolfram  von  Eschenbach  and  the  Image  of  the  Black 
Man  in  Medieval  Spain,  France  and  Germany." 

Colloquium  for  Language  Pedagogy :   On  March  27  Prof.  Richard  Figge  participated 
in  a  panel  discussion,  sponsored  by  the  Unit  for  Foreign  Language  Study  and  Research, 
on  the  topic  "Options  in  the  100-Level  Foreign  Language  Program." 

German  Film  Festival:   The  Festival  of  the  Young  German  Film,  which  was  describ- 
ed in  the  March  Newsletter,  will  take  place  from  May  7-10  and  May  14-17  in  room  314 
of  Altgeld  Hall.   The  following  films  are  scheduled:   Tatowierung  and  Notizen  zum 
jungen  deutschen  Film  (May  7).  Abschied  von  Gestern  (May  8).  Wilder  Reiter,  GmbH 
(May  9),  Fata  Morgana  (May  10),,  Per  Paukenspieler  (May  14),  Mahlzeiten  (May  15) , 
Malatesta  (May  16)  and  Warum  lauft  Herr  R.  Amok  (May  17). 


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Delta  Phi  Alpha:   The  U.I.  chapter  of  the  German  National  Honorary  Fraternity, 
Delta  Phi  Alpha,  will  formally  initiate  16  graduate  and  23  undergraduate  students  on 
May  14.   Prof.  Walter  H'ollerer  will  receive  an  honorary  membership  and  will  speak  to 
the  chapter  about  his  recently  completed  novel  Elefantenuhr. 

ACTIVITIES  OP  THE  FACULTY 
On  May  11  Prof.  Marianne  Burkhard  will  read  a  paper  entitled  "State  and  Man:   The 
Social  and  Political  Dimensions  in  Swiss  German  Novels  from  Keller's  Salander  to  Ottc 
F.  Walter's  Die  ersten  Unruhen"  at  a  regional  meeting  of  the  Swiss-American  Histori- 
cal Society  in  New  York.   Prof.  Burkhard  is  the  author  of  an  article  on  "Die 
Entdeckung  der  Form  in  'Huttens  letzte  Tage'n  in  the  Archiv  fur  das  Studium  der 
neueren  Sprachen  und  Literaturen.  Vol.  209,  259-72. 

At  the  Central  States  Conference  on  the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Languages  (Apr.  26- 
28)  Prof.  Vincent  Dell'Orto  served  as  reactor  to  Louise  H.  Allen's  paper  "The 
Treadmill:   Improving  Articulation  among  Schools,  Junior  Colleges  and  Colleges." 

Prof.  U.  Henry  Gerlach  is  the  author  of  an  article  entitled  "Neuere  Hebbel- 
Briefe — Eine  Ubersicht"  which  appeared  in  the  1973  Hebbel-Jahrbuch,  pp.  51-83.   At 
the  suggestion  of  other  Hebbel  scholars,  Prof.  Gerlach 's  dissertation,  Hebbel  as  a 
Critic  of  his  own  Works,  has  been  published  in  Goppinger  Arbeiten  zur  Germanistik, 
No.  82  TT972T. 

Prof.  James  Marchand  presented  a  paper  entitled  "Wolfram's  Theology"  in  one  of 
the  German  sections  of  the  Kentucky  Foreign  Language  Conference  at  Lexington,  Apr. 
26-28.  He  also  chaired  one  of  the  linguistics  sections. 

Prof.  Irmengard  Rauch's  review  of  Herbert  Penzl's  Lautsystem  und  Lautwandel  in 
den  althochdeutschen  Dialekten  appears  in  the  Journal  of  English  and  Germanic  Philol- 
ogy. Vol.  71.  561-564.   Prof.  Rauch  has1  read  a  paper  entitled  "The  Minimal  Contin- 
uant:  Evidence  from  Germanic"  at  the  Kentucky  Foreign  Language  Conference. 

Prof.  Walter  Hollerer  recently  participated  in  colloquia  on  "Die  Aesthetik  von 
Walter  Benjamin"  at  the  U.  of  Wise .-Milwaukee  and  on  "Literatur  und  Massenmedien"  at 
the  Goethe-House  in  New  York. 

SLAVIC  NOTES  —  by  Elliot  Cohen 

AN  APOLOGY  TO  OUR  GRADUATE  STUDENTS 
In  the  previous  issue  of  this  newsletter,  I  (your  Slavic  correspondent)  unintention- 
ally slighted  our  graduate  students  and  their  heroic  endeavors  over  a  long  period  of 
time  to  get  the  Departmental  Handbook  of  Rules  and  Procedures  codified.   I  had  con- 
gratulated the  faculty  for  their  efforts  in  bringing  the  project  to  completion,  but 
in  my  enthusiasm  for  the  accomplishment  of  the  deed,  I  shortsightedly  neglected  to 
mention  the  initial  and  continuing  effort  of  the  students.   Sorry. 

A  NEW  DOCTOR  IN  THE  HOUSE 
Kenneth  Brostrom  successfully  defended  his  doctoral  dissertation,  "The  Novels  of 
Boris  Pil'njak  as  Allegory"  at  the  U.  of  Mich,  on  April  6,  1973.   Congratulations 
from  all  of  us. 

PAINTINGS  OF  A  RUSSIAN  PRISONER 
On  May  3-8  there  was  an  exhibition  on  campus  of  the  paintings  of  Boris  Penson,  a 
Russian-Jewish  artist  who  is  presently  serving  a  10-year  sentence  in  Soviet  prison 
camps.   Twenty-two  of  his  paintings  will  be  on  display  in  the  Y.M.C.A.,  all  unusual 
and  personal  works.   All  are  invited  to  write  to  Premier  Kosygin  c/o  the  Kremlin  ask- 
ing him  to  set  the  artist  free. 

ALL  COLLEAGUES  AND  FRIENDS  INVITED  TO  AN  EVENING  OF  SLAVIC  CULTURE 
On  May  12,  1973  at  8  p.m.  in  the  Bevier  Hall  Theater,  the  Dept.  of  Slavic  is  present- 
ing an  Evening  of  Slavic  Culture.   The  program  will  consist  of  Russian  songs,  poems 
(in  the  original  and  translation)  from  several  Slavic  literatures,  and  a  Russian  play. 
The  play,  "The  Squire's  Daughter,"  is  based  on  Pushkin's  short  story  "Mistress  into 
Maid."   Most  of  the  behind-the-scenes  production  is  being  handled  by  graduate 


students  of  the  department,  while  the  acting  is  being  done  by  undergraduates.   The 
play  will  be  performed  in  Russian — with  English  subtitles.   Everyone  concerned  has 
put  a  great  deal  of  effort  into  the  production,  so  the  evening;  should  be  very  enter- 
taining.  Everyone  is  cordially  invited. 

YEVTUSHENKO  FILM  AVAILABLE 
On  the  recommendation  of  some  of  our  faculty  members,  the  Visual  Aids  Center  has  just 
purchased  for  distribution  a  20-minute  film,  (Y)evtushenko  at  Project  Artaud.   This 
film  shows  Evgenii  Evtushenko  reading  three  of  his  poems  in  Russian  at  a  poets'  con- 
clave in  the  U.S.  recently,  introduced  in  English  by  Allen  Ginsberg.   The  poems  are: 
Babii  Iar,  Gorod  "Da"  i  Gorod  "Net."  and  Jarmaka.   Evtushenko  puts  a  good  deal  of 
emotion  and  body  language  into  his  readings,  and  viewers  can  find  much  of  interest 
for  Russian  culture  as  well  as  literature.   As  to  language,  the  poet's  rapid,  manner- 
istic  delivery  makes  understanding  difficult  for  non-advanced  students,  with  the 
exception  of  Babii  Iar. 

FORMER  SOVIET  AMBASSADOR  NIKOLAJ  FEDORENKO 
Former  Soviet  ambassador  Nikolaj  Fedorenko  has  been  a  visiting  professor  in  Chinese 
literature  at  the  U.I.  this  spring.   He  has  given  several  public  lectures  on  his 
literary  and  diplomatic  careers  and  has  met  with  students  and  faculty. 

SLAVIC  FORUM 
The  Slavic  Dept.  is  starting  a  new  series  of  lectures  by  its  staff,  students,  and  in- 
vited guests  to  be  called  Slavic  Forum.   The  first  speaker  was  Prof.  Temira  Pachmuss 
speaking  on  "Dostoevsky ■ s  Influence  on  Contemporary  World  Literature."   The  talk  was 
given  on  April  25  at  the  Illini  Union. 

RUSSIAN  IN  THE  SUN— BETH  BYRNE  HEADED  FOR  HAWAII 
Elizabeth  Byrne  of  Mt.  Prospect,  IL,  a  senior  in  the  Russian  Teacher  Training  curric- 
ulum, has  been  accepted  for  graduate  study  at  the  U.  of  Hawaii,  and  has  been  awarded 
a  teaching  assistantship  for  her  first  year  there.   She  has  our  department's  best 
wishes  for  continued  success  in  her  academic  and  teaching  career. 

PUBLICATIONS  BY  PROFESSOR  PACHMUSS 
Omitted  in  previous  newsletters  was  the  publication  of  Intellect  and  Ideas  in  Action!  : 
Selected  Correspondence  of  Zinaida  Hippius  (Munich,  Wilhelm  Fink  Verlag,  1972 ),  784  pp. 
The  following  have  recently  been  published  by  Prof.  Pachmuss:  1. "Dostoevsky,  Werfel, 
and  Virginia  Woolf:  Influences  and  Confluences,"  Comparative  Literature  Studies.  Vol. 
IX,  No.  k    (Dec,  1972),  416-28;   2.  Introduction  to  Z.N.  Hippius,  Chortova  kukla/ 
Roman-Tsarevich  (Munich,  Wilhelm  Fink  Verlag,  1972,  v-xiv);   3.  "Lukacs,  George. 
Solzhenitsyn.  Translated  from  the  German  by  William  David  Graf,  Cambridge,  Mass., 
the  M.I.T.  Press,  197L" 

The  Modern  Language  Journal,  vol.  lvii  ( Jan. -Febr. 1973) ,  nos.  1-2,  pp  63-64. 
Also  included  in  Temira  Pachmuss'  publications  are:  Introduction  to"  Z.N.  Hippius, 
People  of  Today  (Munich:  Wilhelm  Fink  Verlag,  1973),  v-xxxiv;  and  Introduction  to  Z. 
N.  Hippius,  The  Victors  (Munich:  Wilhelm  Fink  Verlag,  1973) »  i-vii. 

GUEST  LECTURES  BY  PROFESSOR  PACHMUSS 
"The  Influence  of  Dostoevsky's  Literary  Themes  on  Contemporary  World  Literature"  is 
the  title  of  a  lecture  delivered  at  the  U.  of  N.Y.  at  Albany  in  Nov.  of  1972  and 
also  presented  at  the  U.  of  Ottawa  on  March  9,  1973.   On  the  same  date  Prof.  Pachmuss' 
paper  "The  Alienated  Man  in  World  Literature"  was  read  at  the  Conference  on  Twentieth 
Century  Literature  at  Louisville,  Ky. 


Hifrh  school  students  in  the  gifted  French  and  Spanish  classes  at  Mt.  Zion  High 
School,  Mt.  Zion,  IL  6254-9  are  teaching  French  and  Spanish  to  sixth-  and  seventh- 
grade  pupils.   Classes  are  held  for  twenty  minutes  on  alternating  days. 


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SPANISH,  ITALIAN  AND  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  —  by  Alice  L.  Anderson 

ADVANCED  COURSE  OFFERINGS  FOR  SUMMER  1973 
The  following  300-  and  400-level  courses  are  of  interest  to  advanced  undergraduate 
students  and  graduates.   For  further  information,  write  to  Prof.  Anthony  M. 
Pasquariello,  4080  FLB,  LI. I.,  Urbana,  IL  61801,  or  call  (217)  333-3390.   Included  in 
the  summer  courses  are:   Spanish  306  (The  Generation  of  1898),  Prof.  Lott,  2:00  M-F  & 
3:00  F;  Spanish  308  (Spanish-American  Modernismo),  Prof.  Leal,  12  F  &  1  M-F;  Spanish 
311  (Don  Quixote  and  the  Prose  of  the  Golden  Age),  Prof.  Porqueras-Mayo,  10  M-Th; 
Spanish  351  (Phonetics),  Prof.  Allen,  9  M-Th;  Spanish  352  (Syntax),  Prof.  Saltarelli, 
12  M-Th;  Spanish  371  (Spanish  for  Teachers),  Prof.  Flores,  11  M-Th;  Spanish  400 
(Beginning  Spanish  for  Graduate  Students),  8-10  M-Th;  Spanish  428  (Studies  in  Nine- 
teenth Century  Spanish  Literature),  Prof.  Lott,  1  M-Th;  Spanish  429  (Studies  in 
Golden  Age),  Prof.  Porqueras-Mayo,  11  M-Th;  Spanish  430  (Studies  in  Twentieth  Century 
Spanish-American  Literature),  Prof.  Leal,  3  M-Th;  and  Italian  400  (Beginning  Course 
for  Graduate  Students),  8-10  M-Th.   The  300-level  courses  may  be  taken  by  either 
undergraduate  or  graduate  students,  while  the  400-level  courses  are  for  graduates. 

FALL  COURSE  OFFERINGS 
Spanish  107,  Intensive  Intermediate  Spanish,  will  be  offered  in  the  fall  semester  of 
1973.   It  is  particularly  suitable  to  students  who  desire  to  finish  the  second  year 
of  Spanish  in  one  semester.   Conversation,  reading,  and  writing  are  emphasized  in  a 
balanced  manner.   Grammer  review,  readings,  cultural  history,  and  writing  are  includ- 
ed in  this  intensive  course,  which  is  conducted  in  Spanish.   It  meets  from  8-10  Tu-F 
for  eight  hours  credit. 

Catalan  301,  Studies  in  Catalan  Language,  is  offered  by  Prof.  Alberto  Porqueras- 
Mayo  on  Mondays,  3-5  p.m.  This  Catalan  language  course  will  be  followed  by  a  course 
in  Catalan  literature  in  the  spring  of  1974.  Catalan  is  a  language  very  much  alive, 
spoken  by  more  than  six  million  people  in  Catalonia  (with  Barcelona  as  capital), 
Valencia,  the  Balearic  Islands,  some  areas  in  the  South  of  France,  some  parts  of  the 
island  of  Sardinia  (in  Italy)  and  Catalan  is  the  official  language  of  a  small  nation 
in  the  Pyrenees,  Andorra. 

CONGRESS  ON  LATIN  AMERICAN  LITERATURE 
The  Instituto  Internacional  de  Literatura  Ibero-americano,  an  international  organiza- 
tion of  professors,  graduate  students,  authors  and  critics  concerned  with  Latin 
American  literature,  holds  two  congresses  every  two  years,  one  in  Latin  America  and 
the  other  in  North  America.   In  1973  the  first  session  took  place  in  Valdivia,  Chile, 
at  the  Universidad  Austral,  Jan.  3-6.   Its  theme  was  "The  Evolution  of  Language  in 
Contemporary  Latin  American  Poetry."   The  second  congress  on  "Fantasy  and  Magical 
Realism  in  Latin  American  Literature"  will  be  held  at  Mich.  State  U.,  Aug.  26-31. 

OAS  BOOKLET 
Image  of  Guatemala  is  the  latest  supplement  of  Americas  magazine  to  be  issued  by  the 
OAS.   The  profusely  illustrated  booklet  covers  all  important  aspects  of  this  Central 
American  country,  from  scenic  and  cultural  attractions  to  economic  and  social  progress 

Copies  of  Image  of  Guatemala  as  well  as  of  the  other  publications  in  the  IMAGE 
series  (Chile,  Colombia,  Dominican  Republic,  Ecuador,  Haiti,  Panama,  and  Peru)  may  be 
obtained,  for  25  cents  each,  by  writing:  (specify  English  or  Spanish  version) 
OAS,  Sales  and  Promotion  Division,  19th  St.  and  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W.,  Washington, 
D.C.  20006. 

ITALIAN  BULLETIN 
The  Italian  Culture  Council,  Inc.  publishes  a  monthly  bulletin  of  interest  to  teach- 
ers of  Italian.   For  more  information,  write  to:   Elvira  Adorno,  Executive  Director, 
1140  Edgewood  Pkwy.,  Union,  New  Jersey  07083 . 

EVENING  CLASS 
Spanish  417  (Golden  Age  Theater)  will  meet  this  fall  on  Tuesdays,  7-9  p.m.   It  is 
hoped  that  area  teachers  will  be  able  to  attend. 


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PUBLICATIONS  AND  FACULTY  NOTES 

Prof.  Emeritus  Henry  Kahane  has  published  "Cultural  Criteria  for  Western  Borrowings 
from  Byzantine  Greek"  (with  Rene"e  Kahane  and  Angelina  Pietrangeli ) ,  in  Homena.le  a" 
Antonio  Tovar.  po.  205-229;  and  with  Rene"e  Kahane,  Greek  in  Southern  Italy,  III: 
Byzantine  Notes,  Byzantinische  Zeitschrift.  66  (1973),  1-37.   In  February  Dr.  Kahane 
save  a  lecture  on  Dante  in  the  Great  Books  series  of  Unit  I.   He  also  attended  con- 
ferences in  Bloomington,  Ind.  on  Romance  Linguistics  and  on  Ordered  Rules. 

Robert  E.  Lott  has  published  "El  arte  descriptivo  de  Pfo  Baro.ia,"  Cuadernos 
Hisoanoamericanos,  Vol.  89,  Nos.  265-267  ("Homenaje  a  Baroja"),  Julv-Sept.  1972, 
Dp.  26-5*1.  i 

Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo  read  a  paper  on  March  17  at  the  U.  of  Okla.  on  "Tono  y 
forma  en  la  crftica  poe*tica  de  Da"maso  Alonso,"  at  the  Symposium  honoring  D.  Alonso, 
who  was  present  at  Oklahoma.  Prof.  Porqueras-Mayo  also  participated  at  the  Third 
International  Colloquium  of  Catalan  Studies,  April  9-1^,  at  the  U.  of  Cambridge  (Eng). 

Sourgeon  Baldwin  presented  a  lecture  at  the  March  19  meeting  of  the  Medieval 
Club  on  "The  Narrative  Techniques  of  Gonzalo  Berceo." 

David  Hershberg  recently  returned  from  Spain,  having  made  arrangements  for  the 
1973-7^  Year-Abroad  Program  in  Spain,  of  which  he  will  be  the  Resident  Director. 

Thomas  C.  Meehan  has  completed  a  70- page  monograph  on  Jenaro  Prieto  for  oubli- 
cation  in  a  volume  of  studies  of  the  Humanities  Research  Program,  of  the  Center  for 
Latin  American  Studies.   He  has  published  "Estructura  y  tema  de  El  sue no  de  los 
he* roes  por  Adolf o  Bioy  Casares,"  in  Kentucky  Romance  Quarterly.  Vol.  XX,  No.  1  (1973), 
pp.  31-58. 

Congratulations  to  Milton  M.  Azevedo  on  his  promotion  to  Asst.  Prof,  of  Spanish 
and  Portuguese  on  March  1,  1973«  Congratulations  also  on  the  successful  defense  of 
his  Ph.D.  thesis  (On   Passive  Sentences  in  English  and  Portuguese )  at  Cornell  U.  on 
Dec.  22,  1972.   He  also  delivered  a  lecture  on  "Current  Sociolinguistic  Problems  of 
Catalan"  in  the  Main  Hall  Forum,  Lawrence  U.  (Appleton,  Wise.)  on  Febr.  21,  1973* 

Dieter  Wanner  read  a  paper  at  the  Linguistic  Symposium  on  Romance  Languages  III 
(Ind.  U.-Bloomington),  on  March  29-31,  1973,  entitled  "The  Evolution  of  Romance  Clitic 
Order"  and  which  will  be  published  in  the  proceedings  of  the  Symposium. 

Alice  Anderson,  graduate  student  in  Spanish  linguistics,  will  publish  a  Teacher^ 
Guide  to  accompany  the  Spanish  Phonetic  Reading  Program  by  Pope  and  Medina,  a 
beginning  reading  program  for  bilingual  education.   It  will  be  published  in  summer, 
1973,  by  Research  Press  Co,  Champaign,  IL. 

Frank  H.  Nuessel,  Jr.  presented  a  paper  entitled  "Sentential  Complementation — 
An  Overview"  at  the  U.  of  Utah  in  Salt  Lake  City. 

Dear  Colleagues: 

The  next  issue  of  the  Newsletter  will  appear  in  Oct.  1973.   Any  items  of  general  in- 
terest sent  to  the  Editor  before  Sept.  15  will  be  included  in  the  first  issue.   For 
those  who  will  be  moving  during  the  summer,  a  change-of-address  form  is  orovided. 

I  would  like  to  take  this  opportunity  to  express  my  sincere  thanks  to  all  of  you 
who  have  been  helpful  in  contributing  information  and  articles  for  the  Newsletter.   I 
also  wish  to  thank  my  fellow  editors  of  this  past  year  for  their  earnest  hard  work 
and  cooperation:   Mike  Dunn,  Barbara  flmalley,  Edwin  Jahiel,  Dave  Chisholm  &  Elliot 
Cohen.   My  special  thanks  to  Prof.  Pasquariello  for  his  helpful  suggestions  &  advice. 

Our  sincere  and  best  wishes  for  a  pleasant  summer. 

Alice  L.  Anderson,  Editor 


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THE  UNIVERSITY    OF    ILLINOIS    FOREIGN   LANGUAGE    NEWSLETTER 

October,    1973  Director:     Prof.    Anthony  M.   Pasquariello 

Vol.    XXVII,    No.    1  Editor:      Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,    Jr. 

A  PLEASAOT    SURPRISE:      STUDENTS    LIKE   FOREIGN    LANGUAGESl 
The   gloomy   autumn  days   characteristic    of    the    U.I.    Urbana    carpus    at    this    time    cf    year 
have   been   considerably  brightened  by   the   results    of    a   survey    taken  last    Jan.    by   Frof, 
WJlga  M.    Rivers   of  the   U.I.    French  Dept.    in  preparation  for   a  paper  which   she   deli- 
vered  at    the   2l4.th   Annual    Georgetown   Round   Table    on  Languages   &  Linguistics.      Prof, 
Rivers'    survey,    consisting    of    an  8l-item  questionnaire  distributed   to    1821   students 
cf   12  languages   at    elementary,    intermediate,    and   advanced   levels,    shows    that   2/3r<ls 
of    these    students   do   not   feel    that    they   are   being  forced    to    spend    time    on  what    does 
not    interest    them,    desjTte    the    statements   of    various    activist    students    at    the   U.I0 
who   over    the   last   few  years    have   raised  the    issue    of    abolishing   the    Liberal    Arts   & 
Sciences    College's   foreign    language    requirement.       "It  would   seem,"   said  Prof,    'fivers, 
"that    tiie   large    number   of    students   who  would  like    to    learn  a    foreign  language   or    who 
enjoy   foreign  language    study  feel    that   they   are   in  a  minority  because    of   the    intense- 
propaganda   against   required  foreign  language    study   by   a   vocal   few." 

The   breakdown  of   completed   questionnaires   by   languages   was:      French   733  replies, 
German   518,    Latin  98,    Russian  129,    Spanish  180,    lesser-taught  languages   I63.      Of 
t.iese,    63%  were    fulfilling    the    LAS  requirement    (2   years    of    a   language    in  hign   school 
plus   2   semesters    in  the    same    language    at    the    U.I.)    or    departmental   requirements    in 
ether  colleges,    20%  were   electives,    8%  were   minors,    and  9%  were  majors.      A   surprising 
result    was  that    in   the    advanced  language   courses  only   38^  of    the    students   wero   majors,, 

The  results    of    the    questionnaire   tend    to   puncture   several    balloon-sized   myths 
about    foreign  language    studies   which    have   risen    over    the   horizon   in  the  past   years. 

Myth  l--"Moat    students    see    no  use   in  learning   a   foreign  language."      Only   29%  of 
the   respondants    (less    than  1/3)    see    no   use    in   the  study  of   a  foreign  language. 

Myth  2--"Students   are  not    against   foreign   languages   as   such,    just    against   re- 
quirements  of    any  kind."      Only   32%   (again  less   than   1/3)    were    against   requirerre  nts0 

Myth  3--"2nglish    is    spoken   everywhere,    so    there's   no  p>oint    in  learning   a    foreigr 
language."      Only   21%  of    the    respondants    (1    in  5 )   feel   this    way. 

Myth  [(.--"Americans   in  general,    and  those   in   the   Midwest,    feel    isolated  from  con- 
tact with  foreign   languages."     25%  of    those   surveyed    (1   in  I4.)    have   parents    wno    speak 
a  foreign  language,   and  66%  have  friends   fluent    in  a  foreign   tongue. 

Myth  5-- "Students   see    no  relevance    to    their    career    interests    in  foreign   language 
study."     \\S%   (just   under   1/2)    are   preparing   to   work   in  a    field   where    they    feel   com- 
mand of  a   foreign  language  will    be   useful.      These    fields    include    such   diverse   areas 
as    science,    antnropology,    philosophy,    music,    journalism,    business,    aviation,    law, 
inner   city  medicine,    linguistics,    engineering,    social    work    in  the   U.S.A.,    social  and 
religious   service    abroad,    diplomacy,    international    law,    interpreting,    library   sci- 
ence,   advertising,    speech   therapy,    archaeology,    astrophysics,    and  military  careers. 
This   I|.5%  is    far   larger    than   the   9%  who  declarod    themselves   foreign  language    majors,, 

Myth  6--"Grades    in  foreign  language   courses   lower   a    student's    average."      Stu- 
dents'   estimates   of  their   final  grades   in  foreign   language   courses   showed   82%  of   A' s 
and   B's,    as   compared   with  75%  f°r    their    overall    average,. 

Myth  7 — "For  most    students   at  the   elementary  and   intermediate   level,    foreign 
language    study   is    an  unpleasant   and   unprofitable    experience."      In  the    U.I.    beginning 
and   intermediate    courses,    20%  of    the   respondants    were   majors,    minors,    and  electives; 
of    the   remaining   80%  taking    the    language   as    a  requirement,    1/3   said    they   would   have 
studied   a  foreign  language    even   if   there   had   been  no  requirement,    and   another   1/3 
who    studied   a   language    because    of   a   requirement    said  that   they    enjoyed   studying   the 
language    anyway. 

Prof.    Rivers'    survey  further   showed  that   63%  of    elementary-intermediate    students 
want   more  listening    and    speaking,    and    62%  want    more  reading.      These    non-parallel   dis- 
tributions   are    due    to  an   overlap    of   students   who    want   more   of    both,    while    36-38%  a^ 
each  extreme   would   prefer   more   exclusively   aural-oral    or   reading-oriented  courses. 

Prof.    Rivers    summarized   the   preferences   of   the    LAS  requirement    students:      more 
listening   and   speaking,    more  reading    (not    only  literature  but    also    newspapers   and 
magazines),   more    culture  and   foreign   language   films.      Only   20%  are   interested    in   sci- 
entific  and  technical  reading,    and    no    one   wants  more   grammar.      "Grammar   kills   mel" 
was   an  oft-voiced  complaint  of    the    students    surveyed.      "Internalization  of   the   rules 
of   grammar    is  basic    to  all  active   use    of   a    language,"  stressed   Prof.    Rivers,    adding 
"but   it    is   equally   certain  that    strong    dislike   of   a  particular  aspect   of    study 


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impedea   effective    learning."      She   feels   that    the   learning   of  grammar   should   be    made 
more   functional   and  integrated  more    closely   with  natural    language    activities.       "We 
also    need    to  find   out    just  how  much  grammar  and    what    areas   of  grammar    in  particular 
are   essential   for   comprehension  of   the   written  and   spoken  word,"   she    added. 

Prof.    Rivers   concluded  that   foreign   language    interest    is    far  from  lacking   among 
students.       "We   have    often  bemoaned   the    fact    that    we   spend  much  of  our   time  producing 
more    teachers   of  future   foreign  language    teachers    in  a   seemingly  unending   cycle,"    she 
contended.       "Surely   this    is    because  we    have   not  realized  who   many  of   our    students 
really  were."     Prof.    Rivers   feels   that   our    students    come   from  broader  backgrounds   and 
bring   with    them  far  more  good  will    than  has   hitherto   been  realized.      "It    is   for   us," 
she   stated   in  conclusion,    "to  use  our   imagination  in  devising  courses  which  will  keep 
this    interested   group    with  us   and  attract  more  of    their   kind." 

[The  full   text   of  Prof.    Rivers' article   entitled   "The    Non-Major:      Tailoring   the 
Course    to    the   Person — Not    the   Image"  will   be  published  both   in   the   Association  of 
Departments   of  Foreign  Languages'    ADFL  Bulletin   (Dec.    1973)   and   in  Language   and   In- 
ternational   Studies    (ed.    Jankowsky,    Washington:      Georgetown  Univ.,    forthcoming ) ,T~ 

ACTFL  MEMBERSHIP    DRIVE 
The    Illinois    Foreign  Language   Teachers   Association,    as    ACTFL  constituent   for    our 
state,    is    sponsoring   a    membership    drive   for   the    American   Council  on  the    Teaching   of 
Foreign   Languages    in   the   hopes   of   doubling  the   111.    enrollment.      Membership   in  the 
ACTFL   includes   a   year's    subscription   to   Foreign   Language    Annals    and    to   Ac  c  e  nt    on 
ACTFL  and  other  reports   as   issued.      Yearly  dues   are   $10   for  U.S.    members^    $12   for 
foreign  members,    and   $6  for    student  members.      ACTFL   is    the    national   organization 
which   includes    all   foreign  language   teachers,    and  its   publications    help    its   members 
keep   abreast   of    the    latest   developments   in  the  profession.      For  further    information, 
contact   Dr.    Florence    Steiner    (IFLTA   immediate  past  president    and   currently    state 
membership    chairman)    at    Glenbrook   S.    H. S.,    i;000   W.    Lake   Ave.,    Glenview,    IL  6002£o 

MIDWEST  MLA 
The   15th  annual   meeting   of   the   Midwest   Modern  Language   Association  will   be   held   Nov. 
1-3   at   the    Conrad   Hilton,    Chicago,   with  the  program  theme    "Lost   Literature:      Disco- 
very and   Rediscovery."      Speakers    include   Robert    Scholes  on    "Stillborn   Literature"   and 
Jay  Martin  on   "Jump    Back,    Honey! :      Paul   Laurence   Dunbar    and   the   Rediscovery   of   Amer- 
ican Poetics."     There  will  be    3^  sections  in  English   and   foreign  languages   as   well  as 
forums   on  the    following    topics:      Current    Issues   in  Rhetorical   Theory,    Current    Issues 
in   Stylistics,    Approaches   to  the   Teaching   of  Writing,    Problems   in  the  Definition  of 
Feminist    Criticism,    The   Study  and    Teaching    of   Literary    History,    Currant    Issues    in 
American  Studies,    The   Teaching   of  Minority  Literatures,   and  Alternatives   to   the    Con- 
ventional  Design   of   the    Literary    Course.      Inquiries   about    MMLA,    the   convention,    or 
membership    applications    should   be  sent    to    Gerald  L.    Bruns,    Exec.    Secty.,    MMLA,    Eng- 
lish/Philosophy  Bldg.,    Univ.    of    Iowa,    Iowa    City,    IA  £221|0. 

IFLTA   CONVENTION 
The   annual   convention  of   the    Illinois   Foreign   Language   Teachers   Association  will  be 
held   Nov.   2-3  at  the    Sheraton  Blackstone   Hotel,    Chicago.      The  main  theme   is    "Job 
Security"   and  featured   speakers   will   be   Miss   Barbara   Ort  of   the  Mich.    Dept.   of   Edu- 
cation and   Prof.    Robert   LaFayette,    Ind.    Univ.      Discussions  will   center  on  what    is 
being  done   to  maintain  or    increase   enrollment  in  foreign  language   classes,, 

ACTFL  CONVENTION 
The    7th  annual  convention  of   the    American   Council  on  the   Teaching  of  Foreign  Lan- 
guages  will   be   held   Nov.    22-25   in  Boston,    with  pre-conference   workshops   on   Nov.    19- 
21.      The   theme    is    "Many   Goals--Many  Roles"  and   the   speakers    include   Kai-yu    Hsu    ( Cal. 
State   Univ.)    on    "Of  Man  and   Letters    in  the   People's   Republic    of    China";    Jack  Frymier 
(Ohio    State   Univ.)   on    "A   School  for  Tomorrow";    and    C.    Edward   Scebold    (ACTFL  Exec. 
Secty.)    on    "ACTFL  in  Wonderland."      There   will   be   specific    sessions   in  English  and 
foreign  languages.      The  pre-conference   workshops   will    deal   with   Bilingual    Education, 
The    Francophone   World    in  the   French    Classroom,    Relevant    Teacher    Education  for    the 
1970' s,    and    Humanizing  Foreign  Language    Instruction. 

NEWSLETTER    FOUNDER    HONORED 
On  Wednesday,    May   16,    the    U.I.    Dept.    of    Spanish-Italian-Por tuguese    dedicated   its 


faculty-student    lounge    in  1|136  FLB   to    the   memory   of   the    late   John  and   Margaret    Van 
iiorne .      Prof.    Van    Home    was    head  of    the    departrent    in   1939-57   and    founded    this    News- 
letter   in   I9I4.8.      The   program  began  with  an   afternoon  lecture  by  Prof.    Richard    J.     '/al- 
ter,   Prof.    &  Mrs.    Van   Home's   grandson,    now   at    the    Dept.    of    History,    Washington  Univ. 
St.    Louis,    speaking    on    "Urban    Guerrilla   Warfare    in   Argentina    and   Uruguay."      Later 
that   evening   formal   dedicatory  ceremonies   were    held  with   Prof.    Anthony  M.    l-'asquer- 
iello,    department    head,    handling  introductions,    and   Prof.    Emeritus    Henry   H.    Kahane 
reminiscing   on   the  roles    of    both   John  and   Margaret    Van   Home    in   the   development    and 
growth  of    the    department.      Prof.    Kahane    made   special   mention  of   Prof.    Van    -iorne's 
contribution   to    the   language    teacaers   in  the    state  of   111.    as    founder  and   first    dir- 
ector  of    the    Newsletter.      Following   Prof.    Kahane' s   remarks,    a  reception  was    held   in 
tne    John   &  Margaret    Van    Home    Hoom.      Members   of    the    Van   Home    family   who   attended 
included    (in  addition  to   Prof.    &  Mrs.    Walter)   Mrs.    David  Walter    (Margaret    Van    Home, 
the    Van    Homes'    daughter),    Mrs.    Burt   Warren    (claire   Walter,    their    granddaughter),    and 
Mrs.    Warren's    children,    Jaime   age    5,    Kathy  age    3    (the   Van  Homes'    great-grandcaildren). 

THE    CLASSICS    NOTES   --    by   Prof.    H.    Michael    Dunn 

LECTURES   A:MD  hSSTI-flGS 
Profs.    M.    Marcovich  and   J.    K.    Newman  participa ted   in  the   2nd   International    Congress 
of    Neo-Latin   Studies,    Univ.    of   Amsterdam,    Aug.    I9-2I4..      Prof.    Marcovich  read   a   raper, 
"The    loems   of  Franciscus    Natalis    ( II4  69-1  ih?- )»  "  while   Prof.    Newman  read   0  paper,    "Ora- 
zio,    Ariosto   and   Orazio   Ariosto, "  both  to   appear    in    Acta    Conventus    Neo-La tlni 
Amstel.idamensls. 

Prof.    J.    L.    Heller   read   a  paper    "Linnaeus   on   Sumptoi.s    Books,    1753"   at    tne     lunt 
Botanical   Library,    Carnegie-Mellon  Univ.,    Pittsburgh,    June   2.      This   presentation  was 
part   of  the    celebration  of   the    opening  of   the    library's    newly   acquired   Strandell   col- 
lection of    Linnaeana.      Other    contributions    came   from  Swedish    and   British  scholars. 

Prof.    Marcovich  was  guest    of    the    Spanish    Consejo    Superior   de    Investigaciones 
Cientificas,    Instituto    Antonio   de    Nebrija,    May    1-6.      He  gave   a   colloquium  on    "Aes- 
chylus,   Agamemnon"  at    the   Univ.    of  Madrid,    and   another   on    "The    Heraclitean  Froblems" 
at    the    Consejo    Superior,    both  papers    to    be   published   in   Smerita    (Madrid). 

PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.    J.    L.    Heller  revised    and    annotated   an    English  translation  of    the  preface   by 
Leonhart   Fuchs    to   his    De   h i s t or i a   3 1 i rp i urn  comnentaril    (15l4-2)0 

Prof.    M.    Marcovich   has  published   during    the    summer   6   articles,    among   them    "80 
Fresh   Hippolytean  Emendations"   in  Festschrift   M.D.    Petrusevski ;    "Voces    animantium  and 
Suetonius"   in  Festschrif t   M.    gudimlr;    "On   the    Davidiad   of    Marcus   Marulus    ( 3450-1 52i|. ) " 
in  Acta    Conventus    Neo-Latini    Lovaniensis    (Munich,    1973)o 

Prof.    J.    J.    Bateman   has   published  his   ntudy   on    "The    Text    of   Erasmus1    De   recta 
Latini    Graecique   sermonis   pronuntiatione   Dialogus"    in   Acta   Conventus    Neo-Latini 
Lovanisnsis    (Munich.    1973) o 

Prof.    Marcovich  currently  has   2$  other    articles   in  print. 

Prof,    D.    F.    Bright    has    submitted   for   print    an  article   on    "Conf ectum  earn! 
munus:      Catullus    68. 


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RECOGNITIONS 
Prof.    D.    J.    Taylor  received   a  faculty   summer  fellowship    to    continue    work  on   his   book 
Declinatio ;      A   Study    of    the    Linguistic   Theory    of  Marcus   Terentius    Varro.      The  mono- 
graph will    be    forthcoming   in  the  series    "Studies    in  the    History    of    Linguistics,"   Ben- 
jamins Publishing,    Amsterdam. 

Prof.    M.    Marcovich   was    appointed   member    of    the   Program   Committee    of    the    3rd    In- 
ternational   Colloquium  on  Ancient  Philosophy,    to    be    held   in  Toledo,    Spain,    Aug.    26- 
30,    197U»    as    the    sole   representative   from    the   U.S.A.      He    is    also    serving    on  the    Amer- 
ican Philological   Association's    8-man  Advisory    Committee   on  the    Thesaurus   Linguae 
Graecae. 

THE   LATIN   CONFERENCE 
36   high-school   Latin  students   attended    the    8th  annual    Latin    Conference   at   the   U.I. 
for   a  week   this  past   June.      Various   members   of    tne    department  held   classes    in   Greek 
and  Roman   drama,    mytnology,    Greek  and    Latin  poetry,    and   ancient    history.      There    were 
chariot    races,    plays,    banquets,    and   folk  dances   as  well.      The    students   of  tne 


ancients   even  did   a  bit    of    study  on  the    computer    (faster    than  the    abacus).      The   con- 
ference   was    directed  by  Prof.    Richard   T.    Scanlan. 

The    annual  meeting   of    the    111.    Classical    Conference   will   be    held  at    the   U.I.    on 
Feb.    7-9.      Please   mark  these    dates   on  your    calendar   and   be    sure   to    attend. 

Prof.    H.    Michael   Dunn   again  assisted   the    LAS   College    office    advising   incoming 
freshmen   in   the    areas   of   humanities   and    foreign  languages. 

ARCHAEOLOGICAL   INSTITUTE    OF    AMERICA 
The   first    lecture    of   the    Central    111.    Society   of  the    AIA  was   delivered   by  Prof,    Don- 
ald Lathrop   on    "Shaman's    Stools   and    the   Time    Depth  of   Tropical   Forest    Culture."   The 
Dept.    of   Anthropology   shared  the   sponsorship. 

DISTINGUISHED   VISITORS 
On  Oct.    10-12    the    Classics   Dept.    at   Urbana  will  be   host   of    the    3rd  meeting   of    the    Am- 
erican Philological    Association  Advisory    Committee    on  t he    Thesaurus    Linguae    Graecae. 
a  multi-million  computor-assisted  project.      The    members   of   the    committee   are   Profs. 
Winfried   Btthler    (Hamburg),    Albert   Henrichs    (Harvard),    Bernard  M.   W.    Knox    (Center  for 
Hellenic    Studie s,  Washington),    Miroslav  Marcovich    (U.I.    Urbana),    Bruce   M.    Metzger 
(Princeton  Theological    Seminary),    Lionel  Pearson    (Stanford),    John  M.    Rist    (Univ.    of 
Toronto),    and  Douglas    C.    C.    Young    (Univ.    of    N.C.).      The    director   of   the    TLG  project 
is   Prof.    Theodore   F.    Brunner    (Univ.    of    Cal.,    Irvine),, 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES  —   by  Prof.    Barbara   Smalley 

PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.    Herbert   Knust  recently  published    "Schwejk  und  kein  Ende"   in  Ge rmano - SI a vi c a 
(vol.    1,    spring    1973),    65-85,    and  another   article    (in  collaboration  with  Leonie   Marx) 
entitled    "Brechts   Lux  in   tenebrist"2,    Monatshef te    (vol.    65,    no.    2,    summer   1973),    117- 
2$,      His  review  of  "Die    Zeit    im  Drama  by  Peter  Ptftz    (GKttingen,    1970)    appears    in   JEPG, 
(LXII,    1973),    103-0FT"  Prof.    Knust    has   been   elected   to    the    Editorial    Advisory   BoarT" 
of    Germano-Slavlca,    the    Canadian   journal    of   Germanic    and    Slavic    comparative   studies. 
Prof.    Francois   Jost   has  recently  published   the    following:      "Evaluation  esthe- 


tique    et   genologie :        l'exemple    du    sonnet,"    Neohelicon,    Ac ta   Comparationis    Litterarum 
Universarum    (I,    1973),    66-79;    "Tiegel    Tieck:      William  Lovell   et    Le   paysan  perverti," 
Etudes   germaniques,     (XXVIII,    1973),    29-^8. 

Prof.    Roc co  Montano    has   completed  and  published    the    two  following   volumes: 
Shakespeare    (Firenza:    Accademia);    Limit!   e_  valore    di   Machiavelli    (Firenza:    Sanson!),, 
Prof.   Montano 's   article,    "L'umanesimo   giuridico, "   appears   in  Filosof la    (April   1973). 


INTERDISCIPLINARY   LECTURE   SERIES 
In  connection  with  the   Kurt    Schwitters   and    George   Grosz   exhibitions   in  the   Krannert 
Art  Museum,    Champaign,    Oct.    20-Nov.   10,    the   Program  in  Comparative   Literature,    in  co- 
operation with  the   Dept.    of   Germanic   Languages   &  Literatures,    the   Division  of   Art 
History,    the    George  Miller  Univ.    Lecture    Committee   has  planned  an  interdisciplinary 
lecture    series. 

The    first   two  lectures  will   draw  upon  the   material   from  the   exhibitions   in  order 
to  define    the  unique  contribution  of   each  artist   to   the    cultural   life  of  the    times,, 
We  would   like    to    invite   Dr.    Kate    Steinitz    (Artist,    Curator,    UCLA  Art   Library)   who 
knew  Schwitters  personally  and   who  collaborated  on  the   original   exhibition  at   the   Mu- 
seum of   Modern   Art   in  New  York   to    speak  on  the  relationship   between   art  and  litera- 
ture  in   Schwitters'   works.      Prof.    Herbert  Knust    (U.I.),    vho  was   instrumental   in  arr- 
anging  the   Grosz   Exhibition  as   a   joint   venture   between  the  U.I.   and   Harvard  and  who 
also  prepared  the    catalogue  for    the    exhibition,    has  offered  to   lecture  on  Grosz. 
Prof.    Alex  Ringer    (U.I„)    has  kindly  agreed   to   lecture  on  the  music   of    that   period 
(especially   in  relation  to    satire),    whereas   Prof.    Emeritus    Henry   Kahane   will  present 
a   centennial   lecture   on  the    great   theatre   director    Max  Reinhardt.      The    other  lectures 
In   the    series   would    investigate   several   questions   suggested  by  the   works    of    Grosz   and 
Schwitters.      Reinhold      Grimm,    Alexander     Hohlfeld   Prof,    of   German  &   Comparative    Lit- 
erature   at   the   Univ.    of   Wise,    Madison,    and  one   of   the  world  authorities  on   Brecht, 
has   agreed  to    speak   on    "Bertolt   Brecht' s   War   Primer. "      In  this    talk,    which  will   be 
illustrated   by   a   number   of   slides,    he    will    snow  how   Brecht    used   montage    techniques 
for  the   purpose    of    anti-war  propaganda.      The    subject    is   especially  appropriate   be- 
cause   the    Grosz    sketches    to  be   displayed  at   the    Krannert   Museum  were   made   for    the 


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Berlin  production  of    Brecht's    stage   adaptation  of    'lasek's    Schweyk.      Jost    !Ierriand, 
Vilas   Frof.    of   German  at    the    Univ.    of    Wise,    Madison,    and  one  of    the   few   scholars 
wr.o    have    consistently    synthesized  the   fine    arts   and  literary  history    in   their    teach- 
inc;   and  i  ublications,    will    speak   on   the    topic:    "Meister   Fi  dus :    From  Jugendstil    Hippie 
to   Aryan  Fad i sin.  "      In  this    illustrated   lecture    Prof.     *errnand  will   trace    the    manifes- 
tations   of   conservative   forces    in  art,    literature,    politics,    and  philosophy   in  cen- 
tral   Europe   during   the    first   half  of  the    20th  century.       rlis    talk   will   also  relate 
so.ie    disputed   ideological    trends   of  the    1920' 3    to    youth   movements   on   the    modern    Amer- 
ican scene.      Finally,    Prof.    Richard   Figge    (U.I.)    has    volunteered   to    speak  on   the    use 
of   montage   in  the    film  of    the    twenties. 

The   lecture    series   would  be    of    interest   to  a   general  audience,    in  particular    to 
students    and  faculty   engaged    in  art,    art   history,    history,    literature,    music,    philo- 
acp'iy,    political    science,    and   theatre.      In  addition,    students    in  several    courses   will 
se    dealing   with   material   related  both  to    the    works   on  exhibition  and   to    the    subjects 
t.nat    will   be   discussed  in  the    lecture.      The    exact   dates   of   tne    individual   lectures 
will   be    announced   shortly. 

MSETI NGS 
The     j-i.erican   Comparative    Literature    Association  will   have   its    5th  Triennial   Meeting; 
In  Los    Angeles,    Apr.    lj-6,    197U*      There   will   be   5   sessions   with    the   following   themes: 
I.    Symbolism;    II.    Literatyro   &   the    Social    Sciences;    III.    Baroque;    IV.    Status   of   the 
Profession;    V.    Film.      Prof.    Francois    Jost   has  been   appointed  chairman  of   tne    section 
on   Status  of   the   Profession.      Information  about    these  meetings    is    available   in  the 
Comparative   Literature    Office,    2070  FLB,    Urbana. 

The   ?th  Congress  of  the    International    Comparative    Literature   Association,    which 
took   place   last    Aug.    13-19    in  Montreal   and    Ottawa,    Canada,    was   attended   by  approxi- 
mately liOQ   persons  from  over    30   countries.      Three   U.I.    faculty  members    (A.    Owen   Ald- 
ridge,    Francois    Jost,    and     Jrnest    Wolff)   participated  in   the   congress.      JUrgen    "ioegl, 
Ph.D.    candidate    in   the    Comparative    Literature   Program,    represented   the    U.I,    students. 
Themes  of    tne    congress   were    The   Literatures   of  the    Americas;    Dependence,    Independence, 
Interdependence;    and    Comparative   Literature   and   Modern    Literary    Scholarship.      Two    sym- 
pesia  were    held   during   the    congress,    an   East-'..'est    Symposium    (with  Prof.    Francois    Jost 
as    chairman)    and   an    Africa -America   Symposium.      Papers   presented    during   these    meetings 
are    expected    to   appear    in  print   early   in  1975. 

During  his    sabbatical    leave    in   the    spring  of  1973>    Prof.    Rocco    Montano   took  part 
In   various    activities   commemorating   the  centenary   of    Alessandro  Manzoni,    whom  Frof. 
Montano   describes   as   the    "greatest   European  novelist    in   the  19th  century."      During 
May   9-11   Prof.    Montano  gave    a   seminar   on  Manzoni  at   the    Liceo    Classico   in  Matera;    on 
May    15  he    delivered  a    lecture    on    "Manzoni   e    noi"  at   the    Univ.    of    Salerno;   from  May 
20-29    he    took  part    in  a   symposium  sponsored  by    the    City   of   Milan  and  the    Centro    Nazi- 
onale   di    Studi   Manzoniani  for   the    official   national    celebration  of   Manzoni 's    Centen- 
ary.     The   leading   Italian    scholars   in  the   field   delivered   lectures    at   this    symposium; 
Prof.    Montano    spoke   on   "Manzoni   in  America."      These   lectures   will   be  published  by   the 
Centro    Nazionale   di    Studi  Manzoniani. 

A  colloquium  on    "The    Coppet    Group"  will    take   place    in  early   July,    197l|,    at   Mme 
de    Stael's    castle   in   Coppet,    near    Geneva,    Switzerland.      Provisionally   the    colloquium 
will    include  papers   followed  by   discussions,    an  excursion,    a   memorial   ceremony   at   Mme 
de    Stae'l's    tomb,    and   a   candlelight   reception  at   the    castle.      Persons    interested   in 
attending    (and  possibly  giving    a  paper)    should   write   Mme    B.    d'Andlau,    Vor£,    61110 
Remalard,    France, 

FFENCH  NOTES   --   by  Prof.    Edwin   Jahiel 

PROF.    NELSON  REPLACES   PROF.    MAI  NOUS    AS    HEAD 
Frof.    Bo    H.    Mainous,    after   several    years    as    head   of   the    French  Dept.,    resigned  last 
June   in  order    to   assume   a    new  position  at   the   U.I.,    director   of    the   Unit   on  Foreign 
Language    Research,    while,    of  course,    retaining  his   professorship    in  French,      The   new 
head   is   Prof.    Robert    J.    Nelson,    who  assumed   duties    last   summer    as    acting    head,    and  in 
Aug.    1973   as    head  of   the    Dept.    of   French.      Prof 3.    Mainous    and   Nelson  are    quite   well 
known  to  cur  readers,    many   of    whom  have   met    them    in  person  on  numerous    occasions, 
locally    in  state   meetings    (e.g.    AATF),    and   at   national    conference. 

MOLIERE 
A   story:      "Who,"    the   aging    Sun  King    (Louis    XIV)   asked   Boileau,    Racine's   fellow   his- 


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toriographer    at    Versailles,    "would    you  consider   the    finest    of    the   great  writers   hon- 
oring   France    during  my  reign?"      "Moliere,    Your   Majesty,"  came   the  reply.      "I    would 
not    have   thought    so,"    said   Louis   reflectively,    "but   you  know  more    about    such   things 
than  I."      (The   story  was   told  by  Racine's   son.) 

So,    Moliere 's   L' Avare,    one   of    the   great   plays  by   the   Master,    will   be   performed 
by  the   ever-excellent    Treteau  de   Paris    (actually  by  the    Theatre    National   de   l'Est   Pa- 
risien,    director   Guy  Retore),    on  Monday,    Oct.    29,    at    the    Festival   Theatre   of  the    Krai* 
nert    Center,    Urbana,    IL  61801.      This  year   as  an  experiment    and   a  public    service    there 
will   be   2   performances,    a  3  Pm  matinee    (to  approximately   5:15)    and  an  8  pm  evening 
performance    (to   approximately  10:15).      In  spite   of  the   2  performances,    there   may  well 
be    a   sell-out   of    tickets,    so  we   urge    you  to   order   soon,    by  mail   or   at   the   Krannert 
Box   Office.      Prices:      general  public    $3*75,    3*25,    3«00;    students    (college,    high  schcol 
and  their  teachers)    $2.75,    2.50,    2.25|   additional  10$  discount   for   group   orders   of  25 
or  more    tickets.      Do  not  miss   what  will   be    an  exceptional    event,    and   the  most   fitting 
celebration  of   Moliere 's   tricentenary. 

Speaking  of  Moliere,    the    French   Dept.    has   been  celebrating  all   along   during   the 
300th   anniversary  of   the    playwright's   death  in  1673*      There    have  been   special   courses 
exhibits,    and   last    summer,    a  highly  successful  evening,    "Une    soiree    du  theatre    de 
Moliere."      It  consisted  of  excerpts  from  3  pl&ys,   produced  and   directed    (as  well  as 
acted)   by  Prof.    F.    W.    Nachtmann,    an   incorrigible   thespian,    and  with  the   following 
students   as   actors:      Mary   Lynch,    Steve    Hackett,    Vera   Lidia   Krawczuk,    Lorrie    Riordan, 
Barbara   Gallisath,    Elizabeth   Horton,    Steve   Foster,    Jim  Hurst,    Terry    Jones.      Involved 
in  the  production  were    James    Campbell,    Vera   Lidia  Krawczuk,    Andrew   Horton,    Judy  Myers. 

And   speaking   of   theatre,    Prof.    Charles    Shattuck,    a   Francophile  professor    of  Eng- 
lish and   a   true   theatre   man,    has    just  completed  directing  a    very  good  production  of 
Waiting   for   Godot   at  the   Urbana  Depot   Theatre,    an   off-campus   institution  which   though 
independent,    is   closely  allied  to   the   U.I.    and    has   been   supplementing    our   theatrical 
campus  productions  with  much  energy  and  originality  for   a  long  time. 

PROF.    RIVERS 
During   the  fall    semester   Prof.    Wilga   Rivers    is   an  associate    in  the    Center   for    Ad- 
vanced Study,    completing  work  on  her  Practical    Guide   to   the   Teaching   of  French  for 
the   Oxford  Univ.    Press.      Collaborators  at   the    U.I. ,    Buffalo,    Knoxville,    and  Montreal 
are  paralleling  the  material  for   separate    Guides   for    German,    Spanish,    and  English  as 
a   second  language.      In   June,    Prof.    Rivers    attended  the    1st    International   ATESOL    Con- 
ference   in  Dublin,    Ireland,    where   she   gave   one  of    the   main   conference  papers   on 
"Testing   and  Student    Learning"   and   organized   3   workshops    in  testing    in   English   as   a 
second  language.      In  Oct.    she   will  be    speaking   at  fall  conferences  of  language   teach- 
ers  in  Philadelphia   and   Calgary.      One   of  Prof.   Rivers'   recent   articles    is  being   trans- 
lated into  Russian  in  Moscow  for    Russian  Abroad,    which  is    distributed  in  80  countries, 

AATF    NATIONAL  FRENCH   CONTEST 
The    National   French  Contest   sponsored  by  the    American   Association  of   Teachers   of 
French   is   a  contest,   not   a   test;    there   are   no  failures,    but    varying   degrees   of 
achievement.      Each  participant  receives   a  certificate,    and  local  winners  are   awarded 
the   Fleur-de-Lis  pin.      The   next  testing  dates   are  Mar.    30-Apr.    6,    19714-.      For  more 
information  write    (for  elementary  schools)   Al   Jekenta,    255  S.    Lasky  Dr.,    Beverly 
Hills,    CA  90212;    (for  secondary  schools)    Sidney   L.    Teitelbaum,    Box  86,    Plalnview,    NY 
H8O3.      Only  students   of   AATF  members   may  enter. 

STAFF   NOTES 
Profs.    Barbara  Bowen  and  Emile   Talbot   have  been  promoted   to   full  professor   and   asso- 
ciate professor   respectively.      Prof.    Talbot    is   currently    doing  research  in  France, 

Prof.    Stanley   Gray    is  on  a  research-and-writing   leave    (on  campus)    this    year. 

Prof,    R.    J.    Nelson  has    just   published    "Speaking    of   Speaking,"   Improving    College 
and   University   Teaching    (vol.    21,    no.    2,    spring  1973),    l50-53«      This   number   of  the 
journal    is    devoted  to  teaching   the   humanities. 


LE    BON  MOT 
The   following   is    a   news   item  from  France  which  shows    the    continuing  passion  of    the 
French  for    their    language; 

Sur   instruction   du  Premier  Ministre,    des    commissions    de   terminologie    avaient 
et5    constitutes   en  1970   dans   un  certain  nombre    de   ministeres   en   vue   de   faire   l'inven- 


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taire    du    vocabulaire   utilise    dans    cnaque    secteur   d'activite,    de    l'enriehir   et    de    le 
clarii'ier    en  proposant   des   equivalents   de   bon  aloi    a  des   expressions   etrangeres    dif- 
I'icilement   assimilable  s.      Les    travaux   de    six  commissions    viennent    de   faire    l'objet 
d'arretes    contresii-nes  par   le   ministre    de    l'Education    nationale    (i.ndustrie  petroli- 
ere,    techniques    spatiales,    techniques    nucleairea,    equipement    et   logement,    transports, 
radiotele vision) :    ils    ont   ete  publies   au    Journal    on  iciel    du   17    Janvier   1973.      D'- 
autres   coronissions   de1  oseront    leurs    conclusions    dans    le    courant    de    l'annee    1973    (eco- 
norr.ie  et   finances,    sante  publique,    construction   aeronautioue ,    telecommunications,    in- 
format inue,    defense    nationale,    Industrie    automobile,    sports,    tourisme).      Tous    les 
termes   approuves  par   l'Academie  francaise    seront    desormais    employes   dans    les    docu- 
ments  enanant   de    1' adminis tration  et   leur   usape    sera  recommande    au  public.      Ils   fer- 
ont    l'objet   d'une    publication  commune   dans    La   banque   des   mots,    revue   semestrielle    de 
terminologie    constituant    un   complement  permanent    au    dictionnaire    du   francais    contem- 
pcrain. 

COPPET   COLLOQUIUM 
F'rench  scholars,    teachers,    and    students   may    be    interested   in  the    colloauium  on    "The 
Cor  pet    Group"    to    be    held    in   July   1974   i°    Switzerland.      An  announcement    about    this 
colloquium   is    included    in   Comparative    Literature    Notes   under    "MEETINGS"   on  page    5« 

GERMANIC    MOTES    --    by    Prof.    Karl -Heinz    Schoeps 

STAFF    MEWS 
The    Germanic    Dept  .   welcomes    back  Prof.    James   McGlathery  from  a    sabbatical    in  Austria 
and  Prof.    Elmer   Antonsen  from  a   year  at   the   Univ.    of   N„ C.      Prof.    Antonsen  assumed   the 
headship    of  the    department   when  Frof.    H.    G.    Haile    stepped  down  after  almost   10   years 
of  meritorious   service. 

We    also  welcome    2   visiting  faculty  members    this   fall:      Mrs.    Inger   Birgitta 
Bjornnson  and   Prof.    (Dr.)    Hans    lienningo      Mrs.    Bjornsson  comes    to   us    from   Goteborg, 
Sweden,    where   s he    is    a  teacher  of    Swedish   and   English  in   a   secondary    school.      We    are 
particularly  pleased   to    have    a  scholar  from   the    Deutsche    Demokratiscbe   Republik    (DDR) 
with  us:    Prof.    Uenning,    visiting  professor    of    German   and    Comparative    Literature,    is 
the    director   of  the   central   library   of    the    Nationale   Forschungs-   und   Gedenkstatten  in 
'-.'eimar,    and   a  renowned   Goethe    scholar. 

The    Germanic    Dept.    takes  pleasure   in   announcing    the   promotions    of   Assoc.    Prof. 
Herbert   Knust   to    full  professor   and    Instructor    Lathrop    Johnson   to   assistant   professor, 

The  following   members   of    the    department    are   on  leave   for    1973-74:      Prof,    '/alter 
'iollerer   and   Frof.    Clayton  Gray. 

AUSTRIA-ILLINOIS    EXCHANGE  I  ROGRAM 
Now   in   its    3rd  year   of   operation,    the    U.I.'s   venture    into    Austria    is    gaining    in  repu- 
tation and    stability.      Prof.    Schier,    the    director    in   Baden,    and   his    administrative 
assistant,    Edward   Anderson,    have    charge   of   18   participants   in   this    year's    Study  Pro- 
gram  in  Austria.      13   of    the    students  come   from    the   Urbana  campus,    and    3   from   Chicago 
Circle,    with  1  each  from  Loyola  and   De   Paul. 

NEW I  AUSTRIA-ILLINOIS  TEACHER  EXCHANGE:  A  recent  amendment  to  the  school  code 
now  makes  it  possible  for  the  Austria-Ill.  Exchange  Program  to  place  111.  junior  and 
senior  high  school  teachers  in  1-year  positions  in  Austrian  schools,  filling  the  va- 
cancies here  with  qualified  Austrian  exchange  teachers.  In  most  cases,  the  exchange 
will  probably  take  place  between  and  111.  German  teacher  to  teach  English  and  an  Aus- 
trian English  teacher  to  take  over  German  classes  here,  but  111.  teachers  in  otner 
fields   are    also  encouraged   to    apply. 

Teachers   Interested  in  exchange  positions  for    1974-75   should  write  for    further 
information  and   application  materials   before    Christmas    to   the   director  :      Prof.    Lath- 
rop  P.    Johnson,    Austria-Ill.    Exchange   Program,    Dept.    of    Germanic   Languages,    3072   FLB, 
U.T.,    Urbana,    IL   61801. 

STUDENT    ENROLLMENT    IN   GERMAN    &  SCANDINAVIAN 
Student   enrollment   in  German  and    Scandinavian  has    again  increased   this   year.      The 
grand    totals   for    the  fall   semesters   were   1545   in  1971,    1611    in  1972,    and   1742    in  1973< 
We   can  also  report   an    increase    in  majors:      37    German  majors    and    44   German  teaching 
majors.      Due    to    the    increase    in  enrollment    and   a   reduction   in   teaching   staff  the    ave- 
rage   number   of   students   in    the  beginning  language   courses    is    significantly  higher 


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this   fall.      The   3-track   system  for  beginning   language  courses    has  proved   a   success. 
The   speaking  and  reading  tracks   continue   to    enjoy  great  popularity.      The   telephone 
tape    system  is    operating  again:      333-6308    (Ger   101),    333-8151    (Mon  Swedish,    Tue-Sun 
Ger  102),    333-63014-   (Ger  103),    333-&306    (Ger   101|,    Mon-Wed   short   stories,    Thu-Sun  poe- 
try).     It  should   also   be  pointed  out   that   students  who  come  to   use  with  a  knowledge 
of    German  or    Scandinavian  languages  can  take   proficiency  examinations.      To    "profici- 
ency"  Scandinavian  lOlj.,    however,    a    student   must   be    able    to   read   Danish,    Norwegian, 
and   Swedish,    not    just   one   language. 

SCANDINAVIAN 
This    is    the    7th  year   of  the  experimental   Scandinavian  program  which   teaches    students 
the   3  major    Scandinavian   languages   in  the   course   of    l±  semesters.      The   sequence  of 
languages    varies;   this  year  the    emphasis    is  on   Swedish   (Scan  101   and  103)   since  we 
have  Mrs.    Inger   Bj6*rnsson  and  Mrs.    Eva  Wetzel    with  us,      Mrs.    Wetzel   is    again  a   teach- 
ing and  research   assistant   as   last  year. 

GERMAN    CLUB 
Major    events  of    the    German    Club  for    the    fall    semester    include:      Oct.    5»    Oktoberfest; 
Oct.    11,    Pre igrosche nope r    (film);    Oct.    25,    German  dialects    (an   evening  with   native 
speakers   who   will   tell   anecdotes  from  various    German  provinces,    read   and  explain 
texts  written   in  dialect);    Nov.    8,    German  protest   songs    (students    and  faculty  will 
introduce  protest    songs   with  records,    texts,    and  commentaries);    Nov.    15,    Per    Haupt- 
mann   von  KSpenick   (film);    Dec.    7,    Weihnachtsf eier. 

In  addition  to    this  program  there  are   the   following  regular   German  Club   activi- 
ties:     German  Choir  every   Monday  at   the    Lutheran  Foundation   (corner  Wright   &  Chalmers 
in   Champaign)   at   8  pm;    Soccer   every  Tuesday   night    9-11  pm  at  the   Armory;   Thunderbird 
Restaurant  in  Urbana  every  Thursday  night    for   informal   meeting   of   club  members   for 
beer,    talk,    and  the   chance  to  meet   native    speakers   of   German, 

INTERDISCIPLINARY   LECTURE   SERIES 
German   scholars,    teachers,    and    students  will   be    interested  in  the   George  Miller   Univ. 
Lecture    Committee's  plans   for  an   interdisciplinary   lecture   series   in  connection  with 
the   Kurt   Schwitters   and   George   Grosz   exhibitions    in  the   Krannert   Art  Museum,    Cham- 
paign,   Oct.    20-Nov.    10.      Detailed  programs  will  be   distributed  at  a   later   date. 
Please    see    Comparative   Literature    Notes   on  pages   l|-5  for  more   details. 

DEUTSCHES    SEMINAR 
On  May   15  Prof.    Karl-Heinz   Schoeps    led  a    discussion  on  the    topic    "Die    Literatur   der 
DDR."      On  Sept.    19  Prof.    Rainer   Sell   introduced   and   discussed  the   topic    "Das   Groteske 
in  der   Literatur." 

PRUCHTBRINGENDE   GESELLSCHAFT 
On  Sept.    13  Dr.    Giles   Reid   Hoyt    (who  received  his  Ph.D.   from  the  U.I.   on  the   same   day] 
presented  a  paper   on   "Main  Features   of  Hnton  Ulrich's   Linguistic   Development."      On 
Oct.    11  Prof.    Rainer   Sell   spoke   about    "Kasper  und  Moritat:      Motiv,    Form  und   drama- 
tische  Perspektive   in  dem  Dramen  von  Peter  Weiss."     The   next   session  of  the  FG  is   al- 
so  the    last   lecture   in  the   interdisciplinary   lecture    series    (see  pages  U-5);   on  Nov. 
7  Prof.    Emeritus   Henry  Kahane  will   speak   about  Max  Reinhardt   in  the   Krannert   Art  Mu- 
seum.     All  other  lectures  of  the  FG  are   given  in  the  Faculty  Lounge,    Illini  Union. 

FACULTY   PAPERS 
At    the    International    Conference    on   Computers    in   the    Humanities,    Minneapolis,    on  July 
21;,    Prof.    James   Marchand   chaired  a    section  and    gave    a  talk  on    "Computer   Aided   In- 
struction in  the    Humanities:      The  U.I.    PLATO   System."      In   the    spring   at  the   Ky.    For- 
eign Languages    Conference,    Prof.    Marchand   also   lectured   on    "Wolfram's    Theology,"   and 
chaired   a  linguistics    section. 

Prof.    Irmengard   Rauch  presented   a  paper,     "Where    Does    Language    Borrowing  End   and 
Genetic    Relationship    Begin?  '   to    the    9th  International    Congress   of   Anthropological   and 
Ethnological    Sciences.    Chicago,    Aug.    28-Sept.    8.      The  paper    is    being  published   in   the 
"Language   and    Thought"   volume    of   World   Anthropology. 


FACULTY  AWARDS   AND   HONORS 
Prof.    James   Marchand  received  the   Undergraduate    Instructional   Award   in  the    summer   of 


1973   and   also    the   Undergraduate    Instructional   Prize,    1973* 

Prof.    Clayton   Gray  received   a   grant   from  the    National   Endowment   for    the    Human- 
ities   to   do  research   in  Leyden,    the    Netherlands. 

Prof.    U.    Henry    Gerlach  was   appointed   Director   of   External    Communications   by   the 
Board   of  the    111.    Foreign  Language    Teachers    Association.      In  this    assignment,    he   will 
oversee    all  public  relations    efforts   of  the    IFLTA.      Prof.    Gerlach  was   elected   to   a  2- 
year    term  as   President    of    the    Southern   111.    chapter   of   the    American  Association  of 
Teachers   of   German,    alsc 

SLAVIC    MOTES  --   by  Prof.    Elliot    Cohen 

SLAVIC   DEPT.    FILM   SERIES 
Prof.    Steven   Hill  reports   that  the    Slavic    Dept.    hopes    to   show   a   free    Slavic    film  each 
month  in   this    and  future   semesters  as   a   means    of   acquainting    the  university  community 
with   various   aspects   of   Eastern   European  art   and    culture:      Sunday,    Oct.    21,    8  pm,    new 
Hungarian  rrize-winner   Red   Psalm;    Wednesday ,    Oct.    31»    8  pm,    modern  Ukrainian  classic 
Sliadows   of   Forgotten   Ancestors ;    Wednesday,    Nov.    11;,    8  pm,    Russian  film   version  of 
Gorky's    autobiographical   work   Childhood.      All    showings   are    in  the    U.I.    Auditorium. 

ATTENTION:      ALL    ILLINOIS    RUSSIAN   TEACHERS 
B.    Lanys    and  Prof.    Rasio    Dunatov  are    compiling  a   collection  of  Russial   culture   mater- 
ials  for   use    in  1st-  and    2nd-levels   of    high   school   Russian  courses.      These   materials 
will   be  available    to    all  teachers    in   111. 

RUSSIAN    FESTIVAL   PLANNED  FOR    NOVEMBER 
Plans    are   underway  for  the   presentation  of    several   films    and  a  panel   discussion  to  be 
held    at   noon  in   the    Illini   Union  during   the   week    of    Nov.    1-8.      Among   the   film  possi- 
bilities  being    investigated   is    Doctor    Zhivago.      Since    this    Russian  beauty   is   highly 
desirable,    she    is   rarely   available.      The  probable    topic   of    a  panel   discussion  will  be 
the    Soviet    Nobel-prize-winning    (but   not   receiving)    author    Solzhenitsyn. 

INNOVATIONS 
A  cultural   component    has   been  added    to    Russian  101.      Films,    lectures,    and   Russian 
cuisine    comprise   a   supplement   to    the   basic    language    element   of   the   course. 

Prof,    Rasio   Dunatov  has    started   a  pro-seminar   and   now  presents    to    our   new  grad 
students   an   introduction   to   the    Slavic    field,    to    sources    and  how  to   use    them. 

STUDENT    ACTIVITIES 
At   the    orientation  meeting  for   new  graduate   students,    the    Slavic    Student    Association 
chose    the   following  quadrumvirate    of   officers:      Christine    Be  thin,    Katherine    Brailer, 
Mary   Theis,    and   Jeffrey   Tyler.      The    composition   of  this    quadrumvirate   reflects   the 
schizoid  nature    of   a   department    split    between   linguistics   and   literature   majors. 

Russian  Club   rebornl      If    you   have   any  questions   or   suggestions    for    the    club, 
contact   Mary   Theis,    3092  FLB  or   367-01;69.      A  current   activity   is    "razgovor   i  pivo" 
on  Fridays  at   1;. : 30  pm  at   the    Thunderbird   Restaurant,    Urbana.      Other   activities,    in- 
cluding  some   Russian  language   plays    (after   last   spring's    triumph)    are  projected. 
Undergraduates   are   encouraged   to  participate  I 

STUDENT    iOTSS 
A  welcome   is   extended    to    the    new  graduate    students    in  our    department,    who   are:      Fide- 
lis   Balogun,    Richard    Charlton,    Barbara   Galik,    Roberta   Goldblatt,    Elizabeth   Johnson, 
Peter  Pluwak,    Eugene   Rosypal,    Maureen   Sinicki,    Cherry  Underwood,    Nancy   Vinokur. 

An   interesting  fact    to   ponder   is    that    several  of  these    students    come    from  col- 
leges   (Buffalo   and    Kutztown)   which    have   sent    students    to    our    department    in   the   recent 
past.      Word  of  mouth...? 

The    student    who    has   come    the   farthest    to   get    here  a pp ears   to   be   Mr.    Balogun,    who 
comes    to   us   originally  from  Nigeria  after    several  years   of    study    in   the   U.S.S.R. 

The  department  has  an  alumnus  in  Moscow.  Paul  Smith  is  currently  working  as  an 
evaluator  of  the  U.S.  exhibition  "Recreation  in  America"  now  touring  the  U.S.S.R.  A 
current    student,    Ban  Fairfax,    will   be    joining  the    exhibit    soon. 

FACULTY   NOTES 
Prof.    C.    L.    Dawson    (department    head)    and  Prof.    Kurt   Klein   are   back  with   us    after 


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spring  sabbaticals.   Both  of  them  spent  some  time  in  Austria  on  their  peregrinations. 

Now  on  sabbatical  is  Prof.  Temira  Pachmuss  who  will  spend  her  leave  under  the 
sponsorship  of  ACLS  and  the  Russian  &  E.  European  Center  of  the  U.I.  in  Europe  doing 
further  research  on  the  archival  materials  of  D.  S.  Merezhkovsky  and  Z.  N.  Hippius. 

Prof.  Frank  Gladney,  editor  of  the  Slavic  and  East  European  Journal  here  at  the 
U.I.,  attended  the  7th  International  Congress  of  Slavists  in  Warsaw  this  Aug.   On  Oct 
10  he  presented  this  semester's  1st  Slavic  Forum  at  which  he  shared  some  of  his 
slides  of  Warsaw,  especially  those  taken  at  the  congress. 

The  Slavic  Forum  is  an  innovation  of  last  year  which  will  continue  this  year 
with  talks  and  presentations  by  students  and  faculty.   One  topic  already  set  concerns 
Soviet  underground  literature. 

Prof.  Kurt  Klein  has  been  elected  vice-president  of  Region  III  of  the  National 
Honor  Society  Dobro  Slovo. 

Prof.  Louis  Iribarne  has  been  invited  to  give  a  lecture  on  the  Polish  dramatist, 
novelist,  painter,  modernist  par-excellence  Witkiewicz  at  Towson  State  College,  Md. 

Prof.  Kenneth  Brostrom  will  read  a  paper  at  the  Southeast  MLA  Conference  in 
Fort  Worth  on  "The  Aenigma  of  Pilnyak's  The  Volga  Falls  into  the  Caspian  Sea. " 

FACULTY  PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Temira  Pachmuss  has  y  ublished  a  book  Z^_  N^  Hippius :   Collected  Dramatical  Works 
(Munich,  1973)  and  2  articles,  "Zinaida  Hippius:   Istoriya  intelligentskoy  emigrat- 
sii, "  Russian  Language  Journal  (spring-fall  1972),  3-19,  and  "Zinaida  Hippius:   Nevi- 
dimy  lik  ili  voploshchenny  Budda,  "  The  Contemporary  (no.  2\\,    Toronto,  1973),  33-7U* 

SPANISH,  ITALIAN,  &  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  --  by  Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jr. 

PAN  AMERICAN  COUNCIL 
Teachers  and  students  of  Spanish  and  Portuguese  in  the  Chicago  area  may  be  interested 
in  the  programs  and  activities  of  the  Pan  American  Council  of  Chicago.   The  PAC  was 
chartered  in  1939  to  promote  friendship,  understanding,  and  good  will  among  the  peo- 
ples of  the  Americas.   It  is  the  oldest  continuous  voluntary  organization  in  the  Chi- 
cago area  dedicated  to  the  principles  of  hemispheric  unity  and  friendship.   PAC  mem- 
bers hear  speakers  on  Latin  American  history,  law,  journalism,  government,  economics, 
science,  medicine,  art,  and  literature  at  bilingual  programs  from  Oct. -June  on  Satur- 
day afternoons  in  the  Ben  Franklin  Lounge,  1st  Federal  S&L  Assoc.,  7  S.  Dearborn  St., 
with  conversation  groups  in  Spanish  and  Portuguese  preceding  the  meetings,, 

In  addition,  the  PAC  cosponsors  with  Northwestern  Univ.  Evening  Division  a  ser- 
ies of  popular  movies  from  Spanish-  and  Portuguese-speaking  countries.   The  new  ser- 
ies begins  in  Thorne  Hall  on  the  Northwestern  campus  on  Saturday,  Nov.  17,  at  8  pm 
with  2  films,  Martin  Fierro  (Argentina)  and  Al  ponerse  el  sol  (Spain).   Films  will  be 
presented  on  the  3rd  Saturday  of  each  month  except  Dec. 

Annual  dues  are  $12.50,  sustaining  $20  (no  charge  for  Saturday  programs),  busi- 
ness $25,  patron  $100,  family  membership  additional  fee  $7.50,  and  full-time  student 
$3*50.   Annual  subscriptions  to  Americas  Magazine  is  $[|..25  for  members,  $6  for  non- 
members;  the  magazine  is  available  in  English,  Spanish,  or  Portuguese.   For  member- 
ships, information,  or  subscriptions,  contact  Pan  American  Council,  P„0.  Box  1233, 
Chicago,  IL  60690. 

JUNE  GRADUATION 
The  department  awarded  5  doctoral  and  3  masters  degrees  in  June.   The  doctoral  reci- 
pients were  Pedro  Francisco  Campa  and  Frank  Henry  Nuessel  Jr.  in  Spanish,  and  Fiore 
Antonio  Matteis,  Roberto  Severino,  and  William  Anthony  Zanghi  in  Italian.   Eileen 
Zeitz  received  an  M.A.  in  Spanish,  and  Mary  Jeannette  Haritos  and  Bertha  Arias  Hevia 
received  masters  in  Spanish  through  the  Urbana-Chicago  Circle  Joint  Graduate  Program, 

NEW  FACULTY- STAFF 
The  department  welcomes  Andrls  Oscar  Avellaneda  as  Asst.  Prof,  of  Spanish,,   Prof. 
Avellaneda  was  born  in  Buenos  Aires,  Argentina,  in  1937,  and  studied  at  the  Univ.  of 
Buenos  Aires  in  the  Facultad  de  Filosofia  y  Letras,  receiving  his  profesorado  degree 
in  Dec.  1961;,,   He  taught  at  the  Univ.  of  Buenos  Aires  in  1966,  at  Arecibo  Regional 
College  (Univ.  of  Puerto  Rico)  in  1967-70,  and  was  head  of  the  Spanish  Dept.  at  Are- 
cibo in  1968-70.   Prof.  Avellaneda  came  to  this  department  in  1970  as  a  graduate 
teaching  assistant,  and  later  held  a  University  Fellowship  and  a  Woodrow  Wilson 


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Fellowship,      He    completed   his   Ph.D.    dissertation  El   tema  del  peronlsmo   en   la   narra- 
tiva  argentina   in   July.      His   area   of    concentration   is   Latin  American  literature,    and 
among   his  publications   he   includes   2   books,    Lo  que    nos  pasa,    a   volume   of   original 
poetry    (Buenos    Aires:    Nueva  Expresion,    I96I4.),    and  an    annotated   edition  of  Martin 
Fierro    (Buenos   Aires:    Centro   Editor   de   America  Latina,   1968). 

In  addition  to   Prof.    Avellaneda,    there   are   27   new  graduate   teaching  assistants 
on  the    departmental  staff. 

VOLUME   HONORS   THE  KAHANES 
Prof.    Emeritus    Henry  R.    Kahane    and  Mrs.    Kahane    (Renee   Toole)   were    honored  by  the  U.I. 
Linguistics   Dept .    with  the  presentation  of    a    special  publication  on  Sept.    19   in  the 
Levis   Faculty    Center.      The    volume,    Issues    in  Linguistics :   Papers   in   Honor    of    Henry  & 
Ren§e   Kahane    (U.I.    Press,    1973),    containing    57   original   articles,    was   presented   to 
the   Kahanes   by  Dean  Robert   W.    Rogers,    College    of   Liberal    Arts   &  Sciences,    following 
introductions    by  Prof.    Braj.    B.    Kachru,    Linguistics   Dept.    head0 

Members   of  our  department    represented   in  this    volume    include   Prof.    Angelina  R0 
Fietrangeli   on   "The   Writings  of   Henry  &  Renee   Kahane,"  Prof.   W.    Curtis   Blaylock  on 
"Observations   on  Sound    Change,    Especially  Loss,    with  Particular  Reference   to    Hispano- 
Romance,"   Assoc.    Prof.    Mario    Saltarelli   on    "Orthography,    Naturalness,    and  the   Binary 
Feature   Framework,"  and   Asst.   Prof.    Dieter   Wanner  on   "Is    Stress   Fredic table   in  Ital- 
ian?"     In  addition,    Prof.    Pietrangeli    served   as   one   of    the   co-editors  of   the    volume. 

FACULTY   LECTURES 
During  the   1973   Summer   Session  at    the  U.I0   our    department    sponsored  a  lecture   series 
which   included   speeches   by  the    following  faculty  members:      July  11,    Prof.    Luis   Leal 
on   "La   narrativa   de    Julio    Cortazar";    July   18,    Prof.    Alberto   Porqueras-Mayo   on    "Tono 
y  forma  en   la   critica  poetica  de    Damaso   Alonso";    July  25,    Assoc.    Prof.    Mario    Salta- 
relli  on    "Language    and   Imagination";    Aug.    1,    Graduate    Teaching   Asst.    Rosendo   Diaz- 
Peterson  on   "Unamuno   y   San  Manuel   Bueno,    martir . " 

Prof.    Emeritus    Henry  Kahane    delivered  a   lecture    in  the   U.I.    Linguistics   Dept.    on 
Aug.    27  on    "Linguistics   Resources   Available    at   the   U.I,    Library." 

Prof.    Leal   lectured  on   "El  cuento  mexicano   contemporaneo"  at   the   Univ.    Nacional 
Aut6noma  de  Mlxico   in  May. 

FACULTY  NOTES 
Prof.    Anthony  M.    Pasquariello    (department   head),    attended   the    American  Association  of 
Teachers   of   Spanish  &  Portuguese   meeting   in  Mexico,    D.F.,    in  Aug.      Prof.    Pasquariello 
is  presently   a  member   of   the   AATSP's   Executive    Council. 

Prof.    Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo  will   offer    Spanish  I1I8    (Poetic   Theories   in  Golden 
Age)    during  the    spring  semester  as   an  evening   course    (7-9  pm  Tuesdays).      This    course 
fulfills    the  M.A.    requirement    in   Spanish  for   a  literary   theory  course   and    is   offered 
at  night   so  that   area  teachers   can  attend.      Prof.   Porqueras-Mayo   has   also   been  instru 
mental   in  forming   a   "taula   catalana"  for  conversational   Catalan  which  will  meet   Thurs. 
days    at   noon  in  the    Thunderbird  Restaurant,    710    S.    Goodwin  Ave.,    Urbana.      All    speak- 
ers  of   Catalan  at  any   level  are   invited  to   attend,, 

Assoc.   Prof.    David  R.    Hershberg   is   in  Barcelona  for   the   academic   year   as   direc- 
tor of   the  U.I.   Year-Abroad  Program  in  Spain.      Prior   to  his   departure,   both  he   and 
Assoc.    Prof.    Thomas    C.    Meehan  prepared   3   new  courses    (Spanish  X2[|.0,    X21+1,    X2l\.2 )    for 
the  U.I0    Extension  Division.      These    correspondence    courses   are   the   equivalent   of   the 
3   survey   of  literature  courses   offered  at   the   undergraduate   level  for   Spanish  majors, 
and  they   satisfy  a   departmental  requirement    toward   the   B.A.    in  Spanish, 

Assoc.   Prof.   Richard   A.   Preto-Rodas   spent    the  summer  in  Brazil  with  a   grant  from 
the   Latin   American  Center  for  his   research  into    "Irony  as    a  Perspective   in  Poetry 
from  the   Portuguese-Speaking  World." 

Assoc.    Prof.    Mario   Saltarelli   was   in  Rome,    Italy,    in   June    to   attend   the   annual 
meeting  of   the   Italian  Linguistics   Society, 

Asst.    Prof.    Dieter   Wanner   spent    the    summer   in  central    Italy  where   he   conducted 
preliminary   dialectical    investigations. 

Graduate   Teaching    Asst.    Sherilyn   Hope    Freeman  studied  this   summer   at   the    Insti- 
tuto   de   Fllologla   Hispanica   in  Saltillo,    Coahuila,    Mexico. 

Graduate    Teaching   Asst.    David  M.    Kirsner   was   the  recipient    of   a   Gulbenkian 
Foundation  Scholarship   grant   for   study    at    the   Univ.    of    Lisbon  this   summer. 

Graduate    Teaching   Asst.    Kathryn  Carol   Lewis   studied   in   Salamanca    this    summer. 


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FACULTY   PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.    Anthony  M.    Pasquariello    (department  head)   participated   in  the   1972   AATSP    Confe- 
rence  on   Graduate    Studies    in   Spanish  at   Wichita   State   Univ.,    Oct.    1972.      The   commit- 
tee's  complete   report   appears   in  the    Sept.    1973    Hispania    (vol.    $6,    no.    3),    541-^9* 
In  addition,    Prof.    Pasquariello1 s  review  of   Parris    Anderson's    Alfonso    Sastre   appears 
in  the  Mar.   1973   Hispania    (vol.    56,    no.    1),    178-79. 

Prof.    W.    Curtis   Blaylock's   review  of   Ralph   J.    Penny's   El    habla  pasiega   appears 
in  the    Sept.    1973   issue   of   Language    (vol.    1;9,    no.    3),    729-32T 

Prof.    Emeritus    Henry   R.    Kahane    and   his   wife   Dr.    Renle   Kahane   and  Prof.    Angelina 
R.    Pietrangeli    have    co -authored  an  article    "Egyptian  Papyri   as    a   Tool   in  Romance   Ety- 
mology,   II.    Gulf:    Hyper correct! on  or    Dialect   Borrowing?"   in  Romance   Philology    (vol, 
27,    1973),    i|0~-59»      Prof.    &  Mrs.    Kahane    also  published    "Greek  in  Southern   Italy,    III. 
Byzantine    Notes"   in  Byzantinische    Zeitschrif t    (vol.    66,    1973,    Munich),    1-37,    and 
"Graeco-Romance    Etymologie  s,    III"   in   Studia   Hispanica   in  honorem  R.    Lapesa    (Madrid, 
1972),    323-33. 

Prof.    Luis    Leal    has    edited   a  version  of    Mariano   Azuela's   Paginas    escogidas    (Mex- 
ico:   Univ.    Nacional    Autonoma,    1973)    and  has  published   several  articles!    "Iraagen  de  la 
nueva   novela  hispanoamericana, "   Exilio    (vol.    6.    ho.   2,    summer   1972),    ij.7-57;    "Mexican 
American  Literature:    A   Historical   Perspective,"   Revista   Chicano-Riquefla    (vol.    1,    no. 
1,    spring   1973),    32-i|i(.;    "La   ensenanza   de    la  literatura  hispanoamericana,"   Hispania 
(vol.    56,    no.    3,    Sept.    1973),    626-27;    "Contemporary  Mexican  Novel   &  Short    Story, " 
Contemporary  Latin  American   Literature    (ed.    Johnson  &  Taylor,    Houston:   Univ.    of    Hous- 
ton,    1973),    l4.°-U7;    "Prose   Fiction:    Mexico,  "   Handbook  of   Latin   American   Studies,    2>k 
(Gainesville:    Univ.    of   Fla.,    1972),    l;I(.6-58;    "El   nuevo    cuento  mexicano,  "   El   cuento 
hispanoamericano    ante    la   crltica    (ed.    Pupo   Walker,    Madrid:    Ed.    Castalia,    1973),  280-95< 

Assoc.    Prof.    Hugo   W.    Cowes   has  published    "Circuns tancialidad   y  universalidad  en 
la   lirica   de    Antonio    Hector    Giovannoni, "Cuadernos    Hispanoamericano s    (Madrid,    Apr0 
1973),    and    "Realidad   y   superrealidad  en   Los    santos    de   Pedro    Salinas,"    Cuadernos   Amer- 
icanos   (Mexico,    May- June   1973). 

Assoc.  Prof.  Mario  Saltarelli's  article  "Italian  qua  Neo-Latin"  appears  in  Gen- 
erative   Studie  s    in  Romance    Linguistics    (Eds.    Casagrande    &  Saciuk,    Boston:    Newbery). 

Asst.    Prof.    Andr§s    07  Avellaneda  has  published  an  article    "Encuentro,    perdida, 
busqueda,    en   los    cuentos   de    Daniel  Moyano, "    Hispamerica    (no.    3,    1973),    25-38. 

Asst.    Prof.    Milton  M.    Azevedo   has   reviewed   Rafael   Llufs    Ninyoles'    Conf licte    lin- 
guistic   Valencia   and   Idioma   i   pre.judici    in  Language    (vol.    hfi ,    no.    3,    Sept.    1973)» 
733-36   and   Joaquim  Mattoso    Camara   Jr. 's    The   Portuguese    Language    in  Papers    in  Linguis- 
tics   (vol.    6,    no.   1,    spring  1973),    135-1+7. 

Asst.    Prof.    Martha  Paley  de   Franc escato   was   the   author   of    "La  circularidad  en  la 
poesla   de   Pablo    Neruda"   in  a   special   number   of    Iberoamericana    (no.    82-83,    Jan. -June 
1973),    189-20[|.,    dedicated   to    Chile's    late    Nobel-laureate  poet. 

Instructor   Reynaldo   Jimenez   has   written  an  article    "'Marcha  triunfal'    de   Ruben 
Dar£o"   to   be   published   in  Antologia   c omenta da  del   modernismo    (ed.    Porrata,    Sacra- 
mento:   Cal.    State   Univ.). 

Graduate    Teaching   Asst.    Rosendo    D£az-Peterson  has  published   an   article    "Unamuno : 
iCreacion  o    encarnacion?"   in  Revista    Interamericana   de   Bibliograf ia    (no.    60,    1972), 
39O-I4.O3,    and   a   short    story    "Valmarnico"7'    (Sigma    Delta  Pi   3rd  prize    winner)    in  Entre 
Nosotros    (Apr.    1973),    17-18.      He  has   also   translated  2   articles    "Delicado   y   Aretino: 
asrectos    de   una   perspectiva  literaria"  and    "Algunas  observaciones   en   torno  a   El  mo do 
de    adoperare   el    legno   de    India    Occident ale"  to    be    included   in  a  book   on  Francisco   De- 
li cadoTedT- Damiani,    Catholic   Univ. ) .      An  article   by  Mr.    Diaz-Peterson   "San  Manuel 
Bueno .    martir :    Dos  persona jes  en   conflicto"  will   appear   in  Arbor    (Madrid"]"^    and  his 
short   story    "Quince    dias    en  la   vida  de   un  mon je "  will  appear   in   Insula    (Madrid)0 

Graduate  Teaching  Asst.  Regina  H.  Macdonald  has  published  "The  Order  of  Things: 
An  Analysis  of  the  Ceramics  from  Santarem,  Brazil"  in  Journal  of  the  Steward  Anthro- 
pological  Society    (vol.   l\.,    no.    1,    fall   1972),    39-57. 

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THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  NEWSLETTER 

December,  1973  Director:   Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello 

Vol.  XXVII,  No.  1  Editor:   Maxwell  Reed  Mo wry ,  Jr. 

PEOPLE'S  REPUBLIC  OF  CHINA  SENDS  DELEGATION  TO  UIUC  CAMPUS 
Eight  language  teaching  specialists  from  the  People's  Republic  of  China  visited  the 
UIUC  campus  on  Nov.  27-29.   Prof.  Wilga  M.  Rivers  of  the  French  Dept .  was  the  host- 
coordinator  of  the  visit  which  was  arranged  by  the  Committee  on  Scholarly  Communica- 
tion with  the  People's  Republic  of  China  (a  joint  committee  of  the  National  Academy 
of  Sciences,  American  Council  of  Learned  Societies,  and  Social  Sciences  Research 
Council).   The  coordinating  office  for  the  tour  was  the  National  Committee  on  United 
States-China  Relations  in  New  York.   This  Language  Teaching  Study  Group  has  been  vi- 
siting universities  and  language  institutes  in  Washington,  New  York,  Boston,  Ann  Ar- 
bor, Urbana-Champaign,  San  Francisco,  Los  Angeles,  Monterey,  and  Honolulu,  to  inves- 
tigate methods  of  teaching  English  to  speakers  of  other  languages,  the  teaching  of 
Chinese  in  the  United  States,  current  research  in  linguistics,  and  language  learning. 

All  but  two  of  the  visitors  were  making  their  first  visit  to  the  U.S.,  and  the 
members  of  the  group  showed  a  keen  interest  in  the  various  language-oriented  programs 
at  the  UIUC.   They  saw  demonstrations  of  the  teaching  of  English  as  a  Second  Language 
and  Chinese,  and  were  able  to  discuss  problems  of  language  teaching  with  a  number  of 
specialists  on  campus.   In  particular,  members  of  the  delegations  were  impressed  with 
PLATO,  the  Ul-developed  computer-based  teaching  system.   They  were  welcomed  with  a 
message  in  Chinese  and  saw  how  students  are  taught  to  form  Chinese  characters  with 
the  correct  order  of  strokes.   Later,  they  were  able  to  enter  into  various  PLATO  pro- 
grams and  experience  for  themselves  interaction  with  the  computer  program.   Although 
there  are  computers  in  China,  it  seems  that  they  have  not  as  yet  been  adapted  for  use 
as  teaching  machines. 

During  the  three  days  of  their  visit,  the  members  of  the  delegations  were  able 
to  give  their  American  hosts  interesting  insights  into  the  teaching  of  foreign  lan- 
guages in  China.   English  and  Russian  are  the  most  widely  taught  foreign  languages, 
followed  by  French,  Spanish,  and  Japanese.   Most  language  teaching  begins  at  the  jun- 
ior high  school  level,  but  there  is  some  experimentation  in  teaching  foreign  lan- 
guages at  the  elementary  level.   Because  there  are  not  enough  foreign  language  teach- 
ers at  present,  many  students  are  not  able  to  study  a  foreign  language  until  the  uni- 
versity level. 

Chungshan  Univ.  in  Kwangchow(Canton )  offers  a  3-year  intensive  program  in  Eng- 
lish which  can  be  considered  typical.  The  first  year  is  devoted  mainly  to  speaking 
and  listening;  students  do  a  great  deal  of  listening  to  help  them  develop  skill  in 
speaking.  At  this  stage  they  write  only  what  they  are  learning  orally.  During  the 
second  year,  when  they  can  handle  the  pronunciation  and  basic  speech  patterns,  they 
begin  to  do  a  good  bit  of  reading  and  writing.  Finally,  they  are  encouraged  to  de- 
velop free  expression  in  writing  and  practice  translation  and  oral  interpretation. 

Using  an  audio-lingual  approach,  Chinese  instructors  rely  on  recordings  as  a 
guide  to  correct  pronunciation.   In  some  cities  students  have  access  to  radio  broad- 
casts of  English  language  lessons.   In  Kwangchow  (Canton),  for  example,  the  educa- 
tional radio  station  broadcasts  beginning  English  lessons  seven  times  a  day.   When 
foreign  visitors  come  to  China,  they  are  frequently  requested  to  make  tapes  in  their 
language  which  the  students  then  use  for  listening  comprehension. 

The  Chinese  student  spends  14-18  hours  a  week  at  the  college  level  on  his  lan- 
guage classes  and  an  equal  amount  of  time  out  of  class.   During  the  first  year  of  his 
3-year  language  program,  he  also  studies  Chinese  history,  the  works  of  Mao  and  Marx- 
ist classics,  and  the  history  and  geography  appropriate  to  the  language  studied. 

Many  Chinese  university  language  departments  compile  their  own  teaching  mater- 
ials.  Texts  are  not  standardized  throughout  China,  but  may  be  so  within  a  province. 
In  the  teaching  of  English,  instructors  use  current  materials,  such  as  articles  from 
the  New  York  Times,  Washington  Post,  and  other  newspapers,  as  well  as  selected  chap- 
ters from  books  in  English,  to  afford  their  students  a  wide  variety  in  the  kinds  of 
English  studied.   Many  language  students  take  positions  as  government  translators  and 
interpreters. 

Chinese  institutions  for  the  most  part  teach  British  English,  since  China  has 
had  more  contact  with  the  United  Kingdom  in  recent  years.   American  English  forms  are 
taught  later  in  the  sequence  of  study.   The  aim  of  the  Chinese  instructors  of  English 
is  that  their  students  should  be  able  to  converse  intelligibly  with  people  from  any 
English-language  area. 

The  delegation  leader  of  the  Language  Teaching  Study  Group  was  Mr.  Ch'en  Chia 


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(Prof.  of  English,  Nanking  Univ.)  and  the  deputy  leaders  were  Mr.  Chou  Chueh-liang 
(Prof,  of  English,  Foreign  Language  Institute,  Peking)  and  Ms.  Fang  Shu-chen  (Assoc. 
Prof,  of  English,  Chungshan  Univ.,  Kwangchow) .   The  other  members  of  the  group  were 
Mr.  Chu  Te-hsi  (Assoc.  Prof  of  Chinese,  Peking  Univ.,  and  a  leading  Chinese  linguist), 
Mr.  Lin  Chun-chiu  (Director  of  Machine  Teaching  Programs,  Foreign  Language  Institute, 
Shanghai),  Mr.  Lu  Pi-sung  (Lecturer,  Institute  of  Linguistics,  Peking),  Ms.  Kuo  Yi- 
ch'ing  (Lecturer  in  English,  Nankai  Univ.,  Tientsin),  and  Mr.  Li  Shun-hsing  (staff 
member  of  the  Science  &  Education  Group  under  the  State  Council,  Peking,  an  agency 
which  approximates  the  U.S.  Office  of  Education).   Mr.  Chang  Chih-hsiang,  representa- 
tive of  the  Liasion  Office  of  the  People's  Republic  of  China  in  Washington,  D.C., 
accompanied  the  group. 

The  Language  Teaching  Study  Group  arrived  in  Champaign  on  Tuesday,  Nov.  27, 
(after  a  detour  of  their  flight  to  Decatur  because  of  fog),  in  time  for  a  reception 
given  in  their  honor  by  the  Vice-Chancellor  for  Academic  Affairs,  Prof.  Morton  Weir. 
On  Wednesday,  Nov.  28,  part  of  the  group  spent  the  morning  in  the  Dept.  of  English  as 
a  Second  Language  while  the  others  visited  the  Center  for  Asian  Studies.   In  the  af- 
ternoon they  visited  the  Language  Laboratory  and  observed  a  demonstration  of  the 
PLATO  equipment.   On  Thursday,  Nov.  29,  the  delegation  visited  Westview  School,  Cham- 
paign, where  they  observed  the  teaching  of  reading  to  native  English  speakers  at  1st- 
and  2nd-grade  levels.   They  were  then  welcomed  at  the  head  office  of  the  National 
Council  of  Teachers  of  English,  Urbana,  by  Mr.  Robert  Hogan,  National  Secretary  of 
NCTE.   After  a  presentation  ceremony  and  farewell  by  the  Dean  of  the  College  of  Lib- 
eral Arts  &  Sciences,  Prof.  Robert  W.  Rogers,  they  left  in  the  late  afternoon  for  San 
Francisco,  leaving  behind  an  impression  of  warmth,  openness,  friendliness,  and  ser- 
ious purpose. 

Wilga  M.  Rivers  &  Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jr. 

MLA  CONVENTION 
The  Modern  Language  Association  annual  convention  will  be  held  in  Chicago  on  Dec.  27- 
29,  with  English  sessions  in  the  Palmer  House  and  foreign  languages  in  the  Conrad 
Hilton  Hotel.   There  will  be  72  discussion  groups  and  sections,  over  40  associated 
meetings,  and  157  seminars  on  diverse  topics,  plus  four  special  forums:  "Affirmative 
Action:  Will  It  Change  the  Profession?",  "Androgyny:  Fact  and  Fiction,"  "New  Method- 
ologies in  Literary  Studies,"  and  "Minority  Literature:  The  Problem  and  the  Prospects',! 
The  annual  meetings  of  both  the  Association  of  Departments  of  English  and  the  Asso- 
ciation of  Departments  of  Foreign  Languages  will  be  held  during  the  MLA  convention. 

OUTSTANDING  UIUC  EDUCATORS  HONORED  AT  DINNER 
The  Modern  Community  Coordinating  Council  of  Champaign-Urbana  sponsored  a  Recognition 
of  Scholarship  Dinner  on  Oct.  16  in  honor  of  27  prominent  UIUC  scholars,  including  3 
foreign-language  professors,  Henry  R.  Kahane  (Prof.  Emeritus  of  Spanish  &  Linguistics 
and  now  Visiting  Prof,  of  French),  James  W.  Marchand  (Prof,  of  Germanic  &  Linguis- 
tics), and  Miroslav  Marcovich  (Head  of  the  Classics  Dept.).   The  purpose  of  the  din- 
ner, which  may  become  an  annual  event,  was  as  a  gesture  of  appreciation  to  the  UIUC 
faculty  not  only  for  their  contributions  to  scholarship  but  also  to  the  cultural  and 
intellectual  life  of  Urbana-Champaign.   Among  the  400  guests  at  the  dinner  were  111. 
Gov.  Daniel  Walker,  UI  Pres.  John  E.  Corbally  Jr.,  Pres.  Emeritus  David  D.  Henry,  UI 
Chancellor  Jack  Peltason,  and  the  mayors  of  Champaign  and  Urbana. 

TELEVISION  COMMERCIALS  IN  THE  LANGUAGE  CLASSROOM 
The  American-Swiss  Association  offers  a  series  of  films  for  rent,  "Language  in  the 
Marketplace ,"  utilizing  actual  television  commercials  provided  by  Maggi  Foods,  a  divi- 
sion of  Nestle  Alimentana  (Vevey,  Switzerland).   Three  reels  in  each  of  three  lan- 
guages (High  German,  Parisian  French,  and  Iberian  and  Latin-American  Spanish)  are 
offered,  each  reel  containing  8-12  30-  and  60-second  commercials.   A  reel  in  Italian 
is  now  in  preparation.   Each  reel  comes  with  a  script  in  its  language  with  an  English 
translation  and  suggestions  for  its  use  in  the  language  classroom.   For  further  in- 
formation on  these  and  other  Swiss  films  in  French,  German,  Italian,  and  Spanish, 
contact  the  American-Swiss  Association,  60  E.  42nd  St.,  New  York,  NY  10017. 

•  TEXAS  SYMPOSIUM  ON  ROMANCE  LINGUISTICS 
The  Texas  Symposium  on  Romance  Linguistics  will  take  place  on  the  Austin  campus  of 
the  Univ.  of  Texas  on  March  7-9,  1974.   The  symposium  will  be  the  fourth  in  a  series 
begun  at  the  Univ.  of  Fla.  in  1970  and  continued  at  the  UIUC  in  1972  and  Ind.  Univ. 
in  1973.   The  qoal,  then  as  now,  is  to  bring  forth  novel  contributions  to  the  study 


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and  teaching  of  Romance  languages  in  the  light  of  contemporary  linguistic  theory. 
Those  wishing  further  information,  as  well  as  those  desiring  to  submit  an  abstract  of 
a  paper,  should  contact  the  Texas  Symposium  on  Romance  Linguistics,  c/o  Dept.  of 
Spanish  &  Portuguese,  Univ.  of  Texas,  Austin,  TX  78712. 

PUBLICATIONS  OF  INTEREST  FOR  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  CLUBS 
High  school  (and  even  college)  foreign  language  teachers  responsible  for  the  direc- 
tion of  their  schools'  foreign  language  clubs  will  find  interesting  program  ideas  in 
a  series  of  books  published  by  the  National  Textbook  Co. :  The  French  Club  in  High 
School ,  by  Roberta  Quick  Wood,  No.  8442-1039-0;  The  German  Club  in  High  School ,  by 
Elisabeth  Schmidt,  No.  8442-2039-6;  and  The  Spanish  Club  in  High  School,  by  Eloise 
Roach,  No.  8442-7039-3.   All  three  books  are  hardbound  and  written  in  English.   Each 
title  is  $4.75  apiece,  or  5  or  more  of  the  same  title  $3.80  each.   Orders  may  be 
placed  with  the  National  Textbook  Co.,  8259  Niles  Center  Rd . ,  Skokie,  IL  60076. 

THE  CLASSICS  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  R.  T.  Scanlan 

MEETINGS 
Four  members  of  the  Classics  faculty  participated  in  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Ameri- 
can Society  of  Biblical  Literature  (founded  1880)  which  was  held  in  Chicago,  Nov.  8- 
11:   Profs.  M.  Marcovich,  D.L.  Petersen,  V.K.  Robbins,  and  W.R.  Schoedel.   Prof.  Mar- 
covich  read  a  paper  entitled  "Phanes,  Phicola,  and  the  Sethians:  An  Orphic  Fragment 
in  Hippolytus,"  while  Prof.  Petersen  presented  a  paper  on  "Saga--A  Response"  within 
the  section  dedicated  to  "Form  Criticism:  Task  Group  on  Narratives." 

Prof.  R.T.  Scanlan  attended  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Latin  Advanced  Placement 
(college  level  programs  in  high  school)  Committee  in  Princeton,  N.J.  on  Nov.  15-18. 
A  most  encouraging  sign  can  be  seen  this  year  in  the  increasing  number  of  registra- 
tions nationally  for  the  Latin  examination  program--up  almost  15%  from  last  year. 

Profs.  J.J.  Bateman  and  R.T.  Scanlan  attended  the  annual  meeting  of  the  American 
Council  on  the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Languages  held  in  Boston,  Nov.  21-25.   Prof.  Scan- 
lan chaired  one  of  the  general  sessions;  he  also  is  a  member  of  the  nationally  elec- 
ted Executive  Council  of  ACTFL.   Over  1300  foreign  language  teachers  were  in  atten- 
dance at  the  meeting,  coming  from  all  parts  of  the  world.   A  highlight  was  a  visit  by 
a  delegation  of  foreign  language  teachers  from  the  People's  Republic  of  China. 

The  105th  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Philological  Association  will  take 
place  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  Dec.  27-30.   Prof.  Marcovich  will  present  a  paper,  "Pherecy- 
des,  Anaximander,  Anaximenes,  and  Iran." 

All  Latin  and  Greek  teachers  and  others  interested  should  note  that  the  annua] 
meeting  of  the  111.  Classical  Conference  will  be  held  at  the  UIUC  on  Feb.  7-9. 
Please  mark  your  calendars  and  plan  to  attend! 

A  NEW  CURRICULUM:   CLASSICAL  CIVILIZATION 
The  LAS  faculty  has  approved  a  new  curriculum  in  Classics,  the  Classical  Civilization 
major  with  20  hours  of  CC  courses  and  24  hours  of  cognate  work  in  Archaeology,  Archi- 
tecture, Art,  Comparative  Literature,  English,  Greek,  History,  Humanities,  Latin, 
Linguistics,  Modern  Foreign  Languages,  Philosophy,  Political  Science,  Religious  Stu- 
dies, and  Speech. 

The  department  now  offers  a  total  of  15  courses  in  Classical  Civilization.   The 
total  Classics  enrollment  for  fall  1973  semester  is  1593  for  courses  in  CC ,  Classical 
Archaeology,  Greek,  Latin,  and  Hebrew. 

AN  ACCELERATED  LATIN  SEQUENCE 
The  department  will  begin  an  accelerated  program  in  elementary  and  intermediate  Latin 
in  the  fall  1974.   The  sequence  will  consist  of  2  semester  courses  each  offered  for  8 
hours  credit.   The  classes  are  designed  to  "cover"  the  material  ordinarily  presented 
in  4  semester  courses  of  4  hours  each.   The  unique  component  of  the  new  sequence  will 
be  the  use  of  computer-assisted  instruction  on  the  PLATO  IV  system.   PLATO  is  a  com- 
puter-based teaching  arrangement  which  provides  a  means  for  individualizing  student 
instruction. 

PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  M.  Marcovich  has  published  3  short  articles  in  Greek,  Roman   and  Byzantine  Stu- 
dies. 14  (1973);  Journal  of  Theological  Studies  (Oxford),  N.S.  24  (1973);  and  in  Zeit- 
schrift  fur  Papyroloqie  und  Epiqraphik  (Koln)  12  (19  73). 

Prof.  V.K.  Robbins  b?s  published  the  article  "The  Healing  of  Blind  Bartimaeus 


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(10:  46-52)  in  the  Marcan  Theology,"  Journal  of  Biblical  Literature  92  (1973)  224-43. 

Prof.  R.T.  Scanlan  has  published  2  articles  in  Accent  on  ACTFL:  "Latin  Review 
Comes  in  Fun  Format"  in  the  Sept.  1973  issue,  p.  17,  and  "Latin  Goes  Forward  with 
Games"  in  the  Nov.  issue,  pp.  30-32. 

Prof.  L.  Wallach  has  published  the  article  "The  Testimonia  of  Image-Worship  in 
Hadrian  I's  Synodica  of  785  (JE2448),"  Festschrift  Karl  Bosl  (Stuttgart,  1973)409-35. 

ILLINOIS  CLASSICAL  STUDIES:   A  NEW  SERIAL  PUBLICATION 
The  Executive  Committee  of  the  School  of  Humanities  has  approved  the  establishment  of 
a  new  serial  publication  entitled  Illinois  Classical  Studies ,  to  be  published  by  the 
UI  Press  beginning  this  academic  year. 

The  111 .  Classical  Studies  will  include  original  contributions  of  outstanding 
scholarly  quality  dealing  with  classical  antiquity  and  with  its  impact  upon  Western 
culture.   Articles  of  varying  length  up  to  25  typewritten  pages  may  deal  with  any  to- 
pic or  aspect  of  Greek  and/or  Roman  literature,  language,  history,  art,  culture, 
philosophy,  religion,  etc.,  as  well  as  with  their  transmission  from  antiquity  through 
Byzantium  or  Western  Europe  to  our  time.   The  publication  is  open  to  contributors 
coming  from  111.,  the  rest  of  the  U.S.  and  Canada,  and  from  other  countries.   The 
subject  of  each  contribution  must  be  convincingly  argued,  succinctly  and  elegantly 
presented,  and  substantiated  in  a  scholarly  manner. 

The  editor  is  Prof.  M.  Marcovich,  Classics  Dept.,  4072  FLB ,  UIUC ,  Urbana,  IL 
61801.   Members  of  the  Advisory  Committee  for  Vol.  I  are  Profs.  M.  Naoumides  (for 
Greek  Poetry),  R.P.  Oliver  (for  Latin  Poetry),  Ann  Perkins  (for  Classical  Archaeology ) 
T.J.  Tracy  (from  UI  Chicago  Circle  for  Greek  Prose),  and  L.  Wallach  (for  Latin  prose). 

LECTURES 
On  Nov.  8  Prof.  Peter  Fraser  of  All  Souls  College,  Oxford  Univ.,  presented  a  lecture 
on  the  topic  "The  World  of  Alexander  the  Great. "  His  talk  was  jointly  sponsored  by 
the  History  and  Classics  Depts. 

Prof.  H.L.  Allen  was  selected  as  a  traveling  lecturer  for  the  AIA  this  fall.  He 
delivered  lectures  to  4  archaeological  societies  (Staten  Island,  Northern  N.J.,  Le- 
high Valley,  and  Southern  Pa.)  on  the  joint  Ul-Princeton  excavation  at  Morgantina  in 
Sicily.   Prof.  Allen  is  the  director  of  the  "dig." 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Barbara  Smalley 

NEW'  GRADUATE  STUDENTS 
Prof.  &  Mrs.  Herbert  Knust  held  an  evening  party  this  fall  for  former  and  new  stu- 
dents in  the  Comparative  Literature  Program.   Students  who  entered  the  graduate  pro- 
gram this  year  are  Gary  Case,  Christian  Gollub,  Kathryn  Lewis,  Pedro  Lopez,  America 
Martinez,  General  Burns,  Scott  Filderman,  Clia  Goodwin,  Lenita  Kiepura,  Maria  Merkelo, 
JoAnne  Oedewaldt,  Scott  Parkay,  Kenneth  Schulze,  Kenneth  Ober,  Constance  Ostrowski, 
Deborah  Schwartz,  and  Ashton  Townsley. 

THESES  DEFENSES 
Congratulations  to  the  following  comparatists  who  have  recently  completed  their  doc- 
toral dissertations  and  theses  defenses:  Kathryn  Campbell,  Andrew  Horton,  Barbara 
Lynch,  Asela  Rodriguez-Seda ,  Olena  Saciuk,  and  Marilyn  Smith. 

MEETINGS  AND  LECTURES 
Graduate  students  in  Comparative  Literature  have  participated  in  a  number  of  meetings 
recently.   Barbara  Lide  delivered  a  paper  entitled  "Strindberg  and  Moliere"  at  the 
Rocky  Mountain  MLA  meeting  held  in  Laramie,  Wyo . ,  during  Oct.  12-13.   She  was  elected 
chairperson  of  the  Comparative  Literature  section  of  the  RMMLA.   Joseph  Ficklen  re- 
cently read  a  paper  entitled  "Cinema  Banal:  Why  Popular  Films  are  Popular"  at  the 
Popular  Culture  Convention  which  met  in  Indianapolis,  Ind .   William  Walker  spoke  on 
"The  Political  Theatre  in  Germany"  at  the  annual  NSGA  convention  which  met  at  Ball 
State  Univ.  a  short  time  ago. 

This  has  also  been  a  busy  time  for  the  faculty  of  the  Comparative  Literature 
Program.   Prof.  A.O.  Aldridge  (who  is  on  leave  this  year)  delivered  an  address  en- 
titled "The  Decline  of  the  British  Empire"  on  Sep.  29  at  the  1st  Annual  Symposium  of 
the  Lawrence  Henry  Gipson  Institute,  Lehigh  Univ.,  Bethlehem,  Pa.   On  Oct.  19  he  was 
the  after-dinner  speaker  at  the  Johnsonian  Society  of  the  Pacific  Northwest,  Univ. 
of  Victoria,  B.C.   On  Oct.  16  Prof.  Aldridge  was  conference  speaker  for  the  Dept.  of 
Comparative  Literature  at  the  Univ.  of  Wash.,  Seattle;  on  Oct.  19  he  delivered  the 


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Univ.  Address  at  the  Comparative  Literature  &  Humanities  Symposium,  Univ.  of  Ore., 
Eugene.   Prof.  Francois  Jost  was  the  guest  speaker  at  the  Comparative  Literature  Sym- 
posium held  at  Miami  Univ.  on  Nov.  3.   The  title  of  his  address  was  "Humanism  Re- 
vised: Comparative  Literature."   Prof.  Herbert  Knust  delivered  a  lecture  on  Bertolt 
Brecht's  Theatre  at  the  Univ.  of  N.C.  in  Chapel  Hill  on  Nov.  19. 

OTHER  STUDENT  ACTIVITIES 
Mr.  Robert  Sewell  (alternately  with  Prof.  Robert  Oram)  reviews  books  on  the  WILL  ra- 
dio program,  "Books  in  the  News,"  which  is  broadcast  on  Wednesday  evenings  at  9:40 
(on  FM)  '  and  on  Saturday  mornings  at  8:50  (on  AM).   On  this  program  Mr.  Sewell  reviews 
primarily  current  international  fiction.   Prof.  Kiyoshi  Hasegawa,  a  visiting  Ful- 
bright  scholar  from  Ochanomiya  Univ.  in  Tokyo,  and  Mr.  Sewell  have  made  2  radio  pro- 
grams to  be  broadcast  in  Japan--the  programs  will  be  a  part  of  Prof.  Hasegawa ' s  pro- 
gram for  English  language  students  in  Japan. 

PUBLICATIONS 
Graduate  student  publications  include:   Ashton  Townsley,  "Zur  Ikonographie  des  Leben- 
Jesu-Zyklus  in  der  St . -Martins-Kirche  von  Zillis,"  in  Zeitschrif t  f tir  Schweizerische 
Archaoloqie  und  Kunstqeschichte ,  Bd .  30  (1973),  40-53,  and  "Michelangelo's  Last 
Judgement  and  its  Aesthetic  Implications,"  Franciscan  Studies,  X  (1972),  218-24;  Wil- 
liam Walker,  "Innovations  in  German  Language  Teaching,"  in  ACTFL  Magazine  (July, 
1973).   The  Journal  de  Geneve  (Samedi  litteraire,  Nov.  17)  published  an  interview 
which  Danielle  Cousin  Johnson  had  with  Francois  Jost  on  guestions  concerning  Compara- 
tive Literature. 

Faculty  publications  include:   Prof.  Francois  Jost,  "L'Abbe  Prevost  traducteur 
de  Richardson,"  Revue  des  langues  vivantes,  XXXIX  (1973),  346-59;  Prof.  Herbert  Knust, 
(with  Hedy  Landman ) ,  Theatrical  Drawings  and  Watercolors ,  by  George  Grosz ,  Busch- 
Reisinger  Museum,  Harvard  Univ.,  1973. 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  STUDIES 
The  winter  issue  (1973)  of  Comparative  Literature  Studies  is  a  special  issue  on  Uto- 
pian Social  Thought  in  Literature  and  the  Social  Sciences--edited  by  Herbert  Knust. 
The  issue  includes  "Zamiatin's  We_  and  Orwell's  1984"  (by  Gordon  Beauchamp),  "Women  in 
Utopia"  (by  L.T.  Sargent)  and  the  1972  Proceedings  of  the  Symposium  on  "Utopian  So- 
cial Thought  in  Literature  and  the  Social  Sciences"  held  at  the  UIUC:  "Introduction" 
(by  H.G.  Haile),  "Capitalism,  Communism,  and  Multinationalism"  (by  I.L.  Horowitz), 
"Models  for  a  Future  Society:  Literature  and  the  Sociologist"  (by  Helmut  Klages), 
"The  Time  Machine  versus  Utopia  as  a  Structural  Model  for  Science  Fiction"  (by  Darko 
SuvinT^  "The  Prospects  for  Literature  in  Future  Society"  (by  Walter  Htillerer  and  Ri- 
chard Figge),  "Literary  Scholarship:  Past  and  Future"  (by  Peter  Demetz),  "Utopian 
Thought  and  Modern  Society:  Interdisciplinary  Perspectives"  (summary  of  a  panel  dis- 
cussion, by  Herbert  Knust). 

FRENCH  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel 

ACTIVITIES  AMONG  THE  FRANCOPHILES 
The  Dept.  of  French,  together  with  the  Dept .  of  English  and  the  Program  in  Compara- 
tive Literature,  sponsored  a  lecture  by  Jules  C.  Brody  (Prof,  of  French,  City  Univ. 
of  N.Y.)  talking  on  "Racine  and  Shakespeare:  A  Freudian  View"  on  Nov.  13. 

Under  the  auspices  of  the  French  Dept.  Prof.  Priscilla  P.  Clark  (UICC)  gave  a 
talk  on  Dec.  6  on  "Suicide,  Societe  et  Sociologie:  de  Durkheim  a  Balzac." 

The  National  French  Contest-FLES  (Mar.  30-Apr.  6)  is  listing  its  Contest  Chair- 
men in  the  French  Review,  Oct.  1973,  issue. 

On  Oct.  18  Prof.  William  McLean  spoke  on  "Semiologie  et  Discours  Cinematogra- 
phique,"  followed  by  a  showing  of  his  film,  A  Bas  les  Murs  du  Silence. 

Prof.  Pierre  Weisz  has  just  published  the  book  Incarnations  du  roman  (Editions 
Mallier,  214  pp.,  1973).   This  is  a  study  of  the  novel  as  art  form,  in  which  Mr. 
Weisz  attempts  to  define  the  content,  structure,  and  limits  of  the  genre  and  its  var- 
ious metamorphoses— from  La  Princesse  de  Cleves  (the  inception  of  the  modern  novel) 
through  early  19th  century  works. 

Prof.  Barbara  Bowen  was  invited  by  the  Medieval  House  of  the  Univ.  of  Rochester 
to  give  a  lecture  on  Oct.  15.   Her  subject  was  "Medieval  French  farce  and  the  prob- 
lem of  genre . " 

On  Oct.  26,  about  45  students  in  all  levels  of  French  classes,  led  by  Teaching 
Asst.  Molly  Melchinq,  went  to  visit  the  Art  Institute  in  Chicaoo  (for  the  manor 


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French  paintings)  and  eat  lunch  at  the  Bordeaux  Restaurant.   Since  then,  we  have  re- 
ceived favorable  feedback  and  we  hope  that  this  experience  can  be  repeated  soon. 

FIOCES 
Prof.  F.W.  Nachtmann  of  the  Dept.  of  French,  UIUC,  attended  the  biennial  convention 
of  FIOCES  in  Portsmouth,  England,  Oct.  4-6.   FIOCES  (Federation  Internationale  des 
Organisations  pour  Correspond ance  et  Echanges  Scolaires )  is  based  in  Paris  and  has 
members  all  over  the  world.   Its  members  comprise  pen  friend  agencies  and  agencies 
for  the  exchange  of  student  personnel.   Prof.  Nachtmann,  as  Executive  Secretary  of 
the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  French,  is  also  Director  of  the  Bureau  de 
Correspondance  Scolaire,  which  is  a  member  of  FIOCES.   The  BCS  matches  American  stu- 
dents studying  French  with  students  in  France  and  other  francophile  areas  of  the 
world,  pairing  about  20,000  American  names  a  year,  including  a  considerable  number 
of  class-to-class  combinations  and  a  certain  number  of  American  teachers  with  teach- 
ers in  France. 

The  biennial  meeting  of  FIOCES  follows  the  invitation  of  its  constituent  organ- 
izations and  this  year  was  the  guest  of  the  International  Friendship  League  in  Ports- 
mouth.  Two  years  ago  it  met  in  New  York  City.   The  delegates  at  the  Portsmouth  meet- 
ing, numbering  about  40,  came  from  France,  England,  the  United  States,  Germany,  Aus- 
tria, Sweden,  Italy,  Spain,  Denmark,  Belgium,  Holland,  Japan,  and  Barbados. 

The  meeting  was  very  well  organized  and  the  delegates  were  treated  with  the  most 
gracious  hospitality  by  the  population  of  Portsmouth,  which  as  the  great  naval  base 
of  England  has  the  habit  of  receiving  foreign  visitors.   After  an  unusually  pleasant 
summer  in  England  the  weather  was  still  very  mild  on  the  southern  coast  of  England  in 
early  Oct.,  and  the  guests  had  the  privilege  of  all  being  housed  in  the  Royal  Beach 
Hotel  facing  the  ocean.   The  meetings  took  place  in  the  Guildhall,  a  building  com- 
pletely reconstructed  after  its  destruction  in  World  War  II.   The  highlight  of  the 
sojourn  in  Portsmouth  was  a  civic  reception  and  ball  given  the  delegates  by  "The 
Right  Worshipful  the  Lord  Mayor  of  Portsmouth"  and  "The  Lady  Mayoress,"  at  which  the 
visitors  had  the  unusual  experience  of  having  their  names  called  out  at  the  door  by 
a  liveried  usher. 

FIPF 
On  Saturday,  Oct.  27,  a  meeting  was  held  in  Montreal  to  organize  a  North  American 
conference  of  the  FIPF  (Federation  Internationale  des  Professeurs  de  Francais)  and  to 
launch  plans  for  a  symposium  next  June  in  Montreal  on  the  subject  of  psycholinguis- 
tics.   The  FIPF  is  encouraging  the  formation  of  regional  groupings   of  teachers  of 
French,  and  this  meeting  was  intended  to  implement  this  intention.   Present  at  the 
meeting,  which  was  held  at  the  Univ.  of  Montreal  at  the  invitation  of  Emile  Bessette 
of  the  faculty  of  that  institution,  were  Rene  Bismuth,  Brock  Univ.,  St.  Catherines, 
Ont . ,  President  of  the  Association  des  Professeurs  de  Francais  des  Universites  Cana- 
diennes  (APFUC);  Gilles  Dorion,  Laval  Univ.,  President  of  the  Association  Quebec- 
quoise  des  Professeurs  de  Francais  (AQPF);  Madeleine  Vitols,  Marymount,  N.Y.,  Vice 
President  of  the  Association  des  Professeurs  Francais  en  Amerique  (APFA);  and  F.W. 
Nachtmann,  UIUC,  Executive  Secretary,  AATF . 

The  regional  conference  of  the  FIPF  is  intended  to  be  a  permanent  organization 
and  will  eventually  include  not  only  the  Canadian  and  U.S.  associations  of  teachers 
of  French  but  also  the  Mexican  and  Haitian  groups  if  they  wish  to  participate.   Its 
first  major  activity  will  be  the  symposium  in  Montreal  next  summer,  which  will  last  5 
days  and  is  expected  to  bring  an  attendance  of  about  200  persons  from  Europe  and 
North  America.   This  symposium  will  prepare  for  the  next  international  congress  of 
the  FIPF,  which  will  be  held  jointly  with  the  annual  AATF  meeting  in  New  Orleans  in 
Dec.  1975.   Jacques  Hardre,  editor  of  the  French  Review,  is  the  president  of  FIPF. 

JOINT  NATIONAL  COMMITTEE  FOR  LANGUAGES 
On  Sep.  21-22  the  Joint  National  Committee  for  Languages  held  a  meeting  at  the  Holi- 
day Inn  of  O'Hare  Airport  in  Chicago.   Present  at  the  meeting  were  the  officers  of 
AATF,  AATSP,  AATG ,  ACTFL,  and  an  observer  from  NFMLTA.   Attending  from  the  UIUC  was 
Prof.  F.W.  Nachtmann,  Executive  Secretary  of  AATF. 

ARCACHON  STUDY -ABROAD  PROGRAM 
The  Arcachon  Study-Abroad  Program,  sponsored  by  ACTFL  from  1970-72,  will  again  take 
place  in  the  summer  of  1974.   This  highly  successful  program,  which  emphasizes  speak- 
ing and  living  the  language  and  culture,  features  an  all-native  staff  of  young  group 
leaders  from  the  Bordeaux  region  as  well  as  French  teenagers  from  Paris  who  serve  as 


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"camarades. "  American  chaperones,  fluent  in  French,  will  be  made  part  of  the  program 
for  the  first  time  this  year.  For  further  information,  please  write  Jane  M.  Bourque , 
Director,  Arcachon  Study-Abroad  Program,  170  Bulmer  Dr.,  Stratford,  CN  06497. 

19  74  SUMMER  INSTITUTE  IN  FRANCE 
The  Univ.  of  Northern  Iowa  will  hold  an  8-week  institute  for  French  teachers  in  An- 
gers, France,  June  19-Aug.  14,  1974.  The  program  is  designed  for  teachers  who  want 
intensive  training  in  speaking  and  understanding  French,  and  who  would  like  to  live 
among  the  French  people.  The  program  includes  studying  in  Angers  for  5  weeks,  plus  a 
study-tour  of  France.  The  program  carries  8  hours  of  credit.  For  further  informa- 
tion contact  Andre  Walther,  French  Summer  Institute,  UNI,  Cedar  Falls,  IA  50613. 

GERMANIC  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Karl-Heinz  Schoeps 

ACTIVITIES  OF  THE  FACULTY — PUBLICATIONS  AND  PAPERS 
Prof.  Elmer  H.  Antonsen  published  4  articles:  "Inflection  and  Derivation  in  German," 
Issues  in  Linguistics :  Papers  in  Honor  of  Henry  and  Renee  Kahane ,  32-40;  "The  Runic 
Inscription  from  Opedal,"  Studies  for  Einar  Hauqen ,  46-52;  "Zur  schwachen  'Flexion' 
im  Deutschen , "  Linguistische  Studien  3:1  137-44;  and  " Suprasegmentalia  im  Deutschen," 
Jahrbuch  f tlr  Internationale  Germanistik ,  July  1973.   His  2  reviews  of  Phonetisch- 
phonoloqische  Untersuchunqen  zur  Vok a lent wick lung  in  den  deutschen  Dialekten ,  I ,  II , 
by  P.  Wiesinger,  and  Islandskaja  Prosodika  by  A.S.  Liberman  appeared  in  JEGP  July  1973 

Prof.  James  W.  Marchand  published  a  book,  The  Sounds  and  Phonemes  of  Wulf ila ' s 
Gothic ;  articles  on  "Proto,  Pre-  and  Common:  A  Problem  in  Definition"  in  Issues  in 

■  Testament  Studies ,  and  "Computer  Aided  Instruction  in  the  Humanities:  The  UI 
PLATO  System:  Realities  and  Possibilities,"  in  International  Conference  on  Computers 
In  the  Humanities :  Final  Program;  and  the  following  reviews:  SI avo teutonic a :  Lexikal- 
ische  Untersuchungen  zum  slawisch -deutschen  Sprachkontakt  im  Ostmitteldeutschen  by 
Gunter  Bellman,  in  S 1 av i c  and  East  European  Journal  16  361-63;  Formulierunqstheorie- 
Poetik-Strukturelle  Literaturgeschichte ,  by  Gotz  Wienold ,  in  JEGP  72  236-38;  Biblio- 
qraphie  zu  Gottfried  von  Strassburq  by  Hans  Hugo  Steinhoff ,  in  JEGP  72  262-65;  Frtlhes 
Mittelalter  by  Henry  Kratz  and  Spates  Mittelalter  by  George  F.  Jones  in  JEGPh  72  265- 
68;  and  Studien  zum  Cambridqer  Codex  'f-S  10 .  K.  22  by  Keikki  J.  Hakkarainen,  in  Mon- 
atshef te  65  189-91. 

Prof.  Irmengard  Rauch  published  an  article  entitled  "Old  High  German  Vocalic 
Clusters"  in  Issues  in  Linguistics :  Papers  in  Honor  of  Henry  and  Renee  Kahane .   To- 
gether with  Jtlrgen  Eichhoff  (Univ.  of  Wise.,  Madison)  Prof.  Rauch  also  edited  the 
Heliand  in  the  Wissenschaf tliche  Buchgesellschaf t ,  Darmstadt,  1973.   In  the  Henry 
Nordmeyer  Festschrift  (Ann  Arbor:  Univ.  of  Mich.,  1973)  Prof.  Rauch  published  an  ar- 
ticle on  "Some  North-West  Germanic  Dental  Conditioners  and  Laryngeal  Effect." 

Prof.  H.G.  Haile's  biographical  study  of  Goethe  in  Italy,  Artist  in  Chrysalis , 
appeared  in  the  UI  Press  in  Aug.,  1973.   He  also  wrote  an  article  on  "Humanities  Edu- 
cation" in  Humanities  Forum,  Vol.  I,  No.  2,  Sept.  1973. 

Prof.  U.  Henry  Gerlach  published  a  Hebbel-Bibliographie  1910-1970  in  the  Carl 
Winter  Universitatsverlag ,  Heidelberg,  1973. 

The  following  faculty  members  presented  papers:  Prof.  Rauch  at  the  Mid-America 
Linguistics  Conference  at  the  Univ.  of  Iowa  ( "The  Transformational  Ethnological  Pas- 
sive: Degree  and  Type  Grammar"),  Prof.  Antonsen  at  the  Heimskringla  (Scandinavian 
research  group),  Prof.  Haile  at  the  Ky .  Foreign  Language  Conference  ("Luther  and  the 
Student  of  Literature")  and  at  the  Renaissance  Society  ("Luther's  Interpretation  of 
the  117th  Psalm").   Prof.  Henning  lectured  at  the  following  universities:   Col. 
(Boulder),  Wyo .  (Laramie),  Emory  (Atlanta),  Purdue  (Lafayette). 

The  following  faculty  members  will  present  papers:  Prof.  Marchand  on  "Wolfram's 
Bawdy"  at  the  MLA  conference  in  Chicago  (German  2)  (as  secretary  of  German  1  he  will 
also  give  a  report  on  "Work  in  Progress"  and  "Computer  Studies  in  Germanic  Philo- 
logy"); Prof.  Burkhard  on  "Ambivalence  and  Fragmentation:  Structural  Similarities  in 
the  Works  of  C.F.  Meyer   and  Baudelaire"  at  the  MLA  conference  (CompLit  7)  and  "Zum 
Anfang  des  deutschen  Symbolismus:  Strukturelle  Verwandtschaf ten  zwischen  Baudelaire 
und  C.F.  Meyer"  at  the  Univ.  of  Zurich,  Switzerland,  in  Jan.  1974;  Prof.  Sell  on 
"Sexuality  and  Revolution:  Pinter's  Homecoming  and  Weiss'  Marat/Sade"  at  the  2nd  An- 
nual Conference  on  20th  Century  Literature  in  Louisville,  Ky . 

EVENTS 
The  committee  on  the  true  discovery  of  America,  known  as  the  First  America  Committee, 
declared  Oct.  12  the  day  of  Frija,  Bjarni  Herjolfsson  Day.   Herjolf sson .  the  first 


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discoverer  of  America,  had  languished  too  long  in  the  Scandinavian  fog  of  forgetful- 
ness.   The  event  was  duly  celebrated  in  the  department. 

On  Oct.  15,  Mr.  Rolf  Kiderlen,  German  Consul  General  in  Chicago,  visited  the 
campus,  and  on  Oct.  18-19  we  had  the  noted  Indo-Europeanist  and  Eskimologist  Prof. 
L.L.  Hammerich  with  us. 

The  interdisciplinary  lecture  series  in  conjunction  with  the  Kurt  Schwitters  and 
George  Grosz  exhibitions,  which  were  announced  in  the  last  Newsletter,  turned  out  to 
be  a  great  success. 

At  the  Deutsches  Seminar  on  Oct.  17,  2  doctoral  candidates  of  Prof.  Rauch,  Miss 
Ginny  Coombs  and  Mr.  David  Krooks,  led  "An  Informal  Discussion  of  Transformational- 
Generative  Theory."   On  Nov.  15  Prof.  Henning  introduced  and  led  a  discussion  on  the 
topic  "1st  Weimar  noch  eine  Musenstadt?" 

At  the  Fruchtbringende  Gesellschaft  on  Dec.  6,  Prof.  Henning  spoke  on  "Heine's 
Faust. " 

Major  events  of  the  German  Club  included:  Nov.  29,  Protestlieder  (Biermann, 
SuverkrUp,  Degenhardt);  Dec.  7,  Weihnachtsf eier ,  Great  Hall,  Wesley  Foundation;  Dec. 
14,  Prof.  Henning,  questions  and  answers  about  the  German  Democratic  Republic. 

JOB  PLACEMENT 
Our  placement  officer  Prof.  Haile  reports  that  our  1st  job  candidate  this  year  has 
been  placed.   Jack  Howard  accepted  a  position  at  the  Univ.  of  Ga. 

PH.D.  AWARDS 
Recent  recipients  of  the  Ph.D.  degree  were:  Ruth  Sault,  Janet  Hudson,  Giles  Hoy t , 
Helmut  Ziefle,  Uwe  Klinger,  David  Armborst. 

GERMAN  SERVICE  BUREAU 
The  German  Service  Bureau  is  part  of  the  activities  of  the  Dept.  of  German,  Univ.  of 
Wise . -Extension  and  exists  for  the  sole  purpose  of  helping  teachers  of  German,  Ger- 
man clubs,  students  of  German,  and  other  groups  and  individuals  interested  in  Ger- 
man and  German-speaking  countries.   For  more  information  write  to:  German  Service  Bu- 
reau, Univ.  of  Wise . -Extension,  635  Lowell  Hall,  610  Langdon  St.,  Madison,  WI  53706. 

SLAVIC  NOTES  -  by  Prof.  Elliot  Cohen 

NEW  HEAD 
A  search  committee  has  been  named  by  the  School  of  Humanities  and  the  LAS  College  to 
seek  a  new  head  for  the  department.   After  8  years  as  head  at  U.IUC  in  addition  to  10 
years  as  departmental  chairman  at  Syracuse  Univ.,  Prof.  Clayton  L.  Dawson  has  asked 
to  be  relieved  of  his  duties  as  head  effective  Aug.  1974.   From  then  on  he  will  con- 
centrate his  energies  on  teaching  and  research. 

ATTENTION  RUSSIAN  TEACHERS 
The  fall  meeting  of  the  111.  chapter  of  AATSEEL  was  held  Nov.  2  at  the  Sheraton- 
Blackstone  Hotel,  Chicago.   About  20  high  school  and  college  teachers  attended. 
During  the  business  meeting  Winnie  Lamons ,  Hinsdale  H.S.,  was  elected  president  and 
Dr.  Kurt  Klein,  UIUC,  secretary -treasurer .   Prof.  Rasio  Dunatov,  UIUC,  distributed 
buttons  during  the  meeting.   He  devised  these  buttons  to  promote  the  study  of  Rus- 
sian.  High  school  students  too  can  wear  them  to  arouse  curiosity:   "DA,  JA  GOVORJU 
PO-RUSSKI,"  "JA  IZUCHAJU  RUSSKIJ  JAZYK,"  "MIR."   If  you  are  interested  in  ordering 
some  of  these,  contact  Prof.  Dunatov  (Slavic  Dept.,  3092  FLB,  UIUC,  Urbana,  IL 
61801).   The  cost  should  be  about  15-20C  per  button.   Prof.  Wilma  Hoffman  and  Mr. 
Frank  Petronaitis  were  elected  to  encourage  increased  attendance  of  college  and  high 
school  teachers  at  111.  AATSEEL  get-togethers.   Do  arms  need  to  be  twisted? 

MORE  FILMS  AVAILABLE 
The  Slavic  Dept.  and  Prof.  Hill's  film  collection  of  East  European  short  subjects 
has  expanded  in  recent  months  with  the  following  titles:   Sports  in  Russia  (1945), 
Camera  on  Russia  (1958,  general  travelog) ,  Hungary  and  Communism  (1964,  human  inter- 
est and  travelog ) ,  Report  from  Russia  ( 194  3 )  ,  World  War  II ,  Joseph  Stalin  ( 19  65 )  , 
Communist  Challenge  (1962,  panel  discussion,  politics,  travelog).   To  borrow  these 
films,  or  to  obtain  a  list  of  other  departmental  films  available,  write  Prof.  S.P. 
Hill,  Slavic  Dept.,  3092  FLB,  UIUC,  Urbana,  IL  61801. 


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SOLZHENITSYN  SYMPOSIUM 
Solzhenitsyn,  that  embattled  writer-moralist,  was  the  subject  of  discussion  by  Profs. 
Evelyn  Bristol,  Kenneth  Brostrom,  Elliot  Cohen,  and  Louis  Iribarne  of  the  UIUC  in  a 
public  forum  which  encouraged  audience  participation.   Questions  touched  upon  were 
the  relation  of  the  writer  to  the  state  in  the  U.S.S.R.,  the  prison  world  depicted 
by  Solzhenitsyn,  his  place  in  the  Russian  literary  tradition,  and  his  relationship 
to  other  dissident  writers. 

THE  THREE  SISTERS  MAKE  IT  TO  URBANA  INSTEAD  OF  MOSCOW 
On  Thursday,  Feb.  7,  1974,  at  8  pm  Chekhov's  The  Three  Sisters  will  be  performsd  by 
the  N.Y.  City  Center  acting  company  in  the  UIUC  Krannert  Center.   This  is  a  rare 
opportunity  to  see  the  master  dramatist  interpreted  by  a  top-flight  professional 
stage  troupe.   Don't  miss  it;   For  tickets  (public  $6-$5-$4,  students  $5-$4-$3)  con- 
tact the  Krannert  Center  for  the  Performing  Arts,  500  S.  Goodwin  Ave.,  Urbana,  IL 
61801,  enclosing  remittance  and  self -addressed  stamped  envelope  for  return  of  tickets 

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STUDENT  NOTES 
From  borsch  to  vodka,  with  many  delicious  dishes  in  between--such  was  the  fare  at  the 
heartily  attended  (ca.  80  people)  and  enjoyed  Russian  feast  impressarioed  by  Prof. 
Rasio  Dunatov.   Entertainment  of  dance  and  song  was  provided  by  the  natives  of  Ms. 
Nancy  Vinokur's  Russian  101  class. 

M.A.  degrees  awarded  or  soon  to  be  awarded  go  to  Christine  Bettin,  James  Levine, 
and  Thomas  McCann  and  to  Steven  Nielsen,  Lily  Schoch,  and  Jane  Purdy. 

FACULTY  NOTES — SHE  AND  HE 
At  the  15th  annual  meeting  of  the  Midwest  MLA  on  Nov.  1-3  Prof.  Maria  Zalucky  was  a 
member  of  the  Advisory  and  Nominating  Committee  of  Slavic  1  (Russian  Language  &  Lit- 
erature).  As  a  discussant  of  Vladimir  Maksimov's  novel  The  Seven  Days  of  Creation, 
she  presented  a  co-report  to  the  paper  read  by  Prof.  V.  Alekseev.   She  also  was  elec- 
ted secretary  of  Slavic  1  for  next  year's  meeting.   Prof.  Henry  Zalucky  was  secretary 
at  Slavic  2  (all  non-Russian  Slavic  languages  and  literatures).   Mr.  Zalucky  will  be 
on  leave  of  absence  during  the  spring  semester  1974.   He  has  been  invited  as  a  visit- 
ing lecturer  to  the  Defense  Language  Institute  in  Washington,  D.C.,  where  he  hopes  to 
prepare  some  up-to-date  teaching  materials  for  the  new  course,  Business  Russian,  of- 
fered by  our  department. 

PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  S.P.  Hill  has  recently  published  ( Slavic  Review,  Sep.  1973)  a  proposal  that 
Russian  names  be  transliterated  for  popular  publications  with  i_   serving  for  both  1/1 
and  j/J  ,  and  y_  only  for  Q   .      His  main  conclusion  is  that  inconsistencies  with  these 
letters  should  be  eliminated  and  that  we  should  use  spellings  like  Sergei,  Bely,  Dos- 
toevski, istoria,  etc.,  in  our  college  catalogs,  popular  magazine  articles,  and  books 
for  large  audiences.   In  other  words,  the  unconscionable  inconsistency  that  \/\  =i_  and 
Yl   =i^,  but^  +fl  =y_  (sic.'  )  should  be  abolished  from  the  usage  of  all  those  who  call 
themselves  scholars. 

Prof.  Temira  Pachmuss,  recently  returned  from  a  European  research  foray-lecture 
tour  with  such  trophies  as  extensive  interviews  with  eminent  Russian  writers  in  emi- 
gration anj  the  personal  icon  of  the  poetess  Zinaida  Gippius  (which  the  latter  held 
in  her  arms  as  she  died),  reports  the  acceptance  for  publication  by  the  UI  Press  of 
Between  Paris  and  Petersburg:  Selected  Diaries  of  Zinaida  Gippius . 

"DON'T  REMEMBER  EVIL  AGAINST  ME'' 
This  is  what  the  Russians  say  in  parting.   The  current  Editor  of  the  Slavic  Notes, 
Elliot  Cohen,  will  be  on  leave  during  the  spring  semester.   I  command  you  to  the  care 
of  my  wise  colleague,  Pan  Iribarne. 

SPANISH,  ITALIAN,  &  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  --  by  Maxwell  Reed  Mowry ,  Jr. 

EXTRAMURAL  EDUCATION 
Are  you  a  high  school  Spanish  teacher  or  a  student  of  Spanish  who  would  like  to  earn 
an  M.A.  degree  in  Spanish  (or  even  an  M.A.  Plus  30)  but  you  do  not  wish  to  attend  4 
consecutive  summer  sessions  nor  can  you  afford  to  take  a  year  off  from  your  work  to 
attend  the  U.I.?   If  you  can  answer  "Yes"  (or  even  "Maybe")  to  this  guestion,  then 
extramural  courses  in  Spanish  may  be  of  interest  to  you. 

This  department  is  considering  the  possibility  of  offerina  various  300-level 


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courses  on  an  extramural  basis.   These  courses  would  be  given  off -campus  at  any  of 
several  central  locations  throughout  the  state  of  111.,  and  would  be  within  easy 
driving  distance  of  those  participating.   Each  course  would  meet  once  a  week  for  a  2- 
or  3-hour  session  either  on  a  weekday  evening  or  a  Saturday  morning  during  an  acad- 
emic semester.   Any  extramural  course  would  count  for  credit  toward  an  M.A.  or  M.A. 
Plus  30,  and  a  serious  participant  could  combine  extramural  courses  with  courses  of- 
fered during  the  UIUC  summer  session,  thereby  reducing  the  time  necessary  to  spend 
working  toward  a  high  degree. 

If  you  are  at  all  interested,  please  fill  out  the  coupon  on  the  last  page  of 
this  issue  and  send  it  to  Prof.  A.M.  Pasquariello  at  the  address  shown.   He  will  con- 
tact you  further  if  a  sufficient  number  of  people  show  interest  in  this  program. 

LIST  OF  DEPARTMENTAL  JOB  APPLICANTS  AVAILABLE 
Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello,  department  head,  has  issued  a  list  of  15  graduate  stu- 
dents in  this  department  who  expect  to  finish  doctoral  dissertations  in  Spanish, 
Italian,  and  Comparative  Literature  by  May,  19  74,  and  who  will  be  available  for  em- 
ployment at  the  university,  college,  or  junior  college  level.   Any  department  head 
or  dean  interested  in  receiving  a  copy  of  this  list  can  contact  Prof.  Pasquariello 
at  the  Dept.  of  Spanish-Italian-Portuguese ,  4080  FLB,  UIUC,  Urbana,  IL  61801. 

UIUC-UICC  YEAR  ABROAD  IN  SPAIN 
Applications  will  soon  be  accepted  for  the  Year  Abroad  in  Spain  program  sponsored  by 
both  campuses  of  the  UI  (Urbana-Champaign  and  Chicago  Circle)  in  Barcelona  for  1974- 
75.   The  program  is  the  equivalent  of  2  semesters  at  UIUC  or  3  quarters  at  UICC.  The 
group  is  limited  to  40  participants,  and  the  minimum  requirement  is  completion  of  a 
4th-semester  Spanish  course.   Total  cost  (including  transportation,  room,  board,  tui- 
tion, insurance)  will  be  around  $2450.   For  applications  and  more  information  contact 
the  UI  Year  Abroad  in  Spain  Program  either  at  UIUC  (Dept.  of  Spanish-Italian-Portu- 
guese, 4080  FLB,  Urbana,  IL  61801)  or  UICC  (Spanish  Dept.,  1733  University  Hall, 
Box  4348,  Chicago,  IL  60680). 

19  74  AATSP  NATIONAL  SPANISH  CONTEST 
The  Downstate  Chapter  of  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  Spanish  &  Portuguese 
will  offer  the  National  Spanish  Contest  during  Mar.23-Apr.  6,  1974,  at  the  1st- 
through  5th-year  levels.   Orders  for  the  tests  and  tapes  must  be  received  by  the  con- 
test chairman  (Prof.  James  E.  McKinney,  Sallee  Hall  220,  Western  111.  Univ.,  Macomb, 
IL  61455)  by  Feb.  5,  1974.   Directions  for  administering  the  test  will  be  included 
with  the  examination  booklets;  language  laboratory  facilities  or  a  good  tape  recorder 
is  required  for  the  auditory  comprehension  section.   All  111.  teachers  are  eligible 
to  enter  their  students,  but  only  students  whose  teachers  are  members  of  both  the 
national  and  chapter  AATSP  are  eligible  for  awards. 

Schools  willing  to  set  up  area  testing  centers  should  also  contact  Prof.  McKin- 
ney at  the  above  address.   The  testing  time  is  75  minutes  and  requires  listening 
facilities . 

Persons  interested  in  joining  AATSP  should  send  $9  ($8  for  national  dues,  $1 
for  chapter  dues)  to  Prof.  Logan  Cobb,  Foreign  Languages  Dept.,  Eastern  111.  Univ., 
Charleston,  IL  61920. 

SUMMER  INSTITUTE  IN  SPAIN 
The  Univ.  of  Northern  Iowa  is  sponsoring  its  4th  Summer  Institute  in  Soria,  Spain, 
for  teachers  of  Spanish.   This  8-week  program  provides  9  hours  of  graduate  credit, 
and  an  M.A.  in  Spanish  can  be  earned  after  3  summers  in  Soria.   The  price  is  $995 
plus  UNI  graduate  tuition  (Iowa  residents  $195,  non-residents  $320)  and  includes 
round-trip  air  fare  U.S. -Spain  (departure  June  20,  return  Aug.  12,  1974),  room  and 
board  with  a  Soria  family,  plus  side  trips  through  northern  and  central  Spain.   For 
further  information  contact  Prof.  Adolfo  Franco,  Director,  Summer  Institute  in  Spain, 
Dept.  of  Foreign  Languages,  UNI,  Cedar  Falls,  IA  50613. 

RECENT  GRADUATES 
The  department  awarded  4  masters  degrees  in  Aug.  plus  3  masters  and  2  doctorates  in 
Oct.   Masters  in  Spanish  in  Aug.  went  to  Doris  M.  Koubek,  Roger  D.  Stein,  David  0. 
Wise,  plus  an  M.A.  in  Spanish  to  Rogelio  Ramirez  Guerrero  through  the  UIUC-UICC 
Joint  Graduate  Program.   The  Oct.  masters  recipients  were  Regina  H.  Macdonald  and 
Kathryn  Tomsula  Priven  in  Spanish,  and  Patricia  S.  Willett  in  Portuguese.   The  doc- 
toral recipients  were  Andres  Oscar  Avellaneda  (now  a  member  of  this  department's 


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faculty)  and  Francisco  Gadea-Oltra  (now  at  Bucknell  Univ.,  Lewisburg ,  Pa.),  Spanish. 

PUBLICATIONS  OF  INTEREST 
The  Spanish  Heritage  Association  gives  its  members  discounts  on  films,  tapes,  and  re- 
cords from  Spain,  as  well  as  a  reduced  rate  for  ABC  de  las  Americas.   For  further 
information  regarding  services  and  membership  costs,  contact  the  Spanish  Heritage 
Association,  105  W.  55th  St.,  Suite  8B,  New  York,  NY  10019. 

The  1974  Directory  of  Suppliers  of  Spanish  Materials  lists  many  companies  which 
supply  Spanish  materials  in  various  categories,  including  free  materials  for  teach- 
ers.  It  also  has  a  list  of  all  embassies  and  information  centers  of  Spanish-speaking 
countries  in  the  U.S.   The  Directory  is  available  at  $2  a  copy  from  Cruzada  Spanish 
Publications,  P.O.  Box  1269,  Homestead,  FL  33030. 

1 , 000  Spanish  Idioms  by  Dr.  J.  Dale  Miller  contains  over  a  thousand  of  the  most 
freguently  used  Spanish  idiomatic  expressions  graded  on  a  l-to-5  scale  according  to 
acceptability  and  freguency.   Copies  are  $2.95  each  from  Brigham  Young  Univ.  Press, 
Publication  Sales,  205  UPB,  Provo,  UT  84602. 

The  Organization  of  American  States  has  several  publications  of  interest  avail- 
able in  either  English  or  Spanish  (please  specify  which  language  when  ordering): 
"Image  of  the  Dominican  Republic:  The  Dominican  Miracle,"  "Image  of  Haiti:  Magical 
Haiti,"  "Image  of  Panama:  Center  and  Juncture  of  the  Americas,"  "Image  of  Peru:  Eter- 
nal Peru,"  "Image  of  Chile,"  "Image  of  El  Salvador,"  'Toward  Latin  American  Develop- 
ment," and  "Monumental  Cities,  I"  (includes  Potosi ,  Bolivia;  St.  Augustine,  Fla.; 
Ouro  Preto,  Brazil).   All  publications  are  25C  each  from  Sales  &  Promotion  Division, 
General  Secretariat  of  the  OAS ,  Washington,  DC  20006.   A  complete  catalog  of  OAS 
publications  is  also  available  upon  reguest. 

DEPARTMENTAL  NOTES 

The  department  sponsored  2  lectures  in  Nov.   The  Portuguese  historian  Antonio 
H.  de  Oliveira  Marques  (now  at  the  Univ.  of  Chicago)  spoke  on  'Medieval  Portuguese 
Cities"  on  Nov.  5  in  a  lecture  cosponsored  by  this  department,  the  History  Dept.,  and 
the  Center  for  Latin  American  &  Caribbean  Studies.   On  Nov.  12  Prof.  Donald  Walsh, 
former  editor  of  Hispania.  gave  a  reading  in  Spanish  with  English  translations  of  the 
poetry  of  Pablo  Neruda,  Chile's  late  Nobel-prize-winning  poet. 

The  memory  of  Pablo  Neruda  was  also  honored  by  SIPGSA  (the  department's  graduate 
student  association)  with  an  Homenaje  a_  Neruda  on  Oct.  5.   The  program  began  with  a 
recording  of  Neruda  reading  a  section  of  his  Las  alturas  de  Machu  Picchu ,  followed  by 
a  synopsis  of  his  life  by  Grad.  Teaching  Asst.  Armando  Armengol.   Several  of  Neruda' s 
poems  were  read  by  Assoc.  Prof.  Thomas  C.  Meehan,  Asst.  Prof.  Martha  Paley  de  Fran- 
cescato,  and  Grad.  Teaching  Assts.  Eva  J.  Abreu,  Rosendo  Diaz-Peterson,  Vivian  C. 
Reyes,  and  Duane  Rhoades. 

The  Spanish  Club  under  the  direction  of  Grad.  Teaching  Asst.  Maria  del  Rosario 
Ferrer  de  Cowes  sponsores  2  weekly  activities,  a  tertulia  for  conversation  in  Spanish 
every  Wednesday  from  7-8  pm  at  the  Thunderbird  Restaurant,  710  S.  Goodwin,  Urbana, 
and  a  "singalong"  in  Spanish  every  Thursday  from  4-5  pm  in  1030  FLB.   At  the  meeting 
on  Dec.  6,  Undergraduate  Student  Nicholas  Slaughter,  a  participant  in  last  year's 
Year  Abroad  in  Spain  Program,  showed  slides  of  that  country. 

The  Mesa  Redonda  with  Prof.  Luis  Leal  as  president  and  Grad.  Teaching  Asst.  Ro- 
sendo Dias-Peterson  as  secretary  sponsores  informal  group  discussions  among  the  de- 
partmental faculty  and  graduate  students.   At  the  Oct.  18  meeting  Asst.  Prof.  Anoar 
Aiex  and  Grad.  Teaching  Asst.  Regina  H.  Macdonald  led  discussions  on  the  Indianist- 
indigenous  novel  in  Brazil  and  Spanish  America.   On  Nov.  15  Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquar- 
iello  led  a  discussion  on  the  report  of  Graduate  Studies  in  Spanish  (published  in 
Hispania,  vol.  56,  541-49).   Prof.  Pasquariello  had  served  on  the  committee  which 
compiled  this  report. 

FACULTY -STAFF  NOTES 
Various  department  members  participated  in  the  Midwest  MLA  meeting  in  Chicago,  Nov. 
1-3.   Prof.  Robert  E.  Lott  was  chairman  of  Spanish  2  (Peninsular  Literature  after 
1700)  at  which  Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasguariello  was  a  discussant  on  a  paper  "Picasso 
Revisited,  or  Is  Fernando  Arrabal  a  French  Writer?"  presented  by  Dr.  Constance  A. 
Sullivan,  a  departmental  alumna  now  at  the  Univ.  of  Minn.   Another  departmental  alum- 
na, Dr.  Lynette  Hubbard  Seator,  now  at  111.  College,  Jacksonville,  presented  a  paper 
"The  Antisocial  Humanism  of  Cela  and  Hemingway"  at  the  same  session.   Assoc.  Prof. 
Thomas  C.  Meehan  was  the  discussant  of  a  paper  'Ernesto  Sabato  y  'La  muerte  de  Marco 
Bassan1,"  presented  at  Spanish  3  (Latin  American  Literature). 


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Prof.  J.H.D.  Allen  resigns  at  the  end  of  the  present  semester  as  coordinator  of 
the  department's  graduate  program,  to  be  replaced  by  Prof.  Spurgeon  W.  Baldwin. 

Assoc.  Prof.  Mario  Saltarelli  represented  our  department  on  an  8-person  panel 
discussion  "The  Linguistic  &  Pedagogical  Bases  of  PLATO  Instruction"  on  Nov.  13. 

Several  department  members  have  participated  in  UIUC  Linguistics  Dept.  seminars 
this  semester.   Assoc.  Prof.  Mario  Saltarelli  spoke  on  "Functional  Constraints  on 
Subject  Raising  in  the  Syntax  of  Periphrastic  Causative  Verbs"  on  Nov.  2.   Grad. 
Teaching  Asst.  Marc  Stephen  Rosenberg,  a  doctoral  candidate  in  linguistics,  discussed 
the  word  "Pretend"  on  Nov.  8.   Asst.  Prof.  Dieter  Wanner 's  Dec.  6  address  was  on 
"Morphological  Alternation  in  Swiss  German. " 

Assoc.  Prof.  Richard  Preto-Rodas  attended  the  South  Atlantic  MLA  meeting  in  At- 
lanta, Ga. ,  Nov.  14-16,  where  he  presented  a  paper  "The  Ironic  Humor  in  the  Satiras 
of  Tolentino  de  Almeida. " 

Grad.  Teaching  Asst.  Duane  Rhoades  holds  an  NDEA  Title  VI  Fellowship  for  1973-74 

Grad.  Teaching  Asst.  Roger  D.  Stein  spoke  to  a  student  assembly  at  Champaign 
Centennial  High  School,  Nov.  19,  discussing  such  topics  as  the  UIUC  curriculum  in 
Spanish,  the  Year  Abroad  in  Spain  Program,  and  job  opportunities  for  Spanish  majors. 

FACULTY -STAFF  PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Luis  Leal  has  an  article  "Medico  novelista"  included  in  the  volume  Mariano 
Azuela  y_  l_a  critica  mexicana,  Francisco  Monterde  ed .  (Mexico:  Secretaria  de  Educa- 
cion  Publica,  1973)  151-55  ( SepSetentas ,  86). 

Prof.  Emeritus  William  H.  Shoemaker,  former  department  head  and  Newsletter  Dir- 
ector and  now  Visiting  Prof,  at  the  Univ.  of  Mo.  in  Columbia,  has  published  2  books, 
Los  articulos  de  Galdos  en  "La  Nacion"  1865-1866,  1868  (Madrid:  Insula,  1972)  and  Las 
cartas  desconocidas  de  Galdos  en  "La  Prensa"  de  Buenos  Aires  (Madrid:  Ed.  Cultura 
Hispanica,  1973),  plus  an  article  "La  'escena  clasica '  de  Galdos  en  La  de  Bringas" 
in  Benito  Perez  Galdos ,  D.M.  Rogers  ed .  (Madrid:  Taurus  series  El  Escritor  y  la  Cri- 
tica, 19737^  a~ translation  of  his  previous  "Galdos'  Classical  Scene  in  La  de  Bringas' 
in  Hispanic  Review  (vol.  27,  1959,  423-34)  and  Estudios  sobre  Galdos  (Madrid:  Cas- 
talia,  1970,  145-58). 

Grad.  Teaching  Asst.  Margo  Corona  DeLey  has  an  article  "Razon  de  amor  and  the 
Provencal  Biographical  Tradition"  which  will  be  published  by  Tamesis,  London,  in  a 
book  on  Razon  de  amor  studies. 

EXTRAMURAL  EDUCATION 
Please  use  this  coupon  if  you  are  responding  to  the  article  on  pages  9-10. 

Would  you  like  to  take  an  extramural  course  in  Spanish  meeting  somewhere  near  you 

geographically  for  a  2-  or  3-hour  session  once  a  week  (evening  or  Sat.  morning)? 

PLEASE  CHECK:   (   )  YES    (   )  Not  now,  maybe  later     INDICATE  COURSE  PREFERENCE: 

(   )  Span  305,  Romanticism-Realism        (   )  Span  351,  Phonetics 

(   )  Span  306,  Generation  of  1898         (   )  Span  352,  Syntax 

(   )  Span  308,  Sp.  Amer.  Modernism        (   )  I'd  also  prefer  400-level  courses 

(   )  Other  300-level  course  (please  specify) 


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THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  NEWSLETTER 

February,  1974  Director:   Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello 

Vol.  XXVII,  No.  3  Editor:   Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jr. 

MLA/ERIC  CLEARINGHOUSE  PUBLICATIONS 
The  Educational  Resources  Information  Center  (ERIC)  is  sponsored  by  the  U.S.  National 
Institute  of  Education  and  supported  by  the  U.S.  Office  of  Education,  with  the  ob- 
jective of  providing  information  on  significant  current  publications.   The  Modern 
Language  Association  conducts  the  ERIC  Clearinghouse  responsible  for  educational 
information  on  languages  and  linguistics,  with  emphasis  on  information  which  would 
be  of  assistance  to  teachers,  researchers,  and  administrators. 

Below  are  a  list  of  MLA/ERIC  publications  which  may  be  of  interest;  all  are 
available  from  at  least  one  of  two   ources  (and  most  are  carried  by  both):  MLA  Pub- 
lications Center  in  N.Y.  (referred  to  as  MLA  in  the  listings  below)  and  ERIC  Docu- 
ment Reproduction  Service  in  Md .  (referred  to  as  EDRS ) .   MLA  publications  listed  be- 
low are  $.50  each  unless  otherwise  noted.   EDRS  publications  are  available  in  micro- 
fiche (M/F)  for  $.65  each  (a  4"x6"  sheet  of  microfilm  with  up  to  70  pages  of  text) 
or  in  paper  copies  (PC)  for  $3.29  each  unless  otherwise  noted.   Each  source  (MLA  or 
EDRS)  has  its  own  code  number  for  each  publication.   Information  on  ordering  follows 
the  listings  below. 
GENERAL  PEDAGOGY 

Anthony,  E.M.  &  W.E.  Norris.  Method  in  Language  Teaching,  Focus  Report  8.  1969. 
lOp.  (MLA:  R8)   (EDRS:   ED  031  984). 

Arendt,  J.D.  New  Scheduling  Patterns  and  the  Foreign  Language  Teacher,  Focus 
Report  18.  1970.  16p.   (MLA:   R18)   (EDRS:   ED  043  269). 

Birkmaier ,  E.M.  &  D. L.  Lange ,  cotips .  A  Selective  Bibliography  on  the  Teaching 
of  Foreign  Languages,  1920-1966.  1968.  43p.  (MLA:  B60  $2)   (EDRS:   ED  024  293). 

Brooks,  N.  Speaking  of  Language.  1971.  172p.  (EDRS  only:   ED  048  791,  PC  $6.58L 

Brooks,  N.  Teaching  Culture  in  the  Foreign  Language  Classroom.  1968.  14p.  (EDRS 
only:   ED  022  388) . 

Campbell,  H.  Extracurricular  Foreign  Language  Activities ,  Focus  Report  29.  1973. 
lOp.   (MLA  only:   R29 ) . 

Clark,  J.L.D.  The  Foreign-Language  Teacher  and  Research.  1971.  29p.   (MLA:  H130 
$2.50)   (EDRS:   ED  056  598). 

Disick,  R.S.  Performance  Objectives  in  Foreign  Language  Teaching ,  Focus  Report 
25.  1971.  lip.   (MLA:   R25)   (EDRS:   ED  055  522). 

Donoghue,  M.  Foreign  Languages  in  the  Elementary  School :  Effects  and  Instruc- 
tional Arrangements  According  to  Research ,  Focus  Report  3.  1969.  lOp.  (MLA:   R3) 
(EDRS:   ED  031  979) . 

Fearing,  P.  Nongraded  Foreign  Language  Classes ,  Focus  Report  4.  1969.  7p.  (MLA: 
R4)   (EDRS:   ED  031  980) . 

Grittner,  F.  Maintaining  Foreign  Language  Skills  for  the  Advanced  Course  Drop- 
out, Focus  Report  1.  1968.  9p.   (MLA:   Rl )   (EDRS:   ED  031  977). 

Harrell,  D.D.  The  Question  as  a_  Technique  in  Foreign  Language  Teaching ,  Focus 
Report  26.  1971.  lip.   (MLA:   R26)   (EDRS:   ED  056  624). 

Haukebo ,  G.K.  Summer  Foreign  Language  Programs  for  School  Students ,  Focus  Re- 
port 10.  1969.  6p.   (EDRS  only:   ED  031  986). 

John,  V.P.  &  V.M.  Horner.  Early  Childhood  Bilingual  Education.  1971.  207p. 
(MLA:   A290  $4)   (EDRS:   ED  047  593,  M/F  only). 

Leamon,  P.  Foreign  Study  for  High  School  Students :  What ' s  Going  On?  Focus  Re- 
port 5.  1969.  9p.   (MLA:   R5 )   (EDRS:   ED  031  981). 

Mathieu,  G.B.  Poems  in  Early  Foreign  Language  Instruction ,  Focus  Report  15. 

1970.  14p.   (MLA:   R15)   (EDRS:   ED  040  624). 

McKim,  L.  et  al.  The  Supervisor ' s  Role  in  Foreign -Language  Teacher  Training . 

1971.  42p.   (EDRS  only:   ED  049  665). 

Michel,  J.  &  P.  Patin.  Some  Techniques  for  Teaching  Vocabulary,  Focus  Report  27. 
(MLA:   R27)   (EDRS:   ED  066  084)  . 

Munoz,  O.  Songs  in  the  Foreign  Language  Classroom,  Focus  Report  12.  1969.  lOp. 
(EDRS  only:   ED  034  450). 

Nelson,  R.J.  Using  Radio  to  Develop  and  Maintain  Competence  in  a_  Foreign  Lan- 
guage, Focus  Report  11.  1969.  lOp.   (EDRS  only:   ED  036  215). 

Sheppard,  D.C.  Certifying  Teachers  of  Modern  Languages  for  American  Public 
Schools — 1969.  1970.  17p.   (MLA:   C180  $1)   (EDRS:   ED  038  071). 

Torres,  E.E.  et  al .  Foreign  Language  Dropout :  Problems  and  Solutions .  1970. 


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74p.   (MLA:   H140  $1)   (EDRS:   ED  043  262). 

Twaddell,  F.  Linguistics  and  Foreign  Language  Teaching,  Focus  Report  21.  1970. 
lOp.   (MLA:   R21)   (EDRS:   ED  044  981). 

Valette,  R.M.  Directions  in  Foreign  Language  Testing.  1969.  66p.   (MLA:   D300 
$3)   (EDRS:   ED  034  460) . 

Wrenn,  J.  The  Overhead  Projector,  Focus  Report  19.  1970.  12p.   (MLA:   R19 ) 
(EDRS:   ED  043  267) . 
LANGUAGE  LABORATORY 

Hutchinson,  J.C.  &  J.O.  Hutchinson.  Criteria  for  Selecting  Types  of  Foreign- 
Language  Laboratory  Systems,  Focus  Report  20.  1971.  12p.  (MLA:   R20)   (EDRS:   ED 
049  662). 

Keck,  M.E.B.  &  W.F.  Smith.  A  Selective  Annotated  Bibliography  for  the  Language 
Laboratory,  1959-1971.  1972.  47p.   (MLA:   B65  $2)   (EDRS:   ED  065  006). 

Medley,  F.W.  Maintenance  of  the  Language  Laboratory,  Focus  Report  28.  1972.  16p. 
(MLA:   R28)   (EDRS:   ED  069  190). 

Stack,  E.M.  The  Mechanical  Potential  of  the  Language  Laboratory ,  Focus  Report 
14.  1970.  16p.   (EDRS  only:   ED  038  072). 

Turner,  E.D.  Jr.  Correlation  of  Language  Class  and  Language  Laboratory ,  Focus 
Report  13.  1969.  12p.   (EDRS  only:   ED  034  451). 
SPECIFIC  LANGUAGES 

Birkenmayer,  S.S.  comp.  A  Selective  Bibliography  of  Works  Related  to  the  Teach- 
ing of  Slavic  Languages  in  the  U. S.  and  Canada,  1942-67.  1968.  41p.   (MLA:   B61  $2) 
(EDRS:   ED  025  988) . 

Campa,  A.  Teaching  Hispanic  Culture  through  Folklore ,  Focus  Report  2.  1968.  lip. 
(MLA:   R2)   (EDRS:   ED  031  978). 

de  la  Portilla,  M.  &  T.  Colchie.  Textbooks  in  Spanish  and  Portuguese :  A  Descrip- 
tive Bibliography,  1939-1970.  1972.  128p.   (MLA:   B63  $7.50)  (EDRS:   ED  060  761,  PC 
$6.58) . 

Morain,  G.G.  French  Culture:  The  Folklore  Facet,  Focus  Report  9.  1969.  9p. 
(MLA:   R9)   (EDRS:   ED  031  985) . 

Norton,  M.E.  comp.  A  Selective  Bibliography  on  the  Teaching  of  Latin  and  Greek , 
1920-69.  1971.  47p.   (MLA:   B62  $2.50)   (EDRS:   ED  046  311). 

Strasheim,  L.A.  Teaching  the  Latin  Student  to  Translate ,  Focus  Report  17.  1970. 
16p.   (MLA:   R17)   (EDRS:   ED  042  391). 

Striano,  A.  &  E0  Adorno.  Italian  in  the  Colleges  and  Universities  of  the  U.S. 
1970.  149p.   (EDRS  only:   040  620). 

Weiss,  G.  Folktale  and  Folklore --Useful  Cultural  Tools  for  Teachers  of  German, 
Focus  Report  6.  1969.  8p .   (MLA:   R6 )   (EDRS:   ED  031  982). 
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UNIT  FOR  FOREIGN  LANGUAGES  STUDY  AND  RESEARCH  BULLETINS 
The  Unit  for  Foreign  Languages  Study  and  Research  publishes  several  bulletins  each 
semester  with  information  on  programs,  speakers,  scholars  dealing  with  foreign  lan- 
guages on  the  UIUC  campus,  as  well  as  developments  in  the  field  of  foreign  language 
study  and  research.   All  persons  interested  in  receiving  these  bulletins  should  write 
the  Unit  for  FL  Study  &  Research,  G-70  FLB,  UIUC,  Urbana,  IL  61801. 

CSCTFL 
The  Central  States  Conference  on  the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Languages  will  be  held  Apr. 
18-20  at  the  Marc  Plaza  Hotel,  Milwaukee,  Wise.   The  theme  is  "Foreign  Language  Edu- 
cation: A  Kaleidoscopic  Perspective."   Keynote  speakers  include  Naida  Dostal,  "The 
People  Principle  in  a  Foreign  Language  Kaleidoscopic  Perspective";  Howard  Altman, 
"The  Making  of  a  Precedent:  Foreign  Language  Education  and  the  American  Bicentennial" 
Genelle  Morain,  "A  Concrete  Response  to  the  Call  for  Humanism  in  the  Classroom." 


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For  further  information,  contact  William  Clapper,  2715  Welsey  St.,  Jefferson  City, 
MO  65101,  tel.  (314)  751-3504. 

FLB  DEDICATION 
The  Foreign  Language  Building,  UIUC ,  will  be  officially  dedicated  Apr.  4-6  under  the 
auspices  of  the  School  of  Humanities.   Present-day  approaches  to  literature  and  lin- 
guistics will  be  discussed  in  lectures  and  panel  discussions.   The  program  is  still 
incomplete;  so  far,  both  colleagues  from  here  and  outside  have  agreed  to  contribute 
to  the  program.   Among  the  off -campus  speakers  are  John  H.  Fisher  (Univ.  of  Tenn.  and 
President  of  the  Modern  Language  Association),  on  the  changing  motive  for  literature 
in  American  education;  Norman  Perrin  (Univ.  of  Chicago)  on  symbols  in  the  New  Testa- 
ment; Murray  Edelman  (Univ.  of  Wise.)  on  the  language  of  politics;  Stanley  Kauffman 
(film  critic,  New  Republic )  on  American  and  European  influences  on  film-making;  Eric 
Lenneberg  (Cornell  Univ.)  on  language  acquisition;  and  Michael  Halliday  (UICC)  on 
urban  linguistics.   The  lectures  and  discussions  will  be  open  to  the  public.   The 
formal  program  will  be  circulated  in  the  near  future. 

THE  CLASSICS  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  R.  T.  Scanlan 

HIGH  SCHOOL  LATIN  CONFERENCE 
It's  time  again  for  Latin  teachers  to  have  their  students  apply  for  admission  to  the 
High  School  Latin  Conference  which  will  be  held  this  year  June  2  3-29  at  UIUC.   The 
9th  annual  conference  is  open  to  all  students  who  will  have  completed  2  years  of 
high  school  Latin  by  June,  1974.   Participants  will  live  in  the  Florida  Ave.  Resi- 
dence Halls  and  attend  special  classes  in  various  places  on  campus.   Mr.  Byron  Beki- 
ares  will  again  be  one  of  our  instructors.   He  will  be  teaching  the  oral  interpre- 
tation of  Latin,  supervising  the  production  of  Latin  plays,  and  leading  the  Greek 
folk  dancing.   We  shall  have  classes  in  ancient  drama,  in  mythology,  in  archaeology, 
in  ancient  amusements  and  athletics,  and  in  Latin  taught  with  the  aid  of  the  PLATO 
computer.   We've  already  greased  the  chariot  for  the  annual  race,  the  golden  fleece 
awaits  the  f actio  with  the  quickest  feet  and  the  swiftest  minds,  and  the  questions 
for  the  Latin  football  and  baseball  games  are  prepared.   If  you  are  a  member  of  the 
111.  Classical  Conference,  you  will  receive  a  copy  of  the  Conference  brochure  in  the 
mail  (or  you  were  able  to  obtain  one  at  the  ICC  meeting  in  Feb. ).   If  you  haven't  re- 
ceived an  announcement  by  Mar.  1  and  have  students  who  may  wish  to  attend,  please 
write  to  Prof.  R.  T.  Scanlan,  Dept .  of  the  Classics,  4072  FLB,  UIUC,  Urbana,  IL  61801 

MEETINGS 
Profs.  H.L.  Allen,  J.J.  Bateman,  D.L.  Bright,  H.  Jacobson,  M.  Marcovich , ,M.  Naoumides 
and  D.J.  Taylor  attended  the  105th  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Philological  Asso- 
ciation in  Dec. 

The  34th  annual  meeting  of  the  111.  Classical  Conference  was  held  at  the  UIUC 
Feb.  7-9.   Prof.  J.L.  Heller  presided  at  one  of  the  sessions  of  papers,  and  Profs. 
J.J.  Bateman  and  M.  Marcovich  greeted  the  group  on  behalf  of  the  School  of  Humanities 
and  the  Classics  Dept.  respectively.   Among  the  many  speakrs  were  Prof.  D.L.  Bright 
who  described  the  new  Classical  Civilization  speciality  which  exists  in  the  depart- 
ment, Prof.  R.E.  Mitchell  of  the  History  Dept.  who  presented  a  paper  on  "Roman  Coins 
as  Historical  Evidence,"  Prof.  Ann  Perkins  of  the  Art   Dept.  who  made  a  presentation 
on  "Monsters  in  Greek  Art,"  and  Prof.  R.  Mooney  also  of  the  Art  Dept.  who  talked  on 
"Contemporary  Architecture:  An  Expression  of  Our  Classical  Past."   Prof.  R.T.  Scan- 
lan, who  is  president  of  the  organization,  arranged  the  program  and  presided  at  the 
annual  banquet  and  at  the  business  meetings. 

MYTHOLOGY  BIBLIOGRAPHY 
A  very  convenient  and  useful  annotated  bibliography  of  mythology  is  available,  from 
the  American  Philological  Association  for  $1.   The  bibliography  has  been  prepared  by 
Prof.  John  Peradotto  and  each  entry  is  rated  as  to  the  specific  level  of  its  appli- 
cation.  Books  are  grouped  under  headings  such  as:   Surveys  of  Classical  Myth,  Com- 
parative Mythology,  Myth  and  Art,  Myth  and  Literature,  Myth  and  Psychology,  Myth  and 
Anthropology,  Myth  and  Religion,  etc.   Copies  may  be  ordered  from  the  APA,  c/o  Prof. 
R.  Carrubba,  Dept.  of  Classics,  Pa.  State  Univ.,  University  Park,  PA  16802. 

PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  M.  Marcovich  has  sent  3  articles  to  press:   "Epicurus'  Shipwreck,"  "Quatrains 


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on  Byzantine  Seals,"  and  "Theophylact ,  On  Predestination."   Prof.  M.  Naoumides  has 
written  "Miscellanea  Paleographica"  in  the  festschrift  for  Prof.  N.B.  Tomadakes.   A 
few  of  Prof.  R.T.  Scanlan's  computer  programs  are  described  in  the  new  book  titled 
Options  and  Perspectives ,  pp.  265-68,  published  by  the  MLA,  62  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York, 
NY  10011.   The  book,  which  describes  innovative  FL  projects  throughout  the  U.S., 
should  be  of  considerable  interest  to  teachers. 

LECTURES 
Prof.  M.  Marcovich  read  a  paper  on  "Pherecydes,  Anaximander,  Anaximenes,  and  Iran"  at 
the  APA  meeting  in  St.  Louis.   Prof.  R.T.  Scanlan  presented  a  lecture  entitled  "In- 
terpretations of  Myth"  at  Parkland  College,  Champaign,  on  Jan.  9.   On  Jan.  25  the  de- 
partment sponsored  a  lecture  by  Hans  Herter,  Prof.  Emeritus  of  the  Univ.  of  Bonn,  on 
"The  Problematic  Mention  of  Hippocrates  in  Plato's  Phaedrus . "   On  Feb.  4  Prof.  Ludwig 
Koenen  of  the  Univ.  of  C0i0gne  spoke  on  "Egyptian  Influence  upon  Tibullus  1,7"  and  on 
Feb.  11  Dr.  James  Zetzel  of  Harvard  Univ.  spoke  on  "The  Transmissions  of  Latin  Liter- 
ature. " 

HONORS 
Prof.  M.  Marcovich  was  reappointed  a  member  of  the  APA  Advisory  Committee  for  the 
Thesaurus  Linguae  Graecae.   He  was  also  appointed  editor  of  the  111 .  Classical  Stu- 
dies for  the  first  2  volumes  of  the  publication.   Prof.  M.  Naoumides  was  reappointed 
to  a  second  2-year  term  as  the  department's  director  of  graduate  studies.   Prof. 
Scanlan  was  appointed  to  membership  on  the  3-person  committee  which  plans  the  annual 
meeting  for  the  American  Council  on  the  Teaching  of  FLs . 

ENROLLMENT  FIGURES  IN  LATIN  AND  GREEK 
Registration  figures  collected  by  MLA  for  colleges  and  universities  in  the  fall  of 
1972  show  a  decline  of  11.6%  for  Latin  nationally  from  1970  to  1972  compared  with  an 
11.5%  decline  for  all  FLs.   Greek  enrollments  on  the  other  hand  enjoyed  a  23%  in- 
crease.  Details  are  available  from  MLA.   Departmental  figures  for  the  current  semes- 
ter show  an  increase  of  approximately  200  in  Classical  Civilization  courses  (over 
last  term),  while  Latin  and  Greek  registrations  remained  about  the  same. 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Barbara  Smalley 

PH.D.  DEGREES 
Congratulations  to  the  following  comparatists  who  have  recently  been  awarded  the  Ph.D 
degree  in  Comparative  Literature:   Sonja  Eilenberger  (Development  of  Dialogue  in  the 
Novel:  Wieland  &  Diderot)  and  Adele  Palmberg  (The  Quest  for  Transcendence:  The  Con- 
templation of  Death  in  the  Lyric  Poems  of  Novalis,  Keats,  &  Shelley). 

NEW  GRADUATE  STUDENTS 
Enrollment  in  the  Comparative  Literature  Graduate  Program  has  been  steadily  increas- 
ing.  In  addition  to  those  who  entered  the  program  this  fall  are  the  following  stu- 
dents who  entered  this  semester:   Saad  Ahmed,  John  Oleksinski,  Marilyn  Friesen,  Sue 
Moretto,  and  Nick  Samijlenko. 

NEW  SEMINARS  IN  THE  GRADUATE  PROGRAM 
Prof.  Barbara  Bowen  (of  the  UIUC  French  Dept.)  is  teaching  a  seminar  entitled  "Love 
in  the  Renaissance"  this  spring  in  the  Comparative  Literature  Program.   Prof.  Philip 
Mitchell  (of  the  UIUC  German  Dept.)  is  presenting  a  seminar  on  "Studies  in  Literary 
Taste."   Prof.  Emile  Snyder  (Indiana  Univ.  Dept.  of  Comp.  Lit.)  is  currently  conduct- 
ing a  seminar  in  Modern  Poetry.   We  feel  fortunate  to  have  these  distinguished  scho- 
lar-teachers and  their  innovative  courses  in  our  program  and  appreciate  their  contri- 
butions to  our  discipline. 

UNDERGRADUATE  FIELD  OF  CONCENTRATION  IN  COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE 
The  following  proposal  for  an  undergraduate  field  of  concentration  has  recently  been 
approved  by  the  Faculty  Senate  and  will  be  forwarded  for  approval  to  the  Higher  Board 
Df  Education.   The  field  of  concentration  in  Comparative  Literature  offers  an  inter- 
national alternative  to  the  various  fields  of  concentration  in  national  literatures 
(or  national  area  studies).   It  provides  a  comparative  approach  to  problems  common  to 
nore  than  one  literature,  and  to  the  inter-relation  of  literature  and  other  disci- 
plines.  This  field  of  concentration  is  composed  of  a  number  of  methodological  "core" 


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courses  in  Comparative  Literature  combined  with  special  courses  already  existing  in 
Dther  departments.   It  focuses  on  masterwords  of  world  literature,  critical  theory, 
thematology,  genre,  cultural/literary  movements  and  relations. 

The  distribution  of  course  work  which  allows  for  considerable  flexibility  must 
include  the  following: 

1.  At  least  12  hours  in  Comparative  Literature  courses,  including  "Introduction 
to  Comparative  Literature"  (3  hours).  The  other  9  hours  should  be  selected  from  dif- 
ferent types  of  courses  (thematology,  genre,  movements,  relations). 

2.  At  least  15  hours  in  one  literature  (western,  ancient,  or  modern,  including 
Far  Eastern  and  African)  studied  in  depth  and  in  its  historical  development.   (Nor- 
mally this  is  the  primary  literature  of  the  student's  educational  background.) 

3.  At  least  9  hours  in  a  second  literature.   With  the  assistance  of  the  advisor 
these  courses  should  be  carefully  chosen  so  as  to  correlate  meaningfully  with  the 
student's  primary  literature  (emphasis  on  periods  such  as  medieval,  Renaissance,  neo- 
classical and  Enlightenment,  or  modern--19th  and  20th  centuries). 

4.  At  least  9  hours  in  any  literature  (including  courses  in  Comparative  Litera- 
ture), or  in  the  Humanities,  History,  Philosophy,  Speech,  Art,  Music,  Psychology,  So- 
ciology, Theatre,  and  Asian  Studies.   Since  some  of  the  courses  in  these  subjects  are 
more  suitable  than  others  to  balance  a  student's  individual  program  with  an  area  of 
concentration  in  Comparative  Literature,  it  is  essential  that  students  abide  by  the 
guidelines  given  to  them  by  their  advisor. 

The  widespread  interest  in  an  undergraduate  degree  in  comparative  literature  re- 
flects a  national  trend  in  the  high  schools  and  universities  toward  interdisciplinary 
courses  and  areas  of  concentration  that  are  less  specialized  than  formerly.   The  inter- 
national orientation  of  comparative  literature  provides  much  interest  and  challenge 
for  students  from  diverse  backgrounds. 

PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  A.O.  Aldridge  has  recently  published  the  following  articles  in  Dictionary  of 
the  History  of  Ideas  (Scribners,  1973):   "Ancients  and  Moderns  in  the  JBth  Century," 
I,  76-87;  "Primitivism  in  the  18th  Century,"  III,  598-605.   His  "Feijoo  and  the  Prob- 
lem of  Ethiopian  Color"  appears  in  Studies  in  18th-century  Culture :  Racism  in  the 
18th  Century  (Case  Western  Reserve  Press,  1973),  pp.  263-77;  another  article  by  Prof. 
Aldridge,  "The  Vampire  Theme:  Dumas  Pere  and  the  English  Stage,"  appears  in  Revue  des 
Langues  Vivantes ,  No.  4,  312-24.   Prof.  Barbara  Smalley's  "The  Compulsive  Patterns  of 
Dostoyevsky ' s  Underground  Man*  was  published  in  Studies  in  Short  Fiction,  X  (Fall, 
1973),  389-96.   William  Walker,  a  graduate  student  in  Comparative  Literature,  has  pub- 
lished "German  Language  Summer  Camps"  in  Options  and  Perspectives ,  a  publication  of 
the  ACTFL. 

MEETINGS 
Prof.  Herbert  Knust  has  recently  been  elected  regional  delegate  to  the  Delegate  Ass- 
embly of  the  MLA.   He  is  also  one  of  4  nominees  for  president  of  the  International 
Brecht  Society  (1974-75).   Prof.  Knust  will  be  chairman  of  a  Comparative  Literature 
section  of  the  Conference  on  20th-century  Literature  which  will  he  held  Feb.  28-Mar. 
1  in  Louisville,  Ky. 

Joyce  Fullard  (a  doctoral  candidate  in  the  Comparative  Literature  Program)  read 
a  paper  at  the  Dec.  1973  MLA  meeting  entitled  "Women  Poets  of  the  18th  Century." 
Danielle  Johnson  (graduate  student  in  Comparative  Literature)  was  elected  regional 
delegate  to  the  Delegate  Assembly  of  the  MLA. 

FRENCH  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel 

YVES  VELAN  PUBLISHES  SECOND  NOVEL 
Prof.  Yves  Velan  has  just  published,  in  Ecriture  9,  ONIR,  a  lengthy  text:  essay,  po- 
ems, and  stories  on  dream.   Recently,  too,  Prof.  Velan,  whose  reputation  was  estab- 
lished with  his  first  novel,  Je_,  published  a  second  novel,  La  statue  de  Condillac 
retouchee  (Seuil,  1973).   Our  colleague,  Prof.  Stanley  Gray,  wrote  last  fall,  for  the 
French  Dept.'s  own  newsletter,  the  following  comments,  which  we  reprint  here  in  their 
near  totality. 

Je  (Seuil,  1959),  a  gagne  deux  prix  litteraires  et  l'estime  de  critiques  aussi 
serieux  que  Barthes  et  Merleau-Ponty .   (Voir,  par  exemple,  "Ouvriers  et  pasterus," 
3ans  les  Essais  critiques  de  Barthes. )   Le  nouveau  roman,  meme  plus  remarquable,  n'a 
Das  tarde  a  s'imposer.   Son  importance  et  son  originalite  ont  deja  ete  signalees  en 


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France  et  en  Suisse. 

Decrire  ce  roman  en  quelques  paragraphes  est,  tout  simplement,  impossible,  vu  sa 
difficulte.   Disons  tout  de  suite  que  cette  diff iculte , ^considerable  au  debut  du  ro- 
nan,  se  dissipe  au  fur  et  a  mesure  qu'on  lit  et  disparait,  presque ,  quand  on  relit. 
Mais  c'est  une  difficulte  absolument  essentielle  au  pro jet  du  romancier  et  a  1" exper- 
ience de  la  lecture.   On  se  contentera  done  de  quelques  eclaircissements  partiels, 
plus  exactement  quelques  jugements  personnels  et  tentatifs,  pour  situer  un  peu  plus- 
ieurs  temoignages  de  l'ecrivain  lui-meme. 

On  said  le  pro jet  de  Condillac  dans  son  Traite  des  sensations .   II  decompose  1'- 
homme  pour  le  reconstituer  ensuite,  procedant  par  une  methode  d 'induction.   Pour  cela, 
il  imagine  une  statue  douee  progressivement  des  cinq  sens  que  possede  l'homme,  d'a- 
bord  l'odorant,  ensuite  l'oule  et  ainsi  de  suite,  l'un  apres  ou  en  combinaisons  de 
deux  ou  trois,  jusqu'a  la  reunion  de  tous ,  ce  qui  doit  nous  montrer  comment  on  peut 
saisir  ce  que  c'est  que  l'homme  sans  quitter  le  plan   des  sensations.   Le  pro jet  ne 
manque  pas  d 'humour  pour  un  lecteur  de  notre  epoque :   il  y  a  des  moments  ou  cette 
statue  ressemble  a  certains  personnages  de  Beckett,  doues  mysterieusement  de  cer- 
taines  capacites,  prives  d'autres.   Le  monde  romanesque  d 'Yves  Velan  "prend  corps" 
d'une  fagon  analogue. 

Puisque  c'est  un  livre  qui  prend  corps,  un  etre  fait  de  mots,  a  qui  manquent  1'- 
innocence  et  1' ignorance  attribuables  a  de  vrais  enfants,  on  ne  part  pas  a  zero  ni  a 
partir  de  quelque  stage  primitif  du  langage  pour  suivre  son  developpement  embryonique . 
On  ne  trouve  pas  ici  les  balbutiements  enf aiitins  qui  ouvrent  le  Portrait  d 'un  artiste 
de  Joyce,  ni  une  evolution  organique  de  styles  comme  dans  une  section  celebre  d 'Ul- 
ysse.   Ce  dont  cet  etre  naissant  est  prive  c'est  justement  le  corps ,  que  ce  corps 
soit  envisage  comme  passe  ou  memoire  personnelle  d'un  "je"  historique,  ou  qu'il  soit 
la  forme  vers  laquelle  il  va,  son  telos .   II  est  doue  seulement  du  desir  de  devenir 
livre,  de  quelques  fragments  romanesques  nucleaires  et  surtout  de  quelques  modeles. 
Ceux-ci  sont  des  passages  tires  de  plusieurs  livres  de  Dostoiewsky.   L'obscurite  du 
debut  du  roman  s'explique  par  l'etat  provisoire  et  fragmentaire  de  ce  qui  va  essayer 
de  se  faire  un  corps. 

C'est  la  portee  ideologique  ce  ces  modeles  qui  informe  tout  le  livre.   II  s'agit 
de  1 'opposition  des  lignes  de  force  ou  de  savoir  qui  sont  le  capitalisme  et  le  marx- 
isme,  ce  dernier  accepte  au  debut  comme  le  savoir  "vrai".   A  partir  du  nucleus  d'ele- 
ments  romanesques  fragmentes,  disparates,  mais  transperces  par  un  sens  ideologique 
qui  les  relie,  se  forme,  peu  a  peu  et  par  a-coups ,  un  ensemble  qui  voudrait  se  con- 
vaincre  de  l'efficacite  du  savoir  marxiste,  par  un  processus  de  "verification"  non 
sans  parallele  dans  l'induction  de  Condillac.   Mais  cette  verification  se  fait  sur 
ses  propres  inventions.   Circularite  qui  donne  le  vertige.   Le  processus  de  verifi- 
cation passe  cependant  par  des  vicissitudes  romanesques  engendrees  par  1' expansion  du 
savoir  fictif,  triomphante,  malgre  des  moments  de  contraction  ou  de  rupture,   Les  cer- 
titudes etablies  au  debut  sont  minees .   Le  texte  decouvre  ou  cree  en  quelque  sorte 
par  lui-meme  le  phenomene  que  tout  contemporain  reconnait:   le  pouvoir  de  recupera- 
tion irresistible  du  capitalisme  avance.   Est  pose  alors  un  probleme  que  j'espere  ne 
pas  trop  deformer  par  cette  formulation:   Que  peut  l'ecriture,  a  quoi  sert  l'ecrivain- 
intellectuel  dans  le  royaume  de  capitalisme  triomphant,  royaume  qui  "comprend"  et  re- 
cupere  tout  negation?   Le  marxisme,  lui ,  se  trouve  pris,  compris  dans  le  capitalism^. 
(Dans  les  usines  Olivetti,  qui  figurent  dans  le  roman,  on  fait  voir  aux  ouvriers,  sans 
risque,  Le_  cuirasse  Potemkin) .   Ce  qui  mene  a  la  formulation  paradoxale  qui  conclut 
le  roman  en  opposant  le  volonte  a  la  fatalite:   "La  revolution  est  impossible.   II  la 
faut.   II  la  faut. " 

Ce  resume,  qui  separe  forme  et  fond,  ne  peut  pas  tenir  compte  de  ce  qui  est  pour 
moi  le  plus  impressionnant :   c'est  l'homologie  rigoureuse  entre  les  divers  plans  du 
livre,  entre  sa  forme  et  son  fond,  entre  les  series  tres  nombreuses  de  polarites  dial- 
ectisees  qui  sont  en  jeu  (capitalisme  et  marxisme,  Freud  et  Marx,  corps  et  pensee,  a- 
nalyse  et  synthese,  debut  et  fin,  je  et  moi,  spontaneite  et  calcul,  etc.  etc.),  homo- 
logie  qui  comprend  les  plus  petits  details  du  texte,  qui  a  exige  un  travail  inoul, 
qui  conne  son  vrai  sens  au  roman.   Ce  qui  se  fait  ainsi,  c'est  une  forme  qui  est  en 
meme  temps  et  a  tout  moment  roman,  statue  pygmalienne,  ideologique,  le  "je"  qui  parle 
ou  est  parle  et  la  prise  de  conscience  du  monde. 

Stanley  Gray 

COLLOQUIUM  IN  MONTREAL  IN  JUNE  1974 
There  will  be  a  colloquium  in  Montreal  June  10-15  on  the  subject  of  psycholinguistics 
and  sociolinguistics  in  their  relation  to  the  teaching  of  French.   It  is  being  spon- 


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sored  by  the  North  American  Conference  (which  includes  the  American  Association  of 
Teachers  of  French)  of  the  Federation  Internationale  des  Professeurs  de  Francais.   It 
will  examine  what  research  has  been  done  on  the  subject  of  psycholinguistics  and  so- 
ciolinguistics  in  America  and  in  Europe,  what  courses  are  being  offered  on  these  sub- 
jects to  prospective  teachers  of  French,  and  what  courses  ought  to  be  offered  in  such 
programs.   The  participants  will  come  from  Europe  as  well  as  from  North  America. 
They  will  be  housed  in  the  dormitories  of  the  University  of  Montreal,  and  the  govern- 
ments of  Quebec  and  of  the  City  of  Montreal  expect  to  offer  special  social  events  for 
the  entertainment  of  the  visitors.   Anyone  who  is  interested  in  attending  may  obtain 
further  information  and  the  necessary  pre-registration  forms  from  Prof.  F.W.  Nacht- 
mann  of  the  UIUC  Dept.  of  French.   You  may  address  your  inquiries  to  him  at  the  AATF 
National  Office,  57  E.  Armory,  Champaign,  IL  61820. 

STAFF  NEWS 
Prof.  Wilga  M.  Rivers  has  completed  the  manuscript  of  her  Practical  Guide  to  the 
Teaching  of  French  for  the  Oxford  Univ.  Press.   The  separate  volumes  for  French,  Ger- 
man, and  Spanish  should  (energy  crisis  permitting)  be  available  in  time  for  ACTFL 
1974.   Prof.  Rivers  recently  addressed  the  state  conference  of  the  Conn.  TESOL.   She 
will  be  giving  a  series  of  seminars  and  public  lectures  in  Egypt  during  her  spring 
vacation,  under  the  auspices  of  the  American  Univ.  in  Cairo. 

Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel  was  recently  the  guest  of  the  Chicago  Circle  Campus  Alumni 
Association.  In  the  3rd  program  of  their  current  film  festival  he  showed  the  film 
A  bout  de  souffle  and  spoke  about  Jean-Luc  Godard. 

GERMANIC  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Karl-Heinz  Schoeps 

ENROLLMENT 
Again  we  can  report  an  increase  in  enrollment.   In  the  spring  semester  of  1973  the 
grand  total  was  1435;  for  spring  1974  the  figure  is  1480.   The  greatest  increase  oc- 
curred at  the  4th  semester  level  and  in  the  German  literature  in  translation  classes. 

COPE 
Together  with  several  other  departments  the  German  Dept.  was  selected  for  an  in-depth 
evaluation  of  its  programs  and  its  structure.   For  this  purpose  a  Committee  on  Pro- 
gram Evaluation  (COPE)  has  been  created  which  is  composed  of  3  members  of  the  German 
Dept.  faculty  and  4  members  from  other  departments. 

EVENTS  AND  STAFF  NEWS 
The  Germanic  Linguistics  Colloquium  will  present  "An  Excursion  into  Transformational 
Semantics"  on  Feb.  21  in  the  Faculty  Lounge,  Illini  Union.   A  panel  consisting  of 
Wayne  Harbert,  Barbara  Greim,  and  Clara  Evans,  all  of  them  graduate  students  in  our 
department,  will  lead  the  discussion. 

Fruchtbringende  Gesellschaf t ,  the  German  Research  Group,  has  so  far  planned  3 
events.   On  Thursday,  Feb.  7,  Prof.  Roland  Folter  spoke  on  "Mundus  titulis  titilla- 
tur--Zur  Stilistik  des  modernen  deutschen  Buchtitels."   The  next  lectures  will  be  on 
Mar.  14  and  Apr.  11,  both  at  7:30  pm  in  the  Faculty  Lounge,  Illini  Union.   The  speak- 
ers will  be  Prof.  Vincent  Dell'Orto  in  Mar.  ("Changing  Attitudes  toward  Audience  and 
the  Tradition  of  the  German  Essay  in  the  18th  Century")  and  Prof.  Peter  Pabisch  in 
Apr.  ("Die  literarischen  Absichten  H.C.  Artmanns  durch  den  Einsatz  des  Wiener  Dial- 
ektes" ) : 

Prof.  U.  Henry  Gerlach  will  attend  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  Ger- 
man meeting  on  May  3-4  at  Eastern  111.  Univ.,  Charleston. 

On  Dec.  14  the  department  held  a  luncheon  for  Prof.  Hans  Henning,  who  returned 
to  Weimar,  German  Democratic  Republic,  after  1  semester  as  visiting  professor. 

Prof.  James  Marchand  escaped  unharmed  after  being  trapped  in  one  of  the  FLB 
elevators.   He  was  extricated  with  the  efficient  assistance  of  one  of  our  faculty 
members  plus  secretaries. 

JOB  PLACEMENT 
We  are  very  happy  to  report  that  another  one  of  our  job  candidates  has  been  placed. 
Miss  Ginny  Coombs,  a  student  of  Prof.  Iremengard  Rauch,  accepted  an  offer  from  Ind. 
Jniv.  in  Bloomington. 


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GERMAN  CLUB  PROGRAM 
This  semester's  program  includes:   Jan.  29,  Triumph  of  the  Will  (film);  Jan.  31,  Gen- 
eralversammlung;  Feb.  15,  Faschingsparty ;  Feb.  21,  Singeabend;  Feb.  28,  Kuhle  Wampe 
(film);  Mar.  14,  Aspects  of  Germany:  Schleswig-Holstein;  Mar.  28,  Aspects  of  Austria; 
Apr.  11,  Aspects  of  Switzerland;  Apr.  18,  Tonio  Kroger  (film);  Apr.  25,  Wir  Wunder- 
kinder  (film);  May  4,  Picnic. 

In  the  planning  stage  are  a  talk  on  East  Germany  and  trips  to  Germantown,  Chi- 
cago, and  a  German  restaurant  in  Gibson  City. 

The  German  Choir  meets  every  Monday  at  8  pm  in  the  Lutheran  Foundation,  the  soc- 
cer group  every  Friday  4-6  pm  on  the  soccer  field  at  First  &  Gregory,  Champaign.   In- 
formal gatherings  every  Thursday  night  from  about  9  pm  are  held  in  the  Thunderbird 
Restaurant,  710  S.  Goodwin,  Urbana.   For  more  information,  call  the  president  of  the 
German  Club,  Robert  Zuurdeeg,  (217)  332-1766,  or  the  faculty  advisor.  Prof.  Rainer 
Sell,  (217)  333-1288. 

BASIC  LANGUAGE  INSTRUCTION 
The  following  information  supplied  by  Prof.  James  McGlathery  should  be  of  particular 
benefit  to  high  school  German  teachers  and  advisors: 

The  German  Dept.  in  spring,  19  72,  initiated  2  new  language-course  seguences  on 
the  2nd-,  3rd-,  and  4th-semester  levels  (102-104  levels)  which  may  be  taken  either  as 
substitutes  or  as  supplements  to  the  regular  "four-skill"  sequence ,  German  102-104... 
Any  1  of  the  3  sequences  leads  directly  toward  fulfillment  of  the  Liberal  Arts  &  Sci- 
ences College's  foreign  language  requirement... 

One  of  the  2  new  sequences  (German  112,  113,  114)  is  devoted  to  practice  in 
speaking  German,  the  other  (German  122,  123,  124)  to  practice  in  reading ,  with  empha- 
sis on  non-fiction,  especially  expository  prose.   Both  of  these  sequences  are  experi- 
mental in  that  vocabulary,  grammar,  syntax,  and  translation  are  not  presented  or 
drilled  and  are  only  touched  upon  tangentially  in  class.   Instead,  games  and  exerci- 
ses which  provide  direct  practice  in  talking  and  reading  have  been  developed.   The 
guiding  thought  in  these  experiments  is  to  take  quite  literally  the  principles  that 
we  learn  to  do  by  doing  and  that  practice  makes  perfect.   No  exercise  is  allowed 
which  does  not  involve  spontaneous  speech  in  the  speaking  sequence,  or  thoughtful 
comprehension  in  the  reading  sequence.   In  these  courses  the  object  is  to  have  the 
students  constantly  proving  to  themselves  that  they  can  say  or  read  things  in  German, 
and  that  they  are  making  progress  in  these  language  skills. 

(From  Changing  Patterns  in  Foreign  Language  Programs ,  pp.  248-49. ) 

SLAVIC  NOTES  --  by  Prof.  Louis  Iribarne 

INNOVATIONS 
In  response  to  mounting  student  interest,  the  Slavic  Dept.  has  broadened  its  list  of 
courses  designed  especially  for  both  majors  and  non-majors.  Among  the  new  offerings 
this  spring  is  a  course  on  Revolution  and  the  Arts  in  Russia  (199B),  taught  by  Prof. 
Louis  Iribarne.  An  interdisciplinary  study  (in  translation)  of  revolution  in  art  and 
art  in  revolution,  it  uses  samples  of  avant-garde  Russian  cinema,  literature,  music, 
fine  arts  and  performing  arts  as  they  figured  in  one  of  the  most  unique  cultural  ex- 
periments in  modern  history. 

Also  projected  for  the  same  199  series  are  courses  on  Alexander  Solzhenitsyn 
(Fall  1974)  and  Samizdat :   Russia's  Underground  Literature  (spring  1975). 

Another  new  course  being  offered  this  spring  is  a  section  of  491  dealing  with 
the  art  and  practice  of  translation.   Both  translation  in  the  strict  sense  and  oral 
interpretation  are  practiced  in  the  seminar  which  is  being  conducted  by  Prof.  Steven 
Hill  (491F,  Mondays  and  Wednesdays  at  12,  Fridays  at  8). 

Vladimir  Nabokov,  the  man  and  his  work,  will  be  the  subject  of  a  new  course  to 
be  offered  for  the  first  time  this  sunnier  by  Prof.  Temira  Pachmuss.   Special  atten- 
tion will  be  give  to  Nabokov's  major  works  in  English  (viz.,  Lo 1 i t a ,  Ada) ,  with  ten- 
tative plans  to  show  several  films  inspired  by  his  work.   Prof.  Pachmuss1  course  on 
Russian  emigre  literature  is  also  in  the  process  of  being  revised;  in  the  future, 
works  by  such  authors  as  Nobel-prize  winner  Bunin,  Aldanov,  Hippius,  Remizov  and 
others,  will  be  read  in  English. 

Approved  by  the  curriculum  committee  are  recent  title  changes  for  Russian  liter- 
ature courses  322,  323,  324;  henceforth  they  shall  appear  in  the  timetable  as  Russian 
Romanticism,  Russian  Realism,  and  Russian  Modernism.   The  lectures  in  this  series 
will  be  given  in  English,  with  non-Slavic  majors  being  allowed  to  do  the  readings  in 


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English  translation. 

A  new  course  has  been  approved  by  the  curriculum  committee,  Russian  290  (Read- 
ings in  Russian).   This  is  an  individual  topics  course  for  undergraduates  patterned 
after  similar  courses  in  Spanish-Italian-Portuguese.   Heretofore,  Russian  199  was 
used  to  provide  students  with  an  opportunity  to  work  on  individual  projects. 

A  RUSSIAN  FEAST  OF  THE  ARTS 
Of  considerable  interest  to  campus  Slavophiles  were  the  following  events  held  during 
Jan.  and  Feb:   a  local  showing  of  The  First  Circle  (Jan.  31-Feb.  3),  Alexander  Ford's 
film  based  on  the  celebrated  novel  by  Alexander  Solzhenitsyn;  a  stage  version  of  Che- 
kov '  s  classic  The  Three  Sisters  performed  in  the  Krannert  Center  (Feb.  7)  by  the  N.Y. 
City  Center  Acting  Company;  a  film  version  of  the  same  play,  starring  Lawrence  Oli- 
vier and  Alan  Bates,  shown  locally  in  the  American  Film  Theatre  Series  (Feb.  4-5);  a 
television  production  on  ETV  of  Maxim  Gorky's  little  known  but  recently  revived  play 
Enemies  (Jan.  23,  27);  and  a  tantalizingly  brief  program  on  Solzhenitsyn  and  the  So- 
viet penal  system  telecast  by  NBC  (Jan.  27)  in  connection  with  the  widely-publicized 
Russian-language  publication  of  Solzhenitsyn ' s  documentary  expose  Gulag  Archipelago, 
excerpts  of  which  were  printed  recently  in  the  N. Y .  Times .   Also  shown  during  the 
month  of  Feb.  on  ETV  as  part  of  the  Humanities  Film  Forum,  were  the  Soviet  films  The 
Cranes  are  Flying  (Feb.  7)  and  Ballad  of  a  Soldier  (Feb.  14). 

Connoisseurs  of  Russian  poetry  were  greatly  warmed  by  the  appearance  in  English 
of  poetry  by  Joseph  Brodsky,  Osip  Mandelshtam,  and  a  study  of  Vladimir  Mayakovsky. 
The  cause  of  Russian  poetry  was  also  assisted  by  Prof.  Evelyn  Bristol  who  read  selec- 
tions at  a  recent  Poetry  Meet  (Feb.  1)  on  the  UIUC  campus. 

ENROLLMENTS 
Departmental  enrollments  are  up  over  20%  this  semester  as  compared  with  last.   En- 
rollments in  Russian  101  were  the  highest  they  have  been  in  an  off-semester  since 
spring  1967,  and  the  department  has  been  able  to  offer  beginning  intensive  Russian 
(111)  for  the  first  time  since  fall  1969.   The  largest  enrollments  in  non-language 
courses  have  been  in  Russian  116  (Russian  Literature  in  Translation  II),  Russian  114 
(Russian  Civilization)  and  a  special  course,  Russian  199B  (Revolution  and  the  Arts  in 
Russia)  and  Russian  317  (20th  Century  Russian  Literature  in  Translation).   Among  the 
new  non-Russian  language  courses,  Ukrainian  was  handsomely  rewarded  with  a  total  of 
11  students. 

ACQUISITIONS 
To  the  Slavic  Dept . 's  growing  film  and  book  library  has  been  added  a  slide  collection 
of  Russian  avant-garde  art.   Included  are  selections  of  revolutionary  poster  art,  gra- 
phic and  architectural  design,  proletarian  art,  as  well  as  works  by  such  well-known 
artists  as  Chagall,  Kandinsky,  Malevich,  Goncharova,  Tatlin,  Gabo ,  and  others.   Plans 
are  also  under  way  to  create  a  music  library  consisting  of  tape  recordings  of  opera- 
tic, symphonic,  vocal,  and  dramatic  works  by  Russian  artists. 

FACULTY  NOTES 
The  Slavic  Dept.  welcomes  to  its  faculty  Mr.  Edward  Frost  as  a  visiting  lecturer. 
Mr.  Frost,  who  is  presently  teaching  Russian  Civilization  114,  recently  completed  his 
doctoral  dissertation  on  the  prose  of  Anton  Chekhov. 

Prof.  Kenneth  Brostrom  appeared  with  Prof.  Peter  Maggs  of  the  UIUC  Law  School  on 
the  TV  program  At  Issue  (WHBF-TV,  Rock  Island,  111.),  Feb.  3.   The  topic  under  discu- 
ssion was  detente  with  the  Soviet  Union,  with  particular  emphasis  on  its  effects  on 
the  business  community  of  the  Midwest.   Prof.  Brostrom  will  also  deliver  a  public  lec- 
ture in  the  Slavic  Forum  Series.   His  talk,  "The  Pilnyak  Affair,"  will  be  held  Wed- 
nesday, Feb.  20,  Illini  Union. 

Prof.  Louis  Iribarne  will  be  a  guest  participant  at  a  symposium  on  the  Polish 
avantgardist  Stanislaw  Ignacy  Witkiewicz  and  Polish  drama  to  be  held  this  spring  in 
New  York. 

On  leave  this  semester  are  Profs.  Henry  Zalucky  and  Elliott  Cohen. 

STUDENT  ACTIVITIES 
By  now  a  tradition,  the  2nd  annual  student  stage  production  is  now  in  preparation. 
Rehearsals  are  presently  under  way  for  Nikolai  Erdman's  grotesque  Samoubijstvo  (The 
Suicide)  in  what  may  well  be  the  American  Russian-language  premiere  of  this  long-neg- 
lected but  legendary  "underground"  classic.   There  will  be  one  performance  in  Russian 


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(with  English  subtitles)  on  Saturday,  Apr.  27,  8  pm.   The  cast  will  be  made  up  en- 
tirely of  undergraduates  and  the  performance  will  be  sponsored  by  the  Russian  Club, 
For  more  information,  contact  Mr.  Steven  Nielsen,  Slavic  Dept.,  3092  FLB,  UIUC,  Ur- 
bana,  IL  61801,  tel.  (217)  333-0497. 

Also  projected  is  a  2nd  annual  Slavic  Spring  Festival  to  coincide  with  the  dedi- 
cation of  the  Foreign  Language  Building  (see  story  pg.  3). 

The  department  also  welcomes  freshly  appointed  Teaching  Assistants  Monika  Zgus- 
tova  and  Christine  Bethin,  and  Research  Assistant  Roberta  Goldblatt. 

SPANISH,  ITALIAN,  &  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  —  by  Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jr. 

RICH  TWP.  H.S.  TO  PRESENT  GARCIA  LORCA  PLAY 
The  Spanish  National  Honor  Society  of  Rich  Township  High  School  East,  Park  Forest, 
111.  ,  will  present  Federico  Garcia  Lorca's  El_  amor  de  don  Perlimplin  y_  Belisa  en  su 
jardin  along  with  recitations  from  the  poet's  Romancero  gitano  on  Mar.  4-7  at  1  pm, 
and  Mar.  7-8  at  8  pm.   Reserved  seats  are  $1.50  each.   Teachers  interested  in  having 
their  students  attend  this  production  can  order  mimeographed  copies  of  the  play  and 
poems  for  $.40  each.   In  addition,  the  Rich  Twp.  H.S.  cafeteria  will  serve  a  Spanish 
dinner  (ensalada  mixta,  arroz  con  polio,  bolillos  con  mantequilla,  flan,  ponche  tro- 
pical) for  $2.95  each.   The  dinners  will  be  served  at  3  pm  after  the  matinee  perfor- 
mances, and  at  6  pm  prior  to  the  evening  performances.   There  must  be  a  minimum  of 
100  for  each  dinner  or  else  a  dinner  may  be  cancelled. 

Separate  checks  for  tickets,  play  books,  and  dinners  should  be  sent  to  Dr.  Harry 
E.  Babbitt,  Rich  Twp.  H.S.  East,  Park  Forest,  IL  60466.   For  further  information, 
write  or  telephone  Dr.  Babbitt,  weekdays  at  (312)  748-5800,  ext.  56,  nights  at  (312) 
748-1839.   (If  ordering  dinner  reservations  after  Feb.  18,  phone  Dr.  Babbitt  first.) 

AUGUSTANA  SUMMER  SCHOOL  IN  SPAIN 
The  10th  Augustana  College  Cummer  School  in  Spain  will  be  held  in  Madrid  at  the  Ciu- 
dad  Universitaria,  July  1-Aug.  8,  with  courses  ranging  from  elementary  Spanish  to  li- 
terature and  culture  and  civilization,  including  a  course  on  Cervantes.   All  interes- 
ted persons  should  contact  Dr.  Arjibay  Doreste,  Augustana  College,  Rock  Island,  IL 
61201  for  complete  information  and  brochures. 

UIUC-UICC  JOINT  GRADUATE  PROGRAM  IN  SPANISH  FOR  M.A.  DEGREE 
The  Dept.  of  Spanish-Italian-Portuguese  at  Chicago  Circle  (UICC)  offers  an  intercam- 
pus  program  with  the  department  in  Urbana-Champaign  (UIUC)  leading  to  a  master  of 
arts  degree  in  Spanish.   The  degree  will  actually  be  granted  by  the  Urbana  campus, 
but  a  student  will  register  and  complete  all  coursework  at  Circle  Campus.   The  3 
areas  of  specialization  are  applied  linguistics  and  teaching,  Latin  American  studies, 
and  Peninsular  studies.   Admission  requirements  are  a  minimum  grade-point  average  of 
3.75  (where  A  is  5.0)  with  a  4.0  (B)  average  in  major  Spanish  courses.   A  minimum  of 
48  quarter  hours  is  required,  and  the  student  must  maintain  a  4.0  average,  moreover 
no  courses  awarded  a  C  may  be  counted  for  credit.   Upon  completion  of  the  coursework, 
a  student  must  take  a  comprehensive  examination;  a  thesis  is  no  longer  required.   In- 
quiries for  more  information  and  application  forms  should  be  directed  to  Prof.  Audrey 
Kouvel ,  Director  of  Graduate  Studies,  Dept.  of  Spanish-Italian-Portuguese,  UICC, 
Box  4348,  Chicago,  IL  60680. 

FILM  PROGRAM  IN  SPANISH 
The  department's  weekly  series  of  films  and  lectures  on  Hispanic  topics,  which  is  of- 
fered in  place  of  language  laboratory  work  to  2nd-year  Spanish  students,  now  enters 
its  4th  semester  under  the  direction  of  Grad .  Teaching  Asst.  C.  Michael  Waag.   This 
semester's  program  includes  documentary  films  on  Mexico,  Cesar  Chavez,  Puerto  Rico, 
Goya,  Andres  Segovia,  and  the  Spanish  Armada,  as  well  as  f eatureTlength  films  such  as 
El  chacal  de  Nahuel  Toro  (Chile)  and  Bunuel 's  Los  olvidados  (Mexico) ,  plus  a  lecture 
with  slides  on  the  Inca  Empire.   Most  of  the  programs  will  be  held  Tuesdays  in  G13 
FLB.   Persons  interested  in  a  more  complete  program  may  contact  Mr.  Waag  at  the  Dept. 
of  Spanish-Italian-Portuguese,  4080  FLB,  UIUC,  Urbana,  IL  61801,  tel.  (217)  333-8056. 
Mr.  Waag  can  also  supply  interested  persons  with  a  list  of  his  film  sources,  and  he 
also  solicits  information  from  our  readers  on  sources  for  suitable  films  for  this 
series  program. 


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PLATO  FOR  SPANISH  101 
(This  statement  was  prepared  by  Assoc.  Prof.  Mario  Saltarelli,  director  of  this  de- 
partment's PLATO  computer-based  teaching  program  for  Spanish  101.) 

This  is  the  7th  semester  for  the  special  Spanish  101  section  which  uses  the 
PLATO  machine  as  a  teaching  aid.   The  course  allows  lst-semester  students  to  cover 
the  language  material  usually  presented  in  a  2-semester  sequence  (101-102)  in  just 
one  semester  without  increase  in  contact  hours. 

The  underlying  hypothesis  is  that  the  basic  grammar  of  Spanish  can  be  intro- 
duced to  English  speakers  in  one  semester  provided  that  a  more  "natural"  form  of 
presentation  is  conducted.   The  pivotal  assumption  motivating  such  a  "compressed" 
course  is  that  there  exists  a  body  of  essential  grammatical  information  which  must 
be  mastered  by  the  student  as  early  as  possible  during  his  learning  experience;  the 
optimal  period  being  the  1st  6-12  weeks  of  study.   The  pedagogical  claim  is  made  that 
the  future  success  of  a  student  in  a  foreign  language  will  be  a  function  of  the  quan- 
tity and  quality  of  that  fundamental  body  of  knowledge  he  was  able  to  acquire  during 
the  initial  learning  period. 

The  courses  uses  a  set  of  Essentials  of  Spanish  which  have  been  developed  for 
the  purpose,  along  with  a  textbook  and  other  material  as  aids.   Essentials  are  also 
available  on  PLATO.   Once  fully  implemented  PLATO  will  administer,  evaluate,  and  keep 
record  of  a  set  of  teaching/learning  devices  covering  the  essential  grammatical 
points.   The  results  of  the  students'  performances  are  made  available  to  the  instruc- 
tors who  accordingly  gear  the  operation  of  the  class  as  a  whole  and  advise  individual 
students . 

Mario  Saltarelli 

PUBLICATIONS  OF  INTEREST 
Colombia  Today ,  a  newsletter  in  English,  is  available  free  from  the  Colombia  Infor- 
mation Service,  Colombian  Center,  140  E.  57th  St.,  New  York,  NY  10022. 

Materiales  en  marcha  is  a  report  on  materials  for  bilingual  and  bicultural  edu- 
cation.  Single  copies  are  available  free  from  the  San  Diego  City  Schools,  2930 
National  Ave.,  San  Diego,  CA  92113. 

MERWIN  LECTURE 
The  department  cosponsored  (with  the  Miller  Lecture  Committee  and  the  Humanities  Com- 
mittee on  Public  Events)  a  lecture  and  poetry  reading  on  Feb.  4  by  W.S.  Merwin,  poet- 
translator,  and  winner  of  the  Pulitzer  Prize  for  Poetry  as  well  as  the  P.E.N.  Prize 
for  translation.   Mr.  Merwin  is  well  known  for  his  verse  translations  into  English  of 
the  Poema  de  Mio  Cid  in  addition  to  the  poems  of  Chile's  Pablo  Neruda. 

JANUARY  GRADUATION 
The  department  awarded  3  Ph.D.  degrees  and  2  M.A.  degrees  in  Spanish  in  Jan.   The 
doctoral  recipients  were  Donald  Edgar  Lenfest  (now  at  Ohio  Wesleyan  Univ.),  Earl  G. 
Thompson  Jr.  (UIUC),  and  Berardo  Jose  Valdes  (Iowa  State  Univ.).   In  addition,  Dr. 
Thompson  was  promoted  from  part-time  to  full-time  instructor  in  this  department,  and 
next  fall  will  take  a  teaching  position  at  Elmhurst  College,  Elmhurst,  111.   The  mas- 
ters recipients  were  Julie  Jean  Bickus  and  C.  Michael  Waag. 

FACULTY-STAFF  NOTES 
Prof.  Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo  addressed  the  Instituto  de  Espaiia  in  Munich,  Germany,  on 
"Hispanismo  en  los  Estados  Unidos"  on  Jan.  9.   He  has  also  been  appointed  to  serve  on 
the  editorial  board  of  Seqismundo ,  Revista  Hispanica  de  Teatro  (Madrid). 

The  Taula  Catalana,  organized  by  Prof.  Porqueras-Mayo  for  conversational  Catalan 
will  meet  this  semester  on  Fridays  at  noon  in  the  Thunderbird  Restaurant,  710  S. 
Goodwin  Ave.,  Urbana.   All  speakers  of  Catalan  at  any  level  are  invited  to  attend. 

Assoc.  Prof.  Thomas  C.  Meehan  is  on  sabbatical  leave  this  semester  to  do  re- 
search on  the  Argentine  novelist  and  short-story  writer  Adolf o  Bioy  Casares. 

Assoc  Prof.  Mario  Saltarelli  read  a  paper  "Periphrastic  Causatives  and  Func- 
tional Squish"  at  the  Linguistic  Society  of  America's  annual  meeting  in  San  Diego, 
Cal. ,  in  Dec. 

PARTICIPATION  IN  MLA 
Department  members  and  doctoral  alumni  are  active  in  the  Modern  Language  Association. 
From  our  faculty,  Prof.  Merlin  H.  Forster  is  chairman  of  Spanish  7  (Modern  Spanish- 
American)  Executive  Committee  and  serves  on  that  section's  Bibliographic  Committee. 


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Prof.  Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo  is  chairman  of  Spanish  2  (Renaissance  &  Golden  Age)  Exe- 
cutive Committee.   Assoc.  Prof.  Thomas  C.  Meehan  is  serving  on  the  Spanish  7  Execu- 
tive Committee.   Asst.  Prof.  Andres  0.  Avellaneda  participated  in  the  MLA  meeting  in 
Chicago  in  Dec.  by  presenting  a  paper  "German  Rozenmacher,  un  narrador  de  la  promo- 
cion  del  sesenta"  at  Seminar  63  (Perspectives  of  the  Post-Cortazar  Generation). 

Two  of  this  department's  doctoral  alumni  participated  in  the  Dec.  meeting  in 
Spanish  7  (Modern  Spanish-American);  Dr.  Daniel  R.  Reedy  (Univ.  of  Ky . )  read  a  paper 
"Cortazar  Through  the  Looking  Glass"  and  Dr.  L.  H.  Quackenbush  (Brigham  Young  Univ.) 
presented  a  paper  "La  desavencia  religiosa:  una  clave  a  El_  tuerto  es  rey  de  Carlos 
Fuentes."   Dr.  Reedy  is  also  the  chairman  of  Spanish  6  (Early  Spanish-American)  Exe- 
cutive Committee.   Dr.  Frank  H.  Nuessel  ( Ind .  State  Univ.)  is  a  member  of  the  Compar- 
ative Romance  Linguistics  Bibliography  &  Research  Committee. 

FACULTY  PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Emeritus  Henry  R.  Kahane ' s  review  of  2  books  by  Marius  Sala  (Estudios  sobre  el 
judeoespanol  de  Bucarest  and  Phonetigue  et  phonologie  de  judeo-espagnol  de  Bucarest ) 
appeared  in  Language,  vol.  49,  no.  4  (Dec.  1973),  pp.  943-48. 

Prof.  Luis  Leal  has  published  several  articles  on  Spanish  American  literature  in 
the  Gran  Enciclopedia  Rialp  of  Madrid.   His  topics  include:   "La  literature  de  Mex- 
ico," "Amado  Nervo,"  "Manuel  Jose  Othon,"  "Carlos  Pellicer,"  "Jose  Peon  Contreras , " 
"Alfonso  Reyes,"  "Ignacio  Rodriguez  Galvan, "  "Jose  Romero,"  "Juan  Rulf o , "  "Rodolfo 
Usigli,"  "Agustin  Yanez,"  "La  literatura  de  Nicaragua,"  "Realismo  en  Hispanoamerica, " 
"Historiograf ia  de  la  literatura  Iberoamericana,  "  "Jose  Marti,"  "Arturo  Uslar  Pietri,'" 
"La  literatura  de  Venezuela. " 

Assoc.  Prof.  Mario  Saltarelli  and  Asst.  Prof.  Dieter  Wanner  served  as  editors  of 
Diachronic  Studies  in  Romance  Linguistics  (consisting  of  papers  presented  at  the  Con- 
ference on  Diachronic  Romance  Linguistics,  UIUC,  Apr.  1972)  which  is  being  published 
by  Mouton  (The  Hague)  as  vol.  207  of  the  Janua  Linguarum  series.   Prof.  Emeritus  Hen- 
ry R.  Kahane  was  the  author  of  one  of  the  papers  "The  Etymologist  as  a  Transforma- 
tionalist," and  a  department  doctoral  alumnus,  Dr.  Daniel  E.  Gulstad  (now  at  the 
Univ.  of  Mo.)  contributed  "Syntactico-Semantic  Reconstruction  in  Romance." 

Asst.  Prof.  Anthony  K.  Cassel  published  "The  Corbaccio  and  the  Secundus  Tradi- 
tion" in  Comparative  Literature,  vol.  50  (fall  1973). 

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ENGLISH  LIKE  SHE  OUGHT  TO  BE  SPOKE 

From  an  Italian  hotel  brochure:  This  hotel  is  renowned  for  its  peace  and  soli- 
tude.  In  fact,  crowds  from  all  over  the  world  flock  here  to  enjoy  its  solitude. 

From  a  Lisbon  hotel:  If  you  wish  desinfection  enacted  in  your  presence,  please 
ring  for  chambermaid . 

From  a  Rome  hotel:   FireJ   It  is  what  can  doing  we  hope.   No  fear.   Not  our- 
selves.  Say  quickly  to  all  people  coming  up  down  everywhere  a  prayer.   Always  is  a 
clerk.   He  is  assured  of  safety  by  expert  men  who  are  in  the  bar  for  telephone  for 
the  fighters  of  the  fire  come  out. 

From  a  Polish  tourist  brochure:  As  for  the  tripe  served  you  at  the  Hotel  Mono- 
pol,  you  will  be  singing  its  praises  to  your  grandchildren  as  you  lie  on  your  death- 
bed. 

From  a  Moscow  hotel:  If  this  is  your  first  visit  to  the  U.S.S.R.,  you  are  wel- 
come to  it. 

From  a  French  hotel:   A  sports  jacket  may  be  worn  to  dinner  but  no  trousers. 

From  a  French  restaurant  menu:   Extract  of  fowl,  poached  or  sunside  up. 

Turkish  dentist's  sign:   American  Dentist,  2th  Floor  —  Teeth  Extracted  by 
Latest  Methodists. 

(From  Canadian  Business,  May  19  73,  and  the  N.J.  Record ,  April  29,  19  73,  by  way 
of  the  N.Y.  State  Assoc,  of  FL  Teachers  Language  Association  Bulletin,  Nov.  1973.) 

The  UI  Foreign  Language  Newsletter  is  published  4  times  a  year  by  the  foreign  lan- 
guage departments  at  UIUC  under  the  direction  of  the  head  of  the  Dept.  of  Spanish- 
Italian-Portuguese .   The  Newsletter  is  available  without  charge  to  all  interested 
persons  in  111.  and  other  areas.   All  communications  by  mail  should  be  addressed  to: 
The  Editor,  UI  Foreign  Language  Newsletter,  Dept.  of  Spanish-Italian-Portuguese , 
4080  Foreign  Languages  Building.  UIUC.  Urbana,  IL  61801. 


THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS  FOREIGN  LANGUAGE  NEWSLETTER 

April,  1974  Director:   Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello 

Vol.  XXVII,  No.  4  Editor:   Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jr. 

^HH£  HOW  OUR  COLLEAGUES  SEE  FOREIGN  LANGUAGES 

The  Univ.  of  Mich.  Foreign  Language  Courier,  published  by  the  language  departments 
of  that  university,  asked  key  personnel  in  the  various  schools  and  colleges  of  the 
Univ.  of  Mich,  at  Ann  Arbor  to  contribute  statements  about  the  place  of  foreign  lan- 
guage study  in  their  particular  areas  or  in  the  students'  overall  educational  back- 
grounds.  These  heartening  replies  were  published  in  the  May  1973  issue  of  the  Univ. 
of  Mich.  Foreign  Language  Courier  (Waldo  E.  Sweet,  editor),  and  excerpts  from  these 
responses  are  reproduced  below. 

G.E.  Hay,  Assoc.  Dean,  Rackham  School  of  Graduate  Studies:   "...about  60%  of  all 
doctoral  programs  in  this  Graduate  School  have  a  firm  foreign  language  requirement... 
A  student  contemplating  graduate  study,  who  has  not  made  specific  plans  to  enter  a 
specific  program  with  no  foreign  language  requirement,  is  well  advised  to  prepare  by 
acquiring  some  foreign  language  competence  before  entering  graduate  school...   There 
are  a  number  of  reasons  supporting  the  requirement...   modern  ease  of  transportation 
throws  the  scholar  in  frequent  contact  with  scholars  from  other  countries .. ./and/ 
there  is  increasing  scholarly  publication  in  a  wider  distribution  of  foreign  lan- 
guages, and  the  scholar  who  must  rely  on  others  for  translations  is  often  at  a 
severe  handicap. " 

Jane  M.  Waterson,  Asst.  Dean,  Law  School:   "One  learns  a  good  deal  about  the 
English  language  when  studying  a  foreign  language,  and  skill  in  the  use  of  the  Eng- 
lish language  is  mandatory  for  lawyers.   A  knowledge  of  a  language  can  also  be  a 
direct,  practical  asset  to  the  lawyer  who  works  with  people  whose  native  tongue  is 
not  English  /as  in/  the  international  field  or... legal  aid  work.   Furthermore,  as  an 
academic  discipline,  foreign  languages  have  their  place  in  any  student's  program. 
Students  often  have  difficulty  in  this  area  and  thus  must  put  in  a  good  deal  of  ef- 
fort in  order  to  learn  the  material  well.   One  who  is  accustomed  to  such  discipline 
in  study  in  any  area  will  be  more  fully  prepared  for  law  school  work." 

Colin  Campbell,  M.D.,  Asst.  Dean  for  Student  Affairs,  Medical  School:   "There 
seem  to  be  two  opposing  camps  relative  to  the  place  of  foreign  language  in  a  medical 
student's  education.   The  minority  group. . .believes  that  the  study  of  a  foreign  lan- 
guage is  the  key  to  the  understanding  of  a  foreign  culture,  and  that  if  medicine  is 
to  make  any  pretense  of  being  a  learned  profession  we  ought  to  expect  its  practition- 
ers to  have  some  understanding  of  at  least  one  culture  other  than  their  own.   The  ma- 
jority view  seems  to  be  that  a  foreign  language  studied  solely  to  meet  a  requirement 
is  of  no  benefit  to  the  student;  the  study  of  a  foreign  language  is  appropriate  when 
it  arises  out  of  a  wish  by  the  student  to  master  the  subject." 

Wilbur  J.  Cohen,  Dean,  School  of  Education:   "It  would  seem  desirable,  particu- 
larly with  the  broader  needs  of  the  high  school  students  in  mind,  to  maintain  a  close 
link  with  the  living  present  of  the  native  speakers  of  the  language  being  learned. 
Many  young  people  are  eager  to  experience  foreign  living. . ./yet/  there  is  a  disparity 
between  this  interest  and  the  lack  of  parallel  interest  in  language  skills  and  cul- 
ture.  We  might  profitably  study  this  imbalance  and  perhaps  refine  our  curriculum  ap- 
proaches in  consequence.   (Striking  statistics  in  Time,  March  12,  1973,  report  that 
in  1971  a  million  Americans  were  living  in  Europe  and  2  million  move  traveled  in 
Europe . ) " 

Robert  C.  Metcalf,  Chairman,  Dept .  of  Architecture:   "We  no  longer  require  for- 
eign language  in  the  two  years  of  liberal  arts  and  science  prerequisite  for  admission 
to  the  professional  program  in  architecture.   We  do  recommend  foreign  language  as  an 
elective  of  value  for  the  discipline  imposed  by  its  study." 

D.V.  Ragone,  Dean,  College  of  Engineering:   "American  businessmen  and  engineers 
are  more  frequently  involved  in  dealings  in  foreign  countries...   I  personally  do  not 
believe  it  is  essential  to  know  a  foreign  language  to  do  this,  because  most  of  the 
people  with  whom  we  deal  speak  English.   But,  an  appreciation  of  foreign  culture 
gained  through  the  study  of  foreign  language  is  certainly  important." 

Rebecca  A.  Vaughan,  Assoc.  Dean  for  Special  Services  &  Admissions,  and  Phillip 
A.  Fellin,  Dean,  School  of  Social  Work:   "...knowledge  of  a  foreign  language  has  val- 
idity for  Social  Workers  in  at  least  two  areas.   The  School  of  Social  Work  makes  a 
special  effort  to  enrich  its  program  by  providing  for  racial,  ethnic,  and  cultural 
diversity  in  its  student  body,  faculty,  staff,  and  in  the  curriculum...   Secondly, 
Social  Work  is  an  international  profession.   Students  from  abroad  study  in  our  School 


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Some  of  our  American  students  seek  and  take  jobs  in  other  countries." 

S.B.  Preston,  Assoc.  Dean,  School  of  Natural  Resources:   "Ever  increasing  num- 
bers of  people  with  a  background  in  Natural  Resources  are  becoming  involved  directly 
or  indirectly  with  international  activities.   Because  of  this  and  the  feeling  that 
some  knowledge  of  an  additional  language  is  an  important  component  of  a  higher  educa- 
tion, many  of  our  faculty  strongly  urge  undergraduates  who  have  not  previously  devel- 
oped some  competence  in  a  second  language  to  elect  a  foreign  language  as  a  part  of 
the  distribution  of  requirements  in  the  humanities." 

Russell  E.  Bidlack,  Dean,  School  of  Library  Science:   "The  same  background  in 
foreign  languages  is  not  required  for  all  types  of  library  positions  and  we  try  to 
point  out  to  students  that  certain  careers,  such  as  those  in  reference  work  and  tech- 
nical services  in  academic  libraries,  will  be  closed  to  them  if  they  do  not  have  a 
reading  knowledge  of  at  least  two  foreign  languages." 

Mrs.  Norma  E.  Marshall,  Acting  Dean,  School  of  Nursing:   "Although  the  study  of 
a  foreign  language  is  not  essential  in  the  preparation  of  a  professional  nurse,  it 
extends  the  parameter  of  her  general  education.   Proficiency  in  a  second  language  is 
of  definite  advantage  to  students  working  with  multi-ethnic  communities  and  in  caring 
for  patients  representative  of  other  cultures." 

James  B.  Ardis,  Director  of  Admissions,  School  of  Business  Administration: 
"...foreign  language  study  is  recognized  as  a  major  component  in  the  liberal  studies 
portion  of  our  professional  degree  curriculum." 

Myron  E.  Wegman,  M.D.  Dean,  School  of  Public  Health:   "'  Disease  recognizes  no 
international  boundaries'  is... as  true  today  as  ever..  .   Those  who  engage  in  any 
field  of  public  health  have  a  special  reason  therefore,  to  appreciate  the_importance 
of  understanding  another  language  besides  their  own  native  tongue...  /The/  study  of 
one  or  more  foreign  languages  has  great  importance  as  part  of  the  general  educational 
background  of  the  student  in  public  health. " 

Allen  P.  Britton,  Dean,  School  of  Music:   "Because  of  the  international  nature 
of  music,  foreign  languages  are  essential  to  its  study.   All  musicians  are  the  better 
for  having  knowledge  of  foreign  languages.   Specifically,  voice  majors  are  required 
to  know  French,  German,  and  Italian.   Musicologists  must  show  command  of  Latin, 
Frenchj_  and  German." 

/These  statements  were  taken  from  the  Univ.  of  Mich.  Foreign  Language  Courier, 
no.  47,  May  1973V 

PUBLICATIONS  OF  INTEREST 
Look  for  the  Latin  Word  is  a  creative  game  book  on  Latin  derivatives,  which  should  be 
of  interest  to  teachers  of  Latin  and  Romance  languages.   Copies  are  $1.50  each  from 
Dr.  I.  Ezra  Staples,  Assoc.  Superintendent  for  Curriculum  &  Instruction,  School  Dis- 
trict of  Philadelphia,  Philadelphia,  PA  19103.   (Make  checks  payable  to  the  School 
District  of  Philadelphia. ) 

Realia,  the  Gessler  Publishing  Co . ' s  catalog  of  teaching  aids  in  French,  German, 
and  Spanish,  is  available  free  from  the  company  at  131  E.  23rd  St.  ,  New  York,NY  10010. 

The  National  Textbook  Co.  recently  published  its  1974  catalog  for  foreign  lan- 
guages.  It  includes  such  materials  as  textbooks,  readers,  duplicating  masters, 
tapes,  records,  and  other  resources  in  Spanish,  French,  German,  and  Bilingual  Educa- 
tion.  For  a  free  copy,  write  the  company  at  Box  R,  8259  Niles  Center  Rd . ,  Skokie, 
IL  60076. 

AN  INTERESTING  STATISTIC  TO  PONDER 
According  to  Svein  0ksenholt  of  Eastern  Mont,  College,  45  students  in  Billings,  Mont. 
place  successfully  on  the  preliminary  examination  of  the  National  Merit  Scholarship 
tests  last  fall,  and  20  of  these  passed  the  semi-finals.   All  of  these  45  students 
save  one  had  studied  a  foreign  language.   "There  seems  therefore  to  be  a  correlation 
between  the  study  of  a  foreign  language  in  general  and  academic^  success  in  particu- 
lar," wrote  Mr.  0ksenholt,  who  also  asked,  "Might  we  presume  /on  a  national  level/ 
that  over  95%  of  all  of  these  talented  National  Merit  Scholarship  high  school  stu- 
dents are  also  students  of  foreign  languages?" 

/The  above  information  was  taken  from  a  letter  by  Mr.  0ksenholt  published_in  the 
Mont.  Assoc,  of  Language  Teachers  Bulletin,  vol.  28,  no.  2,  Dec. -Jan.  1973-74 V 

FLB  DEDICATION 
This  issue  went  to  press  a  week  before  the  Foreign  Languages  Building  Dedication  on 
Apr.  4-6.   In  order  to  present  a  more  complete  coverage  of  this  event,  we  will  pub- 
lish a  report  of  the  dedication  in  the  Oct.  1974  issue. 


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THE  CLASSICS  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  R.T.  Scanlan 

SUMMER  PROGRAMS 
The  summer  program  this  year  for  the  Dept.  of  the  Classics  is  varied  but  by  necessity 
limited.   We  hope,  beginning  in  the  summer  of  1975,  to  offer  more  courses  directly 
helpful  to  Latin  teachers.   Our  program  this  summer  includes  2  Classical  Civilization 
courses,  one  in  mythology  and  the  other  in  Roman  Civilization,  2  literature  classes, 
one  in  Pl3to's  Phaedo  and  the  other  in  Petronius '  Satyricon,  and  independent  reading 
courses  in  both  Latin  and  Greek.   Dates  for  the  sumtier  session  are  June  12-Aug.  2. 

Teachers  and  students  are  also  reminded  that  the  9th  Annual  High  School  Latin 
Conference  will  be  held  the  week  of  June  23-29  on  the  UIUC  campus.  The  program  is 
open  to  students  who  will  have  completed  2  years  of  Latin  study  by  this  June.  For 
further  information  write  to  Prof.  R.T.  Scanlan,  Classics,  4072  FLB,  UIUC,  Urbana, 
IL  61801. 

Teachers  should  also  note  that  our  neighboring  institution,  Ind.  Univ.,  will 
sponsor  a  special  workshop  on  "New  Directions  in  Latin  Teaching:  Language  &  Culture" 
to  be  held  on  the  Bloomington  campus  June  24-July  19.   The  workshop  is  designed  to 
address  itself  to  some  of  the  problems  of  Latin  education  today.   Interested  Latin 
teachers  should  write  the  Dept.  of  Classical  Studies,  Ballentine  457,  Ind.  Univ., 
Bloomington,  IN  47401. 

PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Emeritus  Alexander  Turyn  published  an  article  "Demetrius  Triclinus  and  the  Pla- 
nudean  Anthology"  in  Epeteris  Hetaireias  Byzantinon  Spoudon,  vol.  39-40,  in  honor  of 
N.B.  Tomadakes  (Athens,  1972-73),  pp.  403-50. 

Prof.  M.  Marcovich  has  recently  published  3  articles:   "Problemas  Heracliteos" 
in  Emerita  41  (Madrid,  1973),  449-73;  "The  First  Foot  Dactyl  in  Aeschylus"  in  Anti- 
quite  Vivante  22  (1974)  35-38;  and  "On  the  Davidiad  of  Marko  Marulic"  in  Acta  Conven- 
tus  Neo-Latini  Lovaniensis  (Munich,  1973)  371-80. 

Prof.  R.T.  Scanlan 's  computer  programs  were  described  on  p.  194  (Jan.  1974)  of 
Calculi ,  a  bimonthly  newsletter  of  computer  developments. 

INTERNATIONAL  CONGRESSES 
Prof.  M.  Marcovich  is  on  the  program  of  the  6th  International  Congress  of  Classical 
Studies  which  will  be  held  Sept.  2-7  in  Madrid,  Spain.   He  will  deliver  a  paper  on 
"Hippolytus . "   He  is  also  on  the  program  of  the  3rd  International  Conference  on  An- 
cient Philosophy  which  will  take  place  Aug.  26-30  in  Toledo,  Spain.   He  will  give  a 
paper  on  "Democritus . "   Prof.  Marcovich  has  also  been  invited  to  read  a  paper  at  the 
13th  Eirene  International  Congress  of  Classical  Studies  which  will  take  place  in  Du- 
brovnik,  Yugoslavia,  Oct.  7-12. 

MEETINGS 
Prof.  R.T.  Scanlan  attended  a  meeting  of  the  Executive  Council  of  the  American  Coun- 
cil on  the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Languages  in  New  York.  The  Council  planned  ACTFL  ac- 
tivities for  the  coming  year.  Special  attention  was  given  to  the  annual  meeting  to 
be  held  in  Denver  in  Nov.  28-30.  He  also  attended  the  CAMWS  meeting  in  New  Orleans, 
Apr.  11-13,  as  a  state  vice-president,  and  will  attend  the  Central  States  FL  Confer- 
ence in  Milwaukee,  Apr.  18-20,  as  a  delegate  of  the  Liberal  Arts  College. 

LECTURES 
Prof.  Gerald  M.  Browne  of  Harvard  Univ.  lectured  on  Mar.  1  on  "Sortes  Astrampsychi . " 
Prof.  Reinhold  Merkelbach  of  the  Univ.  of  Cologne  lectured  on  Apr.  4  on  "Greek  Lexi- 
cography on  the  Papyri."   Prof.  Mark  Naoumides  will  lecture  on  Apr.  19  on  "The  Tradi- 
tion of  a  Byzantine  Lexicon."   Lecturers  scheduled  for  May  are  Prof.  Georg  Luck  of 
the  Johns  Hopkins  Univ.  and  Prof.  Elizabeth  R.  Gebhard  of  the  Chicago  Circle  Classics 
Dept.   Prof.  M.  Marcovich  will  lecture  on  Apr.  22  at  the  Univ.  of  N.C.  at  Chapel  Hill 
and  on  Apr.  25  at  UICC.   Prof.  R.T.  Scanlan  will  take  part  in  a  conference  at  Pa. 
State  Univ.  in  Apr. 

RECORD  ENROLLMENTS 
The  department  this  spring  semester  has  achieved  an  all-time  record  enrollment  fig- 
ure of  1667.   This  total  is  distributed  as  follows:   Classical  Civilization  1213, 
Latin  330,  Greek  94,  Classical  Anthology  19,  Hebrew  11. 


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SUMMER  READING 
The  summer  months  will  soon  be  upon  us.   Perhaps  you'll  have  a  little  extra  time  for 
reading.   If  so,  here  are  a  few  suggestions.   If  you  haven't  yet  had  to  list  behav- 
ioral objectives  for  your  classes,  you  are  certain  to  have  to  do  so  in  the  near  fut- 
ute.   A  good  book  to  initiate  you  (painlessly)  into  the  mysteries  is  Preparing  In- 
structional Objectives  by  Robert  F.  Mager,  Fearon  Publishers,  Palo  Alto,  CaL   Two 
sensible  books  on  education  which  relate  classical  thoughts  on  pedagogy  to  the  modern 
scene  and  make  us  more  aware  of  the  tradition  in  our  trade  are  Exemplars  of  Teaching 
Method  (Harry  S.  Broudy  &  John  R.  Palmer,  published  by  Rand  McNally  &  Co. )  and  Philo- 
sophers on  Education  (Robert  S.  Brumbaught  &  Nathaniel  M.  Lawrence,  published  by 
Houghton  Mifflin  Co.).   Finally,  for  leisure  reading,  you  might  consider  the  novels 
of  Mary  Renault.   You  have  a  real  treat  in  store  if  you  have  yet  to  read  any  of  these 
fascinating  books.   We  especially  recommend  The  King  Must  Die  and  The  Bull  from  the 
Sea  (2  novels  based  on  the  Theseus  myth),  The  Mask  of  Apollo  (which  portrays  the  life 
of  an  actor  in  ancient  Greece),  and  The  Last  of  the  Wine  (which  describes  life  in 
Athens  about  the  time  of  the  death  of  Socrates). 
HAVE  A  VERY  PLEASANT  AND  RESTFUL  SUMMER.' 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Barbara  Smalley 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE:   A  DEFINITION 
"Comparative  literature  is  the  study  of  literature  beyond  the  confines  of  one  parti- 
cular country,  and  the  study  of  the  relationships  between  literature  on  the  one  hand 
and  other  areas  of  knowledge  and  belief,  such  as  the  arts  (e.g.,  painting,  sculpture, 
architecture,  music),  philosophy,  history,  the  social  sciences  (e.g.,  politics,  eco- 
nomics, sociology),  the  sciences,  religion,  etc.,  on  the  other.   In  brief,  it  is  the 
comparison  of  one  literature  with  another  or  others,  and  the  comparison  of  literature 
with  other  spheres  of  human  expression."  --  Henry  H.H.  Remak,  "Comparative  Literature 
--Its  Definition  and  Function,"  in  Comparative  Literature :   Method  and  Perspectives 
(Southern  111.  Univ.  Press,  1961). 

COMPARATIVE  LITERATURE  STUDIES 
As  of  1974,  the  journal  Comparative  Literature  Studies ,  supported  by  the  Program  in 
Comparative  Literature  and  the  School  of  Humanities,  will  have  a  local  editorial 
board  (at  present  Profs.  A.  Owen  Aldridge,  Francois  Jost,  Herbert  Knust,  and  Rocco 
Montano)  and  an  International  Advisory  Board  consisting  of  Rene  Etiemble,  professor 
at  the  Sorbonne ,  Paris;  Walter  Htillerer,  professor  at  the  Technical  Univ.  (Berlin) 
and  UIUC;  Shunsuke  Kamei ,  professor  at  the  Univ.  of  Tokyo;  Eva  Kushner,  professor  at 
Carlton  Univ.,  Ottawa,  and  president  of  the  Canadian  Comparative  Literature  Assoc.; 
Estuardo  Nunez,  professor  at  the  Univ.  of  San  Marcos,  Lima,  Peru;  and  Robert  Shackle- 
ton,  chief  Librarian  at  the  Bodleian  Library,  Oxford,  England.   Mr.  Shackleton  is  the 
former  president  of  the  International  Comparative  Literature  Association. 

Comparative  Literature  Studies  is  one  of  the  2  official  journals  of  the  Americar 
Comparative  Literature  Assoc"!   (In  addition,  there  is  the  Yearbook  for  Comparative 
&_  General  Literature . )   The  next  issue  of  CLS  (spring  1974)  is  a  special  10th  Anni- 
versary Issue  containing  the  following  contributions:   Prof.  Rene  Etiemble,  "Sur  une 
bibliographie  du  haiku  dans  les  langues  europeennes " ;  Prof.  Wai-lim  Yip,  "Toward  a 
Convergence:   Chinese  Poetics  and  Western  World  View";  Prof.  Shlomo  Elbaz,  "Traduc- 
tion litterale  ou  litteraire";  Prof.  Clayton  Koelb,  "'Tragedy'  as  an  Evaluative 
Term";  Prof.  Hans-George  Ruprecht,  "Aspects  du  baudelairisme  mexicain."   Another 
enlarged  issue  of  CLS  is  being  planned  for  later  in  1974.   This  issue  will  include 
the  George  Miller  Lecture  Series  on  "Media  and  Society:   Montage,  Satire,  and  Cultisn 
between  the  Wars."   The  lectures  in  this  series  were  delivered  in  the  Krannert  Art 
Museum  in  the  fall  of  1973. 

PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Herbert  Knust  has  published  a  book  Materialien  zu  Bertolt  Brechts  "Schweyk  im 
Zweiten  Weltkrieg"  (Frankfurt:  Edition  Suhrkamp,  1974),  a  critical  edition  of  hithertc 
unpublished  versions,  fragments,  letters,  and  diary  entries  concerning  the  dramatiza- 
tion and  stage  history  (especially  Brecht's)  of  Jaroslav  Hasek's  novel  Adventures  of 
the  Good  Soldier  Schwejk. 

Prof.  Knust  has  been  appointed  an  associate  to  the  Center  for  Advanced  Studies 
for  spring  19  75.   He  plans  to  complete  a  book  on  the  playwright  Bertolt  Brecht. 


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MEETINGS 
The  5th  Triennial  Meeting  of  the  American  Comparative  Literature  Assoc,  was  held  in 
Los  Angeles  Apr.  4-6.   Prof.  Francois  Jost  represented  the  UIUC  and  chaired  the  Apr. 
6  meetings  dealing  with  the  reports  of  the  ACLA  Committees  on  the  Job  Market,  Gradu- 
ate and  Undergraduate  Curricula,  and  Translation.   In  addition  to  business  meetings, 
the  following  5  symposia  were  held:   "What  is  a  Comparative  Literature  Dissertation?" 
"Symbolism  and  International  Literary  History";  "The  Comparative  Method:   Sociology 
and  Literature";  "The  Baroque";  and  "Narrative  Form  in  Film  and  Literature." 

GRADUATE  STUDENT  ACTIVITIES 
Ashton  L.  Townsley  has  published  "Die  Prasentationsszene  in  der  St . -Martinskirche  in 
Zillis:   Anzeichen  eines  moglichen  vorikonoklastischen  Einflusses"  in  Zeitschrif t  f tlr 
Schweizerische  Archaologie  und  Kunstqeschichte ,  Bd .  30  N.  3  (1973),  and  "Individua- 
tion?:  John  of  Naples'  Purification  of  the  Thomistic  Notion"  in  Salesianum  Anno  XXXV 
N.  4  (1973),  621-33.   Alison  Weber  has  published  a  review  of  Literature  as  System: 
E s s ay s  toward  the  Theory  of  Literary  History  by  CI audio  Guillen ,  in  Comparative  Lite- 
rature Studies,  Vol.  X,  No.  4  (Dec.  1973),  392-93. 

Danielle  Cousin  Johnson  will  teach  French  for  foreign  students  (Cours  d' Introdu- 
ction aux  Etudes  Universitaires )  at  the  Univ.  of  Fribourg  from  July  17-Oct.  9. 

Ursula  Howard  passed  her  thesis  defense  on  Thursday,  Mar.  28.   Her  dissertation 
topic  (under  the  direction  of  Prof.  Francois  Jost)  was  "A  Comparative  Study  between 
the  Poetry  of  Emily  Dickinson  and  Annette  von  Droste-Htilshof  f .  " 

PROGRAM  EVALUATION 
Our  efforts  to  have  the  Program  in  Comparative  Literature  evaluated  finally  met  with 
success.   Prof.  John  H.  Fisher,  president  of  the  Modern  Language  Assoc,  of  America, 
is  one  of  the  evaluators;  another  is  Rene  Wellek,  Sterling  Professor  of  Comparative 
Literature,  Yale  Univ.  (presently  Visiting  Prof,  at  Ind.  Univ.). 

FRENCH  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel 

FILMS  FOR  FRENCH:   A  TEACHER'S  GUIDE 
There  remains  a  limited  supply  of  Films  for  French :   A  Teacher ' s  Guide ,  an  evaluative 
review  of  some  100  currently  available  educational  films.   If  you  do  not  yet  have  a 
copy  and  would  like  one,  send  your  request  along  with  $0.20  in  stamps  to  the  editor 
of  the  Guide,  Prof.  Sandra  Savignon,  2090  FLB,  UIUC,  Urbana,  IL  61801. 

ILLINOIS  YEAR  ABROAD  PROGRAM  IN  FRANCE 
The  111.  Year  Abroad  Program  in  France  reports  unusual  success  this  year.   Participa- 
tion in  the  program  has  been  opened  for  the  first  time  to  graduate  students.   Since 
the  program's  move  to  Paris  for  1973-74  and  hereafter,  interest  in  the  program  has 
increased  remarkably.   As  many  as  50  students  may  be  going  to  France  with  the  program 
this  year. 

Prof.  Herbert  DeLey ,  program  chairman,  recently  returned  from  a  visit  to  the 
program's  operation  in  Paris  as  well  as  a  side  trip  to  Dakar,  where  he  worked  to  ne- 
gotiate a  Graduate  Student  Exchange  Program  with  the  Universite  de  Dakar. 

AATF  DOWNSTATE  CHAPTER  MEETING 
The  annual  spring  meeting  of  the  Downstate  Chapter  of  the  American  Association  of 
Teachers  of  French  will  be  held  Apr.  26-27  at  the  Champaign  Hilton,  302  E.  John  St., 
Champaign,  111.   The  program  chairperson,  Mrs.  Penny  Pucelik,  vice-president  of  the 
chapter,  has  organized  a  particularly  enticing  program.   Ms.  Judy  Kappetto,  a  teacher 
at  Lake  Park  High  School,  Roselle,  111.,  will  speak  on  individualized  instruction. 
Mrs.  Diane  Jotterand,  noted  hostess  of  Swiss  television  programs,  including  one  for 
children  like  our  own  "Capt.  Kangaroo,"  will  speak  on  her  experience  as  a  TV  hostess 
and  producer.   The  program  will  begin  at  9  am  Saturday  and  last  until  noon.   (It  will 
also  include  a  brief  business  meeting  at  which  chapter  officers  for  1974-76  will  be 
elected.)   Those  needing  room  reservations  for  Friday  night,  Apr.  26,  should  contact 
the  Champaign  Hilton  reservation  desk  (217-384-2100).   For  further  details  on  the 
program  and  speakers,  please  contact  Mrs.  Pucelik  at  the  Dept.  of  Foreign  Languages, 
Bradley  Univ. ,  Peoria,  IL  61606. 

PROF.  KOLB  TO  PUBLISH  ON  PROUST 
Prof.  Philip  Kolb  has  received  word  that  the  Editions  Gallimard  have  obtained  Mme 
Mante-Proust ' s  authorization  to  publish  his  study  Agenda  1 :   la  Genese  du  Temps 


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Perdu.   In  it  he  traces  the  steps  in  the  creation  of  Proust's  novel  through  the  early 
stages  of  its  composition. 

The  basis  of  this  study  is  a  near  indecipherable  notebook  (Agenda  1_)  for  which 
Prof.  Kolb  provides  a  chronology,  a  facsimile  of  the  notebook  with  his  transcription 
on  opposite  pages,  and  more  than  500  annotations  tracking  down  references  to  Proust's 
own  works,  quotations  from  other  authors,  and  otherwise  elucidating  the  text  of  the 
notebook.   He  thus  resolves  the  difficult  problem  of  the  essay  on  Sainte-Beuve ,  and 
other  enigmas  related  to  A  l_a  recherche  du  temps  perdu . 

The  long-awaited  volume  represents  the  results  of  some  10  years'  work.  It  will 
undoubtedly  constitute  another  landmark  in  Proust  studies. 

SUMMER  PROGRAM  AT  CARLETON 
Carleton  College  (Northfield,  MN  55057),  which  is  one  of  the  best  and  most  prestigi- 
ous liberal  arts  colleges  in  the  country,  announces  a  Summer  Institute  for  Seconcjary 
School  Teachers  of  French,  July  13-Aug.  3.   For  information  please  contact  M.  Michel 
Monnot,  Director,  at  Carleton. 

DEPARTMENTAL  NOTES 
Prof.  Sandra  Savignon  was  invited  to  present  a  paper  at  the  Central  States  Conference 
on  the  Teaching  of  Foreign  Languages,  Milwaukee,  Wis.,  Apr.  20.   Her  paper,  'Talking 
With  My  Son:   An  Example  of  Communicative  Competence,"  will  be  published  in  the  Con- 
ference Proceedings  (Skokie,  111.;   National  Textbook  Co.).   On  Feb.  7,  Mrs.  Savignon 
gave  a  talk  in  Ottawa,  Ont . ,  Canada,  at  the  invitation  of  the  Ont.  Psychological 
Assoc.   Her  subject  was  "Communicative  Contexts  for  Second  Language  Learners." 

The  following  students  were  selected  as  "assistants  d 'anglais"  for  1974-75  for 
positions  in  France:  Joyce  Davenport,  Lindell  McKie,  Cheryl  Shapiro,  Tinh  Minh  Ha, 
Judy  Watkins,  and  Lynn  Waverly. 

Prof.  Wilga  Rivers  lectured  to  the  AATF  in  Austin,  Texas,  on  Mar.  16,  then  left 
for  Cairo,  Egypt.  From  Mar.  20-27  she  gave  a  series  of  lectures  in  Cairo  and  Beirut 
--by  invitation,  of  course. 

Visiting  Prof.  Franck  Jotterand  presented  a  2-part  program  on  Swiss  cinema  on 
Apr.  8-9.   The  first  part  consisted  of  the  film  by  Alain  Tanner,  Charles  mort  ou  vif 
(1969)  and  selected  Swiss  shorts,  with  an  introduction  and  a  discussion  led  by  Prof. 
Jotterand.   Part  two  included  some  more  shorts  and  a  lecture,  "Le  cinema  Suisse." 

The  annual  initiation  ceremony  and  banquet  of  Pi  Delta  Phi  took  place  in  Urbana 
on  Apr.  16. 

Prof.  Edwin  Jahiel  is  the  guest  of  Unif ranee  Films,  via  the  French  Embassy, 
for  the  French  Short  Film  Fair  (screenings  and  discussions)  in  New  York  City  during 
Apr.  22-25. 

Prof.  Barbara  Bowen  attended  the  Central  Renaissance  Conference  in  Columbia,  Ma, 
Mar.  28-30,  and  chaired  a  session  on  French  Renaissance  literature.   Prof.  Bowen  has 
been  invited  to  attend  a  colloquium  on  "Le  comique  verbal  a  la  Renaissance"  at  the 
Univ.  of  Warsaw  in  Apr.  1975.   She  will  give  a  paper  on  "Les  Andouilles  de  Rabelais." 

Two  former  UIUC  colleagues,  Prof.  Paul  Barette  (Univ.  of  Tenn.)  and  Prof.  Roy 
Jay  Nelson  (Univ.  of  Mich.)  were  expected  to  be  the  guests  of  the  department  at  the 
FLB  Dedication  ceremonies  and  symposium.   M.  Paul  Coustal,  Deputy  Consul  General 
(Chicago)  represented  the  French  government. 

GERMANIC  NOTES  —  by  Prof.  Karl-Heinz  Schoeps 

FACULTY  PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  James  Marchand  published  an  article  on  "Der  Engel  Cherubin"  in  the  Mar.  1974 
issue  of  Germanic  Notes . 

Prof.  Vincent  Dell'Orto's  article  "The  Essay  of  Carl  Julius  Weber"  appeared  in 
German  Quarterly,  Mar.  1974.   In  addition,  Prof.  Dell'Orto  and  his  wife  Mrs.  Kathlene 
Dell'Orto  have  coauthored  an  article  "Jantzenism  in  Its  Relation  to  Weavers  and  Frogs: 
A  Socio-Zoological  Study  in  Baltic  Mores. " 

Prof.  Richard  Figge  coauthored  with  Prof.  Htillerer  an  article  in  the  Jan.  issue 
of  Comparative  Literature  Studies  entitled  "Prospects  for  Literature  in  Future  So- 
ciety. " 

Prof.  Herbert  Knust's  recent  publications  are  listed  in  the  section  of  Compara- 
tive Literature  Notes,  and  he  recently  published  an  article  on  Brecht  in  Stucke. 

Ms.  Virginia  Coombs'  article  "Beowulf  Negative  Indefinites:  The  Klima  Hypothe  _ 
sis  Tested"  will  appear  in  Orbis  XXIV  in  1975. 


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Prof.  Karl-Heinz  Schoeps  has  published  an  article  on  "Bertolt  Brecht  and  Ber- 
nard Shaw"  in  Brecht  Heute/Brecht  Today ,  Yearbook  of  the  International  Brecht  Soci- 
ety, 1973,  and  a  book  review  of  Werner  Brettschneider ,  Zwischen  literarischer  Autono- 
mic und  Staatsdienst:   Die  Literatur  der  DDR  in  JEGP ,  Oct.  1973. 

Prof.  U.  Henry  Gerlach  is  the  author  of  "Hebbel,  Hippel,  Happel--Ablautgesetze 
bei  deutschen  Dichtern:  Versuch  einer  Syntheses  von  Literaturwissenshcaf t  und  Lin- 
guistik, " 

Prof.  P.M.  Mitchell  became  editor  of  the  new  JEGP  (Journal  for  the  Elimination 
of  Gottsched  Problems). 

FACULTY  PAPERS 
Prof.  Iremengard  Rauch  presented  a  paper  "Predictive  Phonology:   New  High  German  Syl- 
lable—Final Stops"  at  the  International  Linguistic  Assoc,  in  New  York  on  Mar.  9. 

At  the  2nd  Annual  Conference  on  20th-century  Literature  in  Louisville,  Ky . ,  Feb. 
28-Mar.  2,  Prof.  Rainer  Sell  chaired  the  comparative  literature  section  1,  and  read 
a  paper  "Sexuality  and  Revolution:   Peter  Weiss'  Marat/Sade  and  Harold  Pinter's 
Homecoming . " 

At  the  Central  Renaissance  Conference  Prof.  James  Marchand  and  Dr.  Karl  Fink 
spoke  about  "On  Defining  the  Renaissance:   A  Humanistic  Approach"  and  Prof.  H.G. 
Haile  spoke  about  "Martin  Luther  and  the  Culmination  of  the  Renaissance  in  Germany." 

On  Mar.  13  Prof.  Karl-Heinz  Schoeps  talked  to  the  UI  German  Club  about  "DDR — 
The  Other  Germany." 

At  the  forthcoming  Ky .  Foreign  Language  Conference  on  the  campus  of  the  Univ.  of 
Ky.  in  Lexington,  Apr.  25-27,  several  members  of  our  department  will  present  papers: 
Prof.  James  Marchand  on  "The  Laryngeals  in  Deep  Structure,"  Prof.  H.G.  Haile  on  "An 
den  christlichen  Adel  deutscher  Nation:   A  Literary  Analysis,"  and  Ms.  Virginia 
Coombs  on  "Sub-Surface  Negation." 

Prof.  Richard  Figge  will  give  a  paper  on  "Technique  and  Symbolism  in  the  German 
Film"  at  Chicago  Circle,  May  3. 

At  the  spring  meeting  of  the  Southern  111.  Chapter  of  the  AATG  in  Charleston 
(  Eastern  111.  Univ.),  May  3-4,  Ms.  Virginia  Coombs  will  speak  about  "Formation  of 
the  Subjunctive."   Further  speakers  from  our  department  will  be  Profs.  U.  Henry  Ger- 
lach, Vincent  Dell'Orto,  and  Philip  Grundlehner,  and  Ms.  Donna  Zych. 

EVENTS 
The  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  German,  Southern  111.  Chapter,  will  hold  its 
annual  spring  meeting  Friday  and  Saturday,  May  3-4,  at  Eastern  111.  Univ.  in  Charles- 
ton.  The  Friday  evening  program  consists  of  a  "Gemeinsames  Abendessen,"  a  panel/ 
group  discussion  on  "Culture  as  Part  of  the  Language  or  Literature  Lesson,"  and  a 
German  color  movie  entitled  Das  Glas  Wasser.   Saturday's  schedule  includes  a  business 
meeting,  a  workshop  on  "Variety  in  the  Classroom,"  and  the  luncheon,  complete  with  an 
address  on  a  literary  theme  and  the  recognition  of  outstanding  students  from  the  AATG 
National  Testing  and  Awards  Program.   Overnight  accommodations  at  $4.20  for  a  shared 
room  are  available  in  a  dormitory.   Please  inquire  about  details  from  the  Chapter 
president.  Prof.  U.  Henry  Gerlach,  3072  FLB,  German  Dept.,  UIUC,  Urbana,  IL  61801, 
tel.  217-333-6330. 

On  Mar.  6  at  the  Deutsches  Seminar  Dr.  Karl  Fink  led  a  discussion  on  "Genetic 
and  Generic  Distinctions  in  Comparative  Studies:   A  Concern  for  Literary  Relation- 
ships."  Prof.  H.G.  Haile  discussed  "Five  Social  Constants  Affecting  German  Litera- 
ture, 1500-1800"  at  the  Apr.  2  meeting. 

EXAMINATIONS  PASSED 
Three  candidates  have  successfully  defended  their  dissertations  recently:   Karl  Jul- 
ius Fink,  Richard  Arthur  Lippman,  and  Peter  Karl  Pabisch.   Congratulations;; 

The  following  students  passed  their  MA  examinations:   Rebecca  Dvorak,  Russell 
Snyder,  Pricilla  Drake  Snyder,  and  Gerald  Driskell.   Congratulations;.' 

JOB  PLACEMENT 
We  are  happy  to  report  that  Mr.  Jim  Rendel  has  found  a  position  as  teacher  of  German 
and  English  at  the  brand-new  Westmont  High  School,  Westmont,  111. 

SLAVIC  NOTES  --  by  Prof.  Louis  Iribarne 

EVENTS 
A  varmarka-like  atmosphere  prevailed  in  the  department  recently  (Mar.  28-29)  as  Rus- 


sian  books,  records,  and  posters  were  sold  and  auctioned  in  3114  FLB.   The  sale-auc- 
tion was  arranged  by  the  Russian  Language  Specialties  (P.O.  Box  711,  Pullman,  MI 
49450)  and  succeeded  in  drawing  a  number  of  the  more  affluent  as  well  as  a  handful  of 
the  idly  curious.   New  and  old  books  were  featured  as  well  as  publications  by  both 
Soviet  and  emigre  houses  (Fink,  Possev,  Bradda,  etc.).   Although  Russian  Language 
Specialties  will  continue  to  honor  mail  orders  as  before,  it  was  announced  that  no 
more  invitations  will  be  accepted  for  visits  to  other  campuses. 

The  Russian  Club  sponsored  an  on-campus  showing  of  the  Sidney  Lumet  film  version 
of  Anton  Chekhov's  Seagull ,  Mar.  30,  starring  Vanessa  Redgrave,  James  Mason,  David 
Warren,  and  Simone  Signoret. 

Tentatively  planned  was  a  visit  to  the  UIUC  campus  by  the  famous  young  Polish 
film  director  Krzysztof  Zanussi  on  Tuesday-Thursday,  Apr.  9-11,  accompanied  by  a 
showing  of  some  of  his  prize-winning  new  feature  films,  e.g.  Illuminations ,  Behind 
the  Wall .   These  and  other  films  by  Zanussi  have  won  him  acclaim  in  the  last  couple 
of  years  at  the  Chicago  Film  Festival  and  elsewhere. 

Other  films  scheduled  to  be  shown  during  Apr.  and  May  included  The  Fixer  (1969), 
a  British-Hungarian  film  bssed  on  the  famous  Malamud  novel  of  the  celebrated  anti- 
Semitism  case  in  Tsarist  Russian  (Apr.  9);  Ninotchka  (US,  1939),  starring  Greta  Garbo 
and  directed  by  Ernst  Lubitsch  (Apr.  17) ;  One  Day  in  the  Life  of  Ivan  Denisovich 
(UK-Finland,  1970),  based  on  the  celebrated  Solzhenitsyn  novel  (Apr.  26-28);  and  The 
Twelve  Chairs  (US-Yugoslavia,  1972),  inspired  by  the  comic  picaresque  novel  by  Soviet 
authors  Ilf  and  Petrov. 

Appearing  as  a  guest  lecturer  in  the  Slavic  Forum  (Mar.  13)  was  Prof.  Natalya 
Reber  who  spoke  on  the  Soviet  dissident  movement.   A  professor  of  Russian  language 
and  literature  at  the  Univ.  of  Munich,  Prof.  Reber  was  recently  on  a  lecture  tour  of 
the  USA  and  Canada.   She  very  graciously  left  behind  a  tape  and  transcript  of  a  tele- 
phone interview  which  she  conducted  with  the  Soviet  dissident  writer  Vladimir  Maximov. 

Prof.  Robert  Ruck,  director  of  Radio  Free  Liberty,  spoke  on  the  role  of  radio 
broadcasting  in  an  era  of  detente. 

NEWS  OF  THE  FACULTY 
Profound  condolences  to  former  Slavic  Notes  co-editor  Prof.  Elliot  Cohen  who  recently 
inaugurated  a  semester's  leave  by  breaking  a  leg  somewhere  in  the  Canadian  tundra. 

The  department  welcomes  back  Prof.  Kurt  Klein  from  a  brief  leave  of  absence. 

Works  by  the  Slavic  faculty  were  among  those  displayed  in  connection  with  the 
dedication  of  the  Foreign  Languages  Building. 

Prof.  Temira  Pachmuss '  book,  Between  Paris  and  St.  Petersburg :   Selected  Diaries 
of  Zinaida  Hippius ,  is  scheduled  to  be  published  by  the  UI  Press  in  spring  19  75. 
Prof.  Pachmuss  is  also  just  returned  from  a  lecture  tour  that  included  a  talk  at 
Emory  Univ.  (Atlanta,  Ga. )  on  Dostoevsky's  influence  on  contemporary  world  literature 
and  a  seminar  on  Nabokov  and  lecture  on  "Dostoevsky:   The  Technique  of  the  Dream  Lo- 
gic" at  the  Univ.  of  Ky .  (Lexington,  Ky . ) .   This  summer  she  will  read  a  paper  at  the 
2nd  Dostoevsky  International  Congress  in  St.  Wolfgang,  Austria;  the  title  of  her  pa- 
per is  "Dostoevsky,  D.H.  Lawrence,  and  Carson  McCullers." 

Prof.  Louis  Iribarne  was  recently  promoted  to  assistant  professor.   His  doctoral 
dissertation,  a  2-volume  translation-cum-commentary  of  Witkiewicz's  novel  Insatiabil- 
ity, was  completed  at  the  Univ.  of  Calif,  in  Berkeley.   Prof.  Iribarne  was  also  ap- 
pointed by  the  UIUC  Graduate  College  as  a  Summer  Faculty  Fellow  for  the  summer  1974. 

DLYA  POL'ZY  SOLZHENITSYNA 
In  addition  to  the  showing  of  the  Solzhenitsyn  film  recently  and  a  special  199  course 
on  Solzhenitsyn  projected  for  fall  1974,  the  campus  FM  radio  station  WILL  is  planning 
a  special  3-4  hour  program  on  the  man  and  his  work.   Members  of  the  Slavic  literature 
faculty  (Profs.  Evelyn  Bristol,  Kenneth  Brostrom,  Louis  Iribarne,  and  Temira  Pachmuss) 
will  participate  in  the  program  which  will  feature  a  BBC  dramatization  of  One  Day  in 
the  Life  of  Ivan  Denisovich,  a  Paul  Scofield  reading  of  Solzhenitsyn ' s  Nobel  Prize 
speech,  and  a  survey-lecture  on  the  Soviet  dissident  movement.   Scheduled  to  be  broad- 
cast the  first  Saturday  in  May,  the  program  will  begin  at  1  pm  and  should  be  received 
within  a  100-mile  radius  of  the  Urbana  campus. 

NEWS  FROM  THE  MARKETPLACE 
Congratulations  to  Vasily  Kostun  who  was  recently  appointed  as  a  Russian  language  in- 
structor in  the  US  astronaut  program  in  Houston,  Texas. 

Congratulations  also  to  Gary  Davis  on  his  recent  appointment  to  the  faculty  of 
Bates  College  (Lewiston,  Me.)  where  he  will  be  teaching  Russian  language  and  litera- 


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ture  in  translation  beginning  fall  1974.   No.  8  of  Russian  Literature  Tri-Quarterly 
(Ann  Arbor,  Mich.)  will  carry  Mr.  Davis'  translations  of  _3  stories  by  the  influential 
Russian  moderni_st  Alexei  Remizov  ( "The_Holocaust"  /Pozhar/,  "The  Court  Jeweller"  /Pri- 
dvoryj  yuvelir/,  and  "A  White  Heart"  /Beloye  serdtse/). 

The  Slavic  Dept .  is  also  currently  represented  in  the  Soviet  Union  by  former 
students  Ben  Fairfax  and  Paul  Smith  in  the  USIS  and  present  student  Maurice  Cook  in 
the  CIEE  Semester  Program. 

THE  RUSSIAN  CLUB 
In  addition  to  sponsoring  a  student  production  of  Erdman's  Suicide  (Apr.  27),  the  Rus- 
sian Club  is  also  actively  soliciting  student  interest  on  the  prospect  of  living  in  a 
Russian  Club  either  during  the  summer  term  of  1974,  or  during  the  1974-75  academic 
year.   Those  interested  should  contact  Birute  Lanys ,  3092  FLB,  333-0497,  367-4761. 

SUMMER  ACTIVITIES 
The  111.  Summer  Research  Laboratory  in  Slavic  &  East  European  Studies  is  now  in  its 
second  year  of  operations  and  response  continues  to  be  energetic.   Sponsored  by  the 
Russian  &  East  European  Center,  the  program  is  designed  to  attract  scholars  of  all 
disciplines  and  to  alert  specialists  to  the  university's  bountiful  library  resources. 

SPANISH,  ITALIAN,  &  PORTUGUESE  NOTES  —  by  Maxwell  Reed  Mowry ,  Jr. 

1974  SUMMER  SESSION 
The  department  will  offer  a  variety  of  courses  during  the  1974  Summer  Session,  June 
10-Aug.  2.   Spanish  courses  for  undergraduates  include  Spanish  101,  102,  103,  123, 
124,  200,  209,  211,  233,  and  242.   Courses  for  graduates  and  advanced  undergraduates 
are  305  (Romanticism/Realism),  310  (Contemporary  Spanish  American  Literature),  314 
(Poetry /Drama  Golden  Age),  351  (Phonetics),  352  (Syntax)  and  382  (Language  Laboratory 
Techniques).   Courses  for  graduate  students  include  405  (Bibliography),  427  (20th- 
century  Spanish  Literature--Theory  &  Practice  in  Contemporary  Spanish  Fiction),  429 
(Golden  Age--Plays  of  Calderon),  430  (20th-century  Spanish  American  Literature--La 
narrativa:   realismo  magico  y  realismo  social),  and  471  (Applied  Linguistics  &  Teach- 
ing College  Soanish).   Graduate  students  in  Portuguese  can  take  Portuguese  407  (Bra- 
zilian Literature--0  indianismo  na  literatura  brasileira). 

JOSEPH  HEATLY  DULLES  ALLEN 
This  department  will  lose  one  of  its  most  distinguished  teachers  and  scholars  at  the 
end  of  the  coming  Summer  Session  with  the  retirement  of  Prof.  Joseph  Heatly  Dulles 
Allen.   Prof.  Allen,  born  in  Enfield,  Pa.,  studied  Romance  Philology  and  holds  an  AB 
from  Harvard  (1933),  MA  from  the  Univ.  of  Pa.  (1936),  and  the  Ph.D.  also  from  the 
Univ.  of  Pa.  (1940).   He  was  an  assistant  instructor  of  French  at  the  Univ.  of  Pa.  in 
1937-38,  and  an  instructor  at  the  UI  in  1939-43,  and  an  instructor  of  French  and  Span- 
ish at  the  US  Naval  Academy  in  1943-46.   He  returned  to  this  campus  in  1946  as  assis- 
tant professor  of  Spanish  and  Portuguese.   He  was  promoted  to  associate  professor  in 
1953,  and  to  full  professor  in  1955.   Prof.  Allen  is  a  lieutenant  in  the  US  Naval  Re- 
serves, and  is  a  member  of  the  Modern  Language  Association,  the  Linguistics  Society 
of  America,  and  the  American  Association  of  Teachers  of  Spanish  &  Portuguese.   His 
publications  include  Portuguese  Word  Formation  with  Suffixes ,  Two  Old  Portuguese  Ver- 
sions of  the  Life  of  Saint  Alexis,  Tables  of  Transitional  Freguencies  of  English  Pho- 
nemes (co-author),  and  "Tense/lax  in  Castilian  Spanish"  fWord , 1964) . 

In  an  age  of  increasing  scholarly  specialization,  Prof.  Allen  has  stood  out  as  a 
master  of  many  academic  areas.   His  scholarship  includes  competence  in  Spanish,  Port- 
uguese, French,  linguistics,  and  medieval  literature.   For  years  he  mesmerized  stu- 
dents in  his  bibliography  course  with  his  profound  and  extensive  knowledge  of  biblio- 
graphic sources  and  materials.   His  work  on  departmental  and  university  committees 
has  made  him  one  of  the  most  well-known  faculty  members  in  the  Champaign-Urbana  area. 

Prof.  Allen  will  continue  to  live  in  Champaign,  where  his  wife,  Dr.  Louise  Hatch 
Allen,  is  Chairman  of  the  Division  of  Communications  at  Parkland  Community  College. 
The  best  wishes  of  Prof.  Allen's  friends,  colleagues,  and  students  will  accompany  him 
on  his  retirement  in  Aug.,  with  the  hopes,  however,  that  this  retirement  will  not 
make  him  a  stranger  either  to  this  university  or  our  department. 

WHY  STUDY  PORTUGUESE? 
Portuguese,  ranking  in  4th  place  among  the  world's  tongues,  is  spoken  in  Europe, 
Africa,  Asia,  and  by  more  than  half  the  people  in  South  America.   Portucruese  is  orow- 


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ing  in  importance  as  a  language  of  commerce  and  diplomacy.   There  has  been  a  rapid 
increase  in  recent  years  of  immigration  from  Portugal.   This  has  been  recognized  by 
the  US  and  in  June,  19  72,  the  2nd  session  of  the  9  2nd  Congress  of  the  US  amended  the 
Education  Code  to  recognize  Portuguese  as  a  "minority  group. "   There  is  a  great  need 
for  the  knowledge  of  Portuguese  in  the  field  of  education,  government  positions  as 
interpreters  or  translators,  social  work  and  public  health,  as  well  as  in  business 
and  industry. 

/This  paragraph  was  taken  from  "A  Language  of  the  Future:   Portuguese"  appearing 
in  the  Mar.  19  74  issue  of  the  Northern  Cal .  Foreign  Language  Newsletter  published  by 
the  Foreign  Language  Assoc,  of  Northern  Cal.   The  article  goes  on  to  describe  plans 
by  the  Cal.  State  Dept.  of  Education  to  set  up  bilingual  programs  in  areas  with  la_rge 
concentrations  of  Portuguese-speaking  students  with  minimal  abilities  in  English^/ 

PUBLICATIONS  OF  INTEREST 
The  Spanish  Tourist  Information  Office  for  US  Schools  supplies  data  on  materials 
available  for  classroom  usage,  such  as  posters,  brochures,  slides,  and  films.   Span- 
ish teachers  wishing  to  be  added  to  the  mailing  list  should  send  their  names  and  ad- 
dresses to  the  above  office  at  Box  1920,  Salt  Lake  City,  UT  84110. 

Images  of  Costa  Rica,  published  as  a  supplement  of  the  Aug. /Sept.  1973  issue  of 
Americas ,  is  available  in  either  English  or  Spanish  from  the  Organization  of  American 
States,  Sales  &  Circulation,  19th  &  Constitution  Ave.,  NW,  Washington,  DC  20006,  for 
$0.25  per  copy.   (For  other  publications  in  this  series,  please  see  p.  11  of  the  Dec. 
1973  Newsletter.   A  complete  catalog  of  OAS  publications  is  also  available.) 

FACULTY -STAFF  NOTES 
Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello ,  head  of  this  department,  participated  in  a  panel  dis- 
cussion in  Bilingual-Bicultural  Education  at  the  Ohio  Modern  Language  Teachers  Assoc, 
annual  meeting  in  Columbus  on  Mar.  28-29. 

Prof.  Spurgeon  W.  Baldwin  plans  to  participate  at  the  27th  annual  Ky.  Foreign 
Language  Conference,  Apr.  25-27,  at  the  Univ.  of  Ky.  in  Lexington  by  presenting  a  pa- 
per "Narrative  Techniques  in  Gonzalo  de  Berceo"  at  the  Medieval  Spanish  Literature 
section.   In  addition,  Dr.  Sandra  M.  Cypess,  a  departmental  doctoral  alumna  now  at 
Point  Park  College,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  will  be  chairwoman  of  the  Portuguese  &  Brazilian 
section. 

Prof.  Emeritus  Henry  R.  Kahane  addressed  a  joint  meeting  of  the  Linguistics  Club 
and  the  Medieval  Club  on  "Linguistic  Evidence  in  Historical  Research"  on  Apr.  1. 

Assoc.  Prof.  Hugo  W.  Cowes  will  be  on  sabbatical  leave  during  the  coming  fall 
semester,  and  will  do  research  in  London  and  Buenos  Aires. 

Assoc.  Prof.  Richard  Preto-Rodas  will  participate  in  the  Collum  3rd  World  Series 
at  the  Univ.  of  Ga.  in  Augusta  Apr.  29-30.   The  Collum  deals  with  a  different  3rd 
World  country  each  year;  this  year  the  country  under  study  is  Brazil,  and  Prof.  Preto- 
Rodas'  topic  is  "Brazilian  Literature:   A  Search  for  National  Identity." 

Assoc.  Prof.  Mario  Saltarelli  and  Asst.  Prof.  Dieter  Wanner,  accompanied  by  7 
graduate  students  from  this  department,  attended  the  Texas  Symposium  on  Romance  Lin- 
guistics, Univ.  of  Texas  at  Austin,  Mar.  7-9.   Prof.  Saltarelli  presented  a  paper 
"Theoretical  Implications  in  the  Development  of  Accusativus  cum  Inf initivo  Construc- 
tions" and  Prof.  Wanner  chaired  a  section  on  syntax  and  semantics.   A  departmental 
doctoral  alumnus,  Dr.  R.  Joe  Campbell  (now  at  the  Univ.  of  Texas  at  San  Antonio), 
chaired  a  section  on  Spanish  and  Portuguese  syntax. 

Prof.  Saltarelli  also  served  as  moderator  of  a  7-person  panel  discussion  on  "Bi- 
lingual Studies  &  Research  on  Campus"  on  Mar.  12,  sponsored  by  the  Unit  for  Foreign 
Language  Study  &  Research.   In  addition,  Prof.  Saltarelli  is  one  of  14  UIUC  faculty 
members  (and  the  first  from  our  department)  chosen  to  receive  an  Undergraduate  In- 
structional Award  for  the  Summer  1974.   Prof.  Saltarelli 's  project  will  be  to  develop 
a  course  manual  for  the  Spanish  101  PLATO  course.   (For  a  description  of  this  course, 
please  see  Prof.  Saltarelli's  article  on  p.  11  of  the  Feb.  1974  Newsletter.) 

Asst.  Prof.  Andres  O.  Avellaneda  was  one  of  16  participants  at  the  Conference  on 
Ideology  &  Literature  held  Mar.  2-3  at  the  Univ.  of  Minn,  in  Minneapolis.   The  confe- 
rence, sponsored  by  the  Univ.  of  Minn.  Dept.  of  Spanish  &  Portuguese  and  the  Joint 
Committee  on  Latin  American  Studies,  explored  ways  to  integrate  sociological  aspects 
into  the  study  of  literature. 

Asst.  Prof.  Martha  Paley  de  Francescato  has  a  sabbatical  leave  for  the  fall  sem- 
ester.  Her  research  projects  will  take  her  to  Europe,  Argentina,  and  Mexico. 

Asst.  Prof.  Dieter  Wanner  presented  a  paper  "Correlational  Paradigms  in  Swiss 
German"  at  the  International  Linguistics  Assoc,  meeting  in  New  York  Mar.  9-10. 


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DEPARTMENTAL  HAPPENINGS 
Lambda  Chapter  of  Sigma  Delta  Pi,  the  National  Spanish  Honorary  Society,  will  initi- 
ate 2  3  graduate  and  undergraduate  students  at  ceremonies  in  the  Illini  Union  on  Thurs- 
day, Apr.  25,  under  the  direction  of  Grad.  Teaching  Assts.  Robert  Alston  Cloward  as 
president  and  Maxwell  Reed  Mowry,  Jr.,  as  treasurer,  and  Instructor  Earl  G.  Thompson, 
Jr.,  as  vice-president.   Following  the  ceremonies,  a  group  of  undergraduate  students 
under  the  direction  of  Grad.  Teaching  Asst.  Maria  del  Rosario  Ferrer  de  Cowes  plans  to 
present  Pedro  Salinas'  one-act  play  "Los  santos."   The  general  public  is  invited  to 
attend  the  play,  which  will  be  presented  at  8  pm  in  the  Illini  Union  General  Lounge. 

This  department  cosponsored  a  Latino  Film  Festival  with  the  Center  for  Latin  Am- 
erican &  Caribbean  Studies,  the  Office  of  Campus  Programs  &  Services,  and  the  Urban 
Hispanic  Student  Organization,  on  Mar.  1-3,  at  which  the  following  short  films  were 
shown:   "Yo  soy  chicano,"  "I  Am  Joaquin,"  "Si  se  puede,"  "Requiem  29,"  "What  Really 
Happened  at  the  East  Los  Angeles  Chicano  Riot,"  "Cuba:   Art  &  Revolution,"  "Puerto 
Rico:   Pais  colonizado,"  "The  World  of  Piri  Thomas,"  and  "Manuel  from  Puerto  Rico." 

The  Mesa  Redonda  met  on  Mar.  14  with  Prof.  Alberto  Porqueras-Mayo ,  Grad.  Fellow 
Susan  Hill  Connor,  and  Grad.  Teaching  Assts.  Sherilyn  Hope  Freeman  and  Manuel  Puerta 
introducing  a  discussion  of  the  topic  "El  Siglo  de  Oro  y  su  relevancia. " 

Grad.  Teaching  Asst.  Margo  Corona  DeLey  will  give  a  talk  on  "Provencal  Biograph- 
ical Tradition  and  the  Razon  de  amor"  at  the  Medieval  Club  meeting  on  Tuesday,  Apr.  23 

FACULTY -STAFF  PUBLICATIONS 
Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello ,  head  of  this  department,  is  serving  in  editorial  capa- 
cities on  5  journals.   He  has  been  appointed  Associate  Editor  of  Primer  Acto,  Spain's 
major  scholarly  journal  on  theatre.   This  journal  is  an  indispensable  source  of  in- 
formation for  students  and  specialists  of  the  theatre  in  Spain  and  Spanish  America. 
(Libraries  and  individuals  may  request  subscriptions  by  writing  to  Sr.  Jose  Monleon, 
Editor,  Primer  Acto,  Calle  Sanchez  Barcaiztegui  37,  Madrid  7,  Spain.)   Prof.  Pasquar- 
iello has  also  been  appointed  Associate  Editor  of  a  new  journal  called  Estreno  which 
will  have  its  inaugural  issue  in  late  fall  1974.   The  editor  of  this  new  journal  will 
be  Dr.  Patricia  O'Connor  of  the  Univ.  of  Cincinnati.   Estreno ,  subsidized  by  the 
Charles  Phelps  Taft  Memorial  Fund,  will  feature  such  items  as  plays  in  Spanish  by  es- 
tablished, new,  exiled,  and  underground  dramatists  that  have  not  previously  been 
available  in  print;  articles  and  documents  on  20th-century  Spanish  theatre;  and  news 
of  current  events  in  Spanish  theatre,  such  as  openings,  closings,  censorship  changes, 
etc.   (For  further  information  about  this  journal  write  Dr.  Patricia  O'Connor,  Edi- 
tor, Estreno ,  Dept.  of  Romance  Languages,  Univ.  of  Cincinnati,  Cincinnati,  OH  45221.) 
In  addition,  Prof.  Pasquariello  is  currently  on  the  editorial  staffs  of  2  other  new 
scholarly  journals:   Far  Western  Forum  (published  in  Berkeley,  Cal. )  and  Journal  of 
Spanish  Studies :   20th  Century  (published  at  Kan.  State  Univ.).   He  is  also  Co-Editor 
of  Modern  International  Drama,  which  he  founded  in  Sept.  1967. 

Prof.  Spurgeon  W.  Baldwin  has  published  "Irregular  Versification  in  the  Libro 
de  Alexandre  and  the  Possibility  of  a  Cursus  in  Old  Spanish  Verse"  in  Romanische 
Forschungen,  vol.  85,  no.  3  (1973),  298-313.   In  addition,  a  review  by  M.  Roy  Harris 
of  Prof.  Baldwin's  edition  of  El_  Nuevo  Testamento  segun  el  manuscrito  escurialense 
I -1-6  desde  el  Evanqelio  de  San  Marcos  hasta  el  Apocalipsis  (co-edited  by  Thomas 
Montgomery)  appears  in  Zeitschrif t  fur  Romanische  Philoloqie ,  vol.  89,  nos.  1-3 
(1973),  376-790 

Prof.  Luis  Leal  and  Asst.  Prof.  Martha  Paley  de  Francescato  represent  our  depart- 
ment in  Revista  Iberoamericana,  nos.  84-85  ( julio-diciembre  1973),  an  issue  dedicated 
to  the  Argentine  writer  Julio  Cortazar.   Prof.  Leal's  article  is  "Situacion  de  Julio 
Cortazar"  and  Prof.  Francescato  has  contributed  both  a  review  of  Cortazar 's  latest 
novel  Libro  de  Manuel  and  an  annotated  "Bibliograf ia  de  y  sobre  Julio  Cortazar. " 

The  Canadian  Modern  Language  Review  has  reprinted,  from  ACTFL,  Prof.  Leal's 
article  "The  Spanish  Short  Story  and  Its  Potential  for  the  Secondary  and  College 
Classroom"  vol.  30,  no.  2  (Jan.  1974),  152-56. 

Asst.  Prof.  Anthony  K.  Cassell's  book,  Boccaccio's  Corbaccio  (first  English 
translation  with  introduction  and  notes)  has  been  accepted  for  publication  by  the 
UI  Press. 

Grad.  Teaching  Asst.  Rosendo  Diaz-Peterson  has  had  2  articles  accepted  for  pub- 
lication:  "Los  lectores  de  San  Manuel  Bueno ,  martir"  in  Hispanof ila,  and  "Los 
origenes  de  San  Manuel  Bueno ,  martir"  in  Cuadernos  Hispanoamericanos . 


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EVEN  MORE  ENGLISH  LIKE  SHE  OUGHT  TO  BE  SPOKE 
From  an  Athens  hotel:   Visitors  are  expected  to  complain  at  the  office  from  9  to 

11  am  daily. 

From  a  Tokyo  hotel:   Is  forbidden  to  steal  towels,  please.   If  you  are  not  a 
person  to  do  such  is  please  not  to  read  this. 

From  a  Swiss  menu:   Our  wines  leave  you  nothing  to  hope  for. 

From  a  Leipzig  elevator:   Do  not  enter  the  lift  backwards  and  only  when  lit  up. 

From  a  French  swimming  pool  sign:   Swimming  is  forbidden  in  absence  of  the 
Saviour. 

From  a  Spanish  hotel  ad:   The  provision  of  a  large  French  widow  in  every  room 
adds  to_  the  visitor's  comfort. 

/From  the  North  Dakota  FLAND  News ,  by  way  of  the  Univ.  of  Idaho  Foreign  Language 

Newsletter,  Dec.  19  73V 
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"The  man  who  knows  two  languages  is  worth  two  men."   (Napoleon  Bonaparte) 
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FROM  THE  EDITOR 
Dear  Colleagues  &  Readers: 

This  issue  closes  Volume  27  of  the  University  of  Illinois  Foreign  Language  News- 
letter. Our  next  issue  will  appear  in  Oct.  1974.  Any  items  of  general  interest  sent 
to  the  Editor  before  Sept.  15  will  be  considered  for  the  first  issue. 

If  you  are  moving  during  the  summer,  a  change-of -address  form  is  provided.   Our 
issues  are  mailed  at  a  special  bulk  rate  for  a  non-profit  organization,  and  as  such 
they  are  not  f orwardable .   Even  if  you  leave  a  forwarding  notice  at  your  old  post 
office,  an  issue  of  the  Newsletter  sent  to  an  old  address  will  not  be  forwarded  but 
will  be  returned  to  us--with  $0.10  postage  due.1   A  dime  here,  and  ten  cents  there, 
and  it  soon  adds  up.   By  sending  us  your  address  changes  in  due  time,  you  save  us 
money  and  help  us  to  serve  you  better. 

I  would  like  to  take  this  opportunity  to  thank  all  of  you,  both  on  and  off  the 
UIUC  campus,  who  have  been  helpful  in  contributing  information,  articles,  and  sugges- 
tions for  the  Newsletter.   I  would  like  to  thank  my  Co-Editors  for  their  cooperation 
in  putting  out  the  Newsletter,  as  well  as  for  representing  their  various  departments 
so  well:   Profs.  H.  Michael  Dunn  and  R.T.  Scanlan  (The  Classics),  Barbara  Smalley 
(Comparative  Literature),  Edwin  Jahiel  (French),  Karl-Heinz  Schoeps  (Germanics), 
Elliot  Cohen  and  Louis  Iribarne  (Slavic).   My  sincerest  thanks  to  the  Newsletter  Dir- 
ector (and  my  boss)  Prof.  Anthony  M.  Pasquariello  for  all  his  help,  as  well  as  the 
Spanish-Italian-Portuguese  office  staff  (Mesdames  Frances  Carter,  Florence  Robb, 
Marcia  Shelton,  and  Alina  Fuentes)  for  their  cooperation.   Special  thanks  go  to  Prof. 
Wilga  Rivers  (French)  for  providing  information  for  the  lead  articles  in  the  Oct.  and 
Dec.  issues,  as  well  as  for  calling  my  attention  to  the  material  used  in  this  issue's 
lead  article. 

The  Newsletter  has  weathered  some  rough  storms  since  I  was  last  Editor  (in  1969- 
70),  but  what  has  kept  us  going  is  the  good  will  of  our  main  public,  the  foreign  lan- 
guage teachers  of  111.  and  other  areas.   So,  in  giving  thanks  where  they  are  due,  I 
nust  thank  all  of  you  for  your  heartening  and  continued  support  of  the  Newsletter. 

Have  a  happy  summer  J 

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