Alma College - Scotsman Yearbook (Alma, MI)

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FOREIGN LANGUAGES The day of monolingualism is passing. The entire country feels the need for foreign languages. The cry is- Let's get on the band wagon. Alma College does not need to get on the band wagon, it has been there for several years. A visit to the third floor of Old Main where the new language laboratory is located will convince you. Over four hundred students a week enter the laboratory to listen to a foreign language and to make a recording of their own voice in the language. Behind this laboratory is a devoted corps of teachers who thoroughly 'believe in what they teach and who carry the work of the machine into something living. Foreign languages soon become a part of the student. Within a block of the campus one may be greeted by Boniour, Guten Tag, Do BRY i DEN, and Buenos dias. Alma College sends out students to teach Spanish, French, and German at the secondary level. We hope in the future that students may go out to teach foreign languages in the elementary level as well. With the increasing interest in the demand for foreign language, the time is coming when foreign language instruction will be a part of every elementary program. Such a program will help to bring about the situation in Morris Ernst's Utopia , a society where children will be taught to speak three Ianguages to promote the greater idea behind this goal- Languages for Global Peace. Y- MARGARET E. FOLEY, A.M. A.B., Ohio Wesleyan University, A.M., University of Illinois Q EARL HAYWARD, M.A. B.A., Alma College M.A., University of Michigan GRACE NICHOLS, Ph.D. B.A., University of Wisconsin, M.A., University of Colorado, Ph.D., University of New Mexico

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The activities, both academic and allied, of the English De- partment are vital to the campus. Under the leadership of members of the staff many activities are sponsored. Notable among these are the plays produced by the department and the Highland Masquers, the weekly newspaper, the Almanian, advised by the department, the Parnassians, the creative writ- ing group which edits the Pine River, and Lambda Iota Tau, na- tional literary scholarship society, advised by the department. Majors in the department complete an unusual course, which runs during their iunior and senior years, meeting daily. In this course, specialists in the department move in and out of the course as lecturers, discussion leaders, and resource ad- visors. Departmental coffees and teas are a part of this course, indeed, it is at one of these that the sudent often gets his most exciting insight into what literary art can mean in his life. The two year program is climaxed by a maior effort in scholarship or criticism by each student during his senior year. Through this program, the members of the English Depart- ment staff come to know all of the maiors in the department, and are able to feed each student's interests. At the same time, LOUIS R MINER AM AB University of Louisville AM University of Chicago LAWRENCE C. PORTER,A.M A.B., A.M., Wayne State University FLORENCE A. KIRK, Ph.D. B.A., M.A., University , Li of Saskatchewan, Ph.D., 1 ' Northwestern University X, x l. X tl, ' , A L Q, , f l il 'f . . g If 9 .fi N A 'ff ,Q M,f,,,..v .S 53 V. .fr ff .M ROBERT w. WEGNER, Ph.D. . X ' ,ff- .J A f A.B., Michigan State University, M.A.,' , I Ph.D., Western Reserve University ' 5 j ' ' 4 ,J . f 1 T ' I x Q X-l . l 'V' l ,ft A f the Alma English major receives a thorough preparation in the fields of English and American literature. He learns to mar- shall evidence, to assess it, to use it. Even more important, he is ready, upon graduation, to move into professional work or to move into graduate school. And most important of all, he becomes familiar and conversant with the great moments in the life struggle of man's sensitive and creative soul as it evidences itself in literature, perhaps the finest of all records of man's achievement as a suffering, but perhaps heroic, being. The effect of this is immeasurable. I . y, f x J, 1 ff ,T 1-94-f-3 41 1 f

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NICHOLAS ALSSEN, M.A. B.A., Universities of Berlin, Munich and Freibergp M.A., University of Michigan '5 Nb si-,lil GUNDA S. KAISER, Ph.D. B.A., Northwestern University: M.A., Ph.D., Universiiy of Wisconsin LIUDA L. ALSSEN, M.A. M.A., University of Nebraska