Bishop College - Tiger Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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l Conversation Practice Is Lab Work The languages laboratory is de- signed so that students may prac- tice listening to and speaking any language they wish to learn. Al- though Miss Graciela Velez is in charge of the laboratory, students may use the facilities as frequently and as long as they wish. Instructors may make specific assignments and require specific participation in the laboratory, but the number of hours which the facilities may be used by the individual student is not lim- ited. Spanish, French, German, and Russian tapes are available. FT' ' . wx -N 1 5 gl Miss Graciela Velez Director, Languages Laboratory Betty Thompson, a sophomore, uses the speaking-listening unit to learn elementary French. As the recorded ex- pression is played, a tape is made of Betty's repetition of the expression. Her teacher may check her work while the tape is being made from the control desk, or it may be stored and checked subsequently. 70

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Four Foreign Languages Are Taught Dr. Augustine Fernandez Chairman Mrs. Rosita Dobrencovici French Dr. Augustine Fernandez is a nationalized American who was born in Cuba. She ioined the Bishop faculty in 1964. She holds the B.A. and B.S., and a degree in education from the National School of Professors. She also holds a Degree in Publicity and her Doctorate in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Havana. She served as Assistant to the Institute of Scientific Research on the university level for two years and was chairman of the Department of Philosophy at the He- brew College of Cuba until 1960. From 1962 to 1964, she was a member of the faculty at the University of Dallas. Dr. Fernandez has published four books, essays, and articles, and holds extensive memberships in national and international institutions and organizations. During the spring semester, Dr. Fernandez read her paper Actual Themes in the Works of Jose Enrique Rodo at the annual conference of Latin American Studies in the events for the Centennial of Trinity University at San Antonio. Currently Dr. Fernandez writes a weekly column in the Spanish newspaper El Sol de Teias. Majors Travel Abroad French, Spanish, German and Russian are taught at Bishop. Majors are encouraged to spend a summer or the iunior year abroad and, in some instances, scholarships are provided for such study. Ronald Jackson, a Spanish major, spent the summer in Mexico where he attended the Uni- versity of Mexico, lived with a Mexican family, and toured the country. MV- W- l-- l-Ong Mrs. B. F. Wells Spanish French 69

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Music Department Facultg Performs. Too 4 .',f- ' . 5 J . 57?- Y -.. - 4. . vs Q 1f,,f'f1. Dr. Florence Crim Robinson Chairman Dr. Florence C. Robinson earned The B.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Southern Illinois University. She earned the MA. degree at the University of Denver. She has included work as coordi- nator of music for the Denver public schools and Television music Teacher for The Rocky Mountain area in her work ex- perience. She has taught at the University of Colorado, Denver campus, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and has directed pre-service and in-service training programs for teachers and administrators in various programs of education including the National Teacher Corps. She has performed in concert and as accompanist for soloists including her childhood chum, soprano Roberta Bowers. She was organist and director of music at Peoples Presbyterian Church in Denver and has taught music in her own piano studio. She holds memberships in Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Delta Pi, and Pi Lambda Theta honoraries, Mu Phi Epsilon professional music sorority, and Alpha Kappa Alpha social sorority. All members of the faculty of the Music Department are per- forming artists as well as teachers. All have impressive records of accomplishments in various fields and students in the de- partment may be liberal arts maiors in any phase of music, or may major in music education to prepare for careers in teach- ing. Each faculty member is encouraged to appear in recital and most of them do each year. Dr. Robinson is an instructor in piano as wel! as chairman of the department. Two maior projects of the year included presentations of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and The presentation of an opera on campus in May. i