Broward Community College - Silver Sands Yearbook (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

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Perhaps this goes back to some ex- tent to the old saying, Those who can, do and those that cannr-t, teach. Kempton never accepted that edict but it remained as a sort of burr which alternately puzzled and bothered him. He is now convinced that One can teach and do. A person may not do as well or as efficiently the first time but, still, by doing he can get better. There is another axiom that Kempton abides by and that is that one cannot do everything. lt is a wise man that realizes if he has a compli- cated electrical problem not to try sol- ving it himself but to get a specialist in the field, just as a plumber would not be expected to solve the orthograph- ical peculiarities of the first conjug- ation ofa French verb. To be a man of his time and yet retain old world courtesy and charm comes easily to Will Kempton. In the classroom the iron hand in the velvet glove maintains order and improves French accents in a friendly and re- laxed atmosphere. his summer Kempton decided to return to France, his first trip since 1958, to renew old acquantainces there and to return to school to keep that flawless French accent perfected. He visited the town of Corcieux where he stayed for a few days visiting friends. He had not been there since the town was completely levelled by the Germans in the fall of 194-4, per- haps because it was the regional head- quarters of the French Resistance Movement. The church is now restored and rebuilt and the bells were playing while he was there. Corcieux was adopted by American Aid to France which helped to rebuild the town, as well as other bombed-out commun- ities. Next camc a railroad trip around France. The French railroads have a circular ticket for about S60 which al- lows one to travel all around the pe- rimeter of France, about 3000 Km. He visited Nice, Marseilles, Biarritz and Bordeaux. A walking tour of Paris for about three days was next and he thoroughly enjoyed becoming re- acquainted with the city. Kempton had decided to take a summer course in the French language and accordingly made his way down to the lnstitut de Touraine at Tours. This lnstitut, part of the Universite de Poitiers, has no entrance requirements whatsoever for entering and is entirely for the study of the French language and literature. They seem to be partic- ularly pleased to have foreigners at- tend as there were students there from japan, Sweden and Germany. Anyone planning on spending a summer in France would do well to make the trip to Tours and check on the French courses available at the ln- stitut. One can enter at anytime for as short a period as two weeks, four weeks, a semester, a year, with the ex- ception of the very beginning level. These students must start at the begin- ning of a sequence but may continue through as long as they want to. For the beginning students they use the Mauger book that we use here at Broward Community College. To en- roll in the lnstitut de Touraine for four weeks would cost l45 francs, for two weeks about 90 francs. That would be just under S30 in American currency. lt is possible for vacationers with plenty of time and a desire to improve their French, just to drop in and enroll at the lnstitut without prior notice. However, to ensure reasonable living accommodations, possible in the gov- ernment subsidized housing, it is wise to make reservations. Student meals cost about one franc-60 centimes per meal, which is about 301 American. Meal tickets are purchased ahead of time and are punched on admittance to a dining hall, which are part of the city's devel- opment plan. After getting your ticket punched, you take a seat at tables laid for eight and you are served as part of a group. A large plate of thick chunks of crusty French bread is placed on the table, then a tureen of soup, a plateau of vegetables or beef stew for the main dish and an apple, orange or banana for dessert. When Kempton visisted a dining hall he noticed that his compan- ions, all medical students, were drink- ing water with ice cubes instead of the usual wine. Instead of mineral water it was water from the robinet ifaucetl, so there goes the myth about drinking French water. There are five or six levels of courses at the Institut de Touraine, one for beginning beginners, then a second course for them, the Cours- Mauger and the Cours Mauger de Francais. Kempton decided to take the Cour Superieur which is very advanced and the most challenging. From Monday to Saturday Kempton's mornings were filled with dictees, taking dictation in French and lectures called Hexplicetion du- texte, which included a careful ana-, lysis of the material of the text underl consideration. Another activity was French grammatical structures, cover-l ing the political scene and winding up the week with folk singing on Satur-i days, with perhaps a trip to Paris on Sunday. Kempton found the whole exper- ience at Tours very rewarding. One ofj the rich parts of the program was the: city itself, the old and the new. Great' skyscrapers coming out over the pe- rimeter of the city and inside a nest oft medieval structures. Tours is very cos- mopolitan with about 30,000 students in attendance. There was also the Academie d'Orlean and the Academie de Pointiers, both with facilities in Tours. The whole city and surrounding countryside is a laboratory, one moves from the classroom, not amy from the language, but right back into it. ny American who might want to attend school but uncertain of his French, would first go to the Alliance Francais on the Boulevard Raspail in Paris or similar school, to study French for a semester or so before at- tending the lectures at the lnstitut. Older students attend in increas- ing numbers and there is some indi- cation that the community college concept is becoming more popular in France. Traditionally it has been pos- sible for any citizen to go on to a