The Louisiana Classicist

volume VII, Number 1 Fall 1987

Editor: Charlayne D. Allan This newsletter is the official publication of the Louisiana Classical Association. The Editor welcomes the submission of materials for publication. Send all items to The Louisiana Classicist, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Prescott 222, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5306.

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

I would like to invite you all to attend the third annual LCA convention, which will be held Friday and Saturday, November 20-21, at the Ramada Hotel in Baton Rouge. In the past two years we have had about sixty people attend, and we expect at least as many again this year. The LCA meeting is unique in that it p.ovides a setting for classicists representing every type of academic institution to meet and learn from one another. Our coming together in this way signals not just the dedication of Louisiana classicists, but also the continuing strength of classics in Louisiana. This year's program offers a variety of papers both on pedagogical and scholarly subjects, including a session of illustrated lectures on classical archaeology and a session on medieval Latin. In addition, this year's business meeting will be particularly important, since there are a number of key issues facing our organization. In particular, we will be discussing the possibility of establishing an LCA scholarship for college students, as well as the very crucial issue of the state requirements for certifying Latin teachers. I urge everyone to attend the business meeting. A full program is included in this newsletter along with details for registration for the conference and for the hotel.

It has been an honor to serve you as president. I appreciate all your support at the meetings, but in particular I must thank the members of the executive committee, who have done so much year after year to make our meetings and the organization a success.

I look forward to seeing you on November 20-21.

Dennis Kehoe President, LCA

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LJCL NEWSLINE

The 1987-88 Louisiana Junior Classical League year is well underway. The executive board met in Alexandria on October 3, and the convention location was established: Alexandria, March 17-19, at the Hilton Hotel. Although the location is "out of town" for all participating schools, that fact alone makes it exciting for the students. The wonderful response to a call for help on this long distance convention makes the load a truly shared one.

AS a result of a sponsors' meeting to discuss the convention last spring, we will try a new approach. In an attempt to put the credit where it belongs, on the individual students who place first, second, and third in the various contests, there will be no school sweepstakes awards this year. We will also add a drama competition to try to foster student creativity in the area of dramatic presentation. This promises to be a pleasurable addition to the usual busy schedule.

New officers for 1987-88 are Garvin Davis, President (Scotlandville High, Baton Rouge); Gayden Carr, Vice-President (Episcopal High, Baton Rouge); Karen Allen, Secretary (Istrouma High, Baton Rouge); Ron Russell, Treasurer (The Louisiana School, Natchitoches); Kyle Duncan, Parliamentarian (Baton Rouge High); and Leland Doherty, Historian (Baton Rouge High). These officers are to be commended for running a first-rate executive board meeting. We obviously have an excellent group of leaders.

50S: Any chapter, contests, Chairmen.

LCA members not presently involved in sponsoring a JCL but willing to work with making up tests or judging please contact Jane Poynter or Penny Kent, State Co­

(Jane: 504-383-7130; Penny: 318-747-7610)

LJCL SCHOLARSHIP

The executive board of LJCL approved a motion to institute a $500 scholarship for a graduating senior in the organization who is planning to pursue the study of Latin in college. The scholarship will be available this spring as a result of pre­existing funds in the state treasury. Next year's membership dues, however, will be increased to continue the existence of a scholarship fund. We are excited about this step, as one of the JCL goals is to foster a life-long commitment to the classics.

Although there had been discussion of a combined effort between JCL and LCA on a scholarship, our executive board acted to insure something for this school year. There was a definite feeling that, although we cannot determine the move taken by LCA, we can at least encourage the organization to activate a scholarship as well.

One idea proposed to JCL is actually be more appropriate for LCA.

worthy Barbara

of mention and may Jones of MCKinley

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High School in Baton Rouge suggested that the funds would be a more realistic investment in the future if the scholarship were available to a student actually enrolled in a university classics program as a major or minor. The scholarship would have to go to a student already in college for at least a year, but is that idea all bad? Sometimes the needs are greater after that first year. It would certainly be an appropriate way to say "We believe in you" to a student who will one day join our ranks in the classroom.

perhaps LCA members could corne to the conference prepared to discuss this scholarship idea and make a decision this year. We all need to become actively involved in this branch of our future.

Jane Poynter LJCL Co-Chair

(Editor's Note: A proposal to establish a scholarship is on the agenda for the LCA business meeting at the annual conference.) ****************************************************************

JESUIT HIGH STUDENTS WIN CAMWS SCHOLARSHIPS

Congratulations to these Jesuit High students who have won $500 CAMWS College Awards in the 1987 competition: Michael J. Becker, Paul Guibault, Julio Cesar Mayorga, Ayman Naseri, David Thomas Outlaw, and Stephen Raveshide, all students of Stephen Lee Pearce. The students from Jesuit High in New Orleans won six of the fourteen awards made. Readers of the newsletter may recall that Stephen Pearce's students won five of the fifteen awards given in 19861 Congratulations to teacher and students for a spectacular performance. *****************************************************************

LCA ESSAY CONTEST: A CONSTITUTION FOR THE GODS

The topic for the 1987-88 LCA Essay Contest,in keeping with the bicentennial of the Constitution, is a creative one, "The Ancient Gods Write A Constitution." Secondary school teachers will soon receive complete information with rules and more details about the contest. The deadline for submission of essays is January 8, 1988. Contact Dennis Kehoe, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, for more information. *****************************************************************

1988 ACL INSTITUTE AND WORKSHOPS

The 41st annual American Classical League Institute and workshops will be held at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, June 22-25, 1988. Individual papers and presentations in workshop format are solicited in the following areas: Latin authors, aspects of classical culture, methods of teaching reading and improvement of reading skills, increasing enrollment in Latin second year and beyond, methods of teaching Latin

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vocabulary, Latin declamation and oral Latin, instructional games and puzzles for the classroom, computer-assisted instruction in the Latin classroom, Roman remains and monuments.

proposals are invited from teachers at all levels. Please submit a 100-300 word description with title for a workshop or paper to Prof. Judith Lynn Sebesta, ACL Vice-President, Dept. of Classics, Univ. of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069. Indicate audio-visual equipment required, if any; computer workshops shoud indicate type of pc needed. unless otherwise proposed, workshops will be assumed to be one hour in length, papers 20 minutes in length. Deadline for submissions is February 1, 1988.

(Editor's Note: American Classical League summer grants are now available for teachers wishing to attend the summer institute for their first time. If you are a member of ACL and have never attended the summer workshop, write for an application form to ACL, McKinlay Scholarship Awards, Miami university, Oxford, OH 45056. Completed applications must be submitted to the ACL by January 15, 1988.) ****************************************************************

NATIONAL LATIN EXAM

Application forms for the 11th National Latin Exam, sponsored jointly by the ACL and NJCL, are available from the American Classical League, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056. Deadline for receipt of applications is January 10, 1988. The exam is to be administered the second week in March. A new test has been added this year: Introduction to Latin exam for Latin I students who cover one-half of the Latin I syllabus. ****************************************************************

AMERICAN ACADEMY SUMMER SESSION SCHOLARSHIP, 1988

The Classical Society of the American Academy in Rome offers at least one scholarship of $1500 to a graduate student or teacher of classical languages and/or classical civilization. The scholarship will be awarded on a competitive basis, and it is to be used to enable the recipient to attend the Summer Session of the American Academy in Rome. The Academy will remit $100 of the tuition in the session for the recipient of the CSAAR scholarship. High school students and college undergraduates are not eligible for the CSAAR scholarship.

Application forms (due February 15, 1988) are available from Professor Norma Goldman, Department of Greek and Latin, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202. **************************************************************

ACTFL ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY TO INCLUDE LATIN AND GREEK

The American Council on (ACTFL) has received funding may be of interest to you. It publication of an annotated

the Teaching of Foreign Languages for an important new project that will result in the compilation and bibliography of foreign language

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instructional materials at the pre-collegiate level, and will include all the major languages taught in us elementary and secondary schools. It will bring together in one place the titles, purchase information, instructional level, description, and reviews of the entire spectrum of materials currently available for foreign language instruction, K to 12.

The Committee needs your help in identifying and reviewing materials used in teaching Latin and Greek in the schools. All types of materials will be included. You can begin to help us by sending the following information to Professor Gilbert Lawall, 71 Sand Hill Road, Amherst, MA 01002:

Name School School Address Grades in which you teach Latin or Greek Levels of Latin or Greek you teach Textbook series you currently use Types of supplementary or av materials or computer software used Your home address (be sure to include zip code) A list of materials that you use that you would be willing to review for us *****************************************************************

INTER ALIA

This is a crowded issue of the Louisiana Classicist, so I will keep this short, but certain things are just too good not to mention. For example, a student informed me glowingly in my Latin III class that indeed the Classics were not dead. It seems that in an episode of the television show, "Hunter", a defiant Hunter looked out to his tormentors and bawled, "We who are about to die salute you!". Who said culture is dead in Hollywood?

Likewise, a recent Newsweek article was entitled "Cocooner, This Spud's for You" and treated for a full page the glorious world of the couch potato. For those of you not in the know, this refers to a person who stays home most of the time, firmly planted in front of the television (watching Hunter, perhaps?). Well, American industry just had to have a go at this and there is now an "advancing wave of spudismo" sweeping the nation. Included is a $35.00 spud doll, T shirts of course, and an official, if bad, Latin motto. Beneath a potato couchant to the right, on a couch green, "Sic semper potatum reclinans"!

TwO other bits of information in closing. Yale university recently made history by choosing a classicist as its acting athletic director. The chair is now held by Donald Kagan, a noted scholar of the Peloponnesian War. Needless to say, such a move is causing quite a stir. Will LSU follow suit? Will a medievalist become our basketball coach?

Finally, in an article in the New York Times last May, Irvin Molotsky treated the Consitution and in so doing quoted Prof. Forrest McDonald, a leading scholar on the Constitution. "Prof.

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McDonald noted that 35 of the 55 delegates had attended college. Then he quoted from the requirements for admission to King's College (now Columbia University) in the 18th century: the ability to read and translate from the original Latin into English the first three of Tully's Select Orations, and the first three books of Vergil's Aeneid; to translate the first 10 chapters of the Gospel of John from Greek into Latin; to be 'expert in arithmetic' and to have a 'blameless moral character,.n I thought you could have fun telling your students at whatever level that this was what it took to get into college once upon a time. ----

Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr. ****************************************************************

(Editor's Note: with this issue we begin a new feature of the newsletter, a MISSISSIPPI PAGE, which will include contributions and news from our colleagues in that neighboring state. Mark Clark, CAMWS vice-president from Mississippi, will collect and edit news from our readers there, whose names have been added to our mailing list. LCA welcomes participation in our association and annual meeting from Mississippi classicists. See the end of the newsletter for information on the annual conference and forms for membership.)

A NOTE TO MISSISSIPPI CLASSICISTS

I talked recently with members of the Louisiana Classical Association about the possibility of including Mississippi classicists in that association. We thought it was a good idea. Our participation in this organization would benefit ourselves as well as the LCA. We have much to learn from each other concerning teaching methods and ways to advance the study of Latin.

We seldom have the opportunity in Mississippi for high school Latin teachers to come together with university instructors and to talk about our common concerns. The LCA is an enthusiastic group of high school and university instructors, and each fall they have such a meeting with about fifty high school teachers attending. In my experience, their meetings are lively and informative.

This year the annual meeting will be in Baton Rouge the weekend of November 21. Details are in the newsletter.

many classicists we have in a list of secondary Latin

of Education. I am currently of university and college

In an effort to find out how Mississippi, I recently obtained teachers from the State Department adding to this list the names instructors and members of CAMWS. of it so that you will know who and

You will soon receive a copy where we are.

You will also receive in November a short questionnaire

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concerning the Latin program in your high school. My purpose is to survey Latin programs in the state. After the results are in, I'll send a copy to each person on the mailing list.

In the meantime, I particularly interested in become better organized.

would enjoy hearing from you. I am any ideas you have about how we could

If you have news you would like to disseminate, please feel free to contact me.

Mark Edward Clark Box 5038 University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg, MS 39401

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HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN TO RENEW YOUR LCA MEMBERSHIP? MEMBERSHIP LIST (NOVEMBER 1987)

Char layne Allan Myriam Katz Althea Ashe Dennis Kehoe Mary Moffitt Aycock Kenneth Kitchell Rose Bouldin John D. Madden Mark Clark Ted Mazurek William H. Clarke David Melanson Theresa Doskey Lea Olsan Daniel Erickson Marge Olson Pamela McCrary Esteven Jane D. poynter Carlos Fandal Maureen Riley Patricia Giangrosso Adele C. st. Martin Elizabeth Hall Barbette Spaeth Margaret Haynes Elisabeth Spanhoff ****************************************************************

JUST A REMINDER

If you did not find your name on the above list, you may be one of our many members who have forgotten to renew your membership for the current school year. To renew, or to join if you are not a member, please complete the form below and mail it to Jane Poynter, Secretary-Treasurer, 2016 Cherokee Avenue, Baton Rouge, LA 70806. Checks should be made payable to the Louisiana Classical Association.

NAME

ADDRESS ________ ~---------------------------------------SCHOOL OR COLLEGE ____________________________________ ___

ENCLOSED IS 1987-88 REGULAR MEMBERSHIP DUES OF $5.00

1987-88 SUPPORTING MEMBERSHIP DUES OF $10.00

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LCA ANNUAL MEETING

If you did not receive the packet of information about the fall meeting of LCA and have not yet registered for the conference or the hotel, there is still time (but only a few days!) to pre-register by sending in the form on the last page of the newsletter. For hotel reservations, write or call the Ramada Hotel, 1480 Nicholson Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70802 (phone 504-387-1111). Indicate that you will be attending the LCA meeting and you will receive the special room rate of $37.

DISPLAY YOUR WARES!

Do you have any teaching materials that you have found to be particularly effective? Games, puzzles, transparencies, Latin readers, comic books, magazines, vocabulary aids, and other realia? If so, perhaps you would like to share them with others at the meeting in November. We would like to have a table displaying aids to teaching that have worked for you. Bring them along with you to the LCA Exhibit Room, and perhaps you, too, will pick up some new ideas.

Althea Ashe, Exhibit Chairman

PROGRAM FOR THIRD ANNUAL MEETING

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 7:30 - 9:30 pm Registration, Roman Food-Tasting

Reception in Magnolia I

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 8:30 11:30 Registration in the Lobby

8:30 - 4:00 Displays in the Wisteria Room

and

9:00 - 10:00 Business Meeting (All sessions on Saturday will be held in Magnolia I.)

10:00 - 11:00 OPEN SESSION FOR PAPERS Althea Ashe, LSU, presiding

1. Women in Antiquity: Using the Visual Arts Char layne Allan, LSU

2. Around the Aegean in 45 Days: The Summer Session of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Lora Holland Kehoe, Isidore Newman School, New Orleans

11:00 - 12:00 MEDIEVAL AND LATE LATIN Elizabeth Hall, The Louisiana School, presiding

1. Incantatory Latin: The Language of Latin Charms in Medieval English Manuscripts Lea Olsan, Northeast Louisiana University

2. Variety in Medieval Latin Patricia Giangrosso, Monroe

3. The Classics as political Propaganda: John Ogilby's Aesop paraphras'd Samuel carleton, McNeese State

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12:00 - 1:30 LUNCH IN LEJARDIN DINING ROOM

1:30 - 2:30 OPEN SESSION FOR PAPERS Dennis Kehoe, Tulane, presiding

1. The Robe and the Plow Jane Carter, Tulane

2. On Aristotle's Rhetoric Michelle Gellrich, LSU

3. Ceres/Demeter on the Ara Pacis and the Carthage Relief Barbette Stanley Spaeth, Tulane

2:30 - 3:30 SPECIAL SESSION ON TEACHING Jane Poynter, Istrouma High, presiding

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1. Old Business 2. Elections

AGENDA FOR BUSINESS MEETING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21

The nominating committee has proposed the following slate of candidates: President, Elizabeth Hall; vice-President, Lea Olsan; Secretary-Treasurer, Jane Poynter. 3. Reports

a. Secretary-Treasurer: Jane Poynter b. Newsletter: Charlayne Allan c. CAMWS: Lora Holland Kehoe d. Essay Contest: Dennis Kehoe e. Ad Hoc Committee on educational standards: Carlos Fandal;

subjects to be discussed include standards for certification, textbook adoption, and other educational questions.

4. New Business a. Constitutional amendment to change the LCA fiscal year

(See below) b. Request from Michelle Wilhelm and Robert Wilhelm for

financial support for NEH Summer Institute on Ovid c. proposal to establish LCA scholarship

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

Article II, Section 2 Current reading: The fiscal year for membership will be June 1 to May 31.

Proposed amendment: The fiscal year for membership will be September 1 to August 31.

The new fiscal year will help coordinate the collection of membership dues with the annual meeting, now held permanently in the fall.

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CAMWS NOTES FROM YOUR STATE VICE-PRESIDENT ******************************************

1. If you are not yet a member of CAMWS, please join now! If your membership has lapsed, it's not too late to send in your dues!

THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE MIDDLE W'7ST & SOUTH, INC. Publishers ofTHE CLASSICAL JOURNAL In Cooperation with Affiliated Associations

(Please print your name, address, and zip code in the space below)

Roy E. Lindahl SECRETARY·TREASURER Furman University Greenville, SC 29613·0001

CAMWS has arranged for reduced subscription rates with other journals, some singly, some in combination. Please select the membership/subscription package from the list below.

CAMWS Membership 1986-87 (Classical Journal Vol. 82)

CAMWS Membership Packages o 1. REGU LAR CAMWS Membership (includes Classical Journal) ........................ $20.00 o 2. CAMWS SUSTAINING Membership (with Classical Journal) ......................... $25.00 o 3. CAMWS JOINT Membership (Husband-Wife) 11 copy of CJ) ......................... $23.00 o 4. CAMWS LIFE Membership pncludes Classical Journal) ............................ $200.00 o 5. CAMWS JOINT LIFE Membership (1 copy of CJ) ............................... 5300.00 o 6. CAMWS STUDENT AND RETIRED PERSONS Membership (with CJ) ................... $6.00 o 7. CAMWS SUSTAINING Membership (without any journals) ........................... $5.00 o 8. CAMWS EMERITUS (3D years membership in CAMWS·includes CJ) .................... FREE o 9. CAMWS Membership plus CLASSICAL WOR LD (+CLASSICAL JOURNAL) .............. $32.00 o FOR EMERITUS AND LIFE MEMBERS ..................................... $12.00 o 10. CAMWS Membership plus CLASSICAL WORLD (without CJ) ........................ $17.00

JOINT CAMWS-AMERICAN CLASSICAL LEAGUE Membership Packages o 11. Joint CAMWS·ACL Membership (includes CJ and CLASSICAL OUTLOOK) .............. 835.00 o 12. Joint CAMWS-ACL Membership (CLASSICAL WORLD: CLASSICAL OUTLOOK) .......... $37.00 o 13. Joint CAMWS-ACL Membership (includes CJ, CW, CO) ............................ $47.00 o FOR EMERITUS MEMBERS WHO WISH TO SUBSCRIBE TO CO, CW ..... , ....... , , .. $27.00

ALSO (available with one of the above only}

o 14, ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS .......... , , ...... , ... , .... , ........ , , ........ $12.50 015. CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY (reduced rate) .. , .................. , ...... ,., ...... $21.00 o 16. HEllOS (reduced rate). ......................... , .............. ' ... ' ..... $7.00 o 17. CLASSICAL BULLETIN (reduced rate) ... ' ... ' ... , . ' ....... , , , ..... , ......... $6.00 o 18. ANCIENT WORLD (4 double issues) , ... , . , ......... , , ......... , ............ $20.00 020. NEW ENGLAND CLASSICAL NEWSLETTER AND BULLETIN .. , ....... , .. , , . , . , , ... $5.00 021, CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GENERAL FUND (for Scholarships) ... , ... , ...... ::;$ _____ _

TOTAL ENCLOSED ::;$ _______ _

All Membership, Contributions, etc. are tax-deductible.

MAKE CHECK PAYABLE TO THE CLASSICAL JOURNAL IN U.S. FUNDS ONLY.

2. Do you know a Latin teacher in Louisiana worthy of recognition fOl outstanding classroom performance? If so, noninate her/him for the CAMWS ~Good Teaching Awa~d~.

Ouscanding success as a teacher of lalin in a public or private secondary school (middle schools included) within our area will be recognized a,sain this spring by a cash prize of one hundred dollm. to be awarded al the annual meeung of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. Retired teachm are not eligible.

The basis for this award will be excellence as a teacher of Latin. Membenhip in the Association is not a requirement. The award is to be distinguished from an ovazio. one of which usually is accorrled each year to a secondary schoolleacher of Latin. To be eligible for an ovatio a teacher must currently be a member of the Association. and the criteria include, in addition 10 good teaching, promotion of the study of Latin, loyal support of the Association and active participation in its affairs. and length of service.

Nominations should be accompanied by supporting data which may include information about the school in which the nominee teaches. the LatlO courses being taught. and enrollment in these courses; the success of students who have taken these courses in state or national competitions, in college and graduate schools; and infonnation about any spet:ial fonos of iosttuction developed by the teacher. Testimonials from school administnllOfS. fellow teachers, students, or outside observers of the leacher's work are appropriate and will be of imponance to the committee.

Please limit the recommendalion and supponing papers to no more than ten pages for each candidate and send three complele copies to the (hainnan of the Sc!lection Committee

nol:iterlhan 1 March 19M.

Professor Glenn M. Knudsvig Department of Oa.ssical Studies 2012 Angell Hall The UnivcrsilY of Michl!,an Ann Arbor. MI48109·1003

(313) 764·8297 office (313) 747-2330 mcssage

Files of non-winnICr.; afe r.!IJincd for one '·C<lf. If a IC<lchcr is nomin<llcd for <I ~econd time, only new material should he ~enl. .

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5. Have you ever asked forYunds from the Comm1ttee fo~ the Promotion of Latin? Monies are wait1nq to be claimed. '.eed some ideas? How about_._

a_ MAILINC,S This is a very effective tool often used to introduce programs 1nto schools~ Flyers e~tolling the virtues of Latin, reprints showing the effects of Latin, and open letters have all been mailed to parents, teachers, principals, and administrators. CPL can help with duplicating costs and postage.

b_ FESTIVALS i,here appropriate, funds can be used to sponsor Lgtin festivals or participation in foreign language festivals.

c. SPEAKE~S variou7 speakers can be brought in to address well attended JCL meet1ngs, rallJ..es, and so forth. This is often expensJ..ve, and priority is given, in this and all activities, to those which also show some local funding to accompany the CPL money_

d_ DEMONSTRATIONS Various sorts of aCtivities ranqing from productions of Latin plays at meetinqs to dlSplilYs in malls, ·;chools. etc. can be funded. Films can also be rented to encooraqe the study of ~atin_

e. CONTESTS CPL funds can help organize and suuport state-wide contests to encourage the stud-, of Latin. These canre translation, creative writing. or essa" (.:Cl:"l-_ests_

f. ADVERTISING This can be purchased to promote the activities listed ab

q. FLIGHTS OF FANCY CPL has heard of Roman car washes, toga 10K fun runs displays of Roman cooking in shopping malls, and even parade floats! CPL is willing to fund practically anything the fertile minds of Latin and Greek teachers can corne up with!

h. PROCEDURE For requests of less than fifty dollars, apply directly to the Chairman of CPL:

Professor Kenneth Kitchell, Cha1r Department of Foreign Languages Louisiana State University Baton ~uQe, LA 70803

For requests of more than fifty dollars, apply to your state vice­president:

REQUEST FOR FUNDS

CAMWS COK!UTTEE FOR TilE PROMOTION Of I.ATH~

P.~RT A: TO BE CO~\PlETED BY VICE-PRESIDE~T {Please type or pr~ntj

DATE __________________________ __

NAHE OF VICE-PRESIDENT 3. Do you have students in their final year of Latin whom you would

like to have compete for college scholarships? If so, request an STATE OR PROVINCE application now! Many students from Louisiana have won these awards in previous years. ACTIVITIES FOR WHICH fUNDS ARE BEING REQUESTED

Up to 15 awards and memberships in CAMWS for the 1988·89 college year will be awarded to students who best translate unseen passages of Latin prose and poetry. Any junior Of senior enrolled in his/ber final year of high school Latin during the 1987·88 sch?oJ year~ and from a secondary school in the 30 states and 2 Canadian pr~lVln~e.s of CA..\1WS whose teacher is a current member of CAMWS, IS ebglble to compete.' The amount of the scholarship award is S500.~. A funher stipulation of the award is that its holders concinl:le w<?rk In Gr~ek or Latin for at JellSt one yeaf at the college or uruverslty of thelf ,\\I!'UNT REQUESTED choice.

Professor John F. Hall Department of Humanities and Classics. 3010 JKHB. Brigham Young University, Provo. Utah. 84602.

4. Are you interested in spending next summer in Rome or Athens? This may be your year to apply for the CAMWS Summer Scholarships for either the American Academy in Rome's Summer Session, or that of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The award for the summer of 1988 will be $2,500. Doing one or both of these sessions will change your life. To receive an application, write to:

Professor James Loyd, Chair Department of Foreign Languages Indiana State university Terre Haute, IN 47809

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THE TEACHING OF LATIN IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS: A Profession in Crisis

EDITED By RICHARD A. LAFLEUR

Following a precipitous decline during the 1960s and early 1970s, interest and enrollments in Latin have been steadily rising in the nation's secondary schools for the past decade. College enrollments have not kept pace, nor has the number of undergraduate Latin majors preparing for teaching careers. The result has been an increasingly severe shortage of Latin teachers, the abandonment of plans for new or expanded programs, and the hiring of persons with sub-standard qualifications who are in desperate need of opportunities for in­service education in Latin and Classical Humanities.

This book, a project sponsored by the American Classical League and the American Phil­ological Association and funded by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, surveys the history of Latin study in the United States during the 20th century, documents and underscores the seriousness of the current teacher shortage, en­courages new initiatives in the preparation of teachers for Latin certification, and, as an aid to such initiatives, describes a variety of model teacher training and support programs at universities around the country.

The Editor and Project Director, Richard A. LaFleur, is Professor and Head of Classics at the University of Georgia and immediate past President of the American Classical League.

"Readers of this book will for a short time only be alarmed by the crisis that it documents. For far longer they will be encouraged by the answers that professional classicists have already given, and they will be challenged themselves to join with their colleagues in seeing that the languages and civilizations of the ancient world take their rightful place in a modern and democratic education. " From the Preface by Mark Morford, University of Virginia.

A limited number of copies are available gratis, upon written request; letters should specify the requestor's particular interest in the teacher shortage and commitment to an effective response. WRITE: R. A. LaFleur, Editor, The Teaching of Latin, Department of Classics, Park Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602.

Published by The Scholars Press, Atlanta, Georgia

ISBN 1-55540-150-3. Cloth, pp. xix and 157.

Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Education Programs

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LCA PREREGISTRATION

Date: November 20-21, 1987 place: Ramada Hotel, Baton Rouge

Lunch on Saturday will be served in a separate dining room at the hotel. Two lunches are available: a hot lunch - breast of chicken, green salad, and potato, and a cold lunch - stuffed tomato with chicken salad. Both lunches include rolls and butter, beverage, and dessert. Tax and gratuity are included in the cost of the meal. please note that the buffet is no longer available on the weekends, so you must make reservations for the meal in advance if you wish to jam-the rest of the group for lunch.

All registered participants in the conference are invited to the reception and the Roman food-tasting on Friday evening. There is no charge for the reception but we welcome contributions to the food-tasting!

Please complete the form below and return it to Charlayne Allan, Foreign Languages, Prescott 222, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5306, by November 12.

Name

Address

School or College

pre-Registration $4.00 ($2.00 for students) (Registration at the meeting will be $5.00.)

Lunch on Saturday (Check the appropriate box.)

Cold Lunch ($6.75)

Hot Lunch ($9.00)

TOTAL AMOUNT PAID (Make checks payable to the Louisiana Classical Association.)

AMOUNT PAID

will you be attending the reception on Friday evening?

___ yes no

Will you be bringing a contribution to the Roman food-tasting?

yes no