CLASSICAL TO WORLD LANGUAGES
History of the Classical to World Languages Department
1896-2012
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Welcome to a journey—to historical travel through the Laboratory School’s introduction and teaching of Latin, German, French, Spanish, and Russian across 116 years.
As you travel through these years with us, you will be introduced to changes in all aspects. Our parent university's name changed from Iowa State Normal School (1876) to Iowa State Teachers College (1909) to the State College of Iowa (1961) and finally to the University of Northern Iowa (1967).
The name of our school moves from a "Model School" to a "Training School" to a "Campus School" and finally a "Laboratory School."
The department name also evolved from Foreign Language Department to the Modern Language Department to finally the World Language Department.
Administrators encouraged and supported the Classical to World Languages faculty to develop innovative strategies and methods of teaching. We will tell the story of the dynamic way in which they delivered their program: what they taught, how they taught it, and the assessment and evaluation techniques used to evaluate teaching and learning.
Not only did they teach young students, but they also worked with undergraduate and graduate students in all phases of their programs. They provided leadership in the field through consultation with school districts; publication of texts, articles, and teaching materials; participation in national organizations; interaction with teachers abroad and with visiting teachers and administrators from all over our state, country and the world.
This history has been broken into the following sections:
On the Price Lab History website orange text indicates a clickable link.
To begin your journey through this history, click on any of the sections above or scroll to the navigation buttons at the bottom of this page.
FACULTY ROSTER
Faculty Member | Language Taught | Dates | Years of Service |
Myra Call | Latin | 1896-1913 | 17 |
Ida Fesenbeck | German | 1901-1915 | 15 |
Eva May Luse | Latin | 1903-1916 | 13 |
Dora Thuesen | Latin | 1920-1924 | 4 |
Marguirette Struble | Latin/French | 1924-1969 | 45 |
Beatrice Bultena | Spanish | 1955-1960 | 5 |
Pablo Casado | Spanish | 1960-1963 | 3 |
Christiane Ducros | French | 1961 | 1 |
Jacques Montas | Unspecified | 1962-1965 | 3 |
Adriana Busot | Spanish | 1963-1964 | 1 |
Randall Sipes | Unspecified | 1963-1965 | 2 |
William Denton | Unspecified | 1964-1965 | 1 |
Raymond LaVallee | French | 1964-1969 | 5 |
Rosa Maria Findlay | Spanish | 1964-2001 | 37 |
James Price | Spanish | 1965-1983 | 18 |
James Becker | French | 1970-1975 | 5 |
Patricia Powell-Westphal | French | 1971-1978 | 7 |
Candace Holt | French/Spanish | 1973-1975 | 2 |
James Becker | (Ohio State University, PhD studies) | 1975-1977 | 2 |
James Becker | French | 1977-1990 | 13 |
Susan Lawn | French/Spanish | 1979-1980 | 1 |
Michelle Krauthamer | French | 1980-1981 | 1 |
Larbi Oukada | French | 1981-1984 | 3 |
Argelia Hawley | Spanish | 1983-1997 | 14 |
Jo Anne Jones (Novinger) | French/Elementary ESL | 1984-1985 | 1 |
Barbara Bone (Adams) | French | 1985-1986 | 1 |
Kris Anderson Griffin | French | 1986-1987 | 1 |
Lowell Hoeft | French | 1987-1993 | 6 |
James Becker | French/Spanish | 1990-1999 | 9 |
James Sweigert | Russian (PLS and UNI) | 1991-1995 | 4 |
Lowell Hoeft | Fulbright Teacher Exchange, w/ Madame Viviane Tourne, Chelles, France | 1993-1994 | 1 |
Lowell Hoeft | French | 1994-1995 | 1 |
Lowell Hoeft | (UNI Student Teacher Supervisor, Okinawa, Japan) | 1995-1996 | 1 |
James Sweigert | Russian | 1995-2003 | 8 |
Lowell Hoeft | French (PLS and UNI) | 1996-2004 | 8 |
Daissy Tillapaugh | Spanish | 1997-1999 | 2 |
Terri Gebel | Spanish (PLS and UNI) | 1998-2000 | 2 |
Kim Caster | French/Russian | 1999-2000 | 1 |
Sherry Maubach | Spanish | 1999-2002 | 3 |
Yana Cornish | Russian | 2000-2001 | 1 |
Mary Doyle | French/Spanish | 2000-2012 | 12 |
Carlos Palma | Spanish | 2001 | 1 Semester |
Sara Blanco | Spanish | 2002-2005 | 3 |
Matt McGuire | Russian | 2003 | 1 Semester |
Elizabeth Zwanziger | French | 2003-2012 | 9 |
Yelena Halstead | Russian | 2004-2006 | 2 |
Gunda Brost | French/Spanish | 2005-2006 | 1 Semester |
Liz Henkel (Fowler) | French/Spanish | 2006 | 1 Semester |
Sara Blanco | Spanish | 2006-2012 | 6 |
Elizabeth Zwanziger | (Iowa State University and PLS) | 2008 | 1 |
Andrew Trout | French/Spanish | 2011-2012 | 1 |
Begin your journey with "The Early Years" by clicking below or scroll back up to choose a section.
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