BIENVENUE AUX NOUVEAUX OFFICIERS DE LA NC-AATF!
President Leslie Bradshaw
Leslie Bradshaw earned an AB degree in Romance Languages (French and Spanish) with a minor in Education from Bowdoin College and an MA in French Literature from Tufts University. As an undergraduate, she spent a semester studying in Avignon, France. She received a post-graduate fellowship from Bowdoin to be a Lectrice d’anglais at the Université de Clermont Ferrand, where she taught American Civilization and “American” language classes for a year. She has taught French at both the secondary and collegiate levels over the past thirty years, including 17 years at The Asheville School, where she taught all levels of French and organized many activities for French students. She has participated in and conducted workshops at professional conferences such as FLANC and NCAIS. She earned a Klingenstein fellowship in 1983, won the North Carolina AATF Concours Pédagogique prize in 2009, and received the AATF North Carolina French Teacher of the Year award in 2010-2011.
Vice President Linda Harling
Linda Harling graduated from Oklahoma State University with a double major in French and Special Education. She then earned a Master’s of Arts in French from Middlebury College. She lived in France for six years, completing her master’s, studying and working at l’Institut Biblique de Nogent-sur-Marne. With her husband she then served for 10 years as a bilingual secretary/translator/teacher in Niger (Francophone West Africa) with the mission board SIM. After her return to the US, she taught special education classes for three years in Tennessee. Since 1996 she has taught all levels of French at Covenant Day School in Matthews.
Recording Secretary Natalie Hutchinson
Natalie Hutchinson earned a B.S. in French and Secondary Education from Vanderbilt University. During her undergraduate studies, she also spent a semester studying in Aix-en-Provence. After beginning her teaching career, she earned an M.A. in French from Middlebury College. Natalie is currently the Dean of Students and teaches Upper School French at Cannon School. She has taught French levels 1 through AP and previously taught at Culver Academies in Culver, Indiana and Nichols School in Buffalo, NY. She had led school trips to France, including an exchange to Normandy and the Loire Valley, and travels with her Cannon students to France and Spain.
And introducing the new National French Contest Administrator for North Carolina Teresa Engebretsen (who succeeds our longtime award-winning former Administrator, Jane Romer, Professor Emeritus of Elon University).
Teresa Engebretsen has a BA degree in French with a minor in Psychology
from Appalachian State University. While at ASU, she spent several months
in Cannes, France studying at an international school and living with a
French family. She has participated in a language institute at UNC-G,
received an AATF scholarship to study in Chicoutimi, Québec, and has taken
courses at UNC-CH, NCSU, and UNC-G. She has been teaching middle school
French at Durham Academy for 31 years where she serves as seventh grade
level coordinator. Each spring, she takes her eighth grade students for an
exchange with students from Villeneuve-lez-Avignon, France.
She spent from June-December 2008 on sabbatical in Arles, France working
in a bed and breakfast and as a chef's assistant. Visit her blog at
http://thesabbaticalchef.blogspot.com/.