North Carolina Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French (NC-AATF)

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EXECUTIVE BOARD

Bonjour! Voici les officiers actuels de votre chapitre de la AATF en Caroline du Nord.

Last Update: 2/27/2009

                

President

Teresa Engebretsen

teresa.engebretsen@da.org

Durham Academy, 3116 Academy Road, Durham, NC 27707

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 29 years where she serves as seventh grade level coordinator. Each spring, she takes her eighth grade students for an exchange with students from Collège Anne Marie Javouhey in Senlis, 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/.

                

Immediate Past President

Kathleen W Rhodes

krhodes@chccs.k12.nc.us

110 Country Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27514

Kathleen Rhodes earned a B.A. in French from Indiana University and a Master’s degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also completed coursework toward a doctorate in French. She is certified to teach both French and Spanish. She has 32 years of teaching experience in the Indianapolis, Indiana, public schools, at Greensboro Day School, Elon College, and the public schools of North Carolina. She has taught for the past 22 years in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro system in both junior high and high school, from Level 1 to AP. She is currently teaching at East Chapel Hill High School.

                

Vice President

Barbara Aycock

bgaycock@gmail.com

61 Little Hill Lane, Newland, NC 28657

Barbara Aycock graduated from Salem Academy in 1968 and from Tulane University with a BA in French in 1972. She earned an MA in French at State University of New York at Stony Brook. For three years she taught French at a Montessori school in Brooklyn and then returned to Morganton in 1978 to teach at Oak Hill Elementary School. She taught French for eight years at Forest Hill and Oak Hill schools and earned an Ed. S. in elementary education at Appalachian State University. After achieving certification in administration from ASU, she moved to Freedom High School in 1999, where she has taught all levels of French through AP. In 2004 she earned National Board certification in World Languages Other Than English and served as department chair for World Languages.

                

Secretary-Treasurer

David Steegar

steegar@campbell.edu

Campbell University, Buies Creek, NC 27506

Dr. David Steegar is Professor of French at Campbell University where he has taught for 30 years. His degree, from the University of Toronto, is in French Linguistics/Phonetics, but he also very interested in French History and Culture and the European Union. He served as Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages for 22 years and has been Treasurer of the North Carolina chapter of AATF since 2006.

                

Recording Secretary

Natalie Hutchinson

nhutchinson@cannonschool.orgs

Cannon School, 5801 Poplar Tent Road, Concord, NC 28027

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.

                

Bulletin Editor

Jean E McDaniel

jmcdaniel@lncs.org

Lake Norman Charter High School, 12701 Old Statesville Rd, Huntersville, NC 28078

Jean McDaniel holds a Masters Ed. from University of Phoenix, BA in French and English from Whitworth College in Spokane, WA. She also earned a Certificat Pratique de Langue Française at the Université de Nice and has lived and worked in France for short and long periods between 1985 and 1994. Jean has taught French 1 through AP French Literature in North Carolina and Washington State for the past 20 years. She currently teaches French at Lake Norman Charter High School in Huntersville.

                

Concours pédagogique and Teacher of the Year Coordinator

Nancy M McElveen

mcelveenn@greensborocollege.edu

Greensboro College, 815 W. Market St, Greensboro, NC 27401

Nancy McElveen received the BA and the MA in French from Winthrop College (now Winthrop University) and the PhD in Romance Languages from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to joining the faculty at Greensboro College in 1989, she taught French at Wilson Hall School in Sumter, South Carolina, at Francis Marion College in Florence, South Carolina, and at North Carolina State University. At Greensboro College she serves as chair of the French Department and has served as Director of Study Abroad and Coordinator for The Connexion Exchange Program with Southlands College of Roehampton University in London. She received the Alumni Association Outstanding Teaching Award in 1998 and the Moore Award in 1999-2000. She has served the North Carolina chapter of AATF as Vice President, President, and Recording Secretary and is currently serving as Coordinator of the Concours pédagogique and the NC-AATF Teacher of the Year Award. Her research interests include 17th-century literature, the development of culture and its consumption in the 19th century, and ethical issues in higher education leadership. She has been Director of Institutional Assessment and Planning at Greensboro College since April 2006.

French Contest Administrator

Jane W Romer

romerj@elon.edu

Elon University, C.B. 2125, Elon, NC 27244

Dr. Jane W. Romer is Associate Professor of Foreign Language (French) and Education at Elon University, whose faculty she joined in 1986. Her interests include sixteenth-century French literature, cinema, and Francophone studies. Since 1996 she has served as Secretary, Vice President, and President of NC-AATF. In 2001, after the decease of Evelyn Vandiver, she became the Administrator of the National French Contest for the North Carolina chapter.

                

Advocacy Coordinator

Sarah L Johnson

sallylapin@aol.com

606 Rapids St, Roanoke Rapids, NC 27870

Sarah Johnson is a retired high school French teacher. She studied French in Richmond, VA, public schools, beginning in 5th grade and eventually obtaining her B.A. and M.A at the College of William and Mary and at Middlebury College. She has continued her study of French in programs at ODU, UNC-G, UNC-CH, Davidson College, and Avignon. Her thirty years of service were spent teaching French levels I through IV, first in Northampton County at Gaston High School and then at Roanoke Rapids High School. She has served as Vice-President and President of the NC-AATF.

                

Mentoring Coordinator

Samia M Kurani

skurani@bellsouth.net

5706 Ryder Ave, Charlotte, NC, 28226-8304

Samia Kurani has a French baccalaureate degree, a BA in psychology and teaching techniques, and an MA in Counseling.  She has been an Instructor of French language and education at James Madison University and a Residence Counselor and Instructor of French in the Program for the Exceptionally Gifted at Mary Baldwin College.  She has worked as an Instructor of French language and literature and of psychology and as a counselor in secondary schools in the USA and overseas.  She has also served as an interpreter, translator, and foreign language instructor at the American Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.  She retired from CMS, Smith Academy of Foreign Languages, in 2005.

                

Webmaster and John Philip Couch Scholarship Coordinator

Alan J Singerman

alsingerman@davidson.edu

190 Canterbury Place Rd., Mooresville, NC, 28115

Alan Singerman is Davidson College Richardson Professor Emeritus of French.  He taught French language, literature, civilization, and film at Davidson from 1982 to his retirement in 2007, after a dozen years at the University of Maine (Orono). He lived ten years in France, first as a student, then directing study abroad programs in Pau, Rennes, and Montpellier before setting up and directing Davidson's program in Paris and Tours during the 1995-96 and 2000-2001 years. He created the Davidson College French Summer Institute for secondary school French teachers in 1992 and directed the ninth Institute in July, 2008. He has edited or written books on the novels of the Abbé Prévost, on French language and culture, and on French cinema. He has served the North Carolina chapter of the AATF as Secretary-Treasurer, Vice President, and President and is currently Webmaster, NC-AATF educational endowment trustee, and Coordinator of the NC-AATF John Philip Couch Scholarship for study abroad in France.