| Steve Bartow |
| FLTE 1989 |
| Steve Bartow (FLTE 1989) handled business development for a division of Mercy Health Services. He was also named to Baker College Career Services Advisory Board. |
| Nov, 2004 |
| Greg Bethune |
| BA Spanish |
| don_goyo@bellsouth.net |
| Oct, 2006 |
| Susan Binkley (Carpenter) |
| MFS at Auburn, Ph.D. Ohio State |
| Susan Carpenter Binkley (MFS 199?, Ph.D. Ohio State) has recently accepted a position as Coordinator of Instructional Design at the branch campus of Ohio State in Newark, Ohio, with an assignment to teach French as enrollment demands. |
| Nov, 2004 |
| Lois Bissell |
| M.Ed, French 1994 |
| Lois Bissell (M.Ed, French 1994) teaches French at McMillan International School in Montgomery, Alabama. Her students have received national recognition in the FLES Grand Concours. |
| Nov, 2004 |
| Allison Calhoun |
| MFS |
| Allison Calhoun (MFS), Bart Smith (BA French 1999), and Laura Teaford (BA History and French 1999) spent most of 1999- 2000 working in French schools, under a program sponsored by the Government of France. Allison also received a scholarship from the Govenment of France to discover the Languedoc-Rousillon region during the summer. |
| Nov, 2004 |
| Colleen Cambron |
| MFS 2000 |
| Colleen has accepted a one-year appointment to teach French at the State University of West Georgia in Carrollton, GA. |
| Apr, 2005 |
| Casey Carrigee |
| Master of French Education 1999 |
| Casey Carrigee (Master of French Education 1999) is teaching French in New Orleans, LA. |
| Nov, 2004 |
| Ashley Donaldson |
| Master of Education w/ French concentration |
| Ashley Donaldson (Master of Education with a concentration in French) She is teaching French I and II at Smiths Station High School in Smiths, AL. She has recently returned from the France Abroad Trip in Angers, France |
| Nov, 2004 |
| Franoise Ghillebaert |
| M.A. at Auburn and Ph.D. from Univ. of Texas at Austin |
| Recent news from Franoise Ghillebaert, who attended Auburn from Fall 88 until Spring 90 when she was granted an M.A. She then received her Ph.D. in French from the University of Texas at Austin. She has taught for four years as a French lecturer at Baylor University (Fall 98-Spring 2002). She is currently Assistant Professor of French at The University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico since August 2002. Say hello from me to all the professors who know me: Samia Spencer (kept in touch with Nad￨ge Tachon for a few years but she stopped writing to me after she got married), Michel Raby, Hampton Morris, Homayoun Mazaheri, M. Henkels. J.A. Madrigal, Jose Escarpanter, Nick Alvarez. I enjoyed reading news about you all. A bient?t, Hasta la vista." Franoise Ghillebaert |
| Nov, 2004 |
| April Hamlin (Dubois) |
| MFS and Master of French Education 1997 |
| April Dubois (MFS and Master of French Education 1997) teaches at Sparkman High School in Huntsville, AL. In March 2000, April married long-time friend Douglas K. Hamlin. |
| Nov, 2004 |
| Melinda Harden (Slaughter) |
| BA 1979 Spanish and French |
| gmharden@bellsouth.net |
| I have been teaching at Vestavia Hills High School since 1980 and have enjoyed a long and fulfilling career as a teacher. My collegues at Vestavia include Mrs. Beverley Phillips who studied Spanish graduate courses at Auburn and Mrs. Casey Carigee Harlan who is a '99 graduate of Auburn. Our foreign language department offers 4 years of Latin, Spanish, French and German. The fourth year is the AP course. Dr. Jana Gutierrez is a former student of ours! |
| May, 2006 |
| Tassadit (Fatima) HOUD |
| Master of Arts |
| houd@woodle-online.com |
| Hi ! my fellow Americans from Auburn, this is Fatima Tassadit HOUD, Vice-President of the ISO : International Students Organisation in Auburn 1991-92. All the best to my professors I've never forgotten : Docteur Samia Spencer, Docteur Jose Escarpenter, Docteur Henkles, Docteur Diorio, Doctor Millman... After graduating from Auburn U in 1992, I got back to Paris where I took another Master's degree of International Personnel Management. Right after that, I joined the Cityhall of Paris and worked as an advisor to deputy mayors for 6 years. When Jacques Chirac left the cityhall to l'Elysee, I joined the business world as Human Resources Director. I am presently working at creating my own business based in Paris and Dublin,IE : an instant Language Practice online : www.woodle-online.com. Anybody from Auburn period 91-92 remember me, please feel free to contact me, Id be more than happy to hear from you : houd@woodle-online.com Jan, 2007 |
| Sep, 2007 |
| Ashton Lackey |
| M.A. Spanish & Latin American Literaure, 1992 |
| ashspan@aol.com |
| Ashton has completed a book called "Rare Gold", fictional novel about the Spanish conquest of Mexico and the search for rare Aztec gold. It is available at: www.westviewpublishing.com |
| Sep, 2006 |
| Kim Lewis (Cole) |
| MHS 1988; B.A. Spanish 1986 |
| klewis@bsc.edu |
| After graduating from Auburn, I spent two years working in Miami. I returned to Mississippi in 1989, where I taught at the Univ. of Southern Mississippi and was Director of the study abroad program in Cuernavaca, Mexico. I met my husband at Southern Miss, and we lived in the Pacific Northwest from 1993-2000. Now, I'm back in the Deep South, where I have been an Instructor of Spanish at Birmingham-Southern College for seven years. I would love to hear from my magnificent AU professors in Spanish, as well as any former classmates. |
| Mar, 2007 |
| Michelle Makus |
| Master of French Education 1997 |
| Michelle Makus (Master of French Education 1997) is teaching French at Austin High School in Decatur, AL. |
| Nov, 2004 |
| Michelle May |
| Master of French Education 1995 |
| Michelle May (Master of French Education 1995) teaches French at Columbus High School in Columbus, GA. This summer, she will present a paper at the AATF national meeting in Paris, in a session organized by Dr. Spencer. |
| Nov, 2004 |
| Daphne McConnell |
| BA French 1989; Ph.D. Georgia |
| Daphne is a French faculty member at Benedictine College in Atchison, KS. |
| Apr, 2005 |
| John McGhee |
| BS (Int'l Business/French)'86; MBA Rice Univ '88 |
| john_mcghee@dell.com |
| I completed my MBA at Rice Univ. after graduating from Auburn. I spent several years working in the high tech sector in several small start-up companies; I now live in Austin, TX. and work for Dell, Inc. in the Professional Services division. |
| Sep, 2005 |
| Kim McNamara |
| MFS 1999 |
| Kim McNamara (MFS 1999) is studying law at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. |
| Nov, 2004 |
| Faida Mitifu |
| MFS 1988, Ph.D Georgia |
| Faida Mitifu (MFS 1988, Ph.D. Georgia) presented her credentials to President Clinton in January 2000, as Ambassador of the Congo (Kinshassa) to the United States. |
| Nov, 2004 |
| K. Sarah-Jane Murray |
| B.A. French and Philosophy, 1996 |
| SJ_Murray@baylor.edu |
| Sarah-Jane Murray received her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Princeton University (2003), where she was recognized as the most outstanding student of the graduate school with the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship. She is currently Assistant Professor in the Honors College at Baylor University. She is the author of several articles on the romances of Chretien de Troyes, Helen Edmundson's 1993 historical drama The Clearing, as well as forthcoming pieces on the Old French Piramus and Tisb￩, Marie de France, Plato's Timaeus and the Song of Roland. Sarah-Jane is also co-director of the award-winning medieval manuscript project, The Charrette Project (http://www.princeton.edu/~lancelot; http://www.baylor.edu/lancelot). She is currently working on her first book, From Plato to Lancelot: Celtic and Classical Traditions in Old French Storytelling. |
| Jan, 2008 |
| Sandee Noel (Tapley Wilson) |
| B.S. Secondary Education Spanish/English 1992 and M.A. Hispanic Studies 1997 |
| sandeenoel@gmail.com |
| Hello everyone and War Eagle! I've been teaching high school Spanish in Pensacola, Florida. I miss teaching at Auburn! My husband, Michael, is a Marine stationed at the Pensacola Naval Air Station. We'll be here for another 15 months and then we're off to another adventure. Great news! I earned my National Board of Professional Teaching Standards Certificate in 2005. Best wishes!--Sandee |
| Aug, 2007 |
| Stacey Powell |
| BS International Business Spanish 1991; MA Spanish 1996 |
| powelst@auburn.edu |
| Stacey Powell has returned to Auburn University to work and is the Director of the Foreign Language Multimedia Center. She is also a member of the Instructional Technology Staff for the College of Liberal Arts. Before her current position, she was a Visiting Instructor and Coordinator of the Elementary Spanish Program at Auburn for three years. |
| Aug, 2005 |
| Shannon Pruitt |
| BA 1977; Master of Hispanic Studies 1979 |
| jpgringo19@hotmail.com |
| My best wishes to Dr. Madrigal, Dr. Escarpanter (Pepe!), Dr. Peak and anyone else who might remember me from the 70s. |
| Sep, 2007 |
| Christophe Rethore |
| MBA with Minor in French Lit, 1991 |
| rethore@normandyglobal.com |
| Bonjour to students and professors that I was lucky to meet during my brief stay in Auburn, just the time to get an MBA and a quick tour of French lit, century by century. Great memories though. Best regards to Drs. Raby, Spencer, Henkels and Mazaheri. After Auburn, I went to Montreal, PQ to open a translation business. Later, I started a PhD in Linguistics, which I am finishing now, after an attempt to launch a translation program in Virginia, at JMU and at UVA. I really got tired of teaching and "negotiating" with my dean, and finally, I decided to go back to the business world. I am now Operations Director for an international marketing research firm. Don't hesitate to send me an email if you read this message and we met during 1990-1991. Au revoir! |
| Sep, 2005 |
| Pamela Simpson |
| B.A. 1983; M.F.S. 1986 |
| psimp1028@aol.com |
| Hello to professors and former student colleagues at Auburn! I am a librarian at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. and would love to hear from anyone who was around when I was there, between 1981 and 1986. Pamela Simpson |
| Sep, 2005 |
| Bart Smith |
| BA French 1999 |
| Allison Calhoun (MFS), Bart Smith (BA French 1999), and Laura Teaford (BA History and French 1999) spent most of 1999- 2000 working in French schools, under a program sponsored by the Government of France. Allison also received a scholarship from the Govenment of France to discover the Languedoc-Rousillon region during the summer. |
| Nov, 2004 |
| Jason Smith |
| Masters of Hispanic Studies, 2005 |
| jason.smith.au@gmail.com |
| Hey guys! I just wanted to let everyone know I'll be starting my PhD at Arizona State University in Fall 2008. I hope you all are well and talk to you soon. |
| Apr, 2007 |
| Ellen Steeby |
| Master of French Studies |
| Ellen Steeby (Master of French Studies) is teaching French & Spanish at Mississippi Delta Community College. |
| Nov, 2004 |
| Laura Teaford |
| BA History and French 1999 |
| Allison Calhoun (MFS), Bart Smith (BA French 1999), and Laura Teaford (BA History and French 1999) spent most of 1999- 2000 working in French schools, under a program sponsored by the Government of France. Allison also received a scholarship from the Govenment of France to discover the Languedoc-Rousillon region during the summer. |
| Nov, 2004 |
| Terri Wilbanks |
| MHS 1987, BA 1984 |
| twilbank@jaguar1.usouthal.edu |
| Terri is an instructor at the University of South Alabama and has been there for 11 years as of 2006. She has put down roots in Mobile, at least for now! |
| Mar, 2007 |
| Chris Wyckoff |
| Bachelor of French and Math Education |
| Chris Wyckoff (Bachelor of French and Math Education 2000) RECEIVED THE PRESIDENTIAL AWARD FOR THE MOST OUTSTANDING GRADUATE IN THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION. He has been accepted in the graduate program in French at the University of Arizona. |
| Nov, 2004 |