German

	Chad Carson (Biology major, German minor) was a national finalist for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship (Chad is only the second person in Clemson’s history to have made it to the national level!). He is known as "46," the number on his Clemson Tiger Football jersey.
	Stephanie Gallagher (with Kevin Parker at CAAH Honors & Awards Day; double major: German and history) has passed the first of the two-stage screening process for a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship for Germany. In February 2002, the U.S. Fulbright Committee forwarded her application to the German Fulbright Committee. The final notification from Germany will probably come in April (she received an positive answer before this newsletter was published). The Fulbright Teaching Assistantship covers travel and all expenses for one year in Germany. In turn, Stephanie would assist a German teacher of English at a German secondary school. Alexia Andrews (French major/German minor) received a Rotary Grant for one year of French and German study in Switzerland for the academic year 2002/03. In the summer of 2001, Alexia spent one month in the state of Brandenburg (close to Berlin), participating in the "Projekt Weltoffenheit." Teams of four native speakers of English (one from the U.S., one from Great Britain, and two from other English speaking areas) work with youth in the eastern state of Brandenburg. Through social and cultural activities, they promote democratic principles. Henry White (German L&IT major) will be participating in the same program in the summer of 2002.
Singing Christmas songs at the German Club, December 2001 Christmas party in the International House. Hiding in the background, Santa Claus Dr. Love (left) and next to him his opposite, devil Dr. Schmidt, who delighted everyone with devilish German rapping. Also in the photo, students from the fall 201 German classes: Kim Fitterer, Derek Mangun, Ryan Carroll (left).
German Christmas Party singers from German 201: Steven Jackson (Dr. Sinka’s "Freshman of the Year"!) and Melissa Curry.
German Professor Emeritus Ed Arnold and May 2001 German L&IT graduate Melanie Thompson (who now works at BMW) participating with gusto in the singing at the 2001 German Club X-Mas party.
ISEP (International Student Exchange Program) - Clemson is a member of this consortium headquartered at Georgetown University. Currently two students from the German Section are spending one year on ISEP in Germany. According to all accounts, Lawton Davies (German major) is having the time of his life (!) at the University of Marburg, and Trevor Pittman (German L&IT major) is avidly supplying the worldwide web with marvelous photos of his stay at the University of Trier (Germany’s oldest city). Trevor is following in the footsteps of his brother Tanner Pittman (German L&IT graduate, May 2001), who had also studied in Trier. (Tanner is now living in Athens, Georgia, happily married to a Hungarian/Romanian student he met in Trier.) Rebecca Petrush (French major/ German minor) is completing an ISEP semester in Trier and will move on to another ISEP semester in Belgium. The ISEP-program will be depleting numbers in the German Section during the upcoming academic year. The following students from the German sction are planning on spending the 2002/03 academic year under ISEP in Germany: Elizabeth Barrier (playing the harp at Honors and Awards Day; German L&IT), Katherine Brown (German L&IT), Nicole Coester (double major: Sociology and German), David Holmes (German L&IT), Matt Nicoletta (German L&IT), Lisa Ruppert (Microbiology major, German minor), and Amanda Wertz (Speech and Communication).
CLIP Summer 2001
	ACTFL: American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Including all levels of foreign language instruction from the elementary school level through graduate school, the ACTFL is the largest professional foreign language organization in the U.S. Among the major awards it grants each year is the Edwin Cudecki Award, given to someone outside of the foreign language profession who has contributed in significant ways to the promotion of foreign languages. Due to the nomination of Clemson German Professors Ed Arnold (Professor Emeritus), Judith Melton (currently Interim Associate Dean of the AAH College), and Margit Sinka, Professor Melsheimer (Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Science) received this prestigious award in November 2001 at the annual AATG Conference, for his promotion of international study for engineering students. Professors Schmidt and Sinka from the German Section attended the ceremony. View program anouncment here.
Top Newsletter Spring 2002 Department of Languages Clemson University Editor