American Association of Teachers of German

Congratulations to the following AATG members who have recently received awards, or published or edited books!

 May 2008

Joan MacDonald was nominated for 2008-09 SCOLT World Languages Teacher of the Year. 
Mary Bronfenbrenner (Ithaca H.S., NY) received a Indiana University West European Studies National Resource Center Curriculum Grant for a project exploring the Turkish diaspora in Germany and the European Union.

Books Published:  

Sibylle Jefferis (Cabrini College) Ein spätmittelalterliches Katharinenspiel aus dem Cod. Germ. 4 der University of Pennsylvania: Text und Studien zu seiner legendengeschichtlichen Einordnung.
Peter McIsaac (York Univ., Toronto) Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting.
Barbara Mennel (Univ. of Florida) The Representation of Masochism and Queer Desire in Film and Literature.
Carol Strauss Sotiropoulos (Northern Michigian Univ.) Early Feminists and the Education Debates: England, France, Germany 1760-1810.
John M. Jeep (Miami Univ.) Alliterating Word-pairs in Early Middle High German. Phraseologie & Parömiologie 21
Mark Hobson (Riverhead, NY) and Therese Pirz recently published "Language Helper German" on colloquial German.

Announced earlier this year at the Southwest Conference on Language Teaching:
Thomas Keith Cothrun (Georgia) received the first Honorary Lifetime Member Award.
Nancy Boudreau (Oklahoma) was named Teacher of the Year.

March 2008

Announced at the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Luncheon:
Doug Philipp - ISE Language Matters Award (Colorado)
Dagmar Angelika Haney - Genevieve Overman Memorial Service Award (Colorado)
Meagan Meneley - ISE Teacher of the Year (Kansas)
Anita Ratwik - Pro Lingua Award (Minnesota)
Marcy Zachmeier-Ruh - Emma Birkmeier World Language Teacher of the Year (Minnesota)
Anthony Jung - Pro Lingua Award (Nebraska)
Jane Reinkordt - Nebraska AATG Outstanding German Teacher (Nebraska)
Nancy Boudreau - Teacher of the Year (Oklahoma)
Joan MacDonald - TFLTA Teacher of the Year and 2008 Central States Conference Teacher of the Year Finalist (Tennessee)

Wolfgang Mieder, AATG honorary and life member, was featured in a recent article from the
Christian Science Monitor: http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0306/p13s01-legn.html  

January 2008

For more info see: http://www.newbooks.de/(S(f2mdnaagttpmoh45t4udsm45))/Default.aspx

December 2007

Colleen Moceri has been named German Educator of the Year by the Massachusetts Foreign Language Association. For more information, see the newspaper article linked here:
http://www.wickedlocal.com/gloucester/news/education/x1149888523

November 2007

ALD (Alle Lernen Deutsch) members aren't just dedicated to the preservation and progression of the German language and the recruitment of minorities to the teaching and study of German; they are also involved in international travel, intrastate organizational membership, and supporting world cultures. This fact is supported by the awards bestowed upon two of ALD's most active members, Mary Bronfenbrenner of Ithaca, New York; and Anita Ratwik of Minnesota. ALD is proud to announce both of these honors here.

Mary Bronfenbrenner: Recipient of the Goethe-Institut Award and NYSAFLT Teacher Travel Stipend for 2008. Mary will be using the $700 cash stipend to help defray travel costs and the Goethe-Institut Award will enable her to select from her choice of many teaching and language courses offered by the Institut. Congratulations, Mary!

Anita Ratwik: Recipient of the 2007 Pro Lingua Award by the Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures. She is to be commended for her outstanding support of world languages in the state of Minnesota. Anita is also the founder and coordinator of the Minnesota Visions in Action organization. Great work, Anita, congratulations! 

William E. Petig (Stanford University), trans. Xaver Scharwenka: Sounds from my Life: Reminiscences of a Musician. Intro. by Robert S. Feigelson. Landham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch, liebe Christa Garcia, zur Auszeichnung mit dem Elsbeth-Seewald-Award von DANK USA.

July 2007

Mohamed Esa received this year's Distinguished Teaching Award at McDaniel College. Here is a link with more information: http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/german/ZeppAward.pdf

June 2007

Lois M. Feuerle was re-elected to the Board of Directors of the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters and Translators (NAJIT).    

May 2007

Niko Euba - Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Student Instructors at UC-Berkeley

April 2007 

Donna Van Handle, senior lecturer in German studies at Mt. Holyoke College, was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, on April 26. The German government is recognizing Van Handle for her achievements in promoting German language and culture in the United States. Click here for the full press release.

February 2007

Awards

During the 2006 ACTFL Annual Conference and Exposition in Nashville, the following AATG members were recognized as ACTFL award winners: Kathryn Corl (Ohio State Univ.) received the ACTFL NYSAFLT Anthony Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Education; Aleidine Moeller (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln) received the ACTFL Florence Steiner Award for Leadership in Foreign Language Education, Postsecondary; and Charles Kolb (nominated by the AATG) received the ACTFL Edwin Cudecki International Business Award.

Donald Reutershan (Maine Department of Education) received the 2006 NCSSFL Supervisor of the Year Award at the ACTFL conference.

AATG Honorary Member Ray Clifford joins the ACTFL Board as President-Elect (President in 2008).

AATG Honorary Member Paul Michael Lützeler (Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO) received the Austrian Great Medal of Merit (Grosses Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Oesterreich).

James C. Davidheiser (Univ. of the South, TN) received the Jacqueline Elliott Award for Outstanding Service in Higher Education from the Tennesee Foreign Language Teaching Association.

Marge Draheim (Appleton East High School) is President-Elect of the Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers (WAFLT). She'll become President of WAFLT in two years.

Chancellor Gordon Gee (Vanderbilt Univ.) recently received the AATG Friend of German Award

Juan Carlos Morales (Miami Palmetto Sr. High School) was selected as Florida’s candidate for consideration through SCOLT for the ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year award.

Student member Mark Buckner (Nebraska Wesleyan Univ.) received a Fulbright award to Germany for the 2007-2008 academic year.

Books Published:

Randall Jones (Brigham Young Univ.) and Erwin Tschirner (Herder-Institut, Universität Leipzig) Frequency Dictionary of German: Core Vocabulary for Learners.

AATG Honorary Member Paul Michael Lützeler (Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO) Kontinentalisierung. Das Europa der Schriftsteller.

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