2012 Executive Council

Kathy Fegely
President
kfegely@antietamsd.org
Antietam High School
Reading, PA

Kathy Fegely teaches in the Antietam School District, where the program has developed into a 6-year program with exploratory German for all 7th grade students. She has coordinated a GAPP program with a Munich school since 1987. Kathy has served on the Kinder Lernen Deutsch, nominating, and endowment committees and was co-chairperson for the program committee in 2006.

Mohamed Esa
Vice-President
mesa@mcdaniel.edu
McDaniel College
Westminster, MD

Mohamed Esa is professor of German at McDaniel College in Westminster, MD. He has conducted many seminars and workshops in the USA, Canada, Germany and Sweden. His areas of expertise are the effective use of music, fairy tales, proverbs and figures of speech as well as technology in German instruction. He has received numerous awards including McDaniel College Teacher of the Year, the Bundesverdienstkreuz, and the AATG Outstanding Educator Award.

Mark Himmelein
Treasurer
himmelm@mountunion.edu
University of Mount Union
Alliance, OH

Deborah Orth
Presiding Officer,
Assembly of Chapter Presidents
dorth@augustaschools.org
Cony High School
Augusta, ME

Deborah Orth began teaching at the middle school level but moved to her current high school position in 2001. There are presently 125 students enrolled in German, with enrollments continuing to grow. She also has an active GAPP exchange at Cony High School.

Keith Cothrun
Executive Director
keith@aatg.org
Cherry Hill, NJ

Keith Cothrun was named Executive Director of AATG effective January 2012. Prior to coming to AATG, Keith worked at the College Board's Advanced Placement Program where he served as director of World Languages and Cultures with responsibilities for AP German Language and Culture, as well as Chinese, Japanese, and Italian Language and Culture. More importantly, Keith taught for 24 years building a thriving high school German program and GAPP Exchange in New Mexico.

Karin Baumgartner
Northwest Regional Representatives
karin.baumgartner@utah.edu  
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Karin Baumgartner is the section head for German at the University of Utah, where she has taught since 2006 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2009. From 1999 to 2006, she taught in a small student-centered German program at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. Teaching at a variety of institutions (private, public, undergraduate, graduate) has given her a broad perspective for the needs of German programs at every level.

Angelika Becker
Central Regional Representatives
angelikabecker@att.net
Carmel High School
Carmel, IN

Angelika Becker teaches at Carmel High School in Carmel, IN. She is an AATG consultant, Goethe-Institut Trainer, as well as an AP Reader and Consultant. She has presented at AATG chapter meetings, local, regional and national conferences since 1995.

Gisela Hoecherl-Alden
Northeast Regional Representatives
galden@bu.edu
Boston University
Boston MA

Gisela Hoecherl-Alden currently works as Assistant Dean and Director of Language Instruction for all Language Departments at Boston University, where she also teaches German language and literature. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin and has taught German at public and private universities in Alaska, Pennsylvania and Maine. She strives to integrate internships and study abroad with on-campus curricula, has received several awards for teaching and service, and regularly conducts K-16 faculty development workshops.

Astrid Klocke
Southwest Regional Representatives
Astrid.Klocke@nau.edu
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ

Astrid Klocke is associate professor of Humanities and Coordinator of Cinema Studies at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ. She co-authored (with Waltraud Maierhofer) Deutsche Literatur im Kontext 1750-2000, a textbook for introductory literature classes taught in German, and given multiple conference presentations and workshops on the task-based teaching of literature and film. She has taught in the German programs at Indiana University, the Middlebury German School, and UCLA.

Volker Langeheine
Midwest Regional Representatives
vlangeheine@gmx.net
Omaha, NE

Volker Langeheine taught at Millard North High School in Omaha, Nebraska since 2002. Born and raised in Germany, he holds degrees in German Linguistics, History and Pedagogy from Technische Universität Braunschweig and taught high school and university students overseas and in the US. At Millard, he taught all levels of German including AP and IB German classes, organized study tours for students to Germany and created many fully funded opportunities for students to work and learn abroad through the Congress-Bundestag partnership program and others.

Jim Sheppard
Southeast Regional Representatives
jimsheppard@windstream.net
Screven County High School
Sylvania, GA

Jim Sheppard teaches German at Screven County High School in Sylvania, GA. He has participated in statewide curriculum and certification projects, and was a contributor to the National Standards for German. He has been named STAR teacher and honored by his school and district as Teacher of the Year. The Georgia AATG chapter has twice named him German Teacher of the Year.

James Rolleston
jroll@duke.edu
Editor, The German Quarterly
Duke University
Durham, NC

Carlee Arnett
clarnett@ucdavis.edu
Co-Editor, Die Unterrichtspraxis/
Teaching German
University of California-Davis
Davis, CA

Glenn S. Levine
glevine@uci.edu
Co-Editor, Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German
University of California-Irvine
Irvine, CA
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