2 Teachers Named Rockefeller Fellows
Two Venice High School language teachers have been named Rockefeller Fellows for Summer 1990.
Laura M. Monroe and Beverly Findlay will receive stipends of $5,000 each for eight weeks of intensive foreign language study this summer.
Monroe, who teaches Spanish, will travel to Mexico to study murals by Diego Rivera and other 20th-Century artists who reflect the social, political and religious life of the Mexican people.
Findlay, who teaches Japanese, will travel to Japan, where she will develop audiovisual instructional materials for her students. She plans to focus on two themes: teen-age life in Japan and the annual summer Obon festival during which the Japanese call the spirits of their ancestors back to earth.
The fellowship program, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and Connecticut College, is designed to increase participants’ knowledge of the languages they teach and improve their teaching skills.
Monroe and Findlay are among 105 fellows chosen from a field of more than 450 applicants.
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