Four Teachers Will Receive Fellowships

Four San Gabriel Valley teachers are among 178 secondary school humanities teachers who have been selected by the Council for Basic Education as 1991 National Fellows for Independent Study in the Humanities.

Each teacher has received a $3,000 grant for six weeks of independent study. Funds come primarily from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The teachers are Madeline F. Antilla, a history teacher at Foothills Junior High School in Arcadia, whose topic is “Japanese American evacuation and relocation during World War II”; Lillian A. Howard, a history and foreign language teacher at Foothill Country Day School in Claremont, whose topic is “Medieval and metaphysics: the cosmogony of Hildegarde of Bingen as influenced by Boethius and St. Augustine”; Sharon R. Litsey, a history teacher at First Avenue Junior High School in Arcadia, whose topic is “Conflict of cultures: the role of Indian traditions and the British Raj in the creation of Indian Nationalism,” and Ronald C. Woolsey, a history teacher at Bishop Amat Memorial High School in La Puente, whose topic is “Cultural conflict between Mexican-Americans and Anglo-Americans on the western frontier.”