Modern Foreign Languages Mission Involvement Encouraged by Faculty " Involvement in missions provides valuable cultural and linguistic enrichment to students of modern foreign languages at Harding University," stated Dr. Winfred O. Wright, Chairman of the department. "It also provides excellent career orientation for the student as well as good public relations for Harding." Both student and faculty involvement at various levels in French and Spanish missions provided meaningful articulation of the Christian objectives of the University .with the high academic goals of the department . During the spring, the department conducted a foreign language festival on campus for high school students, attended by approximately BOO high school students. Majors in the department assisted faculty members with the workshop designed to stimulate greater interest in foreign languages and to recognize superior achievement by high school students in foreign language study. The department also hosted the national Spanish ex· amination for high school students in Arkansas. All faculty members were active in the Arkansas Foreign Language Teachers Association and Dr. Winfred Wright was im· mediate past president fo r the Arkansas Association of Teach· ers of French. To improve the effectiveness of tea chi ng , modern professional approach was used in two Spanish Ava Conley, MA Assoc. Prof.. Spanish Robert Helaten, MA Assoc. Prof.• German Dorothy Wright, Dr_de L'Unlverslte Prof. , French Winfred Wright. Dr_de L'Unlverslte Prof., French, Chairman 96 - Foreign Languages courses and a modified direct approach was used in intermediate French. To stimulate college students enrolled in a foreign language to study more, outstanding student awards were offered in French, German, and Spanish. During the summer of 19B1, nine students accompanied Dr. Winfred Wright on a French work/study tour to Canada, Belgium , Switzerland, and France. The students assisted Dr. Wright with campaigns he conducted in Montreal , Canada; Geneva, Switzerland; and Lyons and Paris, France. He spoke on the European Mission Workshop in Memphis in August , the Harding Wor ld Missions Workshop in October, and the Seminar for Teachers of Missions in Dallas in the spring_ Ava Conley assisted her husband, Bill , in directing an eight. week summer campaign in Venezuela that involved nine Harding students. She also participated in a campaign in Honduras. She and her husband coauthored a 20-minute sound slide presentation entitled, "A Venezuelan Update." In September, she attended the Venezuelan Mission Forum in Atlanta and, in November, she attended the Pan-American Lectures in Merida, Mexico, where she spoke for the ladies' class. She arranged publicity for fund-raising efforts to make available to television stations in South America the Herald of Truth Programs in Spanish . ~. _ ChtUlopht:r Thompson - John Radcliffe
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