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Pendergraft leads American Classical League as its new president

Mary Pendergraft, professor and chair of Classical Languages, was installed as president of the American Classical League, recently.  As part of her two-year term, she will lead the organization as it approaches its centennial celebration in 2019.

Pendergraft has served as chair of the National Committee for Latin and Greek, president of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South – Southern Section, and president of North Carolina Classical Association. She has been honored for her teaching with awards from the Society for Classical Studies and the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. In 2013, the Classical Association of the Middle West and South also awarded Pendergraft with an Ovatio for her service and dedication to both the organization and the field of Classics.

The American Classical League seeks to promote classical studies to the general public. Established in 1919 to address the needs of classical Greek and Latin teachers, the organization has more than 2,700 members worldwide. The American Classical League produces its annual Summer Institute, as well as the National Latin Exam, National Greek Exam, National Mythology Exam, and Exploratory Latin Exam for students.  The American Classical League also sponsors the National Junior Classical League, a youth organization of 44,000 members dedicated to the encouragement and promotion of the literature and language of classical Greece and Rome. Currently, the American Classical League is beginning its Centennial Year Celebration, which will culminate at its 2019 Summer Institute in New York City.

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Pendergraft receives 2017 Excellence in Teaching Award from Society for Classical Studies

Mary Pendergraft, left, receiving Excellence in Undergraduate Advising Award in 2016

The Society for Classical Studies has selected Mary Pendergraft, professor of classical languages, as a recipient of one of its 2017 awards for Excellence in Teaching at the Collegiate Level.

Pendergraft, chair of the classical languages department, “has tirelessly and masterfully taught, advised and mentored countless students,” according to the award citation.

She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising presented to her by Wake Forest in 2016.  Three years earlier, she received the Excellence in College Teaching Award from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.  That same association in 2013 presented her with the Ovatio, the association’s highest award for service to it and the classical languages profession.

At Wake Forest, she has been advisor for the University’s Eta Sigma Phi chapter for more than two decades and has encouraged many students who have attended and presented at the organization’s annual national conference.

“She has in a sense been mentoring the very field of Classics itself by directly inspiring so many students to remain engaged with the ancient world as teachers and as avid lifelong learners,” the citation states.

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Rallings chairs foreign language conference

Yasuko Takata Rallings, Wright Family Faculty Fellow and associate professor of the practice in Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, chaired the 49th Annual Fall Conference of the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina in late October in Durham.

Approximately 700 world language educators from across the state were in attendance. Among the presenters were Wake Forest faculty members Mary Lynn Redmond, professor and chair of education; Mary Pendergraft, professor of classical languages; T.H.M. Gellar-Goad, assistant professor of classical languages; Alyssa Howards, associate professor of German & Russian; and Claudia Vestal, visiting assistant professor of Romance Langues. (Romance Languages).

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Faculty members take leadership roles in language education

A number of Wake Forest professors are taking leadership roles in the field of language education.

Mary Pendergraft, professor of classical languages, is chair of the National Committee for Latin and Greek; Claudia Vestal, visiting assistant professor of Romance languages, is the incoming president of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese; and Yasuko Rallings, associate professor of the practice in East Asian Languages & Cultures, is the president of the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina.

Mary Lynn Redmond, chair and professor of education, is past president of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

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Department Chairs and administrative assistants for 2015-16

Please find below a list of academic department chairs and their administrative assistants for 2015-2016, as of July 1, 2015:

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