Mary Lee McKeever (left), of Chatham, and Linda Rumpf, of Clifton Forge, both Wayne K. Nunn, acting chairman of the Foreign Language Department, in making they are looking over
some
of the material
'Tongwood Completes "Longwood
at the college last
summer were
fall,
for
j five-week
in
its
first
Six hours credit
language,
literature
and
Touraine of the University of Poitiers. Morning classes, taught by the faculty of the French university, were supplemented by study sessions under the supervision of Wayne K. Nunn, Director of Longwood in France and Acting Chairman of the Department of Foreign Languages of Longwood College. Tours, the city chosen as the study center, is about 200 miles south of Paris. The population is approximately 120,000. During the month at Tours, weekend and afternoon excursions were made to the various chateaux for which the region is especially renowned. Wine caves were also visited, and one weekend was given to
civilization, at the Institute of
a visit to
Mont
lectures
Fourteen of the twenty-three participants will continue Longwood as students in the fall. Two are graduate
students and three are undergraduates at other institutions:
Radford College, Old Dominion, Brown University, Appalachian State University and the University of Virginia. Two are employed as French teachers in the public schools of Virginia.
Sandra Lee Johnson, valedictorian of the
class of
1969;
two former presidents of the French Club of Longwood, Mary Lee McKeever and Susan DuPriest; and the current President, Kathleen Wyman, also attended. Other members of the group who made a special contribution were Deanna Bryson, Secretary of "Longwood in France,' and Mary Lee McKeever and Linda Rumpf, Dormitory Coordinators in France.
"The summer of 1970 promises to be even better," Mr. Nunn; "We plan to expand in number of students and in courses offered in France, Spain, Mexico and Germany will be added on demand, and friends of the
says
college are invited to join us for travel and/or study."
Normandy.
Saint-Michel, off the coast of
Eminent scholars gave supplementary and civilization.
students in French at Longwood College, assisted plans for the "Longwood in France" tour. Here
the college.
at
program organized
has successfully completed
courses
at
Summer
in the Loire Valley of France.
awarded
Nunn's ofEce
France''
Its First
France,
in
In
in
on
literature
In addition to the snidy period, the group had two in Paris, two days in Madrid and three days in Lisbon. Travel between countries was by Air France jet. days
Longwood was indeed fortunate to have as Associate Director Mrs. A. Tyree Finch of Farmville who, as Mr.
Nunn
expresses it, "had the affection and respect of the group and sustained our morale at crucial moments." We were also fortunate in having as Assistant to the Director David R. Riley, a student at Brown University. "Dave," who was very popular in the group, kept students informed as to policy and schedules and executed entire
admirably the duties of travel assigned to him. Compared to other Americans, the Longwood group was, according to Mr. Nunn, "assuredly superior; there was an admirable esprit de corps, and yet they, as individuals, found French friends."
Professor Earl Rubley of the Geography Department, and tnenrj'eight students bid farewell to Colonel John Carr, III, vice-president of Longwood, before beginning their tour of eight countries in Europe last summer. Dr. Charles Lane, far right, head of the department, joins in wishing the group a successful tour.