The Department of Languages of William Jewell College inducted six new members into the Phi Theta Chapter of the international foreign languages honor society, Phi Sigma Iota.
Members of the Department of Languages Present of the Induction: Dr. Jennifer Colón, Dr. Jane Woodruff, Ms. Ying-Yu Huang (Chinese Assistant), Ms. Yoko Hori (Japanese Assistant), Ms. Claire Beswick (French Assistant), Dr. Susan Myers, and Dr. Michael Foster
The ceremony this year introduced a new program design as well as a celebration of the chapter 70th anniversary. The program this year also included the distribution of awards presented by the Department. Contributing to the success of the day were Phi Theta collegiate members, Ms. Hannah Bruins, Ms. Amelia Hanzlick, Ms. Jenny Nelson, and Ms. Moriah Vanderburg, who spoke on behalf of the languages represented by the initiates.
Standing with the Chinese initiate is Ms. Ying-Yu Huang, instructor of Chinese, who was proud to award the Phi Sigma Iota honor cord to Ms. Jessica Harmon.
Ms. Ying-Yu Huang and Ms. Jessica Harmon
Dr. Michael Foster, assistant professor of French, awarded the honor cords to the French initiates (Ms. Alexandria Acord, Mr. Nathan Graber, and Ms. Haley Sheriff), Dr. Susan Myers (chair of Languages and professor of French) pinned, while Dr. Jane Woodruff, professor of Classics and History, distributed certificates.
Ms. Alexandria Acord and Dr. Susan Myers
Dr. Jane Woodruff and Mr. Nathan Graber
Dr. Jane Woodruff and Ms. Haley Sheriff
Dr. Jennifer Colón stands with the initiates in Spanish, Ms. Kristen Meinert (absent) and Ms. Elizabeth Tucker.
Dr. Jennifer Colón and Ms. Elizabeth Tucker
Award the awarding of certificates, pins, and honor cords, the initiates presented their reflections on their study of languages. First, Ms. Jessica Harmon, initiate in Chinese.
Next, the French initiates, Ms. Alexandria Acord, Mr. Nathan Graber, and Ms. Haley Sheriff.
Finally, Ms. Elizabeth Tucker, initiate in Spanish.
Ms. Sarah Crosley, the 2015 Nominee for a Phi Sigma Iota Scholarship, recieved her certificate and the public announcement that she had won a scholarship for her summer project.
Ms. Sarah Crosley receives her certificate as the 2015 Nominee for a Phi Sigma Iota Scholarship.
Susan Myers, a
native of New Jersey, completed her undergraduate degree in English and French
at Houghton College, New York, spending her junior year abroad in Tours,
France. She received her Masters degree in French from Bowling Green State
University, Ohio, including another year abroad, first in Paris, then in Tours.
She completed her doctorate in French Literature from Indiana
University-Bloomington, Indiana. She has taught English in Pennsville High
School, New Jersey and worked as an in-home tutor before moving on to teaching
college level French at Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, after marrying
her husband, Allen, who was working as a musician in Cleveland. They moved to
Liberty, Missouri, in 1995 when Susan accepted the position of French at
William Jewell College. Her husband completed his Doctorate of Musical Arts in
Composition from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and pursues a career in
musical performance and composition. The couple is raising two daughters, Caitlin
and Sarah.
Now a professor
of French, Dr. Myers teaches at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri,
and chairs the Languages Department. She is the author of two articles on Sébastien
Japrisot, the first, “Sébastien Japrisot: It’s a Crazy Game, the Search for
Truth,” published in French Prose in 2000,
edited by Michael Bishop and Christopher Elson; and the second, “La passion des femmes” in 813: les amis de la littérature policière. She has recently finished “An Allegory of
Reading: Ambiguity, Discovery and the Reader’s Role in Sébastien Japrisot’s Piège pour Cendrillon” for inclusion
as a chapter in Sébastien Japrisot: The Art
of Crime edited by Martin Hurcombe and Simon Kemp, published 2009.
As chair of the Languages Department at Jewell, Dr. Myers has overseen the development of the Romance Languages Major, the Arabic Area Studies Minor, the Chinese Area Studies Minor, and has won two grants to improve the technology of the Languages Seminar Room and to improve the learning environment of the Language Lab.
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