French Activities
     The Eta Iota Chapter of the National French Honor Society, Pi Delta Phi, held its annual initiation ceremony on Wednesday, April 30. Pi Delta Phi is one of the oldest National Academic Honor Societies in the U.S. with 330 chapters in the U.S. and two related chapters in France. Pi Delta Phi was established in 1906 at the University of California, Berkeley to recognize outstanding scholarship in French, to increase the knowledge and appreciation of French speaking cultures around the world and to stimulate and promote French speaking cultural activities and the study of Francophone cultures. To be inducted as a regular member, students must have taken at least 18 hours of French and maintain an overall GPA of 3.0, with a “B” average in French.
On Wednesday, seven students and three SHSU faculty and friends were initiated to Pi Delta Phi. Among the regular members were SHSU students, Patrick Bashor, Carey Chartier, Tamera Claunch, Erica Hill, Jessica Holland, Ashton Mouton and Ashlyn Remmert. Two SHSU faculty of Foreign Languages, Dr. Madalina Akli, Assistant Professor of French and Dr. Enrique Mallen, Professor of Spanish, were inducted as honorary members and Mr. Richard Edwards, sponsor of the Seola Arnaud and R.V. Edwards endowed Scholarship in French, was also initiated as an honorary member.
     The ceremony was conducted by Eta Iota student president Heather Liner and secretary Jennah Burleson, both minors in French. The event was well attended by local members of the society, family and friends of the initiates and by SHSU faculty of Foreign Languages, Drs. Debra Andrist, Shirin Edwin, Mary Gutermuth, Frieda Koeninger, Kay Raymond and Rafael Saumell-Munoz.
     Congratulations to the new members and thank you to all those who attended!
     For further information, please contact Dr. Mary Gutermuth at
fol_meg@shsu.edu or Dr. Shirin Edwin at see001@shsu.edu or at 294 .

Initiates to Sigma Delta Pi
     The Department of Foreign Languages congratulates the initiates (on March 25) to Sigma Delta Pi, the National Spanish Honorary Society: Consuelo Lizet Ayala, Mayra Elizabeth Baltazar, Amber Michelle Baxter, Chance Lee Christiansen, Mario Alberto Díaz, Beatriz A. Duarte, Elsa Gónzalez, Lorena Hiracheta, Audrey Hopson, Phyllis Cynthia Kirkby, Flor Camelia López, Bethany Nesbit, Trisha O'Bryon, Mónica Berenice Ramos, Jandra Riascos, Iris Emperatriz Rivera, Brenda Rodríguez, Rosa Salgado, María de Jesús Van Dine and Vanessa Zúñiga. Members must have taken at least 18 hours of Spanish in college with a "B" average in Spanish and rank in the upper 1/3 of their graduating class. The ceremony was conducted by Laura Kubala and Idalia Rodríguez, officers of the Kappa Zeta chapter at SHSU. Family and friends of the initiates attended, plus the chapter sponsor, Dr. Kay Raymond, Associate Professor of Spanish, and special guests, Dr. Debra D. Andrist, Chair of Foreign Languages & Professor of Spanish, Dr. Roger Moore, Canadian 3M (National Master Teacher) and Professor of Spanish at St. Thomas University, Fredricton, New Brunswick, Canada, and Dr. Rafael Saumell Muñoz, Professor of Spanish.

Dr. Roger Moore
     Dr. Roger Moore, Canadian 3M professor (national master teacher) gave several presentations in the Department of Foreign Languages, one on Don Quixote & Chaos Theory and one on Quevedo.

RoseMary Salum
     Author To Discuss Role In 'Literal' Magazine Publishing. RoseMary Salum, award-winning Lebanese-Mexican author, will get "literal" with students, faculty and staff on Thursday (April 3). Salum will discuss her role as founder and publisher of the award-winning bilingual magazine Literal: Latin American Voices as part of the Foreign Languages Speaker Series from 12:30-2 p.m. in Evans Building Room 320. A master's graduate of the University of St. Thomas, Salum now teaches bilingual journalism there. She is the author of "Spaces in Between" a book of short stories and co-author of "Vitrales," also a fiction book, and her poems and short stories have been included in anthologies in the United States, Argentina, Mexico and Spain. Salum has received many international awards for her literary and editorial work including a Hispanic Excellence Award nomination, the Terra Austral, the Lone Star Award and a Maggie Award nomination, among others. She was recently recognized by the U.S. Congress.

Table Française
     Last Thursday of every month at 4 pm for about an hour in Evans 315. Next meeting: Thursday, October25 in Evans 315. The meeting in November will be on Thursday, November 29.

National French Week
     Department of Foreign Languages. November 5-11, 2007.

Charla/Chat
     New Schedule for Spring 2008.

The Spanish Maestro Francesc de Paula Soler
     The Poet of the Guitar with The Golden Polyphemus. From the Spanish and Latin American guitar to the jazz, swing, blues, be-bop and contemporary music. Hispanic Heritage Month.

The Spanish Maestro Francesc de Paula Soler
     Conferencia Musicada: Literatura y música hispana a través de la historia. Hispanic Heritage Month.

The Spanish Maestro Francesc de Paula Soler
     Guitar Master Class. Hispanic Heritage Month. October 15th. 3:30PM - 6:00PM