| Department of Classics | University of Colorado at Boulder | May 2000 |
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Meet our Undergraduate Scholarship Award Winners
Graduate Students Prepare for Commencement
Students and Faculty Enjoy Winter Retreat
UCB Classics Opens a "Washington Branch"
Classics Department Reaches Out to Community and State
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News from Our Alumni
Kara Birkedahl (MA 1981, JD University of Denver 1985) has practiced law for the past fourteen years in a small downtown Denver law firm which emphasizes plaintiff's personal injury work, employment law and civil rights. Kara reports that her training in Latin was quite helpful for law school and "once word got out that I had studied Latin, I was called upon in every class to translate the legal Latin phrases."
Tamara Bauer (BA 1977, MA 1992) teaches Latin at Pierce Middle School in Milton, MA, where all students in grades 6-8 are required to take a foreign language. She is also a member of the committee responsible for the annual National Latin Examination. Tamara resides in Boston with her husband, Peter Cohee.
Peter Cohee (MA 1989, PhD 1994) serves as Head of the Classics Department at the Boston Latin School. Boston Latin has an enrollment of 2400 students, each of whom takes five years of Latin beginning at the 7th grade. Peter teaches Latin classes at two levels, coordinates the sixteen members of the Classics faculty and spearheads curriculum development. Boston Latin has currently received $45 million toward its capital campaign of $100 million.
Nick Eddy (BA 1995) will graduate from Harvard Law School in June. Nick and his wife, the former Wendy Morris, and their daughter Grace will then move to Washington DC where Nick will start work at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, a Boston-based firm with a good Communications law group in DC. Nick and Wendy are expecting identical twins in October.
Steve Frazer (BA 1976, MA 1978) teaches Latin at Thronton High School and, beginning this year, at Horizon High School in Thornton, CO. Latin is now offered at Horizon following an election in which students voted for the single course they most wanted to see added to the curriculum and Latin won.
Hardy Fredricksmeyer (BA 1980, MA in History from Columbia 1984, Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Texas 1996) is an instructor in the University Writing Program at UCB and will teach Greek Mythology for the Classics Department this summer. Hardy and his wife Stephanie have a ten year old son, Ben. Stefan Fredricksmeyer (BA 1987, JD UCB 1990) is a lawyer with offices in Louisville, CO. Stefan and his wife Beth have a three year old son, Sam. Hardy and Stefan are the eldest sons of Prof. Ernst and Gloria Fredricksmeyer.
Georgia Irby-Massie (PhD 1994) has published Military Religion in Roman Britain (Brill 1999). She teaches at Louisiana State University.
Tyler Lansford (BA 1983, MA 1986, PhD 1992 University of Washington) is co-owner of the Seattle Language Academy, a private language school formed in 1986. Most of its students are adults pursuing evening language instruction for personal rather than professional reasons. The most popular languages are Spanish and Italian; Latin and ancient Greek ordinarily account for about one eighth of the quarterly enrollment of 150-200 students. Tyler teaches most of the Latin and Greek himself. He uses Wheelock for his first-year Latin series and Clyde Pharr's Homeric Greek for first-year Greek. Each quarter he offers one reading class in Latin, and in the past year has taught Virgil (Aeneid VI); Cicero (In Catilinam I and De Amicitia) and Augustine (Confessions). Every other quarter or so he offers a reading class in Greek, and in the past year or so has taught Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, Herodotus Book I and Plato's Crito. This summer he plans to teach the Homeric Hymn to Apollo. As the school grows, Tyler hopes to create a second-year program that will combine reading and prose composition. More detailed information about the Seattle Language Academy is available on its website: www.sealang.com.
Carol Murphy (MA 1987), teacher of Latin and Foreign Language Department Chair at Smoky Hill High School in Aurora, serves on two important committees in the field of education. She is a member of the Curriculum Revision committee of the International Baccalaureate Program as well as the Teacher Licensure committee for the state of Colorado.
Kristin Tracy (MA 1988), who teaches Latin to students in 2nd through 8th grade at the Ricks Center for Gifted Children at the University of Denver, has authored an "Elementary Activity Packet" available through the American Classical League. This packet contains teacher-ready materials and student activities for Latin teachers in the primary grades. Kris reports that the Ricks Center now allows children to select classes from a variety of options, and this year, in addition to Latin, she is teaching "Acting the Myths", two historical novels set in ancient Rome (The Mystery of the Roman Ransom and Locadio's Apprentice) and "Preparation for the 2000 National Mythology Exam". Ricks is now a Laptop Community (2nd through 8th grades) where each student has been issued a laptop that is connected to a server in the school via Infrared so the kids are learning how to take notes electronically. She provides the outline and the students fill in the details as they discuss the details. They also do vocabulary study via laptops. Kris is also pleased to announce that one of her 8th graders received a perfect score on the Latin I section of the NLE.
