EVENTS

March 2005 National Event How Can Foreign Languages Influence Your Career Opportunities?

On March 30, 2005, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and the University of Missouri-St. Louis Foreign Language Connection held a national event for high school and university students of foreign language that focused on the important role of foreign languages in a variety of career fields.

The pictures below document some of the day's highlights. Plus the video* of the event allows you to hear what the panelists had to say about their experiences using foreign languages in their careers.

*To go to a different chapter of the video, click the chapter name on the control bar at the bottom of the video window and select the desired chapter.

Chancellor Thomas F. George signs a proclamation marking 2005 as The Year of Languages at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Martha G. Abbott, Director of Education for ACTFL, presents Chancellor George with a Year of the Languages lapel pin.

Students and teachers hear from panelists who use foreign languages in their careers: opera singer Ian Greenlaw, FBI agent Tony L. Case, and Boeing Company respresentative Leo Dadone.

KWMU listeners call in to St. Louis on the Air to discuss the importance of learning a foreign language with host Steve Potter; Laura Terrill, Coordinator of Foreign Languages and English as a Second Language at Parkway School District; Martha G. Abbott, Director of Education for ACTFL; and Deborah Baldini, UM-St. Louis Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences Continuing Education and faculty member in the Dept. of Foreign Languages.

	Ingeborg Goessl of the German Culture Center answers a student's questions in the lobby of the J.C. Penney Conference Center between sessions.
Photos by Victoria Knapp, Editor, UM-St. Louis CE Marketing & Information