Current and Past Activities of the Committee


Report on the Committee for the Promotion of Greek
1995-96

The CPG had a year of consolidation and disruption at the same time. The most important loss was the death of Edward Phinney, one of the founders of the committee and its first chair. His presence will be sorely lost but his spirit will be with the committee for a long time to come.

One of the most important activities of the year were formalizing our relationship with the National Committee for Latin and Greek. That has been accomplished and we are now seeking a permanent budget line with the NCLG. Another important activity was pursuing our goal of once more hosting a panel at this year's APA/AIA convention in New York. After a rewrite, the panel was accepted:

"Little Latin, Less Greek: Teaching Greek to Students Today"
Winged Words: Recruiting Greek Students....Steve Hays, Ohio University

Intensive Elementary Greek: Building on Undergraduate Success ....Charles Platter, University of Georgia

Teaching Greek to the Grammarless: Lessons for the '90's....Connie Rodriguez, Loyola University of New Orleans

If You Write It, They Will Come: A New Greek Textbook for a New
Generation....Anne Groton,
St. Olaf College

Some Koine in the Attic: Adapt or Die....Kenneth Kitchell, LSU

Also during this year a preliminary mailing list was put together of interested parties who responded to two e-mail requests for those interested in promoting Greek. This list will be used in the Spring Semester, 1997 to accomplish two other goals:

1. The first issue of the newsletter will be written and distributed.
2. The web site should be brought online and advertised. I hope to put on the site the papers from the 1995 and 1996 panels.

Finally, I suggest that two other members be added to the committee to help fill the gap left by Ed Phinney and to regularize a position to be held by a high school teacher on the committee. These and other matters will be discussed at the CPG meeting in New York. For the subsequent year's APA meeting, I feel we should perhaps plan an open meeting and discussion group instead of a panel.

Respectfully submitted
Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr.