NARINE SARKISSIAN
March 24, 2023
Narine Sarkissian is the owner, president and chief executive officer of the U.S. Ling Institute, an intensive English as a second language school.
Narine Sarkissian is the owner, president and chief executive officer of the U.S. Ling Institute, an intensive English as a second language school.
In 1995, Marjorie Lora Myers became the principal of Key School-Escuela Key, part of the Arlington Public Schools in Virginia.
Ahlam Habib G. Shenouda retired as a section chief in the language services division of The World Bank in 1996 after two decades of excellence.
Elna de la Bandera is a freelance interpreter and translator for the New Jersey Judiciary and other interpreting and translation agencies.
Nancy G. Boyer, PhD, retired as an English as a second language instructor at Golden West College in Huntington Beach, California, in 2020.
Peggy P. Edwards serves as the founder and the president of the Publishing Club of Laguna Woods, which was established in 2013.
After retiring as a teacher, Alicia Eller became a reporter for the Franklin Times while serving as a translator and consultant from 2001 to 2016.
Adept in speaking many languages, Slavica Esnault-Pelterie currently works as a partner at Mantor SA in Geneva since 2015.
Ginger Whittington taught Spanish, Latin and English in the Mohawk Area School District in Bessemer, Pennsylvania, from 1975 until her retirement in 1996.
Zema Jordan is the administrative unit head at Von Steuben Middle School and curriculum consultant at the Professional Growth Center.
Leslie Grainger-Haynes served two decades as the president of International Transition Services in Denver from 1990 to 2010.
Donna R. Vocate joined Boston University as a full professor from 1990 to 1992, and has served the UCB Institute of Cognitive Science since 1984.
Since 1998, Elizabeth Buchanan has expressed her passion as an English as a second language (ESL) teacher at Tabernacle Elementary School.
Born in Austria, Katherine Gyékenyési Gatto was inspired to pursue both language and education by her father, the headmaster of a school in Hungary.
A Latin teacher for more than three decades, Joy K. King’s fascination with the language began in high school.
Louise Fay Despres concluded her career at New Canaan High School, serving in a variety of roles until her retirement in 2012.
Since 1996, Linda B. Lewis White has served as a professor of reading at Eastern Michigan University, where she continues to work to this day.
In 1990, Dr. Blyn-LaDrew joined the University of Pennsylvania, where she continues to thrive in the school’s Penn Language Center.
Kathleen Kish has been a professor emerita of the department of Spanish and Portuguese at San Diego University since 2004.
Bethany K. Dumas has served her alma mater, the University of Tennessee, since 1974.
Dr. Hildegard Rissel has been an associate professor of Spanish at Virginia State University in the Department of Language and Literature since 2001.
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