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Recent Student News and Achievements: Updated Augsust 2008.
Our students are doing interesting and remarkable things. If you have news to share, please e-mail cgoulding@csuchico.edu. We'd love to hear from both current students and Chico State German Program alumni.
Russell Kyle is working for the American division of the the German company SMA Solar Technology in Grass Valley as a Customer Service Technician.
Melanie Mello is teaching German at a Catholic high school in South Bend, Indiana while enrolled in the M.A. program in Education at Indiana University South Bend.
As of Fall 2008, Suzanne Baker is studying in the M.A. program in Postsecondary Educational Leadership at San Diego State. She is also gaining related experience working in the university's housing office.
Chin Leung is an M.S. student in Civil Engineering and Graduate Research Assistant at Texas A & M University.
Luke Ogden is teaching English as a Foreign Language at the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Tübingen while enrolled in the graduate Theology program at the University of Tübingen.
In May 2008, Amanda Sayre received the annual Outstanding German Student award from the Department of Foreign Languages and Litertaures.
After living and working in Oslo, and more recently interning at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna, Patrick McGowan is finishing up his M.S. in Development and International Relations at Aalborg University in Denmark.
Between her international travels (see here for her interview with the Modesto Bee!), Cynthia Cox is completing an internship in the International Student Program at Modesto Junior College.
Since her graduation in December 2006, Lauryl Fowler has been working as Marketing Coordinator for FoxHollow Technologies
in San Francisco. She reports that her German experience was the key selling point in winning her the position, since they hope to use her as a contact person for potential future clients in German-speaking countries.
After graduation in December 2006, Val Myrick took a position working as a nanny and personal assistant for a family who wants its children to grow up bilingually. She happily reports that the position includes some travel to Switzerland.
Since January 2006, Morgan Martin has worked for the language school interlingua in Cologne, Germany, where she teaches businesspeople English.
Paul Ginno is back at Chico State after an extended stay in Germany. He is currently pursuing a graduate degree in biology.
German major alumnus Klutch Stanaway went on to earn his MFA in sculpture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He currently works at the Getty Center in Los Angeles and teaches at various local community colleges.
Luke Ogden was awarded the prestigious Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to study abroad for the 2005/2006 academic year at the University of Tübingen in Germany.
After a 6-month stint teaching German in Kenya, German major alumna Cynthia Cox just recently spent a semester in France teaching English. After earning her Chico State degree, Cynthia earned her M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Buffalo in December 2004.
German major alumnus Steve Wildhaber spent some time teaching English at the Berlitz Language School in Feldkirch, Austria. He recently entered Chico State's M.A. program in Teaching International Languages.
Jim Newby is employed in the JET program teaching English in Japan and is enrolled in the master's program in TESOL at Shenandoah University.
In May 2005, German major Emily Neel was awarded the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures' annual Outstanding Student Award at the HFA award ceremony.
Student Activities and Events
The students in the Chico State German Program are involved in various project and activities and they have plenty of opportunities to socialize, both in and outside the classroom during the many group events that are planned: The weekly German conversation hour, hikes, picnics, films, parties, projects, and all things German ... and sometimes things not exactly German ... that's what we do. We don't always get pictures of what we do, but here are some photographs of some of our recent and past events.
German Conversation Hour
We used to meet at Café Max. Now the group meets every Thursday, 5:30-6:30 pm, at the Upper Crust.
German Program Picnic
Trips
German Poster Projects
Classes
