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Note: The following are some of the committees on which I served and other forms of service.

DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES

v Advisory Council (to Departmental Head) 1996-1999

v Chair of Liliana Paredes Promotion and Tenure Committee

v Member of Verónica Grossi promotion and Tenure Committee

v Coordinator of Intermediate Spanish 103 & 104 1978-1990

v Graduate Advisor, 1990-1999

v Major Advisor 1979-1990

v Responsible for scheduling of Spanish and Italian courses 1974-1990

v Special Committee Appointed to Develop a Departmental Attendance Policy, report was presented December 1, 1988

v With the help of Departmental Instructors and Professors, I developed a Survey that helped determine factors affecting performance and attendance in Spanish classes Fall 1888

v Special committee appointed with Professor Jim Atkinson as Chair to look into the feasibility and form that a twenty-four hour major in French and Spanish should take . Final report February 14, 1988 (2 meetings)

v Special committee appointed with Professor Jim Atkinson as Chair and Professor Kathleen Koestler Mather to consider the accumulation of time with overloads for the purpose of earning a leave of absence for professional activities. Final report on October of 1987 (2 meetings).

v Academic Computer Center Liaison Committee (1 meeting on February 3, 1987)

v Special committee appointed to consider the feasibility of combining the Curriculum Committee and Advisory Council into one body. This was done. (2 meetings) 1987

v Committee on Curricular Objectives 1984

v Curriculum Committee Chair 1983-1986

v Advisory Committee 1983-1984, 1986-1989

v Scholarship Committee 1982-1984

v Library Committee 1982-1983

v Focus Day Committee Chair 1984

v International Studies Committee 1977-1978

v Campus Stores Committee 1976-1978

v Advisor for Transfer Students 1976-1982

v Committee on Curriculum Planning 1973-1975

Thesis Committees

v Director: Judi A. Dean, “El Cántico espiritual de San Juan de la Cruz como ejercicio espiritual para las monjas de la orden de las Carmelitas Descalzas” (1998)

v Committee Member: Emilia Berrier, “La evolución espiritual en Amado Nervo” (1997)

v Director: Carlos Devonne Murrell, “Stream of Consciousness en El túnel, Pedro Páramo, y Cien años de soledad” (1995)

v Director: María Teresa Woodhouse, “Personajes femeninos en el teatro histórico español del siglo XX” (1989)

v Committee Member: Benita Clarke, “Reflections of Contemporary Argentine Society as Seen through Popular Culture in Two Novels by Manuel Puig” (1987)

v Committee Member: Paula Mearns, “An Aspect of Manuel Puig’s Novels” (1987)

v Committee Member of Beatriz E. Heath, “La figura del dictador en tres novelas hispanoamericanas” (1986)

v Director: Rhonda Yancey Morgan, “Female Characters in the Quijote” (1985)

v Committee Member: Julie Weber Shelburne, “The Real and the Magical in the Work of Juan Rulfo” (1985)

v Committee Member: Luz E. Jarzan, “La civilización y la barbarie en tres novelas hispanoamericanas . . . .” (1978)

v Director of Meriwether (Buck) Smith, “Dos símbolos de Federico García Lorca como técnica teatral” (1978)

Honors Paper

v Director: Kathryn S. Ritchie, “The Mexican Revolution As Seen through the Novelistic Works of Martin Luis Guzman” 1967-1968

COLLEGE

v Council of Arts and Science 1971-1977

v Latin American Studies Committee 1966-1982 Chair 1978-1980

v Appointed by Dean Joanne Creighton to the Planning Committee for the meeting of the Philological Association of the Carolinas, Dr. Jeutonne Brewer Chair, to be held jointly on the Greensboro College and UNCG campus in March of 1987

UNIVERSITY

v Academic Policies and Regulations 1996-1998

v Admissions Policies Committee 1990-1991

v Faculty Government 1989-1990

v Elections Committee: With the help of committee members, I was able to develop an all-university-computerized-voting system for University Elections. This relieved the committee from several days and several hours per day of tedious work. With the new system it now takes about two to three hours of work to count the votes for university elections1986-1988

v Student Aid Committee 1977-1979

v International Studies Committee 1977-1980

v Campus Stores Committee 1978-1980

COMMUNITY SERVICE

v Interpreter for Alamance and Guilford County Courts

v Interpreter for Greensboro Police Department

v Translated documents, such as birth certificates, letters, transcripts of grades, etc. from Spanish to English on many occasions for businesses and individuals in the community

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