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Wednesday, April 10, 1991 Univenity Press
LU Profile-Lamar to host
Saur hopes to expand German/English languages Teacher Job Fair
in Montagne Center
By Susan Lewis
UP contributing writer
“Guten Morgen” is the greeting
printed across the side of the coffee
cup sitting on Pamela Saur’s desk in
the Maes Building.
“Most students aren’t aware that
German is offered here at Lamar
even though we already have classes
through second-year German,” Saur
said.
“My goal is to expand the
German and English as a second lan-
guage courses at Lamar,” Saur said
and took another sip from her
“Guten Morgen” mug.
Saur, assistant professor of
"English and modern languages, is
tthe German instructor at Lamar.
A Brooklyn, N.Y., native, Saur
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* German gives
<a better under-
standing of the
^English language
»as they both are
■‘Germanic in ori-
•gin....**
* — Pamela Saur
.came to Lamar in 1988 from
Alabama’s University of Auburn,
where she taught composition, to
^revive the German language classes
here.
“Both my husband and 1 were
able to get a job here, and we were
.both able to start that fall,” Saur
said. Saur’s husband, Stephen Saur,
is an assistant professor of sociology,
•social work and criminal justice.
“The German language suffered
during the world wars. It was not
•taught in many communities. Many
people of German descent quit
'‘speaking their ancestral language,
•and some even Americanized their
names because of the anti-German
mood of America,” Saur said.
t< “Foreign languages are now
.required for many majors, but
German still is struggling to survive
‘at Lamar,” she said.
“Students think that German is a
hard language and that it isn’t useful
to learn,” Saur said. “But with
Germany’s unification they will
become even more important in the
business world.”
“West Germany is already the
largest exporter in the world and is a
major trade partner for the United
States and Canada. German is also an
international language in technology,
chemistry, medicine, music, philoso-
phy and art,” Saur said.
“German gives a better under-
standing of the English language as
they both are Germanic in origin. It
also improves job opportunities,” she
said.
“Also, German ancestry is strong
in North America as more than a
quarter of the population in the U.S.
claim German roots.” “When
I’m not working at Lamar, I work for
fun,” Saur said.
In her spare time Saur edits sub-
missions to the journal
“Schatzkammer” which when trans-
lated means “treasure chest”
“Editing Schatzkammer is an
unpaid privilege which I enjoy,” Saur
said with a smile.
Saur also writes articles for peri-
odicals. One such article is called “A
Feminist Reading of Barbara
Frischmuth’s Trilogy” and is pub-
lished in Modern Austrian
Literature.
Saur has also been a political
activist, and while campaigning for
Eugene McCarthy during the
Vietnam War, she met Stephen.
After a year of courtship they mar-
ried.
“We have been married for 21
years and have two children, Henry,
13, and Catheryn, 10,” Saur said.
Mixing a career and family have
not always been easy for Saur, but
she has managed to maintain a posi-
tive and friendly attitude toward
others.
Also, Saur finds time to attend
conventions related to her profes-
sion.
“Lamar’s English department
will pay for half of my travel expens-
es if only I will write a paper about
the convention,” she said. “I enjoy
writing and traveling, so I don’t
mind writing the paper.”
Not only is Saur active in
expanding herknowledge in her pro-
fession, she is also active in her faith.
She holds offices on various commit-
tees at her church, such as the board
of trustees. She is also involved in
religious education for the Unitarian
Church.
With all that Saur does, she man-
ages to take time out for her family.
She attends her children’s perfor-
mances at school and their open
houses. She goes home in the after-
noon to see that they get in from
school safely, and she comes back in
the evening if she has a night class to
teach. She often spends her lunch
hour brown-bagging it with her hus-
band in her office, or they may go
together to run errands.
Saur has overcome many obstacles
that arise from being a student and
professor with a family and has found
a healthy balance at Lamar.
“I like the flexibility of my sched-
ule. I can usually leave at three, and I
am able to do much of my work at
home,” she said.
Saur’s students agree that her
classes often get humorous as she has
been seen licking her lips and pat-
ting her stomach as she picks up a
delicious, red apple and describes
how “rot und gut die Apfel ist.”
They don’t just sit and listen to a
lecture and repeat foreign phrases in
her classes. She plans group activities
and chalkboard exercises from the
vocabulary in the textbook. Saur also
encourages students explore the
German language by inventing gram-
matically correct, bizarre sentences.
Introductory German classes will
be offered both summer sessions
with Dale Priest teaching Summer
Session I and Saur teaching Summer
Session II.
“The continuing second-year
courses will be offered in the fall and
spring semesters and will include
videos of Germany, Switzerland and
Austria,” Saur said.
“We are a friendly group who
enjoy the language. We extend a
hearty ‘wilkommen’ to all students
who would like to join us in the
study of Germany, its culture and its
language,” Saur said. She smiles
again and pours more coffee into her
Guten Morgen mug.
The annual Teacher Job Fair will
be held at Lamar University in
Beaumont on April 18 in the
Montagne Center, Peter Schmidt,
director of the career and placement
center, said.
The event will begin at 9 a.m. and
end at 4:20 p.m., Schmidt said.
The fair is sponsored by the
College of Education and Human
Development and the Lamar Career
Development and Placement Center
Continued from page I
Under the new plan, the student
will be required to apply for admis-
sion into the education program, tak-
ing 18 hours of education courses
with six of those hours being student
teaching. The old plan had required
24 hours in education.
Hodge said, “Being admitted to
the education department will be a
big step for the student”
Continued from page 1
dedication and effort to further the
cause of higher education in Texas."
In accepting the award, Jordan
said that she is now even more com-
mitted in her role of helping "open
and stretch young minds."
ATCU also presented its
Excellence in Higher Education
Award to St Edwards University of
Austin for the institution's commu-
The fair will include 93 recruiters
from 52 school districts and the fed-
eral prison system.
Interviews of prospective ele-
mentary and secondary teachers will
be conducted all day.
Lamar graduates and candidates
for graduation may sign up for the
job fair interviews at the Career
Development and Placement Center
located in the Galloway Business
Building through Friday.
Requirements for admission are
passing the Texas Academic Skills
Program (TASP), which is a state law;
having a 2.5 grade point average
(GPA), both overall and in one’s
major, a standard set by the National
Council for Accreditation of Teacher
Education; and having all core cours-
es completed according to individual
degree plans.
nity mentor program.
Cited for honorable mention in
the awards competition were Texas
A&M and UT-Austin for their
statewide minority outreach pro-
gram; Rice University for its student
volunteer program; and Eastfield
College in Dallas for its community
substance abuse education program.
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