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Vol. 7, No. 1 College of Arts & Sciences Fall 2002

REEI honors Feldstein, Holdeman new Slavic alumni appointees in Slavic department Professor Howard Aronson he Department in the Office of (emeritus, University of ) of Slavic Faculty and TA and William Hopkins (former T Languages and Development, translator, .S. Department of State) Literatures is pleased to organizing work- were presented with Distinguished announce the appoint- shops and orienta- Alumni Awards by the Russian and ment of Professor tion programs for East European Institute on April 16 Ronald Feldstein as teachers, as well as and June 24, respectively. The award department chair. teaching courses in recognizes exceptional contributions Feldstein previously both Russian and to the field of Russian and East held this position Ronald Feldstein Jeffrey Holdeman and European studies by graduates of during the 1980s and culture. Additionally, Indiana University. Aronson and mid-1990s, and he resumes the position as he has both taught in and supervised the Hopkins are the fifth and sixth the previous chair, Professor Henry Russian Individualized Instruction Program recipients of the award. , goes on a well-deserved sabbatical. at Ohio State. Aronson received a BA in French In addition to his duties as chair, Feldstein Holdeman has traveled extensively in from the University of Illinois in will continue to teach courses on Slavic both and the Czech Republic, as 1956, before linguistics and Russian. well as in Poland, , and Ukraine. coming to IU Jeffrey Holdeman joins the department These trips include a year in the Interna- to complete his as the new Slavic language coordinator this tional Student Exchange Program with the MA (1958) fall. Holdeman recently completed his PhD St. Petersburg Mining Institute and four and PhD in Slavic linguistics at The Ohio State summers at the Summer School for (1961) in University with his dissertation, titled Slavonic Studies in Olomouc, Czech Slavic linguis- “Language Maintenance and Shift Among Republic, serving there for three years as tics. He the Russian Old Believers of Erie, Pennsyl- resident director of a study abroad program accepted a vania.” for CIC students that he established. Howard Aronson position at the As language coordinator, Holdeman In addition to his dissertation interests, University of oversees the language instructional program Holdeman specializes in comparative Slavic Wisconsin–Madison for one year and the training of graduate assistants. He linguistics, phonetics and sociolinguistics, before beginning his career at the is also teaching two sections of first-year and Russian and Czech pedagogy. He has University of Chicago. He has since Russian in the fall. In coming semesters, he also done course work in Serbo-Croatian, published numerous and will leading specialized courses. Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovak, and Old articles, most recently Georgian While at Ohio State, Holdeman worked . Language and Culture: A Continuing Course (Slavica Publishers, 1999) with Dodona Kiziria. His other In this issue works have covered the Bulgarian, Yiddish, and Russian languages. William Hopkins’s speech...... page 2 Aronson was nominated for the Faculty news ...... page 3 award by Henry Cooper, Bozena Slavica at IU...... page 3 Shallcross, and George Fowler. Student notes ...... page 4 Hopkins received a BA (1965), MA (1967), and PhD (1977) from Alumni notebook ...... page 5 the IU Department of Slavic In memoriam: Elizabeth . Neatrour ...... page 7 (continued on page 3) Class notes coupon ...... page 8 Russian interpreter shares insights at ceremony

The following speech was given by William Among others am referring to: Hopkins in June upon accepting a Distin- Borovkova, Anna Ivanovna; Chetverikova, guished Alumni Award from the Russian and Aleksandra Sergeevna; Martianov, Aleksandr East European Institute. Dmitrievich; Usenko,Vera Grigorievna; Sklanchenko, Tatiana Yakovlevna; lease accept my heartfelt thanks for Slavatinskaya, Lidia Prokofievna; Soudakoff, the Distinguished Alumni Award Stepan Petrovich; Zardetskaya, Elena P that is being presented to me today. Florianovna; and Fedulova, Margarita I am deeply humbled by this honor, not Petrovna. The workshop is honored today to because it validates what have been be graced still with the presence of one described as my “achievements,” but individual who was a part of that group because of my profound respect for the throughout that entire period here at IU — significance of the Russian and East Galina Aleksandrovna McLaws, my first European Institute and the importance of Russian teacher here in 1962. what it represents. Given all the outstand- Through the untiring efforts of those ing and accomplished students who have selfless, dedicated educators, generations of studied in the institute and in the various us who studied here at IU were afforded the related departments at IU, it is an honor William Hopkins best language education that was available in even to have one’s professional endeavors training, a Midwestern, Irish-American kid the . They gave us the most come to the attention of such an institution, was given the necessary foundation to fundamental tool necessary to be competent let alone to be given such an award. pursue a career that required a broad and in any work related to the U.S.S.R. or the As a person who has not had a career in solid knowledge of all aspects of a compli- CIS: a solid foundation in the language. the academic world per se, I think it is cated, complex foreign culture. I would like to take advantage of your particularly important for me to make a few At this time, when questions of protecting presence here today to put forth an idea that I comments about some other aspects of the our national security are so much in the hope will find support among you. I have fact that this award is being given to me — forefront, and when the need for those with already spoken to Professor Kolodziej about and at this time. expertise in other cultures and languages is this, and the idea was enthusiastically I pursued a career in the field of language so apparent, there can be justified satisfaction received. support in the private sector and for the here that IU and the REEI have so long Wouldn’t it be a fitting idea to recognize U.S. government, and, as an interpreter, I appreciated that need and responded to it. the efforts of those individuals and immor- achieved a considerable amount of visibility Indiana University, the Russian and East talize them by installing a memorial plaque and, thus, credibility in the field. European Institute, and the Slavic depart- in an appropriate place here on campus? When I consulted with a colleague as to ment have always played an exceptionally With the help of the REEI and the Slavic what sort of “hook” to take in accepting the important role in preparing specialists to workshop, we could contact the legions of award, it was jocularly suggested that I take work in all areas concerning the U.S.S.R. former IU students who learned Russian an “ah, shucks,” “what, me, an Iowa farm and the CIS. Throughout the years, I have through the efforts of this singular group of kid that became a Russian interpreter for met few successful professionals in govern- dedicated people, and I am certain with the U.S. president” approach. ment specializing in that area who have not their support such a project could be As I thought about it, joking aside, that spent at least some time at IU. successfully implemented. seemed to me perhaps to be rather an I have long been an advocate of area Thanks in large measure to the efforts of appropriate note to strike — because while studies and foreign language acquisition, that group of Russian émigrés, that farm I recognize and celebrate the multiregional particularly in the context of developing kid from Iowa whom I mentioned was and international makeup of IU and the national security resources, and I intend to given a foundation in the language that student body, in some respects, an award continue to promote that cause in every made it possible to build a professional life like this in recognition of professional way possible, especially through encourag- in an area of true personal interest, to gain achievements in the area where knowledge ing foreign language study. Clearly, many in advancement and recognition in that field, of the was the central job our country are now coming to appreciate and, on the most practical level, to keep requirement, celebrates the opportunities more profoundly some things this commu- bread on the table for 30-some years. No afforded by IU — even some 40 years ago nity has long understood. forum could appreciate the importance of — to Midwesterners like myself who had a In that connection, I think it is also what those teachers gave us all more than particular interest in language and area important to recognize a group of people those of you affiliated with the REEI, the study. IU was where we came. Today that who were deeply involved with the workshop, and the university. opportunity is still offered to all who want university and who made a tremendous When the Russian and East European to take advantage of it through the contribution to the success of individual Institute decides to recognize me as an institute, the Slavic department, and the students like myself and to our national outstanding alumnus, I am honored, moved, summer workshop. efforts — by providing excellent language and humbled. However, I can only say that I And it isn’t the “ah, shucks” aspect that I instruction and, through that, in helping to am willing to accept the award and the want to focus on so much as the fact that, promote the national security. recognition it implies not on my own behalf, thanks to my academic experience here, I am talking about a group of Russian but on behalf of all those dedicated Russian surrounded by a distinguished faculty and émigrés, who, as Russian language teachers, émigré language teachers who gave so much teachers, presented with excellent course were affiliated with the Slavic department of themselves to help their adopted country offerings, and given the opportunity to throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and in some and American students like me in shaping a receive world-class Russian language instances into the 1980s. career. Thank you very much. 2 Faculty news

Ronald Feldstein published “On the University, and Wroc law University; and (Leyerle Publications, 2002). Classification of Ukrainian Nominal “NP-Internal in Slavic” in May at Bronislava Volkova organized and Paradigms” in Indiana Potsdam University. He continues as chair chaired a panel titled “Czech : (festschrift for Charles Townsend). He was of the IU Department of Linguistics and as 20th-Century Issues” at the 21st World a co-editor, along with Laura Janda and editor-in-chief of the Congress of the Czechoslovak Society of Steven Franks, on the same collection. He Journal of Slavic Arts and Sciences, also published “Roman Jakobson’s East Linguistics. held at the University Slavic Zones as Presented in Remarques sur Christina Illias of Western Bohemia in l’evolution phonologique du russe” in received a Trustees’ Plzen, Czech Republic, Indiana Slavic Studies (festschrift for Vadim Teaching Award in June 2002. She also Liapunov). Feldstein also has a forthcoming from the university. presented a paper titled called “The Unified Monophth- The award comes “Vanek and Palaverer: ongization Rule of Common Slavic” in the on the recommen- Two Sons of the Same Journal of Slavic Linguistics. In addition, dation of her Father, or Protagonist Feldstein delivered a paper titled “A Russian colleagues in the as a Semiotic Device” at Stress System Using Basic Forms and Shift department. the same panel. Volkova to End-Stress” at Duke University’s Vadim has been invited to read conference “Internationalizing the Curricu- Liapunov, her poetry on a panel lum” in April. He has been published associate profes- featuring the new online, submitting “A Binary Feature sor of Slavic bilingual anthology of Approach to Russian Nominal Declension” languages and Czech and Slovak exile to the online publication Glossos, which can literatures, poetry under the title be found at seelrc.org/glossos/issues/2/ retired in 2000 Chut’ ztraceného domova feldstein.pdf. after 24 years [The Taste of a Lost Steven Franks, together with Ronald with IU. ], just published Feldstein, submitted a manuscript on Nina Perlina by the Czecholosvak Polish to the series Lincom Europe’s published Society of Arts and Languages of the World. Franks and Writing the Siege Sciences. She has also been Feldstein (with Laura Janda) co-edited of Leningrad: invited to publish her Where One’s Tongue Rules Well: A Festschrift Women’s Diaries, Memoirs, and Documentary poetry in Vespers: Religion and Spirituality in for Charles E. Townsend (Slavica Publishers Prose (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002) Contemporary American Poetry (forthcom- 2002). An article by Franks is also included with co-author Cynthia Simmons of Boston ing, University of Iowa Press, 2003) and in in this volume. Franks and co-author Zˇeljko College. Her book gives a to the Metamorphoses, a journal on literary Bosˇkovic´ published an article titled women who survived the Siege of translation appearing at the University of “- Interactions in South Leningrad between 1941 and 1944, as she Massachusetts–Amherst. Slavic” in Balkanistica 15 (2002). Franks draws from their own writing and stories. was a guest professor in the English Perlina also published an article on department of Warsaw University in May Dostoevsky and Vico in the most recent and June 2002, under the auspices of the issue of the Slavic and East European Slavica at IU IU–Warsaw University exchange. During Journal. Slavica Publishers was acquired by his time there, he taught a course on syntax Laurence Richter published Mussorgsky’s Indiana University in August 1997 and made a variety of presentations, Complete Song Texts: Russian Texts of the from its founder including “What’s that?” in May at the Complete Songs of Modest Petrovich and longtime Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissen- Mussorgsky with Phonetic Transcriptions, publisher, Charles schaft in Berlin, Warsaw University, Pozna´n Literal and Idiomatic English Translations E. Gribble (professor of Slavic linguistics REEI honors alumni at Ohio State University). In (continued from page 1) addition to Languages and Literatures. After completing his studies, Hopkins took a position teaching producing and distributing past Russian language and literature at Middlebury College. One year later, he became a publications, Slavica at IU has diplomatic interpreter with the U.S. Department of State. In his time there, he served as a concentrated a special effort on branch chief, as well as an interpreter for numerous governmental meetings and summits. attracting submissions on Slavic He acted as an interpreter for the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission in 1996 and the language textbooks, reference Clinton-Yeltsin Summit in 1994. Most recently, Hopkins has been assisting in an FBI books, research monographs, and interpreter training workshop at the University of Delaware. language pedagogy. Information on David Ransel of the Russian and East European Institute and Jerzy Kolodziej of the Slavica Publishers and its offerings Slavic department nominated Hopkins for the Distinguished Alumni Award. Kolodziej can be found on its Web site, presented the award in June at a ceremony in his honor (see page 2 for Hopkins’s accep- www.slavica.com. tance speech). 3 Student notes

Milan Bohacek, a third-year graduate Olomouc. He received a CIBER Grant found at http://rferl.org/balkan-report/. student of Slavic and general linguistics, is from the IU Kelley School of Business and Jennifer Sanders, a PhD student in working with Jennifer Sanders on a a Graduate Studies Grant from the Slavic linguistics, traveled to the former project called “Characteristics of Kosciuszko Foundation for the 2002–03 this past summer, spending time in Slavic Languages,” in which they analyze academic year. He also will be a representa- in , , and before the phonetic and phonemic properties of tive of Polish at the Roundtable for ending her travels in , . consonants in Czech, Russian, and Curricular Development of Less Com- There she attended the three-week seminar Serbo-Croatian. monly Taught Slavic and East European on the Macedonian language, literature, and Jennifer Day defended her dissertation Languages at the AATSEEL National culture. During the seminar she gave a “Memory as Space: The Created Petersburg Conference in New York, Dec. 27–30. paper titled “Poslednicite na sekvencata na of Vladimir Nabokov and Brodskij” Stu Mackenzie taught first-year Russian sonornost vrz konsonanskite grupi po in August 2001. Vadim Liapunov chaired this past summer for SWSEEL. He is gubenjeto erovite” (The Effects of Sonority her committee. preparing for the admissions exams for Sequencing on Consonant Clusters After Nancy Eyl received a 2002–03 Fulbright Slavic languages and literatures. Jer-fall), focusing on data from Russian, award to study contemporary literature in Elena Monastireva-Andsell defended Czech, and Serbian/Croatian in Kyiv and Lviv. her dissertation “From Blooming Garden to to Macedonian. The paper will appear in a Chris Howard was awarded a FLAS Charred Forest: Images of the Revolution collection of works from the conference, Summer Grant to study at the Szkola and the Civil War in Soviet Cinema and published by the Macedonian Academy of Letnia Uniwesytetu Jagiellonskiego in Prose” in October 2002. Dodona Kiziria Sciences and Arts. To help defray travel Kraków, Poland, and was named a CIC chaired her committee. Monastireva- expenses, Sanders was awarded a scholar- Traveling Scholar to Ohio State University’s Andsell is currently a visiting lecturer at ship by the IU College of Arts and Sci- Czech summer study abroad course in Oberlin College (Ohio). ences. Sanders, who currently teaches first- Donald Reindl is conducting doctoral year Serbian/Croatian, attended a similar research in Ljubljana, , and is program for the in Slavic Languages teaching courses at the Dubrovnik, Croatia, last summer. In University of Ljubljana. He awaits the December, she will present and discuss new & Literatures publication of his article “Markedness as a materials available for the teaching of Criterion for Establishing German Influence Serbian and Croatian as part of a in Slovene Compound Number Constitu- roundtable on less commonly taught Slavic This newsletter is published by the Indiana ency” in Sprachtypologie und and East European languages at the University Alumni Association, in coopera- Universalienforschung, which he co-edited AATSEEL National Conference in New tion with the Department of Slavic Lan- guages and Literatures and the College of with J. Oresnik (forthcoming 2003). He York. Arts and Sciences Alumni Association, to presented “Borrowings from German into Saera Yoon attended a summer institute, encourage alumni interest in and support the Grammatical System of Slovene” at the “Slavic and East European Languages: for Indiana University. For activities and conference Deutsch-slawischer Acquisition, Techniques, and Technolo- membership information, call (800) 824- Sprachkontakt, Entlehnungen und gies,” at the University of 3044 or send e-mail to iualumni@indiana sprachliche Identität, sponsored by the and Duke University, July 8–17. She also .edu. Sorbisches Institut in Cottbus, . His was awarded an IU Future Faculty Teaching presentation will be included in a volume of Fellowship and will be teaching Russian at Department of Slavic the conference proceedings, to be edited by DePauw University during the spring 2003 Languages & Literatures G. Spieß and G. Hentschel (forthcoming semester. She will present a paper titled Chair ...... Ronald Feldstein 2003). Reindl has been writing for Radio “Gogol’s Self-Canonization: Between the Language Free Europe/Radio Liberty, contributing to Two Taras Bul’bas” at the AATSEEL Coordinator ...... Jeffrey Holdeman the weekly Balkan Report, which can be conference in December. Newsletter Editor ...... Jen Maceyko

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4 Alumni notebook

Before 1960 officers. They have and Punishment” in Slavic and Victoria Moessner, BA’59, a no system similar to East European Journal. Tucker professor of German and chair our ROTC program also acted as editor for Against of the Department of Foreign and can no longer the Grain: Parody, Satire, and Languages and Literatures at afford so many Intertextuality in Russian the University of Alaska military academies. Literature, currently in press Fairbanks, writes to say that she They were very with Slavica Publishers. fondly remembers Felix Oinas, forthright and open John Bickle, BA’74, entered Tatiana Sklanchinko, and other about their problems the Conventual Franciscan professors. She has been and expressed their Order and was ordained a Department of Defense. He working on an unpublished admiration of our system and Roman Catholic priest in 1984. lives in Queenstown, Md., with diary (1793–1815) of a Russian the professionalism of our While at St. Francis Hospital in his wife and 4-year-old son. naval officer, Herman Ludwig officer corps. … By the way, I Trenton in the 1980s, he was Robbie Clipper Sethi, von Loewenstern, which opened our seminar by reciting called upon several times to act BA’73, is chair of the Depart- includes the first Russian a poem by Lermantov from as translator for several Russian- ment of English at Rider voyage around the world. The memory I learned so many speaking patients from a nearby University. After taking a diary is written in colloquial years ago at IU.” village. After completing a double major in Slavic lan- Baltic German with mixtures of Howard L. Simmons, master’s degree in health guages and literatures (Russian) Russian, Dutch, French, MAT’65, writes, “I was recently administration at St. Joseph and English at IU, she received English, Italian, and Pidgin appointed as professor and University in Philadelphia, a PhD in comparative literature English. Moessner has com- coordinator of the new PhD in Bickle assumed the position of from UC-Berkeley. She pleted a full English translation, higher education program in director of spiritual care at St. published part of her disserta- which will soon be published, the School of Education and Vincent’s Hospital in Manhat- tion about the influence of and has delivered many lectures Urban Studies at Morgan State tan in 1996. He left the order in drama on the development of on the diary since completing University. I continue also as 2000 and is now living in the novel in , England, the translation. professor emeritus of educa- Philadelphia, where he works as tional leadership and policy and Russia in Russian literature, a specialist in the Employee and then switched fields. Sethi 1960s studies at Arizona State Assistance Program for an University.” He lives in joined Rider as their creative insurance company. Baker, MA’63, Baltimore. writer, and since has published Leon Petelle, BA’74, retired in June 2000 after 33 Ronald W. Thornton, short stories, poems, essays, and attended the MBA program at years of teaching at Middlebury MA’67, PhD’79, has an article a novel, The Bride Wore Red, the University of Chicago after College in the Russian Depart- forthcoming in Mother Tongue with another forthcoming, graduating from IU. He ment and the Russian Summer VII (December 2002) on Fifty-Fifty (Silicon Press, worked for two years for Price School. She lives in Middlebury, “Basque Correspondences to November 2002). She also has Waterhouse in their audit Vt. Greenberg’s Grammatical taught Russian literature at practice in New York, then Lt. Gen. Thomas M. Evidence for Euroasiatic.” Rider, crossing departments to joined the Bristol-Myers Co. Montgomery, BA’63, entered Through research on the do so. She received a distin- After numerous domestic and the U.S. Army from ROTC Basque language, Thorton guished teaching award from international business positions upon graduation and was builds and expands on Joseph Rider University in May 2002. in the United States and assigned to Armor Branch Greenberg’s work on the She lives in Skillman, N.J. , Petelle found his way (tanks and cavalry). Although Euroasiatic family (or Janet Tucker, PhD’73, was into Bristol-Myers’s nascent intending to remain in the macrofamily) hypothesis. promoted to professor of Central and Eastern Europe Army for only two or three Currently, he is teaching Russian at the University of division, where he has worked years and then to move into the English in Japan. Arkansas. She authored three for three and a half years as the Foreign Service, his leadership recent essays: “Plot Rhyme in region’s finance director. Petelle abilities led him to extend his 1970s Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin” in is now director of international service. After a first tour in New Zealand Slavonic Studies, Lynne Bauer Campbell, treasury for the company. Vietnam, he decided to make “Skaz and Oral Usage as BA’73, has been employed with Allan Grafman, BA’75, is the Army his career. Montgom- Satirical Devices in Isaac Babel’s the Glastonbury (Conn.) president of All Media Ventures ery retired in December 1997 as Red Cavalry” in Canadian- School System for the past 28 based in New York City. a lieutenant general, after American Slavic Studies, and years. As a teacher, she has Frank J. Miller, PhD’76, is a serving his last assignment as “The Religious Significance of taken advantage of many of the (continued on page 6) the U.S. military representative Clothing in Dostoevsky’s Crime to NATO in Brussels, Belgium. international programs offered Last year he led a team to by the district. Most recently, Moscow to conduct a seminar she attended a conference in Visit us online at www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/ for senior military and defense Zvenigorod, Russia, titled, or write to us at the Department of Slavic officials on “Military Education “Teaching Russian History and Languages and Literatures at Indiana and Careers.” He writes, “The Culture Through the Internet.” University, Ballantine Hall 502 Jerald J. Jordan, BA’73, is in Russians have a problem with Bloomington, IN 47405-7103. accessions and training for his 30th year working for the 5 Alumni news ing in a round table on the negotiations on the Conven- current research interests transformation of area studies tional Forces in Europe Treaty, include completing a mono- (continued from page 5) at the November meeting of the Open Skies Treaty, and in graph on body, language, and professor of Slavic languages at AAASS in Pittsburgh. He is the OSCE’s Forum for Security gender in the works of Marina Columbia University. He has also serving as vice chair of the Cooperation. Prior to that, Cox Tsvetaeva, investigating published numerous Russian Columbia University history served as a U.S. foreign area fortunetelling and folk healing textbooks and reference books department this year. officer in the U.S. Army. in northwest Russia, and and received the AATSEEL Steinar E. Kottum, PhD’79, Edna Andrews, PhD’84, is translating short prose by Award for Excellence in is an associate professor of director of the Slavic and East Serbian writer Isidora Sekuli´c. Teaching at the Postsecondary Russian at the Norwegian European Language Resource She lives in Swarthmore, Pa. Level in 1996. Defence Intelligence and Center at the University of E. Flynn, MA’86, Lennell R. Nussbaum, Security School, where he trains North Carolina and Duke was named associate director of BA’77, was selected to receive language specialists for the University. She also is chair of information systems technology the 2000 William . Douglas Armed Forces. In 1992, Kottum the Department of Slavic for the Systems and Accounting Award presented by the joined a team of Russian and Languages and Literature at Graduate Programs office at the Washington Association of Norwegian linguists who started Duke University. IU Kelley School of Business in Criminal Defense Layers. It is work on a comprehensive Lynn A. Berry, MA’84, September 2000. He worked as given in recognition of extraor- Norwegian-Russian dictionary became the editor of the Moscow an education specialist, Cisco dinary courage and commit- (forthcoming Times in January 2001. Prior to networking instructor, and ment in the practice of criminal Kunnskapsforlaget, Oslo, 2003). that she was a top editor at the NETg coordinator for IU’s law. She lives and practices in Kottum has been in charge of paper and had worked closely University Information Technol- Seattle, Wash. selecting, editing, and proof- with the previous editor. After ogy Services Education Program Mark von Hagen, MA’78, is reading Norwegian entries in IU, she did graduate studies in (now IT Training) the two years finishing his sabbatical leave the dictionary, as well as Warsaw from 1984 to 1986 and before his current position. He after six years as director of the checking the accuracy of the later wrote a biography of Polish and his wife, Yvonne Wittmann, Harriman Institute. He is Russian translations. leader Wojciech Jaruzelski after BA’89, MA’91, live in writing a book titled Between interviewing him in 1988. Bloomington. They have two Empire and Union: The Origins 1980s Sibelan E. Forrester, children, Mara, 4, and Tess, 1. of Modern Ukraine and Total James H. Cox, MA’81, MA’85, PhD’90, is associate He also takes care of the Slavic War, 1914–1923, and was currently is serving as the chief professor of Russian and head department’s Web site, among elected president of the U.S. arms control delegate to of the Russian section in the others, and serves on the board International Association of the Organization for Security Department of Modern at Bloomington Montessori Ukrainianists in Chernivtsi, and Cooperation in Europe. He Languages and Literatures at School. Ukraine. He will be participat- represents the United States in Swarthmore College. Her Peter Holquist, BA’86, has been teaching Russian and Soviet history at Cornell University since 1996 and was INDIANA UNIVERSITY promoted this past summer from assistant to associate Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European, & Central Asian Languages professor. 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He is also Seminar (3 credit hours) • FLAS Fellowships available co-founder and co-editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian Travel option CENTRAL ASIA/ GEORGIAN and Eurasian History • Four weeks intensive Russian , now in its (including Business Russian) in In-state tuition for all languages • First- and second-year Azeri, third year. St. Petersburg, with two weeks Kazakh, Turkmen, Uzbek, and Georgian travel in Russia. 1990s APPLICATION DEADLINE • First-year Pashto, Tajik, and • July 18–Aug. 29 (6 credit FOR FELLOWSHIPS: Michael H. Oppenheim, hours) Uyghur April 1 • FLAS and SSRC Fellowships BA’91, graduated from the • May be preceded by four weeks Defense Language Institute of intensive Russian at IUB. available (Mandarin Chinese) and from the Naval Postgraduate School (MA in national security affairs, For applications or brochures, write to Director, SWSEEL, Ballantine 502, with an emphasis in China area Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 • Phone: (812) 855-2608 • Fax: (812) 855-2107 studies) in June 2000. He • E-mail: [email protected] • On the Web: www.indiana.edu/~iuslavic/swseel.shtml (continued on page 7) 6 In memoriam Homage to JMU professor Elizabeth J. Neatrour he student ambassador who Editor’s note — We were saddened to learn of the passing of IU Thad led my alumna Elizabeth (Betty Jo) Baylor Neatrour, 67, professor of campus tour at James Russian at James Madison University. Neatrour received a PhD Madison University on a from the IU Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures in blustery day in January 1973. She died Monday, Jan. 7, 2002, at her home in spoke enthusiastically Harrisonburg, Va. about her Russian classes, Neatrour leaves behind a legacy of almost four decades of reigniting the interest I academic excellence and dedication to promoting the richness of already had in the culture. Russian culture. Her tireless work in promoting high standards of When I enrolled in first- teaching, scholarship, and leadership here and in Russia was year Russian as a recognized in April 1998, with the award of the prestigious freshman at JMU, I had Pushkin Medal by ACTR. only planned to use the The ACTR award cited her efforts to cultivate “goodwill in language to meet the American-Russian relations through academic study and requirement for my BA. collaboration” and was given further weight by the Russian Then I met Betty Elizabeth J. Neatrour government’s hosting of a reception in her honor at its newly Neatrour. She is the given opportunities to work opened embassy in Washington, D.C. Her organizational reason for my fascination with leadership was evidenced by the many presidencies to which she was Russian language and culture. with visiting professors from across the , and we elected, including the JMU Women’s Club, ACTR, the Delta I remember a woman whose Kappa Gamma Society of Virginia (IOTA State), the JMU eyes blazed with vitality when had the chance to meet college students like us who came to Faculty Women’s Caucus, and the Foreign Language Association she entered the classroom, of Virginia. drawing us in with Russian JMU from the Herzen Institute. Through this type of contact Neatrour is survived by her husband, Charles, JMU professor greetings that we would soon emeritus in mathematics education; their son, Peyton, an be able to say ourselves. our lessons came alive. Neatrour’s impact on my life ophthalmologist in Virginia Beach; his wife, Leslie; and their Throughout the semester, she three children, Kristin, Kaitlin, and Gregory. She also is survived would occasionally perch on the certainly has been great. She gave me the opportunity to by her mother, Amalia. back of a desk, lowering her Charles Neatrour recently endowed a Neatrour-Edgerton voice to tell us stories about teach Russian language and literature with an amazing team Fellowship in the department to honor the memory of his wife and, Anna Akhmatova, the purges, at her request, to honor her mentor at IU, William B. Edgerton. and Rekviem on one day, about of teachers and staff in the voting for Gorbachev on Governor’s Russian Studies another. Like so many other Academy, which she initiated in students who preceded and Virginia. She encouraged me to JMU, but more important, she that many of us still use, and followed me, I listened intently, work in Moscow, and it was she leaves a family of former she also taught us how to live and I joined the program who suggested to me that students whom she supported with integrity. because I wanted to learn more. graduate studies in comparative and encouraged with warmth — Lara Gose So many students blossomed literature would be a good fit and enthusiasm long after we PhD student, under her care. Through for my academic background. had left her classroom. She gave comparative literature Neatrour’s efforts, we were Neatrour leaves a legacy at us the Russian language skills

Thunderbird in Arizona. She a Chicago-based company. She Russian Leadership Program Alumni news then spent a year working with then went on to receive an sponsored by the Library of (continued from page 6) a small recruiting company in MBA. She now is teaching Congress. I plan to change my attended the Capital Normal London, headhunting for marketing, international current career concentration to University in Beijing, China, Western and Russian firms marketing, and international something more international from September 2000 to June located in Russia. She has since business and is doing research as soon as possible. I would 2001. His e-mail address is left to join the training and on comparative macroeconomic love to hear from any fellow [email protected]. development department at factors between the top alumni at dzaccaro@hotmail Kendra Cartwright, BA’92, Barclays Capital in London. She contenders aspiring to become .com.” She graduated from law worked for four years in Russia lives in London and regularly part of the European Union. school in 1999 and is currently after leaving Indiana. She then meets with the IU alumni club Deborah Zaccaro working in insurance. went on to receive a master’s in of London. Hoffman, BA’93, AC REE’93, M. Drozd, PhD’95, Russian language and literature Kasia Jarski Firlej, BA’92, of Cleveland writes, “My of Tuscaloosa, ., is on at Florida State University, spent two and a half years in husband and I recently hosted sabbatical from the University of before beginning a PhD at Russia teaching English before two women small-business Alabama and living in Brno, Ohio State University. moving into the business sector. owners from Russia who were Czech Republic. He is doing Cartwright left Ohio to pursue Upon returning to the United here studying economic research for a book on Czech- an international MBA at States, Firlej worked in sales for development as part of the (continued on back cover) 7 Virgil T. DeVault Alumni Center Nonprofit Organization 1000 East 17th Street Have tag, will travel Postage Bloomington, Indiana 47408-1521 PAID Indiana University Alumni Association

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