AMICI Mentoring Program Takes Step Forward

Since last fall when the AMICI Mentoring Program was first announced, six members of AMICI have generously volunteered to serve as mentors to schools with only one Latin teacher.

New mentors and their mentees are

• Joe Cummins (Grinnell) and Vicki Campbell (Dowling);
• Carin Green (U of I) and Jane Smith (Iowa City FLES Program);
• John Gruber-Miller (Cornell) and Jacqueline Niffenegger (Xavier);
• Mary Ann Harness (Valley) and Lincoln High School;
• Geoff Harrison (Loras) and Pat Burr (Bettendorf);
• Cindy Smith (Loras) and Jeannette Rowings (Rivermont).

The AMICI mentoring program is designed to

• Encourage Iowa classicists to network, especially secondary and post-secondary.
• Support healthy Latin programs
• Ascertain the health of Latin in Iowa.
• Learn where AMICI can intervene to re-instate Latin programs or save endangered programs.
• Promote high school teaching as a career to undergraduate majors and graduate students.