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Bonjour! My name is Chris Lanoue. I teach high school French in Northwest Florida and am completing a Masters in French Education at EWU, following two delightful summers in Nice. I highly recommend the program to French majors!

Teaching has been my second career since 1997. I lived and worked in Paris for 16 years after graduating from Ohio State University with a BA in Journalism. In Paris I worked for the International Herald Tribune, which has always been a leader in newspaper technology. As I grapple with the technological challenges of this course, I well remember the night the paper switched from blue-pencil editing and hot-lead linotypes to computerized editing and typesetting and offset printing. Four years before, it had pioneered electronic transmission of facsimile pages to a second print site in London, followed eventually by Zurich, Hong Kong and a dozen other sites around the globe. I can't help smiling when I I recall the publisher telling us sometime in the mid-eighties that there would "come a time" when people would print out their own copy of the paper from their personal computer in their own home or office. At the time it seemed far-fetched.

Much as I enjoyed that job and the excitement of Paris, I now love teaching and living by the beautiful (and hopefully still) white sand beaches of the Gulf of Mexico. As the only French teacher in my school, I particularly enjoy watching my students grow and mature during their high school years in my classes.

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