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Kyrstin Floodeen was the intern for the German program this summer. She worked on a variety of projects, including contacting alumni of the German program, developing content for the new German webpage, mastering the technology in the language learning center, researching and cataloging the German film collection, developing the bibliography for Professor Tobin's new book on the history of German sexuality, exploring and documenting the German television programs that the College's satellite receives, and writing up and formatting this newsletter.

Kyle Martz received an Abshire Award for the fall of 2006, where he will be helping Professor Tobin in the completion of his book, Peripheral Desires: The German Discovery of Sex. He was awarded membership in the Order of Wailaatpu. In the summer of 2006, he was working as an intern for the Schwulenberatung Berlin, a large social service organization for gays in Berlin. He has been assigned to help with the unit focusing on elderly gays and has also been working with an AIDS prevention group called ManCheck.

Cat Lewis received a RISE award from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. RISE stands for "Research Internship in Science and Engineering," and this program is designed for science majors who have sufficient German skills to take on a summer internship in a German lab.

Abby Lynch also had a summer internship as part of the "Regie Assistenz" team at Hexenkessel Hoftheater, which is an open air summer theatre that plays in Monbijou Park (across the river from the Bode Museum on the Museuminsel). She writes: "We do Shakespearean comedies (among other works - this summer we're doing Moliere and Goldoni as well) staged in a Commedia dell'arte style. My job title translates better as 'Production Assistant' into American theatre," she reports, adding "the work has been really good for my German, and I get free coffee."

Mark Prentice has had a banner year. He received an Abshire Award to help Professor Tobin complete the volume he is editing on the Eurovision Song Contest, which is soon to be published with Ashgate Press. He then received a Perry Award to work with Professor Frierson, who is continuing a project of translating some texts by Immanuel Kant that have been hitherto unavailable to the English-speaking audience. And to top it off, he got into the "Graduate School. Experience," a one-week, all-expenses-paid seminar at the University of Pennsylvania, which has the oldest German department in the country. The program, funded by the Max Kade Foundation and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdiesnt, is supposed to give rising seniors the chance to see what graduate school in German Studies is like.

Jana Stone, the new RA of our German House, continues the Whitman tradition of taking part in the Grosser Grenzverkehr, an internship designed to expose young people from isolated rural communities in eastern Germany to the world.

Cory Ulrich received a highly competitive award of substantial merit-based financial aid from the Deutscher Akademsicher Austauschdienst to fund her study abroad experience in Berlin in the spring of 2006. While in Berlin, she took part in an internship at a school for the physically handicapped. Prior to studying abroad, she had been the RA of the German House. She also received an EXCEL grant from the Washington Association of Language Teachers-another competitive grant. And she also was awarded membership in Whitman College's Order of Wailaatpu, for excellent students with a record of community service. Cory Ulrich's 2006 internship was with a school for the physically handicapped in Lichtenberg, in the eastern part of Berlin. During the semester, she came about once a week to watch the classes and occasionally assist the teachers, and then in July she helped out with their summer day camp. "The kids were great and I feel like it was the main reason why my German improved at all."

Suzanne Zitzer also received an EXCEL grant from WAFLT-Whitman College got two of the six awarded in the state this year! She was also a finalist in the highly competitive Pickering Award.

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