Gladys Liption Receives NNELL Award"To Gladys Lipton: With heartfelt appreciation for your support and promotion of early language learning." November 2005. Mary Sosnowski, a former attendee at Gladys Lipton's National FLES* Institute at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, made the presentation on behalf of NNELL. She said, in part: "In honor of her continuous and untiring promotion of early language learning, NNELL wishes to present this token of appreciation to Dr. Gladys Liption." (Note: It was a beautiful table box with the inscribed inscription). Starting her career as a high school teacher, Gladys Lipton, early on, became dedicated to foreign language in the elementary school (she taught at this level!) and worked to assemble a body of research that would expand programs throughout the country, through her books, her articles and her personal appearances. She has worked with superintendents, principals, school districts, parents, teachers and others to help the public to understand the many benefits of starting the study of a foreign language early. For many years, Gladys was Chair of AATSP's FLES Committee and AATF's FLES* Commission. She was national President of the AATF, 1998-2000 and was a frequent presenter at the Northeast Conference, at the Central States Conference and at the Southern Conference, as well as ACTFL. Among her many other awards and honors, Gladys Lipton treasures ACTFL's Florence Steiner Award for Leadership, AATF's Honorary Membership, and Officier dans l'ordre des Palmes Academiques. |