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https://archive.org/details/modernrussian0002daws
Modern Russian II
A Project of Syracuse University
under contract with the United States Office of Education
about Modern Russian
In February 1960 the University of Michigan sponsored a conference of scholars to “develop criteria
for a two-year college sequence of specialized materials for learning the Russian language.” In its pro¬
posal to the U.S. Office of Education for funds to support the conference, the University of Michigan
stated its view that “The urgency of our national need to improve and increase the study of the Russian
language in our schools and colleges and the comparative dearth and inadequacy of existing materials
for this purpose dictate the collaboration of the U.S. Office of Education with the Russian language
specialists ... in the production of a complete two-year college level course in Russian.” The proposal
advised that “pertinent decisions regarding personnel, institutional sponsorship, and methodology for
the production of such a course should be made only on a broadly established basis of consensus among
a widely representative group of scholars and specialists in this field.” The twenty-seven scholars and
specialists listed on the page opposite collaborated at the conference to achieve that consensus, and
designated nine persons, similarly listed, as an Advisory Committee to the project.
Recommendations arising from the February 1960 conference and from the Advisory Committee
resulted in the naming and empowering of the Working Committee: Dr. Clayton L. Dawson, Professor
and Chairman of the Slavic Department at Syracuse University (project coordinator); Dr. Charles E.
Bidwell, Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures,
University of Pittsburgh; and Dr. Assya Humesky, Associate Professor of Russian Language and
Literature, University of Michigan. Syracuse University undertook to house and administer the entire
project and assumed responsibility for the preparation of the new materials. Both the University of
Michigan conference and the University of Syracuse project to produce the two-year course were
supported by the U.S. Office of Education, under authority of Title VI of the National Defense Educa¬
tion Act.
The University of Michigan, the University of Pittsburgh, and Syracuse University cooperated by
granting leaves of absence to Drs. Humesky, Bidwell, and Dawson respectively. Along with these
universities, The American University, the Foreign Service Institute, Georgetown University, Indiana
University, St. John’s University, the State University College at New Paltz, New York, and the Uni¬
versity of Washington participated in the field testing of materials prior to publication, providing help¬
ful suggestions and encouragement. Generous help was provided in typing, advising, and recording by
a large group of native Russians teaching in the Slavic Department of Syracuse University. Professors
Robert L. Baker of Indiana University and Tatiana Cizevska of the University of Illinois contributed
timely information on culture and current usage out of their recent experience in the Soviet Union.
Finally, special critical evaluations and recommendations were provided by Professors Baker, Richard
Burgi of Princeton University, Kurt Klein of the University of Illinois, and Laurence C. Thompson of
the University of Washington.
Modern Russian, together with the recordings and the teacher’s manual prepared to accompany it,
unique in both content and techniques in the Russian field, is the fruition of this cooperative group
effort.
MEMBERS OF THE 1960 ANN ARBOR CONFERENCE
Emma Birkmaier University of Minnesota
Deming J. Brown University of Michigan
Edward J. Brown Brown University
William S. Cornyn Yale University
Clayton L. Dawson Syracuse University
Horace W. Dewey University of Michigan
William B. Edgerton Indiana University
Gordon Fairbanks Cornell University
Wayne D. Fisher University of Chicago
A. Bruce Gaarder U.S. Office of Education
Fruma Gottschalk University of Chicago
Frances de Graaf Bryn Mawr College
Ernest F. Haden University of Texas
Morris Halle Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Helen Yakobson George Washington University
Walter C. Jaskievicz Fordham University
Harry H. Josselson Wayne State University
Horace G. Lunt Harvard University
Thomas F. Magner Pennsylvania State University
Fan Parker Brooklyn College
Lawrence Poston University of Oklahoma
Peter Rudy Northwestern University
Leon Stilman Columbia University
Laurence C. Thompson University of Washington
Leon Twarog Ohio State University
Donald D. Walsh Modern Language Association
Francis J. Whitfield University of California
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Robert L. Baker Indiana University
William S. Cornyn Yale University
William B. Edgerton Indiana University
Gordon Fairbanks Cornell University
Ernest F. Haden University of Texas
Carleton Hodge Foreign Service Institute
Harlan Lane University of Michigan
Laurence C. Thompson University of Washington
Francis J. Whitfield University of California
