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Lyndhurst, Ohio 44124-2595
440.423.4446
12465 County Line Road, P.O. Box 8002
Gates Mills, Ohio 44040-8002
440.423.4446
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History teacher awarded Fulbright
05/09/2007 -
History and humanities teacher Jim Newman was recently awarded a Fulbright grant to study this summer in Greece. He is among only 40 people selected throughout North America to make the trip to participate in a six-week summer session at The American School of Classical Studies at Athens. In 2001 he toured Italy with the American Academy in Rome for eight weeks courtesy also of a Fulbright.
Newman, a graduate of Gettysburg and Dartmouth Colleges, will tour archaeological sites and museums in North and Central Greece, the Peloponnese, Crete, Marathon, Sounion and Eleusis as well as visiting Athens' historic museums and monuments.
The American School of Classical Studies, since 1881, has provided North American graduate students and scholars the opportunity to research the history of Greek civilization. Its facilities and programs are known internationally as some of best there are in laying a foundation for Hellenic study.
"I'll be going to sites...that are really important places for our study of Greek political and social and military cultures," Newman said.
"I try to put a lot of emphasis in my class on reading monuments and looking at artifacts because the artifacts made by those people tell the story of themselves. So, it's going to be exciting for me to see the Parthenon because in my class we do a really in-depth study of the art and architecture of the Parthenon and what story [it tells] about the Greeks."
Treading then where the historic figures and places he's studied for years once trod will only breath new life on his approach to teaching it.
"There's nothing better than physically being there and then if I can bring that experience back to my classroom, then that's what I try to do," he said.
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