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Show Department Head Heads For Japan Dr. Llewelyn R. McKay, head of the department of languages at the University will leave Salt Lake Friday for Japan to attend the Education Conference of the U.S. Army and Air Force of the Pacific. Army and Air Force educators educa-tors from Hawaii, Okinawa, Korea and Japan will meet from Dec. 6-15 to discuss problems prob-lems of these commands. Dr. McKay as special guest will give two major addresses and will conduct seminar sessions ses-sions dealing with language training. THE MODIFIED direct method of language teaching used at the University was chosen as the one most suitable for the Far East Commands. Dr. McKay initiated the Far East language training program in 1960. Since that time a University faculty member from the department depart-ment of languages has been supervising su-pervising the program as "Language "Lan-guage Specialist." Miss Madeleine Made-leine Quarez was the first supervisor, super-visor, followed by Dr. Richard L. Cummings, two years ago. |