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Muchas
gracias
Late
Spanish professor remembers students in her will with $54,400
By
Lynette Murphy
In
1991, Janice Bradley ‘92, ‘93, received the opportunity
to participate in the Puebla summer program, where WSU Spanish students
spend a summer in Mexico among native speakers.
However,
she was a single mom with a 20-month-old, so she had no choice but
to take the toddler along.
Inside WSU
Because
of the generosity of a WSU Spanish professor, Janice Bradley
was able to get her degree. Bradley teaches Spanish at Wichita
Northwest High School.
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Thanks
to financial assistance from associate professor emeritus Lillian
Wall, Bradley was able to afford the trip – for two.
Now,
future students will benefit as Bradley did because the estate of
Wall, a WSU Spanish professor from 1963 to 1979, recently provided
$54,400 for endowed scholarships.
"In
preparing to teach, students often are hampered during their semester
of professional training (student teaching) by having to work to
live," Wall wrote when she made the gift through her will in
1991. "The student does not have time to prepare adequately
for each day’s work (lesson planning), presentation techniques,
grading and other record keeping."
That,
and a need to develop a better command of the language by "continued
contact" with natives were reasons Wall gave for establishing
the scholarship fund for students in Spanish, French or German either
for traveling to Mexico, France or Germany or to help pay tuition
during the student teaching semester.
Wall
had assisted several students like Bradley after retiring. She died
in 1999 at age 89.
"It
was really important for me to get through student teaching and
graduate school," said Bradley, who now teaches Spanish at
Wichita Northwest High School. "Lillian Wall’s generosity
certainly helped me be able to get closer to that goal."
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