BULGER, Dr. Raymonde Albertine
BULGER
Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 1/9/2016 at 14:59:23
BIOGRAPHY of RAYMONDE ALBERTINE BULGER
Graceland University, Lamoni, Decatur County, IowaRaymonde Bulger was bonr in Lyon, France, on July 13, 1921.
Raymonde joined the Graceland faculty to teach French in 1980 and soon helped develop the college's Fremch major. In her classrooms, Bulger streesed that the skills of understanding, speaking, writing and reading a foreign language should be developed together. She was also known for developing close relationships with the Hungarian students who began attending Graceland in the mid-1980's.
"Madame" Bulger" earned her B.S. (1963) from the University of North Dakota and her M.A. (1970) and doctorate in modern languages (1976) from Middlebury College. She married a U.S. soldier in France during World War II and moved to the United States in 1946.
Prior to her arrival at Graceland, Bulger taught in North Dakota at the high schools in Grand Forks (1963-64) and Fargo (1976-77). She then had a series of one-year teaching assignments at the University of Minnesota, Brookings University (where she also taught Spanish), and the University of Omaha.
After retiring from Graceland as a professor emerita in 1992, Bulger moved to Eagon, Minnesota, remaining a world travller and continuing to attend educational conventions.
NOTE: Dr. Bulger died at the age of 92 years on February 3, 2014, Eagan, Minnesota.
SOURCE:
Goehner, David. “The Graceland College Book of Knowledge: From A To Z.” p. 395. Herald House. Independence MO. 1997.Transcription and note by Sharon R. Becker, January of 2016
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