Tom Durnford Visits Vichy

Dr. Thomas Durnford of the Department of Modern Languages just spent two weeks (July 4-15) at Cavilam in Vichy, France, courtesy of a grant from the French Embassy. He attended a program on innovations in the teaching of French.

Cavilam is a private institute founded in 1964 by the universities of Clermont-Ferrand and the municipality of Vichy and has become one of the benchmarks of teaching French as a foreign language and teacher training.

Dr. Durnford’s grant is one of only three the French Embassy awarded this year in the New England states. While in France, he also continued his Holocaust- related research into the role of the Vichy government during WWII.