Friendly Atmosphere Prevails
In Dougherty's Department Office
By Anne Hill
Emerald Anitlanl Newt Editor
la Friendly hull. In u friendly I
atmosphere, In the office of the
foreign languages department,
ailm Professor David M, Dough
erty, head of that department. I
The tall 51-year-old instructor
ban been at Oregon since 1947.
He begins class Just a few min
utes early and closes Just a few
minutes late. He doesn't give
large assignments, but he ex
pects precision and correctness.
The slightly balding professor
Is sincerely interested in stu- |
dents and their education. He is
always looking for a way to
make French easier to learn. He
is eager to help them personally. 1
No Iteason for Low Grades
Dougherty gave a grade of B
or above to 11 out of 17 second
year French students one term
last year.
"I would like to talk to those
who made below a B," he added.
"There is no reason why they
can't be making that kind of
grades too."
He believes in teaching conver
satiorial French, rather than
"finishing school" French. To
accomplish this goal, he injects
several colloquial phrases into his
lessons.
He also has co-authored a book
to achieve this. “Year Abroad," a
grammar book, was written
about a group he took to Ge
neva in 1946-47. The experiences
of the Junior Year group are in 1
Fnghsh and are translated into
French as exercises. Actual con-1
versation using “slang" phrases
is contained in the exercises.
Other Colleges I se Book ,
In addition to being used at
Oregon, the hook has been adopt
ed at University of California at
Berkeley, Vassar and Mount
Holyoke.
“We Just wrote It because we
wanted to," he commented. "Of
Course if it sells, that's ail right
with us.”
Dougherty is currently work
ing on another book to be used
In literature courses. The name j
of this book is “Twenty French j
Authors" and will include selec
tions beginning with twentieth
century author* and going hack
to seventeenth-century work*.
The last time he Haw Paris
was in 1951 and he would like
to return aoon. The first time he
went to France was In 1923 when
he went with the Junior Year
group from the University of ■
Delaware.
.Students Study Abroad
The Junior Year groups are
composed of college students who
study abroad their junior year, j
In 1939 he took a group to
France, but they had to evacu
ate in September to avoid being
caught in the war. The students
that year had a “pretty rugged" '
experience.
After the war Dougherty
again took a Junior Year group
abroad to study in Geneva. These
experiences were recounted in
his book.
A Harvard Man
After graduating from Dela
ware in 1923, where he was a
member of the Theta Chi fra
ternity, he taught at Massachu
setts Institute of Technology.
Harvard and was a professor at
Clark university for 15 years. He
received his PhD. degree from
Harvard in 1932. He has also
studied in Pans and Madrid.
Dougherty is married and has j
two sons. Philip, the oldest, is
now attending dental school in
Portland and David is going to
the University.
Both boys have heard French
in the home as long as they have
heard English and so have grown
up with an understanding of it.
"I have always spoken French
to them." Dougherty smiled.
"Even to punish them."
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