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Narvaez receives two teaching awards

By David Gonnerman '90
November 6, 2007

In October St. Olaf Professor of Spanish Leon Narvaez received two notable awards: the Professional Teaching Award from the North Central Council of Latin Americanists and the Percy Fearing Award for excellence in the preparation of teaching materials from the Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures. Narvaez says that the Percy Fearing award was particularly meaningful because in 1975 he edited a book, with the support of State Consultant for Foreign Languages Percy Fearing, to be used by teachers of Spanish in Minnesota.

Narvaez, a St. Olaf faculty member since 1970, has won more than a dozen awards for teaching excellence and/or professional service, including being named outstanding college/university teacher of Spanish in the United States by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese in 1988.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.