2006
David D. and Rosemary H. Coffin Fellowship for Travel in Classical Lands
I have the great pleasure of announcing the second winner of the David D. and Rosemary H. Coffin Fellowship for Travel in Classical Lands. Mr. Patrick Yaggy has shown a dedication to teaching, service, and professional development worthy of the Coffins. Mr. Yaggy is still at the beginning of his career, but has taught secondary school for six years, and has been chair of the Foreign Language Department for three of those. He received his B.A. in Latin/Classics from the University of Georgia and has been working towards an M.A in Classics from the same university.
Patrick Yaggy is a very promising young teacher, as attested by his several awards within his few years of teaching at North Gwinnett High School and by his building in an equally short time a strong, high scoring Latin program that he increased from two periods to two full time teachers. Apart from his continuing graduate work, he has continued his professional development by attending classics workshops, he has directed curriculum workshops, and he has delivered presentations in the classics. Finally, Patrick has encouraged his own and other students in many ways, in class, through coaching soccer, through advising student clubs, by setting up and developing a JCL chapter, and by organizing a county certamen for the Latin clubs. In these ways he epitomized the standard of dedication to the profession and to students set by the Coffins.
PatrickÕs project is one that will give him an opportunity to see Italian sites (Rome and the bay of Naples) for the first time, to develop background for his teaching, and to further his graduate studies all in a single package. He will also have some academic responsibility for the undergraduates in the summer abroad program, so he will broaden his teaching experience with a different age group. The letter of recommendation from his graduate adviser, who is also directing the program, was a very strong endorsement of PatrickÕs work and an enticing description of the program.
Finally, I would like to thank my colleagues on the committee, Antonios Augoustakis, Lillian Doherty, and Christine Sleeper for their service.
Allan Wooley, Chair