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Chers amis du Cercle Français,

Please join us this Wednesday, May 2, at 11:30 AM until 1:30 PM in STV 113 for our final French Club gathering of the year.

We decided to combine our end of the year party with our department’s party, since the winners of our two French study-abroad scholarships will be announced at noon that day: The Petrossian-Tarrant Scholarship Award and the Scholarship for French Study Abroad Endowment Fund Award.

Cake, cookies, and punch will be served.

Please join the French Club for a Boules Tournament on Wednesday, April 25th at 3:30. Boules is a French lawn-bowling game. We’ll be meeting on the Quad in front of Williams Hall at 3:30 and continue until 5:00, weather permitting. Feel free to stop by at any time during those 90 minutes. No previous experience needed. In case of bad weather, check the door of STV 113 for messages.

The French Club is happy to report that the RSO and Dean of Students Office have granted our request and awarded the French Club $1,905 to bring French singer-songwriter Eric Vincent to ISU’s campus for a concert in October.
The concert is planned for October 1

Louisiana families demand a French education for their children. There’s a waiting list at all 29 of the state’s public French immersion programs. Louisiana has somewhere between 150,000 and 200,000 French speakers. Roughly 50,000 of Louisiana’s public school students are learning French as a second language, and 3,500 students are in French immersion programs. French is spoken in more than 30 countries across the globe, and it is the official language of the United Nations.

On vous invite à la 48e année du Cercle Français tous les mercredis de 15h30 à 17h dans la salle 113 de Stevenson Hall pour la conversation, des jeux, de petits gâteaux et du bon café.

(Please join us for our 48th year of French Coffee Hour. French lovers of all levels are welcome to take part in French conversation, games and refreshments every Wednesday from 3:30 to 5:00 in STV 113.)

On Wednesday, November 2, at 3:30, Nancy Esarey-Ouedraogo will present a slideshow and short film regarding her service in the Peace Corps in Burkina Faso in 2006-8 and her subsequent experience working in Mali. The presentation, sponsored by ISU’s French Club, will take place in STV 136B from 3:30 to 4:30.