KIMERU Sensei No Nihongo -- OPRF

Thursday, March 17, 2016

March 16, 2016 -- Wednesday

No class today because a watermain break led to closing the school.

CRK at 9:23 PM

CRK: As a Japan Foundation Fellow, Mrs. Kimmel studied at Stanford University's Amerika-Kanada Daigaku Rengo Nihon Kenkyuu Sentaa in Yokohama. For two subsequent years she was a research fellow at Yokohama City University. Mrs. Kimmel received an M.A. from the Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the U. of Chicago in 1992. For two years, she used her Japanese for business, as a recruiter at Kimata Personnel International (Kokusai Jinzai Assen) in Rolling Meadows. Mrs. Kimmel earned her B.A. at Harvard’s Radcliffe College, graduating cum laude in English. Subsequently she was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for graduate studies at Northwestern, receiving the M.A. from Northwestern's theater department. She taught Japanese at Chicago’s Walter Payton College Prep H. S. before coming to NEIU and OPRF. A member of Delta Kappa Gamma International, honorary association for women in education, Mrs. Kimmel was also listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers for 2002 and 2004. She chairs the Education Sub-Committee for Chicago Sister Cities Osaka Committee. She is a former board member at the Chicago Center for Urban Life and Culture.

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