Hallo! Bonjour! Welcome to my website. Many call me Frau Bowles, but I am also known as Madame Bowles. You see this August, 2009, I started my 42nd year of teaching both French and German. My love of travel and languages originally lead me to think I wanted to be what we called in those days--an airline stewardess. Whew! I’m glad the universe led (pushed/dragged) me in a different direction. I can still hear my mom saying “you might as well take some education courses” as a fallback plan when I went to college. You see, I was too young when I graduated from high school to go to airline school, so I went to college instead. But the academic bug bit me and, voilà!, here I am 42 years later, still teaching--and learning.
A brief resumé:
1964-1968 Drury College, BA French
1968-1981 McCluer High School, Teacher
1981-1999 McCluer North High School, Teacher
1984-1987 Webster University, MA International Business
1999-2004 PROBE Center, Teacher (gifted education, 4th 5th and 6th graders)
2004-current Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Instructor