Edit Babos Appointed English Teacher in Transylvania

March 18, 2008

The Meadville Lombard community welcomes Edit Nora Babos (right), who was recently appointed as the English Teacher in Transylvania, teaching English to Unitarian seminary students at the Protestant Theological Institute in Cluj/Kolozsvar, Romania.

Edit graduated from the University of Babes-Bolyai, the Faculty of Arts, in 1996 and began her teaching career that same year, in Huedin (Banffyhunyad). After two years in Huedin, Edit took a teaching position at Bathory Istvan High School in Cluj (Kolozsvar) where she also taught at the Babes-Bolyai University, the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Geography, as a supply teacher. She continues to teach at Bathory Istvan while she teaches at the Protestant Theological Institute.

Lee Barker, President of Meadville Lombard, says Edit’s appointment marks a change in the English Teacher in Transylvania program, which is sponsored and administered by Meadville Lombard Theological School and is funded by the John Howland Lathrop Endowed Fund for Transylvania English Instruction and the Unitarian Universalist (UU) Partner Church Council. “For the first time, this position is being filled by a native Hungarian speaker,” said Barker, “whose work will be supported and complemented by various student interns from Meadville Lombard.”

This change in the format of the program will allow the Unitarian seminarians in Kolozsvar to receive the highest degree of proficiency in the English language as well as an opportunity to work with other UU seminarians from the United States. It also provides Meadville Lombard seminarians an opportunity to work in the international UU community from the cradle of the Unitarian movement.

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