Alan ALBRIGHT
PMB 13925
239 Rainbow Drive
Livingston, TX 77399-2039
email: pelerin@win.net

EDUCATION :

Certificate
Ecole d'études fédéralistes, Aosta, Italy

M.A., French Language and Literature .
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

B.A., Romance Languages
Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.

"A" levels
Uppingham School, Rutland, England

High School Diploma
Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

IN FRANCE (1985 to October 1994)

Teacher of American Language and Culture
CEP, Paris X at Cergy Pontoise and at Nanterre
ENSADE, Paris (business school)
Centre culturel de Courbevoie

Translation work (specializing in Fine Arts)

into English: Réunion des musées nationaux, Ateliers d'art, etc.

into French (with Nadine Gay) : Gallimard Jeunesse, Ali Rahnema, Editions Duchêne, etc.

IN THE UNITED STATES (1964 to 1985)

Craftsman (1970-1985) (participating in all major craft shows)

1970-74 (with Steve Rowles), introduced the bamboo flute in all its
forms to the American public (manufactured and sold some 40,000
instruments)

1975-1985, developed and sold an original folk instrument, double-voiced wood ocarinas with diatonic scales (a complete set remains in the collection of the NY Metropolitan Museum)

Social Work (1965-1966 ; 1968-1970)

Storefront teaching work with immigrant Hong Kong teenagers.
Diagnostic casework for New York's Bureau of Child Welfare.

 

Military Service (1966-1968)

3d Medical Battalion, 3d Infantry Division, Aschaffenburg, Germany

Teaching (French) (1964-1965), Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.
Part-time teaching (French and Music), Amity School, Warwick, NY

 

VOLUNTEER SERVICE

AFS Intercultural Programs (since 1987). Official representative of AFS Archives in France, Board member of AFS-Vivre Sans Frontière, 1988-90, 1992-1994.

UNESCO (since 1988)

Representing the European Federation of Intercultural Learning (group of European AFS organizations) at the annual Collective Consultation of Youth NGO's, at meetings and activities of the Working Group and at large with the Youth Division and the Secretariats of the World Federation of UNESCO Centers, Clubs and Associations and of the Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service..

Comité national de l'éducation populaire et de la jeunesse (1990-3) Representing AFS-Vivre Sans Frontière at regular meetings of this consultative body (extra-scholastic education and youth).

Musée national de la coopération franco-américaine (since 1988)

Official representative of AFS Archives. Extensive collaboration in all aspects.

PERSONAL DATA:

Born March 16, 1941
Single - American citizenship - French residency card.
Bilingual English-French with notions of Spanish and German.