Full-time Faculty
Carolyn
Bilby
Foreign Language Chair--French Instructor
Office: A-245 E Phone: (425) 564-6169
I was born
in New Jersey of Lithuanian-American parents. I got my BA
in French, with minors in Spanish, Education, and Art History
from Seton Hall University. I went to Penn State University
for my Masters in French. I also studied in Caen, in Normandy,
France as well as Nice, on the French Riviera. I
started out teaching French and Spanish at a country high
school in upstate New York while my husband was pursuing his
PhD in Aquatic Ecology at Cornell. We came to Washington state
in 1980 where I worked at Capital High in Olympia, and then
at Centralia College and Green River Community College.When
I came to Bellevue Community College in l989, I took up birding
as my main hobby, and I have been co-teaching a spring birding
course with Tom O'Connell for the last six years.
Beatrice Bongiorno
Beatrice Bongiorno
Spanish Instructor
Office: A-245 H Phone: (425) 564-2213
Rick Mangan
American Sign Language Instructor
Office: A245 G Phone: (425) 564-2289
Eva
Norling
French and German Instructor
Office: A-245 D Phone: (425) 564-2298
Eva Norling has been teaching German and French at BCC since
1992. She is a native of Germany with a German Magister
and the First and Second German State Exam for Gymnasium
from Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Find more about her
on the BCC German homepage.
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Affiliated
Faculty
Melissa
Phelps-Palma
Spanish Instructor
Office: R230 Phone: (425) 564-2298
In high school, I took Spanish because I had to take something.
Why not Spanish? In college, I majored in psychology, but
because my minor was Spanish, I spent a semester living
with a host family and studying in Costa Rica. There, my
Spanish moved from theoretical to practical. I earned a
B.A in Psychology, with a Spanish minor, in 1988 from Linfield
College. After college, I married and moved to Costa Rica
where I worked as a high school counselor at a bilingual
school. When we returned to the U.S. three years later,
I continued my studies in psychology, completing my Master's
degree in 1995 at Seattle University. During graduate school,
I worked as a tutor of English, Spanish and psychology at
area community colleges.
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Adjunct Faculty
Joanne
Lonay
French Instructor
Office: R245 F Phone: (425) 564-2743
Bonjour! I am American-born of English and French heritage,
and have been studying/teaching French, and traveling regularly
to France and Europe for over 25 years. I graduated from
Whitman College with a Bachelor of Arts in French; studied
and lived in Nantes, Tours, Strasbourg, Avignon and Paris;
and received my Master of Arts in French Literature from
the University of Washington. In addition to French, my
formal education in languages includes Spanish at Middlebury
College, in Salamanca and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico,
and some German and Italian. I have led study abroad and
home-stay student groups to France at both the University
of Strasbourg and the University of Nantes, where I also
taught in, and directed, a full quarter study abroad program
for community college students.
Toyomi
Shiromaru
Japanese Instructor
Office: A-140 D Phone: (425) 564-2743
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