News Release
November 2000
(Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)-- In recognition of his long
and distinguished career as classicist, author and editor, the Moravian
College Alumni Association will present John C. Traupman with the 2000
Comenius Award. The award will be presented at the college’s annual
Comenius Dinner in Bethlehem on Friday, October 27.
The award honors a Moravian College graduate for outstanding
achievement or services in the graduate’s field of work. Given
annually since 1941, the award is named for 17-th century Moravian bishop
John Amos Comenius, considered the father of modern education.
Traupman graduated from Moravian in 1948 and went on to
get his Masters and Doctorate from Princeton University. He spent 38
years as Professor and Chairman of Classics at St. Joseph's Univ. in
Philadelphia, and taught graduate courses at Villanova for part of that
time.
Outside of the classroom, Traupman shared his knowledge
of the Classics with the greater population through his work as author
and editor of many language textbooks and dictionaries. Perhaps the
best known of these is the New College Latin-English Dictionary, published
by Bantam Books and Amsco School Publications in 1966, which sold over
one million copies. Some of his other major publications include the
New College German-English Dictionary, German Fundamentals, Lingua Latina
Books I and II, Latin is Fun Books I and II, and the Scribner English
Dictionary. In addition, Mr. Traupman served as Senior American Consultant
to the Lexus Limited Publishing Company in Glasgow, Scotland.
Traupman spent four years on the American Council on the
Teaching of Foreign Languages National Board of Reviewers, where he
critiqued drafts of the new National Standards in Foreign Languages
before they were promulgated nationally. He also acted as the Latin
consultantto the Pennsylvania Department of Education for many years,
for which the Department presented him with a Certificate of Appreciation
in 1994. He has served terms as President of the Philadelphia Classical
Society, the Pennsylvania Classical Association, and the Classical Association
of the Atlantic States. Traupman received the Schulze Greek Award at
Moravian College, the Robbins Scholarship at Princeton University, and
both the Faculty Merit Award for Research and the College Teaching Award
at St. Joseph's University.
Currently, Traupman serves as Editor in Chief of Wimbledon
Publishing Company, London. He also writes textbooks for the Latin classroom
and delivers speeches and workshops throughout the United States. He
and his wife, Pauline, live in Narberth, Pennsylvania.
Moravian College is a private, coeducational, selective
liberal arts college located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Tracing its
founding to 1742, it is recognized as America's sixth-oldest college.
Visit the web site at www.moravian.edu.
