Edith Kovach: Pioneered language teaching styles

[Francis Hult]

Detroit Free Press

 

Edith Kovach: Pioneered language teaching styles

 

Thousands of Latin students around the country learned the language from the voice of someone they never met: former educator Edith Kovach.

 

Her enthusiasm and dedication in her Latin and Greek teachings endeared her in the hearts and minds of students and faculty alike.

 

A onetime chairwoman of the University of Detroit's classical studies department and a longtime instructor in the Detroit Public Schools, Ms. Kovach died Wednesday of cardiac arrest in her Bloomfield Hills home. She was 88.

 

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http://www.freep.com/article/20090705/NEWS08/907050473?imw=Y

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