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Four Teachers Awarded $5,000 Fellowships

Four area foreign language teachers are among 101 nationwide who have received $5,000 fellowships for summer study, the Rockefeller Foundation has announced.

Recipients are Martin Bagish of the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, a magnet school in the Los Angeles Unified School District; Kathleen Dillon of Polytechnic School, a private campus in Pasadena; Katherine Kiefer of the Marlborough School, a private school in Los Angeles, and Debbi Kightlinger of Bell Gardens High School in Bell Gardens, part of the Montebello Unified School District.

The fellowships will allow the teachers eight weeks of intensive foreign language study. Most fellows will spend the time abroad.

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