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Retirement Reception Scheduled for WIU's Wayne and Kaesdorf
April 23, 2014
MACOMB, IL - A retirement reception honoring Western Illinois University's English as a Second Language (WESL) instructors Lynne Wayne and Steve Kaesdorf will be held from 1-3 p.m. Tuesday, April 29 at the Multicultural Center, first floor activities room.
Wayne and Kaesdorf will retire May 31.
Wayne has taught at the WESL Institute for 18 years, which included serving as interim assistant director in 2003-2004. She came to WIU after working as an ESL teacher and administrator for a total of 10 years, including positions at the University of Minnesota and five years as director of ESL at Monmouth College. Wayne earned a bachelor's degree in French at Connecticut College and a master's degree in ESL at the University of Minnesota.
Kaesdorf has taught WESL students for 25 years. He earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a MATESL degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His background in international education began with teaching in Krems, Austria, at middle schools and a vocational school.
Prior to coming to WIU, Kaesdorf taught ESL at the College of DuPage and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His tenure in international education has primarily included teaching ESL since 1982. He has been actively involved with Phi Beta Delta, an international honors society, since 2009 and currently serves as vice president of the Eta Epsilon chapter at WIU.
In 2001, Wayne and Kaesdorf designed the curriculum and taught the classes for the first WESL Program for Korean students from Kwangju (now Gwangju) University. Both were actively involved in the CEA accreditation self-study and site visit of WESL Institute from 1998 to 2001. In conjunction with the Gwangju Program, Wayne was instrumental in initiating involvement in WESL short-term program classes for students from the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon in Mexico.
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