Anne Slack, 94, TV teaching pioneer of ‘Parlons Français’
Via Fred Barzyk — 3/30/2010
My first paid job at WGBH was directing the show "Parlons Francais" It was hosted by Anne Slack.
From The Boston Globe
Anne Slack, 94, TV teaching pioneer of ‘Parlons Français’
By Stephanie M. Peters
A beautiful young woman with a large bouffant and perfectly manicured red nails, Anne Slack introduced French to more than 2 million elementary school children in the late 1950s and early 1960s by encouraging them to “écouter’’ and “répéter.’’
On the other side of television sets in third- and fourth-grade classrooms throughout central New York and greater Boston, students would do as Madame Slack instructed, listening and repeating the vocabulary and verbs she enunciated in an exact Parisian accent.
Photo: After the “Parlons Français’’ project, Mrs. Slack taught advanced French at Boston University and Harvard University.