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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1987 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 65H SPOTLIGHT IRS Has Refunds For Area Taxpayers 7 Wv A yJv The St. Louis District office of the Internal Revenue Service has 1,135 refund checks, totaling $557,354.26, that were returned by the Postal Service because the taxpayers have either moved or changed their last names. Taxpayers who believe they are due a refund should call the IRS at (800) 424-1040. Following is a list of St.

Louis-area taxpayers whose refund checks were returned to the Revenue Department. Abara Abate, Thomas and Arnhilt L. Aceto, Douglas M. Ackerman, Jer-rold W. Jr.

Ackerman, Curtis R. Adams, Brenda Alexander, Armando and Marie Alfonso, Donnell Allen, Oscar F. and Rose Altman, Paula E. Alvarez, Ocbay Amine, Charles E. Ar-nett Nancy Ann Atwood, Norwood Avery, Frederick Bailey, Scott M.

and Lynne A. Baker, Terry and Ada M. Baker, Robert R. Baldwin, Harry R. Ball, Lloyd H.

Barkes. Anna Becker, Mark J. Becker, Sam Becker, Charlotte M. Berg, Ann H. Berry, Ronald G.

Biehl, Marie A. Bis-chof, Walter and McKeever Bischof, Marion A. Bischof, Joseph Black, Oliver and Florence T. Blase, Michael L. Bowers, Robert E.

Bowers, Brian K. Boyland, Luella Boyles, Mable Boyles, Marshall Boyles, Juanona A. Brewster, Phillip W. and Darla Kaye Brockwell, Helen Denise Brown, Lyn-dia M. and Richard E.

Brown, Sandra A. Brown, Felix T. Brownlee, Arthur J. Bryan Jr. Timothy P.

Burgess, Paul L. Burlin- game, David E. Burnham, Sandar Bush, Dwight D. Byington, Anselmo Cabrera, Gerald Canada, Karen S. Carlton, Richard Carr Angela F.

Carter, Charles D. Casey, Michael R. and Kathleen Cash, Dale M. Caver-ton, Sunee Chaichanakol, Yun Chen and Son Dok Chao, Bruant and Dana Charney, Daniel Chase, James W. Choate, Mary R.

Christ, Robert Clayton Jr. Jolene Clopton, Gary Cole, Todd Cole, Larry Conley, Michelle Conrey, Isabelle Contratto, Simon Contreras, Aubrey Cook, Laura Cook, Lesa L. Cope, Chandler R. and Kim I. Cope-land, Maureen M.

Corbett, Daniel Crate, Walter Currie, Reginald and Lillie Cushshon, Vernita M. Cutts, Jessie Lu Dailey, James Daniels, Terry L. Darter, Darin P. Davis. Dean R.

and Maureen K. Davison, Claudia J. Decker, Ernest G. Delay, Jacquelyn Depew, Scott A. Dietrich, Phyllis Dixon, Peter M.

Donehue, Kelly, Mark A. Kelly, Shelle R. Ken-nett, Joseph E. Kile Dean A. Kil-lam, Robert W.

Kirby, Robert Klund, Vickie L. Kneib, Michael L. Kneznekoff. John E. and Nancy J.

Knopfel, Jayne Koedding, Thomas A. and Pamela J. Koehler, Elizabeth A. Krause, Patricia A. Krausz, Alfred L.

Lance, Kim V. and Gary J. Lang, Harvey F. Lasky, Rick Lawson, Richard A. Leahr, David R.

and Margaret Lee, Michelle Lee. Sharon and Richard J. Lewis, Thomas J. Lewis, Mauel and Kimber-ly H. Limia, Timothy G.

Loehr, Jo Ann Logue, Huy M. Loi, Kenneth W. Long, Sharon Lucy, Cheryl J. Ma-grauder, Ralph E. Mars, Darla M.

Martin, Esther H. Martin, Tina Mar-tain, Robert L. Mather, Joseph E. Jr. and Dana L.

Mattingly, Shari L. Maxwell, Diane M. Maydwell. Estelle V. McCarthy, Mila McCafthy, Jeff S.

and Burnice McCoyeff, Dale F. and Deborah A. McDonald, Kimberly K. McGill, Mary E. McGoveran, Charles P.

McMillan, Bruce C. and Marcella J. McNitt, James R. Melton, Steve Meshell, Greg and Ann Millen, Hannable Miller, Linda E. and Michael A.

Miller, Merlin A. Milligan, Trinh Vinhy Minh, Irene Mitchell, Anthony J. Moony, Cecilia H. Moorman, Laura M. Moroz, Velma G.

Morris, Judy Pierson. Patricia M. Moser, Kerry L. Moses, Ted G. Moses, Ramon Mosley, Gregory S.

Mullenix, Andrea Munson, Janice E. and Robert J. Myers, N.G. and Winnie Naidoo, Lydia A. Nails, Ramsey Nickell, Donald M.

Nieters, Patricia M. Nipper, Tina M. Nix, Frank Noble, John F. Nolle, Timothy P. Noser, Brian K.

and Dayna J. Novak, Bertha Nunnery, Richard A. Ong, James K. and Vasiliki Orphan, Timothy M. Otoole.

Robert O. Palmer Joseph Palmier, Margie Patrick, Myra Jean Perkins, Phillip D. Perkins, Long T. Pho, Philip H. Pilkerton, Glenn E.

Pitts, James D. Poole John P. Post, Maryn Post, Struckhoff Post Rose M. and Ricardo Poston, Michael R. Prin-gle, Ernest and Gwenda Pruett, Bernard A.

and Johanna R. Puthoff, Samuel F. Rabun, Maria Ravaring, Sandra M. Reese, Heather R. Reh-berg, Larry J.

Reifsteck, Burke D. Richardson Jr. Gary W. and Sharon C. Rickert, Lionell Robertson, Keith and Sandy Robinson, Lee E.

and Michelle C. Robinson, Jeffrey and Deborah Ro Juanda J. Douglas, Eugene C. Douglass, William J. Downs, Sofearia Draper, Daniel D.

Dudley, Jim H. Jr. and Sheryl Dudley, Kristen Duer, Mary K. Dulmage, Robert and June Duncan, Beatrice M. Dunn, Roettger Dunn, Theresa D.

Dunn, Harold Lee Duvall, Kristen P. Duvall, Kathy Duvall. Angeletha Echols, Alyce Edelstein, Hugh H. and Ethel E. Edington, De-lores J.

Edwards, William G. and Nancy J. Edwards, William and Jean Eichhulz, Michael D. Ellinger, Henry J. and Ethel C.

Elmendorf, Mary K. Emch, Martin E. and Paula J. Eslow, Marie H. Evenhardt, Yvonne M.

Everitt, Ronald L. Faries, John Ferguson Edward J. and Helen Fischer, Jeffrey W. Fitzgerald, Brian D. and Leslie A.

Fitzpatrick, Louis S. Fliess, Jeffrey Friarson, Paula E. Fusco. Veronica K. Gagnard, Carlos L.

Gaines, Karen Kay Garriga, Lisa Georgieff, Laverne B. Gerst, Boe-deker Gerst, E. G. Gerst, Sam Gian-ing, Lynn A. Gibson, Larry J.

and Bil-lie Dee Gibson, Kevin Gilbert, Osmond J. Gilmore, Joseph P. Glynn, Charles N. Golden, William E. Goodrich, Floyd Goree, Gary T.

Grosich, Stanley D. and Vian R. Goss, Brian G. Grady, Cleveland Gray, Gretchen R. Green, Shirley R.

Green. Eliot I. and Elayne L. Green, Lorie L. Gregory, Peter H.

Griffin, Diana J. and Steven R. Haas, Wendy D. Hagan, Alvin H. and Joyce A.

Hansen, Fred J. and Phyllis Hardesty, Dora M. Har-rell, William A. Harris, Ronald Harris, Donna Harrison, Mark Harvey, Scarlet Heater, Mary Ann Hellems, Sharon L. Henderson, Virgil and Dorothy Hendrix, Delores I.

Hicks, Ken Hoang, Donald K. Hodges, Judith E. Hoffman, Neil A. Hoffman. Viola Holdner, Roger and Tami Horn, Tami Horn, Michael D.

Hosto, Michael D. Huffman, Ruth E. Hulvey, Lewis Hurt, Clara M. and Cornelius Igwe, Alphonso Jackson, Linda J. Jaf-fray, Michel L.

Jameian, Amy N. Jantzen, Penny M. Jefferson, Gerald E. and B. Diane Jessen, Akhil Jha-veri, Arthur Johnson, George W.

Johnson, Suzanne Johnson, Janice E. Johnston, Cleveland H. Jones. Larry J. and Bille Dee Jones, Craig R.

Jung, Michael J. Kanevsky, Thomas J. and Jacqueline M. Kar-sten, Stephen C. Kay, Susan B.

Kearns, Monique Y. Keaton, Frank A. Keen Steven S. Keim, Dale Kel-ley, Aaron and Felicia Kelly, Clare H. sen, Lee R.

Ross, Ronald Roth, Ronald H. and Rhonda B. Roth, Ella A. Rothe, Pamela G. Ruark, Gale A.

and Patricia M. Rucker, Roy H. Saffold Robert D. Sarringar, Edward Scales, Theodore L. Scheer, Roger Scheer, Gertrude S.

Schwaiger, Ava N. Scruggs, Ronald J. Shackleford, Michael E. Shade, Sallie Sharp. Shelly Shaver, Gerald A.

Shaw Jr. and Suzanne Shaw, Rodney A. Shepard, Kelli L. Sherman, Maxine M. Shockley, Catherine Shoults, Perry E.

Simeroth, Anthony D. Simmons, iTawana Simms, Mary Wilson Skinner, Tina M. Slamp, Gwendolyn M. Small, David A. Smart, Diana J.

Smith, James A. and Peggy J. Smith, Lee Smith, Steven M. Smith, Michael J. and Julie L.

Sontag, Ivan and Renee Spencer, Ivan K. and Judith Spencer, Timothy Spencer. Daniel R. Spindler, Phillip J. Sprock Mildred D.

Stanley, James Stewart Richard B. and Sherry S. Stewart, Herman Stinson, Michelle Stockton, David Allan Stoller, Holly Storts, Robin K. Struble, Ronald G. and Debra A.

Strucknoff, Garry W. and Kathy D. Stuckmeyer, Helen M. Suess, Willie Surgeon, Andrew J. Swaringam, George Synenko, Helen B.

Tanton, Goje Tesfamariam, Lorene and Tracy Thibeau. James Thompson, James A. Thompson, Robert L. Thompson, Thomas Thompson, Mary Tinsley, Samuel Tolen, Scott A. Traubitz, Albert A.

Tucker III, Edward L. Turner, Johnny L. and Brenda J. Turner, John R. Van Horn, Jerome Vanderboogart, Sharon M.

Vernor, Sylvia F. Vivrett, Kenneth J. Voss, William Ray Wain-wright, Alectric Walker, Sharon S. Walker, Richelie C. Walls, Ruby Walls.

John J. and Rose A. Walsh, Gladys V. Waltemath, Maria Wanner, Men-cell Washington, Earl L. Watson, Gerald Watson, Michael A.

Webb, Paul A. Weishaupt, Steve Welch, Patrick L. White, Peggy and Mark L. White, Darlene Whitfield, Mary Ellen Whitt, Danny E. Wiegand, Shelby J.

Wild, Darrell L. Williams, Douglas Williams, Mary Williams, Mentry Lee Williams. Paul Williams, Rodney J. Williams, Jennifer J. Winter, Karen P.

Wisdom, Kelly L. Wolf, Minnie F. Wolf, Edward Wolfshoefer, Robert K. Wright, Bryan K. Wyatt, Sylvia D.

and Raymond A. Yarbrough, Richard Yates II, Robbie R. Young, Steven M. Zichler, Dorothy Ziegler. Language Study Surges In Popularity Abroad, Languages Are Studied More Sineath Wellman ers in this area.

Nester is the executive director of Disability with Hope, an organization that helps disabled people realize their potential. Alan Godlewski, director of horticulture at Shaw's Garden, has been awarded the Presidential Citation by the National Council of State Garden Clubs. Godlewski was recognized for his help in designing the council's newly dedicated Hedley Wildflower Garden, as well as for his assistance with the development of the grounds of the organization's headquarters at 4401 Magnolia Avenue. Peter H. Raven, director of Shaw's Garden, was selected as the recipient of the George Robert White Medal of Honor by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.

The medal is awarded annually to individuals who make contributions to the fields of horticulture and conservation. Raven, an authority on rain forests, is on the board of directors for the World Wildlife Fund and the Nature Conservancy and is a member of the committee on research and exploration for the National Geographic Society. Vincent J. Cannella, managing partner of the St. Louis office of Peat Markwick Main has been elected chairman of the board of directors Logos School, an alternative high school that specializes in helping students to achieve emotional health and academic preparedness.

Other officers elected are John R. Kelly, a partner project designer with The Hoffmann Partnership, secretary; and Donald P. Lamers, a partner in the St. Louis office of Arthur Andersen treasurer. Members elected to the board of directors are: Luther G.

Bellinger, director of community affairs at McDonnell Douglas; Royce S. Caldwell, vice president for human resources at Southwestern Bell; Sydney Golde, president of the Logos auxiliary and a teacher at Deutsch Nursery School of Temple Israel; and Denise Scalzo Mul-lin, associate director of annual fund programs at Washington University. HAND nations of clothing, food, toiletries, toys and money to help needy people in the Metro East area. Those wishing pick-up service may call (618) 482-7330, or they may deliver gifts to: The Center, 3911 State Street, East St. Louis, 111.

62205. Henges Interiors has provided a $5,000 contribution to Senior Home Security Inc. to be used in conjunction with a grant from Union Electric to provide Comfort Zone installations in the homes of families without heat. The contribution would help Senior Home Security to provide about 25 additional comfort zones for a total of 150 installations this year. More information is available by calling Gordon Freese or John Vincenzo at 531-9779.

Centerre Bancorporation and Centerre Trust have made a joint pledge of $150,000 to Shaw's Garden to help in the development of the garden's Center for Home Gardening Pavilion. The 8 'j -acre center, which will feature more than 20 residentially scaled display gardens, will be built in the 1990s on the Garden's grounds, 4344 Shaw Boulevard. Central Hardware has presented $600 to the area office of the American Cancer Society. The money was raised from popcorn and soda sales at Central Hardware's annual garage sale. In addition to the donation, Central Hardware has promoted the society's major fund-raising events.

AT4T has awarded the Repertory Theatre of St Louis a $15,000 grant to help underwrite a guest artist for each of the theater's three studio theater productions for this season. Robin Swados, author of "A Quiet End," will be the guest artist during the three-week rehearsal of the season's opener. The remaining two artists will be announced later. Springboard to Learning has received donations from the Dan-forth Foundation, Monsanto Fund, Citicorp, Ralston Purina Trust Fund, Laclede Gas and A.G. Edwards to help begin its 23rd year of service to students here.

Springboard to Learning is a nonprofit multi-cultural education organization that specializes in enrichment programs in the arts, sciences and humanities for more than 30,000 students annually. To Hear NASA Chief which begins at 2 p.m. in the Gale Bullman Multi-Purpose Building on the university's campus. William A. Rutledge, retired vice chairman and chief operating officer of Emerson Electric, will be presented with an honorary doctorate of engineering.

Brennan McMurry Terrance G. Brennan has been appointed lay campus minister at Parks College of St. Louis University in Cahokia. Brennan, a six-year veteran of the Navy, worked closely with the Navy Chaplain Corps and served on a special psychiatric rapid intervention team. He also was a consultant for the design and organization of a psychiatric convalescent unit at Great Lakes, 111., Naval Training Center Hospital.

Laura L. McMurry has been appointed area coordinator for resident programs and activities in the department of residential life at Washington University. McMurry will be responsible for advising members of the Congress of the South Forty, the governing body for the university students living in dormitories. She previously was a residence hall coordinator for the University of Missouri at Columbia. Henry Sineath, professor emeritus of engineering management at the University of Missouri at Rolla, has been selected as the first Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute professor at the university.

Sineath, who was inducted into the Packing Education Foundation Hall of Fame in 1985, joined the university's faculty in 1976. Carl P. Wellman, professor of philosophy at Washington University, has been appointed the university's first Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities. The award was established this year by Tobias Lewin, a Washington University alumnus and retired chairman of Tobey Color Card. Wellman started his career with the university in 1968 after serving as chairman of the philosophy department at Lawrence University.

Virginia Nester of St. Louis was presented with the first annual Rosemary Plitt award by Secretary of State Roy Blunt at the Missouri Election Authorities conference, recently held in Jefferson City. Nester was honored for her efforts to increase public awareness of the needs of disabled vot- HELPING Those interested in programs, and housing choices for the elderly now have a guide: "Housing Choices: A Guide for Older St. Louisans." The book contains information on community programs and services for the elderly as well as an alphabetical list of area retirement centers that are not part of a government program and other licensed facilities. Copies are available through Con-.

Choices, 222 South Bemis-ton Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. 63105. The Walgreen Co. of Deerfield, III.

has pledged $50,000 to the "Building On A Strong Foundation" campaign of the St Louis College of Pharmacy. The donation will be used to help advance the college's philosophy of pharmacy education. The campaign is seeking to raise $2.5 million from alumni, corporations and friends to help finance a $7 million construction and renovation master program. The Missouri Board of Probation and Parole is seeking volunteers in this area to help in a variety of areas including public relations, report writing and background investigation. Individual and group counselors are also needed in employment, substance abuse and literacy training.

Volunteers will be trained by the agency's professional staff. More information is available by calling 647-3657. STL Cablevision reports that it raised 123,150 to help support the Muscular Dystrophy Association. STL Cablevision raised the money by offering new customers a $5 installation fee, and current customers a $5 charge to install an additional premium channel. Subscribers could also choose either HBO, Showtime or the Disney Channel at $2 a month for six months.

The St Louis Housing Service Corp. has begun a drive to raise $10,000 to help needy people in St Louis with utility bills, clothing and shelter. Donations may be sent to St Louis Housing and Human Service 5378 Martin Luther King St Louis, Mo. 63112. More information is available by calling A.

Williams at 361-2520. Helping Hands for Special Pet-pie in East St Louis is seeking do UM-Rolla Graduates James Fletcher, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, will deliver the commencement address at the University of Missouri at Rolla on Dec 20. About 650 students will get diplomas at the graduation ceremony. first grade finish even primary school, and illiteracy runs high. Among the young and upwardly mobile, English is considered both' "hip" and necessary.

Words like "cheeseburger," "jeans" and "bridge loan" are part of everyday language. Japan Foreign language study here essentially means English study, a requirement in grades 10-12, although many take it earlier. Despite hundreds of hours of study, few achieve fluency because the focus is on writing and grammar, not conversation. The main motive is to pass the English portion of the national college entrance exam. To improve the quality of English teaching, the government has brought in 1,000 American, Canadian and British teachers to teach English this year, and the program could eventually expand to 10,000.

Italy Italians typically begin foreign language study at age 11, and high schools require two to five years of study for graduation. But few achieve fluency because the teachers themselves often lack it The number of Italians speaking English has risen by more than 20 percent in the last decade, due partly to heavy tourism and prevalence of English in professional literature. Eighty percent of secondary school students choose English. About 60 percent of all Italians have functional knowledge of at least one foreign language. Of these, 65 percent speak English, 30 percent French, 3 percent German and 2 percent Spanish.

NEW YORK (AP) More American schools are teaching a greater number of American children a greater assortment of foreign languages these days. But the study of other languages, often several other languages, is a common and entrenched fact of life in most other developed nations. Here is a comparison of what some other countries require of their students: France Language study typically begins at sixth grade. To graduate from a French lycee, the equivalent of an American high school, students must study two foreign languages, one for six years, the other for four years. This is also required for university admission.

Eighty-four percent of lycee students study English. "English has become the international language of diplomacy, business, banking and communications, and France is behind other countries like Germany and Holland where virtually all educated people speak English," said Ellen Lampert, spokeswoman for the French American Center of Provence in Avignon. Soviet Union Foreign language study is mandatory for the last six years in regular state secondary schools and begins as early as second grade in special schools for children of influential party and government leaders. But a general understanding of foreign languages is apparently not much better than among U.S. students.

Teaching quality and pronunciation tend to be poor, because Soviet teachers rarely learn languages from native speakers. According to the Soviet news By Lee Mitgang Of The Associated Press NEW YORK To a fast-growing number of U.S. high school and college students, French is now considered essentiel, German is notwendig, Spanish is imprescindible, Russian is nuzhen and Japanese is hissu. In plain English, it means foreign language study is surging in popularity especially the study of Japanese and Chinese. But even with impressive gains, U.S.

students still trail youngsters in most Western and industrialized countries in terms of foreign language ability. Educators caution, furthermore, that future progress is doubtful without better teachers and more of them. Almost one-third, 30.9 percent, of the nation's 12.5 million public high school students are studying modern foreign languages, the largest proportion in 70 years, and up sharply from the 21.3 percent enrolled in 1982, according to a soon-to-be-published survey by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages made available to The Associated Press. Spanish and French remain by far the most popular languages to study. Some 2.3 million high school students and 411,000 college students are learning Spanish, new surveys show, and 1.1 million high school students and 275,000 college students were enrolled in French studies.

But college-level Chinese and Japanese enrollments are showing the largest percentage gains: 23,454 were studying Japanese last year, up 45.4 percent from 16,127 in 1983. In the same period, Chinese enrollments rose 28.2 percent, from 13,178 to 16,891, according to statistics from the Modern Language Association. Credited for the increases are: School revision reports stressing language study. More universities and colleges requiring language for admission or graduation. Heightened awareness of foreign trade issues.

Increased foreign travel by students. The general trend back to educational "basics." Foreign economic language experts say, is apparently causing some Americans to finally begin shedding tl.eir long-standing indifference to foreign cultures, and the arrogant expectation that others should understand English but Americans need know no language but their own. According to the MLA report, scheduled for publication in January in its "ADFL Bulletin" (for the affiliated Association of Departments of Foreign Languages), the number of college and university students studying a language other than English reached 1,003.234 in the fall of 1986, up 3.9 percent from 1983, and the first time in 14 years that college foreign language enrollments topped the million mark. College-level Hebrew showed the biggest enrollment decline among the 12 most widely studied languages, down by 14.1 percent to 15.630. the MLA report found.

Ancient Greek enrollments declined by 9 percent to 17.608, and Arabic fell 0.5 percent to 3.417. The 12 languages, in order of popularity, are Spanish. French, German. Italian, Russian, Latin, Japanese, ancient Greek, Chinese, Hebrew, Portu- agency, Tass, 51 percent of high school students study English, with the rest split about evenly between German and French. English overtook German as the most studied language about 10 years ago.

Philippines Pilipino (a Malay language based on the Tagalog dialect) and 'English are this Pacific nation's two official tongues. Nearly all educated Filipinos are bilingual. Students are required to study English from the first grade. Science subjects are generally taught in English throughout school. Most university lectures are also in English.

Sweden All students study English starting at third grade, and two years of high school English is required for university admission. Sixty percent also study either German or French from age 13. At age 16, students can take a third language. Seventy percent of high school graduates have taken German at some point, 45 percent have taken French, 21 percent Spanish, 1.3. percent Italian, 0.8 percent Russian.

Language studies are considered a must because only 8 million people in the world speak Swedish. Most Swedes travel widely, and each year more than 2,500 high school students go to the United States on exchange programs. Many university courses use textbooks written in English. Brazil Students usually begin foreign language study in high school, usually English or French. But only 12 percent of children entering the Virginia operates language academies that offer high school students six weeks of total immersion.

Despite heightened interest, foreign language study still faces formidable roadblocks in many states, and even the encouraging signs are being interpreted cautiously. For example, enrollments to learn Japanese may be soaring, but many students don't survive the first year due to the difficulty of that language and poor teaching techniques, said Eleanor Jordan, a 30-year teacher who has taught at Cornell and Williams and who is now at the new Johns Hopkins National Foreign Language Center in Washington. It's also hard for most school districts to assess the quality of foreign language teachers. "Particularly in Asian languages, there is no one who can check this person out" Jordan said. "We have to train good teachers of foreign languages.

There is a mythology that native speakers can teach simply because they know the language. The profession needs to be professionalized." Most high schools and colleges still regard foreign language study as an elective rather than a graduation requirement Only a sixth of the nation's 1.300 baccalaureate-granting colleges and universities require all bachelor's degree earners to study a foreign language, according to preliminary tabulations of an as-yet unpublished survey by the American Council on Education. Not a single state requires foreign language for high school graduation, according to the Education Commission of the States in Denver. Only the District of Columbia requires all high school degree candidates to study a year of a foreign language. But many states could not increase high school foreign language lessons even if they wanted to there simply aren't enough teachers being trained.

The latest federal statistics show that 9,810 U.S. college students earned bachelor's degrees in modern foreign languages last year, up slightly from 9.158 in 1984, but sharply lower than the peak of 19.457 in 1970. Just 1,656 earned master's degrees in languages in 1986, and 427 earned doctorates. Whether a school district offers foreign languages often comes down to "whether or not there is a language teacher living in Podunk," said Melo-die Bush, information specialist for the ECS. i guese and Arabic.

A survey in October by the Joint National Committee for Languages, a Washington-based lobby for foreign language and exchange programs, also found a wide range of activity at the state level: An Arizona state task force is considering requiring foreign language instruction in grade schools. The Colorado Department of Education has hired a full-time foreign language consultant, and the University of Colorado has established an admissions requirement of three years of a foreign language. The University of Delaware has reinstated a two-year foreign language entrance requirement Florida language enrollments this fall are up 16 percent at the elementary level, 8 percent in middle school and 11 percent at the high school level. The University of Iowa recruits college sophomores to teach Russian, Japanese and Chinese. Minnesota secondary student enrollment in foreign languages nearly doubled from 14.4 percent in 1982-83 to 27 percent in 1985-86.

Oregon language class enrollments are up 11 percent even though the state has no foreign language requirement.