Deaths Elsewhere

Language professor, French education advocate
WEST MONROE – Services for former dean of the College of Liberal Arts at UL Monroe and noted French education advocate Dr. Carlos Fandal will be Oct. 24. He died Oct. 21 at age 76.
He was the first head of the Department of Foreign Languages at ULM and after retiring in 2009 was designated professor and dean emeritus.
Dr. Fandal was a driving force in French language education throughout the state of Louisiana. The French government recognized his contributions to the study of French and the Francophone culture by knighting him as a Chevalier dans l’Prdre des Palmes Academiques in 1977 and later as an Officer dans l’Prdre des Palmes Academiques in 1987.
He helped found the Louisiana Foreign Language Association and served on the committee which developed the Council on the Development of French in Louisiana. As the chairman of the CODOFIL Consortium, he was one of the original signers of the accords between Louisiana and France and Belgium. He again chaired the delegation when the accords were renewed in 1986. He was instrumental in establishing the program for recruiting elementary and middle school teachers in Quebec, Belgium, and France to teach in Louisiana.
He was also a life-long advocate for the study of Latin and the classics. He helped found the Louisiana Classical Association, which he served as an officer and as editor of The Classicist. He proposed the project for developing Latin programs for teaching Latin in rural Louisiana and participated in an NEH seminar in Rome in 1989 on “Roman Art in a Social Context.”
Survivors include his wife Doris and several children.
Arrangements are by Mulhearn.