Allie Mangel, a 2018 graduate of Homewood-Flossmoor High School, has been selected for the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) program in Germany.
Mangel will work with a German teacher of English for a school year starting in September. The Fulbright program is intended to help improve the teaching of the English language and American studies in German Schools. She will be one of 140 Americans on the German ETA program.
Mangel graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in May receiving a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature and violin performance.
In a profile on the Princeton website, Mangel said: “I chose the humanities because I fell in love with words. I realized through the (Princeton) Humanities sequence just how much is possible with language – how writers can vary their own voices, mimic one another, and communicate such complex details through such tiny alterations in sentences. The humanities encourage deep, attentive thinking about topics that drive so much of human culture and society.”
She wrote and edited for several Princeton publications, and won the Haarlow Prize in the Humanities her freshman year for a paper on the story of Persphone, as it was depicted on the front of an Attic, Greek bell-krater dating to 440 B.C. She later traveled to Greece through a Princeton humanities program.
She was a member of the Princeton University Orchestra and an assistant conductor of the Princeton Camerata. She also volunteered as a private lesson teacher for the Trenton Youth Orchestra.
At H-F, Mangel graduated with an International Baccalaureate diploma. She was a National AP (Advanced Placement) Scholar, a Viking Scholar and National Merit finalist. She participated in the Viking Orchestra, Mathletes, and was inducted into the National Honor Society and the French National Honor Society.