Biographical Note:
Dr. Christopher Kendris earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees at Columbia University in New York and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He worked as an interpreter and translator of French for the U.S. State Department at the American Embassy in Paris. He taught French at the College of The University of Chicago, Colby College, Duke University, Rutgers--The State University of New Jersey, and the State University of New York at Albany. He was Chairman of the Department of Foreign Languages and Supervisor of 16 foreign language teachers on the secondary level at Farmingdale High School, Farmingdale, New York, where he was also a teacher of all levels of French and Spanish, and prepared students for the New York State French and Spanish Regents, SAT exams, and AP tests. Dr. Kendris was the author of 22 high school and college books, workbooks, and other language guides of French and Spanish.

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