Abstract
guage teaching profession in the United States, the 200th anniversary of the founding of the nation's first chair in modern languages was observed in October 1979 at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.1 The founder of the chair was Thomas Jefferson, then governor of Virginia and leader of the college's board of visitors. The first occupant of the chair was Carlo Bellini, a cultivated Florentine who spoke five languages and enjoyed the patronage of the governor. Whatever Bellini's accomplishments, he was, of course, vastly overshadowed in the college by Jefferson, whose proficiency in European languages, cultures, and learning-and in numerous other fields of knowledge is well known and well documented in his
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