Dr. Carlos D. Fandal

Funeral Mass for Dr. Carlos D. Fandal, 76, of West Monroe, LA will be held 10:00 A.M., Friday, October 24, 2014 at St. Paschal’s Catholic Church in West Monroe, LA with Rev. Adrian Fischer officiating. Interment will follow in the St. Paschal’s Catholic Church Cemetery in West Monroe, LA under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home West Monroe, LA.Carlos D. Fandal was born August 15, 1938 and passed away on October 21, 2014. He began a long and productive career in language education as a high school teacher in 1960. By 1968 he had earned the PhD in Romance Languages from LSU and had assumed a position on the faculty of ULM, where he became the first head of the Department of Foreign Languages and later Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and the first Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. After his retirement in 2009, he received the distinction of Professor and Dean Emeritus.During his years at ULM, 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. Dr. Fandal helped to develop the Second Language Specialist program; planned and organized summer workshops in applied linguistics for elementary and secondary school teachers seeking certification to teach French; organized and established summer study opportunities for teachers and students in Belgium, France, and Quebec; and was instrumental in obtaining additional pay for Second Language specialists. He also helped to establish the twinning agreements between the cities of Monroe and Avignon, France and between ULM and the Universite d’Avignon. Such leadership resulted in invitations from other parts of the French speaking world. As a participant at the Cinquieme Biennale de la Language Francaise in Dakar, Senegal, Dr. Fandal delivered the keynote address. He also addressed the Semaine Culturelle de la Francophonie in Sherbrooke, Canada, and received a French government scholarship to participate in a seminar of the Francophone Antilles Society at Port-de-France, Martinique.Carlos Fandal 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.” Area schools and education systems also received the benefit of Dr. Fandal’s attention and expertise. He was a member of the Head Start Policy Council and a board member of the Ouachita Multi-Purpose Community Action Program, served on the St. Frederick High School Board, and was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Christ the King Student Center. He worked side by side with his wife, Doris, in the Koman Foundation and was the chairman of the Race for the Cure in 2005.A consummate teacher, Dr. Fandal was never happier than when he was working with students. Those who studied with him can attest to his excellence in the classroom. In addition to being a well-respected professor in the Department of Foreign Languages, he was a popular coach for the early men’s intramural soccer team, a respected advisor to the Vietnamese Association, and founder and advisor to Phi Tau Gamma, the foreign language club at ULM. His skills in the classroom were matched by his ability to mentor faculty and fellow administrators. Both his teaching and his leadership styles were characterized by compassion and rigor. During the last few years, he and his wife, Doris were caregivers of their great granddaughter, Sky Fandal, who was the light of their lives. He is preceded in death by his parents, Julius and Marguerite Galatas Fandal; brothers, Lynn Fandal and Thomas Fandal; and grandson, Bryant Patrick Fandal.Survivors include his much loved wife of 53 years, Doris Bryant Fandal; son, Carlos David Fandal, Jr. and his wife, Amy and children, Carlos David “Tres” Fandal, III and Annelise Marguerite Fandal, and step-son, Austin Oswell; son, Michel Andre Fandal and his wife, Debi and their son, Joseph Fandal; son, Bryant Marc Fandal and his wife, Joy and step children, Jacob, Madalyne and Kennedy Broussard; daughter, Danielle Fandal Price and her husband, Joey and their daughters, Shelby and fianc, Jacob Thomas and Molly Price and fianc, Ben Boydstun; great granddaughter, Skylar Jade Fandal; great grandson, Jacob Todd Thomas, Jr.; sister, Julie Canulette of Slidell, LA; sister, Denise Hartley and her husband, Daryl of Nashville, NC; brother, Rodney Fandal and his wife, Tammi of Pearl River, LA; brother, Allen Fandal of Slidell, LA; and numerous nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be Fred Adams, Chris Michaelides, Bryan Butler, Jim McKeithen, Dale Welch, Bill Kitchens, Don Yielding and Chip Holloway.Honorary Pallbearers will be Travis Eaton, Dr. Leonel LaCayo and Dr. Mark Arant. Visitation will be held from 5:00 P.M. until 7:00 P.M. with rosary at 4:30 P.M. on Thursday, October 23, 2014 at Mulhearn Funeral Home, West Monroe.Dr. Fandal’s family would like to thank the doctors at the Sarcoma Cancer Center at MD Anderson, Dr. LaCayo. We would also like to thank Shanette Dorsey, Stephanie Jacobs, and Emma Kettler, the caregivers who took such good care of him; and thank you to the nurses at Louisiana Hospice. In lieu of flowers, the family request that donations be made to Life Choices in Monroe, St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, St. Paschal’s Catholic Church in West Monroe, Cancer Foundation League in Monroe, Parkinson Disease in Louisiana, or National Parkinson Disease Foundation. 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