Each summer since 1994, Professor Professor David Sixbey has taken a group of SAU students to Moscow for a one-month Russian studies program. Students may obtain up to six hours of academic credit. Students stay in residence halls furnished by Moscow State Pedagogical University, attend lectures and concerts, and visit museums and historic sites around Moscow. Also since 1994, Russian teachers and students have spent semesters-in-residence at SAU. The teachers conduct Russian language classes, and the students enroll in regular classes. A Russian Exchange Endowment is presently being established to support some of the expense of these exchanges. The endowment is named for the first Russian exchange teacher, Dr. Elena Solovova, who came from Moscow in fall 1994, and for Mr. Victor Sheshunoff, a native Muscovite but naturalized U. S. citizen and long-time resident of Magnolia, who for many years served as the unpaid coach of the university's tennis team. Beginning in 1997-98, the department's coordinator of summer studies in Moscow will be Dr. Don Watt.