The FLAND Foreign Language Teacher of the Year Award was renamed the Graciela Wilborn Foreign Language Teacher of the Year Award after the passing of well-loved UND Spanish Professor Graciela Wilborn. 

Karen Rosby, formerly of Grand Forks Public Schools writes:
Graciela Wilborn received her Bachelor of Arts from the National University in Mexico City. She completed her Master of Arts in Spanish at Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, after study in Madrid. Her teaching experience included St. Mary's Elementary in Grand Forks, Williston High School and every level and type of course at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. If there was anything happening in Spanish, from elementary school to the ND high school Spanish conventions, Graciela was there to lend her leadership, expertise and hard work. She contributed to countless publications and presented to local, statewide and national groups. She served in every leadership position available within FLAND, FLARR, and ND-AATSP and on many committees and positions on the UND campus relating to international studies and language.  Her involvement was phenomenal and it build a rapport between the UND power structure which enhanced the advancement of language study not only at UND, but ultimately within the state as a whole.

Graciela's compassionate interest in people was evident in her volunteerism. She translated for the courts, taught catechism to migrant workers, worked with the Special Olympics and was never too busy to visit the elderly of her parish. She was, as her name so aptly states, a woman of amazing "grace."

reprinted from FLAND News