Alumni Roundup
Margaret M. Arbini, BA 1975, has completed a seven-month Knight Foundation fellowship in South America. The purpose was to assist Third World newspapers achieve freedom of the press. Actually, she says, what that really meant was "teaching them how to write a five-year strategic marketing plan to make money (sell advertising) and detach from the government subsidy gravy train." Arbini can be reached in Laguna Beach, Calif., at: arbini@aol.com.
Raymond Barclay, BA 1968, is with the Scottish Agriculture College in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Beverly Bishop Allen , BA 1975, sent in the first
response from the English Chapter's page on the Internet World Wide
Web. Responding from Atlanta, Ga., she wrote, "I went on to get
an MA in history at UMSL (1983) and an MSLS from the University of
Illinois-Urbana (1987). Since 1987, I have been reference archivist
in the Special Collections Department of Emory University. We have
papers of many literary figures, most notably James Dickey and W. B.
Yeats, so I do get to use my English degree occasionally
Jeanne Blum, BA 1989, MA 1991, has a full-time position at Indiana Purdue University Fort Wayne, where she teaches business writing, technical report writing, administrative writing and composition. She also works as a writing consultant in the Fort Wayne community, conducting training sessions on writing effective correspondence, writing and editing advertising and sales materials and consulting with writers on complex projects.
Kim Hallemann Crank, BA 1991, earned a MAT in communications from Webster University in May 1995. She spent five years teaching seventh grade language arts in the Lindbergh School District and is now leader of an interdisciplinary teaching team. She was published in The Transcent, journal of the Missouri Middle School Association.
John Dalton, BA 1986, has won a rare second fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Mass.
Kim Deitzler, BA 1992, now living in Minneapolis with her husband and daughter, continues work on her MA thesis under the direction of James Tierney. Dietzler's thesis involves compiling a biographical computer data base of 430 women authors from the period of 1660-1800.
Rebecca Donne, BA 1988, is teaching English at Horton-Watkins High School in Ladue.
Ron Ebest, MA 1993, had an article titled "Urban Catholic Pedagogy 1913-1918: The Shaping of James T. Farrell" accepted for the winter edition of Eire Ireland, international journal for Irish Studies. He also presented a paper, "Fear and Loathing in Milwaukee: A Literature Major Goes to 4Cs," at the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication in Milwaukee.
Mark Medric George, BA 1996, will publish a major poem in an upcoming issue of River Styx portraying an American/Asian-Indian wedding.
Theresa Goergen, BA 1996, is teaching freshman and junior English at Ursuline Academy in St. Louis this year.
Linda Harmann, BA 1994, is a student in the MA/Ph.D. program at UM-Columbia.
Deborah Harmann Harris, MA 1991, is working as an intern at the UM-St. Louis Counseling Service for her degree in psychological counseling from Lindenwood College
Carole Jerome, BA 1984, is a copywriter for Kiku Obata and Co. in St. Louis.
Elizabeth L. Jones, BA 1993, has moved moved back to St. Louis after living in Virginia for four years. There she completed an MA in English at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. She is teaching at St. Louis Community College-Forest Park and at Jefferson College in Hillsboro. Jones can be reached at: eljones@aol.com
David Landeck, BA 1979, writes, " I worked with language and computers at the engineering school at UM-C; found. Georgetown University had a graduate program in Computational Linguistics. I entered in '84 and received an MS in Linguistics in '87. (Thanks again, Dave Carkeet, for the admissions recommendation.)" He is senior researcher for the Thomson Corporation's internal technical consulting group, and the brand new father of a daughter, Juliette Marie. Landeck can be reached at: dlandeck@thomtech.com .
W. Faye Lanier, BS 1970, MA 1985, reports, "I retired from the public school system in 1992. I taught briefly at St. Charles County Community College. Then I took a job at my son-in-law's business, Heartland Office Machines & Equipment, Inc."
Margaret M. (Maggie) McDevitt McCarthy, BA 1969, earned a BFA in painting from Oklahoma University in 1995. Her work was exhibited in March at St. Peters Cultural Arts Center, St. Peters, Mo. She is an art instructor at All Saints Catholic School in Normal, Okla.
Michael B. McDonald, BA 1993, received an MA in library science in 1994 from UM-Columbia. He has moved to Las Cruces, New Mex., to attend graduate school in English at New Mexico State University.
Lisa Miller, BA 1976, MA 1978, received a Ph.D. in English from UM-Columbia in 1987. She is now director of composition and creative writing at Phoenix College.
Tom Murray, BA 1978, is professor of English at Kansas State University and the author of books and articles on various aspects of language variation, American English, Sociolinguistic methodology, onomastic language history and pedagogy. He has also received two teaching awards.
Barb Braun Reynolds, BA 1991, has taken a position with the St. Louis Science Center.
Bethany Scherer, BA 1996, now a graduate teaching assistant, will present a paper titled "Letters of the Spirit: The Texts and Contexts of Romanticism" at the Graduate Students Romanticism Conference in April at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Martin Schuster, BA 1981, has joined Master Card International at Westport as an editor and writer.
Sandy Montgomery Schulz, BA 1970, taught reading for six years at Ferguson Junior High School; was preschool teacher for the YMCA; then six years substituting at the Rockwood's Secondary Schools. During this time she raised two daughters and will celebrate 25 years of marriage to Gary Schulz, SBA, CPA. She is currently self-employed as a rebirther, a teacher of a breathing technique for stress relief.
Suzanne Sherman, BA 1992, is working as a medical transcriptionist.
David Glen Smith, BA 1991, MA 1996, recently was named editor of Disaster Recovery Journal, publication of a St Louis-based organization. He also has poems which will be appearing in the Charlotte Poetry Review, Dream International Quarterly, and Poetry Motel.
Milton Svetanics III, BA 1993, has returned from a three-year stay in Kasukabe, Japan, where he taught English and American culture and was a consultant on American Life for Japanese businessmen.
Linda Tate, BA 1983, MA 1985, led a college/community group on a trip to Dakar, Senegal, in January. The trip was part of a yearlong, collegewide focus on West Africa that she has been coordinating at Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, W.Va., where she is a member of the English department faculty.
Catherine Vale, BA 1988. After working as a book production editor for Mosby Year Book, Katie attended law school at Saint Louis University. She graduated with a JD in 1994 and currently is an associate with the Clayton law firm, Jones, Korum, Waltrip & Jones.