Melissa Crane, Class of '97, went to Denver Publishing Institute after graduation and is currently working for Baker & Taylor.
Melanie Stevens ( '97 ) interned at the Kennedy Center over the summer and currently works here at Wittenberg with the Witt Today.
Jeremy Glazier ('97) currently works as an assistant to Maureen Fry in Wittenberg's Writer's Workshop and has been accepted to the MFA program at Columbia University.
Anne Ford, ('97) volunteered with the Lutheran Volunteer Corp. And is now in the graduate program at the University of Chicago.
Amanda Williamsen, ‘97 accepted an offer for tuition and an Assistantship to pursue an MA at Johns Hopkins University. Completing that this spring, she's now headed to University of Alabama in '98.
Melissa Gosline, ‘97 is enrolled in the MFA program at the University of South Carolina.
Kim McCoid, 97, is enrolled in Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary.
Miles Aquino, '97, works at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for Robbins-Gioia Inc. as a Jr. Program Analyst. He is currently working on the redesign of current U.S. Air Force legacy systems, and is the Site Administrator for the G097 Web pages.
Amy Weir, 96, is enrolled in the graduate program in Religious Studies at Harvard University.
Kevin Aldridge, 96, writes for a Middletown newspaper.
Deborah Gaskill, '96, is a staff reporter for the Xenia, Ohio Gazette.
Scott Bistayi, '96, is a reporter for Forbes magazine, New York, New York.
Jay Clarke, '96. Patrick Jason is well into his MFA at University of Oregon, in Corvalis. Writing up a storm, loves his profs, loves teaching creative writing and even 101 (and doing a fair amount of it). Has a place in the woods which he shares with deer. Could he be happy?
Aaron Forman, '96
Melissa Grean, '96, was on staff at Next magazine, a music industry trade publication in Los Angeles. The 'zine went under. She's now working as an Assistant Production Coordinator for a film finishing house in LA. They generally work on trailers (coming attractions), and occasionally on TV sports for films, called 'video finishes.'
Currently the company is supervising post production (the editing) of a feature called "The Runner," starring Courtney Cox, John Goodman and Joe Matagna. Missie may get an "apprentice editor" credit, so I guess we all got to go see it. You can reach her via email at:
bookhouse@earthlink.net
Barb Myers, ‘96 works at F&W Publications in Cincinnati dealing directly with the poetry market.
Josh Dean, Class of 1996, is the editor of Prime Times: Voice of Today's Youth, a new tabloid publication which he conceived and designed in Oradell, NJ. I'll have an email for Josh up here soon. This coming November, Josh will be one of our featured speakers on the Wittenberg Series--this news is so hot the series doesn't have a title yet.
Josh, Lois Raimondo, Joyce Coin Dyers, Robert Bilstone, Marty Lammon, and Terry Hermsen will all be returning for several days to give talks on their writing lives, advise students, comment on student work (this along with Carl Bernstein, of Woodward and Bernstein fame). I'll get up a link for it soon or later: Alumni Residences: Distinguished Writing Fellows, or some such.
Bethany Young, 96, is the press secretary to Democratic Congressman Martin Sabo.
Ingrid Loeffler Palmer, ‘95 graduated from the Medill School of Journalism magazine program at Northwestern University. She is now working in Publications in Colorado.
Chris Hartman, '95, has been living in Pittsburgh since graduation, working at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center as a research assistant in the Behavorial Medicine Department. "And that's really all I can say about it," she writes, "because it sounds so much more impressive than it actually is." Impressed or not, it's great to learn Chris has been accepted into the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence (NY) and will be writing there this coming fall ('98). P.S. Chris reminds me that Josh Dean was class of '95, not '96 as per above.
Kate Kingsley, 94, is a publicist with Devellier Communications, Washington, D.C.
Shannon Lampe, 93, is the Managing Editor of Business Systems Magazine, in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Shuly Cawood, '91 has been working as an Admissions Counselor at Wittenberg for the past year or so, but she's now off to Chapel Hill, North Carolina (home of the Tarheels, not to mention Zen Frisbee, and Shark Quest (local bands), where she'll pursue employment in higher education administration. She still writes poetry and you can still reach her on her email aat: sxcawood@hotmail.com
Heather Campbell Martin, '91, writes that she "borrowed a gazillion dollars to get a Masters in Journalism, and then moved to Washington, DC, with her husband to be in the midst of it all. The midst is getting crowded and raunchy, however, so she and husband are heading back to the heartland, where Heather will be Managing Editor of the Business News in Dayton."
Email them at: hibbie@worldnet.att.net
Heather, I should say, (I won't say too much) was writing for a literary (of sorts) magazine, and en passant via email mentioned they were having a contest, why don't I send something. I did. Damn if I didn't get second prize! So I read it for a couple of years, and must say, old girl, your articles were great. Give that Dayton business world the old Jack and Marianna! (;
Kristina Ackley, '91, completed her M.A. in Public Relations Management from the University of Maryland -- College Park. She now manages communications and information services at the National Council of Nonprofit Associations, Washington, D.C.
Matt Anderson, '91, wrote in, thanks to Shuly. He has a house in Randolph, New York, where he works as a writer for the Salamanca Press, a daily paper "...with a circulation slightly higher than my age and IQ combined--yes, that does hit 3 digits." He's still writing fiction, or movie scripts mostly, "...none of them particularly good. E.g., two tabloid reporters kidnapped by an old woman because they won't run a story about her husband's being kidnapped by aliens." Matt! Make it just one reporter, so you can work the romance angle.
Kevin Gormley, Class of 1990, as of last summer ('97), was in the FBI Training Program.
This Class of '89 may be the generation of pixillation. Remember Mike Nigro, Erik Schwab? Erik, almost done with his Ph.D. in English at Penn State, left. Meantime, he has been a jazz radio DJ and studied medieval philosophy at the Sorbonne. He works in the commmunication department of a non-profit organization in Seattle; he is also a freelance Web designer and the editor of ekrano, an online review magazine of film and jazz: ekrano is Esperanto for screen. It's really something else; click it out. Addresses and email there, along with the latest in film and jazz.
Mike Nigro is writing for Pop-Up Video in New York. Can find Mike through Pop-Up's page:
UPDATE: Mike and his wife Bernie, the new proud parents of baby Isabella. Mike is a ball to talk to--keeps gently bubbling, when not cooing--write him! Furthermore, Mike just had a short story published in an anthology called Virgin Fiction.
Margaret Williams, '88, is Director of Admissions at Sweet Briar College, in Lynchburg, Virginia. (Yes, if you'll click on the site, you'll see it's still all-women's, one of the last two or three.) Margaret began as an admissions counselor there right after graduating from Witt in '88, then left, got a Masters at Washington (St. Louis), then returned to Sweet Briar, and now directs the show (the first act: getting them there). Her email is: mwilliams@sbc.edu
Leanne Thomas, Class of 1988, writes: "Olivia is my 10-month-old fount of bliss and fury. Married to Paul Scheibold, main squeeze, musician. Me, self-employed illustrator and artist:
Department of be-impressed: illustrations for SunTrust Bank (big in Southwest). Founded art group ILMA (I Love My Art TM). Meets weekly to do GroupWorks, living paintings with up to 7 artists working at once, painting over each other's stuff, making magic: completed painting in one hour.
........"What else. Sweating in Florida, missing big rocks and fall air and friends who live elsewhere." You can email Leanne at: whitecow@mindspring.com
Mike Carmoney, Class of '87, worked at Masland Carpets (having interviewed with them through the Witt Career Development) until 1996, when he landed a full time scholarship at Drake Law School (Iowa). One more year to his J.D. He'll stay in Des Moines then and "...litigate civil cases or maybe do corporate counsel work."
fourHe and his wife Karin have two children, Jill (6) and Sam (5), and they all live in a farmhouse "...out in the middle of a big cornfield, where in the fall I can hunt pheasants."
Mike's e-mail: MACarmoney@aol.com
Pamela (Soder) Turley, 1982
....Pam is an Associate Professor of English at Community Collgege of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA, where she's been teaching since 1990: CAW (computer-assisted writing) to developmental writing students, in a networked classroom; and expository writing (of course); and science fiction and children's literature. "I love teaching but hate marking essays (who doesn't), and I still can't believe I'm an English prof all these years: 16th wedding anniversary with Michael--the guy no one thought I should marry right out of Wittenberg." They have a 3 year old--Nathan. Pam's email is: pturley@ccac.edu
Karen Saupe, 1981
....Soup writes: "I'm an Associate Professor at Calvin College in unfortunately-mountainless Grand Rapids, MI, teaching Medieval/Renaissance lit and other stuff (like Children's Lit this past semester). Work is too big, office too small, but it all comes out even."
Her web page:
http://www.calvin.edu/~ksaupe
Her recent big project (Festival of Faith and Writing) can be purviewed in pretty big way at:
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/engl/conf98.htm
And you can e-mail Karen at:
ksaupe@calvin.edu
Her shoe size: 8AA
Marty Lammon, 1980--remember him? the poet?--now holds the Callaway/Flannery O'Connor Chair in Creative Writing at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville (where O'Connor lived), where he's in charge of building a Creative Writing program.
...His collection of poems, News from Where I Live won the Arkansas Poetry Award, and recent poems were selected by W.W.Merwin for a Pablo Neruda Award in Poetry. Marty earned his M.A. in '82, and his Ph.D. from Ohio University in 1991. His poetry and prose have appeared in the likes of Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, and The Gettysburg Review. For more (a lot more), click on
Anne Tatge Green, Class of 1976, got her MLS at SUNY, Albany, in 1977, thence serving as an elementary school media specialist in New York and Connecticut. She and her husband Peter Green adopted a baby boy, and, lo, "...life changed greatly!" It goes on, too: from 1992 to 1996 Anne has been studying the entire Shakespeare canon through the President's College at University of Hartford, and continues to do so: "Original intent was to earn CEU's," she writes, "but now I do it for the bard." Anne also tutors little kids in Hartford, in reading.
