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...THERESA WILLIAMS           MA 1987
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terria@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Williams earned an MFA in Fiction Writing at Bowling Green State University in 1989. She has published fiction and poetry in Sulphur River Literary Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Paterson Literary Review, Visions International, Viet Nam Generation and other magazines. Her novel, The Secret of Hurricanes, was published in 2002 by MacAdam/Cage of San Francisco, and was a finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize. She teaches literature and writing at Bowling Green State University and lives in Bradner, Ohio.

...DAVID M. HELMS          BA 1981
Helms is Senior Minister at the First Baptist Church in Southern Pines, NC.

...JANICE BRASWELL PARKER          BA 1986
Parker lives in Hayes, VA and is a technical writer and project manager with an environmental consulting firm. She manages a pollution prevention and conservation contract with the U.S. Air Force.

...MELANIE PHILLIPS SMITH          BA 1985
Phillips married Doug Smith in May of 1998; their son, Henry Avery Smith, was born in February of 1999. She is Field CampHost Coordinator for Virginia State Parks and director of Youth Ministry at Ebenezer Lutheran Church, in Marion, VA.

...AN HOBART BIXLER          BA 1984
Bixler is an English teacher and the chair of the English department at Great Bridge High School in Chesapeake VA. She teaches creative writing and sponsors the literary magazine.

Theresa

 

 

...RENATE W. PRESCOTT          BA 1985; MA 1987
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rprescott@geauga.kent.edu          440-834-3721
Prescott is a tenured Associate Professor of English at Kent State University's Geauga Campus, in Burton, OH, where she teaches composition and literature classes. She has published about Vietnam War literature in such journals as Studies in American Culture, Oral History Review, The Vietnam War Journal, Community College Humanities Association Journal, OYATC, and The Encyclopedia of War Literature; she is editor of the journal Odin: A Journal of War Throughout the Ages, and project editor of the Odin Oral History Project. In summer 2001 she visited Quang Tri Province in Vietnam on a humanitarian mission with the D.O.V.E. Fund (Development of Vietnam Endeavors).

...AMY BONESTEEL SMITH          BA 1984

Smith is a regular contributor to Atlanta magazine; she has also done freelance work for the NY Times Magazine and Parade. She has two children: J.P. and Georgia.


...STUART SLOAN          BA 1983; MA 1991

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Stuart.sloan@att.net

Sloan is the Vice President of technical sales for End II End Communications, INC. He lives in Huntersville, NC with his wife, Dorothy and his two girls, Mary Stuart and Dottie.


...TIM GILES          BA 1982; MA 1986

Giles lives in Statesboro, GA and was granted tenure as an Assistant  Professor of Learning Support, Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University.  His poems have appeared in The Ogeechee Review, and are forthcoming in Poetry Motel, Black Buzzard Review and The Sport Literate.  His article "The Search Key as a Grassroots  Grammar Checker" was published  in the Journal of Developmental  Education.  Giles has been admitted  into a doctoral program in Rhetoric, Scientific and  Technical Communication at the University of Minnesota.

Renate

 

 

...JO ALLEN           MA 1983
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jo_allen@ncsu.edu
Allen is the Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs and Associate Professor of English at North Carolina State University, where she oversees eight programs and offices, including Undergraduate Assessment, Honors, Cooperative Education, Academic Support Programs for Student Athletes, Tutorial Services, the Transition Program, New Student Orientation, and the Virtual Advising Center. She has published books and papers and presented on higher education and communication issues in over 100 scholarly venues, has served on four editorial boards, and is a former member-at-large and current president of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. She has consulted extensively on issues regarding technical and administrative communication.


...SUSAN TACKER           BA 1985

Tacker is an information development team lead at NetIQ Corporation in Houston TX. The information development teams at NetIQ provide technical documentation, online Help, wizards, and usability support for more than 15 security-related software products. She also facilitates social justice workshops and creates workshop materials for The Centergy Company. She married Charles Anderson Fleming of Houston in 1999.


...SHELIA BONDS TURLINGTON          BS 1981

Turlington and her husband Ben announce the adoption of their baby son Jon Tyler Bonds Turlington, born in Guatemala, Latin American. Sheila works with Homebound Services at the Martin County Board of Education.


Jo

 


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