{"id":22,"date":"2012-05-15T19:49:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T19:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/staging-engwrite\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2022-03-10T18:44:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T18:44:43","slug":"studentsalumni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/engwrite\/studentsalumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Student and Alumni Success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Students\/Alumni<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In December 2009, Janette Williams earned her Master of Art in Education: Curriculum and Instruction &#8211; Educational Technology degree from CSU Bakersfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Majalise Watson Tolan is a vice principal in the Lincoln City, Oregon<br>school district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Juli Bloodgood directed\u00a0<em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em>\u00a0at the Elgin Opera House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jamie Mueller, 2009 Editor of&nbsp;<em>Oregon East<\/em>, won first place in The Nature of Words 2009 Rising Star competition in Bend for her story &#8220;Audacity,&#8221; written in one of Jodi Varon&#8217;s creative writing classes. Jamie is the second of Jodi&#8217;s students to win a first-pace award in this competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dodie McDaniel has so far earned nearly $10,000 from three small grants on behalf of Wallowa libraries and Wallowa High School. Juli Bloodgood landed a $5,000 grant from the Kinsman Foundation to support handicapped access in the Elgin Opera House renovations. Community member Deborah Hoffnagle won a grant to support the La Grande Community Garden, and Dawn Schiller earned a grant to support programs Shelter from the Storm programs raising awareness about the struggles of \u201cthrowaway\u201d teens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alum\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/karenzach.com\/\">Karen Spears Zacharias\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0fourth book\u00a0<em>Will Jesus Buy Me a Double-Wide?<\/em>\u00a0is coming out in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2007 alum\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinook.eou.edu\/ua_story\/index.cfm?ID_num=418\">Amanda Reed<\/a>\u00a0received the Rising Star Award in Literary Nonfiction from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenatureofwords.org\/Writing-Contest\/default.aspx\">The Nature of Words in Bend, OR<\/a>, for her essay \u201cMoving in Relation to Time,\u201d written in Jodi Varon\u2019s WR 316 Advanced Prose Writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kathleen Cathey took a position in Senator Ron Wyden&#8217;s La Grande office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shelby Zacharias completed her master&#8217;s at James Mason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chinook.eou.edu\/ua_story\/index.cfm?ID_num=550\">Colleen McLeod and Shawn Snyder<\/a>, Sandra Ellston\u2019s students, published creative non-fiction in The Resource Roundup and the\u00a0<em>Nonce Journal<\/em>, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following students presented at the<a href=\"http:\/\/chinook.eou.edu\/ua_story\/index.cfm?ID_num=114\">&nbsp;Northwest Undergraduate Conference on Literature, 2007<\/a>, University of Portland, in session titled \u201cThe Ruses of Enchantment: Fairy Tales and Their Subversions\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cLittle Red\u2014Who?\u201d by Victoria Wendt,<\/li><li>\u201c\u2019Beauty and the Beast\u2019: A multi Faced Tale of Transformations: by Shantra Hannibal, and<\/li><li>\u201cAnimal Passion: Female Social and Sexual Liberation in &#8216;The Tiger Bride&#8217;\u201d by Holly Arnson.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2006,&nbsp;<em>The Voice<\/em>, edited by Leslie Mitts, won the following awards in the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Collegiate Newspaper Contest: Best Special Section, Best Feature Story &#8220;Soldiers Welcomed Home in La Grande&#8221; by Reilly Cosgrove, Best Review &#8220;&#8216;Capote&#8217; Sheds Light on Author&#8217;s Dark Side&#8221; by Sara Sawatzki, Best Columnist &#8220;Say-WHAT-ski&#8221; by Sara Sawatzki, Best Spot News Photo &#8220;Jim Fenwick (football coach fired)&#8221; by Savino Cisneros and &#8220;Yoga&#8221; by Saundra Ponte, Best Graphic &#8220;MySpace&#8221; by Kevin Berryman, and Best House Ad &#8220;Think You Can Do Better?&#8221; by Kevin Berryman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carrien Meek wrote a successful grant resulting from LS 401 Capstone, Summer 2006, for Fruitland Community Library ($1500) to purchase Caldecott- and Newberry-award-winning books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rajani Lata published an article in the&nbsp;<em>La Grande Observer<\/em>&nbsp;&#8220;EOU Sets Signts on Greater Diversity.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joann Williams landed a copy editor job for the&nbsp;<em>Sequim Gazette<\/em>&nbsp;in Washington. Landon Johnston, former&nbsp;<em>Voice<\/em>Sports Editor, took a position with&nbsp;<em>Mountain Home News<\/em>&nbsp;in Idaho.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dave McDermott took a position teaching ESL in Anchorage, Alaska.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sara Thompson entered the master&#8217;s program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donna Evans entered the MA in Composition and Rhetoric program at Washington State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caleb Walser, an English major serving in the Honor Guard, was nominated for a poetry award. He was named an &#8220;International Poet of Merit&#8221; for 2002 by Poetry.com, and was a finalist for the &#8220;Poet of the Year&#8221; award. Poetry.com hosted a symposium in Washington, D.C. on the 23rd of August where all merit award winners will read their poems to those gathered and receive statues commemorating their awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Becky Hawkins, an EOU Liberal Studies alum minoring in English and Health, received a volunteer award from the Bureau of Land Management for her WR 320: Technical Writing project. As part of WR 320, Becky volunteered to write an interactive fire safety presentation for the BLM&#8217;s Fire Prevention program. The presentation was made to nearly 700 second-grade students in Malheur and Baker Counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesse Dwyer, an English\/Writing major, attended Harvard&#8217;s summer program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frank Kaminski, an English\/Writing major who graduated in June 2002 and noted local film critic, completed his master&#8217;s degree at the Graduate School in Journalism at Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two students in English\/Writing had papers accepted to a national student conference. Neva Sanders, a student in Dr. Sandra Ellston&#8217;s theory course, presented her paper on Ionesco&#8217;s play&nbsp;<em>Rhinoceros<\/em>&nbsp;at the National Undergraduate English Conference at Weber State University in Ogden, UT in April of 2002. Geri Hopkins also attended the conference to present her paper on Shakespeare&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Rape of Lucrece<\/em>, a paper written in Dr. Marilyn Ewing&#8217;s advanced Shakespeare course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students\/Alumni In December 2009, Janette Williams earned her Master of Art in Education: Curriculum and Instruction &#8211; Educational Technology degree from CSU Bakersfield. Majalise Watson Tolan is a vice principal in the Lincoln City, Oregonschool district. Juli Bloodgood directed\u00a0The Wizard of Oz\u00a0at the Elgin Opera House. 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