After Graduation - Alumni

If you are an English major alum, we would love to hear from you and post your news in this slot.

Eddie (Martin) Black '93 teaches at Lancaster High School with Muskie alums Lynn Blair and Bruce Evans. This year Eddie is teaching British Lit, Film Studies, Mass Media, Intro to Theater, and World Mythology. This is her seventh year advising the school yearbook. In July she married Collin Black, currently serving in Iraq as a Private, First Class, for the U.S. Army. Eddie is working on her MA in Education and has a four-year-old son, Isaac, who is an ardent Thomas the Train enthusiast who talks about his locomotive friends in his sleep.

Lynn Blair '94 is in her seventh year at Lancaster High School, where she teaches English to tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grade students of all ability levels.  She is also the Assistant Coordinator of the Senior Project, which sends seniors out into the community to stretch their knowledge and volunteer in many different areas.  In 2003 she was named a Jennings Scholar through the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation.

Erinn Huntley '04 is about to start her final semester of graduate school at the University of Minnesota. When she is done, she will have an MFA in Theater Design and Production. She is currently a TA, and will complete her thesis project in June with the scenic design for Sherlock's Last Case, by Charles Marowitz. After the opening of the show, she will travel to Prague, in the Czech Republic, to attend the Prague Quadrenniel: An International Exhibition of Scenography and Theater Architecture.

Carmella Branigan '97 is an Assistant Professor of English at Millikin University, where she directs the first year writing program (Critical Writing, Reading and Research http://millikin.edu/cwrr).  She completed her MA at Johns Hopkins University in 1998, one year after graduating summa cum laude from Muskingum with a BA in English.  In 2003 she received a Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University and started at Millikin in the fall of the same year.   In addition to teaching and directing for the Critical Writing, Reading and Research program, she also teaches creative writing and American literature courses.  She is married to Greg Sullivan; they have a daughter together, Hannah Jean Sullivan, who was born on St. Patrick's Day 2005.   

WE'RE BA-A-ACK! Alums Meg Thompson and Sarah Gould, above, met up with present-day students at the Bowling Green Winter Wheat Festival. They led a panel called "The Manifesto Workshop: Using the Powers of Observation to Write (or Co-Author) a Manifesto."	ALMOST AN ALUM (then) Ben Doyle, center, talks with Dr. Williamson at the reception held by the English department to honor the 2006 graduating class. First-year (then) English major Owen Slaughter dances in the background.
	ROOM 3 CAMBRIDGE HALL now houses one-half of the English department and is the reception area for honoring seniors with cookies and punch (left) and celebrating the holidays. The English department moved into Cambridge a few years ago and is making the most of it. Room 12 houses Dr. Chaffee, Dr. Edsall, Ms. Fox, and Ms. Farquhar. Room 3 is home to Dr. Varley, Dr. Wagner, Dr. Williamson, Dr. DeCuir, and Dr. Kaluhiokalani.

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