VERMONT COLLEGE

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS

Art Blue, B.A. 2000 , an artist and craftsman who works with collage, is an award winning artist with the National Collage Society in the United States, and exhibited as a guest artist at the Art Colle Museum in France. His primary inspiration comes from nature and through his studies of the spiritual traditions of Eastern mysticism, Western mysticism, and the earth-based religions of native cultures. Blue’s medium is traditional collage (using scissors and gluing by hand) He calls his technique narrative collage—telling stories with pictures. See www.MotherEarthGiftTiles. com.

Bonnie A. Fitts , B.A. 2003,ADP, and current master’s learner in the Department of Graduate Psychology and Counseling, will be presenting “Eek! My gifted child is starting to freak: How cognitive therapy techniques can help you parent your anxious, gifted child” at the Social & Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) conference in New Mexico in July 2005.

Steven D. Holl, B.A. 1984 ADP, a humanistic storyteller, presented, “A Mother's Gift,” his story of familial alcoholism, at a conference for people effected by fetal alcohol syndrome in August 2004. He also presented “Of Straight Lines & Spirals: A Story of Racism, Bigotry and Hope” at Northwestern Michigan Community College in February 2004. He was also invited to present; three public performances from his collection “Stories from the Heart and Other Chakras” at the Detroit Institute of Arts in November 2004.See www.soulworks.org.

Bela Johnson, B.A. 2001 ADP , a medical intuitive, broadcasts a radio program, “Alternative Currents” on WERU-FM, serving the greater Bangor/Eastern Maine listening area and on the web The monthly program features guests who address healing on a personal level as well as through involvement in local and global community, and have included Larry Dossey, Marion Woodman, Julia Cameron, and Terry Tempest Williams. See: www.weru.org.

 

Blyth J. Richfield, B.A. 1994 ADP , a psychotherapist in private practice in Santa Fe, NM, joined the undergraduate program at Vermont College as an adjunct faculty member in fall 2004. She is also an adjunct faculty member in counseling/psychology with Southwestern College Graduate School, and former chairperson of the Board of Trustees, Southwestern College.

J. Terry Riebling, B.A. 1999 ADP , invented and patented Child Guard CG-100™, the first and only child safety devices for firearms which encloses and seals the trigger of any firearm, prevents a firearm from being loaded, cocked, or fired and also sounds a 110 decibel alarm if the weapon is handled. His firm, Child Guard LLC, is manufacturing the product line in Shenzhen, China and will be marketing the first of six different child safety devices in September of 2005. Riebling is an endowing member of the National Rifle Association, a competitive target shooter, and an "addicted" inventor, poet, short storyist, and novelist.”  He was the winner of the Erskine Caldwell award in short fiction in 2000 and is currently negotiating movie rights for "Sniper’s Eyes," published in 2004 and available on-line at www.accuratepress.net.

Cynthia Rafferty, B.A. 2003 ADP is acting program coordinator, Maryland Affordable Housing Trust; and Program Officer, Weatherization Assistance Program. Her responsibilities include allotting money to develop low-income housing, and in weatherizing homes of the poorest individuals in the state of Maryland.

Kathleen Scott, B.A. 1996, ADP , a student at Marylhurst University, Portland, Oregon was included in the May 2004 Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.

Wynona Ward, B.A. 1995 ADP was featured in The Chronicle of Philanthropy regarding her mobile program, Have Justice-Will Travel, that assists rural victims of domestic violence in Vermont. (See http://www.tui.edu/news/network/Network_Spring_2003.pdf )

Arthur (Jerry) G. Wemple, B.A. 1993 ADP was granted tenure and promoted to associate professor of English at Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania where he teaches creative writing. His second poetry collection, The Civil War in Baltimore, will be published by Word Press this fall. An abbreviated version of this collection won the Word Journal Chapbook prize and was published in summer 2004. Other recent publications include: co-editor of Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania, a poetry anthology to be published by Penn State Press in fall 2005; poetry in 5 AM and The Drexel Online Journal; and creative nonfiction in Ninth Letter. Wemple was nominated for a Pushcart prize in 2004 for both poetry and creative nonfiction.

Jerry Williams, B.A. 1995 ADP is a tenure-line assistant professor of creative writing at Marymount Manhattan College, New York, New York and has been nominated for a fellowship at the August 2005 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College, VT. His collection of poetry, Casino of the Sun, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2003 and was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery award. Williams was awarded the Margie Magazine/St. Louis Poetry Center prize for his poem "Behold the Father.” His poem, "Jimmy Huber's Purgation," was nominated by Pleiades Magazine for a Pushcart prize and a Best American Poetry prize. Williams was writer-in-residence at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island and is currently pursuing his Ph.D.

MASTER’S PROGRAMS

Master of Arts Program

Tracy Burns, M.A. 1999 lives and works in the Czech Republic, speaks and writes fluent Czech and Slovak, has worked on the Prague stage, and regularly contributes to literary magazines.

 

John Paul Fuller, M.A. 1991 was appointed as an associate with the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy in Washington, D.C., where he works with former United Nations Ambassador John McDonald on people-to-people initiatives, including an international soccer match between Libya and DC United Soccer Club. Fuller is assistant vice president, EEO & Corporate Ethics at SPX Corporation in Oakton, Virginia.

Judy (Adler) Goodrobb, M.A. 1989 is managing editor of the policy journal, Middle East Quarterly. She has worked as editor and public relations professional at Drexel University, Philadelphia and at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont. She also serves as a writing instructor at Johnson State College of Vermont and the Community College of Philadelphia.

Deborah A. Hardee, M.A. 1994 is a licensed psychotherapist and professional counselor in private practice in Houston, Texas. Her firm, Inner Spaces, provides services in career counseling, transition and enrichment consultation, and psychotherapy. As community outreach coordinator for Cancer Counseling, Inc (CCI), Hardee works as a clinician with CCI clients and families providing in-home therapy, bereavement counseling, and group therapy for cancer patients, survivors and family members. Hardee is also an associate with Boyden World Corporation, a global executive search organization in energy, professional services, commercial real estate and finance.

Jack Conway, M.A. 1987  is author of two new poems to be published this summer: "The Agamemnon Rag," in Poetry magazine and "Out Standing in His Field" in Watershed ( California State University). His poem, "Why Hamlet Shouldn’t Play Quarterback," appeared in the anthology, In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare ( University of Iowa Press). Conway ’s poems have also appeared in The Antioch Review, The Columbia Review, Yankee, The North Anthology of Light Verse, Edgar Magazine, The Adirondack Review, and many more. He is the author of My Picnic with Lolita and Other Poems (2004) and Life Sentences (2002), both published by North Country Press, and six nonfiction books, including American Literacy: Fifty Books That Define Our Culture and Ourselves (William Morrow, 1994). He teaches at Bristol Community College in Fall River, Massachusetts.

M.F.A. in Writing Program

Allison Hedge Coke, M.F.A. 1995 accepted an appointment at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, effective January 2005, where she teaches Native American literature, poetry and nonfiction. Previously, she was the National Endowment for the Humanities Visiting Distinguished Professor for fall 2004 at Hartwick College,  Oneonta, New York. Publications include Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer: A Story of Survival (American Indian Lives series, University of Nebraska Press, February 2004), and Off-Season City Pipe (Coffee House Press, 2005). Hedge Coke will read at the International Poetry Festival of Medellin, Colombia, and teach at Kachemak Bay inAlaska this summer. For further information, see http://www.tui.edu/news/network/Network_Spring_2003.pdf.

Wally Lamb, M.F.A. 1984 , received one of six “Writer” awards from The Writer magazine staff in January 2004. The awards are given to those who exemplify the many ways in which writers can make a difference as they inform, inspire and motivate others with their work. The award cited Lamb’s work with women inmates and the resulting book, Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters.

M.F.A. in Visual Art Program

Jesus Macarena-Avila , M.F.A. 2002, presented an exhibition of his work, "Invisible Flesh" at Victoria University and Gabriel Gallery and Foots Cray Community Arts Centre in Australia, October 10 - November 20 2004. He also participated in an exhibition with Spas a Art Gallery in Roseville, Johannesburg, South Africa, November 21 – December 14, 2004, and completed an art residency with the Art Kuna Museum as part of the TGD4 / Tambacounda-Geneva-Dakar International Workshop, Tambacounda, December 15, 2004 – January 2, 2005. He presented “Memorias de un Mexicano: Homage to Francisco Mora” at Elgin Community College in Illinois, September 2 – October 9, 2004, and at Victoria University’s “I, We, They, It:  Finding Voice in Creative Research” Symposium, October 7, 2004, in Australia.

Helen M. Stummer, M.A. 1987 exhibited “No Easy Walk: Urban Portraits” at the New Jersey Historical Society, Newark in summer 2004. See http://www.tui.edu/news/network/network_Fall2003.pdf