WHERE ARE THEY NOW? NEWS ABOUT RECENT GRADS

Thanks to Dr. Eric Sterling for news about the following graduates of our department!

ERIC ATKINS, after earning a master's degree in English at Middle Tennessee State University, is now employed in Montgomery as a program officer by Colonial Bank. SAMANTHA BATTEN is enrolled in an M.A./Ph.D. program at Auburn University. AMY BOAK was a full-time employee at the Fun Zone Learning Center before it was devastated by a tornado. (Fortunately, no one was seriously injured.) HEATHER FINLEY taught at Taylor Road Academy and then worked full-time in AUM's TRIO program. SARAH FISH recently earned her Master of Liberal Arts degree at AUM. JEFF GLASS teaches full-time at Wetumpka High School. LESLIE GROOMS owns and operates Invisible Fence, a company that helps solve that urgent question, "Who let the dogs out?!" MARY BETH HOGAN began a new job this year at East Memorial Christian Academy in Prattville. This summer she was an instructor in the AUM English as a Second Language program. MEG LEWIS is the Public Relations Manager at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, a job she earned after participating in the AUM internship program. KIM PATTERSON works full-time at Barnes & Noble bookstore. MANDY McALISTER earned her Master of Liberal Arts and is now in the Ph.D. program at Auburn University. JESSICA McNEILL, after graduating, received an attractive position working in public relations (thanks, in part, to her experiences in the internship program). MARGO PARASKA earned her MFA degree in creative writing at Colorado State University. HOLLY PETERSON is working for Planned Parenthood in Birmingham. STACIE PRITCHETT is enrolled in the graduate program at Oral Roberts University. RIAN RIDER is an officer on the City of Montgomery police force. BEN ROBINSON works at the Federal Court House and has just begun work on his law degree at Faulkner University. DANIELLE SEYMOUR teaches high school in Lannett, Alabama. She is currently working on a master's degree in Education. FLANNERY STANFORD teaches English full-time in a high school in Brewton. ALISHA SULLIVAN is in the second year of graduate studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. JONATHAN WRIGHT recently finished his Ph.D. at the University of Alabama and is now on the faculty at Faulkner University. [Preceding information is accurate and current, to the best of our knowledge, as of 8/27/07. If you spot any inaccuracies or need for changes, please let us know by writing to englishrce@aol.com.]