Upon graduating, I moved to Kansas City, Kansas, and got a job as a receptionist three weeks after arriving. I worked in this position for three months at Kiewit Industrial, a construction company that builds power plants. My dad has worked with this company nearly all my life so it's ironic I now work for them as well. It's nice seeing my dad around the office now since I didn't get to see him much in college.
About three weeks ago, I was promoted to legal secretary/administrative assistant. My former supervisor was grooming me for this ever since I was hired since I was overqualified for the receptionist position with my degree. The administration believed my English degree would benefit me in the legal department. I now support three attorneys as well as the district contracts manager. My tasks vary, including document control with contracts and various accounting issues concerning legal consultation. Amazingly enough, my new supervisor even had me travel for business, sending me to our corporate office in Omaha, Nebraska, to train with his old secretary. I never believed I would get to travel for work so soon out of college!
Even though I feel amazingly blessed by this position, I feel called to go to the Philippines and work in an orphanage for three months as a missionary. God called me to this work during my time in Africa and I'm so excited about working for a longer duration now that I've graduated. I am in the planning phase now, completing my application, and will hopefully be purchasing my ticket soon. I really can't wait for this opportunity and look forward to God using me to make a difference in a child's life.
I still find myself missing AUM at times and hope to visit before leaving for the Philippines. No matter how far I may travel, I'll never forget my times there!
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Friday, September 14, 2007
NEWS FROM AUM ALUM LINDA PEGRAM (NOW LINDA GOLD)
After five years as a managing editor with a Montgomery publishing company (same company as Kurt Niland), I moved to beautiful British Columbia in September '99 to marry a wonderful Canadian man I met via the Internet. I landed a job in communications with the Government of British Columbia in September 2000, and have been here ever since - how time does fly! Since I've been here, I've worked in communications for a number of different ministries, including Energy and Mines, Finance and, most recently, the Ministry of Health, where I've been since June. My job involves LOTS of writing - news releases, speeches, communications plans, etc.
FREE JOURNALISM WORKSHOP ON OCTOBER 4
From the AUM Career Development Center via the AUMNIBUS (Because when you think AUMNIBUS, you think future journalists of Alabama).
The Alabama Press Association will host a student job and internship fair Thurs., Oct 4 at the Bartow Arena's Green & Gold Room on the Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham's campus. (Go Blazers!)
The cost is free and so is lunch! There are three scheduled interview times for the day. Seniors and juniors majoring in journalism and/or interest in the newspaper industry are encouraged to attend.
The APA office needs copies of the registration from and copies of resumes by Sept. 28. Copies of the registration form are available in the AUMNIBUS office 318 TC for staff. If your department would like copies, please reply to this email.
For more info, contact Bethany Carr at 205-871-7737 or 1-800-264-7043.
(submitted by AUM English major Ashley Wright)
BOOKS CONTAINING WORK BY AUM STUDENTS RECOMMENDED IN STANDARD ANTHOLOGIES
Books containing scholarly work by students at AUM are recommended for use by students elsewhere in a number of recent editions of widely-adopted anthologies of literature.
The newest edition of The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (NALW) reprints the text of a seventeenth-century autobiographical poem titled “The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth, Widow.” Moulsworth’s poem has been the subject of three different books containing work by AUM faculty and students. Two of those books are recommended by the editors of NAWL, including one that contains work by AUM alumnus Neil Probst, who is currently a staff writer with the national magazine of the Civil Air Patrol. Moulsworth’s poem was also included in the seventh edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature.
Meanwhile, two books containing work by more than a hundred former students at AUM are recommended by the editors of the seventh edition of The Norton Anthology of American Literature (NAAL). The books, which deal with American authors Kate Chopin and Ambrose Bierce, are among select titles recommended in bibliographies at the end of volume I of NAAL.
Finally, the book on Chopin is also recommended by the editors of the ninth edition of Prentice Hall’s Anthology of American Literature.
The recommendation of these books by the editors of the various anthologies means that scholarship done by students at AUM will be assisting the further scholarly work of students at many other campuses throughout the U.S. and abroad.
Monday, September 3, 2007
VERY IMPORTANT NEWS; SPREAD THE WORD!
Scholarships will soon be available to AUM English majors; application forms are available in the plastic bin outside Dr. Sterling's office. Interested students can also ask Dr. Gribben for further details.
The scholarships will be awarded very early in 2008, so please act soon.
UPDATES FROM AUM ALUMS ALISHA SULLIVAN AND BOB GENETSKI
ALISHA GRADUATED A YEAR OR TWO AGO; HERE IS HER REPORT FROM RENO, NEVADA:
Well, this weekend I have mostly been avoiding the streets of Reno in order not to run into any playa dust-coated "Burners" (people who have attended the week-long Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert).
More relevant to the blog update, perhaps, this fall I am starting on my second year in the Literature and Environment program at UNR, working on my MA in English. I have some interesting courses to look forward to this year, including "The Transcendentalist Tradition" and "Ecocriticism." I taught freshman composition last year, but this semester I'll be a discussion leader for Core Humanities.
Over the past summer I presented a paper at an academic conference for the first time. I also worked as a research assistant for a professor putting together a graduate seminar in environmental justice literature -- a topic that was especially interesting to me after my AUM internship with WildLaw.
I had some non-academic fun out here in the West, too. I did some hiking in the Sierras, went swimming in Pyramid Lake and Lake Tahoe (SO cold even in mid-summer!), and made a trip or two to San Francisco to hear music at the Fillmore and see the sights!
Hope all is well back in Alabama. I hear it was a very hot and dry summer. It was a very dry year here on the eastern slope of the Sierras, too. We had several bear and mountain lion sightings as they ranged farther out looking for food and water.
BOB GRADUATED IN 1991; HERE IS HIS REPORT:
I am well. I am still teaching at-risk students in Grandville, MI. It is still a wonderful challenge that humbles me on a regular basis. It is very humbling to be cussed out by a 15 year old kid.
I have created a few short fiction pieces, which, when I get the courage, I will submit somewhere!
Soon I will formally declare my candidacy for the Republican nomination for State Representative for the 88th District of Michigan (Michigan has the worst economy in the nation at present). It will be an exciting and challenging race.
I earned my M. Ed from Grand Valley State Universityin Technology during 2004. However, I will apply to a university of greater esteem. The first master's was to appease my school district. The next one will be for me.
I live in Saugatuck, MI - where I regularly write"letters to the editor" to complain about the taxes here (which no one changes). I have published a guest editorial appearing in the Holland Sentinel and Grand Rapids Press. The editorial slammed state universities for the tuition increases we have seen for 6 years straight. I have also penned an article for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, which called out teacher certification in Michigan as a waste of time and taxpayer money.
I am blessed to be playing ice hockey twice a week.
HERE IS BOB'S POLITICAL WEB SITE; IF YOU VISIT, YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN AN ON-LINE VOTE: http://voteforbobg.com/
Well, this weekend I have mostly been avoiding the streets of Reno in order not to run into any playa dust-coated "Burners" (people who have attended the week-long Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert).
More relevant to the blog update, perhaps, this fall I am starting on my second year in the Literature and Environment program at UNR, working on my MA in English. I have some interesting courses to look forward to this year, including "The Transcendentalist Tradition" and "Ecocriticism." I taught freshman composition last year, but this semester I'll be a discussion leader for Core Humanities.
Over the past summer I presented a paper at an academic conference for the first time. I also worked as a research assistant for a professor putting together a graduate seminar in environmental justice literature -- a topic that was especially interesting to me after my AUM internship with WildLaw.
I had some non-academic fun out here in the West, too. I did some hiking in the Sierras, went swimming in Pyramid Lake and Lake Tahoe (SO cold even in mid-summer!), and made a trip or two to San Francisco to hear music at the Fillmore and see the sights!
Hope all is well back in Alabama. I hear it was a very hot and dry summer. It was a very dry year here on the eastern slope of the Sierras, too. We had several bear and mountain lion sightings as they ranged farther out looking for food and water.
BOB GRADUATED IN 1991; HERE IS HIS REPORT:
I am well. I am still teaching at-risk students in Grandville, MI. It is still a wonderful challenge that humbles me on a regular basis. It is very humbling to be cussed out by a 15 year old kid.
I have created a few short fiction pieces, which, when I get the courage, I will submit somewhere!
Soon I will formally declare my candidacy for the Republican nomination for State Representative for the 88th District of Michigan (Michigan has the worst economy in the nation at present). It will be an exciting and challenging race.
I earned my M. Ed from Grand Valley State Universityin Technology during 2004. However, I will apply to a university of greater esteem. The first master's was to appease my school district. The next one will be for me.
I live in Saugatuck, MI - where I regularly write"letters to the editor" to complain about the taxes here (which no one changes). I have published a guest editorial appearing in the Holland Sentinel and Grand Rapids Press. The editorial slammed state universities for the tuition increases we have seen for 6 years straight. I have also penned an article for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, which called out teacher certification in Michigan as a waste of time and taxpayer money.
I am blessed to be playing ice hockey twice a week.
HERE IS BOB'S POLITICAL WEB SITE; IF YOU VISIT, YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN AN ON-LINE VOTE: http://voteforbobg.com/
NEWS FROM ASHLEY WRIGHT ABOUT AUM'S CIRCLE K CHAPTER
Circle K International, an Auburn University Montgomery student club, is starting up again after being in limbo for several months. This collegiate service group is affiliated with the Kiwanis organization and teaches college students about leadership, service to the community, and fellowship.
The AUM chapter will engage in various activities such as tutoring children who are not performing well in school, conducting book drives for children at the Brantwood Children's Home, arranging food drives for the benefit of the needy, and more rewarding activities. The organization, which exists on 525 college campuses around the world, is designed to serve various groups of people, particularly children.
The student-run group would also be happy to work in conjunction with other clubs. In 2006, the club represented AUM well by winning several awards at the state level, including the single service project award and recognition as a newly charted club.
The AUM chapter has been in limbo since the previous club president graduated in December 2006, but AUM student Courtney Tillery has decided to revive the club. AUM Circle K Faculty Sponsors, Professors Eric Sterling and Samantha Harvey, welcome Tillery's enthusiasm about the organization and the service it will provide to the campus and the community; however, she needs new members in order to reactivate the club and make it beneficial to those in need in Montgomery and the surrounding areas.
If you would like to be a member of the club, please contact Courtney Tillery at ctiller1@student.aum.edu for information about how to get involved.-- Ashley M. Wright
The AUM chapter will engage in various activities such as tutoring children who are not performing well in school, conducting book drives for children at the Brantwood Children's Home, arranging food drives for the benefit of the needy, and more rewarding activities. The organization, which exists on 525 college campuses around the world, is designed to serve various groups of people, particularly children.
The student-run group would also be happy to work in conjunction with other clubs. In 2006, the club represented AUM well by winning several awards at the state level, including the single service project award and recognition as a newly charted club.
The AUM chapter has been in limbo since the previous club president graduated in December 2006, but AUM student Courtney Tillery has decided to revive the club. AUM Circle K Faculty Sponsors, Professors Eric Sterling and Samantha Harvey, welcome Tillery's enthusiasm about the organization and the service it will provide to the campus and the community; however, she needs new members in order to reactivate the club and make it beneficial to those in need in Montgomery and the surrounding areas.
If you would like to be a member of the club, please contact Courtney Tillery at ctiller1@student.aum.edu for information about how to get involved.-- Ashley M. Wright
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