Stewart Coffin ’52 is the author of Tall Trees and Wild Bees, a personal history of the village of North Amherst, the town of Amherst, and Massachusetts State College in the 1930s and 1940s.
Sheldon Saltman ’53 writes from Palm Desert, California,
“My new book, Fear No Evel, was published in November. The book deals
with my 50 years behind the scenes at major sports events around the
world, from my stint as president of Fox Sports to playing tennis with
Boris Yeltsin.” Reach Sheldon at saltmanproductions@msn.com.
Bill Fibkins ’57 is an education consultant and adjunct
professor in the counseling and human development program at Long Island
University, Brookville, New York. He is the author of five books: Teen
Obesity: How Schools Can Be the Number One Solution to the Problem;
Innocence Denied: A Guide to Preventing Sexual Misconduct by Teachers and Coaches;
Students in Trouble: Schools Can Help Before Failure; An Educator’s
Guide to Understanding the Personal Side of Students’ Lives; and An
Administrator’s Guide to Better Teacher Mentoring. He lives in
Peconic, New York, and can be reached at fibkins@optonline.net.
Ron Peters ’66 retired last year after 40 years in
the business world to pursue his passion full-time. “I began a writing
career at age 60 and since then have published three novels in the
Dun Wheeling tongue-in-cheek private-eye/romance series: SOS, Night Before
August, and Castles of
Deceit.” His fourth, Sphere of Reason, was published last fall.
Visit www.ronpeters.net for
more info.
Gail Langer Karwoski ’70 lives in Watkinsville, Georgia.
Her novel for young readers, Quake! Disaster in San Francisco, 1906,
is on the Massachusetts Children’s Book Award List, as well as state
award lists in Florida, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Nevada. She has
a new book out this year, Tsunami: The True Story of an April
Fools’ Day Disaster.
Harry Morgan ’71G teaches development, learning theory,
and research at the University West Georgia in Carrollton and is the
author of Early Childhood Education.
Bill Meissner ’72G, a creative- writing teacher at
St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, is the author of numerous
books. His most recent is The Road to Cosmos.
Bob Abramms ’76G ’80G is an international expert on
designing, conducting, and evaluating management training and executive
development programs. He has published five books and more than 50
articles on leadership, motivation, human relations training, prejudice,
stereotyping, and cultural differences. His most recent book is Seeing Through Maps:
Many Ways to See the World.
Jack Rosenblum ’77G lives with his wife, Corinne Dugas,
in Deerfield, where they are avid bikers, tennis players, and Red Sox
fans. Together, they have published The Five Secrets of Marriage
from the Heart, a
self-help book in a parable/fictional format that allows readers to
learn lessons through one couple’s journey to the brink of divorce
and back.
John Lowney ’79 ’86G, associate professor of English
at St. John’s University, New York, is the author of History, Memory, and the Literary
Left: Modern American Poetry, 1935-1968.
Lisa Watts ’82, editor of Winston-Salem
Monthly magazine, is the editor
of Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in
Ohio. She lives in
Greensboro, North Carolina.
Unita Blackwell ’83G, the first black mayor in Mississippi,
has written Barefootin’: Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom.
Michael Burke ’84G, an associate professor in the
English department at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, is the author
of The
Same River Twice. He has been a whitewater guide for 35 years.
Ray Calabrese ’84G, professor of educational leadership
at Wichita State University, recently published The Elements
of an Effective Dissertation and Thesis: A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting
It Right the First Time. He writes, “My work is a quick reference,
user-friendly book that will help doctoral students overcome many dissertation
challenges.”
Nina Shandler ’84G is a licensed psychologist and
family therapist in Amherst. She is the author of Estrogen: The
Natural Way; Ophelia’s Mom; and The Strange Case of Hellish Nell: The True Story of Helen
Duncan and the Witch Trial of World War II.
Steven Beeber ’85, ’95G is the author of The
Heebie Jeebies at CBGB’s: A Secret History of Jewish Punk. He
is also the editor of Awake:
A Reader for the Sleepless, an anthology of poems, stories, art,
blog entries, and other miscellanea by Margaret Atwood, Aimee Bender,
Joyce Carol Oates, James Tate, Arthur Bradford, Charles Simic, Dara
Wier, Simon Armitage, and many others. He lives in Jamaica Plain.
Gregory Feist ’85, assistant professor of psychology
at San José University in California, is the author of The Psychology of Science and the Origins
of the Scientific Mind.
Mike Maranhas ’85 lives in Rockport with his wife,
Bela, and is the author of Re’enev, a mystery, romance, and
suspense novel.
Grace Bauer ’87G was recently awarded the 2006 Idaho
Poetry Prize for her collection of poems, Retreats & Recognitions.
She is co-editor of the anthology, Umpteen Ways of Looking at a
Possum: Critical and Creative Responses to Everette Maddox. Bauer
is an associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Richard Trombetta ’90 is the author of two books, Mustard
Doesn’t Go on Corn! How respect, openness, and a simple process for
innovation can lead to great ideas and Siamese
Sam and the Things He Will Eat, a children’s book from which
100 percent of the proceeds goes to a literacy program in Boston.
He lives in Acton and runs The Innovation Company, www.innovationiseasy.com.
Steven Sullivan ’91 the author of two books in the
Campus History Series published by Arcadia: the University of Massachusetts
Amherst and University
of Massachusetts Amherst Athletics: Images of Sports. He also
serves as the secretary of the Pond Club, the fund-raising arm of the
men’s ice hockey program.
Stephen Sanzo ’93 works for Communities United, a
nonprofit organization that runs Head Start preschools in the Boston
area and is the author of the children’s book, Cranky Pants. He
lives in Arlington with his wife, Skye, and their daughter, Virginia.
Priya (Arora) DasSarma ’94G has published a children’s book called Tales From a Faraway Land. She writes, “This book makes Indian children’s stories accessible to a broad audience, something I’d looked for while raising my own two children.”
Sean Kay ’97G, associate professor of politics and
government and head of the International Studies Program at Ohio Wesleyan
University in Delaware, Ohio, is the author of Global Security in the Twenty-First
Century: The Quest for Power and the Search for Peace.
Khyati Joshi ’01G, an assistant professor of
education at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey,
is the author of New
Roots in America’s Sacred Ground, a look at the ways that second-generation
Indian Americans develop and change their sense of ethnic identity.
