Fall 2001

Departments

Exchange

Around the Pond

Branches of Learning

Extended Family

Great Sport

North 40

Performing Arts

Contributors

Features

Classic Turf

Berkshire Nightingales

A New Road to Learning

Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS

STEVEN L. BEEBER ’85, ’95G ("UMassists at the Barricades," Extended Family), a graduate of the M.F.A. program at UMass, writes for a number of national magazines and serves as associate director of development for the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. This is his first contribution to UMass Magazine. MARY CAREY ("A one-of-a-kind class reunion," Extended Family) is a political reporter for the Daily Hampshire Gazette and a frequent contributor to UMass Magazine. Her profile of chancellor of higher education Judith Gill ’72 appeared in the Spring 2001 issue. ALI CROLIUS ("Berkshire Nightingales," Features; "Single Bauble, Single Sausage, One Flower," Performing Arts) is an Amherst writer and artist who has contributed regularly to UMass Magazine since 1996. Her profile of artist Lisa Lesniak ’80 appeared in the Spring 2001 issue. JULIUS LESTER ("Making Sure of Memory," North 40) is a professor in the Judaic and Near Eastern Studies Department, and adjunct professor in the History and English departments. His thirty-third, thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth books will appear this year. MARIETTA PRITCHARD ’73G ("Some Pig," Branches of Learning) is an Amherst writer and editor who regularly contributes to UMass Magazine. "Balancing Act," her article on the Fine Arts Center, was our Spring 2001 cover story. KAREN SKOLFIELD ’98G (Snapshot, Around the Pond), is a graduate of the M.F.A. program, director of communications for the UMass College of Engineering, and a regular contributor to the magazine: For our spring issue she crawled through a cave with the UMass Outing Club and attended a formal gala celebrating the successes of Campaign UMass. JOHN STIFLER ’92G ("Reprogramming Butterfield," Around the Pond), is a Northampton journalist and graduate of the M.F.A. program who teaches writing in the economics department at UMass. He wrote about UMass track for our fall 2000 issue. LESLIE WOLFE ’80G ("Classic Turf," Features) received his M.F.A. in English from UMass. He lives in Northampton, where he runs a business that designs and develops training programs, and plays golf "whenever work doesn't get in the way, which means not nearly enough." ALLEN WOODS ’80 (Alumni profiles, Extended Family) is a free-lance writer living in Greenfield.

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