Spring 2002

Departments

Exchange

Around the Pond

Branches of Learning

Performing Arts

Extended Family

Great Sport

North 40

Contributors

Features

Carved Runes in a Clearing

Beautiful Soups

Trying to Know Tomorrow

Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS

STEVEN L. BEEBER ’85, ’95G (“Trying to Know Tomorrow,” page 30) is a writer and associate director of development in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. His appreciation of Hoop Roots by UMass English professor John Wideman appeared in the Winter 2002 issue. MARY CAREY (“To Boston, with Flowers,” page 10; “Rallying the Troops,” page 36) is a political reporter for the Daily Hampshire Gazette and frequent contributor to UMass. Her cautionary tale about poison ivy was the North 40 essay in the Winter 2002 issue. ANNA-MARIA GOOSSENS (“Stage Presence,” page 50) is a publicist for the UMass theater department who wrote about nightlife in Amherst for our Spring 2001 issue. DEBORAH GORLIN (“‘Dance is the Fist,’” page 34) is an Amherst writer and co-director of the Hampshire College Writing Center. She profiled dance professor Billbob Brown for our Spring 2001 issue. CLAIRE HOPLEY ’78G (“Beautiful Soups,” page 19) has a master’s in English from UMass. She divides her time between teaching and writing articles, mostly on food and contemporary fiction. This is her first contribution to UMass Magazine. JULIUS LESTER (“Carved Runes in a Clearing,” page 24) is a UMass professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies and the only member of the faculty to receive all three of the campus’s highest honors: the Chancellor’s Medal, the Distinguished Teaching Award, and the Faculty Fellowship Award for Distinguished Research and Scholarship. His North 40 essay, “A New Names Project,” appeared in the Fall 2001 issue. MARIETTA PRITCHARD ’73G (“A Microbe’s Life,” page 14) is a regular contributor to UMass. Her feature story “Only a Test” appeared in the Winter 2002 issue. KAREN SKOLFIELD ’98G (“Freeze-frame” on campus tours, page 15; “Seeing Cycles,” page 41) is director of communications for the UMass College of Engineering and a regular contributor to UMass. Her profile of archaeologist Josh Smith ’94 was our Winter 2002 cover story. KAREN KURT TEAL ’94G, ’00G (“A Good Library,” page 56) teaches technical writing and oral presentation in the School of Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she lives with her husband, Thomas Teal ’98G.

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