Introducing... Berry alumni authors
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s announced in our last issue, Berry magazine’s first listing of Berry alumni authors (and illustrators!) is below, and it is an impressive list of diverse publications. The list follows recent news about such successful alumni books as The Adversity Paradox by Barry Griswell (71C) and One Hundred Years of Service, The Berry Alumni Association 1908-2008 by Dr. Ouida Dickey (50C, FFS). All you have to do to be included (other than getting a book published, of course) is to send us your name, class year, book title, publisher, publication date (2008 or later only), and a Web address for a synopsis and/or to order. Send this information to krogers@berry.edu with a subject line of “Berry Alumni Authors.” Happy writing … and reading!
■ Alan Armstrong (72C), Preemptive Strike, The Secret Plan
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That Would Have Prevented the Attack on Pearl Harbor, Nikkei Publications, 2008, www.preemptivestrikethebook.com. Publication in Japan of a translated version of his 2006 book of the same title, which he also has developed into a VisionFest award-winning screenplay. John Coleman (04C) and Joe Carter, How to Argue Like Jesus: Learning Persuasion from History’s Greatest Communicator, Crossway Books, 2009, http://arguelikejesus.com or www.amazon.com. Robin LeBlanc (88C), The Art of the Gut: Manhood, Power, and Ethics in Japanese Politics, University of California, November 2009, www.amazon.com. Jonathan Maxwell (97C), Murderous Intellectuals: German Elites and the Nazi SS, American Book Publishing, November 2009, www.pdbookstore.com. Jef Murray (77A), illustrator of Divining Divinity by Joseph Pearce, Kaufmann Publishing, April 2008, www.amazon.com. Illustrator of Black & White Ogre Country: The Lost Tales of Hilary Tolkien, edited by Angela Gardner, ADC Publications, 2009, www.adcbooks.co.uk, www.JefMurray.com. James M. Smith Jr. (84C), editor of the poetry anthology Don’t Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review and author of its introductory essay and prefaces (foreward by Billy Collins), University of Arkansas Press, February 2009, www.uapress.com/titles/sp09/smith-dlh.html. Andrew F. Wood (94C), City Ubiquitous: Place, Communication, and the Rise of Omnitopia, Hampton Press, 2009, www.cityubiquitous.com.
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ina Stancil Denicole (85C) has left the Silver State for the Grand Canyon State, having been named vice president of business operations for Cox Communications Arizona. Tina has more than 21 years of experience in financial and business management and a long career with Cox, the third largest cable entertainment and broadband services provider in the nation. Before heading to Arizona, Tina was vice president of business operations in the Cox Las Vegas system and previously served as vice president of finance for Cox Media in Atlanta. She also was director of finance for the Western Region of Cox Media, director of business operations for Cox Media Arizona and business manager for Cox Media in Phoenix. Earlier in her career, Tina worked as accounting manager and business manager for the Gannett-owned NBC affiliate in Phoenix and was honored with the Gannett Broadcasting Award for Excellence. Tina earned an accounting degree at Berry and is a CPA. She served on the Executive Advisory Council of Berry’s Campbell School of Business for six years and now is a member of the college’s Board of Visitors. She is a native of Jasper, Ga.
the Georgia State Bar. Raina received her Doctor of Medicine degree in May from the Mercer University School of Medicine. The couple resides in Pensacola, Fla. Patrick Christopher Murphy (06C) and Laura Hale Murphy (08C) were married Sept. 27, 2008, at The Carl House in Auburn, Ga. Attendees included Aubrey Michelle Hall (08C), Whitney Meadows (08C), Jennifer Young (08C), Russell Paul Jackson (06C), Bradley Marshall Coryell (06C) and Jonathan T. Terrell (06C). The couple resides in Cartersville. Walter Harris Wiley (07C) graduated from Georgia Southern University with a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing. He is now employed as a registered nurse in the emergency department of
East Georgia Regional Medical Center in Statesboro. Leslie Kirk Houck (08C) is marketing manager with Anisa International Inc. of Atlanta, a cosmetic brush manufacturing company.
2010s Kuhiwa Coody Erwin (10c) and Rev. Ensign Adam Erwin were married June 13, 2009, in Honea Path, S.C. Kuhiwa will graduate from Emmanuel College in 2010. She is a wedding planner for the Anderson, S.C., and Northeast Georgia area, as well as worship leader at the Honea Path Pentecostal Holiness Church. Adam is a Naval Chaplain Candidate Officer and the youth/associate pastor at the Honea Path Pentecostal Holiness Church. The couple resides in Bowman, Ga.