He is currently filming season two of Growing A Greener World and presented at the SecondAnnual Tasty Awards in Los Angeles. Learn more about the busy chef at www.chefnathan lyon.com. Shauna R. Miller Brown has published
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Power for Purpose: Your Guide to Getting Grants. The book is for
novice grant seekers who would
like more information about creating nonprofit organizations, identifying grants and/or manag ing grants. The book is available through Amazon.com. Brown lives in Culpeper, Va., with her husband and two sons. ✱ Matthew Warner’s fifth book, Blood Born, is a horror novel set in the nation’s capital. The book was published this spring. Learn more at matthewwarner.com/blood borninfo.html.
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In collaboration with the Cameron JMU Parent Relations Nickels spoke about his book Office and the Office of at the first JMU Outreach and Engagement, Faculty Emeriti the JMU Faculty Emeriti Lecture. Association initiated the Faculty Emeriti Lecture Se ries. The lectures are open to the campus community and the general public. Faculty Emeriti Association Executive Board officers Rex Fuller, Violet Allain and Mary Lou Wylie select speakers and encourage feedback and participation from all JMU Faculty Emeriti Association members. The first two lectures, held April 14 in Memorial Hall, featured Cameron Nickels talking about his latest book, Civil War Humor. Bob Bersson and Greg Versen presented the second lecture on “The Blues.” A reception followed the presenta tions. Emeriti faculty members are invited to submit proposals for future Bob Bersson and Greg Versen participated in the first JMU lectures. Send your ideas Faculty Emeriti Lectures in April. to Rex Fuller at rfuller@ northriver.coop. ✱ All former professors are encouraged
to contribute an “Emeriti Note” at madisonmag@jmu.edu.
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ager in the Medicaid Policy Unit for the Tennessee Department of Human Services. ✱ Paul M. Fugelsang is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida. In addition to offering face-to-face psychotherapy in St. Augus tine, he offers distance therapy options via telephone and Skype. Learn more at www..paulfu gelsang.com. ✱ Kerry Callahan Mandulak was promoted to assis tant professor at Portland State University. She completed her doctorate and joined Portland State’s faculty in 2009.
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JMU Parents Council Rick and Lane Witthoefft (’97P, ’01P, ’03P) represented JMU and
President Linwood H. Rose at the inauguration for HampdenSydney College’s 24th president Christopher B. Howard. The ceremony was held on Nov. 11, 2010. Rick and Lane are parents to three JMU alumni: Jason (’97), Edward (’01) and Brian Witthoefft (’03), and two daughters-in-law, Susan (’97) and Jaclyn (’03). The Witthoefft family includes several other alumni, and proud JMU par ents Rick and Lane Witthoefft support JMU students with the Witthoefft Family Scholarship. ✱ Nate Young, producer for the short film, Brick Novax Pt. 1 and 2, won the Jury Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Young is a computer informa tion systems alumnus. Kelly Gray was a 99 contestant on the Food Network reality TV show Worst Cooks in America. ✱ Marc
T. Herndon was elected presi dent of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the International Interior Design Association. He is a senior associate with RNL in Denver, Co. ✱ Jordan Mallah continues the community service-learning spirit experi enced at JMU. He works on yoga retreats and other service projects in Rwanda. Read more about his journeys at http://
tinyurl.com/RwandaYoga Experience2010 and visit his website at www.steadfast freedomyoga.com/. ✱ Jamie Mottram is the author of the sports blog at http://mister irrelevant.com. The blog cov ers professional sports teams in the Washington, D.C., area, including the Redskins, Wizards, Capitals and the Nationals. The School of Media Arts and Design major is married to Christine Keating Mottram (’00), and the couple has two Future Dukes. L. Covel 00 Cheryl accepted a position
with Setliff Turner and Hol land PC’s Annapolis/Baltimore office. Covel was previously employed as a confidential law clerk with the New York State Supreme Court and operated her own law firm. She is thrilled to be back on the East Coast with her husband, Eric, and their sons, Charlie and Andrew. ✱ Justin Kittredge leads the Reebok basketball department and is in charge of all on-court basketball products for colleges and the NBA, as well as all ten nis products. While working at Reebok, Kittredge has spent time working with grassroots basketball organizations. He realized there were few outlets in the Boston area that helped coach underprivileged kids on and off the court. With the help of his wife, he started the nonprofit organization Shooting Touch Inc., www.shootingtouch. com. The nonprofit’s goals are to educate young people about life skills, mentor all players and to coach the fundamentals of basketball to improve individual confidence. In three years Shoot ing Touch has developed and launched six outreach programs that educate, mentor and coach young adults through basketball. Kittredge has also developed two Sabbatical Grant programs that enable college graduates to travel overseas for 10 months, give back to the global commu nity and impact positive social change through basketball. ✱ Agatha Kulesza, founder of Agatha K, LLC, spoke to stu S P R ING / S U M M E R
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igma Press of Seoul, South Korea, published Esther Minskoff’s book Academic Success Strategies for Adolescents with Learning Disabilities and ADHD in Korean in 2010. Minskoff is professor emerita of special education. Originally published in English in 2003 by Brookes Publishing, the French translation of the book was published in 2006 by Cheneliere Educa tion of Montreal. Minskoff and fellow JMU professor David Allsopp wrote this with funding from two federally funded JMU programs. The programs were established to better meet the needs of highschool and college students with learning disabilities and ADHD.
Ginny Dangerfield 96 Bostick of Nashville was promoted to program man
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