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 Recent
Publications by Longwood Faculty, Staff, Students & Alumni
Ceremony
of the Soups by
Dr. Douglas M. Young, Professor Emeritus of Speech and Theatre
This
collection of seven one-act plays includes the Greensboro Trilogy,
commissioned by the Greensboro
(N.C.) Bicentennial Commission in the 1970s, about the civil rights
movement and based on Dr. Young's experiences as a reporter for
the Greensboro Daily News in the mid-1960s. "I was probably the
first reporter to see Jesse Jackson demonstrate," he says. One of
the plays, Miss Doris Anderson, has been produced at the Back Alley
Theatre in Washington, D.C., and at Longwood and two other colleges.
The other plays, about relationships, are new. Dr. Young, who taught
theatre and directed plays at Longwood for 27 years before retiring
in 1997, has written numerous plays and the book The Feminist
Voices in Restoration Comedy: The Play-Worlds of Etherege, Wycherley
and Congreve. Published by Storehouse Publishing, softcover, 192
pages
Civil
War Acoustic Shadows
by
Dr. Charles D. Ross, Associate Professor of Physics
This
book "successfully intertwines scientific reasoning and historical
research in an easily understood
format" to explain how the "strange behavior of sound waves impacted
the decisions" at six Civil War battles, says the publisher. "Combining
weather records with soldiers' diaries," says a review in the September
issue of Discover magazine, "Ross re-creates six dramatic battles
and shows how conditions of terrain and atmosphere served to divert
sound in unexpected directions, forming an 'acoustic shadow.'" His
interest in the subject (featured in the Spring 2000 issue of Longwood
magazine) evolved from the research for his first book, Trial
by Fire: Science and Technology in the Civil War. Published by White
Mane Publishing, hardcover, 174 pages
A
Note Slipped Under the Door: Teaching From Poems We Love
by
Nick Flynn and Shirley Powell McPhillips, Longwood alumna ('62)
This
book seeks to help teachers "bring poetry into the classroom and
help students build a writing life that includes finding and crafting their own poems."
Ms. McPhillips, a literacy consultant and staff developer, and Flynn
answer such questions as "How do we read a poem?" and "What can
we teach from a poem we love?" A native of the Richmond area, Ms.
McPhillips taught for many years in Fairfax County, upstate New
York and Tenafly, New Jersey, and co-directed the Reading and Writing
Project at Teachers College, Columbia University. She works in New
York and lives in nearby Dumont, N.J. Published by Stenhouse
Publishers, softcover, 241 pages
Alternatives
to Retention and Social Promotion
by Dr. William A. Owings, Associate Professor of Education, and Dr. Leslie S. Kaplan This
is part of Phi Delta Kappa's Fastback series, which offers short
treatments on various educational topics. Dr. Owings has been a teacher, an elementary and high school
principal, and a superintendent. Dr. Kaplan is the assistant principal for instruction
at Denbigh High School in Newport News. They have written and spoken
together at conferences for five years, and next year the Fastback
series will publish another book of theirs, Enhancing Teacher and
Teaching Quality, which will be turned into an expanded book. Published
by the Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, softcover, 48 pages
A Smile up my Sleeve by
Page Burnette Johnson, Longwood alumna ('50), with
illustrations by Allen Franklin, Longwood Postmaster
This is a collection of humorous poetry by a retired teacher who over the years has written poems for "family, friends, coworkers, anyone I came in contact with." A resident of Cumberland County just outside Farmville, she taught for 37 years, the last 20 at Prince Edward Academy (now Fuqua School). She ran a kindergarten in her home for 10 years and still teaches piano six days a week. Two of her daughters, Judy Bolt and Kay Baber, and a son-in-law, Dale Bolt, also are Longwood alumni. Published by Witty Pen Publishing Company, softcover, 158 pages |
