Former Georgetonian editor  Brooke Barnett, class of 1993, is now an assistant professor of communications at Elon University in North Carolina.  She completed her Ph.D. at Indiana University,
where she wroter her dissertation on visual portrayals of the
accused in television crime coverage. She is also a documentary producer, reporter, news director and interview host/producer. Her research interests include visual communication and media law; she has
published articles in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Visual Communication
Quarterly and the Federal Communications Law Journal.

Above: Brooke Barnett (second from the right), with colleagues at Elon University.

Earl Pinkston, Georgetown College class of 1993, recently found himself back at Georgetown College--this time as the College's Missionary in Residence.  He and his wife, Robin, spent a year at Georgetown, coming home after their years in Malta, where they were serving as missionaries, working with volunteers from around the world to serve the Maltese people.

Earl and his wife, Robin, have now returned to their work with Ministries to Malta (M2M), hosting volunteer groups who come to work with the Maltese. 

While they are in Georgetown, Earl and Robin will assist the Campus Ministry team in conducting fellowship meetings, speaking to classes, informing students about missions and visiting churches.

Above: Earl Pinkston, front and center, is joined by his wife, Robin, and a student missions team visiting them in Malta.Rachel Wagner

When Rachel Wagner (GC 1996)  graduated from University of Kentucky's Law School in May of 1999, she stepped right into a position with a firm in Pikeville called Robinette-May and Associates, P.S.C. She then moved back to Lexington, where she practices law with  

Rachel  writes that her experience as an English major was very helpful in law school--especially when it came to getting good grades on her papers

Chris Schimmoeller 

It would be hard for anyone who was on campus in the late 1980s and early 1990s to forget Chris and Trina Schimmoeller (GC 1991), the identical twins who had such an impact on the Georgetown College campus. Trina has since completed a Ph.D. and is awaiting the publication of her first book. Chris took a different track, first going to India as a Fulbright scholar and then coming back to lead the fight to preserve the Kentucky environment. As coordinator of Kentucky Heartwood, Chris is leading a new initiative to stop logging in the Daniel Boone National Forest.  She and her husband, Joel Dufour, live in their cabin in Franklin County, Ky., where they avoid the modern conveniences they consider harmful to the environment (thus, they have no electricity and no running water.

Above: Chris Schimmoeller and her husband, Joel Dufour

Trina Schimmoeller (GC 1991) received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California/Davis. In the process, she wrote a book, now available from the University of Utah Press.  The book, entitled Coyote at Large: Humor in American Nature Writing, has been called a "groundbreaking volume" that "is criticism of the highest and truest sort."

You may order the book from 
http://www.amazon.com --click here to get right to the page for her book

Martha Banta Boltz

When young Martha Banta (GC 1958) was in Dr. Horace Hambrick's history class, little did he know that this English major would eventually be writing historical booklets and articles about the Civil War.  Though she claims she was never a very good history student, Martha turned her experience as editor of The Georgetonian and her interest in the Civil War into a career as a historical writer who freelances for The Washington Times and takes on a variety of different writing projects as they present themselves.  Her articles on Civil War subjects often fill  full pages of The Times. 

In addition, she has recently completed a  mini-book/oversized booklet being published on "the pathfinder of the seas,"  Matthew Fontaine Maury -- father of oceanography. She writes, "He's a little known  Confederate hero, and literally the father of modern oceanography, and I was  commissioned to write a decent-sized booklet on him which we hope will end up  in Civil War site and museum book stores."

Martha Boltz, above, won a contest sponsored by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to write an inscription for a Civil War monument. The monument, also pictured above, commemorates the Battle of Fort Butler, waged on June 28, 1863, near Donaldsonville, LA.Tammy Howard

After working over three years in GC admissions and earning a Master's degree in Student Personnel Services in Higher Education at Eastern Kentucky University, Tammy Howard (GC 1993) is currently the Assistant Director of New Student Programs in the Dean of Students Office at the University of Kentucky. The main responsibilities of her position include directing the fall orientation program for all new students called Kentucky Welcome, directing the UK Parent Association, and advising the UK Ambassadors. She puts her  English degree and Belle of the Blue editor experience to good use by
producing several publications associated with these programs. In addition to her  regular job responsibilities, she is also a UK 101 (orientation course) instructor, and she teaches an alcohol risk  reduction course. She maintains her GC ties by serving on the Delta Eta of Phi Mu Alumnae Advisory Committee.

Mark Mitchell

Mark graduated Georgetown in 1989 and received his  Master's Degree in fiction from Murray State University in 1991. From there he began working at the Legislative Research Commission proofreading in the Statute Reviser's Office. A couple of years into that he began drafting resolutions for the General Assembly. 

In 1995 he began his new job in LRC as a
Legislative Analyst with the Local Government Committee. He has been  the principal staff person for two interim subcommittees: The Subcommittee on Building Inspections in the 1996-97 interim, and the Subcommittee on Planning and Land-Use Management in the 1998-99 interim. His  primary duties involve legal research, other research of a general nature, and bill drafting. He has drafted over 120 bills so far. 

Mark comments that his English education provided him with both the ability to understand the subtleties of reading law and the the ability to write clearly, which he says "is now a necessity." Cathy Jones Reynolds

Cathy Jones (GC 1994) now lives in Houston with her husband Michael and daughter Lauren Audrey. Cathy earned her M.A. in journalism from Ohio State University and then went on to work for the city of Waco, Texas, where she helped handle many aspects of that city's public relations office.  Since her move to Houston, she is working as an Information Technology recruiter with  with Data Staffing Centre,  a division of Management Alliance Group. She helps companies connect with  computer professionals and visa versa. She writes, "After seeing how much these people  command and demand, perhaps I should have double-majored in computer science AND English."

Above: Cathy, :Lauren, and Mike Reynolds

Michelle Celsor (GC 1990) is beginning her third year as principal at Barren County Middle School in Glasgow, Kentucky. It is a school with approximately 550 seventh and eighth graders. Prior to being principal, she was the Vice Principal for two years. Prior to that, Michelle taught four years of high school language arts, along with being the assistant girls' basketball coach and yearbook advisor, at Allen County-Scottsville High.

She is beginning "Principal's Diaries" entries on Middleweb, a website for middle level educators, sponsored by the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. You can find the diaries through a link at www.middleweb.com . 

Michelle has also been chosen to serve on a National Middle School Board sponsored by the Galef Institute in California. The purpose of the board will be to promote academic excellence in middle level education. 

 Michelle has  two daughters, Sara-Cate (age 5) and Deanie (age 2), and a cattle-farming husband, Ivan.

Above: Michelle Celsor Pedigo in her office at  Barren County Middle School.

Ian Dawkins (GC 1998) always loved Japanese animation while he was a student at Georgetown, and his interest led him to take Japanese to fulfill his foreign language requirement.  Now he has turned his avocation into a pathway to a vocation--teaching English to Japanese students.  After several years in Atsumi, Japan, teaching with the JET program, Ian returned and has completed an M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Above: Ian Dawkins (yes, on the right) teaches a student in his Community English class how to hang loose, Kentucky style