Mount Union College - Unonian Yearbook (Alliance, OH)

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Dr. Paul H. Chapman Mr. Lyle M. Crist Department Chairman Professor of English Journalism Professor of English Dr. Mary Ellen Nurmi Dr. Gloria S. Malone Professor of English Associate Professor of English FACULTY 29

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There is a monastery within the soul of me where my cloistered thoughts go in search of wings many cling like a torpid novice forever to the safety of silence many find quick wings and quicker still are crushed in blind eagerness for flight but some — ah some emerge like flaming meteors embracing the night. And before me looms a wall wide and long. ... and tall ... someone shouts “‘hello, come in” ... I try the door and find it locked I do not have the key. No one took it from me ... perhaps ... T never really had it perhaps ... I held a dream in my hand ... Life is a musical powder box gift wrapped in gold and verdant green tied with river ribbon and placed beneath the great moon candle; a gift for those who find it. An angry finger holds strong on the space bar of my heart. I am searching the winds for a song. The skies laugh. The melody haunts me, and drives me into the storm searching the winds for the key to loose my heart song from its bondage and free my thoughts. I cannot hold this great love inside my little heart. 28 FACULTY Dr. Vasile Calesi Department Chairman Professor of Language Dr. Frederick Oppermann Professor of German Mr. Paul E. Froman Assistant Professor of Languages, Chaplain Assistant Registrar Mrs. Angela Zumbar Associate Professor of Spanish

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The members of the English Department strive to educate students in written and oral expression, linguistics, the cultural significance of literature, and literary history. We prepare majors for secondary teaching, graduate study, and business careers, and we attempt to provide programs which will be of maximum value to all Mount Union students, non-majors alike. The eight members of the English faculty have varied backgrounds and interests. Lyle Crist is our inveterate punster, public speaker, and creative writer. Gloria Malone is our specialist in Children’s Literature and English as a second language. Mary Ellen Nurmi is our world traveller and Chaucerian. David Ragosin’s main loves are the contemporary theatre and non-traditional study. Earl Russell worries a lot and his avocations are music and constructing harpsichords. Helen Saffell is our authority on linguistics, grammar, and teaching methods. James Walton, tennis and track star (ex?), teaches ably in both English and Education. Paul Chapman, resident Victorian, is aging rapidly trying to keep track of this diverse brood. 30 FACULTY Mr. David Ragosin Assistant Professor of English Exec. Dir. of ECCC Mrs. Helen Saffell Associate Professor of English Dr. Earl Russell Professor of English “ Dr. James E. Walton Assistant Professor of English Dir. of Non Traditional Studies