Selected English Alumni

What follows is a sampling of alumni who have gone on to successful careers with an English degree from Wooster:

› Ann Marie Bliley (’05) - Grant Writer for the Rocky Mountain Nature Association in Colorado

› Meaghan Abrigg (’04) - High school English teacher at Ashland High School in Ohio

› Leila Atassi (’02) - A reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer

› Liz Farina (’02) - Membership Manager for the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation, a non-profit bicycle advocacy organization

› Robyn Kocher (’02) - Marketing Manager for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

› Katie Orwin McGormley (’02) - Academic Advisor and Admissions Representative at Michigan State University

› Mary Nienaber-Foster (’02) - Sales Representative for Prentice Hall Publishing

› Sarah Chazan (’01) - Associate Editor for M Magazine, a teen girls magazine

› Amelia Kays (’01) - Judge Advocate for the United States Marine Corps

› Erin Kollar (’01) - Deputy District Attorney for the Washington County District Attorneys Office in Oregon

› Sushant Mukherjee (’99) - Program Coordinator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) HIV/AIDS Group, South Africa

› Shayna Sharpe Trappenberg (’99) - Training Service Consultant for Arbitron, the Radio ratings service

› Gabriele Wilson (’95) - Book jacket designer at Alfred A. Knopf, a publishing house

› Lucy Day (’94) - Marketing Coordinator for Sports Illustrated

› Pete Kenworthy (’93) - The Akron Bureau Chief at WEWS-TV, the ABC affiliate in Cleveland

› Hans Johnson (’92) - Chief Consultant for Democracy Project of the Gill Foundation; leads a national nonpartisan program to advance civil rights through technology and training

› Greg Bailey (’91) - Orthopedic Spine Surgeon for the University Orthopedics Center in State College, Pa.

› Caitlan Cary (’90) - Singer/songwriter whose two CDs have earned enthusiastic reviews in Rolling Stone

› Stephen Ndegwa (’90) - Associate professor of government at College of William & Mary; Professional Fellow with The World Bank

› William Van Cleave (’90) - Head of School at a 1st-8th grade school for dyslexics -- Camperdown Academy -- in Greenville, SC

› Kathy Davis Patterson (’89) - Associate Professor of English at Kent State Tuscarawas

› Gordon Lubold (’87) - Senior writer for the Army Times Publishing Company

› Barry Eisenberg (’85) - Director of Communications & Marketing for The Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc., Washington, D.C.

› Barry Eisenberg (’85) - Director of Communications & Marketing for The Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc., Washington, D.C.

› John Highfield (’85) - Vice president and financial adviser for the Charleston, S.C. office of Morgan Keegan & Co. Inc. reviously, he was a New York Stock Exchange floor trading assistant.

› Mary Neagoy (’83) - Served as Senior Vice President of Communications for Nickelodeon, the cable television network

› Julie Adams (’80) - Performs as a singer/guitarist on weekly American Public Radio program Mountain Stage

› Tracey Dils (’80) - Won a major state wide award for children's novels

› Sabrina Johnson (’80) - Associate Dean for Communications and Public Relations at Stanford Law School

› Lisa Vickery (’80) - Works as a foreign news editor for The Wall Street Journal

› Mim Pride (’70) - President of Blackburn College in Carlinville, Ill.

› Stephen Donaldson (’68) - Writer of best-selling fantasy novels, including eight that were New York Times bestsellers

› Susan Stranahan (’68) - Won a Pulitzer Prize as a staff writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer

› Lorraine Merrill (’54) - Executive Director of Ohio's Power of the Pen

› Robert S. Laubach (’41) - Runs the world's best-known adult literacy program, Laubach Literacy International