Bio: Deborah Barnett Shouse is a writer, speaker, editor and creativity coach. Her personal stories have appeared in periodicals such as Reader's Digest, Newsweek, Woman’s Day, The Washington Post, Family Circle, and MS. She has been featured in anthologies, including many Chicken Soup books. She has also written several business books and memoirs. She is the co-author of Yes You Can! Live in Financial Harmony and Antiquing for Dummies. Her newest book is Love in the Land of Dementia: Finding Hope in the Caregiver’s Journey .

Book Title #2: Yes You Can! Live in Financial Harmony. Stowers Innovations. 2006, co-author with Sam Goller

Book Title #3: Making Your Messge Memorable. Thompson Learning. 2005, co-author.

New York-based Daisy Craddock, a Tennessee native, is known for her paintings of majestic magnolias and other natural icons of the South, as well as of the broader American landscape. In her oils on canvas, the play between dark colors used to sketch out the somewhat abstract, underlying physical structure of dominant elements, and lighter yellows, ochers and finely tuned greens, give her pictures a somewhat melodramatic air. In her skyscapes and landscapes, among them spare shoreline vistas, Craddock uses many layers of paint to build up her luscious colors.

From: Art in America | Date: 1/1/2006 | Author: Gomez, Edward M.

Morris  Pasternack, Jr. M.D       .

Department/Specialty     Pulmonology (Lungs)

Training:

M.D.: Boston University School of Medicine, 1984 Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals, Iowa City, 1984-87 Fellowship: (Pulmonary/Critical Care) University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1987-90

Certification:  Board Certified: Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care Medicine

Special Interests:  Lung cancer Interstitial lung disease Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

St. Dominic teacher Libba (Larkin) Nance  gets Albertus Magnus Award

St. Dominic School teacher Libba Nance (center) is the 2007 recipient of the Albertus Magnus Award. Also pictured are Bro. Ignatius Brown, chair of the St. Agnes Academy-St. Dominic School Education Committee, and Barbara Daush, president, St. Agnes Academy-St. Dominic School

St. Dominic School fourth grade teacher Libba Nance was recently honored as the 2007 recipient of the Albertus Magnus Award. The board of trustees of St. Agnes Academy-St. Dominic School presents the award each spring on the Feast of St. Catherine. The award, named in honor of Albertus Magnus, a scholar, evangelist and Dominican Bishop, recognizes an outstanding educator who demonstrates the four pillars of the Dominican tradition: prayer, study, community and service. 
"As a Catholic educator Libba Nance carries out the mission of our school. She is a true example of an educator in the Dominican tradition," said John Murphy, dean of St. Dominic School. "Libba approaches all aspects of her life and her role as a teacher with enthusiasm and excitement. Through her commitment to Catholic ideals and her ability to make learning fun, she serves as a model for her students and other teacher
Nance has taught fourth grade at St. Dominic since 1994, and she is known for her commitment to her students, a love of reading that she instills in her students and her creative approach to teaching. 
"My philosophy of education is to teach the 'whole child.' I think it is very important to be a well-rounded student. I try to promote all aspects of education. This includes the academic, spiritual, emotional and social development of every student," Nance said. 
In addition to her dedication to her own students, Nance demonstrates a dedication to serving the entire SAA-SDS community. She is an enthusiastic chair of the SAA-SDS Math and Science Night, the Accelerated Reader Program and the Make-A-Wish program. She was a Southern Association of Colleges and Schools review team member and currently serves on the SACS steering committee. Also, she sponsors for the St. Dominic Geography Bee, Spelling Bee, Reader's Digest Word Challenge and the Grizzlies' Read to Achieve Program. Several years ago she began a Christmas Party that her class has every year for St. Patrick's School students. This year she led a group in the faculty study of "Five Steps to Jesus." 
For her outstanding work as an educator, she was named to Who's Who in America, 2005-2007, and nominated for Disney Teacher of the Year. Nance is a member of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the International Reading Association and a Dominican Associate. At St. Louis parish, she is a Eucharistic minister, lector and volunteer wedding coordinator

Godwin, Morris, Laurenzi & Bloomfield, P.C., Attorneys at Law

LEE J. ("JEFF") BLOOMFIELD graduated from the University of Tennessee , receiving a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in 1971, and he received his Doctorate of Jurisprudence from the University of Tennessee Law School in 1974.  Jeff received his Tennessee license to practice law in 1975, and he is admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth and Eleventh Circuits.  He is listed in Woodward White's The Best Lawyers in America, and is an author and lecturer on maritime, personal injury and worker's compensation law.  Jeff is a member of the Tennessee Bar Association, Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association, and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.  His practice emphasizes personal injury, worker's compensation, and riverboat injuries. He also likes to hunt and cook.

About Dr. Barbara L. Sherman

Dr. Barbara L. Sherman is a licensed veterinarian and specialist in the field of veterinary behavior. She is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists (since 1995) and is Certified by the Animal Behavior Society as an Applied Animal Behaviorist (since 1993).

She earned her DVM degree from The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine and her PhD, with specialization in Animal Behavior, from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .

Currently, Dr. Sherman is Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences at the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine in Raleigh , NC , and is affiliated with the Animal Welfare Ethics and Public Policy Program. Dr. Sherman is Director of the Animal Behavior Service of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital (formerly The Veterinary Behavior Clinic).

In addition to being President-Elect of the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists ( http://www.dacvb.org ), Dr. Sherman conducts clinical research, writes articles and lectures widely.

Dr. Karen F. Steckol, University of Alabama 

Chair and FACULTY: Professor of communicative disorders

Child language development and disorders

Publications

Dale R. Geiger, D.B.A.

Dale Geiger brings a unique combination of academic study, government management research, and corporate management experience to the problem of improved performance in government. He holds three degrees from MIT and earned his Doctorate of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School after a seventeen-year career that included several significant controllership positions.

Formerly a tenured faculty at California State University and a frequent visiting professor at The George Washington University, Dr. Geiger writes extensively and exclusively on the motivation, role, and development of cost management and managerial cost accounting systems in government. He has researched, trained, and consulted at numerous organizations including the U.S. Army, Air Force, and Navy, the General Accounting Office, the National Academy of Public Administration, the Treasury Department, the Department of Agriculture, the National Forest Service, and the Internal Revenue Service.

Dr. Geiger also served on the task force that wrote FASAB’s managerial costing standard. He has published a five-part series on managerial cost accounting at the request of the Government Accountants Journal and a book entitled, Winning the Cost War. The Association of Government Accountants recognized Dr. Geiger’s contributions with its National Author’s Awards in 1995 and 2001, its Education and Training Award in 1996, and its Career Contributions to Research Award in 2000. 

link to article >>  Cal State San Marcos Accounting Professor
Receives National Recognition

 SHERYL KING

My fictional creation, Eleanor, and I share some crucial personal history: being born and raised in Memphis , graduating from Smith College and living years in New England , suffering severe barbecue withdrawal. In my fiction writing, I also rely on my experiences in cooking and one eye-opening summer as a junior juvenile officer in the Shelby County (TN) Sheriff's Department. have worked as a marketing and public relations writer for more than 20 years. I also write poetry (with the intention of ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous.)

http://www.sherylking.com/pages/1/index.htm

Sandra Lee Gully Lowrance

Sandra Lee Gully Lowrance (August 4, 1949-May 26, 2002) earned her undergraduate degrees from Stephens College and The University of Tennessee, and her Masters degree in Visual Design from North Carolina State University. Her creative work included art direction and design for Lynn Parker and Associates, W.R. Grace, Harding & Robinson, and The University of Memphis. Sandy came back to Memphis in 1985 to join the Art Department at Memphis State University. She became acting Chair of the Art Department in 1999, then Assistant Chair until her death. “Sandy won several ADDY awards for her print design work over the years. Last year she received an Excellence Award from the University and College Designers Association (UCDA) for her exceptional design of university publications and promotional materials. She also co-curated the exhibition “Word as Image,” recognized by the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) for its excellence. And her impressive painted collages were exhibited at Arts in the Park. Her research interests included interactive media design, focusing primarily on interactive learning. She designed an exquisite CD-ROM for young learners titled “Izzy Bombus.” And her latest interactive project brought the work and personalities of self-taught artists to life on screen through a Tennessee Humanities Council funded collaboration with Dr. Carol Crown. Sandy served her colleagues, students, local and national design communities as a valued mentor, teacher, and gifted artist. For over a decade she directed the growth and evolution of the U of M’s graphic design undergraduate and graduate programs. Her commitment to her students, and her standards of excellence in design education, garnered respect for the program from far and wide. She was a quiet leader who, more often than not, led by an example of total professionalism and tender support of all us who now greatly miss her Colleagues and friends of Sandy Lowrance are purchasing a paver in Sandy’s honor that will be placed in the plaza in front of the College of Communication and Fine Arts Building on the U of M campus.

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