Article published praising recently deceased alumnus John 'Hezzy' Howard

Lacrosse Magazine has published an article praising Washington College graduate John Howard. Known as Hezzy to most, Howard coached the 1967 Lacrosse Champions at the University of Maryland College Park, where he was a professor and chair of the English Department. Among his accomplishments are two published books on the 18th century author William Blake and an induction into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1978.

Hezzy played lacrosse for WAC in the 1950s, winning the Turnball Award for the best attackman in the country. 

After a month-long struggle with pneumonia, Hezzy died this summer on July 19th at 73 years old.

The original article at Lacrosse Magazine can be read here.

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Liam Daley '06 hired as part-time faculty at The Art Institute of Philadelphia

Liam Daley has been hired as a part-time World Literature teacher at The Art Institute of Philadelphia.  Not only a WAC English alum, Daley also won the Sophia Kerr prize in 2006 and was a Fellow of the Literature House.

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Faith Drazga plans to return to University of St. Andrews for doctorate

Faith Drazga recently finished her Master of Literature in Shakespeare at Scotland's University of St. Andrews, where she met fellow Alumni and former Sophier Kerr prize winner Liam Daley. She wrote her dissertation on early modern manuscripts of Shakespeare's sonnets, which afforded her the opportunity to visit numerous extraordinary libraries here and in the U.K.

Although currently taking a year off, she has been accepted into St. Andrews for her doctorate and will be working under Dr. Andrew Murphy, an early modern readership specialist.

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Dean Christopher Ames published in Literature/Film Quarterly

Christopher Ames, Provost and Dean of Washington College, published an article, "The Hollywood Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century," in the Literature/Film Quarterly (Volume 36, number 3). You can order a copy and view the issues' other published articles here.

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Meredith Davies Hadaway authors numerous published articles

Meredith Davies Hadaway M'96 will be a featured author for Gunston Day School's annual "In Celebration of Books" festival in October. She has received a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts for a residency there in November. Recent publications include poems in Gulf Stream, Zone 3 and Eclipse, as well as in the Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry.

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Johanna Schaeffer '06 has Samuel Beckett Centenary article published

Johanna Schaeffer's article on the Fall 'o6 Samuel Beckett Centenary Celebration has been published in the Spring '07 issue of the The Beckett Circle/Cercle de Beckett, the Beckett Society's official newsletter.

In celebration of the Irish writer's 100th birthday, Washington College played host to a series of Beckett events. Over the Fall '06 semester there were four speakers who either lectured or read to an enthusiastic audience.

In the picure: Johanna Schaeffer and the event's first speaker, Raymond Federman.

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Corey Olsen welcomes the birth of son Matthias

On March 29th this Spring, Professor Corey Olsen and his wife welcomed the birth of their second son, Matthias Tom Olsen. The couple's first son, Nicholas, is five years old.

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