OK, I'm back, this time for the long haul. The social media revolution is way ahead of me, so this is the first of several media I'll be doing.

So, where do we stand since my last post?

Well, a story I always wanted to see published made it into print: La Salle graduate Carmen Superville and her mother-in-law Janet McCall were profiled in the Philadelphia Daily News.

It took me 8.5 years, but I finally got Marjorie Allen (co-director of the LGU program) to do a book review for the Philadelphia Inquirer. She is the 30th La Salle person to review for the paper. Here's a link:


I get paid for this? When the Phillies made their post-season run, the local media went "All Phillies, Nearly all the Time." I arranged for John Rossi, La Salle baseball scholar and all-around good guy, to be interviewed, and the Phila. Inquirer published a big story on another La Salle person (and another all-around good guy) John Rooney, who had a near-magical boyhood when it came to baseball.

The Phila. Daily News also did a profile of Rooney who has been at La Salle for 62 years. The "hook" was his receiving the University's John W. Finley Award, given to an alum who has demonstrated outstanding service to La Salle. This was tricky: because the Inquirer did the story on Jack Rooney's childhood, a few media folks thought it was too soon to do another story on him. Fortunately, the Daily News city editor didn't think that and their education writer, Valerie Russ, did a very nice piece about him.

Philadelphia Daily News columnist Dan Gross today (1/5) reported that Education Professor Robert Vogel was one of 15 American scholars invited to study the Holocaust in Israel. Dr. Vogel is there now, so I hope he's checking his email.

Here's a link (ignore the Mariah Carey headline and scroll down):

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20100105_Dan_Gross__Mariah_Carey_at_A_C__club.html

Each semester I have an intern from the English department; last semester I had two interns, and I was running on empty when the semester ended. The two were great, it's just that it takes (for me, anyway), a great deal of energy to make sure the interns get a great experience, and I need to recharge my batteries. I still have a few students who are willing to write for me on a free-lance basis, and that should be fun.

That's all for now folks. Look for Facebook and Twitter in the near future.
JC