Alumni News

Please join the English Department in congratulating our English alums as they embark on new adventures!

Erick Passarelli

, May 2012, is the new Junior High Language Arts and Reading teacher at Holy Family School in Shorewood.

Carli Wheeler

, May 2012, will begin pursuing a Master of Leadership Studies (MLD) degree in Higher Education Leadership at North Central College this fall.

Rachel Fugett

, May 2011, will be starting the full time juris doctor program at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago

Delia Goldrick

, December 2011, recipient of the Fr. Aquinas Award (fall 2011), will be coaching the speech team at Marian Catholic High School.

Laura Medina

, December 2011, is the new FMLA TBE/TPI Language Arts teacher at Aux Sable Middle School in Joliet, IL (part of the consolidated Plainfield School District).

Chelsea DeRose

, May 2010, has begun her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of San Francisco.

Jasmine Pacheco

, May 2010, is teaching composition at Joliet Junior College.

Amanda Hriszko

, December 2010, is the new Circulation Clerk for the White Oak Library
District.

Elizabeth Weber

, February 2008, won the Prick of the Spindle Poetry Open Contest, receiving first place for her poem "To a Youngwife," (first featured last fall in Jet Fuel Review), as well as an honorable mention for her poem "To the Boy in the Winter Coat." Visit the site at http://www.prickofthespindle.com/pages/poetry_open.htm