Alumna Lisa Crawford is Promoted

Alumna Lisa Crawford, ’10, was promoted Jan. 29, 2020, to the rank of sergeant in the Nebraska Army National Guard where she serves as a mass communications public affairs specialist in the 111th Public Affairs Detachment, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Crawford enlisted in the U.S. Army in 2014, attended Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson, S.C. and went on to the Defense Information School at Fort Meade, Maryland to earn her military occupational specialty.
Since July 2016, she has worked full-time for the Nebraska National Guard’s State Public Affairs Office as a public affairs specialist. In 2017 she supported Hurricane Irma relief operations in Florida and was named National Guard Bureau’s Outstanding New Writer. In March 2019, she helped manage and provide public affairs support for the rescue response, relief and recovery operations following historic flooding across Nebraska, resulting in multiple video and print products being shared across every major national news outlets.

Nikki Groom Publishes Poem, Prepares to Become Tiger

Student Nikki Groom has published her poem "What My Mother Doesn't Know" in the Tulane Review, the publication of the Tulane University Literary Society.

 

Speaking of Louisiana, Nikki will be transferring to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA to finish her undergraduate studies.

 

Congratulations on both, Nikki. Show them what a Griffon can do among LSU Tigers!

 

 

Faculty News

Dr. Marianne Kunkel’s book, Hillary, Made Up (Stephen F. Austin State University Press), was a finalist for the University of Central Arkansas’ Phillip H. McMath Post-Publication Book Award.

 

Dr. Stacia Bensyl presented a paper at the Japan Studies Association conference in January titled “Amazing Grace: Humanity in Endo Sushaku’s The Samurai.”

Alumnus and Retired Faculty Member Ken Rosenauer a New Publisher

Photo credit St. Joseph News-Press

Alumni Ken and son Brent Rosenauer are the new publishers and editors of The Savannah Reporter. Read all about their plans for the newspaper in the St. Joseph News-Press. 

Congratulations and Good Luck, Ken!