May 2007                                     A monthly newsletter for Faculty, Staff and Friends of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
 
 

Haas Writing Award Winners Announced

The winners of the 2006-2007 Paul and Mary Haas Writing Awards were honored by the English Department Thursday, April 19. The awards recognize both undergraduate and graduate students for outstanding writing.

Dr. Oscar De Los Santos, a noted scholar and author at Western Connecticut State University, spoke on “Writing in the 21st Century: A Scribe-of-All-Trade’s Perspective.” A graduate of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, De Los Santos received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University. He is the author of “Hardboiled Egg, Spirits of Texas and New England,” and co-author of “Infinite Wonderlands”with Dr. David Mead, chairperson of the University’s English Department.

Award winners were:

English 1301
  1st Michele Calvert
  2nd Carrie Worsham
  3rd Heather Murdock
   
English 1302 
  1st A.J. Danforth, Dion Fortner, Mark Fossum, Marsh Perez, Erin Yurkinas
  2nd Daniel Field
   
2000-level courses
  1st Jaimie Reyes
  2nd Brenda I. Tames
  3rd Clara Schwendeman
   
3000/4000-level courses
  1st Klara G. Moffatt
  2nd Allison Fegley Schum
  3rd Elijah Ramirez
   
Creative Writing
  1st Dulcie David
  2nd Kathryn Hollers
  3rd Ginger Plante
   
Undergraduate Technical & Professional Writing
  1st Jeffery Matthews, Allison Clarke, Eric Pickharts
  2nd Jeffery Matthews
  3rd Sami Hamid, Gregory Moran, Elizabeth Seaton
   
Graduate Rhetoric/Composition, Linguistics, Professional Writing
  1st Nils Olov Fors
   
Graduate Literature/Literary Theory  
  1st Verity McInnis
  2nd Sara Slaughter
  3rd Erica Rangel

 

 



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