SUNY Plattsburgh Calling Card April 2012
Finishing Holocaust Novel a Triumph Over Adversity
The satisfaction a novelist feels when typing those two words — The End — is hard to quantify.
For Doug Skopp, it was nothing short of a miracle. The retired history professor and college historian is the author of the novel “Shadows Walking,” a labor of love and hate about a Nazi physician at Auschwitz who escapes prosecution with stolen identification papers. Read more.
View complete or alumni event listings.
- Holocaust Commemoration
April 11
Holocaust Memorial Gallery, Feinberg Library - ChoralFest 2013
April 19
E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins - Semmler ’68 Service Day
April 20
Burlington, Vt.; Herndon, Va.; and New York City - Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale”
April 25- 28
Hartman Theatre, Myers Fine Arts Building - Karen Becker and Friends Concert
April 27
E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins - JazzFest
May 3
E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium, Hawkins
Alumnus Captures Aftermath of
Japanese Tsunami, Earthquake on Film
On March 11, 2011, the unimaginable happened in Ian Ash's adopted home: not only the earthquake and tsunami, but also the nuclear meltdown that would grip the world and cause wide-spread panic in Japan.
People fled Fukushima and the surrounding areas. But Ash decided to stay and document on film what was happening instead. Read more.
Recent Graduate Makes National
News Covering Gov. Barbour Pardons
When former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour gave clemency to more than 200 inmates at the end of his term, Jessica Bakeman ’11 was the journalist behind the breaking story.
Bakeman, who majored in journalism and English, is a reporter at the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss. — her first full-time reporting job after graduation.
She said the story that has received national attention “fell into my lap.” Read more.
Hungry for ‘The Hunger Games’?
What accounts for the enormous popularity of Suzanne Collins' "Hunger Games" trilogy and books like them?
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