{"id":1235,"date":"2012-11-15T13:21:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T19:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2012-11-15T14:24:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T20:24:33","slug":"alumni-writers-give-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/2012\/11\/15\/alumni-writers-give-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Writers Give Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Tony-nominated lyricist and playwright, the author of \u201cThe Boy Scout Handbook\u201d and the senior farm issues editor for Successful Farming magazine are all Morningside College alumni who returned to campus for Homecoming and gave a presentation on their careers as writers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/files\/2012\/11\/billrussell-e1353007184900.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1236\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/files\/2012\/11\/billrussell-e1353007184900-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Playwright<strong> Bill Russell 1971<\/strong> lives in New York and has written musicals such as \u201cSide Show,\u201d \u201cPageant,\u201d \u201cThe Last Smoker in America\u201d and \u201cElegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens.\u201d His works have been performed around the world, from Los Angeles to Paris.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/files\/2012\/11\/RobertBirkby_000-e1353007256544.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1237\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/files\/2012\/11\/RobertBirkby_000-e1353007256544-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Boy Scout author <strong>Robert Birkby 1972<\/strong> is a writer, adventure guide, photographer and trail designer based in Seattle, Wash. <span style=\"color: #000000\">More than 5 million copies of his books are in print. Along with books for the Boy Scouts, he has written \u201cMountain Madness: Scott Fischer, Mount Everest, and a Life Lived on High\u201d and \u201cLightly on the Land,\u201d a guide for trail construction and maintenance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/files\/2012\/11\/CherylTevis-e1353007570963.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1242\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/files\/2012\/11\/CherylTevis-e1353007570963-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Farm editor <strong>Cheryl Tevis 1972<\/strong> lives in Pilot Mound, Iowa, and has worked as a farm issues writer and editor for over 35 years. She has received the Voice of Agriculture Award from the American Corn Growers Association, the Milt Hakel Award for Agricultural Communications from the National Farmers Union, and writing awards from the North American Agricultural Editors Association.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tony-nominated lyricist and playwright, the author of \u201cThe Boy Scout Handbook\u201d and the senior farm issues editor for Successful Farming magazine are all Morningside College alumni who returned to campus for Homecoming and gave a presentation on their careers as writers. &nbsp; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Playwright Bill Russell 1971 lives in New York and has written [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14992],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/morningsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}