The Sitter

Stories involving the high personal risks inherent in seeking intimacy with others. In each, characters grow to realize that the closer they become, the stranger they seem to each other

A Walk on the Ice

Stories involving the high personal risks inherent in seeking intimacy with others. In each, characters grow to realize that the closer they become, the stranger they seem to each other

Recreational Food Service: A Growing Employment Option

The recreational food service industry represents a wealth of potential job opportunities for graduates of hospitality management degree programs. Most hospitality management curricula are saturated with core courses and basic hospitality education course work, leaving little room for additional components. Recreational food service, however, could be easily integrated into an existing pro- gram and made available for students interested in this growing employment option. The author presents one option as a model curriculum approach

Kay Fish and Susan Hubbard in a Joint Junior Recital

This is the program for the joint junior recital of contralto Kay Fish and pianist Susan Hubbard. Pianist Debbie Click assisted Fish. The recital took place on February 27, 1975, in the Mabee Fine Arts Recital Hall

Directing the Continuous Quality Improvement Effort

The continuous quality improvement (CQI) efforts at the Lodge and Conference Center at Grand National, Opelika, Alabama, involve a range of strategies, policies, and practices enacted by the current management team to lift the service game and enhance the overall quality and value for money appeal of the guest experience. The authors report findings of a recently conducted study on this issue

The Myth of the Student Hero and the “Dreaded Lit Review”

This book uses images from 27 student comics from roughly 125 comics created in my course, “Introduction to Communication Inquiry,” over a three-year period. Most of the them were created in a couple of weeks, which was the time remaining in a semester after the students had completed a traditional academic paper called a “literature review.” I wanted students to reflect on the process of writing a literature review by telling a story about it. I wanted them to tell the story in the form of a comic. I thought I would get a deeper and better reflection if the process was more creative, something that used images as well as words, and that required a bit of planning and organizing

The evaluation of the effectiveness of new writing and problem-solving classes and their impact on fourth grade New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge Test scores

The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not two new programs created for Bellmawr Park School would be effective in raising scores in the New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge (NJ ASK) test for fourth grade students. This research provided a pre and posttest for 62 fourth grade students in the 2003-04 academic school year. The tests included a brief open-ended Language Arts writing picture prompt and a Math problem-solving open-ended question. Both tests were scored using rubrics created by the New Jersey Department of Education, and the results were compared based on means, medians and modes to obtain individual class scores for each area, as well as all of the fourth grade students. Based on the findings, each individual class improved in both the Language Arts and Math tests, and had their average rubric score raised at least one point. This indicated that progress was made and the writing and problem-solving classes impacted on test performance