{"id":6541,"date":"2013-11-08T18:54:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T18:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2014-04-14T21:09:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T21:09:27","slug":"alumni-authors-featured-at-the-alumni-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2013\/11\/08\/alumni-authors-featured-at-the-alumni-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Authors Featured at the Alumni Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6542\" alt=\"Granfa Grigg Had a Pig\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2013\/11\/Tripp.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2013\/11\/Tripp.jpg 250w, https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2013\/11\/Tripp-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>JD Salinger once said, \u201cWhat really knocks me out is a book that, when you&#8217;re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn&#8217;t happen much, though.\u201d Unless you&#8217;re part of the KSC community, of course\u2014then you have a connection to a whole host of great authors who would love to meet you and chat. Maybe the next time you&#8217;re at the Alumni Center, or at a College event.<\/p>\n<p>Who are these authors? Come on into the Alumni Center between now and early next spring and check out the dozens of books that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keene.edu\/kst\/2009SPRING\/walker.cfm\"><strong>Norma Wright Walker \u201951<\/strong><\/a> has gathered in the display cases just inside the main door. The driving force behind the Golden Circle Society, Norma took on the task of creating a KSC alumni authors library for the Alumni Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe outpouring and response from the alumni authors was wonderful; I had no idea we had so many. The books keep coming by mail\u2014it\u2019s terrific!\u201d exclaimed Walker as she added more publications to the display.<\/p>\n<p>Some are works of non-fiction, historical in nature, such as those by <strong>William Marvel \u201979<\/strong>, <strong>Joe Citro \u201971<\/strong>, <strong>Alan Rumrill \u201979<\/strong>, <strong>Don Johnson \u201953<\/strong>, and <strong>Marcia Lusted \u201984<\/strong>. Others are compilations of poetry by <strong>Wes McNair \u201963<\/strong> (Poet Laureate for the State of Maine) and <strong>Jean Saunders Duling \u201968<\/strong>, or children\u2019s books by <strong>Wallace Tripp \u201962<\/strong>. <strong>Vincent Russell \u201950<\/strong>, <strong>Ruth Doan MacDougall \u201961<\/strong>, <strong>Ernie Hebert \u201969<\/strong>, and <strong>Angie Frazier \u201900<\/strong>, to name a few, have novels in the collection. Several nonfiction works explore contemporary subjects such as youth leadership (<strong>Steve Fortier \u201986<\/strong>) and computers (<strong>John Barry \u201971<\/strong>). Again, this only names a few, and we&#8217;re sure there are others out there that we don&#8217;t yet know about. We look forward to the collection growing. Have you written a book? <a href=\"mailto:alumni@keene.edu\">Let us know about it! <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JD Salinger once said, \u201cWhat really knocks me out is a book that, when you&#8217;re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn&#8217;t happen much, though.\u201d Unless you&#8217;re part of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2013\/11\/08\/alumni-authors-featured-at-the-alumni-center\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alumni Authors Featured at the Alumni Center<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":6542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[487,5,4],"tags":[438],"class_list":["post-6541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-alumni","category-for-parents","category-uncategorized","tag-alumni-achievers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6544,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions\/6544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}