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VITA
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William
E. Shaw (Bill) |
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Freeport, Texas 77541 |
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Active Freelance Writer self-employed
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| Date
of Birth: |
29 May 1939
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| Marital
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Married, two daughters,
Kathleen David and Lisa Shaw, one grandchild, Sarah David
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| Professional
Career: |
Professor of English, Brazosport College, 1986-2003
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Associate Professor of English, Brazosport College, 1975-1986
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Assistant Professor of English, Brazosport College,
1972-1975
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English teacher, grades eleven and twelve, Brazosport High School, Freeport, Texas, 1966-1972
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English teacher, grades eleven and twelve, C. E. Byrd High School, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1964-1966
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| Military
Experience: |
United States Marine Corps Reserve, 1956-1964:
active duty, February 1958-August 1958; active
reserve, August
1956-January
1958 and September 1958-January 1962; standby reserve, January
1962-January 1964; highest rank,
corporal
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| Education: |
B. A. in English, Centenary College of Louisiana, 1964
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M. A. in English, Texas A & M University, 1972
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Forty-two hours of post-graduate studies in English, University of Houston,
Central Campus
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Selected
Academic,
Professional, and Miscellaneous Honors
and Awards:
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Second Place, Annual Old South Prize, Poetry Society of Texas, 1973
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President, Brazosport College Faculty Club, 1973-74
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Who's Who of Texas, 1975
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Outstanding Educator of America, 1974-75
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Outstanding Young Man of America, 1976
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Presenter at 1983 SRCE: "A
Self-Paced Program in Freshman English"
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Steering Committee Member of Brazosport College Institutional
Self-Study,
1983-1984
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Editor of Brazosport College Institutional Self-Study, 1983-1984
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Brazosport College Nominee for Minnie Stevens Piper Professor Award, 1985
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Steering Committee Member of Institutional Long-Range Planning
Committee,
1986-1988
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Steering Committee Member of Brazosport College Institutional
Self-Study,
1993-94
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Editor of Brazosport College Institutional Self-Study, 1993-94
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Member of Beacon Committee to Study a Common Curriculum in Gulf
Coast Colleges 1992-94
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President-elect, Brazosport College Faculty Assembly, 1993-94
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Brazosport College Nominee for Minnie Stevens Piper Professor Award, 1994 |
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National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD)
Teaching Excellence Award,
College of Education, University of Texas at Austin, 1994
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President,
Brazosport College Faculty Assembly, 1994-95
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Best Poem Award for "Hope Was a Thing With Feathers," Alvin
Community College Poetry Reading-Workshop, 1984
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Best Poem Award for "From Socrates to Scantron," Alvin
Community College
Poetry Reading-Workshop,
1986
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Regional
Executive Committee of Southwest Regional Conference on
English in the Two-Year
College (now Two-Year College Association--Southwest, TYCA--Southwest), 1988-94, and Nominations Chair, 1989-92;
Membership
Chair, 1992-94
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"Finisher" in Houston-Tenneco Marathon, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991,
1992,
1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998
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“Finisher” in New York City Marathon 1996
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Second place, Henry Award, Houston Chapter/Poetry Society of
Texas, 1990
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Second place, Poetry in the Arts Award, Houston Chapter/Poetry Society
of Texas, 1991
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Who’s
Who in American Education, 1992-93
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Southwest
Regional Conference on English in the Two-Year College
Service
Award, 1994
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Brazosport
College Presidential Search Committee, 1996
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Editorial
Board of Teaching English in the Two-Year College 1996-98
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Judging Committee for Best Article
of the Year in Teaching English in
the
Two-Year College
for
1997
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Who’s Who in American Education, 1997-98
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Consulting
reader for Teaching English in the
Two-Year College, 1998-2003 |
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Brazosport
College President’s Council, 1997-1999
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Brazosport College Nominee for Minnie Stevens Piper Professor Award,
1999 |
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National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD)
Teaching Excellence Award,
College of Education, University of Texas at Austin, 1999
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Brazosport
Run for the Arts Steering Committee, 1995-1999, Publicity
Chair
1998-1999 |
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Special
Award for 31 years of Distinguished Service to Brazosport College, 2003
Brazosport Area Road Runners Association Volunteer of the Year, 2002
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Faculty
Advisor to The Navigator, Brazosport
College student newspaper 1997-2004
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Secretary of the Brazosport Area Road
Runners
Association, 1996-2004 |
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Newsletter Editor of the Brazosport Area Road
Runners
Association, 1996-2007 |
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Firecracker
4 Race Committee Director, 2002-2007 |
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Webmaster for the Brazosport Area
Road Runners Association 2006- |
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Nationally
and regionally ranked USA Triathlon in age group 2001-2006 |
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Publications:
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"This
Then" [poem]. America
Sings: 1962 Anthology of College Poetry. |
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"Grave
Winter" [poem]. Insights.
Centenary College of Louisiana Literary Magazine, 1963.
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Co-author
of English 133 Rhetoric Units and English
133 Self-Instructional Units,
textbooks for freshman composition and rhetoric at
Brazosport College,
1973-89. |
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"A
Self-Paced Program in Freshman English."
ERIC/NCTE. Abstracted
in Resources in English
October 1985.
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"Hope
Was a Thing with Feathers" [poem]. Windows. Alvin
Community College Literary Magazine,
1985.
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"October
Fridays" [poem]. SRCE
Newsletter 1987. |
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"Reminiscences
of Laredo." SRCE
Newsletter 1988. |
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"Ritual"
[poem]. Windows
1987-88. |
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"Dolphins"
[poem] in Lucidity [Houston, Texas
poetry magazine], Third Quarter 1988. |
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"Grave
Winter" in Lucidity, Fourth
Quarter 1988.
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"From
Socrates to Scantron" in Windows, SRCE Newsletter,
and Southeastern Conference on
English
in the Two-Year College
Journal
College
Journal.
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"Intimations
of Eternity" in Perceptions 89, Houston Chapter/Poetry Society of Texas.
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"Reminiscences
of Fort Worth" in SRCE Newsletter 1989.
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"From
Marvell to Ulysses to Prufrock" in Teaching English in the Two-Year College
16 (May 1989):
104.
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"The
Poet Creates Anew the Universe," Lucidity June 1991.
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"Being
and Becoming," "Scalping Time," and "Mirror Image," SRCE
Newsletter, September 1991.
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"Deadline"
and "August 6: Transfiguration" (poems) in
SRCE Newsletter 1992.
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"Mid-Life
Crisis" (poem) in SRCE Newsletter January 1993.
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"Reminiscences
of Las Cruces--SRCE 1991," SRCE Newsletter 1992.
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"You
Can Go Home Again--Reminiscences of Bossier City—SRCE 1992," SRCE Newsletter January
1993.
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"SRCE
'93: Revitalization in the Alamo
City," SRCE
Newsletter January 1994
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"The
Ultimate Interview" (poem) in SRCE Newsletter September 1994.
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"Reminiscence
of Laredo Revisited," Two-Year College English Association--Southwest Newsletter
January 1995.
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"Poetry
Reading," short story, in The Distillery: Artistic
Spirits of the South 2.2 (Summer 1995), publication
of Motlow Community College, Tullahoma,
Tennessee, 1995.
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Numerous
articles and photographs in local newspaper, Brazosport
Facts, on running events/activities,
feature articles 1991-2005.
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Weekly
running column in The Facts since
April 1994 (over 470 consecutive columns). |
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Numerous
stories and photographs in Runner
Triathlete News, regional running magazine
published
in Houston as contributor/correspondent, 1991-2005.
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Numerous
stories and photographs in Inside
Texas Running, state running magazine
published
in Houston as contributor/correspondent, 1991-2005.
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Numerous
articles in Image Magazine of Southern Brazoria County 2003-2005.
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Community/School
Service/Presentations:
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Presenter
on "Teaching Freshman English," SRCE, Bossier City, 1983
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Brazosport
College Faculty Workshop
Presenter/Participant, "Writing across the Curriculum,"
January
1985, January 1986
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Co-presenter
of "Writing across the Curriculum" workshop
for
Hitchcock Independent School District, Fall 1987 |
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Frequent
presenter/participant for Adult Life and Learning Program (over
50 group
in community)
at Brazosport College
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Moderator
and question editor for "Literature and the Arts" category for
Brazosport Scholastic Bowl (our version of
the "College Bowl"), 1985-1994
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Co-Presenter
of Brazosport College Collaborative Learning Workshop/Exercise, January 1990
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Co-Reader/Presenter
on poetry at local intermediate school
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Presenter
on "Teaching Poetry through Collaborative Learning," SRCE, New Mexico,
1991
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Presenter
on "Using the Norton Textra Writer in Freshman Composition," SRCE,
Bossier City,
LA,
1992
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Alvin
Community College Writers' Workshop speaker on freelance journalism, April 1993 |
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Presenter
on "A Way to a Poem: 'Free Writing as an Interpretive Classroom
Community," SRCE, San Antonio, TX, Oct. 1993 |
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Volunteer
Presentations on digital photography and creative writing , Brazoria County
Library, Freeport Branch, 2004-2005 |
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Lay
reader, coordinator of lay readers, adult Sunday school teacher, member of
standing liturgical
committee, Communications Group chair, newsletter editor Saint
Paul's Episcopal Church, Freeport, Texas, 1970-2005 |
Current
Organizations and Affiliations
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The
Academy of American Poets |
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American
Association of Retired Persons |
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Brazosport
Area Road Runners Association |
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Houston
Triathlon Racing Club |
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USA
Triathlon |
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Areas
of Profession Interests:
Seventeenth-century
English literature, particularly cavalier and metaphysical poetry and John
Milton;
late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American naturalistic
fiction, particularly Stephen Crane;
composition and rhetoric;
poetry;
computer-assisted
composition, distance learning, journalism,
freelance
newspaper/magazine writing and photography
Hobbies
and Leisure Activities:
Running,
bicycling, weightlifting, reading, writing, community service
Revised—5
August 2005
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