Ohio University Today, Fall/Winter 1997 - Recently published books

The following alumni recently published books:

R.G. “Dick” Belsky, BSJ ’67, wrote Loverboy, a hardcover published by Avon Books. The suspense thriller is about a newspaper reporter who stalks a serial killer. Belsky is news editor of Star magazine in New York City.
Laurence Carr, BFA ’72, wrote Vaudeville: A Play with Music, a play set in a theatrical boarding house in Philadelphia in 1919. First produced by the Attic Theatre in Detroit, the play was made available in book form through Rising Moon Publishing, a joint venture between Carr and his brother Gary Carr, MA ’66. Besides writing plays and film scripts, Laurence Carr teaches script and play writing in New York City. Gary Carr is director of communications for PKF Cons ulting in San Francisco.
Mason C. Doan, BSCE ‘34, an economist who retired after 34 years with the Federal Housing Administration and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, recently published American Housing Production 1880-2000, A Concise History.
John R. Gerdy, MSA ’83, PHD ’86, is the author of The Successful College Athletic Program: The New Standard, published by the American Council on Education and Oryx Press. The book looks at how college a thletic programs can contribute more to a university than just revenue and entertainment. Gerdy is an education consultant in New York City and former visiting professor of sports administration at Ohio University.
William Heyen, MA ’63, PHD ’67, is the author of Crazy Horse in Stillness, a book of poems that won the 1997 National Small Press Books Award for Poetry. BOA Editions, which published the book, will publish Heyen’s Pig Notes & Dumb Music: Prose on Poetry in 1998. He yen is a professor of English and poet in residence at State University of New York at Brockport.
John L. Kelley, PHD ’95, is the author of Bringing the Market Back In: The Political Revitalization of Market Liberalism, published in the United States by New York University Press and in Great Britain by Macmillan. The book discusses the history of the political revitalization of free market ideas in America since the 1960s. Kelley is an associate professor of history at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth.
Barbara O. Korner, PHD ’83, recently published a book with the University of Missouri Press titled Hardship and Hope: Missouri Women Writing About Their Lives, 1820-1920.
C. Wesley McGowan, BSC ’42, had his reference handbook Residential Water Processing published by the international Water Quality Association. The book provides training and technical background in water quality improvement. McGowan, the author of two previous books, lives in Bradenton, Fla.
The photographs of A.J. Meek, MFA ’72, are featured in The Gardens of Louisiana, Places of Work and Wonder, by Suzanne Turner. Meek is a professor of photography at Louisiana State University.
E.G. “Jay” Ruoff, AB ’50, is the author of a self-published book, Making A Difference, which covers the 30 years he and his wife, Mona (Hohman) Ruoff ’52, spent with the State Department in Washington, D.C., and overseas. He also is the author o f Death Throes of a Dynasty, a book about China published by Kent State University Press. He is working on a third book about his experiences as mayor of the Northeast Ohio village of Peninsula from 1988 to 1996.
James T. Shipman, BSED ’51, EMERT ’78, has co-authored An Introduction to Physical Science with an accompanying laboratory guide, and Fundamentals of Physical Science.
Brian Tarcy, BSJ ’83, co-authored The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understan ding Football Like a Pro with former Washington Redskins quarterback and current ESPN analyst Joe Theismann. Tarcy, a free-lance writer and book developer living in Falmouth, Mass., has authored or co-authored six books and works as a Cape Cod correspondent for the Boston Globe.
Tom Welsh, BSC ’56, a realtor-turned-writer, is the author of Rise in Shame, a fictional tale of a love triangle involving husband-and-wife drug dealers and the woman’s attorney. Besides the Commonwealth Publications Paperback published earlier this year, Welsh is the author of Fading Illusions (due out in 1998) and Dead Even (which he plans to finish this fall).
Judith Laura Levine Willis, BSJ ’63, has published her second book on feminist spirituality under the name Judith Laura. Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century: From Kabbalah to Quantum Physics was published in July by Research Triangle Publishing. She lives in Kensington, Md.
Justine Anderson W ittich, BSJ ’57, is the author of a romantic suspense novel, Night Words, published in hardcover by Avalon Books. She lives in Nordonia.
Robert W. Wolfe, AB ’49, is the author of Naked Soul: Coping With War, A Young GI’s WWII Letters Detailing Constant Changes. He published Naked Soul: Reaching for Perfection in 1992.