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 Welcome Reception Speaker, Frosty TroyForrest J. "Frosty" Troy is an editor, radio and television commentator, critic, humorist and one of the most dynamic public speakers in the country. He is recognized nationally for his upbeat keynotes and presentations on public education. In an era of weasel words and budget cuts, Frosty Troy is a blunt, dynamic defender of public education. He ought to know. Frosty Troy's been in the trenches for 30 years, fighting for decent funding and public support for education from the precincts of his hometown to the corridors of power in Washington. A bouncy, optimistic champion of free enterprise, Frosty Troy is an encyclopedia of the history of public education in all its forms. He's an unrelenting champion of teachers, administrators and support personnel who put it on the line every day in the most important enterprise in America - public education.  Keynote Speaker, Anne Ellen GellerAnne Ellen Geller is Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum in the Institute for Writing Studies at St. John’s University. She teaches undergraduate and graduate English and writing courses, works with faculty from all disciplines, and is developing a new writing fellows program. She is co-author of The Everyday Writing Center: A Community of Practice with Michele Eodice, Frankie Condon, Meg Carroll and Beth Boquet (USU Press, 2007). Her article “"Tick, Tock, Next: Finding Epochal Time in the Writing Center," which appeared in The Writing Center Journal (25.1), won the 2005 IWCA Outstanding Scholarship Award.  Closing Plenary Speaker, Kevin Davis Kevin Davis is a former National Writing Centers Association board member; current SCWCA board member, article reviewer for English Journal, and former editor of Oklahoma English Journal. He has been at East Central University since 1987 where he is the only person to have been awarded three Teaching Excellence Awards. He is a former Maxwell award winner. Some thoughts from Kevin: I play cello, ride bicycles (fat tire and skinny), prefer baseball on the radio to baseball on TV, practice the ancient art of zymurgy, spend way too much time exploring the internet, bake a wicked baguette, and intend to spend my next life in a Scotish pub. Even though I only lived in Montana for 1/54th of my life, I consider it to be my one true home on this planet. I love rhetoric, which I teach, because, if you really think about it, rhetoric explains everything we need to know about surving in this crazy human world; I love philosophy, which I also teach, for the sheer joy of kicking Big Ideas around the room with a class full of youngsters who aren't afraid of the very biggest Big Ideas; I love my writing center most of all, because it is the place where I first discovered my own true self and where, day after day, year after year, I continue to learn more about myself. |
