• Judge for area speech events
• Presentations for various community groups
• YMCA Golden Seal Swim Team-program design and newsletters
• Central Dakota Children’s Choir-Singing in Style and DCC on Stage
• U-Mary Communication Apprehension Study
• Theater Committee (U-Mary)
• Academic Affairs Council Convocation Committee (U-Mary)
• Dead Man Walking Committee (U-Mary)

 Education

   M.A. Communications
     Purdue University, Lafayette, IN 
   B.S. Speech and English
     Dickinson State University, Dickinson, ND
   B.A. Voice
     Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA 

   Additional Course Work:

• National Catholic Radio and TV Centre, Hatch End, England
• University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
• North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND

Professional Memberships

• Honorary - Pi Kappa Delta and Alpha Psi Omega
• National Association for Education in Mass Communication and Journalism
• State North Dakota Speech and Theatre Association

Publications

• “Total Thrust: Mainstreaming”  (sound and slide presentation), published by Emporia State College, Emporia, Kansas, December, 1974.
• “At Badlands, Services Come to the People,” Case and Council (North Dakota Social Service Report), December, 1978, pp. 12-13+.
• “1978-1979 Annual Report, Badlands Human Service Center,” published by the Badlands Human Service Center, June, 1979.
• “Incest - A Three-Part Series,” Dickinson Press, March 1-3, 1979.
• NDSTA Journal 1991-1995 (editor).
• Incorporating Benedictine Values: Redesigns in University Curriculum and Instruction. published by the University of Mary, August, 1999 (designed, produced and wrote introduction).

Unpublished Research

• “A Readers' Theatre Production: Brecht on Brecht,” M.A. Thesis Topic, Department of Communication, Purdue University, under the direction of Professor Jere Veilleux, accepted January, 1971.

Unpublished Readers Theatre Scripts and Adaptations

• Try to Remember – script on the stages of love (1968)
• Men Still Breathe: WAR – script about war (1968)
• Prologue to Identity – script about the bridge from adolescence to adulthood (1969)
• Centennial Voices – script based on lives of ND pioneers (1986)
• A Night of Elie Wiesel – adaptation of works of Elie Wiesel (1995)
• Dakota Sketchbook – adaptation of the works of Kathleen Norris (1999)

Productions

• Director of 27 University of Mary theater productions, including the "Mousetrap" and "Dead Man Walking" in 2005
• Director of 13 Purdue University theater productions including "Brecht on Brecht" (thesis production) and "Centennial Voices" (writer and director)
• Involved in five television productions at Purdue University as director, writer, producer and/or production coordinator
• Director of seven Dickinson High School theater productions

Performances

  Purdue Readers' Theatre Productions - Reader:

• "Try to Remember"
• "Let Men Live"
• "Men Still Breathe: WAR"
• "Macbeth"
• "King Lear" (solo presentation)

Undergraduate Courses Taught

• Oral Communication – Stage Fright
• Oral Interpretation
• Public Relations Writing
• Public Relations
• Public Relations Seminar
• Internship
• Internship Seminar

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