2010 WAY OUT WEST TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
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Jean Hardy-Pittman chairs the Alpine Rotary Club's Literacy Committee and is the General Director of the 2010 WOW Texas Book Festival. Jean worked as a photojournalist, writer, and magazine and book editor for twenty years. She has owned and operated Front Street Books in Alpine and Marathon, Texas, since 1994. Jean can be reached at jhp@fsbooks.com
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Wanda Morgan is president of Alpine Rotary Club. She was a college professor of English with a specialty in writing for over 20 years and served three different corporations as director of publications for a total of 14 years. She is a published freelance writer/editor and immigrated to Alpine from the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee two and a half years ago. Wanda can be reached at wandabmorgan1@sbcglobal.net
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Luticia "Lou" Pauls is the Proprietor of The Maverick Inn in Alpine, TX. Lou serves as Assistant District Governor for Alpine & Marfa in Rotary District 5520. She also serves the Alpine Club as Treasurer and Past President (2006/07). A native Texan and transplant from the Houston/Galveston area, Lou also serves as Secretary of the Alpine Chamber of Commerce and is involved in a number of other community endeavors. ___________________________________________________________________
Donna Greene has lived in Alpine for 14 years. Donna is the Coordinator of Faculty Support and Outdoor Learning at Sul Ross State University. Donna is also the president of the Texas Mountain Trail Writers, a Big-Bend based writer’s group. Donna Greene can be reached at dgreene@sulross.edu
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Julia Green, Assistant Manager, Front Street Books, Alpine, with graduate degrees in both Literature and Biological Sciences. Dedicated bookwoman well-read in fiction and diverse subjects. According to her employer: "intelligent, competent, organized, and indispensable." Julia can be reached at amazons@fsbooks.com
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Tom Michael is General Manager of KRTS, the public radio station serving Far West Texas at 93.5 FM and streaming online at www.marfapublicradio.org. A former editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Michael has contributed to several other reference works, such as Merriam-Webster's "Encyclopedia of Literature." He also serves on the board of the Alpine Public Library, with a branch in Marathon.
TOM MICHAEL | MARFA PUBLIC RADIO | 93.5 FM KRTS
432.729.4578 / tom@marfapublicradio.org_
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Chris Ruggia and his wife Ellen operate Vast Graphics (www.vastgraphics.com), a graphic design studio in Alpine. Chris also writes and draws an ongoing comic strip (www.jackcomics.com) about the animals of the Big Bend region. Chris designs and executes most of the advertisements and graphic elements for the book festival.
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