Lake Land College Faculty Association President 2014-15
Lake Land College Navigator Best Instructor Award Recipient
Gym - Squats, anyone?
Cycling - Being in the open air is envigorating.
Music - Most everything from Disturbed to Vangelis with some nostalgia for most 80's music. The Beatles are overrated. (Don't tell Matt Landrus!)
Reading - Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is my favorite.
Philosophy - There is more to this life than meets the eye.
Vehicles - Big fan of well designed motorcycles and cars.
Thought - The sciences need the humanites and vice versa.
COM-111 Introduction to Speech Communication
COM-165 Broadcast Writing (Personal Favorite)
COM-180 Basic Television Production
COM-220 Persuasion
Sometimes the greatest things in life seem to happen by pure chance or providence, if you will. For me, teaching was a second career. While finishing my graduate work at EIU and running the bike shop in Charleston, I received a call from Division Chair and my former professor, Dr. Terry Perkins. He asked me if I was interested in teaching a section of the basic speech course. After some cursory training with other graduate students I found myself in front of a class and immediately knew I belonged there. Over two decades years later my examples and hair color have changed, but my passion for teaching remains.
Immanuel Lutheran Church and Preschool Board of Directors Chair 2012-14, 2019-20
Charleston Area Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year 2016
JG/TC 20 Under 40 Award