State University of New York at New Paltz: English Department: Alumni and Friends of the English Department

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Professor H. R. Stoneback served as the Critical Plenary speaker at the 2008 South Atlantic Modern Language Association’s annual conference in Louisville, Kentucky.
Professor Pauline Uchmanowicz was given the College of Liberal Arts and Science’s Teacher of the Year award in 2008.
Tim Gilmore (class of 1999 and MA class of 2004) will be returning to campus in March 2010 to deliver a lecture to students and faculty of the Departments of English and Philosophy. A dual English and Philosophy major and an MA in English here at New Paltz, Tim is currently writing his dissertation at the University of California Santa Barbara.
In May 2009 the Department revived our local chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society. Twenty-eight outstanding scholars were inducted in an evening ceremony attended by faculty, students, and parents.
The most recent Stonesthrow Review (2009) was released last May. It features poems and prose by seventeen talented undergraduate creative writers.
Rebecca Schumejda (class of 1999) recently published a new collection of her poetry, Falling Forward. This month another collection, The Map of Our Garden, will be released. See more at www.rebeccaschumejda.com.
Kelly Spoto (class of 2009) won the prestigious SUNY-wide Thayer Prize for her fiction.
WaterWrites, an anthology in honor of the 400th anniversary celebration of the Hudson River, was published in October by Codhill Press. Edited by Larry Carr, with assistant editors Joann Deiudicibus, Penny Freel, and Rachel Rigolino, it features works by fourteen English Department faculty, emeriti faculty, and students, as well as many other talented regional writers.
Evan Hunerberg (class of 2008) was selected as Valedictorian of his graduating class and addressed the assembly at the spring commencement.

Any support you can lend your former department will be greatly appreciated. Please be assured, too, that except for maintenance expenses mandated by the SUNY New Paltz Foundation, every penny in the Alumni and Friends of the English Department coffers will directly support departmental initiatives that we find difficult or impossible to fund with our highly restricted state allocations: initiatives such as student prizes and awards, student travel, speakers and lectures, receptions, events like the Sigma Tau Delta honor society induction, and so on. Although the SUNY New Paltz Foundation will hold the account for our Alumni and Friends, the English Department will oversee and control its use.