Winter / Spring 2007 - University of Arkansas at Monticello

UAM MAGAZINE
6
On
Campus
Dr. Mark Spencer (left)
and his wife, Rebecca,
hold the manuscript of a
novel entitled The Good
Life, that will be published
online beginning in
January.
T
Literature Online
The Good Life, a short novel by UAM
faculty member Dr. Mark Spencer and
his wife, Rebecca, has been accepted for
publication in the online literary journal
Admit Two.
Spencer is a professor and dean of
the School of Arts and Humanities at
UAM. He has published two novels in
print form – Love and Reruns in Adams
County (Random House), and The Weary
Motel (Backwaters Press), as well as two
collections of short stories and over 100
articles and stories in various national
and international journals. Spencer has
received the Faulkner Society’s Faulkner
Award for The Short Novel, the Omaha
Prize for The Novel, the Bradshaw Book
Award, the Cairn-St. Andrews Press
Short Fiction Award, and four “Special
Mentions” in Pushcart Prize: Best of the
Small Presses. The Good Life is his first
collaboration with his wife, Rebecca.
Rebecca Spencer is a homemaker,
freelance photojournalist, and a newsletter
correspondent for the Oklahoma
chapter of the national charity Newborns
in Need.
According to Spencer, The Good Life
is the story of a 66-year-old farmer/school
teacher/part-time moving man named
Fowood, who reflects on the successes,
disappointments, moral righteousness,
and missed opportunities of his life while
contemplating the meaning of a good life.
The Good Life will be published in two to
three installments in Admit Two beginning
in January.
Admit Two is an international online
literary journal published every other
month and can be accessed on the internet
at www.admit2.net.
Best In The Nation
orestry students from the University
Fproven
of Arkansas at Monticello have
once again that UAM’s forestry
program can compete with the big boys.
Lance Vickers of Hermitage, Jonathan
Hartley of Pine Bluff, Kimberly Pedigo
of Star City, and Seth Glaze of Camden
– all forestry students at UAM – defeated
student teams from the University of
Florida, Allegheny College, Michigan
Tech, Auburn, and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens
Point to win the Society
of American Foresters National Quiz
Bowl competition held last fall at the
annual meeting of the SAF in Pittsburgh,
Pa.
Student teams from 32 colleges and
universities across the country competed
in the annual event.
“This is a tremendous achievement for
our students and a very positive reflection
on our program,” said Dr. Richard
Kluender, dean of the UAM School of
Forest Resources. “We are very proud of
their accomplishments.”
The Quiz Bowl consisted of five
rounds of competition. UAM defeated
Florida 15-10 in the opening round,
Allegheny 25-15 in the second round,
Michigan Tech 15-10 in the third round,
Auburn 15-5 in the fourth round, and took
a one-sided 20-5 win over Wisconsin-Stevens
Point in the finals.
“Possibly the most impressive thing
about our students’ performance was
that none of the rounds were that close,”
said Kluender. “We were able to win
comfortably in each round. I think this
speaks volumes about the quality of our
faculty and the job they do in preparing
our students for success in forest resource
management.”
Vickers, Pedigo and Glaze are senior
forestry majors while Hartley is a graduate
student.
Dr. Richard Kluender (second from left), dean of the UAM
School of Forest Resources, and Dr. Sayeed Mehmood
(far right), assistant professor and faculty sponsor of the
Forestry Quiz Bowl Team, pose with team members (from
left) Jonathan Hartley, Lance Vickers, Kimberly Pedigo, and
Seth Glaze.