A Sampling of The English Club's Previous Events

The English Club Celebrated 2011 Valentine's Day wth a Handmade Literary Valentines Sale and a "Love Poetry Coffee House," at which students and faculty read their favorite love poems. Pictured above in first photo are former EC co-president Danielle Arthur and current EC president Brandon North

            English Club and E.G.O. Book Sale, October 13, 2010; President Hopkins stops to browse books   / English Club Halloween Movie Night, October 29, 2010

English Club and E. G. O. Spring Book Sale, May 26, 2010

English Club Winter 2010 Coffeehouse

Pictured from left to right: audience members; featured fiction readers, Dr. Erin Flanagan, Ryan Ireland, Michael Ward;

Ryan Ireland and Dr. Flanagan during a coffee break

Thanks to all who made the Fall 2009

English Club and E.G.O. Book Sale a success!

Spring 2009 Coffeehouse
Top Row: Audience listens to featured faculty writer, Scott Gesiel

Our other invited student readers, second row, from left to right: Will Davis, Karen Maner, and Lara Donnelly.

English Club Members (bottom row) Sara Bigelow, Lindsay Thomas, and Whitney Soares read poems about spring,

and Dr. Martin Maner recites spring-inspired Renaissance lyrics.

WSU English major Lara Donnelly was selected to present her fiction at the

International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, held in Orlando, Florida, from March 18-22, 2009. Lara attended the conference after her story “The Noisome Trousers” won Honorable Mention in the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing.  Lara's trip to the conference was, in part,

sponsored by The English Club and the Department of English Founder's Fund.

Pictured above from left to right: Rick Wilber, Sarah Miller, Josh Eure, Lara Donnelly, and Sheila Williams

The English Club and E.G.O. (English Graduate Organization) February 2009 Valentines Sale

(Our first since 2006!--as WSU was closed because of snowy weather for our 2007 & 2008 sales.)

Pictured from left to right above: E.G.O. members Michael Ward, Kayla Whitman, and Beka Lindeman

Pictured from left to right above: Samantha Brill, Sarah Strong, and Jason McKeirnan represent WSU and The English Club

at the Friends of Greene County Children Services First Annual Spelling Bee, in January 2009.

They won third place!

English Club Halloween Coffeehouse, October 2008

Pictured from left to right above: Dr. James Guthrie reads Poe's "The Raven";

Brady Allen, Sarah Hall, and Doug Warrick read their original fiction

The English Club and E.G.O. Book Sale was held in October 2008.

Costumed movie goers watch theThe Pit and the Pendulum with The English Club, Halloween 2007

The English Club Spring 2007 Coffeehouse

Pictured from left to right: Guest Readers, Troy Powell, Jimmy Chesire, Pamela Davis, and MaryJo White; 

2006-07 Co-Presidents, Jason Frisbie & Leslie Rogers; Jason reads a Kurt Vonnegut tribute.              

Dr. Barry Milligan discussed Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein at our

2006 Halloween showing of the film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

English Club Coffeehouse May 3, 2006

James Brubaker reads fiction; Jess Haney sings her songs; Benjamin Longfellow reads poetry

                   Making Valentines and Selling Valentines, February 2006            

   Photos from the English Club & English Graduate Organization (E.G.O.)  Fall 2005 Book Sale  

From left to right: Chris Massey, Rishan Habte, Benjamin Longfellow,

Susan Sandro, and Paige Huskey.

In June, some editors of The Fogdog Review, most of whom are also in English Club, enjoyed high tea at Central Perc, in Oakwood. They celebrated a successful year for Fogdog and EC, and also said goodbye to June graduates,

Brandy and Sara.

Pictured from left to right, top row: Sara Purtee (June graduate) & Rita Ebert

Front Row: Jess Haney, Ken Ballinger, & Brandy Foster (June graduate)

Not pictured, but holding the camera: Annette Oxindine, Fogdog & EC faculty advisor

The English Club held a Coffeehouse Reading on May 27, 2005. Winners of the Creative Writing Contest read from their work, followed by an open mic & original music by Jess Haney.

Sarah Coates, Bill Bicknell, Karen Sisk, and Mindy Sewell read their writing

Open mic reader Dave Nichols shares his poetry; Co-President Rishan Habte gives farewell gift to Co-President Brandy Foster, who graduated in June 2005; songwriter Jess Haney performs her music

The English Club / EGO (English Graduate Organization) Spring Book Sale was held in May 11, 2005.

Pictured from left to right, top row: Katherine Romeo & Rishan Habte

  Front Row: Jess Haney, Amy Koscielny, Sara Purtee, & Ken Ballinger

In April 2005, English Club students joined Drs. Jones, Pringle, and Sharma for the film Bride and Prejudice, at the Little Art Theatre in Yellow Springs. After the movie, Dr. Sharma discussed the Bollywood film over dinner at Jeet Indian Restaurant.

        Pictured from left to right: Professors Jones, Pringle, & Sharma with Jess Haney,

          Sara Purtee, Brandy Foster, Elizabeth Foster, William Foster, & Christine Reedy

In February 2005 the English Club sold over 120 handmade Literary Valentines.

The English Club Bibliophiles--a group of students who love to read and to talk about books without professors and exams on the periphery--met to discuss The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, in October 2004.  The English Club / E.G.O. Fall Book Sale also was held in October 2004.      

In September 2004, The English Club and friends dined with actor Neil O'Shea, at Jeet Indian Restaurant, during his week-long visit to Wright State. Neil O'Shea (first on the left) performed his acclaimed one-man show, "The Irish Writers Entertain," the following evening.
 

From left: Katharine Nelson (EC co-President), Dr. Joe Law, and Dr. Mary Beth Pringle (EC co-advisor), before the presentation of the 2002 film version of The Importance of Being Earnest. Dr. Law's discussion of the film was the second of two events in the English Club's "Wild Wilde Nights" September 2004 celebration of the art of Oscar Wilde. The first event was a talk given by Dr. Law: " 'I Put All My Genius into My Life': Oscar Wilde & the Artistic Life." Dr. Law's talk inspired the English Club Bibliophiles to read Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray

In August 2004, English Club members Brandy Foster (co-President) and Danielle Roach along with faculty advisors Drs. Pringle and Oxindine read stories to children at the Barnes and Noble in Beavercreek. Among the children pictured are Brandy's children, William and Elizabeth; Danielle's son, Joshua; and Christine Reedy's son, Owen.

And in a wonderful turn of events, the children read to us . . .

The English Club sold 115 handmade Literary Valentines  on February 12, 2004. Thanks to your support, the English Club Valentines Sale will be an annual event. And thanks to Brandy Foster for starting a wonderful annual event!

Spring 2003 English Club & E.G.O. book sale.