Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz '75 has published Rolling in Ditches With Shamans: Jamie De Angulo and the Professionalization of American Anthropology (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology Series) (University of Nebraska Press, 2004) which charts American anthropology in the 1920s through the life and work of one of the amateur scholars of the time, Jamie de Angulo. De Angulo recorded data from thirty groups and participated fully in the lives of the people who were his ethnographic informants. In addition, he also wrote fiction and poetry describing the modern lives of the people he studied.

Leeds-Hurwitz is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin at Parkside.

Wayne Coffey '76 has published The Boys of Winter (Crown, 2005). According to Publishers Weekly, "In this well-written and thoroughly researched story of the 1980 Olympic gold-medal winning hockey team, New York Daily News sportswriter Coffey does much more than simply evoke memories. He captures the rigorous training and the thrill of the games, yet digs deeper, soberly rendering the tenor of the American spirit amid the Iranian hostage crisis and the Cold War, and humanizing and illuminating (rather than caricaturing) the Russian side. Coffey portrays the American side, a diverse collection of amateurs, warts and all, and gives special attention to Brooks, an enigmatic figure who turned a bunch of regional rivals into a tight-knit family whose bond still exists today. Filled with primary interviews and exceptional insight, Coffey's effort should delight more than just hockey fans."

Coffey is an award-winning sportswriter for New York's Daily News and the author of more than thirty books.

Bruce A. Grossman '80 has published Workplace Politics: A Practical Guide for Making Your Experience at Work More Positive, Productive and Pleasant (Xlibris Corporation, 2003). Discover just how to navigate the politics of the working environment, using the 3P Approach. Improve the work experience by gaining control over it with the goal of making the workplace more Positive, Productive and Pleasant. Learn how to understand, motivate and deal with the most difficult workplace personalities and turn interactions with them into more positive and productive encounters.

Grossman is a full-time professor in the Business Department at Citrus College.

Daril Bentley '81 has published In That Other Life: And Other Poems (Llumina Press, 2004), a collection of poetry by an author whose life has taken him from the vernal Finger Lakes of upstate New York to the scintillating lights and hectic streets of Manhattan, and on to the huge moons and dusty trails of rural New Mexico. Whether rooted in persons or the natural world, in urban setting or pastoral, in the intellectual or emotional, these poems contemplate matters central to a meaningful discussion of existence. Recognizing the worst aspects of humanity, herein also lies a call of faith -- that humankind is capable of nobility, charity, and decency.

Bentley is a career editor and poet.

Paul J. Contino '82 has co-edited and co-introduced with Susan Felch Bakhtin, Religion: A Feeling for Faith (Rethinking Theory) (Northwestern University Press, 2001).

Contino is the associate professor at Pepperdine University, the associate director of Pepperdine's Center for Faith and Learning, and the co-editor of the journal of Christianity and Literature.

Jef Czekaj '91 has published Grampa & Julie: Shark Hunters (Top Shelf Productions, 2004). Taken from the pages of Nickelodeon magazine, Julie and her world-famous Grampa embark in endless zany adventures as they search the high seas for Stephen, the largest shark in the world.

Czekaj is an illustrator, cartoonist and musician.