LECTURES SEMINARS
PRESENTATIONS
Lectures, Seminar and Presentations

Media

"The Teacher Education Center."  Slide/Tape Program presented
to the Cleveland Commission on Higher Education, March, 1972.

"The Media Technician Career Program at Atlantic Community
College."  Workshop presented during the National Convention of
the Association for Educational Communications and Technology,
held in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  March, 18 1973.

"Audiovisual Aids and Their Uses in Teaching History."  Lecture
delivered before a session of workshops entitled South Jersey's
Past and Today's Classrooms, Smithville, New Jersey.  October
15, 1974.

"Production Design Strategies."  Lecture presented during the
Fall Conference of the Community College Association for
Instruction and Technology, Atlantic City, New Jersey.  November
1, 1974.

"Creating a Prize-Winning Newsletter."  Delivered before a
session of the Professional Photographers' National Convention,
held in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  June 20, 1984.

Presenter of workshop on grant writing.  Sponsored by the Cape
May County Cultural & Heritage Commission, Cape May County,
New Jersey.  Held at the Old Court House, Cape May Court
House, New Jersey.  February 9, 1989.

"Cape May County: An Introduction," an audio cassette driving
tour.  Sponsored by the Cape May County Cultural & Heritage
Commission.  Tape is designed to serve as an overview of the
history and culture of Cape May County, as part of its
Tercentennial celebrations.  The tape was produced 3/9/92.

"Historic Cold Spring Village,"  a slide/tape orientation to the
Historic Cold Spring Village, Cape May County, New Jersey.  May
1992.

"Cape May County--An Introduction", a slide/tape orientation to
the history and culture of Cape May County.  Sponsored by the
Cape May County Cultural & Heritage Commission.  The
Presentation is designed to serve as an overview of the history
and culture of Cape May County, as part of its Tercentennial
celebrations.  Completed January 1993.

Video Production Workshop for Girl Scout College held at the
Atlantic Community College, Mays Landing, New Jersey,
November 16, 1996.


Writing

"The Teaching of Writing:  An End Not A Means."  Paper
presented during the Sixth Annual Conference, Focus on
Writing.  Held at the Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck
Campus, Teaneck, New Jersey.  March 21, 1978.

"Creative Writing."  Lecture presented during a Disciplinary
Interaction session, held during An Arts Symposium at the
Glassboro State College, Glassboro, New Jersey.  Sponsored by
the South Jersey Consortium on the Arts, October 13, 1978.

"Creative Writing."  Lecture delivered before the Alpha Delta Mu
chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, Atlantic Community College, Mays
Landing, New Jersey.  March 14, 1980.

"Creating New Playwrights:  A Grassroots Dilemma." Paper
delivered before a session of the Northeast Regional Conference
on English in the Two-Year School of the NCTE, held in Atlantic
City, New Jersey.  October 14, 1983.

"On Revising Fiction."  Presented before a session of the Fall
Conference of the Delaware Valley Writing Council, held at the
Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  
October 29, 1983.

"Playwriting."  Presented during a Writers' Conference sponsored
by the Editor's Desk of Ocala, Florida and held at the Atlantic
Community College, Mays Landing, New Jersey.  November 30-
December 1, 1984.

"Playwriting."  Presented during a Writers' Conference sponsored
by the Editor's Desk of Ocala, Florida and held at the Atlantic
Community College, Mays Landing, New Jersey.  October 5, 1985.

"Playwriting."  Presented during a Writers' Conference sponsored
by the Editor's Desk of Ocala, Florida and held at the Atlantic
Community College, Mays Landing, New Jersey.  October 18,
1986.

Thirty playwriting workshops sponsored by the New Jersey State
Council on the Arts, AIE, Young Playwrights Program, and
schools, held in various Middle Schools and High Schools in
Southern New Jersey, 1986 - 1992.

"Playwrights' Weekend."  Paper presented before a session of
the conference on The Search for Excellence, sponsored by the
New Jersey  State Department of Higher Education, held at
Brookdale Community College.  May 1, 1987.

Playwriting Workshop.  Sponsored by the Summer Youth
Program of Atlantic County and held at the Atlantic Community
College, Mays Landing, New Jersey.  June 29-July 23, 1987.

"Playwriting."  Presented during a Writer's Conference sponsored
by the Editor's Desk of Ocala, Florida and held at the Atlantic
Community College, Mays Landing, New Jersey.  September 25-
27, 1987.

Playwriting Workshop.  Sponsored by the Summer Youth
Program of Atlantic County and held at the Atlantic Community
College, Mays Landing, New Jersey.  June 27-July 21, 1988.

Playwriting workshop.  Cape May County Library, Cape May
Court House, New Jersey, and sponsored by the New Jersey
State Council on the Arts.  August 1-4, 1988.

Playwriting workshop.  Middle Township Middle School, Cape May
Court House, New Jersey.  Sponsored by the Cape May County
Cultural & Heritage Commission.  October 1988.

Playwriting workshop.  Upper Township Middle School, Cape May
County, New Jersey.  Sponsored by the Cape May County
Cultural & Heritage Commission.  October 1988.

Playwriting Lecture/Workshop.  Presented at the Bellehaven
Middle School, Linwood, NJ., January 14 , 1992.

Critiquer of Creative Writing Competition, sponsored by the
Ocean City Public Library, Ocean City, New Jersey.  April 1993.

Coordinator, Creative Writing Component, Cape May County
Teen Arts Program,  Cape May County, New Jersey.  April 1993.

Critiquer of Creative Writing Competition, sponsored by the
Ocean City Public Library, Ocean City, New Jersey.  April 1994.

Coordinator, Creative Writing Component, Cape May County
Teen Arts Program,  Cape May County, New Jersey.  April 29,
1994.

Critiquer of Creative Writing Competition, sponsored by the
Ocean City Public Library.  May 13, 1996.


Literature

"Utopian Science Fiction."  Lecture delivered before the Alpha
Delta Mu chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, Atlantic Community
College, Mays Landing, New Jersey.  December 3, 1979.

"In Defense of Tradition."  Paper delivered before a session of
the annual Community College Humanities Association, Eastern
Division, held in Hartford, Connecticut.  November 4-5, 1983.

"Last of the Mohicans,” a lecture presented before a session of
the Society of the Grubb Street Rapscallions, Waterford
Restaurant, Mays Landing, New Jersey.  May, 1988.

"Creativity and the Writer."  Presented as an academic interest
lecture for the ROGATE program, held at the Atlantic Community
College, Mays Landing, New Jersey.  April 20, 1988.

“Billy Budd.” a lecture presented before a session of the Grubb
Street Rapscallions, September 1988.

“Frankenstein or a Modern Prometheus,” a lecture presented
before a meeting of the Society of the Grubb Street Rapscallions,
January 1990.

“White Jacket,” a lecture scheduled for a meeting of the Society
of the Grubb Street Rapscallions, July 1992.

"Redburn:  A Critical Transition in Herman Melville's Development
as a Writer," a lecture presented before a session of the Society
of the Grubb Street Rapscallions, The Doc's Restaurant, Somers
Point, New Jersey.  September, 1995.

Lectures on Sherlock Holmes for Elderhostel held at the Golden
Inn, Avalon, New Jersey, January 21-22, 1997.

“The Confidence Man,” a lecture presented before a session of
the Grubb Street Rapscallions, The Doc's Restaurant, Somers
Point, New Jersey, 1998.

“A Study in Scarlet,” a lecture presented before a session of the
Grubb Street Rapscallions, New Jersey, May 2000.

“The Monk,” a lecture presented before a session of the Grubb
Street Rapscallions, New Jersey, May 2002.

“The Suicide Club,” a lecture presented before a meeting of the
Society of the Grubb Street Rapscallions, March 2004.

“Melmoth the Wanderer and the Gothic Novel,” a lecture
presented before a meeting of the Society of the Grubb Street
Rapscallions, September 2005

“Sailing Alone Around the World,” a lecture presented before a
meeting of the Society of the Grubb Street Rapscallions, May
2007.


Photography

"Photography."  Presented during a Writers' Conference
sponsored by the Editor's Desk of Ocala, Florida and held at the
Atlantic Community College, Mays Landing, New Jersey.  
November 30 - December 1, 1984.

Photography Workshop.  Sponsored by the Cape May County
Library, Cape May Court House, New Jersey and the New Jersey
State Council on the Arts.  July 28, 1987.