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Yvett Bardwell
Yvett Bardwell loves God, the color pink, sports, comedy, and her family. She is 39 years old and the mother of three children—Lionel, DJ, and Ciara. She got the idea of doing the number books from her children. When she was young, she grew up in a multi-cultural environment. She considers herself fortunate for such an experience and wanted her children to be exposed to the same thing.
When she decided to go back and finish college, she worked part time in the kindergarten room as a teacher’s assistant. She was sad that, though the kids in the class were all from different cultures, the learning environment was not multi-cultural. It was not conducive to the needs of the children at all. Having a background in Spanish, Yvett would practice with some of the children in their language (Spanish) and in English. She wanted to help them break the language barrier so they would not be shy, afraid to talk, or withdrawn from the rest of the class. After working with them for awhile in this manner, her class and the children opened up. The children became more talkative, confidant, and ready to read. When Yvett saw these results, she realized she had a system that was working, and she wanted to put in book form so it could be available for everyone.
Uta Monique Behrens
Uta Monique Behrens was born near Cologne, Germany toward the end of World War II. She studied in Cambridge, Paris, and Munich, where she worked as a tri-lingual executive secretary for foreign affairs at a German movie company before emigrating to America. She flew as a flight attendant for American Airlines until her marriage. While raising three children in Arizona, she became a successful real estate investor and attended Arizona State University, graduating in 1985 magna cum laude. She has been active in the community for over 30 years, volunteering extensively, and serving on many
boards of directors of non-profit organizations. In her spare time, she writes poems and stories, and travels a great deal.
Thomas Berghage & George Olander
Thomas Berghage has over 22 years of experience in the securities industry. Mr. Berghage served as Vice President and Director of Research for two different regional brokerage firms before founding NeuWorld Financial, an investment technology firm. He is an NASD registered General Securities Principal, a state registered investment advisor and has been President and a Board Member of the CFA Society of San Diego.
Prior to entering the financial field, Commander Berghage was a member of an elite group of Navy Research Psychologists dealing with human limitations in advanced military systems and served two years as an independent consultant on human engineering to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. This is his second book, after Beyond Human Comprehension: The Limits of Human Security Analysis.
Dr. George Olander has taught Corporate Finance and Portfolio Management at Arizona State University since January 2000. He also serves on the Executive Board of the Academic Senate for the University.
He is a Registered Representative with the Genworth Company; and has held his NASD security registrations since 1993. He maintains an extensive client base of individual clients in Arizona and across the United States.
Prior to entering academia, Dr. Olander worked in several different financial capacities, including Financial Analyst, Controller, and Vice President of Finance for various corporations. He has worked in the Venture Capital field and as a business and corporate consultant, and has written investment and financial articles for several newspapers and hosted live radio and TV investment programming.
Dr. Olander was an Officer in the United States Marine Corps and a Marine Corps Aviator. He is the Royal Norwegian Consulate-Phoenix and serves as a member of the Arizona Consular Corps.
Trey Brandt
Trey Brandt has been a leading
researcher in military aircraft crash sites in Arizona for over 15
years. He specializes in locating and documenting crashes from World
War II through the Cold War. His work has been featured in various
periodicals such as Arizona Flyways, The Arizona Republic, 8th Air Force News, and Smithsonian Air and Space.
Selvoy M. Fillerup, M.D., M.S.P.H., F.A.C.S.
Selvoy M. Fillerup is a Board Certified Otolaryngologist and holds a Masters of Science in Public Health from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. His area of particular interest is universal healthcare policy. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Dr. Fillerup is a practicing otolaryngologist in Mesa, Arizona. He previously served on the faculty at the Denver VA Medical Center and held positions as Clinical Instructor in the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, and in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at UCD-HSC where he taught International Health. Dr. Fillerup serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Center for Health Care Policy Research and Analysis.
Winchester V. Forgey
Chet Forgey was in public education for
over 40 years and earned two Master's degrees — a Master of Education
in Administration of Public Schools from Rutgers University and a
Master of Arts in Reading Specialization from Kean College. His novel, Chronicle of the Bent Nail, is based on many of his own experiences.
Jayne Maas Freeman
Jayne Freeman has made a career training people from all walks of life. She began her career with Cally Curtis Company of Los Angeles, then the top video training production company in the nation. Later, she trained sales teams on telephone techniques for the Telephone Doctor, the world’s leading producer of telephone skills training videos. She has since led corporate teams engaged in both inside and outside telesales, including a stint as leader of Muzak’s nationwide Telesales Division. Jayne is the author of Motivating Sales People, and her comments have appeared in Working Woman Magazine. Last year, she was recognized as a Millenium Woman honoree.
William French
William French received his degree from the University of Arizona. He was a manager for the Wildcats basketball team while attending school in Tucson, accompanying the team to a National Championship in 1997 and the Final Four in 2000. After college, William worked as an assistant for Jerry Colangelo, chairman and CEO of the Phoenix Suns. He currently works with the Grubb & Ellis Real Estate group.
Jackie Gould
Jackie Gould grew up in Janesville, Wisconsin, where she graduated from Patricia Stevens Modeling School and taught a charm school
before marrying her high school sweetheart. Together, they raised two sons and pursued several business endeavors, including a music school and store and a wholesale furniture showroom. Jackie has studied art and interior design, and loves animals and, of course, writing. She and her family have lived in Phoenix, Arizona since 1969.
Dilara Hafiz, Imran Hafiz, & Yasmine Hafiz
Dilara Hafiz was born in Karachi, Pakistan. She holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University and the London School of Economics. She has drawn upon her years of teaching weekend Islamic school, lecturing about Islam, and the experience of raising Muslim teenagers to contribute to The American Muslim Teenager’s Handbook.
Imran Hafiz is a freshman at Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix, Arizona. He’s involved in Speech & Debate and Weapons of Mass Percussion (a djembe drum club). He enjoys reading, playing video games, and arguing over politics. He plays the guitar, piano, and drums as well as various tribal instruments.
Yasmine Hafiz is a junior at Xavier College Preparatory in Phoenix, Arizona. She loves reading, listening to music, sewing, and traveling. She also enjoys going to the library and would like to learn more about philosophy and art history.
Dilara, Yasmine, and Imran live in Paradise Valley, Arizona with Hamid Hafiz, husband and father.
Maria Teresa Ornelas Ibarra
Terry Ibarra lives in New Mexico. She is an elementary school teacher. Her own experiences and friendship form the basis for the story of Penny & Me.
Doris Johnson
Doris Johnson has a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from Brigham Young University and a Master of Education from the University of Arizona with an emphasis on teaching reading and writing. She has raised five children, has worked for more than twenty years as an Elementary school teacher, and serves currently as an Arizona State Reading Specialist.
F. Michael Johnson
Mike Johnson
spent his early years as a Hollywood writer as well as co-founder and
Executive Vice President of a publicly held entertainment company.
During that time, he appeared in such publications as the New Yourk Times and Premiere
magazine and was featured on HBO and KFYI. Since transitioning to real
estate in the early nineties, he has been creating successful real
estate portfolios in one of the hottest markets in the country for
clients from all over the U.S.
Richard G. Johnson, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Richard G. Johnson is a certified psychiatrist and neurologist with a Ph.D. in psychoanalysis from Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute and an M.D. form the University of Louisville. He has been a member of the clinical faculty of the UCLA School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry since 1954. He was retired to Emeritus status in 1998.
As an army medical officer, he worked with combat fatigue and other extreme stress reactions. This experience — along with later private practice, which required dealing with major mental disorders — offered valuable experience in treatment of deep emotional problems.
Dr. Johnson has served as a consultant to both the UCLA Department of Dermatology and the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona; President of the Southern California Psychiatric Society; and a member of the Board of Trustees at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky for over 30 years; he also founded a mental health clinic in the Westwood Community Methodist Church in Los Angeles. He has worked with the Los Angeles chapter of the Academy of Religion and Mental Health and sponsored study groups with clergy from Catholic and Jewish as well as Protestant orientations.
Dr. Johnson was elected APA Fellow in 1960, APA Life Fellow 1984, and APA Distinguished Life Fellow in May 2003. Extensive experience in the practice and teaching of group psychotherapy resulted in his being designated Fellow in the American Group Psychotherapy Association in 1978.
Almost 60 years of marriage, four children and eight grand children have offered real life experience. But the extensive experiences in group psychotherapy and individual psychoanalysis, couples and family therapy have all opened unique dynamic secrets that should be shared.
William F. Jordan
Bill Jordan is the fourth generation of an Arizona ranching family and grew up trailing cattle on land that then abutted Sky Harbor Airport. During World War II, he signed up to become a pilot in the Army Air Force and, after his high school graduation, entered training. But the program was soon cancelled, and he never saw action.
With the constant building and repairing on the ranch of his youth, Bill learned the many aspects of construction at his father’s hands, and an interest in building remained central in his life ever since. While he held jobs as a reporter, editor, and English teacher, his lifelong interest in construction led him to resign in 1979 from a Superintendency to become a full-time contractor. Today, he is partnered with his daughter and son-in-law in the luxury home market.
While building is important to Bill, he points out that writing has been his other great pursuit. He has a passionate interest in history—especially the Civil War era—flying, and leaded glass work.
Brian Kahover, M.Ed.
Brian Kahover has been teaching seventh and eighth grade math since 1989. He is a graduate of Arizona State University, first with a degree in Communications followed by a Masters in Education. It's this combination of skills that makes him uniquely qualified to bring his book to print. He understands that people have different learning styles and is able to explain math so that it's easily grasped by everyone. Throughout his teaching career, he has served on panels that correlate district standards and define the implementation of those standards to the separate schools. He resides in Arizona with his wife and two teenage daughters.
Aaron W. Kemp, M.D.
Aaron W. Kemp, M.D., practiced general surgery for 32 years in Washington before moving to Arizona in 2000. He has a B.S. in zoology from Washington State University, an M.D. from the University of Washington, and is proud to be a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons. To pay for his schooling, he worked as a commercial fisherman, dog trainer, cowboy and cook.
Dr. Kemp now practices part-time as a general practitioner and has returned to his first love, writing, feeling that short novels are a neglected literary endeavor today. His first book, Sweetwater Tales, was published in May of 2004. Someday is Today is his second, and a third is in production.
Dr. Kemp is active in community theater in the Phoenix area. He is an Arizona critic and has been seen on national TV in Arrest and Trial as well as in commercials and local station presentations. He is an avid reader with interests in history and natural sciences. His hobbies include horse activities, fishing and hunting. He attempted flying for sport but quit after crashing four times.
Gale H. Leach
Gale Leach ran her own business as a techincal writer, editor, and graphic designer from 1990–2004. She has also worked as a teacher and interpreter of American Sign Language. She is now retired and lives in Surprise, Arizona, where she discovered and fell in love with pickleball. When not writing or playing pickleball, Gale enjoys the study of music, her most recent talent being applied to the hammered dulcimer. She also enjoys learning about and interacting with animals.
Floyd "Buddy" Lewis
Floyd “Buddy” Lewis was born December 14, 1926 in Casa Blanca on the Gila River Indian Reservation. He spent much of his youth at Phoenix Indian School, where his father was a printing instructor. Buddy enlisted in the Navy in 1943 and was a torpedoman, serving in the South Pacific. After World War II, he re-enlisted as an aerial photographer. He attended the US Naval School of Photography in Pensacola and played football for the Naval team there. Buddy served in Guam from 1947 to 1950 and was honorably discharged in 1951. He then attended the University of New Mexico, where he took courses on rhetorical writing. Over the years Buddy worked in accounting in Chicago, as a corporate messenger in Phoenix, and as a clerk for Maricopa Community Colleges. He has since retired and returned to the Gila River Indian Reservation, where he currently lives. As a first cousin of the legendary Ira Hayes, Buddy was interviewed for the book, Flags of Our Fathers, on which the movie of the same name was based.
Kathryn E. Libby
Kathy Libby is the creator of the Cursive Connections
series of handwriting workbooks. She has been an elementary school
teacher and a consultant for Scott Foresman and Houghton Mifflin.
Gladys Lobos
Gladys Lobos has been investigating, teaching and practicing Numerology for the last 45 years. Born Chilean, she lives in Spain where she has published the books Numerología Mágica, Ciclos de Vida, and The Language of Numbers. These books have been considered as “highly didactic, easy to understand and a remarkable introduction to the ancient knowledge of Numerology” by Spanish critics, and have been translated into both Romanian and Polish. For the last 13 years Gladys Lobos has traveled extensively, addressing all kinds of people and giving them a new awareness in the far reaching potential of Numerology. She has been lecturing and teaching in Chile, Spain, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, USA, Finland, Sweden and Poland. She writes for newspapers and magazines, and appears on Radio and TV programs in these countries, where she is known as “one of the most competent and highly documented Numerologists of current times.”
Eve R. Mayer, PhD
Eve R. Mayer, Ph.D., is a psychologist who specializes in relationship issues. Let's Stay Lovers in the New Millennium is her third book.
Robin Merrill
For more than half her life, Robin lived in Alaska, the most interesting years as a homesteader in the wilderness. From there, she moved to California, where she graduated from university while her two children finished high school. She lived in Arizona for fifteen years, and now travels extensively, often visiting her children in Chicago and enjoying her new granddaughter. She writes romantic suspense, turning up the heat to red hot for a fun erotic blast.
Inge Myrick
Inge Myrick lives now with her husband in Mesa, AZ. Her three children are scattered all over the United States. At a visit home in 1988, the author was given photos by her sister Ilse that she had gradually removed from photo albums at their home in Chemnitz before the bombing in 1945. Her childhood and lifelong friend Lore surprised her with photos that had been taken so many years ago by Lore's mother. These photos brought back most of the memories of early childhood and made it possible to write some of the fanciful stories.
Helen E. Nebeker
Helen E. Nebeker, formerly a Professor of English at Arizona State University, Tempe, and associate departmental chair for eight years before her retirement in 1988, has specialized in contemporary British and American literature, publishing articles on the works of James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Shirley Jackson, Jean Rhys and William Faulkner, as well as on those of nineteenth century authors Matthew Arnold and Mark Twain. Her studies have appeared in numerous journals, including American Literature, Studies in Short Fiction, Modern Fiction Studies, Renascence, The International Journal of Women’s Studies and Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol 124, 2000. She is also the author of a well-received book-length study of the complete novels of Jean Rhys, discussing, in detail, each novel, uncovering levels of complexity ignored by previous analysts. Since the death of her husband in 2001, Professor Nebeker, long a resident of Phoenix, now resides in Mesa.
James Nulick
James Nulick is a writer based in Phoenix. He is the author of the novel Distemper (Acacia Publishing, 2006) and is currently working on a nonfiction study of Country music songwriting legend Cindy Walker, tentatively titled Dream Baby: The Life of Cindy Walker. Distemper was written over a period of ten years. National Book Award winner William T. Vollmann has called Distemper “a beautifully written catalogue of various kinds of unhappiness.” James Nulick was born and raised in Phoenix. He attended Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1992. He was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi and was named a Paul D. Richter Scholar for high achievement in an Honors Thesis in 1992. He completed his post-baccalaureate work in education at Northern Arizona University in 1995. He has worked as an elementary school teacher, a beekeeper, an exterminator, and a technical clerk for a public utility company.
Joe Padilla
Joe Padilla is a first-time author who created his first novella, Eliminating the Stress Factor, the old fashioned way -- by hand on yellow legal pads in between his shifts as
a driver for the Phoenix Transit System.
Shirley Budd Pusey
Shirley Budd Pusey was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology and a Graduate Certificate in Social Work by the University of Utah. Prior to joining the staff of Family Service Agency of Phoenix as an adoption counselor, she was with the Denver Department of Child Welfare. She remained in that position for over thirty-two years until retirement. She was one of the first certified members of the Arizona Supreme Court’s Confidential Intermediary Program established in 1993 to facilitate reunions of consenting adult members of the adoption triad and continues to serve in that capacity. Shirley is a wife, mother of two daughters and grandmother of five.
Craig T. Scheibel
Before going on to higher education, Craig Thomas Scheibel served six years in the United States Marine Corps from 1964 to 1970. While finishing his active reserve duty, Craig's specialty was finding Private First Class John Fink whenever he would disappear. Toward the end of his service while a reservist, Craig attended Glendale Community College where he played baseball for two years. raig received his BA in Political Science in 1972 from Arizona State University. He graduated with honors and also had some of his earlier poems published in the Arizona State Press. After college, Craig took a few years off to surf the coast of California. In February 1988 he founded the CARR-THOMAS Syndicate as a writer/photographer and race announcer. In 1989 Craig purchased Arizona Racing News, a running and multi-sport magazine. He covered Olympic athletes and all aspects of racing, from track to road racing, and began announcing at all kinds of races in 1993. Craig also worked as a still photographer/videographer for Geronimo Bungee from 1991 to 1992 where he was known as "the Video Guy", logging 148¼ jumps. In 1993, he created a second publication, Running & Multisport Magazine. In 2001, Craig began to teach again as a substitute teacher at the Pappas School for the Homeless and in the Phoenix Elementary District. Craig is the author of two books of poetry.
Jenna Schmitt
Jenna Schmitt received her Master of Arts in English Magna Cum Laude from the University of Dallas in 1997. She taught English Literature at Spring Arbor University and Kellogg Community College and experienced a number of other careers before settling on those of both domestic goddess and writer. She cherishes spending time with miracle baby Jay, and also enjoys piano and horseback riding. She currently lives in Scottsdale, AZ with Jay and her husband, John.
Carl E. Shrader, M.D.
Carl Shrader
has been a family practitioner for over 40 years, and is licensed to
practice in Arizona, Oregon and Colorado. He was a Captain in the
United States Air Force, and has been a doctor for two different
hospital emergency rooms, as well as spending almost 40 years as the
doctor for high school athletic teams.
Audrey Thibodeau
Audrey Shuler Thibodeau grew up in small towns in southeastern Colorado. Her grandparents built their ranch in that area in the late 1900s. It is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Her mother grew up on the ranch and told many stories of the pioneer life. Audrey was fortunate enough to spend some time at the ranch when she was young. A newspaper reporter asked her once, “How long have you been cooking?” Her answer was, “Longer than you want to know.” That would also be her answer for writing. Audrey’s weekly column, Grandmother Used to Say, appeared in newspapers around the country for several years. Audrey was also the Food Editor for the Caledonian Record in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, and a Field Editor for Taste of Home Magazine in Greendale, Wisconsin. She has written about food for various other newspapers, web sites, and magazines. She now calls Mesa, Arizona her home. She has five children, nine grandchildren, and six great grandchildren. They are her reason for putting her book together.
Jerry Traylor
Born with cerebral palsy, Jerry faced physical pain and loneliness that few children ever know. Yet it was this early difficulty that drew others to Jerry in caring and love. Others empowered Jerry to set goals and achieve greatness even in his imperfection. His example compels many to look at their own lives and take positive action.
On crutches, Jerry has: Skied down Colorado mountains; competed in 35 full-length marathons; parachuted from an altitude of 12,500 feet; climbed to the 14,110-foot top of Pike’s Peak; participated in 16 dance marathons for charity; and jogged 3,528 miles from San Francisco to New York City.
In his national radio broadcast, The American Character, the late Dr. Norman Peale summed up Jerry’s influence this way: “Building a career as a motivational speaker, Jerry Traylor has prepared himself by becoming a motivational doer: That way he is more convincing when he tells people what it takes to achieve difficult goals—for they know he has achieved many.”
Anne Wainscott-Sargent
Anne Wainscott-Sargent is a public relations consultant and writer. She lives with her husband and son in suburban Atlanta, Georgia. Her mother died from lung cancer in 2004 at the age of 64.
Marilyn Watson
Sixteen years as an elementary school librarian led Marilyn Myrick Watson to the writing of the State Greats Biography Series. As students asked for books on famous Arizonans, she repeatedly told them, “there are none.” Frustrated by this, Watson started her own research. She was born in Steubenville, Ohio, the daughter of an avid reader of biographies. Watson got her degree in elementary education and a minor in library science at Miami University in Ohio. She obtained her Masters’ degree in counselor education at Arizona State University. She began teaching fifth grade in Phoenix, followed by five years of grant writing and teacher training in Tempe. When her first daughter was born, she took time off to finish raising her family. After the last of four children went to school, so did she. She has been a teacher-librarian in Scottsdale, Arizona, since 1991.
David Ziegler, PhD
Dave Ziegler is a psychologist, foster father and accomplished author of four books. He has created the first statistically validated psychological test for Attachment Disorder. Dave is also executive director of SCAR / Jasper Mountain, a residential treatment center for some of society's most damaged children.
J. Guy Ziegler, Major, USAF Retired
Guy Ziegler was a bomber pilot who flew 55 missions in WWII and recounts the story of the 394th Bomb Group in his book, Bridge Busters. Originally published in 1948, Bridge Busters is now in its fifth printing.
Phyllis Zuccarello
Raised in a small New England town, Phyllis left at an early age to learn about life. Throughout her travels, she has been successful in communicating with people of all ages. Her writings are based not only on what she found to be true of many, but of herself...that we should pay more attention to the important things in life. The highlights in her life are her grandchildren. She spends as much time with them as possible, enjoying the great enthusiasm they have for the simplest things. Her all-time resolution to have a successful life is... if you live by what you learn, you will learn to live.
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