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Links to clips by Colleen Dixon, Shenandoah Writing Services

Link to guides written for Work.com, a business-to-business search engine and directory. Topics ranging from distance learning software to Foreign Exchange services help small business owners locate business websites, products, and services.
http://members.work.com/Colleen_Dixon

Link to feature article in Winter 2007 issue of Madison magazine, “A Philosophy of Fitness.” The piece looked at the Morrison-Bruce Center for the Promotion of Physical Fitness in Girls and Women, the ambition and dreams of the professors instrumental in getting the center opened, and the research planned for females of all ages.
http://www.jmu.edu/madisononline/madison/wm_library/W07_P32-P49.pdf

Link to article for Operation Purple Pride, James Madison University’s online salute to alumni serving their country. A Lieutenant Colonel who took command of his Army unit and deployed with them to Iraq describes his experiences and shares his perspective.
http://www.jmu.edu/madisononline/purplepride/schiek.shtml

Link to article in Summer 2007 issue of Madison, “Wide Awake and Speechless,” on page 9. Five School of Media Arts and Design students stayed up all night to write, shoot and edit a film that won Apple’s inaugural Insomnia Film Festival.
http://www.jmu.edu/madisononline/madison/wm_library/SP07_P08-P17.pdf

Link to article in Summer 2007 issue of Madison, “Mama Sherry,” on page 23. A JMU alumna has given almost 30 years to the women’s basketball program as both an athletic trainer and a surrogate mother.
http://www.jmu.edu/madisononline/madison/wm_library/SUM07_P18-P31.pdf

Link to article in Winter 2008 issue of Madison, “Dancing With the Issues,” beginning on page 26. A dance professor rehearses with his mentor, a modern dance pioneer, for an upcoming performance.
http://www.jmu.edu/madisononline/madison/wm_library/WTR08_P18-P33.pdf

Link to article “Some Dances were Meant to Last Forever” in MadisonOnline, the webzine of JMU. This is a longer version of the story on a dance professor rehearsing with his mentor.
http://www.jmu.edu/madisononline/Nagrin_OHara_long.shtml

Link to article in Winter 2008 issue of Madison, “Keeping an Even Keel,” beginning on page 32. The executive director of Naval Sea Systems Command, a position equivalent to a two-star admiral, is a JMU alumna.
http://www.jmu.edu/madisononline/madison/wm_library/WTR08_P18-P33.pdf

Link to articles in Spring 2008 issue of Madison on page 51. “Speaking of Centennial Birthdays” chronicles an alumna’s memories of her Madison experience. “Double Dukes” profiles twins who, following in the footsteps of their parents and older brother, begin their journey together at JMU.
http://www.jmu.edu/madisononline/madison/index.shtml

Link to article in Summer 2008 issue of Madison, “Preserving Mr. Madison’s Message,” on page 12. An alumnus, an archivist, showed facsimiles of historic documents housed in the National Archives and discussed the impact that James Madison had on document preservation in the young United States.
http://www.jmu.edu/madisononline/madison/wm_library/Summer08_P08-P19.pdf

Link to article in Summer 2008 issue of Madison on page 24. The owner of Sweet Jazmines in Philadephia, an alumna, is profiled.
http://www.jmu.edu/madisononline/madison/wm_library/Summer08_P20-P33.pdf



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