Holly Anderson
Hometown: Waxahachie, Texas
Major: English Language
Minor: Editing
Graduation: April 2011
Career goals: To work with magazines
Favorite book: Children of the Promise series
Favorite vacation: Going to our family cabin at Fish Lake
Favorite quote: “Music is what feelings sound like.”
I love my cowboy boots, my friends, and turning the radio up too loud in the car and singing along.
Lindsay Anderson
Hometown: Corona, California
Major: English
Minors: Editing, Italian
Graduation: April 2011
Career goals: Write a book, get published
Favorite Book: Anything Shakespeare, or Jane Austen
Favorite Vacation: Disney cruise in the Caribbean with the family, and a week spent in Jackson Hole/Yellowstone, Wyoming, again with the family.
Favorite Quote: “Today you are you. That is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.” –Dr. Seuss
Annie Beer
Hometown: Plymouth, Michigan
Major: English
Minor: Editing
Graduation: April 2011
Career Goals: To be an editor for children’s books or children’s magazines. Or to be paid to travel the world for fun. Whichever comes first.
Favorite Book: Harry Potter series
Favorite Vacation: I went to Edinburgh, Scotland, with two of my friends and even though we didn’t do much besides walking the Royal Mile and seeing a few shows, we had the best time. Everything worked perfectly for us—our trains ran on time, the weather cooperated (raining when we were inside and stopping the minute we walked outside), our hostel was cute and the people were extremely kind. I think what made it so amazing was that the other people we knew who went had the exact opposite luck as us (i.e. walking up a hill, slipping in the mud and getting drenched and dirty). It made us appreciate our visit even more.
Favorite Quote: “I want to go to there.” –Liz Lemon (30 Rock)
Katie Bryan
Hometown: Lake Quivira, KS
Major: English Language
Minor: Editing
Graduation: April 2011
Career goals: In-house editor/designer for Fortune 500 company
Favorite Book: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. My hard-nosed grandfather gave it to me as a high school graduation present and, with tears in his eyes, he told me that it was the best book he had ever read. I read it that summer and have read it almost every summer since.
Favorite Vacation: Between my junior and senior years of college I went on a 14-day Mediterranean cruise with my family. It was a fantastic way to see several cities in Italy, Southern France, and the Greek Isles.
Favorite Quote:
“‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’
‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat.
‘I don’t much care where—’ said Alice.
‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat.”
–Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Talyn Camp
Hometown: Pleasant Grove, Utah
Major: Linguistics
Minor: Editing
Graduation: April 2011
Career goals: I plan on working for the government and carrying a gun.
Favorite Book: At the moment, a series about Navy SEALs. It’s my guilty pleasure.
Favorite Vacation: a cruise to the Caribbean. I got trapped in a glass elevator and subsequently sweat off my body weight, ate all the pizza and ice cream I could manage, fried my skin to a crisp, and played the most extensive games of hide and seek. What’s not to love?!
Favorite Quote: “Hairy legs are your only link to reality.” –Bonnie Hunt, Return to Me
Chelsea Fitch
Hometown: Vancouver, WA
Major: Communications – New Media and Design
Minor: Editing
Graduating August 2011
Career Goals: Start a photography business and work at a lifestyle or bridal magazine for the deisgn team.
Favorite Book: Tuck Everlasting
Favorite Vacation: Alaskan Cruise
Favorite Quote: “Some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants won’t help.” – Calvin and Hobbes.
Allison Frost
Hometown: St. Charles, Missouri
Major: English
Minor: Editing
Graduation: August 2011
Career Goals: Work in publishing, be it fiction or magazine publishing. Eventually return to graduate school studying English.
Favorite Books: 1984 and The Great Gatsby
Favorite Vacation: New York City
Favorite Quote: “Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes).” Walt Whitman
Holli Hale
Hometown: Mesa, AZ
Major: English
Minors: Editing/Anthropology
Graduation: April 2011
Career Goals: TBD
Favorite Book: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Favorite Vacation: Bali, Indonesia
Favorite Quote: “We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow worm.” – Winston Churchill.
Nickhale Hoban
Hometown: Goodyear, AZ
Majors: Linguistics and German
Graduation: April 2011
Career Goals: I plan to go to Law School, but I don’t know where yet since I plan to go to Taiwan for a year first to teach English and learn more Mandarin Chinese.
Favorite book: Chicago Manual of Style! Just kidding. The Hobbit.
Favorite Vacation: Busch Gardens Florida. I used to live near there, and it was my favorite theme park around.
Quote: “Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.”
Stephanie Johnson
Hometown: Burley, ID
Major: English
Minor: Editing
Graduation: April 2011
Career goals: Graduate school in English (scripture as literature), seminary teacher
Favorite Books: Huckleberry Finn, Persuasion
Favorite Vacation: Southern Utah with my Family
Favorite Quote: “We are not human beings on a spiritual journey but spiritual beings on a human journey.”
Danielle Kopotic
Hometown, State: San Diego, California
Major: English Language
Minor: Editing
Graduation: April 2011
Career goals: Freelance Indexer
Favorite Book: The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
Favorite Vacation: Family Vacation to Sedona, Arizona
Favorite Quote: “Yeah, weird!” –Kronk, The Emperor’s New Groove
Neltje Maynez
Hometown: Orem, Utah
Major: History
Minor: Editing
Graduation: April 2011
Career goals: I have always wanted to go to law school, or possibly work as a free-lance editor.
Favorite Book: The Good Earth
Favorite Vacation: Driving from Utah to California in 6 hours to catch a flight to Hawaii (The drive normally takes from 7-12 hours). Whizzing past Las Vegas and the desert while having fun with my family was one of the best vacations ever.
Favorite Quote: “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sarah M. McConkie
Hometown: Farmington, UT
Major: English
Minor: Editing
Graduation: April 2011
Career Goals: Getting married last year and then finding out I was having a baby this summer changed my original plans of writing and editing a magazine. While having a baby isn’t what I originally thought I’d end up doing right after graduation, I couldn’t be more excited. I hope to find part-time or from-home editing and freelance writing. I still think it’d be fun to work with a magazine someday, so I’ll see if that pans out.
Favorite Book: Anna Karenina
Favorite Vacation: I went to New York City with my high school choir. All that shopping, Broadway, and sightseeing with my best friends was hard to beat as far as trips go!
Favorite Quote: “I can do hard things.” —Susan Tanner. Simple but effective when you need the motivation to do tough things, big or small.
Nate Parkinson
Hometown: Holladay, Utah
Major: English
Minor: Editing
Graduation: August 2011
Career Goal: To be rich and powerful…or be a fireman.
Favorite Book: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Favorite Vacation: Vaccines for the Philippines—“Mabuhay and welcome”
Favorite Quote: “People hang on his every word, even the prepositions.” —Dos Equis, of the Most Interesting Man in the World
Kaley Shoaf
Hometown: Columbus, Indiana
Major: English Language
Minor: Editing, TESOL
Career Goal: Teach English abroad
Favorite Book: Hard to say, but I just read the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins and it rocked my world.
Favorite Vacation: Two weeks in Guatemala. Gorgeous and so fun.
Favorite Quote “When you cease to dream, you cease to live.” –Malcolm S. Forbes
Kimberly Smith
Hometown: Sandy, Utah
Major: English
Minor: Editing
Graduation: April 2011
Career Goals: Magazine editor, travel writer, journalist, teacher (and school newspaper/literary journal faculty member), professional traveler, professional student, Italian opera singer. . .
Favorite Book: The Famished Road by Ben Okri
Favorite Vacation: Weekend trips up to my cabin at Bear Lake. All we do is boat, eat, and sit on the beach.
Favorite Quote: “Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Bridgette Day Tuckfield
Hometown: Austin, Texas.
Major: Linguistics
Minor: Editing
Graduation: August 2011
Career goals: Remaining employed, preferably by writing somehow.
Favorite Books: Infinite Jest, House of Leaves, Raw Shark Texts. (Yes, I am exactly that sort of person.)
Favorite Vacation: A trip to Norway for three weeks when I was 21. It was gorgeous and strange and weird in every sense of the word. We were above the Arctic Circle in the summer, so the sun never set, so I never slept—which lent the whole trip a kind of vivid insomniac intensity.
Favorite Quote: “You’re only as good as the obscurity of your sources.”
Philip Volmar
Hometown: Fullerton, California
Major: Communications/PR emphasis
Minors: Business, Editing
Graduation: April 2011
Career goal: Corporate or nonprofit PR practitioner
Favorite Book: Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Favorite Vacation: Traveling the Northeastern United States
Favorite Quote: “Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.” -John Updike
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