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Dave Archard
Born in Rochester, New York, Dave moved with his family to Ridgewood, New Jersey a month before Pearl Harbor was attacked. He attended Bergen County schools, graduating in 1954. In the mailroom of the American Broadcasting Company, he earned tuition for announcer training in New York. Enrolled at Broadcast Coaching Associates, he connected with a South Carolina station and began his career in 1956. Dave woke-up the west coast of Florida as the top-rated DJ on powerhouse WALT. He later became one of the Swinging Gentlemen at legendary WLCY, St. Petersburg. Settled in Daytona Beach in 1970, Dave was a talk show host on WNDB and handled several program series at WROD. He has worked for WDSC Channel 15 as outreach director, on-camera host and voice-over talent. His project, Through Slanted Windows, a Boy’s Journey into Radio, chronicles his struggles to get on the air. The memoir was a finalist in the 2008 Royal Palm Literary Awards and excerpts have been published in Florida Writer Magazine and Seniors Today. Dave is Vice President of the Ormond Writers League for 2009 and belongs to the Florida Writers Association. He continues to seek a literary agency to rep him to publishers.
Charles H. Bertram
Born in 1936 in East St. Louis, Illinois, Charlie worked as a carpenter while in high school and also served in The Army National Guard.
He joined the US Air Force and was stationed in Denver where he took writing classes at the University of Colorado. He worked his way
through Southern Illinois University as a photographer, graduating with a B.S. in communications, a minor in education, another in
parks and recreation, and a third in photography. He was employed for two years as a recreation director in Seneca Falls, N.Y., where he
met and married Janice Bunting, a music teacher from Honesdale, PA. With help from Welcome House, the agency set up by the writer,
Pearl Buck, Charlie and Janice adopted three children. Two are Amerasians from Korea, and one a Cree Indian from Canada. While teaching
special education, Charlie started an apple orchard and a fruit farm. In 2001, he sold his Pennsylvania orchard and moved to Ormond Beach,
Florida. The first story he ever sent out was “The Pine Tree,” published in the Army Times. Along with many short, humorous pieces and
op-eds, he published the article “The Environmental Mousetrap” many times, and even today it generates e-mail questions. His recent
book Chipped Beef on Toast, S.O.S., a collection of twenty short stories, is available from Infinity Publishing.
Audrey Cooke
A native New Yorker from Westchester County, Audrey holds degrees from Marymount College, Laval University, Catholic University, and the
Breadloaf School of English. A former college dean, high school principal, and teacher of French and English, she pursued postgraduate studies
at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the Universities of Strasbourg and Dijon. Many prominent writers have been her mentors, including Pulitzer
Prize-winning poets Gwendolyn Brooks, Carolyn Kizer and Richard Howard. Her own poems have captured over sixty awards. She’s the author
of two chapbooks of poems, Poetic Justice and Fondle the Yellow, Bite on the Green; two one-act plays, Dialogues with a Moonlighting Muse
and Cousin Teddy; a radio play, The Reindeer Rebellion, and a collection of essays on poetry, Poetic License. Cousin Teddy and
The Reindeer Rebellion won awards at the Southeastern Writers’ Conference, St. Simon’s Island. The short story, “Pressure in Paradise,”
won first prize in the 2002 Grandmother Earth/Florida Awards Contest. Dr. Cooke was a keynote speaker at the 2001 Convention of the
National Federation of State Poetry Societies. Since taking up residence in Daytona Beach ten years ago, she has presented to various groups
over forty poetry workshops, readings and lectures.
Vincent G. DeCampo
Born in Yonkers, NY, Vincent grew up in Washington, D.C. and in surrounding suburbs in Maryland. To date, he has written six short stories,
three novels, as well as a book of poems. Vincent is currently
hard at work finishing two mystery novels. He became interested in writing while attending writing classes at the University of Maryland,
but had to wait until retirement to get started. Living now in Ormond by the Sea, Florida, he writes on average six hours a day,
still finding the time for walking the beach, playing music, collecting old recordings and doing some volunteer work. Vincent
explains: “The many moods of the sea stir the imagination, yielding an eternity of story ideas.”
Rollene Gannett
Rollene Gannett is a retired high school and college teacher of English, speech and creative writing. A native of Michigan, Rollene attended
the University of Michigan, Barry University (FL), and the University of Miami. She received two NEH grants: one for study at the
University of Virginia; the other for an independent study of William Faulkner at the University of Mississippi. She has published a
young adult novel, Flying Wheels (Scholastic Press) as well as several literary short stories in magazines such as the
Carolina Quarterly, along with many articles. Rollene loves books and literature, and revels in language: words, connotations and sounds.
She is currently working on several young adult books and adult short stories. A member of the Ormond Writers’ League since 1997,
she has served as secretary, vice-president and president, and is now contributing her expertise as one of the editors of this anthology.
Lois Gerber
Lois Gerber is a community health nurse as well as a writer. She has had numerous stories and articles published in nursing journals and in local literary, women's, and parenting magazines. She's also written a memoir for an elderly gentleman. One of her pieces is scheduled to be published in Cup of Comfort for Adoptive Families in June, 2009. She has nearly completed her first novel.
Sheryl Pascal Gormley
Born in Washington, D.C., Sheryl lived most of her life there, or in its suburbs, with the exception of a few years in Whiteville, NC.
The daughter of a writer and an artist, Sheryl has worked in oils, acrylics, and several other mediums, the most recent being watercolor.
She is also an accomplished photographer. At the age of ten, she published a four-line verse in the Washington Times Herald for
the payment of one dollar. Since then much of her writing has been non-fiction, directed to trade magazines. Four novels and two
children’s picture books are now in the works. A driving force is that her daddy would be so happy to see that one of his daughters has a
passion for writing. Flower gardening, inspired by a trip to the butterfly conservatory in Niagara Falls, Canada, is one of her hobbies.
Throughout the warm months of the year, her back yard is filled with dozens of varieties of butterflies. Sheryl is animated and has a sense
of humor, and as 2003-2004 president of the Ormond Writers' League ran successful meetings with a casual observance to Robert's Rules of Order.
Veronica (Ronnie) Helen Hart
Veronica (Ronnie) Helen Hart was born in New York. Her first piece of creative writing,
at the age of ten, resulted in suspension from school for three days. She learned her lesson and,
by the time she was twelve, she'd changed her writing style and won first place for a play she wrote for
a talent contest at Girl Scout Camp. After that she had to put away her writing aspirations in order to
face "real" life for the next thirty years.
For the past fifteen years she has been the president of Murder Mysteries on Call, Inc. She has
written ten murder mystery plays and one musical, plus five educational mysteries for schools, short stories and
articles, many published. In 2004, her show, Murder in Morocco - the Musical, received
seven outstanding achievement awards from the Theater Association of New York State including
for outstanding original script and lyrics and costume design. She has performed
with Daytona Playhouse where she will be directing in 2006, and her musical will be presented.
Her books include "Casino Girl" and "Shadow House" as yet unpublished, but in the process!
Robert Kamholtz
A native of Brooklyn, Robert graduated from a trade and technical school there. He began his engineering studies at The New York Institute of
Arts and Sciences, completing his education after serving in the United States Air Force during the Korean War. As an engineer, he wrote
technical specifications and operating instructions for specialized security electronic devices and systems and developed an interest in
writing. In the 1980s, while living on Long Island, he attended local writers’ groups and was inspired to go on to short stories and poems
while beginning work on two novels. Many of his articles and essays were published in local newspapers. Robert retired in 1991; in 2000 he
and Barbara, his bride of almost 50 years, moved to Ormond Beach to be near their children and grandchildren. He is a certified Law Enforcement
Firearms Instructor and has written a comprehensive Firearms Training Manual for Public and Private Police Personnel, which he hopes
will be used for training recruits at police academies. He is the current treasurer of the Ormond Writers’ League. His hobbies are
traveling, woodworking and teaching firearms’ courses. He’s still writing short stories and novels and hopes to finish a children’s book
this year.
Julie Eberhart Painter
Julie Eberhart Painter was born in Wilkes-Barre, PA, adopted, and raised in Bucks County, PA. Before she could read, she wrote stories and dreamed of becoming a writer. Diverted by eight years of ballet, and later three years of interior design at Moore Institute, she temporarily let go of that dream, reclaiming it 21 years ago.
For twenty-six years, Julie worked with nursing homes as a volunteer coordinator and then as a community ombudsman in Atlanta, GA. She spent eighteen years with Hospice of Volusia/Flagler in Port Orange, FL and helped contribute to, and edit, HOV/F’s two most recent anthologies.
Julie’s short stories, based, on Celtic, Chinese and Polynesian legends, appear in publications worldwide. Her articles on writing were published in The Romance Writers' Report and Florida Writers’ Magazine. The Galley, a publication of the Atlanta RWA, reprinted her articles. Her humorous essay about her first confession appeared in The Wittenberg Door, a religious humor magazine. She’s a frequent contributor to the Orlando Sentinel and The News-Journal of Daytona Beach. Her hobbies include duplicate bridge, volunteering and world travel. Julie and her husband have visited 80 countries. Her “Life Travels” column is a regular feature in Seniors Today.
Julie has published four novels: The Kingmaker; American Castles; Tahitian Destiny and The World, the Flesh and the Devil. He first e-book, From the Inside Out, a volunteer looks at staying motivated, is available online from Alibris. Her recent flash fiction stories can be read at www.bewilderingstories.com.
Watch for Mortal Coil, a mystery romance, to be released in e-book June 2009. See www.Champagnebooks.com.
Christine Raffini
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