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Annual Alum Day & Chowder Fest
Every year the English Department, in conjunction with Clarkâs Alumni-In-Residence event, serves up hearty soups and clam chowder as part of an evening discussion with distinguished alumni who once studied English in our department. Speakers in 2010 were:
Ronald Shwartz, B.A. '74 went from Clark to the University of Chicago Law School and graduated with a J.D. in 1977. He's had a 'storied' career as a freelance writer with work in The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and The American Spectator, among others. He is the founder and president of the Gift of Legacy, counsel member of a large law firm in Boston, and memoir-writing instructor at several venues including the Adult Education annex to Brown University. He compiled For the Love of Books: 15 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most, a book published in 1999 by Putnam.
Jeremy Shulkin, B.A. '07 completed his 5th year at Clark with a Masters in Teaching and taught 10th grade English at Sough High Community School. He spent the summer of 2008 teaching English composition at an international summer school in St. Andrews, Scotland. Upon returning to Worcester, he spent the next nine months writing freelance for Worcester Magazine and Allmusic.com, tutoring local elementary schoolers, and hosting pub trivia every Wednesday night at Moynihan's. After a second summer in St. Andrews, he continued to write freelance and taught reading and writing classes at Quinsigamond Community College for a semester, before being hired as a full-time news writer for Worcester Magazine in the fall of 2009.