Poem published in The Eclectic College Magazine, 1986 (was writing under my maiden name at the time)
Press Teacher Jump Started Ambitions by Terri Rimmer - originally published under my maiden name Persico in The Camden County Tribune, 1991
Tomorrow about a hundred or so West Georgia College alumni will honor a journalism teacher, a former school paper advisor, a Newsweek magazine editor, and a brilliant teacher. Joe Cumming, my Mass Communications teacher, is retiring after years of teaching the magic of the written word to thousands of amateur college students who dreamt of that writing gig that would turn them into professionals and cast them into the lime light for all the world to read. Joe is not a straight-laced man in a suit and tie, throwing large words at you and overwhelming you with Ivy League language. He has a shock of white hair, wire-rimmed glasses, robust cheeks and a clown’s hapless smile that grins at nostalgia of the days of the penny press and "Citizen Kane." It’s hard to believe that the school will no longer have a Joe Cumming. After four years of watching him scrupulously and diligently help me capture the flavor and not only learn but grasp the idea of journalism ...
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