The Whitman Collection

Susan L. Chrisman Schietinger, '82, co-authored an English textbook with Marilyn Kok, titled Building College Writing (Harcourt Brace). The 450-page paperback can be found on amazon.com. Schietinger is a former librarian at North Elementary School in Taylorville, Illinois. She and her husband, Jim, who teaches art at Millikin University, have two sons. They have founded a ceramics business called Mosquito Creek Pottery, named for a creek on their 20-acre farm in Mount Auburn, Illinois.

Aaron Forsberg, '86, has published his first book, America and the Japanese Miracle: The Cold War Context of Japan's Postwar Economic Revival (University of North Carolina Press, May 2000). The book offers "a clear-eyed look at what it took to promote Japanese economic recovery. . . . The result is an especially useful book both to scholars and a general audience," said reviewer Lloyd C. Gardner, Rutgers University.

A former history teacher at the University of Maryland's Asian Division in Tokyo, Forsberg is now a legal translator with White & Case LLP in Tokyo. He is working on a new book introducing recent changes in Japan. He may be reached at forsberg@gol.com.