February/March 2006

Volume 46, Number 4

Technicalities Gets New Contributing Editor

The Technicalities staff is pleased to welcome a new Contributing Editor, Sam Omatseye! Originally from Nigeria, Sam has been in the United States since 1997. He came here on a journalism fellowship, but obtained political asylum due to threats from the Nigerian military at the time. He has been teaching journalism at Metropolitan State College since the fall of 1998, and has written for the Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post, and RCR Wireless News. He has also won a number of awards and fellowships.

When asked why he is interested in technical writing, Sam replied:

I am interested in technical writing because it will put me in the sequence of learning and imparting information. It is a thrill to break down technical information to empower others for their businesses, customers and/or clients. I think the technical writer is simultaneouly a learner and dispenser of knowledge; a reporter as mediator; a physician of sorts, diagnosing and providing solutions. In my years reporting wireless technology, I derived joy from being a mediator between engineers and the laity. I would really cherish an opportunity to fulfill this dream.

Welcome to Our New Members

New, transferred, or returning members for the months of December, 2005 and January, 2006:

December 2005 Karl R. Anderson Bob Cermak John E. Endicott Marilyn B. Fausset Stephanie L. Hinsey Julie A. Landen Patrick D. Sullivan

January 2006 Ellen Horowitz Sarah Ockler Michael J. Palmer Christie Ratliff Dena J. Steward

Senior Members

Congratulations to the following new or returning Senior Members of the Rocky Mountain Chapter:

• Carol Anderson-Reinhardt
• Susan Blaisdell
• Maria Brownstein
• Bridget Julian
• Don Lammers
• Meredith Mathews
• Jaye Powers
• Ronald Sering
• Camille Stauffer
• Jonathan Woodward