>> I came to Georgia Southern as an accounting major.
So I got through with the business core and then decided that I wanted to go back to English.
Because in high school I had edited my high school newspaper
and then I had worked for a printing company too.
So once you that ink in your blood you kind of run with that, they say.
So when I graduated here with a degree in English and then went
on into the hotel business surprisingly.
But after I was there a while I ended up in [inaudible] for a magazine as the editor.
I was vice president of sales and marketing for Southeastern Hospitality Services.
It was a hotel management company located here in Statesboro.
My salary was drawn from all the hotels that we managed.
When the owner sold down to only one or two hotels,
they did not have enough to continue to pay me.
So I was downsized and six months later, the owner of Statesboro Magazine came and asked me
if I would like to be the editor.
And so since then -- that was 10 years ago
and I'm still being the editor now and really enjoy it.