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Chip Mosher
BornChillicothe, Ohio
OccupationNewspaper/magazine columnist
Teacher
NationalityUnited States
GenreNonfiction, fiction
Notable awardsNobel Educator of Distinction
Nevada Arts Council fellowship
Website
lasvegascitylife.com/sections/opinion/socrates-sodom

Chip Mosher (born in Chillicothe, Ohio) is an educator, poet, author and newspaper columnist who writes about education and history.

Early life and education

Mosher, who grew up in Northeastern Ohio, spent the 10th grade in a boys' juvenile hall. He graduated in 1965 from Salem High School.[1]

In 1969, he received a bachelor's degree in philosophy at Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio. He attended a master's program at Duke Divinity School from 1969-1972, and he earned a master’s in education from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1998.[citation needed]

Career

Mosher was a volunteer teacher in Thessaloniki, Greece from 1972-1974.[2] In 1988, he started teaching history at a high-risk school within the Clark County School District in Las Vegas.[3]

Beginning in 2005, he wrote a weekly column titled "Socrates in Sodom" for Las Vegas CityLife,[4] an alternative newsweekly, until the paper folded in 2014.[5] The tag line at the end of his column stated that he was "a simple classroom teacher."[6] He also wrote a monthly almanac for CityLife.[7] In 2018, he began writing an almanac for Desert Companion magazine. The column, titled "Random Access Memory,"[8] also appears on Nevada Public Radio's website, which publishes the monthly magazine.[9]

As a teacher who wrote about the school district he worked for, the opinions in his column caused controversy.[10][11][12] As a result, he is regularly interviewed about education issues.[13][14]

Bibliography

Mosher's chapter “Memoir of a Modern Woman in the Modern World” was included in the book The Anarchy of Memories: Short Fiction Featuring Las Vegas Icons, which was released by Huntington Press in October 2015. The book was part of a Las Vegas Writes project, a compilation of short fiction featured at the annual Vegas Valley Book Festival (since renamed the Las Vegas Book Festival).[15][16]

Mosher's contribution to the 2010 fictional book Dead Neon: Tales of Near-future Las Vegas, published by the University of Nevada Press,[4] was described by Publishers Weekly as "a parody of Harlan Ellison in C.J. Mosher's "A Girl and Her Cat... ."[17]

In 2005, he released a CD titled America, Please!, which includes 26 poems and one sci-fi short story.[18]

Awards

  • 2011 Nobel Educator of Distinction Award for "excellence in teaching" from the National Society of High School Scholars.[19]
  • 2009 3rd-place award in the Nevada Press Association's “Better Newspaper Contest" for a CityLife column.[20]
  • 2008 1st-place journalism award from the Nevada Press Association for his CityLife education column.[21]
  • In 2004 Honorable Mention for a 2005 Nevada Arts Council fellowship.[22]

References

  1. ^ 1965 Yearbook Salem Senior High School - Salem Public Library (pg 34)
  2. ^ "Chip Mosher: A backward-forward glance". Las Vegas CityLife. 2013-03-28. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  3. ^ Miller, Ken (April 23, 2014). "Was Vegas' elementary school cheating an inevitable scandal?". Las Vegas Weekly.
  4. ^ a b Pierce, Todd James; Keene, Jarret; et al. (9 April 2019). Dead Neon: Tales of Near-future Las Vegas. University of Nevada Press. ISBN 9780874178289 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Dickensheets, Scott (January 21, 2014). "CityLife: Chronicle of a death foretold". Nevada Public Radio.
  6. ^ Stutz, Howard (10 November 2008). "Reporters' Notebook". Las Vegas Review-Journal.
  7. ^ Mosher, Chip (2012-07-16). "Chip Mosher's July Almanac". Las Vegas CityLife. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  8. ^ "Random Access Memory". Nevada Public Radio.
  9. ^ Frederick, Sherman (22 March 2010). "KNPR, where art thou?". Las Vegas Review-Journal.
  10. ^ Gray, Karen (2010-10-28). "The CCSD machine". Nevada Journal. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  11. ^ "The National Right to Work Committee® | 'The Teachers' Union Just Keeps Doing the Limbo From Year to Year to See How Much Lower It Can Go . . .'". Nrtwc.org. 2013-02-04. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  12. ^ "Union "Benefits Review" Requires Birth Certificates, Tax Returns – Intercepts".
  13. ^ "Is the Clark County School District a "political machine"? | Nevada News and Views". Archived from the original on March 31, 2014.
  14. ^ "Las Vegas News - Breaking News & Headlines". Las Vegas Review-Journal.
  15. ^ "Las Vegas Book Festival offers menu of words and ideas". October 17, 2019.
  16. ^ Meurer, Ginger (October 9, 2015). "Literary Las Vegas: Las Vegas Writes". Las Vegas Review-Journal.
  17. ^ "Fiction Book Review: Dead Neon: Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas by Edited by Todd James Pierce and Jarret Keene, Univ. of Nevada, $20 paper (184p) ISBN 978-0-87417-828-9". Publishers Weekly.
  18. ^ "humphrey bogart smoking video, humphrey bogart smoking clip". funny-video-online.com.
  19. ^ "Educators of Distinction - National Society of High School Scholars". Archived from the original on July 8, 2013.
  20. ^ "Nevada Press Association awards presented". San Diego Union-Tribune. 20 September 2009.
  21. ^ "2008 Nevada Press Association Better Newspaper Contest winners - Las Vegas Sun News". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  22. ^ "Nevada Arts Council, "Artist Fellowships Awarded," Summer 2004" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-03-24. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
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