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| Books by Centre Alums | |||
Browsing the bookstore shelves or library stacks for the perfect read can be a daunting task. Why not narrow the field and choose a book written by fellow Centre alums? From poetry collections and memoirs to history and self-help, Centre alumni are a prolific bunch who leave no subject uncovered. Below are some of the books most recently published by Centre alumni. Click here for a list of books (that we know of) organized by class year.  David Steere ’53 has published three books on psychotherapy: Spiritual Presence in Psychotherapy: A Guide for Caregivers (Routledge, 1997) and The Supervision of Pastoral Care (Westminster John Knox Press, 1989), both about the spiritual dimension in psychotherapy, as well as Bodily Expressions in Psychotherapy (Brunner/Mazel, 1982), about understanding bodily expression and its effect on psychotherapy.  Lee Estes ’46 has most recently published Fading Warriors (FPSA, 2005), a collection of stories from World War II veterans providing insight into the war. He is also the author of Fading Textures: Vintage Architecture, Industry, and Transportation in Northeast Louisiana (Univ of Southwestern Louisiana, 2001), an aesthetic record of the disappearing architecture in Louisiana. Celia Creal McDonald ’60 has published Hal Z. Cox HAD TO TELL SOMEONE: A Collection of His Poems, Memorial Edition with David C. Buck (LaRue County Herald News, 1986). The book is a collection of poems by Hal Z. Cox, a Hodgenville black poet whose poems often appeared in Kentucky newspapers such as the Herald-News and Courier-Journal. Cox was a man of distinction who served as a link between the segregated sections of his community. The book was only part of a project that included an audio-visual show about Cox, which was funded by the Kentucky Arts Council. Funding for the project, including the book, was provided primarily by the Kentucky Humanities Council.  Rob Robertson ’63 has written “The Wonder Team”: The Story of the Centre College Praying Colonels and their rise to the top of the football world (Butler Books, 2008). It is a story about “the most famous and publicized football team ever to play the game”: the Centre College Colonels. Despite the acclaim the team received in the years after World War I, few now remember the talented and colorful young men who put Centre College on the map. The book takes us back to the beginning of the 20th century, when the creation of the now dubbed “Wonder Team” was just one man’s dream. For more information from the expert himself, please email drrob4life@aol.com.
Deanna Burleson Beineke ’69 is co-author of Dayton (Arcadia Publishing, 2007), a history of Dayton, Ky., for the publisher’s Images of America series.
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Jerry A. Cunningham '69 has written No Coin for Charon (Big Muddy Press, 2008), the first in a planned trilogy. The story begins in Danville in 1824 and follows its protagonist, John Calvin Cabell, as he is forced to start a new life in Memphis.
Alysia Fischer ‘93 has written Hot Pursuit: In Search of Ancient Glass-blowers (Lexington Books, 2008). The book examines ancient glass-workers at the site of Sepphoris, in northern Israel, which she first visited as a Centre student. By drawing upon the knowledge and experience of current Middle-Eastern glass-workers to interpret the artifacts excavated at the site, she creates a picture of the life and work of craftspeople living 1,500 years ago. The book incorporates methods drawn from the four fields of anthropology and calls for more integration among the sub-fields. She teaches in the anthropology department at Miami University. 
Geoffrey Douglas ‘67 has written The Classmates: Privilege, Chaos, and the End of an Era (Hyperion, 2008). The book explores what happened to the Class of 1962 at St. Paul's School, a boarding school in New Hampshire. The class included not only Douglas but also John Kerry, whose 2000 presidential run prompted a flurry of e-mail correspondence amongst the classmates. The book is part memoir and includes mention of Douglas’ time at Centre. Kirkus Reviews says: “He discovered that St. Paul's alumni had endured a broad range of experiences since graduating, and he eloquently chronicles those experiences.”
George Ella Hoskins Lyon ’71 has published a memoir, Don’t You Remember? (Motes Books, 2007), that explores a childhood experience that seems to reveal another lifetime. Bobbie Ann Mason calls it “an irresistible story filled with suspense and wonder” and Silas House says it is “haunting, thought-provoking, brave, amazing, and maybe even the best book yet from this beloved author." 
Trudy Knowles ’73 has published What Every Middle School Teacher Should Know, Second Edition with Dave F. Brown (Heinemann, 2007)
Nelson Rhodus ’75 has published White Lick Creek (AuthorHouse, 2007), a collection of nonfiction poetry and prose that reflects on his Kentucky childhood.
Keen Babbage ’76 has published Extreme Economics: The Need for Personal Finance in the School Curriculum (Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007), which identifies what children and teenagers need to know about personal finance and shows educators how to design instructional activities that enable students to learn about personal finance in real, fascinating, and meaningful ways.
Corky Deaton ‘81 has written Grace Happens: A Recovering Alcoholic's Perspective on Holy Transcendence (Tate Publishing, 2008). Grace Happens is the true story of a man’s struggle with addiction and the subsequent journey through recovery to freedom spotted with events that some might consider coincidence, but recognized by the recovering and clean addict as God’s grace manifested through the men and women with whom we interact on a daily basis. 
Susan Franks Sieweke ’81 has published Annie Nell Meets the Sock Gnomes (Tate Publishing & Enterprises, 2007), a children’s book whose heroine solves the mystery of why socks go missing in the dryer.
Lynnell Major Edwards ’86 has publishedThe Highwayman’s Wife (Red Hen Press, 2007), a collection of poems. “What a wicked pleasure the poems of Lynnell Edwards are, with their saucy boldness, their wild feminine bravada, their sly rhymes and clattering consonants. In The Highwayman’s Wife, Edwards reinterprets old myths and legends, twists the old formal strategies, undomesticates domesticity, mixes drinks, plants dahlias with a pick-axe, and laments and resurrects laughing, bitter, bright the wench,” says Cecilia Woloch.
Bryan Prendergast ’95 has published his first novel, Detention Center in Red (iUniverse, 2007), a philosophical work about which Kirkus Reviews wrote, “Prendergast’s writing is parsimonious, incisive, and as stark as the landscape it paints. He skillfully deploys the eloquence of reticence: His characters are as bright and evocative as Persian miniatures . . .” 
Andre Bergeron ’98 has published The Devil’s Ridge (Mars Media Publishers, 2007), a novel about a hunt for the legendary ape Bigfoot.
Will Lavender ’99 has published his first novel, Obedience (Random House/Shayne Areheart Books, 2008), a thriller set on a college campus. Kirkus Reviews calls it “an inspired thriller about cognitive dissonance, conjectural misdirection and the conspicuous dichotomy between academia and the real world.”