I was told by Dr. Dale Boyer that I was the first English Department graduate (1970) to get a Masters of Arts Degree in English Literature. I graduated in 1970 from Boise State College with a double major. I had spent three years at University of Idaho as a Latin major and transferred down in my senior year 1968-1969 to follow Dr. Brenner who had taught at Idaho my freshman and sophomore years. I went to New York City in 1970 and applied to City College of New York for a MA in English Literature. My Masters thesis was based on a Shelley sonnet I had written a short paper about in a paper for Dr. Boyer's "Romantics Poetry" course. The two areas I choose to study for my written exams were 1) 18th Century English poetry and the Romantics and 2) American Literature from 1600's through the Victorians. My classmates in the graduate program at CCNY were from Trinity, Columbia, Harvard, NYU and Princeton. I kept my own keeping an A- average and was singled out for my writing ability which I owed entirely to the BSC English department which focused on writing in the 1960's. I remained in New York City from 1970 to the present 2008 and had a 24 year career in non-profit development where my writing ability and analytical ability honed by BSU allowed me to raise a career level of $40 million. My first position was at the American Museum of Natural History 1979 to 1983 and my last two positions were Director of Development for the Neurological Institute at Columbia University Health Science Campus 1995 - 2000 and VP of Development for the China Institute in America 2000 - 2001. I married a New York math teacher and we have two children, a son, Morgan, who is a High School teacher in The Bronx and a daughter, named Blake after the poet, who is a graphic designer and art director in Manhattan. I am now retired and write grants, annual reports, brochures and capital campaign feasibility studies for liberal arts non-profits and colleges. Thank you BSC now BSU for a great education, class of 1970 Sande Hutt Elinson My three Hutt brothers and my Hutt sister all followed me to Boise State in the 1970's.
        My City College of New York degree date was 1972, MA in English Literature (Medieval and Romantic Poetry) Thesis: "Shelly: development of a political poet, 1811, 1817, 1819, Sandra Kay Elinson, 1972." Mitchell Elinson. We were married on the BSU campus in the little white Episcopal Church in 1970 and are celebrating our 38th anniversary. He is a New York, attended Columbia, and we met on the Columbia University Campus where I had a summer job in 1969 with The Forum, an alternative group to SDS (Students for a Democratic Society). The Forum received a grant from Columbia to run a program called "The Hispanic and Black Experience in New York." There were two staff members a Columbia U, student Mike Merrill and me, both of us from Idaho and both of us neither Hispanic nor Black. I returned to BSC after the summer and completed by undergraduate degree than headed back to NYC and stayed for 38 years.   I am currently in Boise until May 8, 2008 staying with my mother at 208-375-6808. My New York City address is Sande Hutt Elinson, 531 Main Street, #713, NY, NY 10044 cell 646-283-5069, home number 212 838-8346.
 

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