Chip Mosher

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

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

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.

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. 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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