Southwestern College

Jerry L. Wallace is a historian and writer based in Oxford, Kansas. Wallace graduated from Missouri State University with a bachelor's degree and earned a master's degree from the University of Missouri. He has served as an archivist for both the National Archives and Records Administration and Southwestern College. Writer, editor, journalist, and teacher Pamela S. Thompson grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, and studied English at Vassar College and journalism at the University of Kansas. Thompson is currently an adjunct English and communications instructor at Southwestern College, where her husband, Peter Heckman, serves as dean.