to his domicile in West Grove, Pennsylvania, USA.
MISSION:
To provide professional business communications
and challenging, uplifting entertainment
for all ages and occasions.
MISSION:
To provide professional business communications
and challenging, uplifting entertainment
for all ages and occasions.
Background:
Bachelor's degree, Albion College, 1972,
focusing on literature and theatre. Master's degree in
professional writing, Western Michigan
University, 1991.
Professional experience in
public relations, reporting, editing, opinion/editorial
writing and layout since 1967 for the Marshall (MI)
Chronicle, Jackson (MI) Citizen Patriot, Albion College
Pleiad, and Battle Creek Enquirer.
Click on the Eye to read John's Associated
Press award-winning 1997 editorial on teen-age
pregnancy.
Professional articles, research
and audio-visual and dramatic scripts
for the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation, numerous general-interest and
special-interest magazines, Michigan
History magazine and The
Victorian Villa Inn.
Bibliography furnished on
request (e-mail below).
Click on the Eye to read John's article about
the "Men in Black" for the May/June 1998 "Skeptical
Inquirer."
Click on the Eye to obtain John's audio tape
about the "Crosswhite Incident" involving the Underground
Railroad.
Award-winning playwright for Albion College (Albion,
MI, 1972) and Actors and Playwrights Initiative (Kalamazoo,
MI, 1993 and 1995), with frequent productions staged in Ann
Arbor, Jackson, Albion, Marshall, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo
and at The
Victorian Villa Inn,Union City, MI.
Click on the Eye to see what John is
responsible for at The Victorian Villa Inn.
Professional acting, magic and
entertainment since 1965. Artistic director, The Victorian Villa Production
Company, 1984-present; graduate, Chavez College of
Magic and Prestidigitation,1981; member of the International Brotherhood
of Magicians and the Society of
American Magicians, 1975-96.
John is indebted to his longtime friend,
magician Neil Foster, for
his personal guidance and instruction in the art of
magic.
Performances and free-lance
writing while traveling throughout United States as well as
in Mexico, Canada, Great Britain, Germany and France.
Computer graphics training with
the Gannett Co.,
which owns the Battle Creek Enquirer and the Wilmington
News Jounral.
Father of Nathan G. Sherwood of New York City, NY.
John is indebted to early inspiration and
personal encouragement from "2001" author Arthur C.
Clarke.
Click on the Eye to read John's 1969 paper about "2001."
Click on Sherlock to go to John's THEATER
RESUME.
Click on the Eye to go to John's PROFESSIONAL
RESUME.