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George J. Searles is a Professor -of Arts & Humanities at Mohawk Valley Community College. He has also taught at Green Haven State Prison, on the graduate level for New School University, and on Pratt Institute's upstate campus at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts· Institute. He has served on the governing boards of both the Modem Language Association and the North East Modem Language Association, presenting scholarly papers at the annual conventions of those and other such professional organizations. In addition, he has served as a communications consultant to many corporate clients and social services agencies, as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. Along with numerous articles, reviews, and poems in popular and academic periodicals, he has published three volumes of literary criticism from university presses and seven editions of Workplace Communications: The Basics, a textbook used on over 250 campuses here and abroad. The recipient of two SUNY Chancellor's medals. for excellence, he was formerly the Carnegie Foundation "New York State Professor of the Year" and the New York State United Teachers "Higher Education Member of the Year.''