The Record Online

Fall 2001

Communication Department Professors

Associate Professor Cary Holman began working at Greenville College in 1979 during a high school teacher exchange program. Before his work at Greenville he taught at Carlinville Junior-Senior High School and at Blackburn College. He also announced at WIBI in Carlinville for three years. Prof. Holman received his B.S. degree from Greenville College and his M.S. degree from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.

He is currently finishing work on his doctoral studies in the School of Journalism at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. In his dissertation Prof. Holman is examining the relationship between adolescent mass media use and their sexual attitudes and behaviors. Besides his teaching duties, Prof. Holman enjoys his role as General Manager of WGRN. Prof. Holman and his wife Tonya have two children, Audra and Allison, and two granddaughters. In his spare time Prof. Holman enjoys reading, writing, challenging shelf puzzles, and collecting old books.


Professor Cecelia Keener serves as chair of the Humanities Division and artistic and managing director of the Factory Theatre. She earned her undergraduate and master’s degrees from Murray State University and a Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Dr. Keener has recently worked with the St. Louis Repertory Theatre and Opera Theatre of St. Louis. She brings more than 25 years of teaching experience to the GC classroom and leads classes in theatre performance, literature, fine arts, and communication. She has traveled extensively in Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Central and South America, and has served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras. She enjoys decorating, reading, music, theatre, foreign films, canoeing, and walking.


Professor Veronica Ross is the head of the Communication Department and director of Business and Promotions for WGRN Radio. She is a GOAL designer of, and instructor for, two courses: Managing Interpersonal Communication and Organizational Communication. In addition, she has served as a primary instructor for GOAL Cohort 33. With Dr. Rob Anderson, of St. Louis University, she has co-authored a textbook entitled Questions of Communication: A Practical Introduction to Theory (3rd ed.)—Bedford-St. Martin’s Press.

She and her husband, Stephen, have two sons: Corey ’98 and Chris ’93, a granddaugher, Alexa, and a grandson, Andrew. In her spare time, Prof. Ross is earning a second master’s degree in Leadership and Ministry with LAMP.

She is a member of the National Communication Association; Central States Communication Association; Religious Communication Association; Illinois Speech and Theater Association; Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Theta Kappa, and Kappa Delta Pi National Honors Societies; Delta Kappa Gamma International; and the campus advisor for Lambda Pi Eta—the International Communication Honors Society. She serves the Greenville community as a member of the Greenville Women’s Club, and the First Baptist Clerk as church clerk. Her hobbies include interior decorating, collecting antiques, and British TV (BBCAmerica), but teaching and reading are her fondest loves.

Last updated: October 25, 2001