All JALC employees have an email that uses the following format: firstnamelastname@jalc.edu (using their first and last name, lowercase, with no space in between).
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Gayle Pesavento – Department Chair, Associate Professor of Speech
- Advanced Graduate Work, Southern Illinois University
- M.A., Eastern Illinois University
- B.S., Eastern Illinois University
Nathan D. Arnett – Choral Director, Instructor of Music, and Applied Lessons Coordinator
- M.M., Southern Illinois University
- B.M.E., Murray State University
- A.A., John A. Logan College
Natalie Branca – Term Instructor of Speech
- M.S., Southern Illinois University
- B.S., Southern Illinois University
- A.A., John A. Logan College
Hilary Chandler – Term Instructor of Art History and Humanities
- M.F.A., Southern Illinois University
- B.S., Lake Forest College
Charlene DeHoet – Term Instructor of French and Japanese
- Office: C220
- Phone: Ext. 8779
- M.A., University of Iowa
- B.A., Southern Illinois University
Charles “Chuck” Epperly – Instructor of Religion
- Doctor of Minister, Northern Seminary
- Masters of Divinity, Northern Seminary
- B.A., Judson University
Richard Gardner – Term Instructor of Music
- Office: B44
- Phone: Ext. 8792
- Ph.D. Candidate, Northwestern University
- M.M., Northwestern University
- Ecole Normale de Musique, Paris
- M.M., Southern Illinois University
- B.M., Southern Illinois University
Stephen Delano Gusentine – Term Instructor of Art and Art History
- Office: B44
- Phone: Ext. 8715
- Atelier Neo-Medici, Paris, 1979-1980
- M.S., Southern Illinois University
- B.A., Southern Illinois University
Maudie L. Graham – Professor of Logic and Speech Communication
- Advanced Graduate Study, University of Illinois
- M.A., University of Northern Colorado
- B.A., University of Northern Colorado
Stephanie Chaney Hartford – Instructor of Speech Communication
- Ph.D., Southern Illinois University
- M.S., Southern Illinois University
- B.S., Southern Illinois University
Gary W. Kent, PhD – Term Instructor of Speech
- Ph.D. Southern Illinois University
- M.A., Eastern Illinois University
- B.S., Eastern Illinois University
Fredric J. Kisak – Term Instructor of Speech/Sociology/Humanities
- M.A., Southern Illinois University
- B.S., Southern Illinois University
Mike Kowalewski – Instructor of Philosophy
- Office: E111A
- Phone: Ext. 8296
- Ph.D., Southern Illinois University
- M.A., University of Arizona
- B.A., University of Arizona
Judy Kuehner – Term Instructor of Art
- Advanced Graduate Work, Southern Illinois University
- M.S., University of Tennessee at Martin
- B.A., Union University
Darby Ortolano – Associate Professor of Art
- Office: B40
- Phone: Ext. 8310
- M.F.A., Southern Illinois University
- B.F.A., Kansas City Art Institute
- B.A., City College of New York
Kem Pinto – Instructor of Spanish
- Office: C220
- Phone: Ext. 8717
- M.A., Southern Illinois University
- B.A., Southern Illinois University
- A.S., John A. Logan College
DeSande R – Term Instructor of Art
- Office: B44
- Phone: Ext. 8758
- M.F.A., Southern Illinois University
- B.F.A., Southern Illinois University & Northern Illinois University
Jane Rendon – Term Instructor of Spanish
- Post graduate study, Southern Illinois University
- B.A., Southern Illinois University
Mike Seagle – Associate Professor of Speech and Theatre
- M.F.A., University of Illinois
- B.A., Southern Illinois University
Brian Stanfield – Term Instructor of Philosophy
- Ph.D. candidate, Southern Illinois University
- M.A., Northwest Missouri State University
- B.A., Northwest Missouri State University
Bob Swearingen – Term Instructor of Music
- Office:
- Phone: Ext. 534-5363
- Additional Graduate Study, Sangamon State University and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
- M.R.E., Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
- B.A., University of Alabama
Arnold Taylor Term Instructor of Spanish
- Advanced Graduate Study, Southern Illinois University
- M.A., Southern Illinois University
- B.S., Southern Illinois University
- B.A., Southern Illinois University
Marva Watson Term Instructor of Music, Applied Lessons Instructor
- Office: B53
- Phone: Ext. 8819
- B.M., Southern Illinois University
Heather Wilburn Term Instructor of Philosophy
- Ph.D., Candidate, Southern Illinois University
- M.A., Oklahoma State University
- B.S., Oklahoma State University