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| Featured Alumnus: Curt Wozniak '97 |
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Curt Wozniak ’97 gained a love for writing at Aquinas College and is now putting it to good use in the Grand Rapids area as a writer for the design company, People Design.
“As a journalist, one thing you learn right away when you’re covering design is that designers -- furniture designers, interior designers, graphic designers, interactive designers, etc. – are not stylists. They are problem solvers,” said Wozniak of his colleagues. He |
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| views his position at the company as a ‘copywriter/storyteller.’ |
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Wozniak transferred to Aquinas his sophomore year after visiting a friend who attended the College. “I loved its friendly student body, its helpful faculty, its beautiful wooded campus, its close proximity to a quirky neighborhood (Eastown) and its placement in the heart of West Michigan's diverse economy.” Wozniak began the semester a couple days late and is grateful to the Aquinas faculty that made it possible for him to enter classes that had already begun.
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Thinking about a secondary education major Wozniak was encouraged by faculty to consider writing during his first semester. He immediately began looking for opportunities to pursue it and landed at the Aquinas Times, now The Saint. After complaining to the editor about the quality of the paper, he was challenged to ‘give it a try.’ “By the end of that semester, I was the paper’s Features Editor,” he recalled. “Aquinas is the type of school where that can happen, and that changed my life’s trajectory,” said Wozniak.
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| After spending time at the Grand Rapids Magazine writing on the design industry, Wozniak was led to his career at People Design. He feels he was well prepared for a life of professional writing. “Over the past dozen years or so, several successful writers have come out of Aquinas College. I think that shows just what a great platform the student newspaper has been for aspiring writers to gain valuable experience.” |
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