Bryan Fortriede is a Senior studying Secondary Education
in English. Although he had been told by all his friends that he
should go into math rather than English, he chose English. Bryan
is married to Lesley Fortriede, who is also a Secondary Education
major at Ball State University. Outside of school, he is very involved
with the youth program at his church, Union Grove Church of the
Brethren. Bryan enjoys reading, which spurred his interest in this
project. He has three pet cats who are named for characters from
Lord of the Rings: Gandalf, Frodo, and Arwen. Bryan hopes
to become a high school English teacher at a rural school somewhere
in central Indiana.
Bryan became involved with this seminar to take a break
from regular classes and concentrate on one project. He wrote articles
on Oliver Johnson,
Don Kurtz, Ross
Lockridge, Jr., and Gene
Stratton-Porter’s fiction. As part of the Development
team, he helped create many of the page templates and links between
web pages.
