welcome to my work history

Writing, Photography, and
Design for Print and the Web.

Since moving to Delaware, most of my work has been graphic design and photography, primarily for churches, non-profit organizations, and artists. Currently, my freelance website design business is thriving, meaning I have many patient clients, including The Episcopal Diocese of Delaware, where I serve on the Bishop's adjunct staff as Website Editor.

workshops taught

education

  • Writers workshop at Laity Lodge, Texas, 1999.
  • Writers seminar at the Glen Workshop, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, 1999.
  • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Seminar by Yale University's Edward Tufte, 1993.
  • Photo retouching seminar with Jay Dusard, 1985.
  • Completed all the graduate courses needed for Ph.D. in Philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin, 1970-1973.
  • Bachelor of Science degree in Philosophy from the University of California at San Diego, 1970.
  • Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the University of California at San Diego, 1969.

publishing experience

  • 2007 to present, publisher, www.PhotoPrayer.com, a website on which prayers are matched with photographs. A new photo and prayer is added each week.
  • 2007 to present, Website Editor, Episcopal Diocese of Delaware
  • 2003-2007, Communications Coordinator, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, Delaware
  • 2000, Managing Editor, Image Journal, with offices in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania (now in Seattle, WA).
  • St. David's Church, Austin1997-2000, Communications Director, St. David's Episcopal Church, Austin, Texas. Two years after moving to Delaware, they asked me to continue in that work, which I did via the Internet for 18 months, even though I was 1700 miles away!
  • 1976-1995, "The Book of Days" -- Published thirteen issues of this 120-page desk calendar of black & white photos. These calendars and many of the original photographs are now archived at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Copies of these books may also be found at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas; at the Austin History Center, and in the Alkek Library (Wittliff Gallery), Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas. In 2007, I appeared in a segment of the Fox-TV series America's Most Wanted which featured the Book of Days murder, a crime as yet unsolved.
  • 1990-1993, "Habitat Newsletter" -- Editor of Austin Habitat for Humanity's quarterly newsletter.
  • 1980-1997, owner, Schweers Typesetting, producing type and graphics for advertising, architecture, education, etc.
  • 1992, "No Apologies -- Texas Radicals Celebrate the '60s" -- I wasn't a radical and didn't get to Texas until 1970. Even so, they gave me a chapter in this book to chronicle life in the early '70s at Austin's underground newspaper, The Rag. This book was published by Eakin Press and edited by Daryl Janes, with a foreword by the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
  • Book of Days 1995 cover1982-1987, "Photo-Letter" -- Quarterly publication of the Texas Photographic Society (writing, editorial)
  • 1980-1982, "Westlake Picayune" -- Weekly community newspaper (typesetting)
  • 1979-1980, "Austin Magazine" -- Monthly Chamber of Commerce publication (typesetting, photography)
  • 1975-1977, "The Austin Sun" -- Weekly entertainment and politics tabloid (camerawork, writing, photography)
  • 1971-1975, "The Rag" -- Austin's underground tabloid (writing, photography, camerawork -- all volunteer)

photographic experience

  • Click here to see list of recent exhibits and some of the photos.
  • Photographer, Delaware Valley Chorale, 2007.
  • Member, Brandywine Photo Collective since its inception in 2004.
  • Member, Christians in the Visual Arts since 2001.
  • Member of the Texas Photographic Society since 1982. Served as President of this non-profit organization in 1985.
  • Photographer for the American Deaf Dance Company, 1977-1980; Yacov Sharir, Artistic Director.
  • Three solo exhibitions of photographs in Austin, Texas and one in Abilene, Texas.
  • Individual photos exhibited in many group shows in Texas.
  • Individual photos are part of the collections of The University of Texas Harry Ransom Center collection, the Austin History Center, the collection of Helmut Gernsheim at the Reiss-Engelhorn Museen in Mannheim, Germany, and many individuals.
  • Incidental photographs for many publications and one made-for-TV NBC movie.

Rubber Chicken Awardservice

  • 2006 to present -- Communications Committee Chair, Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew, Wilmington, Delaware
  • 2002-2006 -- Elected Secretary of the Village of Arden, Delaware.
  • 2001 -- Elected to the Village of Arden Archives Committee, served as chair.
  • 2001 -- Appointed to the Capital and Annual Campaigns of St. David's Church, Delaware.
  • 2000 -- Appointed co-chair of the Membership Committee of The Arden Club, Inc. Created their website, which I continue to maintain.
  • 2000 -- A building was named in my honor. (Actually, this was a chicken coop connected to artist Jim Janknegt's studio. I donated the wood.)
  • 1998 -- King Ranch Rubber Chicken Casserole Award for Inexcusable Stupidity (from Food Service Director Alyson Avila of St. David's Church, Austin -- see photo above.)
  • 1994-1997 -- Served on the Vestry of St. David's Church, the last year as Clerk.
  • 1983-1997 -- Served on Five O'Clock Service Committee at St. David's Episcopal Church.
  • 1994-1995 -- Representative of St. David's for two "All-Episcopal Church" built houses for Habitat.
  • 1994 -- Award of Service from Austin Habitat for Humanity.
  • 1993 -- House-Raising Coordinator of an Austin Habitat for Humanity house, built by volunteers from St. David's Church.
  • 1989 -- Made "Honorary Professor of Photography" at East Texas State University in Commerce, Texas (now Texas A&M University-Commerce).
  • 1985 -- President, Texas Photographic Society.
  • Pun-Off Trophy1978 -- First-place trophy winner in "Volley of the Puns" at the first O'Henry Pun Off, Austin, Texas.
  • 1974-1975 -- Coordinator, The Rag's pen-pal prison ministry. It wasn't called a ministry and, at the time, I wasn't a Christian, but at its peak seventy correspondents were writing their pals in penitentiaies all over the United States. I created this ministry and was aided in this effort by Father Bob Rivers of the Catholic Student Center in Austin.
  • 1964-1970 -- Awarded a work scholarship at the U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory in San Diego, California. By working every summer and at Christmas and spring break, I earned enough to pay my way through college. Between my junior and senior years of college, I worked a year in Stanford University's Electrical Engineering. With that experience, I went on to work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston and the Fusion Research Center in Austin.
  • 1964 -- Recognized as best in mathematics at Hilltop High School, Chula Vista, California.
  • 1964 -- Top in my high school at the General Dynamics mathematics contest, San Diego, California.
  • 1955 -- King of my 4th Grade Class in Savanna, Oklahoma.

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