Chip Mosher

Mosher, who grew up in Chillicothe in Southern Ohio, spent the 10th grade at Staunton Military Academy, and then transferred to Salem High School, where he wrote for the school newspaper, graduating in 1965.{{cite web |url = http://history.salem.lib.oh.us/yearbookproject/1965/1965op.pdf | title=1965 Yearbook Salem Senior High School - Salem Public Library (pg 34)}}

In 1969, Mosher received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio. He attended a master's program at Duke Divinity School, where he played basketball and acted in the Duke Players,{{Cite web|url=https://dukelibraries.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15957coll13/id/46717/|title=Vol. 66, No. 125|newspaper=The Duke Chronicle| date=April 26, 1971}} from 1969 to 1972.{{cite web |url =http://p15957coll13_45935.pdf| title=Windsor now stands 6-1 (pg 11)|format = PDF | publisher= The Chronicle: Duke's Daily Newspaper| date=1970-12-15}} He earned a master's in education from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1998.{{citation needed|date=October 2015}}

Mosher was a volunteer teacher in Thessaloniki, Greece from 1972 to 1974.{{cite web|url=http://lasvegascitylife.com/sections/opinion/socrates-sodom/chip-mosher-backward-forward-glance.html |title=Chip Mosher: A backward-forward glance |newspaper=Las Vegas CityLife |date=2013-03-28 |access-date=2013-04-14}} In 1988, he began teaching history at a high-risk school within the Clark County School District in Las Vegas.{{Cite web|url=https://dev.lasvegasweekly.com/as-we-see-it/2014/apr/23/elementary-school-cheating----inevitable-scandal/|title=Was Vegas' elementary school cheating an inevitable scandal? |author=Miller, Ken|date=April 23, 2014|newspaper=Las Vegas Weekly}}

Beginning in 2005, he wrote a weekly column titled "Socrates in Sodom"{{Cite web|url=https://lasvegas.citycast.fm/appreciation-index/remembering-2-great-writers|title=Remembering 2 Great Las Vegas Writers|website=City Cast Las Vegas}} for Las Vegas CityLife,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c_HFnxM4ClgC&q=%22las+vegas+citylife%22+mosher&pg=PA182|title=Dead Neon: Tales of Near-future Las Vegas|first1=Todd James |display-authors=etal |last1=Pierce|first2=Jarret|last2=Keene|date=9 April 2019|publisher=University of Nevada Press|isbn=9780874178289|via=Google Books}} an alternative newsweekly, until the paper folded in 2014.{{cite web|url=https://knpr.org/dc-blog/citylife-chronicle-death-foretold|title=CityLife: Chronicle of a death foretold|author=Dickensheets, Scott|date=January 21, 2014|website=Nevada Public Radio}} The tag line at the end of his column stated that he was "a simple classroom teacher."{{cite web|url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/reporters-notebook-111/|title=Reporters' Notebook|author=Stutz, Howard|date=10 November 2008|newspaper=Las Vegas Review-Journal}} He also wrote a monthly almanac for CityLife.{{cite web|last=Mosher |first=Chip |url=http://lasvegascitylife.com/sections/news/chip-mosher%E2%80%99s-july-almanac.html |title=Chip Mosher's July Almanac |newspaper=Las Vegas CityLife |date=2012-07-16 |access-date=2013-04-14}} In 2018, he began writing an almanac for Desert Companion magazine. The column, titled "Random Access Memory,"{{cite web|url=https://knpr.org/search/content/chip%20mosher|title=Random Access Memory|author=|date=|website=Nevada Public Radio}} also appears on Nevada Public Radio's website, which publishes the monthly magazine.{{cite web|url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/uncategorized/knpr-where-art-thou/|title=KNPR, where art thou?|author=Frederick, Sherman|date=22 March 2010|newspaper=Las Vegas Review-Journal}}

As a teacher who wrote about the school district he worked for, the opinions in his column caused controversy.{{cite web|last=Gray |first=Karen |url=http://nevadajournal.com/2010/10/28/ccsd-machine/ |title=The CCSD machine |newspaper=Nevada Journal |date=2010-10-28 |access-date=2013-04-14}}{{cite web|author=|url=http://nrtwc.org/the-teachers-union-just-keeps-doing-the-limbo-from-year-to-year-to-see-how-much-lower-it-can-go/ |title=The National Right to Work Committee® | 'The Teachers' Union Just Keeps Doing the Limbo From Year to Year to See How Much Lower It Can Go . . .' |publisher=Nrtwc.org |date=2013-02-04 |access-date=2013-04-14}}{{cite web|url=http://www.eiaonline.com/intercepts/2013/01/31/union-benefits-review-requires-birth-certificates-tax-returns/|title=Union "Benefits Review" Requires Birth Certificates, Tax Returns – Intercepts|author=|date=|publisher=}} As a result, he was regularly interviewed about education issues.{{Cite web|url=http://nevadanewsandviews.com/archives/7139|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331185802/http://nevadanewsandviews.com/archives/7139|url-status=dead|title=Is the Clark County School District a "political machine"? | Nevada News and Views|archive-date=March 31, 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/|title=Las Vegas News - Breaking News & Headlines|author=|date=|newspaper=Las Vegas Review-Journal}} In the early 2000s, Mosher predicted cheating would occur on a national scale with the corporate reform of education. "It’s no longer about the students or teachers. It’s all about money,” the Las Vegas Weekly quoted him as saying after a Washington, D.C. cheating scandal and another one in Nevada in 2014.

Mosher's chapter “Memoir of a Modern Woman in the Modern World” was included in the book The Anarchy of Memories: Short Fiction Featuring Las Vegas Icons, which was released by Huntington Press in October 2015. The book was part of a Las Vegas Writes project, a compilation of short fiction featured at the annual Vegas Valley Book Festival (since renamed the Las Vegas Book Festival).{{Cite web|url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/arts-culture/las-vegas-book-festival-offers-menu-of-words-and-ideas-1872049/|title=Las Vegas Book Festival offers menu of words and ideas|date=October 17, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/downtown/literary-las-vegas-las-vegas-writes/|title=Literary Las Vegas: Las Vegas Writes|author=Meurer, Ginger|date=October 9, 2015|newspaper=Las Vegas Review-Journal}}

Mosher's contribution to the 2010 fictional book Dead Neon: Tales of Near-future Las Vegas, published by the University of Nevada Press, was described by Publishers Weekly as "a parody of Harlan Ellison in C.J. Mosher's "A Girl and Her Cat... ."{{Cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-87417-828-9|title=Fiction Book Review: Dead Neon: Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas by Edited by Todd James Pierce and Jarret Keene, Univ. of Nevada, $20 paper (184p) ISBN 978-0-87417-828-9|magazine=Publishers Weekly}}

In 2005, he released a CD titled America, Please!, which includes 26 poems and one sci-fi short story.{{Cite web|url=https://funny-video-online.com/tags/humphrey-bogart-smoking|title=Humphrey Bogart Smoking Video, Humphrey Bogart Smoking Clip|website=funny-video-online.com}}

• 2011 Nobel Educator of Distinction Award for "excellence in teaching" from the National Society of High School Scholars.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nshss.org/benefits/programs/educators-of-distinction|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130708025200/http://www.nshss.org/benefits/programs/educators-of-distinction|url-status=dead|title=Educators of Distinction - National Society of High School Scholars|archive-date=July 8, 2013}}
• 2009 3rd-place award in the Nevada Press Association's “Better Newspaper Contest" for a CityLife column.{{cite web|url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-nv-newspaper-awards-092009-2009sep20-story.html|title=Nevada Press Association awards presented|author=|date=20 September 2009|newspaper=San Diego Union-Tribune}}
• 2008 1st-place journalism award from the Nevada Press Association for his CityLife education column.{{cite web|url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/sep/29/2008-nevada-press-association-better-newspaper-con/ |title=2008 Nevada Press Association Better Newspaper Contest winners - Las Vegas Sun News |newspaper=Las Vegas Sun |date= 29 September 2008|access-date=2013-04-14}}
• In 2004 Honorable Mention for a 2005 Nevada Arts Council fellowship.{{Cite web |url=http://nac.nevadaculture.org/dmdocuments/NANSummer2004.pdf |title=Nevada Arts Council, "Artist Fellowships Awarded," Summer 2004 |access-date=2013-04-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130324154535/http://nac.nevadaculture.org/dmdocuments/NANSummer2004.pdf |archive-date=2013-03-24 |url-status=dead }}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825051716/http://www.nevadaeducationnotes.com/2007/05/chip-mosher-says-me.html Nevada Education Notes]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20130513061719/http://lasvegas.about.com/od/governmentcivicsissues/a/Las-Vegas-Newspapers.htm About.com Guide, "Las Vegas Newspapers" (scroll to end)]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20130404021651/http://lasvegascitylife.com/sections/opinion/socrates-sodom Socrates in Sodom columns]

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