I appreciate seeing that you published my emails to the City Council and to Marla Koosed, chair of the Cultural Affairs Commission, regarding the eventual selection of a poet laureate for Culver City.

Out of curiosity, I decided to Google Bernadene Coleman (the only other contender mentioned so far for poet laureate) and then myself as Janet Cameron Hoult.

There is information about my recent books, but not about my university career.

When I looked for myself as Janet Fisher-Hoult…I found a lot of information about my university career.

When I became a professor at Cal State Los Angeles, I was known as Dr. Janet C. Fisher (my first husband’s name).

I had been divorced 15 years when I met Charley (we’ve now been married almost 25 years).  When the students called Charley “Mr. Fisher,” I began hyphenating my last name.

Since retiring in 2000, I have been using Janet Cameron Hoult on my driver’s license and for my books.

I can always tell when I have had a student in one of my classes by how they address me. Dr. Fisher, Dr. Fisher-Hoult or Dr. Hoult!

Perhaps not being aware that I used a different name during my university career was what prompted the speaker from the Culver City Unified School District to say she did not know anything about me as a professor of language education, director of the CSULA Center for Effective Teaching and Learning, voted an outstanding professor in 1993 by my colleagues and named an emeritus professor upon my retirement.

Just a bit more information.

Dr. Hoult may be contacted at HOULTight@aol.com