SC Professor Has Book Published
Winfield, Kan., April 11, 2022 — Reginald (Reggie) D. Jarrell, instructor
of communications at Southwestern College, has written a book, “31 Days
(Nights): Memoir of Living Black in America.”
The book is a collection of snapshots in the form of essays that allows
the reader to see the scenes from the world that he experiences.
Jarrell says that his wife encouraged him to write the book.
“After the birth of my first two grandchildren, which occurred three days
apart, my wife (Canetha) indicated to me that I should write something so they
know who I am,” Jarrell says. “I thought that was a good idea because
there are a number of stories that my children haven’t even heard about.
If the children don’t know, certainly the grandchildren won’t know.”
Jarrell has worked as a pastor, lawyer, communications professional, and
university professor. His experiences are extensive and varied and his
reflections are revealing about the nature of racial sensitivity and how race
affects interpersonal behavior.
His professional experience includes teaching at St. Ambrose University
in Davenport, Iowa; Southern University in New Orleans; and Alcorn State
University in Lorman, Miss., as well teaching at two community colleges in Iowa
and Illinois.
His legal experience includes work as an assistant public defender, Rock
Island County, Illinois, and staff attorney, Prairie State Legal Services, Rock
Island.
His communications experience includes but is not limited to the
following: television production staff, Family Radio, Oakland, Calif.;
newspaper staff reporter, The Moline Publishing Company, Moline, Ill.; and
television news reporter, WHO-TV, Des Moines, Iowa. He has also worked as a
janitor and shoe salesperson.
His ministry experience includes serving as interim pastor, Progressive
Baptist Church, Davenport, Iowa.
He has earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Iowa College
of Law in Iowa City, Iowa; master of divinity degree from the American Baptist
Seminary of the West in Berkeley, Calif.; master of science degree in mass
communication and journalism at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa; and a
bachelor of arts degree in communication from The American University in
Washington, D.C. Jarrell recently completed work on a doctor of ministry degree
from The Berkeley School of Theology, formerly American Baptist Seminary of the
West.
“31 Days (Nights): Memoir of Living Black in America” was published by
Blue Cedar Press in Wichita. It is available at Blue Cedar Press (www.bluecedarpress.com), IngramSpark,
and Amazon in ebook and paperback.
Jarrell and his wife, Cathena, have three children and six grandchildren.
