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Published on: 12/29/2007
Last Visited: 9/6/2009
In Transition is the brainchild of John Robinson, and it's taken a lot of work and a team effort that in Indiana and Texas has included Linda Smith, Mac Overton, Scott Ashley, Shaun and Rachel Venish, Scott and Peggy Moss, Kimberly McCullough, Scott Smith and many people all over the world who have contributed material for publication.
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Dixon Cartwright, 49, lives in Big Sandy, Texas, with his wife, Linda, and two children, son Trey, 16, and daughter Jamie, 13.
He is a member of the United Church of God, Big Sandy (separately incorporated from, but affiliated with UCG-AIA in Arcadia, California).
Born in Atoka, Oklahoma, he is a 1969 graduate of Ambassador College, Big Sandy.
He worked after graduation for the college and church until 1978, including as a founding staff member of the Worldwide News in Big Sandy and later Pasadena, from 1973 until it was temporarily discontinued in 1978.
In 1978 he founded and operated for 12 years a typographic and graphics business in Big Sandy and Tyler, which he sold in 1990.
He bought and published a weekly newspaper, The Big Sandy & Hawkins Journal, from 1985 to1988, when he sold it to a newspaper chain.
He served on the mass-communication faculty of Ambassador College in 1982 and from 1991 to 1994.
He was faculty adviser to the students who produced the college newspaper, The Portfolio.
He has a bachelor's degree in theology and communications from Ambassador College (1969) and a master's in journalism from Texas A&M University-Commerce (1991).
He has served as editor of In Transition since its first issue, in May 1995.
For the past several years he has once again been self-employed, operating an editorial-service business out of an office in his home.