Timothy Sellner  - Editor

Timothy Sellner is currently Professor Emeritus of German at Wake Forest University, where he taught from 1970 to 2003.  For nine years, he was also Chairman of the Department of German and Russian.  After graduating from the University of Michigan in 1960, he went to Germany to study animal behavior.

In 1961, when he was about to be drafted into the U.S. Army as a result of the building of the Berlin Wall, he enlisted instead and spent the next three years stationed in Miami, Florida, where he met his future wife, Vicki, then in nurses' training. He taught German in high school for two years after the army, finally earning his Ph.D from the University of Michigan in 1970. He has spent much of his career translating the works of Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel, an eighteenth-century German thinker who did perhaps more than any man in history to raise the status of women in society and marriage.  This year Tim published Hippel's "Collected Writings on the Status of Women" with Xlibris Press. Tim works often as a docent at Reynolda House, and he and Vicki are very active in their church, Augsburg Lutheran.

Adele Casanova, owner of Casanova’s Coffees & Fudge in Lewisville, serves the Forsyth Woman and Forsyth Family sales teams as Sales Director. Adele has been an active member of the Triad business community since 1997, and formerly owned and operated The Winning Edge, a professional development consulting company.  She is a published writer, and has been a professional speaker and trainer. She is a former member of the American Society of Training and Development and a current member of the Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce, and is a co-founder of the Women’s Network. She has been named Business Woman of the Year three times by the National Republican Congressional Committee. Adele has owned and operated Casanova’s Coffees & Fudge since 2000. She returned to Winston-Salem in 1992 after having spent 18 years on the west coast. Her son attends North Carolina State University in Raleigh, and her daughter attends Appalachian State University in Boone. She resides in Winston-Salem with her husband, Angel.

Teresa Hodge is a transplant from Columbus, Ohio.  After completing her education in Columbus, she came to North Carolina, the home of her mother and grandparents.  Moving from NC to California, then to Florida, she finally returned “home” to NC in 1993.  She loves living in Winston-Salem, a big, “little” city, as she calls it.  Teresa worked many years in the corporate world before starting her own business in 2002.  Traveling is a passion and she got to do lots of it during those years in a business capacity.  Now she travels for fun.  In 2005 Teresa picked up a copy of Forsyth Woman magazine at her client’s business and was so impressed and excited about the magazine (there was nothing in Forsyth County like it), she called to inquire about advertising her web design business.  That led to a luncheon meeting with Keela Johnson, the publisher.  She had her “Ah ha!” moment (to quote Oprah)  and, as they say, “the rest is history.”  According to Teresa, the best part of working with Forsyth Woman is meeting the interesting people in the business community, learning about their businesses and their advertising needs, and then meeting those needs.  In addition, getting to know and work with all the women that make Forsyth Woman and Forsyth Family magazines possible has been a real blessing for her.  You can contact Teresa at 499.0640 or email Teresa@forsythmags.com.