Appears In
Healing soles: Alumna touches hearts hiking America’s trail
Reggie Reads: November 2017
Soaring higher: Redbirds Rising Campaign promises to lift ISU
Where are they now? James Kirchner
Calling the shots: Alumna prepares for career as NBA/WNBA referee
Calling all teachers: Spread Redbird pride in your classrooms with ISU pack!
Mail to the editor: November 2017
How we met: Tina Fabley and Mark Chase
ISU Hall of Fame 2017 inductees honored
Class celebrations planned for April
Redbird legacy: Daughter follows in mom’s footsteps
Pause for applause
Doug Collins back with Bulls
Former football standout nominee for Hall of Fame
Lest we forget: Campus ties to WWI preserved, celebrated
Illinois State University private gift support over $21.4 million in FY17
Paul DeJong takes lessons learned from ISU to big leagues
Recruiting Redbirds: Alumni experiences encourage enrollment
Mike and Nancy (Johnson) Monken, this year’s Homecoming alumni king and queen, met at ISU.
Nancy ’62 studied English. An honor’s resident, she was heavily involved with the class advisory board and the women’s club. She taught English for many years, retiring as a college counselor in Illinois District 210.
Mike ’61, M.S. ’66, studied physical education as an undergraduate. He earned a master’s in health, physical education and recreation. On the ISU football team four years, he was captain as a senior. He taught shop, physical education, health, and driver’s education for more than 30 years. He excelled in coaching high school football, and has been inducted into the Illinois High School Football Coaches Hall of Fame.
Both are very involved on ISU’s Half Century Club committee and stay busy with family activities. They have three children and many grandchildren they visit often.
