Category: Redbird Legacy

Accompanied by sons Grant ’01 and Blake ’06, LaVerne (Berry) ’70 and Woody Iles ’71 watched their youngest son Craig ’09 graduate from Illinois State University last December. It was official: the Iles were a family of all Illinois State alumni. Grant realized how special this was during the ceremony when all alumni were asked

A desire to turn a love of music into a career led two sisters to Illinois State in the 1970s. They enrolled confident they would get a great education at a reasonable price. What they didn’t know is how many family members would follow in their footsteps. Sisters Mary Ann (Campbell) Sorensen ’78 and Carol

By Debby (Small) Baker ’77 My grandmother, Ina Elizabeth Sundberg, was born in March of 1905 to Swedish immigrant parents on a farm near Milford. She is the beginning of this four-generation ISU family legacy, which includes Ina; her daughters Luceille (Gleim) Werner and Mary (Gleim) Small; her granddaughter, Deborah (Small) Baker; her grandson-in-law Fred