Reunion planned for housing, dining alums

Current and past full-time or graduate student staff members in University Housing Services or Campus Dining Services are invited to a reunion during Homecoming, October 5 through 7. The units were formerly known as the Office of Residential Life. “This is an exciting time to hold a reunion,” said University Housing Services Director Maureen Blair.

Homecoming includes Redbird Recipe Contest

Think you have a recipe that can win the stomachs of students at Illinois State? Enter Campus Dining’s 4th Annual Redbird Recipe Contest! Alumni and current students, faculty, and staff are invited to submit their favorite dish. This year parents of current Redbirds are also invited to participate. Submit recipes online at Dining.IllinoisState.edu from August

Students benefit from alumni scholarships

Several students have been helped with financial assistance through scholarships linked to alumni. Among them are Alumni Association Scholarship recipients Jade Kestian and Kelsey Hansen. A junior from Normal, Kestian is studying psychology. Hansen is an incoming freshman from Gurnee and plans to major in medical sciences. Each will receive $1,000 per semester, with the

Alumni Association annual meeting set

All alumni are invited to campus to attend the Alumni Association annual meeting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, September 15. The meeting will be held in the Alumni Center. Agenda items include the election of members to the Alumni Association Board of Directors and board officers. Alumni with active membership status in the Alumni Association

Memories of Southside shared as halls are closed

After more than 50 years as a home to thousands of Illinois State University students, four residence halls and a dining center in South Campus will be decommissioned this August. Changes in Illinois fire codes mandated substantial investments be made to bring Atkin-Colby and Hamilton-Whitten up to standards by 2013. The University’s administrators opted to

Homecoming apparel

Homecoming Apparel

Get your exclusive 2012 “Get your Groove On” Homecoming apparel today! For more information and to place your order, visit Barnes and Noble’s website or stop by the Bone Student Center.

Call for archives

The University Archives needs your help! Do you still have your old sports jerseys? All of those buttons, pens, and other giveaways from campus events? How about a scrapbook you made of your time here or the scrapbook you made for your club or organization? Or even piles of photographs, home movies, pamphlets, postcards, and booklets?

Update your information with the college and share your story

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New job? New marriage? New baby? Share your news with your fellow Redbirds by submitting a class notes update. Information submitted will be considered for publication in the Illinois State News, in university marketing and in the quarterly alumni magazine, Illinois State. Submit your class notes today.

Model Behavior—Pierre Woods knows how to rock the runway

  Pierre Woods ’04 graduated from Illinois State with a marketing degree and worked in the financial industry. Today, he is looking towards a bright future as the next black male supermodel. That’s the look clients like Ralph Lauren want when Pierre Woods ’04 steps in front of the camera. Woods consistently delivers, striking a