Category: Alumni

Beginning in 2000, Illinois State University brought back the tradition of Homecoming royalty. Each year now, a student court is determined from among student leaders — while at the same time, the Alumni Association seeks an alumni King and Queen from among those who attended more than 50 years ago. The 2003 Alumni King and

And while we’re talking about the photo albums….. The initial historical photo albums of campus life 25 and 50 years ago were built using yearbooks and University photo archives. Alumni are invited to scan photos from their personal scrapbooks and submit them to us for possible use on the Web. If you have or can

The Alumni Web site now offers more visual fun: a photo album feature which allows us to showcase a variety of visual images from Illinois State’s history as well as from recently-held alumni gatherings. Photo albums will regularly include historical photo arrays from 25 and 50 years ago. Right now, you can also view albums

It seems like there has been a lot of news since our last issue, so in brief, here are some links to news notes out of some of the Colleges and other university divisions. College of Applied Science and Technology Faculty members David Kennel, Technology; Doug Kingman, Agriculture; and David Loomis, Economics, submitted a successful

In early May, President Al Bowman announced a number of large gifts accounting for some 90 percent of the funding for a new strength and conditioning facility in Redbird Arena. This put the Redefining “normal” fund-raising campaign past the $80 million mark. Additional gifts to date bring the total just over $82 million – with

If that headline includes a term that’s completely foreign to you, either you graduated before the early 1990s or you knew it only as “the School Street project.” In Exchange is the formal title of an area of sculpture (including a water treatment) and plantings that beautified the closed section of School Street between Stevenson

It’s fun that e-mail allows us to keep you updated on some observable changes on campus. Here’s one that we think is one of those “wow”-inspiring updates – the progress being made on the Schroeder Hall rehabilitation project. A picture being worth a thousand words, just take a look at this Web page: www.illinoisstate.edu/alumni/schroeder.shtml.

A 23-year-old Illinois State University student was killed in a suicide attack while serving with the United States Army in Iraq. Jeremy Ridlen, a sophomore, was a member of the Illinois National Guard’s 1544th Transportation Company headquartered in Paris, Illinois. He was killed on May 23rd when a suicide bomber drove a dump truck rigged

QUESTION: “Hello. I’m planning a vacation to San Diego this summer, and a fellow alum reminded me that one of our mutual friends from ISU moved there some time back. But, we both lost track of her. I would LOVE to try to look her up while I’m there. Can you help me find her?”

You may recall that in a previous issue of the E-lumni News, we solicited stories from “Redbird couples” about how they met during their time at Illinois State. If you’d like to read a little romance on the Web, see our compilation of these stories at our “How We Met” Web page.