Keep up with what fellow alumni are doing in our class notes for the fall 2023 alumni magazine issue.
Class notes: Fall 2023
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Class notes: Summer 2023
Keep up with what fellow alumni are doing in our class notes for the summer 2023 alumni magazine issue.
Class notes: Spring 2023
Keep up with what fellow alumni are doing in our class notes for the spring 2023 alumni magazine issue.
Class notes: Fall 2022
Keep up with what fellow alumni are doing in our class notes for the fall 2022 alumni magazine issue.
Alumnus joins students in outreach to Uganda
Matthew Clifford has a passion for giving back and an interest in global events, which is not surprising given his work as an international studies teacher.
Lithograph print pays tribute to Illinois State professor
and gladly would he learn and gladly teach: a tribute to Gordon Fidler is a lithograph print created by Illinois State Art Professor and Normal Editions Workshop Director Richard Finch. The print was commissioned as a memorial to Fidler ’51 by his daughters, Tammy Swinford-Potts ’73 and Marta Eynatten ’76. He was an ISU business
Alum becomes ‘hero teacher’ in shooting
Derrick Schonauer ’12 is being called a hero for subduing a student who fired a gun during school earlier this fall, but he didn’t spend much time basking in the limelight.
How we met: Tom Smith and Marlys Hinz
Tom Smith ’80 and Marlys Hinz ’80 met the spring of their freshman year in 1977. Tom’s roommate dated Marlys’ roommate, so the two were occasionally in the same social scene. The first real sparks began to fly during Rites of Spring in 1977. The day was filled with music, walking around, and getting to
Redbird legacy: Becoming home for 5 Reeser children
Sheryl (Lessen) Reeser ’61 came to Illinois State for the excellent education program. After graduating, she taught students with developmental disabilities at a school in Rockford. She went on to teach fourth grade before taking a professional break as she and her husband, Don, started a family that eventually included five children. When it came time
Communication alum honored for Nazi Resistance film
When communication alum Joel Waldinger ’86 toured former Gestapo headquarters in Berlin, he learned of a Wisconsin woman who was executed for her role in the underground Nazi resistance. An Emmy award-winning producer for Wisconsin Public Television, Waldinger brought her story to life with the documentary Wisconsin’s Nazi Resistance: The Mildred Fish-Harnack Story. The film
